--- title: "Death-Doom Metal" type: "MusicGenre" url: "https://themetalnet.com/genre/death-doom" parent: "Doom Metal" bands: 131 era: "early 1990s" --- # Death-Doom Metal **Death-Doom Metal** is a metal sub-genre, formative in the early 1990s. TheMetalNet maps 131 bands and 269 albums under it. 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. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Genre | Death-Doom Metal | | Level | Sub-genre | | Parent genre | Doom Metal | | Formative era | early 1990s | | Bands | 131 | | Albums | 269 | | Formation span | 1985 to 2023 | ## Notable bands (top 60 by prominence) - [Autopsy](https://themetalnet.com/band/autopsy) (United States, 1987) - [October Tide](https://themetalnet.com/band/october-tide) (Sweden, 1994) - [Daylight Dies](https://themetalnet.com/band/daylight-dies) (United States, 1996) - [Salem](https://themetalnet.com/band/salem) (Israel, 1985) - [Abruptum](https://themetalnet.com/band/abruptum) (1990) - [The Fall of Every Season](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-fall-of-every-season) (Norway, 2004) - [Encoffination](https://themetalnet.com/band/encoffination) (United States, 2008) - [Depressed Mode](https://themetalnet.com/band/depressed-mode) (Finland, 2005) - [Evadne](https://themetalnet.com/band/evadne) (2000) - [Grey Skies Fallen](https://themetalnet.com/band/grey-skies-fallen) (United States, 1997) - [Ablaze in Hatred](https://themetalnet.com/band/ablaze-in-hatred) (Finland, 2004) - [Decrepitaph](https://themetalnet.com/band/decrepitaph) (United States, 2004) - [Dream Death](https://themetalnet.com/band/dream-death) (United States, 1985) - [Zaraza](https://themetalnet.com/band/zaraza) (Canada, 1993) - [Insanity Reigns Supreme](https://themetalnet.com/band/insanity-reigns-supreme) (Belgium, 1989) - [Nox Aurea](https://themetalnet.com/band/nox-aurea) (Sweden, 2005) - [Dusk](https://themetalnet.com/band/dusk) (Pakistan, 1994) - [Owl](https://themetalnet.com/band/owl) (2010) - [Slumber](https://themetalnet.com/band/slumber) (Sweden, 2002) - [Янтарные слёзы](https://themetalnet.com/band/band-558dcd8b) (2002) - [Aphotic](https://themetalnet.com/band/aphotic) (United States, 2000) - [Earthcorpse](https://themetalnet.com/band/earthcorpse) (Guernsey, 1989) - [Krypts](https://themetalnet.com/band/krypts) (Finland, 2008) - [diSEMBOWELMENT](https://themetalnet.com/band/disembowelment) (Australia, 1989) - [(EchO)](https://themetalnet.com/band/echo) (Italy, 2007) - [Mystic Charm](https://themetalnet.com/band/mystic-charm) (Netherlands, 1989) - [Skeletal Spectre](https://themetalnet.com/band/skeletal-spectre) (2008) - [Kaunis Kuolematon](https://themetalnet.com/band/kaunis-kuolematon) (Finland, 2012) - [Mourners Lament](https://themetalnet.com/band/mourners-lament) (Chile, 2004) - [Worm](https://themetalnet.com/band/worm) (United States, 2012) - [Adagio](https://themetalnet.com/band/adagio) (Brazil, 1995) - [Arcane Sun](https://themetalnet.com/band/arcane-sun) (Ireland, 1994) - [Livores Mortis](https://themetalnet.com/band/livores-mortis) (Czechia, 1995) - [Spectral Voice](https://themetalnet.com/band/spectral-voice) (United States, 2012) - [Swallowed](https://themetalnet.com/band/swallowed) (Finland, 2007) - [Goatlord](https://themetalnet.com/band/goatlord) (1985) - [Grey](https://themetalnet.com/band/grey) (United States, 2004) - [Rippikoulu](https://themetalnet.com/band/rippikoulu) (Finland, 1990) - [Cryptic Brood](https://themetalnet.com/band/cryptic-brood) (Germany, 2013) - [Fires in the Distance](https://themetalnet.com/band/fires-in-the-distance) (United States, 2016) - [Soliloquium](https://themetalnet.com/band/soliloquium) (2011) - [Chalice of Doom](https://themetalnet.com/band/chalice-of-doom) (Jordan, 2010) - [Visceral Evisceration](https://themetalnet.com/band/visceral-evisceration) (Austria, 1991) - [Ocean of Grief](https://themetalnet.com/band/ocean-of-grief) (Greece, 2014) - [Fossilization](https://themetalnet.com/band/fossilization) (Brazil, 2020) - [Graceless](https://themetalnet.com/band/graceless) (2016) - [Adversary](https://themetalnet.com/band/adversary-4b4145dc) (United States, 1994) - [Slimelord](https://themetalnet.com/band/slimelord) (United Kingdom, 2019) - [Tzompantli](https://themetalnet.com/band/tzompantli) (United States, 2019) - [Victims of Creation](https://themetalnet.com/band/victims-of-creation) (Malta, 1992) - [Во скорбях](https://themetalnet.com/band/band-94949859) (2007) - [Autokrator](https://themetalnet.com/band/autokrator) (France, 2014) - [Thorn](https://themetalnet.com/band/thorn) (United States, 2020) - [Tithe](https://themetalnet.com/band/tithe) (United States, 2017) - [Void Rot](https://themetalnet.com/band/void-rot) (2017) - [The Oath](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-oath-c4a3a140) (Germany, 2012) - [Etherial Winds](https://themetalnet.com/band/etherial-winds) (1992) - [Infernal Gates](https://themetalnet.com/band/infernal-gates) (Sweden, 1992) - [Whelm](https://themetalnet.com/band/whelm) (Denmark) - [A Karmic Gray](https://themetalnet.com/band/a-karmic-gray) (1992) ## Where it is played - [United States](https://themetalnet.com/country/us): 27 bands - [Finland](https://themetalnet.com/country/fi): 9 bands - [Sweden](https://themetalnet.com/country/se): 5 bands - [Germany](https://themetalnet.com/country/de): 5 bands - [Netherlands](https://themetalnet.com/country/nl): 4 bands - [Poland](https://themetalnet.com/country/pl): 4 bands - [Australia](https://themetalnet.com/country/au): 3 bands - [Belgium](https://themetalnet.com/country/be): 2 bands ## Bands formed by decade | Decade | Bands formed | | --- | --- | | 1980s | 8 | | 1990s | 30 | | 2000s | 22 | | 2010s | 34 | | 2020s | 13 | --- Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/genre/death-doom](https://themetalnet.com/genre/death-doom). Catalog data from MusicBrainz and Metal Archives. Full site index: https://themetalnet.com/llms.txt