well i stopped listening metal like a year ago because i felt like a dumbass and i discovered other genres that i liked more. i still realy hate the metal subculture.

however i really liked empyrium's second album, which is really slow doom metal. its pretty cool because first: although i dont like the lyrics because they sound like old 19th century romantic poems, they arent about gay shit like vampires or how god sucks or teutonic knights slaying dragons, but forests, shepherds, and other bucolic stuff. second, they use wind instruments, and they do sing a good chunk of the time with a smooth voice, rather than grunts. i bet its really good to listen stoned.

there two final albums are not even metal, they are just really slow dark acoustic songs. the last one is pretty good though.

nvm, the lyrics are pretty gay.


blue mists of night

some acoustic song

Not that this is related, but there's a Chinese (one man) band called Empylver that is named after Empyrium and Ulver and is supposed to sound like both of them but doesn't.


I think the band had one album and it was called Wood Woud Would, which is an awesome name. I wish I still had it because it was pretty horrible and derivative. That song sounds a little like a really low-production Empyrium song (Youtube didn't mess up the sound quality, that's how it's actually supposed to sound!!!) but almost all of the others sound like black metal j-pop. Empylver rules.

I like all the Empyrium albums but I am a doomster. I agree that most of the metal subculture is pretty dumb and such but I still really love a lot of metal (mostly in doom though).

If you liked Empyrium you might like Estatic Fear. Check out their second album though, the first one is nothing spectacular. Besides that you might like Uaral if you can get over the really crappy lyrics. I don't remember which album but they do have a song where the singer sobs which is kinda gay but the music itself is really good.