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  Doom noun death, destruction, or some other terrible fate. verb condemn to certain death or destruction. Into The Void When we look at all different genres and styles of doom metal which originated in the late 60-s and early seventies after the decline of the «summer of love» and it's optimistic ideas, we can point out one major theme which unites the doom metal genre - it is a theme of pessimism. This idea has many forms and is presented differently by the bands within the doom-metal style. But starting with Black Sabbath the feeling of dread and despair always has been a major part of this music. In order to understand pessimistic thought we can take for the guidelines of our journey a system and the worldview as described by American philosopher Eugene Thacker in his book In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy Vol. 1). Wikipedia: «Thacker's most widely read book is In the Dust of This Planet, part of his Horror of Philosophy trilog...

  DOOMED & STONED IN RUSSIA: An Introduction To The Scene By Anton Bryukov With prevalent cold weather and a rich history from per-christian folklore to the existentialism of Russian literature and the avant garde art movement of the 1920s Russia has a solid cultural background from which new forms of post-modernist art began to grow. Rock music in general began to shape itself in Russia in the late 1970s. But doom metal came into the country's counter-culture in the very late 1980s. The first few bands at that time played slow Sabbath-sounding heavy metal and epic doom, were not popular yet, but were on a way of becoming a foundation for the early doom-cult. When the '90s began russian doom-death and Gothic doom appeared. The scene was populated by the bands and projects inspired by the gloomy sounds of the european doom-death mainly linked to the Peaceville Trio sound. It was in the later half of the 2000s, when the more traditional sabbath-influenced sounds of stoner and...