4. Sleep - Sonic Titan
It's the quintessential stoner doom song. It's got riffs, it's got groove, it's Sabbath worship. Al's bass timbre is so good. I cried a little when I first heard the crescendo after Al's solo section back when it released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvyzq-iZCmI
It's the quintessential stoner doom song. It's got riffs, it's got groove, it's Sabbath worship. Al's bass timbre is so good. I cried a little when I first heard the crescendo after Al's solo section back when it released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvyzq-iZCmI
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Underrated song from this album. Again, a perfect mix of groove and heavy riffs. This one centres the bass more than the rest of the album though, and Tim Bagshaw's solo is my favourite bass solo of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpGTkBbktx8
A foundational, albeit somewhat late piece of drone metal. And to me, the greatest. It's really getting the right mix of everything -- harshness and pleasantness, static and motion, simplicity and layering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_lOakB23d8
Despite not understanding the lyrics, Flood conveys an extremely strong emotional narrative through its music. It also shows how music can be fractals of tension and release, from bar to bar to hour to hour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AwDfKFfn18
Boris get 3 because they're the most brilliant musicians on this planet. This is a banger of a noise rock track that flips the idea of a never-ending intro on its head and is instead an incredibly long outro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQMvzDQw3wY
A psychedelic stoner track with amazing groove and riffs. In the grand scheme of things, it's perhaps not very unique. But a band from Sweden doing this in the 90's in parallel to the US west coast is pretty fucking cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyS4D4jOeZo
This track convinced me that saxophone in doom metal has to become more common. I really like Rezn's approach. There's aspects of it that feel very modern, and there's aspects that feel very vintage. They capture the best of both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3_lMfW4l_c