 | Khanate by Khanate
Buy used from: £8.75 Traditional Doom metal meets the more avant garde sound of Swans. James Plotkin/Stephen O'Malley and co.
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 | Filth/Body to Body Job to Job by Swans
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £8.92 The originators. Like wading through tar. Not just slowed-down standard Metal riffs like so much Doom - but genuinely nasty, almost avant classical atonal chords.
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 | Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money by Swans
Buy used from: £22.98 Even slower, heavier - if possible. 'Cop' is maybe the bleakest record ever made - makes all 'Goth' music sound quaintly redundant.
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 | Streetcleaner by Godflesh
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.80 Justin Broadrick's masterpiece - suffocatingly oppressive bass malevolence. Atonal, angular riffs recall early Swans - although later albums were more traditionally Metal.
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 | Anatomy of Addiction by God
Godflesh + free jazz from Broadrick's Techno Animal partner Kevin Martin. Line-up of almost orchestral proportions resulting in dense, chaotic sound.
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 | Les Morts Vont Vite by Shub Niggurath
Buy used from: £46.45 Oppressively slow/gloomy art rock moving on from Magma/Univers Zero into 80's noise rock territory. Heavy Zeuhl bass, dissonant organ tone clusters, free jazz piano solos, feedback scree....
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 | Times of Grace by Neurosis
Buy used from: £10.25 Gloom-soaked art-metal masters. See also Cult of Luna, Isis, Jesu, Pelican and the many others that followed in their wake.
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 | Total Castration by Zeni Geva
Buy used from: £10.38 KK Null's psych/sludge/industrial band. Very like early Swans. Part of early 90's noise rock/no wave revival scene - including Cop Shoot Cop, Unsane, Godflesh.....
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 | Watercourse Way by Yeti
Magma meets Neurosis? Combines bass intensity of 70's Zeuhl with post-Swans sensibilities. Second album (on Life is Abuse) even better, but unfortunately not available on Amazon.
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 | Tarantula Hawk by Tarantula Hawk
Buy used from: £7.00 Close to the above, but maybe dronier/more space rock-ish. On Neurot. Dense layers of guitars and keyboards - nice to see synths foregrounded in mix - create art rock/sludge hybrid.
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 | 00 Void by Sunn O)))
Buy used from: £34.99 Doom bordering on more experimental Dark Ambient/Noise territory.
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 | Body of Light by Halo
Buy used from: £21.23 Recent Swans revivalists - decent enough, but start with the real thing.
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 | Men by Burmese
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £2.56 As above.
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 | Information Overload Unit by SPK
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.98 Industrial death marches full of churning static and piercing feedback. Makes Throbbing Gristle sound like purveyors of upbeat trance anthems.
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 | Nova Akropola by Laibach
Buy used from: £7.09 Their best - none of the ironic/postmodern pop of later releases, this combines avant classical samples and distorted vocals with ominously slow mechanistic beats.
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 | Paradise Disowned by Lustmord
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £10.26 Early 'Dark Ambient' looking back to 60's electronic droners like Pauline Oliveros
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 | Innerwar by Brighter Death Now
Buy new: £18.49 / Used from: £10.29 OK, CMI stuff can get a bit cartoonish in its schlock horror approach - but this is one of the better acts on the label. Like Merzbow on downers.
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| Colossus by Scorn
The best of early noise rock-period Scorn. One of the best attempts to revive the early Swans sound because, like Swans, it focuses on atonal harmonies rather than just slowing down standard riffs.
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 | Schnittke: Orchestral Works
Buy new: £9.96 / Used from: £6.95 Russian avant classical. Not best recordings of either piece, but the oppressive, funereal gloom of 'In Memoriam' makes a lot of Metal act's attempts at sounding 'dark' seem quaint by comparison.
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| Ustvolskaya - Chamber Works
Buy used from: £71.19 More Russian classical - a series of grim, ritualistic funeral marches, with no sign of redemption. Austere.
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| Turning It Down Since 2001 by Noxagt
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £8.64 Lumbering, neanderthal noise rock - like Burmese, on currently trendy-in-indie-circles Load label.
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 | Black Earth by Bohren & Der Club of Gore
Buy used from: £6.69 Doom jazz.
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 | Amplifier Worship by Boris
Buy new: £13.98 / Used from: £8.75 I don't actually like Boris that much (too much of a traditional Doom sound, not enough Swans dissonance) - but I can't find any of the Japanese band Corrupted so this will have to do.....
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 | Jesu by Jesu
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £8.88 Justin Broadrick again - less bleak/gloomy/atonal than Godflesh (or Neurosis for that matter), with more of a melancholic/minor key post rock sound. Mellow Doom?
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 | Things Viral by Khanate
Buy new: £12.48 / Used from: £9.44 Second Khanate - even slower, even grimmer. You know you love it.....
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