Best Doom Metal

The DOOM Original Game Soundtrack is the official score for id Software's 2016 first-person shooter DOOM, composed and produced by Australian musician Mick Gordon. The music combines heavily distorted electric guitar riffs, industrial synthesizers, and aggressive electronic percussion designed to ma...

Autopsy’s Mental Funeral (1991) is a seminal death metal album from California. The record showcases intensely bleak and heavy music blending elements of extreme metal with slow, deliberate doom rhythms. It's notable for its uncompromising sound and significant influence on the genre. Autopsy’s work...

King of the Dead is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Cirith Ungol, released in 1984 on Enigma Records. Its songs use heavy, dark arrangements that are often discussed in connection with epic metal and doom metal, while the title and imagery draw on the band's long-standing fa...

Autopsy’s Severed Survival (1989) is a foundational death metal album from California. The record showcases intensely heavy music blending extreme brutality with the deliberate pacing of doom. It's notable for its significant influence on the genre’s development and remains a key reference point for...

Resound the Horn is the debut studio album by the Italian epic metal band Doomsword, released in 2001. The record establishes the band's signature sound, which merges slow, heavy doom metal tempos with traditional heavy metal vocals. Lyrically, the album is a concept work heavily focused on historic...

Asphyx’s “Last One on Earth” is a seminal 1992 death-doom metal album from the Netherlands. Known for its intensely bleak atmosphere and vocalist Martin van Drunen's distinctive, guttural style, the record exemplifies the genre's fusion of doom and death metal elements. It remains significant within...

Incantation’s *Diabolical Conquest* is a 1998 death metal album showcasing the band's signature cavernous sound. The record established Incantation as a key figure in New York’s burgeoning death metal scene with its intensely heavy and bleak atmosphere. It remains notable for its uncompromising brut...

Amorphis’ *Tales from the Thousand Lakes* is a pivotal death-metal album released in 1994. The Finnish band innovatively combines traditional doom metal with prominent folk melodies and synthesizers creating a unique sound. This record significantly impacted the genre and remains notable for its amb...

Asphyx’s The Rack is a 1991 Dutch death-metal album recognized as a foundational work in the genre. Its intensely heavy and deliberately paced style—characterized by doom influences and significant technical proficiency—established Asphyx's signature sound. This record remains notable for its impact...

Incantation’s “Mortal Throne of Nazarene” is a 1994 death-metal album released by the New York band. The record established Incantation's signature sound: intensely heavy and cavernous compositions rooted in doom and extreme metal. It’s notable for its bleak atmosphere and influential contribution t...

The *Doom* (2016) soundtrack by Mick Gordon delivers a relentlessly intense experience. It’s recognized for its pioneering use of heavily distorted metal instrumentation and unconventional tunings, creating a visceral soundscape perfectly suited to the game's brutal action. The music is primarily in...

Grave Miasma’s *Odori Sepulcrorum* is a 2013 death metal album from the UK band. The record showcases cavernous soundscapes and complex riffs reminiscent of classic doom and death metal styles. It's notable for its exploration of morbid, often unsettling themes. This album appeals to listeners inter...

The DOOM Eternal: Original Game Soundtrack is the official musical score for the 2020 first-person shooter DOOM Eternal, developed by id Software. Composed primarily by Mick Gordon, the soundtrack continues the heavy metal and industrial style established in the previous franchise reboot, incorporat...

Asphyx’s Deathhammer is a 2012 death-metal album from the Dutch band. It showcases their signature style of doom-influenced death metal characterized by crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The record earned critical acclaim for its authentic return to the band's foundational sound, appealing to fans...

*Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar* is a 2023 American animated film released on Adult Swim, concluding the storyline of the fictional death metal band Dethklok from the television series *Metalocalypse*. Series creator Brendon Small wrote and directed the film, which resolves plotlines spanning t...

Macabre Eternal is the fifth studio album by the California death metal band Autopsy, released in 2011 on Peaceville Records. The record is notable as it marked the band's full reunion and served as their first full-length studio release in nearly sixteen years. Autopsy is highly influential for pio...

"Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts" is the tenth studio album by the influential American death metal band Autopsy, released in October 2023 through Peaceville Records. The record continues the band's long-standing dedication to combining brutal death metal with slow, crushing doom metal elements, hea...

"The Karelian Isthmus" is the debut studio album by the Finnish death metal band Amorphis, released in 1992. The record features a traditional, old-school death metal sound heavily influenced by the early 1990s extreme metal scene, incorporating slow, doom-laden riffing alongside aggressive vocals....

"Morbidity Triumphant" is the eighth studio album by the American death metal band Autopsy, released in 2022 through Peaceville Records. Formed in 1987 by drummer and vocalist Chris Reifert, the California-based group is known for pioneering a raw, old-school death metal sound heavily infused with s...

Dirges of Elysium is the ninth studio album by Incantation, an American death metal band formed in 1989. Released in 2014, the album was produced by the band alongside Bill Korecky. Incantation is recognized for combining death metal with doom metal elements, featuring slow, heavy passages alongside...

Necroceros is the 2021 seventh studio album by Dutch death-doom metal band Asphyx, recognized for continuing their decades-long legacy of blending brutally heavy death metal with doom elements.

Acts of the Unspeakable is the third studio album by Autopsy, an American death metal band from California, released in 1992. It retains the band's morbid, doom-laden death metal while introducing shorter, faster passages associated with grindcore. The album is distinguished by its deliberately raw...

Imperial Doom is the 1992 debut studio album by Monstrosity, a death metal band formed in Florida. The recording features vocalist George Fisher, later known as Corpsegrinder, before he joined Cannibal Corpse. Built around distorted guitar riffs, rapid drumming, and low growled vocals, the album bel...

"Death... the Brutal Way" is the fourth studio album by the Dutch death-doom metal band Asphyx, released in 2009 through Century Media Records. The album is significant because it marked the return of frontman Martin van Drunen to the band's vocal position after more than a decade. It features a raw...

'Abyss of Wrathful Deities' is a studio album by the British death metal band Grave Miasma, released in 2020. The group is recognized for its esoteric, cavernous approach to extreme metal, utilizing heavy distortion and dark atmospheric elements. The album explores occult and mythological themes, ca...

Living Tomb is the 2019 debut studio album by the American death-doom metal band Ossuarium. Based in Portland, Oregon, the band utilizes heavily distorted guitars and slower tempos characteristic of the death-doom genre. The album's sound draws heavily on the melancholic and atmospheric elements of...

"Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves" is the seventh studio album by the American death metal band Autopsy, released in 2014 through Peaceville Records. The album arrived following the influential California group's 2009 reunion, continuing their signature style of blending extreme death metal with hea...

Incoming Death is the sixth studio album by the Dutch death-doom metal band Asphyx, released in 2016. The record features the band's classic lineup, including vocalist Martin van Drunen and guitarist Paul Baayens. It continues their established style of mid-tempo, old-school death metal mixed with h...

Disgorged from Psychotic Depths is a 2019 studio album by the American death-doom metal band Mortiferum, released through Profound Lore Records. Formed in Washington state, the band uses this record to establish a crushing, cavernous atmosphere driven by slow, heavy tempos and low-tuned guitars. The...