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Yeah it's definitely a topic we need. Because doom has a wide spread of Sub-Genres it's good to know what everyone prefers.

I personally enjoy Traditional Doom the most. I just find the heaviness, emotion and general all round metalness of Traditional Doom to be great. I can't get enough of it. I also find it's hard to find bad or even mediocre trad. doom bands.

I love all forms of Doom though.

Most of all I enjoy traditional doom. There is hardly any traditional doom band I don't like.

I also like the more traditional and non post-rock influenced bands of stoner and sludge (eg Orange Goblin and newer Trouble for stoner, Tungsten and Down for sludge).

Some death/doom I enjoy (Runemagick, Winter, My Dying Bride), but I can't stand the more gothicy bands of that genre with alternating male grunts and female operatic vocals.

Recently I began to get into funeral doom, with Wraith Of The Ropes and Ahab being my favourites so far. But there is much more still to explore for me.

Drone is the only genre of doom that doesn't hold any appeal to me at all, at least from what I heard so far.

Not a proper genre of doom yet, but very interesting is the combination of doom and black metal, like for example by bands like Beatrik, Darkflight, Xasthur etc..

Death/Doom for I feel it is the most varied style of doom, I mean you don't get much more different than heavy crushing riffs of Thorr's Hammer compared to Saturnus's sombre Gothic romances.

Wether it is classics like Anathema and My Dying Bride or personal favorites like Evoken and Saturnus the style is vast, quality filled, and dark in a romantic melancholy way instead of oppressive way that funeral doom is.

I voted for Drone because there is just something about it that appeals to my senses, i can just sit back and relax. To me it takes a special kind of musician to sit down and come up with a song like that that wont get boring or monotonous (i know some of you beg to differ, but this is my opinon).

But I like Funeral doom alot too because Ahab is my favorite band, when i listen to them the music just melts into watery colors. Its nice and slow but heavy (duh its doom). I don't know exactly how to describe it. Maybe you understand how i feel.

I like that description of the distinction between funeral and death/doom (Does anyone else dislike that name? Having to type the slash annoys me crying ). But I find Evoken are a band that almost transcends the genre as they can oppress like a funeral doom band at times.

Yeah definitely. Doom paints many different shades of darkness. 3nodding

I are heart Funeral and Drone . . . *chuckles* I don't really listen to enough doom in general, but occasionally it makes my heart go "fluuurrrrrr . . . "

Stoner and Tradition ftfw.