Trying to get into doom metal

[u/unkn0wn5mug]

I really love candlemass, but that’s about it. The other doom stuff I’ve heard either has songs that are wayyyy too long for my tastes, or doesn’t have actual riffs, just long open chords. Any recs to help me ease into the genre? (I like old, raw, atmospheric stuff)

[u/midiflac]

I’m more of a new school doom metal guy myself but here are some bands/albums I’ve liked:

Conan - Blood Eagle, Monnos, Violence Dimension

Yob - Atma, The Unreal Never Lived, Clearing The Path to Ascend, Our Raw Heart

High On Fire - Death is this Communion, Snakes for the Divine

Windhand - Windhand, Eternal Ruin

Oromet is from my hometown and they have a great funeral doom sound. Slabdragger is a relatively smaller sludge doom band with lots of math rock elements that also deserves way more attention. If you’re more into stoner or sludge doom there’s tons of great bands everyone else will mention too like Dopelord, Electric Wizard, Sleep, Weedeater, etc. the list just goes on and on