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Heavy, Slow, Stoned: 13 Doom Metal Albums Everyone Should Own

Slow, heavy, stoned - the perfect winter album list.

DOOM
TROUBLE – PSALM 9 (1984)
SAINT VITUS – BORN TOO LATE (1986)
WARNING – WATCHING FROM A DISTANCE (2007)
SOLITUDE AETURNUS – INTO THE DEPTHS OF SORROW (1991)
CANDLEMASS – EPICUS DOOMICUS METALLICUS (1986)
CATHEDRAL – FOREST OF EQUILIBRIUM (1991)
THE OBSESSED – THE OBSESSED (1990)
ELECTRIC WIZARD – COME, MY FANATICS… (1996)
REVEREND BIZARRE – IN THE RECTORY OF THE BIZARRE REVEREND (2002)
WITCHFINDER GENERAL – DEATH PENALTY (1982)
PARADISE LOST – LOST PARADISE (1990)
THE GATES OF SLUMBER – CONQUEROR (2008)
PENTAGRAM – RELENTLESS (1985)

It's getting colder, the nights are drawing in and Halloween's fast approaching - it's the objectively correct time of year to listen to doom metal, the slowest, heaviest, stoned-iest music genre available to all mankind. 

Above is a list of thirteen doom albums compiled by our very own Nick Ruskell, below is a playlist featuring songs from the eight of those albums that are available on Spotify.

You know what to do.

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