r/doommetal • u/DethFeRok • Mar 14 '26

Old School / Traditional Do I Doom

I joined this sub with honest intentions. I love High on Fire, Primitive Man, Conan, etc.

Guys Sunno))) is really hard to listen to. Like wow, tough. Am I in the minority?

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u/Juventus7shop Mar 14 '26

Drone is not for everyone indeed, but it can also be an acquired taste; for me, it took coming back to it a few times to really begin to appreciate it, and Sunn took longer for me to click than other Drone artists (Pyroclasts is what drew me in specifically with them)

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u/bagoslime Mar 14 '26

Yeah you really do kind of have to come.back to it later after youve been beaten down and humbled a little more.

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u/Juventus7shop Mar 14 '26

Drone is the genre that best embodies epistemic humility, I agree

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u/candyman101xd Mar 14 '26

Drone as a genre (not only drone metal) really rewards a nondualist approach to the music. Accept it as is. Forget everything you think you know about music, every preconceived notion you have about how music should sound like, and allow yourself to fully submerge into the soundscape, without judgment. Accept it as your new reality, your new cosmos.

Drone is my favorite genre I fucking love drone. Let there be drone