RYM's Top 25 Funeral Doom Metal Albums

       For the uninitiated, funeral doom metal might just be metal at its heaviest and darkest. Take the melancholic heaviness of standard doom metal, mix in the power and meanness of death metal and the dark atmosphere of black metal, and you get the ultimate megalith of sound. Sometimes these passages grind into your brain for 40 or so minutes at a time, even. If you are curious enough to explore, here is a good list to draw from. This is how the folks at rateyourmusic.com rank the top 25 funeral doom metal albums…

1		Skepticism Stormcrowfleet (1995)
2		Esoteric Metamorphogenesis (1999)
3		Shape of Despair Angels of Distress (2001)
4		Esoteric Subconscious Dissolution Into the Continuum (2004)
5		Shape of Despair Shades Of… (2000)
6		Skepticism Lead and Aether (1997)
7		Worship Last Tape Before Doomsday (1999)
8		Evoken Quietus (2001)
9		Esoteric The Pernicious Enigma (1997)
10		Skepticism Farmakon (2003)
11		Evoken Antithesis of Light (2005)
12		Esoteric The Maniacal Vale (2008)
13		Mournful Congregation The Monad of Creation (2005)
14		Evoken A Caress of the Void (2007)
15		Worship Dooom (2007)
16		Ea Ea Taesse (2006)
17		Evoken Embrace the Emptiness (1998)
18		Ataraxie Slow Transcending Agony (2005)
19		Thergothon Stream From the Heavens (1994)
20		Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea (2006)
21		Comatose Vigil Not a Gleam of Hope (2005)
22		Colosseum Chapter 1: Delirium (2007)
23		Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance (2011)
24		Funeral Tragedies (1995)
25		Skepticism Alloy (2008)