r/TrueDoomMetal

551 archived posts · Feb 2023 – Sep 2026

Cult of True Doom

r/TrueDoomMetal

This is a subreddit to appreciate true doom metal. True doom is characterized by slow, heavy, Black Sabbath-inspired riffs, clean vocals and themes of death, sorrow, despair, religion, social injustice/societal criticism and mental illness. The bands that defined the sound of true doom metal, following from Black Sabbath, are: Witchfinder General, Saint Vitus, Trouble, Pentagram. This sound was later expanded on by Candlemass with the creation of epic doom metal.

Created Feb 12, 2023

1.4KMembers (last snapshot)

551Archived posts

This subreddit is for appreciating true doom metal. True doom is characterized by slow, heavy, Black Sabbath-inspired riffs, clean vocals and themes of death, sorrow and despair. The bands that defined the sound of true doom metal, following from Black Sabbath, are: Witchfinder General, Saint Vitus, Trouble, Pentagram and Candlemass.

DOOM WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW

Other communities

Reddit Rebuilt is an independent, non-commercial archive and is not affiliated with Reddit, Inc. Content belongs to its original authors.