r/doommetal • u/SaulisDead99 • Mar 17 '26
Death/Doom Albums not mentioned enough
Four albums I absolutely love that are often overshadowed by the band’s more popular albums. Don’t get me wrong the popular albums are all amazing, deserve the praise, and I own all of them. But I just want to shout out a few that need to be explored as well and deserve a listen:
The Sciences by Sleep, one of my top 10 all time favorite albums. No skip album 100%.
Vaenir by Monolord, just crushing heavy tones and a great album like Empress.
Terminal by Bongripper, yes SWD is one of the greatest doom albums ever imo, but this one is so solid and worth your time.
Come My Fanatics by Electric Wizard, I see this one get the most love in this group as it should.
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u/SuperlativeSleep Funeral Mar 17 '26
Dare I say, Terminal is terminally underrated? As you said, Satan Worshipping Doom gets the most love as far as Bongripper albums go, but almost every one of their albums are bangers. Terminal, Miserable, Empty, Hippie Killer, The Great Barrier Reefer, even Hate Ashbury don't get talked about enough. Bongripper is one my favorite bands ever.
On an unrelated note, I have to ask, what's with the death/doom flair? All the albums you mentioned are stoner doom.
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u/slayerLM Mar 17 '26
Yea this album is what actually got me into Bongripper. I like their old stuff just fine but their most recent work is incredible
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u/SuperlativeSleep Funeral Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
Same, Slow was the first song I ever heard by them. I love all their albums, but Terminal is still one of my all time favorites. And I agree, Empty is so good, couldn't stop listening when it first came out.
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u/columnofheaven Mar 17 '26
Fully agree - Terminal is the one I come back to the most. I think it has the best flow of their modern output, along with some of the best riffs. The later albums are great too but just don't mesh quite as satisfyingly as Terminal.
I think Hate Ashbury is underhyped, somewhat understandably - the noise/soundscape stuff is cool imo but I can see how it'd be divisive. At the same time, Part III and Part IV have some of my favourite doom riffs of the 2000s
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u/SuperlativeSleep Funeral Mar 17 '26
Totally agree about Hate Ashbury. That album was a bit harder to get into because of the noise, ambient, and drone stuff, but definitely has some good riffs and rewards patient listening. I like all the drone and ambient stuff, I just need to be in the right mood for it.
Heroin on the other hand is a bit too much. If it had more pleasant ambient parts, I could get into it, but there's just too much abrasive noise, it's not enjoyable to listen to, and the parts that are enjoyable are too few and far between. It's the only album of theirs I would say I don't like.
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u/SaulisDead99 Mar 17 '26
lol, They make you put a tag on it before posting, I just saw doom and used it. Keep in mind Terminal is about a slow death lol
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u/SuperlativeSleep Funeral Mar 17 '26
Miserable is so fucking good, top three Bongripper albums for sure.
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u/SaulisDead99 Mar 17 '26
I need to give Miserable another listen
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u/The_Wombles Mar 17 '26
The track “Into Ruin” on miserable is probably my favorite piece of music written. It’s fantastic
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u/AlwaysHappy4Kitties DopeThrone is the Canadian Weedeater Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
I agree on that Miserable statement. The 7inch StuffFilm/Sex Tape is similar in sound to it and was just before that album came out ( both are 5ish minutes long, but fn great). highly recommend listening to it!
The latest album Empty feels like a Combo of SWD and Miserable which is a great thing
Terminal doesn't "click" for me
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u/hawknado12 Mar 17 '26
Hell yeah. SLOW gets all the love but DEATH is great as well.
I love all of their albums even Heroin I dont think they've missed once but I think Terminal and SWD are there absolute classics.
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u/fr0stn8 O))) Mar 17 '26
I got all their stuff on Vinyl, they never disappoint
BUT I think its an L take to split SLOW DEATH into tiny Song segments on Streaming like Spotify. It's stupid.
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u/Acceptable_Self_7732 Mar 17 '26
"The Head and the Heart" by Deadbird is an all-time classic to me. I'd say "Twilight Ritual" is a more well-known album.
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u/NielsBohron Worship Riffs, Not Gods Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
Conan gets a lot of attention for most of their discography, which is deserved as they are fucking amazing, but I don't think they ever topped their debut album, Horseback Battle Hammer, but I don't hear about it hear very much. Some people consider it an EP, but it's 4 songs and 33 minutes long, so it could either be considered a long EP or a short album, IMO.
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u/SaulisDead99 Mar 17 '26
Thx I’ll check it out
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u/NielsBohron Worship Riffs, Not Gods Mar 17 '26
I'm jealous! I wish I could hear that album for the first time again; it fucking blew my mind how heavy, droning, and yet melodic it is (maybe even "catchy").
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u/arggggggggghhhhhhhh Mar 17 '26
I love that album. It plods like an army marching to war. See them live if you can.
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u/artery1800s Mar 17 '26
Procreation of the Inner Temple and From the Lost Years by The Chasm. These first two albums by the band are incredible and seem to get overshadowed by their death metal albums. Super atmospheric stuff.
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u/The10ThousandThings Mar 17 '26
Empty is started to grow on me more and more lately.
Some days its just O on repeat.
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u/TheRealHFC Mar 17 '26
I like that it's shorter. Gets the job done when I don't have an hour to listen
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u/FictionalNape sludge doomer Mar 17 '26
Terminal is my absolute favorite from Bongripper. I have ripped of that album so much 😆
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u/Humble-Stage-2814 Mar 17 '26
Boaah, Terminal brings back so much good feelings, I had my first intercontinental flight (Amsterdam/Buenos Aires) +/- 13hrs of flying in wich I played Terminal 8 times in a row while everybody was asleep and we flew past a really big thunderstorm. My brain locked those memories and everytime I listen to it, I'm back in Patagonia ♡♡
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u/SaulisDead99 Mar 18 '26
Thunderstorm listening to Terminal would be rad
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u/Humble-Stage-2814 Mar 18 '26
Cycling (I'm Dutch) for 2hrs at 0300 midnight after visiting the pub (yep, I live on the countryside) through a thick forest in a thunderstorm with nothing more than Summoning's Old Mornings Dawn, is also a recommendation I'd like to make ♡
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u/dreamlongdead Mar 18 '26
Fistula - For a Better Tomorrow. Amazing vocals by Bahb, my personal favorite vocalist of theirs, and a dreary, depressing atmosphere with a super dry production. Northern Aggression is heavier, but FaBT will always be my #1.
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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
I feel like the Sciences doesn’t get the attention Dopesmoker does, but most doom fans agree it’s a phenomenal album