Death-Doom Metal

Death-doom weds doom metal’s slow, crushing tempos and mournful atmosphere to death metal’s growled vocals and heavy riffing, producing music of vast sorrow and weight. England’s Peaceville Three — Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, and Anathema — defined it in the early 1990s, adding melody, violins, and gothic romance to the gloom. Songs are long and funereal, moving between grinding heaviness and aching melody. Themes center on grief, death, and despair.