The Rise of Doom Metal

Heavy Metal Historian

Heavy Metal Historian
Episode 41:

After exploring the roots and ancestry behind Doom Metal, we start on examining the spread of the genre. Progressing through the 1980’s and into the 1990’s, and from the likes of Candlemass, Cathedral, Electric Wizard and beyond, we uncover the Rise of Doom Metal.

Hosted by Greg Davies from Blendover, the Heavy Metal Historian Podcast delivers to you snippets of tales from years gone by in the world of Metal, one episode at a time.

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Recommended Listening:

• “The Tempter” by Trouble from Psalm 9
• “Day of Reckoning” by Pentagram from Day of Reckoning
• “The War Starter” by Saint Vitus from Born Too Late
• “At the End of My Daze” by Trouble from Trouble
• “Council of Ten” by Reverend Bizarre from II: Crush the Insects
• “Crystal Ball” by Candlemass from Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
• “Haunting the Obscure” by Solitude Aeturnus from Through the Darkest Hour
• “Serpent Eve” by Cathedral from Forest of Equilibrium
• “Dragonaut” by Sleep from Holy Mountain
• “Dopethrone” by Electric Wizard from Dopethrone
• “All I Had (I Gave)” by Crowbar from Crowbar
• “Sign of a Storm” by Skepticism from Stormcrowfleet
• “Abandonment” by Esoteric from Paragon of Dissonance
• “Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine” by Earth from Earth 2
• “Eternal” by Paradise Lost from Gothic
• “The Crown of Sympathy” by My Dying Bride from Turn Loose the Swans
• “Far Away” by Anathema from Eternal
• “The Amaranth” by Draconian from Where Lovers Mourn
• “Past Nightmares” by Rapture from Silent Stage
• “You were but a Ghost in My Arms” by Agalloch from The Mantle
• “Bombers (Can Open Bomb Bays)” by Bill Ward from Ward One: Along the Way
• “Evil Eye” by Black Sabbath from Cross Purposes
• “Psycho Man” by Black Sabbath from Reunion
• “Dazed and Confused” by Jake Holmes from The Above Ground Sound
• “Black Sabbath Medley” by Candlemass from Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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