That has got to be the most awful genre name I have ever heard. Funeral Doom? What the **** does that even mean?

I don't think it's that elusive tbh.

Anyway, funeral doom is something I hadn't listened to in a while until my flatmate started getting into it recently - in fact he just bought two Monolithe albums from overseas. Skepticism, Esoteric, Ahab and Wreck of the Hesperus are all great bands.

Never heard of those guys...whats the go?

Funeral doom is the ****. Easily my favorite band from that genre is Wormphlegm. Inhuman vocals and crushing guitars. Absolutely sickening.

Ahab, Evoken, and Shape of Despair are my favorites.

Funeral doom is a concept that appeals greatly to me. I enjoy alot of my doom music dark and maybe even slightly ambient but it has never occured to me before I read this thread that I don't actually appear to have much of it at all. I adore Evoken's Shades of Night Descending and should focus on trying to find some similar records.

who the f uck comes up with these homo names for various genres of metal? ffs!:rolleyes:

Check out Tragedies by Funeral. Its is FD masterworks people! haha also check out Six Waves OF Woe By Forest Of Shadows and Antithesis Of Light by Evoken. You will not be dissapointed

I hear this band lumped with funeral doom a lot, but the more I listen to them the less funeral doom they sound. Their melodies are often a bit more fast paced and their textures are often more used in a way that is jarringly beautiful as opposed to downtrodden and crushing. I also often find their lyrics to be weirdly optimistic and sarcastically hopeful which gets away from the whole funeral doom feeling.