You could spend a very long time telling the story of doom. Literally, you could, given its frequently slow tempos naturally leading to songs of notable length. But also because its history stretches so far back, and splinters into so many different tangents. From the “scary music” idea Sabbath had in 1970, through to bands who took that idea and really ran with it, to funereal dirges and explorations of doom where it feels like you’re on a different planet to Sabbath altogether, doom is a genre as wide as it is long. Often a truly underground thing full of lost relics and hidden gems, the influence of doom metal stretches far further than its small success stories suggest. Dave Grohl last appeared on the cover of Kerrang! wearing an Obsessed shirt, while Ja...
