Metal Reviews

1. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
2. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
3. Candlemass - Nightfall
4. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
5. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
6. Disembowelment - Transcedence Into The Peripheral
7. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
8. Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend
9. Trouble - Psalm 9
10. Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium
11. Thergothon - Stream From The Heavens
12. Pentagram - Relentless
13. Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls
14. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
15. Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet
16. Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond The Crimson Horizon
17. Reverend Bizarre - Iii: So Long Suckers
18. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
19. Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
20. My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River
21. Ataraxie - Slow Transcending Agony
22. Esoteric - The Pernicious Enigma
23. Paradise Lost - Gothic
24. Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
25. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
26. Sleep - Holy Mountain
27. Pagan Altar - Volume 1
28. Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution Into The Continuum
29. Sleep - Dopesmoker
30. Scald - Will Of The Gods Is Great Power
31. Solstice - New Dark Age
32. Pantheist - O Solitude
33. Shape Of Despair - Angels Of Distress
34. Winter - Into Darkness
35. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
36. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
37. Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths Of Sorrow
38. Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
39. Morgion - Solinari
40. Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
41. Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
42. Anathema - The Silent Enigma
43. Doomsword - Resound The Horn
44. Shape Of Despair - Illusion’S Play
45. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
46. Nortt - Gudsforladt
47. Black Sabbath - Vol 4
48. Anathema - Serenades
49. Saint Vitus - Hallow’S Victim
50. Paradise Lost - Icon
51. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
52. Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
53. Wormphlegm - Tomb Of The Ancient King
54. Down - Nola
55. Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre
56. Doomsword - Let Battle Commence
57. Khanate - Khanate
58. Pagan Altar - Lords Of Hypocrisy
59. My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
60. Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance
61. Mourning Beloveth - Dust
62. Saturnus - Veronica Decides To Die
63. Evoken - Antithesis Of Light
64. Pentagram - Be Forewarned
65. Mournful Congregation - The Dawning Of Mournful Hymns
66. Worship - Last Tape Before Doomsday
67. Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
68. Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
69. Crowbar - Sonic Excess In Its Purest Form
70. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
71. My Dying Bride - As The Flower Withers
72. Funeral - From These Wounds
73. My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light
74. Mournful Congregation - The Monad Of Creation
75. Earth - Earth 2
76. Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical
77. Skepticism - Lead And Aether
78. Solitude Aeturnus - Through The Darkest Hour
79. Boris - Flood
80. Agalloch - The Mantle
81. Catacombs - In The Depths Of R'lyeh
82. Trouble - Trouble
83. Sunn O))) - White1
84. Pentagram - Day Of Reckoning
85. Reverend Bizarre - Ii: Crush The Insects
86. Beyond Black Void - Desolate
87. Evoken - Embrace The Emptiness
88. Saint Vitus - V
89. Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
90. Aesma Daeva - Dawn Of The New Athens
91. Paramaecium - Exhumed Of The Earth
92. Funeral - Tragedies
93. My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings
94. Anathema - Crestfallen
95. Candlemass - Tales Of Creation
96. Witchfinder General - Friends Of Hell
97. Om - Variations On A Theme
98. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
99. Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency
100. Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell

cant say i agree with *two* Candlemass albums being that high, but otherwise pretty good list from what i've heard on it. Gives me lots of doom to check out :X

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath should be way higher, and Ahab's Call of the Wretched Sea, while good, doesn't deserve the number 18 spot.

yeah agreed about Ahab actually. Also Buried At Sea - Migration should be on there... it's quickly becoming one of my favourite doom albums.

the list is from metal-archives poll btw...

Also i've never thought of Agalloch as Doom before

Saturnus - Paradise bellongs to you is way better than veronica decides to die in my oppinion.
I too do not think that Agalloch should be considered doom.
Shades of from Shape of Despair should be on the list and Illusion's play removed.

^^ Not Doom

A pretty good list overall, I like to see diSEMBOWELMENT and Winter getting some love.

One thing that really jumps out at me is that Quietus, arguably Evoken's best, is the only one of their albums not included on the list.

I also would have liked to see Umbra Nihil and Dragonauta on there, as well as Boris' doomiest album Amplifier Worship.

Doom seems like such a nebulous genre to me that it's impossible to have a top 100 albums. Black Sabbath, Nortt and Sunn O))) all in the same list?

Master of Reality is an odd choice, it's probably the least Doomy album of the Ozzy era.

Never got the hype of this
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

Yeah, I think it is getting more of the vote as "Best Sabbath Album" than it is on its doom quality. It's a good album, but you're right, it doesn't really belong at #1 on this list.

I would bet that the self-titled or Paranoid had more influence on the likes Candlemass, St. Vitus, and others.

The top 10 should all be Sabbath albums.

What in the world is Neurosis doing on the list? Since when were they ever remotely doom metal?

I'm glad to see Khanate and Catacombs on there, but where the fuck is Tyranny?!

They're influenced by Black Sabbath, play slow, have awesome riffs and are depressing... that meets doom requirements imo. They should be higher though =)

What a bizarre choice for Sunn O))). I'd have expected to see Black One in there. Nice to see the collaboration with Boris in there, even though only a third is really drone.

Pagan Altar Should have been on the top 10, all three of their albums actually, and IMO Electric wizard is rated waay to high on that list i mean i do like dopethrone but the 4th best doom album? i think not.

This is a metal-archives best of list. Guess that explains why it's like 40% non-doom bands.

Still lots of great doom in there.

Hell yeah! Pagan Altar kicks ass, but not many know much about them so it's not that surprising to see them left off, unjust as it may be.

As far as Dopethrone is concerned, I think you're seeing the same thing. It's probably rated that high due to its popularity more than anything else. I would probably stick in the 10-20 range somewhere. It's all opinion though. I mean, as shocked as I am that Transcendence Into the Peripheral got the #6 slot, it absolutely deserves it. It's quite possibly the greatest doomdeath album ever recorded. That's the most redeeming quality of these "lists" is that they open discussion.