DOOM

dead meadow, incidentally, is pretty great musically (although it's more in a 'hard doom rock' vein comparable to the obsessed maybe) but the vocals are GODAWFUL. kind of keening and tuneless high-pitched groaning... but the music is really, really nice so i can generally ignore the vocals.

Most of the good stuff's been mentioned, but the doomier end of black metal is pretty spectacularly weird as well (it's pretty much the only goth I can stand, hail satan): Esoteric, Skepticism. But I think "Dopethrone" is the best slow metal album ever. I also hate the stoner humor; quit giggling you fucking hippies.

about all i listened to over the last month was this early '70s shit like the Groundhogs' "Split", the 2 High Tide albums, "Suicide" by Stray, "Suicide" by Dust, Budgie, blah blahb\ blah. quite a regime. i'm feelin great!

Woah, people who love "Dopethrone" as much as I do. Maybe it's destined to be an underground classic. Also, taking a literal interpretation of the question, who else thinks the thrashing metal tracks on the DOOM computer game soundtrack are really great. I know a couple of them are Alice In Chain ripoffs, but I'm talking about the originals - and the song that sounds like a ripoff of Metallica's "Master Of Puppets" is actually an IMPROVEMENT to my ears.