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Originally Posted by Wyrd
I've been listening to Metal for quite sometime now and it started with Pentagram, Iron Maiden, Saxon, and Black Sabbath. And of course, it only expanded from there. But I recommend the Pentagram Debut to anyone. It's a great proto-doom album. It took what Sabbath had started and took it to another level.
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Be Forewarned is probably the only Pentagram album I like, I find most of their other material rather dated, their 1980s releases sound older than the 1980s
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Originally Posted by Tsunami
As much as I appreciate Pentagram, I think that Trouble is the band that started from where Sabbath with Ozzy left. 
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I`d say the most Sabbath sounding band around and that debut album
Psalm 9 is a classic doom metal release. other classic doom metal releases are:
Paradise Lost Icon
My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans
Candlemass Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Katatonia Dance of December Souls
Cathedral The Carnival Bizarre