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.

1

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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

2

Dopethrone

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

3

Turn Loose the Swans

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

4

Draconian Times

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

5

Forest of Equilibrium

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

6

Black Sabbath

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

7

Gothic

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

8

Psalm 9

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

9

Holy Mountain

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

10

The Silent Enigma

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

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.