I kept meaning to do an epic power metal post, but TOO LATE DOOM MONTH~
Break out the bong and get heavily fuzzified by the heavy and occult.
Can't start off the season with anything other than the Wizard imo:
Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis: Electric wizard is one of my all time favourite bands, they are heavy as fuck, you can feel the smoke clouds coming through the soundwaves and Funeralopolis is one of their best
Not all their songs are a sledgehammer to the face though,
Mountains of Mars - is a super mellow exploration of the bass, sit back toke up and just ride that groove
Another juggernaut in the stoner/sludge scene is Sleep:
Dopesmoker - this hour+ masterpiece is pretty much the quintessential stoner album. Put on some headphones, crank that bitch up andyou'll be stoned as shit by the end of it. fucking heavy as a motherfucker and a total trip, highly recommended (not to be confused with wizard's Dopethrone, also highly recommended)
Aquarian - Alright, so maybe not everyone has an hour to dedicate to a sludge masterpiece, some of Sleep's other stuff is more alike to high on fire/the sword than EW. Holy Mountain as a whole is a great album, here's one of my highlights. Escape the sea with ascending motion, go touch the sun and return to ocean
also pretty girl is going to see them with the melvins in january, im jealous as fuck ;_;
anyway, lets follow that up with some witch named bands:
Witch - Seer : less choking on clouds of smoke but maybe dropping a tab or 2 or acid instead, the opening track to Witch's selftitled album is rifftastic. good cruising song, not as heavy as the prior folks but still completely fitting for the month
Acid Witch - Stoned to the Grave: Acid Witch is the heaviest of the 'witch' bands I'm going to cover as they are more of a death/doom band than psychedelic jamfest. instead of rocking out in the 70s this is more like the atmosphere of it being 3am on a dark october night and youre watch a low-fi horror movie on vhs. basically how i feel smoking a bowl and putting on evil dead
Witchcraft - Witchcraft: Similar to Witch in their aesthetic, very 70s era style psychedelic jams, but instead of rocking out while youre tripping out, witchcraft is more like taking a long lonely walk down a forest path with a book of edgar allen poe and lovecraft. very sp00ky. lol, not really, but definitely worth a listen. *as a note it wouldn't be really fair to classify them as "metal" but they are 100% doom, check em out
hopefully I'll have time to add more later, but please enjoy~
BONUS ROUND:
Electric Octopus- this is the album ive been listening to a lot recently, some dark groovy jazz? idk what to qualify this as but it showed up on one of my doom metal channels and is fucking amazing. I'd post an individual song but they're all like 20 minutes, and you should listen to the whole album anyway. Check it out if you want some nice mellow background jam