Death-doom
{{short description|Extreme subgenre of heavy metal}}
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{{Infobox music genre
|name =Death-doom
|other_names={{hlist|Death-doom metal|doom-death}}
|stylistic_origins =
|cultural_origins = Late 1980s
|subgenrelist =
|fusiongenres =
- Funeral doom{{cite web |author=Davis, Cody |title=Funeral Doom Friday: FUNERAL MOURNING's Blackened, Deadly Inertia of Dissonance (A Sermon in Finality) |date=9 September 2016 |url=http://www.metalinjection.net/av/funeral-doom-friday/funeral-mournings-blackened-deadly-inertia-of-dissonance-a-sermon-in-finality |publisher=Metal Injection |access-date=29 July 2018}}
|derivatives =
- Gothic metal{{Cite book |last=Baddeley |first=Gavin |title=Gothic Chic: A Connoisseur's Guide to Dark Culture |publisher=Plexus Publishing Limited |year=2002 |location=London |isbn=0-85965-308-0|pages=265–6}}{{Cite book |last=Sharpe-Young |first=Garry |title=Metal: The Definitive Guide |publisher=Jawbone Press |year=2007 |location=London |isbn= 978-1-906002-01-5|pages=246, 275}}
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Death-doom (also known as death-doom metal{{Cite journal |title='Delightfully depressing': Death/doom metal music world and the emotional responses of the fan |date=June 2017 |last=Yavuz |first=M Selim |publisher=Leeds Beckett University |journal=Metal Music Studies |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=201–218 |doi=10.1386/mms.3.2.201_1|url=https://hcommons.org/deposits/download/hc:14410/CONTENT/mselimyavuz-delightfullydepressing.pdf/ |url-access=subscription }} or doom-death){{cite magazine |last=Tracey |first=Ciaran |date=March 2006 |title=Doom/Death: United in Grief |magazine=Terrorizer |issue=142 |pages=54–55}} is a fusion genre of death metal and doom metal. It combines the slow tempos and pessimistic or depressive mood of doom metal with the deep growling vocals and double-kick drumming of death metal. The genre emerged in the late 1980s and gained a certain amount of popularity during the 1990s, but had become less common by the turn of the 21st century. In turn, death-doom gave rise to the closely related genre of funeral doom as well as to the more melodic, gloomy and romantic gothic metal.{{cite web |author=Jennings, Chris |date= 10 August 2015 |title=6 Under-Appreciated Classics Of Death/Doom! |url=http://www.worshipmetal.com/features/6-appreciated-classics-deathdoom |publisher=Worship Metal |access-date=10 March 2020}}
History
The first signs of the death/doom genre originated in the mid-1980s when early progenitors like Dream Death began to mix traditional doom metal with the sounds of the nascent death metal scene.Bardin, Olivier (May 2006). "Forgotten Doom: Raiders of the Lost Art", Terrorizer #144, p.56 Early records in the 1990s by such bands as Autopsy, Winter, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride and Anathema combined the doom sound of mid-1980s Celtic Frost and Candlemass with growling vocals, female vocals,{{cite book | last = Purcell | first = Nathalie J. | title = Death Metal Music: The Passion and Politics of a Subculture | publisher = McFarland & Company | year = 2003 | pages = 23 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZErQs5hCUQC |access-date= 12 April 2008 | isbn = 0-7864-1585-1 }} keyboards and, in the case of My Dying Bride, violins. The influence of these bands has been acknowledged by the likes of gothic metal bands Within Temptation, Lacuna Coil, The Gathering, Celestial Season and Saturnus.Metal Hammer #173 The tag of death/doom seemed to become less popular towards the end of the decade as many of the scene progenitors abandoned their early sound to embrace a more accessible or palatable direction.
However, the style persists in the form of funeral doom, a genre that crosses death-doom with funeral dirge music.{{cite web |author=Davis, Cody |title=Funeral Doom Friday: FUNERAL MOURNING's Blackened, Deadly Inertia of Dissonance (A Sermon in Finality) |date=9 September 2016 |url=http://www.metalinjection.net/av/funeral-doom-friday/funeral-mournings-blackened-deadly-inertia-of-dissonance-a-sermon-in-finality |publisher=Metal Injection |access-date=29 July 2018}} It is played at a very slow tempo, and places an emphasis on evoking a sense of emptiness and despair.{{cite web |url=https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/02/02/doom-metal-a-brief-timeline/ |title=Doom Metal: A Brief Timeline |work=Bandcamp daily |date=2 February 2017 |access-date=30 June 2018}} Typically, electric guitars are heavily distorted and dark ambient aspects such as keyboards or synthesizers are often used to create a "dreamlike" atmosphere. Vocals consist of mournful chants or growls and are often in the background. Funeral doom was pioneered by Mournful Congregation (Australia), Esoteric (United Kingdom), Evoken (United States), Funeral (Norway), Thergothon (Finland)Hinchcliffe, James (April 2006). "Funeral Doom / Dron Doom: Hearse Play", Terrorizer #143, pp.44-45. and Skepticism (Finland).James Minton, Kim Kelly, and Jenn Selby, "Filth Parade", Terrorizer #188, September 2009, p. 56.
See also
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Category:20th-century music genres