It's All About the FUZZ! Essential Doom Albums 

Karen's picks: Sleep - Holy Mountain, Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy, Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium, Witchfinder General - Friends of Hell, Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics, The Sword - Age of Winters. Pete's picks: 1) Candlemass-Nightfall (1987) 2) Cathedral-The Ethereal Mirror (1993) 3) Electric Wizard-Dopethrone (2000) 4) Saint Vitus-Born Too Late (1986) 5) Trouble-Trouble (1990) 6) Pentagram-Day of Reckoning (1987) 7) Solitude Aeternus-Beyond the Crimson Horizon (1992) 8) Sleep-Holy Mountain (1992) 9) Witchfinder General-Death Penalty (1982) 10) Pagan Altar-Judgement of the Dead (1982)

One of the best SOT shows ever. Long overdue, and Karen is a delight.

Trouble Early-Paradise Lost My Dying Bride Candlemass Autopsy Asphyx Early-Katatonia Swallow the Sun Dream Unending Worm Khemmis Ahab Too many to name, these are some staples to get into because most have plenty of albums and eras.

This is a hell of a start! Some parts of the show's premise I'm well up on - stoner, psych...but doom is an area I DO need to do more with, so thanks! Cheers Karen! And whoever that guy is..

Pete never fails to turn me on to new music that I can explore. And Karen rocks.

Fantastic show concept and first episode. Really looking forward to seeing where Karen and Pete go from here.

Pete, absolutely killer new series! Karen has been such a great addition to HVS and now this awesome show. She always makes you feel good about the music she's talking about and her enthusiasm is contagious. Paired with you, Pete, the Master, this show will take off for sure. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

Candlemass - Nightfall Trouble - Psalm 9 Pentagram - Day of Reckoning Saint Vitus - V Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror

Anyone into this stuff is already plenty familiar with the more notable and oft cited releases, so I'll try to offer a few lesser known gems, or at least ones not mentioned as often ...there are so many to choose from nowadays, and that's coming from one who grew up in an era where Doom Metal bands could be counted on your fingers. These are mostly older titles ...there's a lot of good newer stuff out there too. Paul Chain Violet Theatre - Detaching From Satan Forsaken - After The Fall Ocean Chief - Tor Weird Light - Doomicvs Vobiscvm Solitude Aeturnus - Through The Darkest Hour Las Cruces - Ringmaster Reverend Bizarre II: Crush The Insects Toner Low II Doomraiser - Mountains of Madness Iron Man - The Passage The Gates of Slumber - The Awakening Revelation - Salvation's Answer Burning Witch - Seven Psalms/Crippled Lucifer The Lamp of Thoth - Portents Omens & Doom The Wandering Midget - The Serpent Coven Grave Disgrace - Sabbatharium The Grave s/t Lord of The Grave - Raunacht Count Raven - Destruction of The Void Saint Ivo - Doomestication Earthride - Vampire Circus Pale Divine - Thunder Perfect Mind Iron Void - s/t Griftegård - Solemn • Sacred • Severe Orchid - Capricorn Lord Vicar - Fear No Pain Serpent Venom - Carnal Altar Wall of Sleep - Sun Faced Apostles Spiritus Mortis - The God Behind The God Minotauri - s/t Caskets Open - Buried Upsidedown Internal Void - Standing On The Sun Great Coven - Viaticum WitchSorrow - God Curse Us Hour of 13 - s/t Place of Skulls - With Vision Nomad Son - Eternal Return Starchild - s/t Melvins - Bullhead

I'm only two minutes into this video and it's already one of my favorite series of SOT. I'm excited for future conversations! Karen is a gem!

I am going to love this series! I am not all that well educated about stoner or Doom metal, but my listening list just grew by quite a few albums! Cathedral is next for me. Cheers, you two!! Scott.

I love this show already; I love that Karen has a unique taste relative to a lot of the other panelists and is so enthusiastic and clearly just loves tuneage. Pete and Karen - every pick you two made was spot on and seeing you two go through these was a treat. I can’t wait to see more.

Great idea for a new show! Stoner/Doom/Heavy Psych are my favorite rock/metal genres, looking forward to more episodes!

Tremendous job. Karen. Will be looking forward to next month. Thanks again. PETE More homework lol. All good 👍 💯

Appreciate this, I'm still new to doom and this is a perfect timing.

Congrats on the new series!!

Congrats on this new series Pete & Karen!

Great show, thanks Pete and Karen 👍💯

Great show/topic! The first 2 Trouble, first 2 Candlemass, Count Raven-Destruction of The Void, Count Raven-High On Infinity, Orchid-Capricorn, Sheavy-Celestial Hi Fi, Orange Goblin-Frequencies From Planet Ten, Serpent Throne-Ride Satan Ride Doom On!

Can't wait to dive in. I probably first got into Doom/stoner rock with The Sword, Orange Goblin, and Black Mountain. But recently got into King Buffalo, Elder, Earthless, and Lume are my favorites.

Thanks for the education. Great show

My Dying Bride- Turn Loose the Swans essential.

Winter - Into Darkness Trouble - Trouble Pentagram - Relentless Candlemass - Nightfall Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries Dream Death - Journey into Mystery Witchfinder General - Death Penalty Sorcerer - The Crowning of the Fire King Danzig - Danzig III: How the Gods Kill Icecross - Icecross Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses Ghost - Opus Eponymous

Great show! Looking forward to more episodes! You guy’s covered pretty much what I expected in this episode! Looki😢forward to what else is up your sleeves!!!

Thanks to both of you. I will love this series. Big fan of doom/stoner rock for a long time. Thanks to Sabbath, of course. Keep up the good work!

Loving this first show in the series. Cannot wait to see how this progresses. Karen is fantastic and Pete... You are the master. Thanks!

I haven't watched yet but the song "The Falcon Has Landed" bu Fu Manchu has a monstrous doom riff. Also, Overkill's "Playing With Spiders/Skullkrusher" has one of the doomiest riffs ever.

Awesome!!! The Fuzz Nation appreciates it! :D Thanks, Pete and Karen!

After watching you two have a blast on your premiere episode. I may have no choice but to become a fuzzhead ! ...and when you circle back around to Doom, I think you've inadvertently come up with your next theme: Best of the 2000s. Great first episode. Congrats!

You guys are right in my wheelhouse! Great show you 2!!!

Talk about feeling warm and FUZZY. Already looking foreword to the next show

Great episode thanks to you both.

i liked Black Sabbath but couldn't be bothered with stoner/fuzz/doom during the '90. That changed in the end of the 2000's after hearing Colour Haze and attending the Roadburn festival. Now my favorite albums post 2000 are stoner/fuzz/psych records like SLEEP The sciences, ELDER Dead roots stirring, SLIFT Ummon and the SHRINEBUILDER album. And i play Wo Fat all the time. I only like my doom when it has touches of psych and stoner (like the drumming more) . My most recent purchase in that genre is SAGE Say goodbye. Fun stoner/doom. Today i'm off to the Sonic Whip festival. Colout Haze, Slift, Lowrider, Psychlona, Causa Sui and King Bufallo as the highlights 🍻

Great show and great bunch of albums. Looking forward to the next shows :-)

Great picks! Witch Mountain’s self-titled “Blue Album,” YOB’s “Our Raw Heart,” and Reverend Bizarre’s “In Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend” are some of my favourite doom records and should be included with all these other incredible picks! Awesome stuff! Great first episode!

Been looking forward to this! Great point made at the beginning because I didn't realize how much I love this type of music and didn't realize it was even a thing till a few years ago. Got my pen and paper ready to jot down some bands I might not know.

Brilliant episode! Thank you for this one. Loved all of the picks!

Between this and the latest "in the prog seat" I have a ton of albums to investigate. Thanks 🍺🤘!

I have had that Trouble album since it came out in 1990, I still listen to it all the time, it sounds superb cranked up extra loud...... it's all about the fuzz it's going to be a killer show! Thank you!

Great show Pete and Karen! I listened to both Witchfinder General albums and I liked it. I will listen to the rest of both lists. I am looking forward to next month's episode.

This will be an amazing series! Great first episode. Church of Misery was new to me. Damn good!!

Great show thanks. Pentagram - S/T , Candlemass - Epicus, Trouble - Psalm 9, Witchfinder General - Death Penalty, Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium, Sleep - Holy Mountain, Revelation - Never Comes Silence, Count Raven - Storm Warning, Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths and the Dark Passages comp should do for starters - then you can go on forever from there....

I think Bell Witch- Mirror Reaper is as classic as a five year old album can get. I think it's one of those albums that will stand the test of time. People will still be talking about it 30 years from now.

Loved the first show and looking forward to more. Some of my early doom favorites: Melvins - "Bullhead" Solitude Aeturnus - "Adagio" Pentagram - "First Daze Here" The Obsessed - "The Church Within" My Dying Bride - "Turn Loose The Swans" Anathema - "Alternative 4" Candlemass - "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" Trouble - "Manic Frustration"

Great show

Hi Karen and Pete. Great episode. Being a Doom fan, I can say I have heard and listened to all of these albums except the Solitude album which I will be playing shortly. Thanks for the series.

60's Yes!

Just listened to Solotude Aeteurnus. Man that is some good shit. Once again i learn stuff each time I watch this channel

I’m a massive fan of Stoner Rock, Metal, Psychedelic, Sludge & Doom Metal and I absolutely loved every album mentioned!

A pioneer of Doom Metal (and Stoner) that's often overlooked but I think should be considered essential listening to anyone getting into the genre is Paul Chain, specially everything he released under the "Paul Chain Violet Theatre" moniker. He even recorded stuff with both Lee Dorrian and Wino. His discography is massive, but the earlier stuff is the best.

Lots of great suggestions. I'll dig into it. Don't know exactly why but I never dug deep into more "traditional" doom although some records that I absolutely love are very doomy. One example ? Ahab-The Call of the Wretched sea. Absolute masterpiece. I am also very much into sludgey/doomy/doom-related bands that usually fall into the so-called "post metal" bin: like Neurosis, Isis and i think they are great, don't know if anybody from SOT is into those bands (and the vast swarm of clones...)

Damn, this is totally a cool show right up my alley! I'm in!

Looking forward to more of this great show. George needs to be consulted on a great catchphrase for this show.

Great! Love the fuzz. Awesome picks to lay the foundation. Big fan of Church Of Misery. Their Master Of Brutality has a killer cover of Cities On Flame by BÖC. Looking forward to more episodes!

GREAT SHOW PETE AS ALWAYS

Great episode love Karen’s enthusiasm

Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops. Leans more towards sludge but still doomy

Keep up the great work! The first and second Trouble albums, The Obsessed and related bands . 😀❤️🎼

It's a sunny day in Ireland, and SOT are doing doom. Good times!

Good show. Looking forward to next monty

Great first episode Fuzz-captains ;) one of my favorites that’s lesser known is After the fall by Forsaken. Exceptional doom album in my opinion. Looking forward to the next episode!

Really enjoyed this episode. Captain Approved! Cheers

Great show! Adding to essential picks: Acid King - Busse Woods ( 1999) great female vocals. A classic to me.

Great first episode

Electric Wizard, Witchcult Today is a good place for the doom curious out there. It is more toned down than Dopethrone but still great

Loved all your picks!! Witchfinder General did release a third LP in 2008 called Resurrected. I don't think it's as great as the first two, but isn't terrible. It has all of the original guys except Zeeb Parks.

Pete, can you please do a ranking the album show for Solitude Aeternus? I never see that band getting much attention. It would be a great show!

Reverend Bizarre. Awesome doom band.

Pete literally listens to all the music I listen to

Blood Farmers - S/T 1995 Orodruin - Epicurean Mass 2003 Penance - The Road Less Travelled 1992 Age of Taurus - Desperate Souls of Tortured Times 2013 Zebulon Pike - And Blood Was Passion 2004 Also, Through the Darkest Hour is the Solitude album 🤙

...Im All In With This ! All the Damn Time ! ....Karen is 😎 a Smoking addiction...oh Oh Oh I mean Addition to the SOT Crew ....but then we Know this !

Gteat info! Since you mentioned Wino, I'll throw out The Obsessed album Lunar Womb.

Appreciate this. I like a lot of doom, but have never really dived deep into the genre. I suspect these shows will give me a lot of great recommendations. Already when presented with the essentials there's a handful I need to check out.

Top 5 Doom bands with favorite album in no particular order Confessor- Condemned Trouble- The Skull Candlemass- Tales of Creation Cathedral- Forest of Equilibrium Solitude Aeturnus- Beyond The Crimson Horizon I want to include Sleep, The Sword, & Orange Goblin all three have some elements of doom but are more in common with Stoner Rock.

Loved the show and looking forward to it here on out. I like Doom but have never properly got right into it. I'm wary of a lot of the newer bands because I don't care for the funeral Doom, the stuff that moves purely at 3bpm and I don't like overly guttural vocals with it either. So I'm looking forward to recommendation of bands more in the Sabbath vein of Doom which is what I like. Gonna throw out my own recommendation for that in Magic Circle. I've got their self titled album on vinyl and they are totally Sabbath worshippers. The whole album has the same guitar tone as Symptom of the Universe, which is my favourite tone of all time! I'm just so annoyed that by the time I discovered then they had already split up, but the lead singer is now with Sumerlands and actually done some stuff with Pagan Altar so a nice link to this video. I really want to get their other 2 albums on vinyl in the future but it's pricey to do just now since I can only import here to the UK. If anyone knows any decent online suppliers for Doom vinyl in the UK (other than discogs) would love to know! Anyway, keep up the good work and looking forwardto seeing more every month.

I adore this genre of rock and metal! Psyche and garage, doom, stoner, sludge, death doom....it's all so good! My favorite Cathedral album is "The Carnival Bizarre." Both of Trouble's Rick Rubin produced albums are among my all time favorite albums ever. I also want to love Electric Wizard much more than I do, but the vocals do kinda make it hard. I totally agree with that. However, I still love their THICC n' CHONKY riffs though! Another honorable mention I'd like to list: Grand Magus with their albums "Hammer of the North" and "Iron Will" to start with. Those albums are so EPIC they will put hair on your chin. I'm excited to see where this show goes from here! Bring on the FUZZ!

Hi Pete / Karen have you checked out Tristitia from Sweden, not to be confused with Tristania from Norway, they are a great melodic progressive Doom metal band with some fantastic guitar work from Luis B Galvez who is originally from Chile, in fact his second solo on the track As Death Says Mine from their Garden of Darkness album is my favourite all time solo, they have 6 albums out in all and have been around since the early nineties

Mudhoney is my favorite fuzz sound grunge meet punk pysch rock

First... it's nice to have a different, female vibe with Karen. Second... I'll mention Camel Driver; instrumental, German, doomy, fuzzy, psychedelic, circa 2010-17. Third... the most captivating band/project I've heard in MANY years. I think their mix of traditional metal & doom riffs and instrumental modern prog metal might split them between camps that feel the need to stay in a specific camp. Again, metal/doom riffs with stripped down djenty accents twist and groove into a bit of complexity and virtuoso melodic and creative soloing. SCOREDATURA (with an 'E') circa 2016-2022.

Thank you for this show. This is such a deep rabbit hole. Stoner, Sludge, Post-Metal, Funeral Doom, Death Doom, Drone Doom even lots of Epic Metal is super doomy.

The first two Trouble albums simply can not be topped. Have to throw out the debut by Avatarium. Fantastic doom.

The First Fuzz band I think was Davy Allan & the Arrows on Capitol/Sidewalk records 1966-69

As was mentioned by another poster, it needs repeating, Paul Chain is a master of Doom, Psych, Psych-Metal, seek him out please

Some classics on here you can't go wrong with any Cathedral especially the early stuff love it, my favourite is The Carnival Bizarre great idea for a show cheers

2nd era = "Candlemass!" 3rd Era = My Dying Bride, Anathema, & of course Paradise Lost = The GREAT 3! But do not forget "Pararamecium" & "Cathedral"!

Nice job covering most of the early classics! I was cleaning up in kitchen and may have missed a couple, but not sure if y'all mentioned The Obsessed? Brendan Radigan, formerly of Magic Circle, currently in Sumerlands, has been singing for Pagan Altar the past few years. Saw them at Hell's Heroes V in Houston this year! Sounds like you'll need to do an episode on 21st century doom like Magic Circle, and as you mentioned Khemmis, Pallbearer, along with early Spirit Adrift, Witch Mountain, Castle, Uncle Acid, SubRosa, Avatarium, Messa, etc. Fun fact, the only time a (partially) doom album ever topped the charts was Black Sabbath's 13 in both the UK and Billboard charts. In reference to their single "God is Dead?" I wrote about that and a brief history of doom called Doom Goes Pop: God May be Dead but DOOM Isn't.

Great idea for a show probably my favorite kind of metal along with thrash, I agree on ST Trouble, and Cathedral might even go Carnival bizarre as a starting point, and Paradise lost Draconian times is a good starting point.

Cathedral- The Ethereal Mirror Candlemass- Nightfall Sleep- Holy Mountain Pentagram- Relentless Saint Vitus- Born Too Late

Doom is passionate music with passionate fans, and for music that is known for being utterly miserable, it's great to see how much enthusiasm it can actually generate. Loved seeing that in this video from both pete and karen. I do think Dopethrone is the most "special" Electric Wizard album. They're always lumped in with stoner bands, but they have a vibe that's for me very different...and that vibe is...8evil*. Whereas most stoner music just makes you want to trip out and smell the flowers, Electric Wizard are like a depraved, drug-fueled apocalypse. After certain experiences in my life, with a person who took the subject matter of this band a little too much to heart (and I don't mean weed-smoking), I now have a hard time listening to them, but this Dopethrone thing, it's a monument of darkness and doom full of odes to nuclear destruction, the dxarkest of weird tales, barbarity. The nasty vocals taht sound like they're being wailed into a broken microphone are not attractive, but they suit it perfectly well. Love the riffs, the distortion, the very organic-sounding drums and the way they were produced. Everyone forgets that there was a third Witchfinder General album that came out in the late 2000s or so. I forgot about it too. That band was lightning in a bottle for a very brief time only. Something about it just shouldn't have worked, but it does. The vocals are terrible and for every few great songs like "Witchfinder General", "Invincible Hate", "Rabies", there's something like "I Lost You" and "Music". The vocals are kind of terrible. But...man, they almost do taht Electric Wizard thing where they manage to tap into the heart of something that's a little crazy and unhinged. Think it's probably the drugs.

I'm never gonna do without the FUZZ on! With exception of Cathedral's Ethereal Mirror several months ago, I've never heard any of these. I'm also mostly clueless about music of this century, but some of my faves have been from bands that I'm curious to see if will be mentioned here in coming months.

Pete you have introduced me to Geezer great stoner band !

Missing The Obsessed. Great band!

A couple Essentials: Anathema - Serenades Celestial Season - Solar Lovers

Great episode.... don't have a final Top 5/10/25, but pretty positive 'The Ethereal Mirror' will top that list.... Great picks, however, both!

I saw Cathedral open for King Diamond in long Island, took half the night to get back to Brooklyn by the time I got home it was past 6:00 AM on public transportation.There was this young kid about 16 or so. He heckled the lead singer through the entire set.

As much as I love Ozzy, Bobby Liebling, and Messiah in this realm, Patrick Walker totally crushes me. He is wow

Pete and Karen, loved the show. I am looking forward to learning some new stuff. I will tell you the truth, all of those musical categories do not mean that much to me. When you said “Fu Manchu” was not in this weeks category I was sad as they are a band I know. So I mentally put aside Orange Goblin, Acid Mothers Temple, Boris, Kikagaku Moyo, etc. I just want to hear about some bands I may have missed. Can I be a little pedantic? Growing up in England the Fuzz was slang for the police. Hence Simon Pegg’s film “Hot Fuzz”. When I was a kid, the cry was usually, “Oh no, it’s the fuzz, let’s go!”. Keep up the good work.

1. Trouble - Trouble (1990) 2. Trouble - Manic Frustration (1992) 3. Trouble - Psalm 9 4. Candlemass - Epicus, Doomicus Metallicus (1986) 5. Cathedral - Carnival Bizzare (1995) 6. Pentagram - Relentless 9984) 7. St Vitus - Born Too Late (1986) 8. Candlemass - Candlemass (2005) 9. The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep (2014) 10. The Skull - The Endless Road Turns Dark (2018)

Love the show and love doom! Not a big fan of fuzz, though, but luckily enough a lot of doom bands use other types of distortion 🙂.

Sleep-Holy Mountain Cathedral-Carnival Bizarre Church of Misery-Master of Brutality Electric Wizard-Come my fanatics Sleep-Dopesmoker Sheavy-The Electric sleep