 | Earth 2 by Earth
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $5.94 Every drone metal band you hear these days owes everything to Earth. They took Sabbath-style doom sludge and slowed it down even more.
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 | Pentastar: In the Style of Demons by Earth
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.10 Most underrated Earth album. Takes patience to get in to, but it's very good.
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 | Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method by Earth
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.96 The return of Earth! But they've changed. Now they sound like they're scoring westerns. And it's awesome.
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 | The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull by Earth
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $12.20 One of my favorite albums of the past year. Not really a metal album, but very cool if you're a fan of Ennio Morricone. Vinyl version has an awesome bonus track.
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 | Flight of the Behemoth by Sunn O)))
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $4.44 Black One may be their masterpiece, but I probably listen to this one more. It's just crazy awesome.
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 | White1 by Sunn O)))
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.70 Sunn getting darker. Flawed, but very solid.
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 | White2 by Sunn O)))
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $5.93 As you'd probably guess, this picks up where White1 left off. It's a better set of songs, though.
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 | Black One by Sunn O)))
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.99 Like I said, it's their masterpiece. Ultra-dark, ultra-heavy, ultra-slow.
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 | Monoliths & Dimensions by Sunn 0)))
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $8.25 I thought Black One would be their crowning achievement, but this one is incredible.
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 | Amplifier Worship by Boris
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $27.36 Music that climbs to mountainous hights, but it takes its time getting there.
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 | Two Hunters by Wolves in the Throne Room
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.44 USBM is more about drone and shoegaze then 90s black metal was, and these guys exemplify this best.
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 | Conqueror by Jesu
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $3.35 Not as dark as the Southern Lord brand of drone metal.
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 | Radiance of Shadows by Nadja
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $10.29 If you've never heard Nadja before, you definately need to hear what all the fuss is about. Intense, dark, but beautiful.
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 | Skin Turns to Glass by Nadja
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.49 Almost as good as Radiance.
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 | Pyramids by Pyramids
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.98 Mysterious band from Texas. If Radiohead was a shoe gaze band and used a raging, out-of-control drum machine, they would be Pyramids.
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 | A Hole Is True by Double Leopards
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $2.99 Dark, noisey drone music. Not as intense as their other stuff.
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 | At All Ends by Yellow Swans
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $7.68 Maybe my personal favorite on this list. Noise duo made a quieter album (until the end, atleast) that flows like a post-rock album.
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 | Sky's Run into the Sea by Growing
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.74 Very good, but mostly forgotten, debut.
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 | Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light by Growing
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $3.65 Favorite Growing album. Overpowering.
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 | All the Way by Growing
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $2.69 They use less drones these days. Great album, though.
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 | Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid by Stars of the Lid
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $22.05 Double album of ambient drones. Kind of sad and mournful, very pretty.
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 | Refinement of the Decline by Stars of the Lid
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $41.52 Another double album. Diverse, emotional.
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 | Lambent Material by Eluvium
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $10.33 One of the most acclaimed albums of the decade (despite a 6.2 from Pitchfork). I love synth drones. A very warm album.
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 | Talk Amongst the Trees by Eluvium
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.98 More interesting. Kind of mysterious, even a little dark at times.
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 | Copia by Eluvium
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $8.49 Utilizes more piano and other instruments, so there's less drones. But when they do pop up (like towards the end of "Requiem for Time Feelers") it's stunning.
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 | OMNS by Lichens
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.79 Sometimes difficult, usually elegant and comforting.
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 | Tape Chants by Gregg Kowalsky
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $8.00 Yet another one from Kranky, this one built out of tape loops, feedback, and synths.
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 | First Light's Freeze by Castanets
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $2.06 One of my personal favorites. He's a folk musician who employs subtle drones.
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 | OV by Orthrelm
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $3.88 Loud, heavy, and minimalist drone metal.
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 | Annwn by Ocrilim
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $2.77 Way less accessible than Orthrelm (both the work of Mick Barr) but arguably more rewarding. Basically just an hour of pretty abrasive shredding that forms one huge malestorm of sound.
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