# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published April 19, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-doom-metal-album-of-all-time*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

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.

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