As everyone knows, a musical genre inclines to be deemed as a way to tag the style of an artist rather than the one of a band, but any musical genre is composed by more subgenres that have taken shape and developed over the years; they allow people with accuracy to find their way around artists’ works so they are needed to get into details regard the principal genre.
For example, as we mention rock, we talk about a musical genre that includes multiple forms of expression with common characteristics regarded as part of rock, but the subgenres take over when you want to be more specific, such as alternative rock, hard rock, grunge, punk rock, stoner rock, soft rock and so on. As for any musical genre, it happens even on metal world which is a generalised word to refer to a range of different subgenres one another… different for the sound, for the execution speed, for the singing type and for many other aspects… in fact, sounds strange, but there are countless elements that make the difference between these subgenres and they help to make the listening experience even more curious, more captivating, more fascinating.

One of the most bizarre and the most unusual metal subgenre of all is definitely the funeral doom metal which is a flow derived by the sharp meeting between the early ‘90s black metal sound and the doom; allowing a consideration, we specify doom a “characteristic” more than a genre or a musical flow, the one which mainly involves the rhythm section which is slow most of the time and it could be very slow sometime and this is indeed the most curious aspect that is totally opposite from the metal rhythm which is very fast and pounding.
The slowness of rhythmic of funeral doom aims to be exhausting, as much as whole rest; the guitars’ sounds are very extended and distorted, heavy and dark sounds, deprived of any virtuosity, cold and bleak landscapes and a voice which produces a nearly brutal moan is evoked by the keyboards… it’s the unusual mix between these distressing elements which took us to appreciate a subgenre considered absolutely underground, which has a very restricted commercial reply, because it usually doesn’t even like to the most fervent metalheads; we have been fascinated though for its uniqueness, mysticism, catacomb immensity. In fact the word funeral refers to funeral affinity that drags the listener towards a real experience to the land of the dead.

Funeral doom was born around the mid ‘90s and the first works have been very dirty and low-cost recordings and productions in order to replay gloomy feelings; in 1994, the Thergothon from Finland released an album called “Stream from the Heavens” which is considered “the father” of the subgenre. After that, the group broke up. The work is quite crude and it just sounds like a demo recorded in an ordinary room. The following year in Finland, “Stormcrowfleet” has been released by the Skepticism, it’s a mainstay funeral doom album judged as their best one till now, considering that they’re still active unlike the Thergothon, their fellow countrymen. Again, the album is dirty and crude, sometimes not well defined, but both works of the two bands are a great springboard for the funeral doom to come (of 2000s), talking about higher quality productions and sounds able to alienate the listener from reality and take everybody to an afterlife dimension.