Editing Heavy metal music (section)

====Doom metal====
{{Main|Doom metal}}

Emerging in the mid-1980s with such bands as California's [[Saint Vitus (band)|Saint Vitus]], Maryland's [[The Obsessed]], Chicago's [[Trouble (band)|Trouble]] and Sweden's [[Candlemass (band)|Candlemass]], the doom metal movement rejected other metal styles' emphasis on speed, slowing its music to a crawl. Doom metal traces its roots to the lyrical themes and musical approach of early Black Sabbath.<ref>Christe (2003), p. 345</ref> The [[Melvins]] have also been a significant influence on doom metal and a number of its subgenres.<ref>Begrand, Adrien. [http://www.PopMatters.com/columns/begrand/060215.shtml "Blood and Thunder: The Profits of Doom"]. 15 February 2006. [[popmatters.com]]. Retrieved on 8 April 2007</ref> Doom metal emphasizes melody, melancholy tempos and a sepulchral mood relative to many other varieties of metal.<ref name=NYT1>Wray, John. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/magazine/28artmetal.html?ei=5090&en=68f0bcd99797d7a3&ex=1306468800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all "Heady Metal"]. ''New York Times'', 28 May 2006. Retrieved on 21 March 2007</ref>

The 1991 release of ''[[Forest of Equilibrium]]'', the debut album by U.K. band [[Cathedral (band)|Cathedral]], helped spark a new wave of doom metal. During the same period, the [[death/doom|doom-death]] fusion style of British bands [[Paradise Lost (band)|Paradise Lost]], [[My Dying Bride]] and [[Anathema (band)|Anathema]] gave rise to European [[gothic metal]].<ref>Sharpe-Young (2007), pp. 246, 275; see also Stéphane Leguay, "Metal Gothique" in ''Carnets Noirs'', éditions E-dite, 3e édition, 2006, {{ISBN|2-84608-176-X}}</ref> with its signature dual-vocalist arrangements, exemplified by Norway's [[Theatre of Tragedy]] and [[Tristania (band)|Tristania]]. New York's [[Type O Negative]] introduced an American take on the style.<ref>Sharpe-Young (2007), p. 275</ref>

In the United States, [[sludge metal]], which mixes doom metal and hardcore punk, emerged in the late 1980s; [[Eyehategod]] and [[Crowbar (US band)|Crowbar]] were leaders in a [[Music of New Orleans#Heavy metal|major Louisiana sludge scene]]. Early in the next decade, California's [[Kyuss]] and [[Sleep (band)|Sleep]], inspired by the earlier doom metal bands, spearheaded the rise of [[stoner metal]],<ref>Christe (2003), p. 347</ref> while Seattle's [[Earth (American band)|Earth]] helped develop the [[drone metal]] subgenre.<ref>Jackowiak, Jason. [http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=1125311580560974 "Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927052955/http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=1125311580560974 |date=27 September 2008 }}. Splendid Magazine, September 2005. Retrieved on 21 March 2007</ref> The late 1990s saw new bands form such as the Los Angeles–based [[Goatsnake]], with a classic stoner/doom sound, and [[Sunn O)))]], which crosses lines between doom, drone and [[dark ambient]] metal; the ''New York Times'' has compared their sound to an "[[Music of India|Indian]] [[raga]] in the middle of an earthquake".<ref name=NYT1/>