Thanks to "iovis":http://mog.com/iovis and the invention of MOGs Metal Wednesday, I found a way back to Metal, what I never would have expected until some weeks ago. It's a rather whimsical and kinky way, but it is a way and that's what counts. And the way has a name and it's called "Drone Doom". Many metal headz don't regard Drone Doom as metal at all, as it is sooooooo slow.No moshing possible here, I guess.
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It's indeed a genre, where Metal becomes ambient, but with a kind of "ambience", that reverberates your core.
There are not many bands out there, that are devoted to this kind of music, if Wikipedia is not lying and Sun O))) together with Earth seem to be the top bands. But if you know good bands of this kind, that you'd like to recommend, drop a comment.
What I heard until now, and that was only Earth's "Hex" and Boris & Sun O)))'s "Altar" reminds me a bit of Industrial, as they also use elements of noise - I guess, it's produced here through the overmodulation of the guitars. Moreover it reminds me of Krautrock, but only in so far, as I heard once a 45-minute guitar solo of the Faust guitarist Steven Wray Lobdell on the "> Klangbad festival":http://www.klangbadfestival-scheer.de, that was comparably "epic" and quite extreme in its length. Usually there is no singer in Drone Doom, it tends to be purely instrumental. Boris & Sun O))) use a speech sample in "Akuma No Kuma" and not only the song in the comments prooves, that they are not dogmatic regarding the non-use of singers.Here's what ">Southern Records":http://www.southern.net has to say about this album:
__Altar was surely the most eagerly-anticipated extreme music release for some time. The wedding of Sunn O)))'s brutal drone symphonies with Boris' kaleidoscopic noise results in a wholly unique album that alchemically merges familiar elements of each band's sound into a transfigured, mysterious whole; roaring drones rise and collapse beneath blasts of disorienting, warped horns, the end result a heaving, psychedelic mass that looks set to induct yet more devotees to the shadowy explorations of both acts.____The album features various contributions from other artists, including Jesse Sykes, who provides haunting, melodic vocals on "Sinking Belle", Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), who contributes some enthralling guitar work to the album closer; and Joe Preston (Earth, Thrones, Melvins, High On Fire) , whose psychedelic vocal style is present on "Akuma Kuma." The end result is a mind-blowing sludge of cathartic, blurred noise.__
Enjoy the Doom.