Doom rock

Doom rock
Doom rock
Stylistic origins	Heavy Metal; Post-punk; Psychedelic; Industrial music; Doom metal
Cultural origins	late 1970s, early 1908s Britain
Typical instruments	guitar, bass, drums,

Doom rock is a style of heavy rock music influenced by Black Sabbath, Motörhead and The Sisters of Mercy. Not to be confused with doom metal, which is often marked by slower tempos, tritone scales, and blues-inspired grooves, or gothic rock, which incorporated prominent drum machines and synthesizers, doom rock focuses on loud, distorted hard rock guitars, epic atmosphere, prominent low end drums, Lemmy Kilmister-inspired bass guitar, and minor third chord progressions. While doom metal acts often gravitate towards the occult imagery of bands like Black Sabbath and Pentagram, doom rock juxtaposes the positive humanism found in the lyrics of Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, and Andrew Eldritch alongside grandiose and dark soundscapes of songs like Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Children of the Grave by Sabbath, Burn, Fix, and Alice by The Sisters of Mercy and I Don't Believe A Word by Motörhead, an uncommonly slow-tempo song from the album Overnight Sensation. An example of a prototypical doom rock song is Shock in the Hotel Falcon by the Brooklyn band Blacklist, who was first referred to as New York City's "doom rock faves" on the art, music and culture blog, The Culture of Me.[1]

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