Top 25 Doom Metal

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As some of you know, over the past year we have been holding top 25 votes over on our Discord server. So far we have had black metal, death metal and thrash. Because they were generally so successful, we decided to open up the last vote to the subreddit, resulting in the biggest vote yet - traditional heavy metal.

Now here we are with the doom vote results. While it wasn’t as well attended as the traditional heavy vote (75 doom vs 114 trad), it had a decent enough turnout and provoked some rather lively discussion on the server. Who knew that determining whether or not something was primarily doom or not would be so stressful? There also seemed to be some confusion regarding what actually counted as doom. Is it just a feeling? Are there quantifiable traits? Does doom have to be slow? Why did people vote for Ride For Revenge? So many questions, too little time.

Thank you to all who voted! I would again like to say a huge thank you to the dashing Mr /u/cryptopunk13 for generating all this wonderful data you are about to read. Another thanks is in order for the lovely Ms /u/imafreakininja, for helping maintain the imgur gallery when most of us mods looked at it and poked it with a stick.

Without further ado, here are the results:

Top 25 Doom Metal Albums

TOP 25 DOOM METAL BANDS

YEARLY DISTRIBUION

OK I am running out of space but we have more data that I will post in the comments. Here is the imgur album chart if you would like to see users individual votes.