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Just wondering if anyone here listens to this type of music?These two genres are on the more extreme side of music, like black metal.Starting primarily in Norway, most of the lyrical emphasis revolves around satanic, pagan, and occult themes.Some lyrics celebrate the cold, darkness, forest, and natural surroundings in many Northern European countries, as well as folklore and history.They also sometimes explore themes or war, misanthropy, desolation, and even apocalypse.Some bands also get lyrical inspiration from many of Tolkien work, mainly from the The Lord of the Rings.The vocals are more raspy or high-pitched shreiks, different from death metal vocals.The guitars are fast and highly distorted with a relatively thin or thick guitar tone.The drums are usually double bass, blast beat, and d-beat drumming.Sometimes the drums take on a more slower role accompanied a dry and very empty tone, to create an atmosphereric effect of darkness, cold, and desolation.Some of the well known bands are: Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum (early works), Immortal, and Emperor.Doom metal on the other hand is much slower most of the time and is strongly influenced by early works of Black Sabbath.It emerged as a recognized genre of metal in the mid-1980s and brought on more slower and heavier tones, and evoked an atmosphere of darkness, dispair, and misery, for the most part.It is more simplistic than Black metal and the other genres of metal.The guitars are usually heavy, down-tuned, and loud which is an important feature to the genre.The vocals vary from each band, but some have no vocals and just instrumental.The drums for the most part are very simplistic and repetitive.The bass is usually thick and down-tuned with the guitar.Some of the well known bands in this genre are: Sunn O))) (pronounced Sun), Boris, Earth, Isis, Goatsnake, Electric Wizard (early material), High on Fire, Candlemass, Jesu, and Neurosis.So does anybody listen to either or both of these genres of music?
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