Genre
Doom Metal
8 bands in the Top 500 carry Doom Metal as a primary or secondary tag.
- 8 bands
- 1990s dominant era
- 4 countries
- #124 Neurosis
Oakland heavy-rock visionaries who married hardcore weight to ritualistic ambient.
- #125 Cult of Luna
Swedish post-metal stalwarts of glacial heaviness and atmosphere.
- #127 High on Fire
Oakland trio merging Motörhead drive and Sabbath sludge.
- #128 Sleep
California riff lords whose 'Dopesmoker' is a stoner-metal cornerstone.
- #129 Kyuss
Palm Desert pioneers whose desert sessions birthed stoner rock.
- #198 Godflesh
Justin Broadrick's Birmingham project that helped birth industrial metal.
- #435 Melvins
Aberdeen, Washington sludge originators whose influence runs through Sub Pop's roster.
- #495 Boris
Tokyo experimental band fluent across drone, doom, J-pop, and ambient.