What is the best doom metal album of all time?

Rooted in the crushing slow riffs of early Black Sabbath, doom metal explores darkness and despair at a deliberate, devastating pace. Vote for the greatest doom metal album ever recorded.

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Candlemass' 1986 debut that defined epic doom metal, featuring Messiah Marcolin's operatic vocals over slow crushing riffs.

1/11

Dopethrone

Electric Wizard's 2000 stoner doom monolith, one of the heaviest and most immersive albums ever recorded.

2/11

Turn Loose the Swans

My Dying Bride's 1993 gothic doom masterpiece blending extreme metal with violin and heart-rending melancholy.

3/11

Draconian Times

Paradise Lost's 1995 gothic doom classic that polished their sound into a sorrowful, accessible but deeply emotional record.

4/11

Forest of Equilibrium

Cathedral's 1991 debut that revived slow, crushingly heavy doom metal after a decade of speed-obsessed extreme metal.

5/11

Black Sabbath

The self-titled 1970 debut that unwittingly founded doom metal with slow, foreboding riffs and occult atmosphere.

6/11

Gothic

Paradise Lost's 1991 groundbreaking album that fused death metal with doom and created the gothic metal genre.

7/11

Psalm 9

Trouble's 1984 debut that injected Christian themes into doom metal, creating a unique spiritual heaviness.

8/11

Holy Mountain

Sleep's 1992 album that bridged doom and stoner metal with heavy, cannabis-infused grooves.

9/11

The Silent Enigma

Anathema's 1995 atmospheric doom/death metal milestone featuring beautifully desolate compositions.

10/11

Day of Reckoning

Pentagram's 1987 debut album from doom metal legends who had been creating the genre's blueprint since the early 1970s.

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