On Goatsnake
They're definitely a doom band in part, but they're also a stoner metal band. Stoner metal is a doom-adjacent genre, with bands often -- very often -- crossing over from one to the other until stoner metal bands are often as much doom as stoner -- Electric Wizard is an excellent example.
Think of stoner metal as being Black Sabbath's "Iron Man", "Black Sabbath", and "Electric Funeral" (doom metal) vs. their material from Master of Reality (stoner metal): not necessarily as slow and plodding, but equally riff-based, and with an often more rock 'n' roll aesthetic.
This is why I wanted you to listen to Sleep's Holy Mountain, even though you didn't like Dopesmoker, as Holy Mountain was very much a stoner doom metal album -- basically a Black Sabbath tribute album made of original songs rather than covers -- whereas Dopesmoker was almost pure doom, bordering on drone, with the stoner influence being much more in the background.
Listening to Holy Mountain is really like listening to a different band. I'm pretty sure the band even used another band member on vocals.
I'm going to rec you Holy Mountain whenever you open recs on your Love/Hate thread. Whether or not you love it, I have no doubt that you'll like it infinitely more than Dopesmoker. I don't know that there is a geographical scene based on stoner metal (though the American South is kind of a hotbed for stoner, since rednecks like to smoke weed), but it would be a good genre for you to explore for the next Metal Month. If so then...
1. Sleep - Holy Mountain
2. Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
3. Down - NOLA
4. Trouble - Trouble
5. Melvins - Stoner Witch (possibly Houdini, but Stoner Witch is more eclectic)
****, that reminds me that I never did a New Orleans sludge metal list...
1. Eyehategod - Take as Needed for Pain (you'll hate it, no questions asked, but it's required listening for NOLA sludge)
2. Corrosion of Conformity - America's Volume Dealer (band originally from Texas, but by this point their sound was sludge/stoner, as they had taken on a member originally from the New Orleans sludge scene)
3. Down - NOLA (if you don't do stoner metal)
4. Crowbar - Crowbar
5. Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets
If you hadn't already listened to and not liked Acid Bath's When the Kite String Pops then I'd red you that one.
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