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  2. Metal

Doom Metal

Doom metal is a slow, very heavy style of metal with low-tuned guitars and a dark, gloomy mood.

Bands play at a crawl compared with other metal, letting thick chords ring out, and the lyrics deal with dread, grief and despair. Vocals may be clean and mournful or growled. The sound goes back to the early albums of Black Sabbath in the 1970s, and it became a genre of its own in the 1980s with bands in the United States, England and Sweden.

Artists it is known for: Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Saint Vitus, Electric Wizard.

Family
Metal
On Spotify
A current genre
What it is
A genre
From
United Kingdom and United States, 1970s to 1980s
Also called
doom
Trackify listeners who play it
4%

About 3,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have doom metal among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.

Doom Metal artists

The doom metal artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.

Sources

The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.