doom/death

English

Alternative forms

• doom death, doom-death

Noun

doom/death (uncountable)

1. (music) A hybrid genre derived from doom metal and death metal.
   • 2007, Keith Kahn-Harris, Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge, Berg, →ISBN, page 133.

     The Gathering from the Netherlands also previously a doom/death metal band, now play a form of psychedelic/gothic rock.

   • 2010, Jeff Wagner, Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal, Bazillion Points, →ISBN, page 245.

     The only other notable band incorporating violin into metal at taht time was U.K. avant-garde doom/death act My Dying Bride.

   • 2015, "Myraeth", in Brian Giffin (comp.), Encyclopaedia of Australian Heavy Metal, Lulu (3rd revised ed.), →ISBN, page 2194.

     Myraeth is a doom/death band from the Blue Mountains, formed by Samantha Kempster from Lycanthia, Ryan Casey and Max Vandyke in 2009.

   Synonym: death/doom