I Need Metal

[Crushed Hope]

I'll recommend some death/doom for you, think Candlemass but darker, heavier, and usually with "harsh" vocals.

The albums that are in italtics you need more than anything.

First off the four classic death/doom bands that everyone must know so they can understand the roots of the style.

Anathema:
Crestfallen
Serenades
Pentecost III
The Silent Enigma
Eternity (Okay so this release isn't death/doom (well not even a metal release) but it is by FAR their best release.)

My Dying Bride:
As The Flowers Wither
Turn Lose The Swans
The Angel and the Dark River

Paradise Lost:
Gothic
Icon
Shades of God
Draconian Times

Katatonia:
Jhva Elohim Meth... the Revival
Dance of December Souls
Brave Murder Day

Now onto my personal picks for genre essentials.

Black Forest:
Sadness

Catherdal:
Forest of Equilibrium

Daylight Dies
No Reply
Idle
Dismantling Devotion

diSEMBOWELMENT
Transcendence Into The Peripheral

Evoken:
Embrace The Emptiness
Quietus
Shades of Night Descending
Antithesis Of Light


Indesinence:
Noctambulism

Morgion:
Among Majestic Ruins
Solinari
Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth

Mourning Beloveth:
Dust
The Sullen Sulcus
A Murderous Circus

Novembers Doom:
Of Sculptured Ivy And Stone Flowers

Saturnus:
Paradise Belongs To You
Martyre
Veronika Decides To Die

Whispering Forest:
Of Shadows and Pale Light