Doom Metal Albums

Engines Of Demolition finds BLACK LABEL SOCIETY shaping Southern-rock grit, doom-leaning weight and bluesy guitar cries into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

Down's fourth album, with a release date of 20 November 2026 on Nuclear Blast. It is their first full-length since Over the Under in 2007, and King Diamond sings on "Merciful Fate".

The last recording Cathedral ever made: a half-hour piece taped in 2012 at the end of the sessions for The Last Spire, released in October 2025.

Ghost's sixth studio album, from April 2025, and the first of their records to reach number one on the Billboard 200.

Paradise Lost's seventeenth album, released by Nuclear Blast on 19 September 2025: produced by Gregor Mackintosh, their first record of new songs in five years.

Ghost's fifth studio album, from March 2022, built on the rise and fall of empires.

Black Label Society’s eleventh album is packed with Zakk Wylde’s thick, sustaining riffs, blues-rooted phrasing and low-slung groove.

Pallbearer's fourth studio album, from October 2020 and their first full-length for Nuclear Blast.

Paradise Lost's sixteenth studio album, from May 2020 and the last with Waltteri Vayrynen on drums.

Sunn O)))'s eighth album, from April 2019, recorded and mixed by Steve Albini entirely on analogue tape.

Despite its title, Grimmest Hits is not a compilation but Black Label Society’s tenth studio record, packed with the band’s heaviest strengths.

Ghost's fourth studio album, from June 2018, built on the Black Death and the Middle Ages; it entered the Billboard 200 at number three.

Sleep's fourth album, released without warning on 20 April 2018, fifteen years after Dopesmoker.

The third Bell Witch album, from October 2017: one eighty-three-minute song, in memory of their late drummer.

The third album by Arkansas's Pallbearer, from March 2017, bringing progressive rock structure into doom.

Paradise Lost's fifteenth album, released by Nuclear Blast on 1 September 2017: slower and heavier with doom than anything before it, as Gregor Mackintosh promised.

The second ColdWorld album, from July 2016, eight years after the first: one man's atmospheric black metal from Germany.

Ghost's third album, from August 2015; "Cirice" from it won the 2016 Grammy for best metal performance.

Paradise Lost's fourteenth album, released by Century Media on 1 June 2015: dark yet melodic, with what Nick Holmes called the death metal edge of their earliest days.

Cult layers To/Die/For’s dark gothic-metal atmosphere, lyrical guitar and melancholy vocals.

Catacombs of the Black Vatican combines Black Label Society’s heavyweight riffs with a blues-born sense of melody, creating a record with deep shadows.

Down's second six-song EP in the Down IV series, from May 2014, and the only record they made with Bobby Landgraf on guitar in place of Kirk Windstein.

Triptykon's second album, from April 2014, and the last album cover H. R. Giger ever made.

13 returns Black Sabbath to low, rolling guitar riffs, sticky rhythm and an apocalyptic atmosphere.

Cathedral's tenth and final studio album, from April 2013: made after announcing their split, and back in the heavy, slow doom of their debut.

Ghost's second album, from April 2013: recorded in Nashville, their major label debut, and a 2014 Grammis winner.

Down's first six-song EP in the Down IV series, from September 2012 and also known as The Purple EP. It was their first new music in five years.

Paradise Lost's thirteenth album, released by Century Media on 24 April 2012: produced by Jens Bogren, and the first studio album with Adrian Erlandsson on drums.

Samsara uses shadowed melodies, heavy guitar and restrained vocals to create dark, emotional gothic metal.

The second album by Cambridge's Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, from 2011: self-released, and the record that broke them.

Order of the Black puts Zakk Wylde’s thick guitar riffs, heavy groove and bluesy song sense at the front in classic Black Label Society fashion.

Cathedral's ninth album, from March 2010 and their first double album: thirteen songs that bring in Mellotron, sitar and a guest female voice.

The debut album by Sweden's Ghost, released by Rise Above Records in October 2010 and nominated for a Grammis.

The debut album by Triptykon, the band Thomas Gabriel Fischer formed after Celtic Frost. Released in March 2010.

Church of Misery's fourth album, issued by Rise Above Records in 2009. Every title carries the name of a murderer with it.

Heaven & Hell's only studio album, from April 2009. It is the last studio record Ronnie James Dio made before his death.

Paradise Lost's twelfth album, out on 25 September 2009. Jens Bogren produced it, with Peter Damin on drums.

Shining's sixth album, issued by Osmose Productions in 2009. This is Swedish depressive black metal, led by Niklas Kvarforth.

Sunn O)))'s sixth album, issued by Southern Lord in 2009. It took two years to make and carries a long list of guests, brass and choir among them.

Blood Ceremony's debut album, issued by Rise Above Records in 2008. It is occult rock out of Toronto, with a flute in it.