I picked up a nice collection of near-mint funeral doom and post-metal CDs and vinyl, mainly consisting of newer bands (average 2016 and later) from a guy in New Hampshire. Admittedly, I hadn’t heard of almost all of the bands in this collection. Nor was I familiar with “Post-Metal” or “Funeral Doom”. This new collection gave me an excellent chance to not be another boring middle-aged boomer and get caught up with times.
The good news was I discovered a lot of great new bands, record labels, and genres of music that I might not have otherwise.
In going through this collection, I found…
New Metal Genres
Post-Metal: Seeing the prefix “post” applied to anything musical sets my hipster alarm bells off, not in a good way. However, I did enjoy a lot of the post-metal bands, especially Gaerea. For those not in the know, the post-metal bands on this list sound like black metal with just a trace of melody and some progressive elements you might hear in Mastodon or Gojira. That is probably over-simplifying it, but that was my impression of the bands documented below.
Funeral Doom: Funeral doom sounds like what “doom metal” should like sound to me. It’s slow – like 70 BPM. The riffs are heavy, but the good bands like Bell Witch, Slow, and Mournful Congregation break it into atmospheric, almost Pink Floyd-sounding parts before breaking back into the crushing metal. One of the more prominent labels in this genre seems to be India’s Transcending Obscurity Records, which has a sizable roster of bands from everywhere in the world.
As a metalhead of over 35 years, I try to avoid getting stuck in the past, but sadly, this is something everyone who listens to music does. There is still a lot of hope and vitality from this new crop of bands, labels, and metal genres, which is excellent!
Some of the value of these albums and CDs wasn’t super high, but seeing as many of these are first pressing, and the average-sized run seemed to be only 500 records, should any of these bands break big, these albums could be a goldmine!
List Of Funeral Doom and Post-Metal CDs and Vinyl
I usually film a Youtube video and add it to my “Sell Your Heavy Metal” playlist. Still, because so many of the albums don’t have the band names on the front, or they are written in some indecipherable black metal font — I decided to save myself the embarrassment.
So with no further adieu, here is the list…
***Vinyl (99)***
Gaerea – Unsettling Whispers deluxe box (no plastic sleeve or merch, sight wear on binding)
Lurk – Deluxe Fringe box (has plastic sleeve and sticker)
Arallu – En Olam
Allochiria – Throes
Afsky – Ofte jeg drømmer mig død
Altarage – Altarage (first pressing limited edition crystal clear, unspun)
Alunah – Solennial
Anagnorisis – Peripeteia
Ancst – Abolitionist
Ancst – Furnace
Ancst – Ghosts of the Timeless Void
Ancst/King Apathy – Split
Anicon – Entropy Mantra
Anicon – Exegeses
Anomalie – Integra
Anomalie – Visions
Ars Magna Umbrae – Through Lunar Gateways
Aversio Humanitatis – Behold the Silent Dwellers
Aversio Humanitatis – Longing for the Untold
Bind Torture Kill – Viscères
Black Table – Sentinel
Blaze of Sorrow – Astri
Bonjour Tristesse – Your Ultimate Urban Nightmare
Burial Oath – Beyond the Veil of Shadowlands
Cascades – Cascades
Clouds – Lor
Craven Idol – The Shackles of Mammon
Dawn of Ouroboros – The Art of Morphology
Dead is Dead – Constraints of Time
Deathspell Omega – Drought
Départe – Failure, Subside (first pressing)
Destroyer of Light – Chamber of Horrors
Dodecahedron – Kwintessens (limited edition transparent clear)
Drown – Unsleep
Drown – Subaqeuous
Esoteric – A Pyrrhic Existence (limited 3X vinyl)
Falls of Rauros – Patterns in Mythology
False – Portent
Firtan – Okeanos
Fjoergyn – Lvciferes
Gaerea – Limbo (first pressing, unspun)
The Great Old Ones – EOD (Third Pressing)
Ghost Bath – MoonLover
Ghost Brigade – Until Fear No Longer Defines Us
Grift – Arvet
Hanging Garden – Into That Good Night v
Harakiri for the Sky – Arson
Harakiri for the Sky – III: Trauma
Hegemone – We Disappear
Helleborus – The Carnal Sabbath
Heretoir – The Circle (sealed)
Highland – Loyal to the Nightsky
The Holeum – Sublime Emptiness
Impure Wilhelmina – Radiation (limited edition bone white)
Jupiterian – Protosapien (first pressing undetermined merge variant, sealed)
Jupiterian – Terraforming
Karg – Dornenvögel
Karg – Traktat
King Apathy – Wounds
Liminal – Leucosis
Maladie – Still
Mare Cognitum/ Aureole – Resonance: Crimson Void
Mizmor – Yodh
Mongrels Cross – Psalter of the Royal Dragon Court
The Necromancers – Servants of the Salem Girl
Nexus – Paradigm of Chaos
Nysse – Princesse Terre
Ofdrykkja – Gryningsvisor
Pillorian – Obsidian Arc
The Projectionist – Visits from the Night Hag
The Projectionist – Visits from the Night Hag, pt 2
ROSK – Remnants (sealed)
Slow – Dantalion
Soldusk – Lunar Falls
Suffering Hour – In Passing Ascension
Sun of the Dying – The Earth is Silent
Thränenkind – The Elk
Ulcerate – Stare into Death and Be Still
Ulcerate – The Destroyers of All
Ulsect – Ulsect (first pressing limited opaque white, unspun)
Uneven Structure – Februus
Uneven Structure -La Partition
Unreqvited – Disquiet
Varaha – A Passage for Lost Years (sealed)
Vimur – Exegesis
Vimur – Triumphant Master of Fates
Vreid – Lifehunger (limited edition blue+black+white mix)
Vukari – Aevum
Vukari – Matriarch
Vvilderness – Devour the Sun
Wilt – Moving Monoliths
Wind In His Hair – Earthwrecker
Woe – Hope Attrition
Woman is the Earth – This Place That Contains My Spirit
Woods of Ypres – Woods 5 (sealed)
Yith – Immemorial
Zhrine – Unortheta (limited edition transparent green)
Khemmis/Spirit Adrift 7″ split
Ancst – The Darkening 7″
***CD’s (44)***
Afar – Selfless
Altars of Grief – Iris
Amarok – Devoured
Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper
Bloodbark – Bonebranches
Collapse of Light – Each Falling Step
Dawn of Ouroboros – The Art of Morphology
Dead to a Dying World – Elegy (sealed)
Déhà – Cruel Words
Desolate Shrine – Deliverance from the Godless Void
Dormant Ordeal – It Rains, It Pours
Eryn Non Dae. – Abandon of the Self
Eryn Non Dae. – Meliora
Esogenesi – Esogenesi
Eternal Storm – Come the Tide
Evadne – Dethroned of Our Souls
Frigoris – In Stille
From Ashes Reborn – Existence Exiled
Gaerea – Unsettling Whispers
Glare of the Sun – Theia (sealed)
Hinayana – Order Divine
Hope Drone – Cloak of Ash
Imber Luminis – Contrasts
Imber Luminis – Nausea
Lingua Ignota – Caligula
Lòdz – Time Doesn’t Heal anything
Nullingroots – Malady’s Black Maw
October Tide – Tunnel of No Light
Oubliette – The Passage
Ovnev – Incalescence
The Reticent – On the Eve of a Goodbye
ROSK – Miasma
Sea of Bones – The Earth Wants Us Dead
Shrine of the Serpent – Entropic Disillusion
Skeletonwitch – Devouring Radiant Light (sealed)
Skyborne Reveries – Winter Lights
Soliloquium – Things We Leave Behind
Soothsayer – At This Great Depth
A Swarm of the Sun – The Rifts
Unreqvited/Asunojokei – Nocturne
Unreqvited – Mosaic I
Vardan – Enjoy of Deep Sadness
Vorna – Sateet Palata Saavat
Wilt – Ruin
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