Electric Wizard are a really good band; I really like Come My Fantatics, Witchcult Today and Dopethrone, though all their albums are pretty good. Not a huge fan of Black Masses, their last LP, but its still relatively enjoyable.
In terms of other stoner bands, I love Uffomammut- so heavy and ponderous, one of the only genuine psychedelic doom bands. Also enjoy Sleep, though I prefer Om and High On Fire. Goatsnake, Saturnalia Temple, Bong and Orange Goblin are other good stoner doom bands.
As to other doom, I love Sunn 0))), utterly crazy, intense and very strange music, Yob, Acid Bath, Bongripper, Crowbar (more sludge then doom, but definietly connected..)
Its a great style of music, I can't listen to it very often, but I go through periods where its all I here...
shady said:
This one's pretty fucking crunchy, just wish it was mixed better.
Its mixed perfectly, given that the band are going for that overdriven, warm, analog, organic sound. Their first album is mixed really cleanly and while its still good, it just sounds odd. The aesthetic of much doom metal requires a dirty production.
Then again, I'm of the view that rock music mixed to be clean and shiny is really actually dull and lifeless.
is "brutal truth" considered stoner metal?
Ha, not at all. Brutal Truth are kinda death metal mixed with some grindcore. Druggy lyrics don't make a band stoner. They have some connection to sludge metal, but its not their style... Stoner doom metal is more slow, bluesy riffs, loud bass with lyrics about drugs, horror (lovecraft in EW's case).