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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

My favorite album by far was The Skull - For Those Which are Asleep.
I've always loved Eric Wagner's vocals and lyrics and while I like Kyle Thomas, I didn't really enjoy Trouble's Distortion Field.
The Skull album kicked my ass and kinda restored my faith in awesome doom.

Haven't listened to The Skull yet.

Obulus wrote:No one mentioned The Body - I Shall Die Here yet? I thought it was awesome with that Haxan Cloak sauce all over it!

I listened to it quite a few times. I didn't strike me the way Christs, Redeemers did, but it was pretty fucking good.

It was exactly the other way around for me actually, it took some time for Christ, redeemers tot grow on me while i liked i shall die here practically from the first notes

lol one mans...

I had no idea that Novembers Doom released an album in 2014. I just listened to it tonight. I dig it.

I also just discovered The Oath. So good. Too bad they already broke up.

Usnea - Random Cosmic Violence
Mournful Congregation - Concrescence of the Sophia
Symptom - Caverns of Katabasis

i'm really late to party, but over the last few days I've been listening to Indian...and it's definitely gown on me...now its up there for best of 2014 for me. So brutal and raw...

Great band from chicago that Indian is. Have had the pleasure to see them live a few times. Shit is pretty evil.

I forgot to mention Monarch! - Sabbracadaver
and Megaton Leviathan - Past 21 Beyond the Arctic Cell

http://loweryourhead.bandcamp.com/album/hell

what about that though....

Yzordderrex:Epoch
Yzordderrex: Extraction
Mountain of Beard: All the Filth Ever

my favorites and only ones I kept up with. lol

stonemt wrote:http://loweryourhead.bandcamp.com/album/hell

what about that though....

Hell is always wonderful.