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DOOM METAL

The roots of doom lie in the lumbering, monolithic guitar sound that heavy metal’s high priest Tony Iommi bestowed upon the world in the form of songs like Iron Man, Into The Void and, of course, the immortal, eponymous Black Sabbath. Modern doom metal drags that ‘low & slow’ sound all the way to its logical conclusion, leaving some of the most powerful guitar music ever recorded in its considerable wake. Hail, then, these sons and daughters of Sabbath, and all those who take

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