Nightmare Visions - Prophecy (1987)

Genre: Death/Doom Metal
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 1987

1. Prophecy (Intro)
2. Nightmare Visions
3. Face the Executioner
4. Infantile Decay
5. The Last Nightmare
6. Fuck Off - No More - Fuck Off
7. Total Headfuck
8. Broken Corpse
9. Drunk and Abusive

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This is definitely a novelty post. I don't know what's wrong with people (I am one of them), but they seem to eat up the very first incarnations of certain genres of metal, the case here being a fusion between Death Metal and Doom Metal, straying away from the Thrash-infused speed, but retaining the Death, not incorporating another existent genre, Doom!

Boring explanations aside, here we go! This is more like rock, but with dirty guitars and gnarly vocals. Most songs follow a slower, morbid beat, and can often be quite catchy! VERY primitive Death/Doom, if you ask me. However, this is another band that helped laid the groundwork for future metal! So cheers to them!

And how could you not like this shit, what with lyrics about blood pouring from babies' eyes!

Dream Death - Journey into Mystery (1987)

Genre: Death/Doom Metal
Country: USA
Year: 1987

1. Back From The Dead
2. The Elder Race
3. Bitterness And Hatred
4. Black Edifice
5. Divine In Agony
6. Hear My Screams
7. Sealed In Blood
8. Dream Death

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Figured a good post to kick of this blog would be the founders of the Death/Doom Metal genre: Dream Death. They were one of the first (if not the first) to combine elements from old school death metal and the slower doomy feel of Doom Metal. This was highly experimental at the time, so it probably won't sound like what you're used to in the Death/Doom genre.

Simply put, the vocals are hardcore vocals. In fact, they have an incredibly eerie similarity to Slayer's Tom Araya. It's uncanny. Imagine if Slayer was better and played Death/Doom instead of Thrash. Check out the last song; it's probably the best.