celticelk wrote:
Out of curiosity, what would you recommend that's *not* the "same old tired regurgitated riffs and tones"? It doesn't have to have been released this year, and I'm not looking to pick a fight - genuinely curious about what other people consider "progressive" or "envelope-pushing" in the doom genre.
i guess it depends on your definition of doom. But you have a fair point doom by it's nature is not envelope pushing.
Here are a few examples of albums that I thought had a high degree of originality without sounding forced.
Elder - Dead Roots Stirring (much better than their first album)
Serpent Throne - White Summer, Black Winter
John Gallow - Violet Dreams
Gates of Slumber - Wretch ( i think it is their best, pretty traditional but has enough twists to make it original)
Electric Wizard - Black Masses (a lot of people hate it, but in my opinion it was refreshing change for EW and popularized the "lo-fi" doom sound)
Boris - Pink, Amplifier Worship
Reverend Bizarre - So Long Suckers (maybe not ground breaking, but they were one of the pioneers of current day doom and i just like this album)
Melvins - Lysol (doesn't sound original anymore because it has been copied a ton but at the time...)
Maybe not so doom but here are a few more very good albums that have a lot of originality, in my opinion of course:
Colour Haze - She Said (finally they wrote a Colour Haze album instead of a Kyuss record)
Ovvl (Owl) - S/T
Hot Lunch - S/T
Slough Feg - Ape Rising (or any album, they are pretty much the same)
Leeches of Lore - Attack the Future
Mammoth Volume - A Single Book of Songs
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Torche - Meanderthal
Dot Legacy - S/T
Church of Misery - Early Works Compilation
Clutch - Elephant Riders
