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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
There is a lot of crossover between stoner, sludge and doom metal anyway especially between doom and sludge and stoner and sludge, making sludge the vital link.
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I agree there's a lot of crossover between those styles but I wouldn't describe High on Fire as playing any of them. To me one of the defining characteristics of all three is relatively slow tempos.
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
Kyuss probably one of the most famous stoner acts could play pretty fast as well.
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I don't know Kyuss all that well but what I remember of them doesn't sound much like High on Fire.
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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
It would be kind of interesting to to define these three metal genres, as they define the slow to mid tempo range of metal.
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Hmm... that would be interesting. Let me give it a shot:
Doom—Probably the hardest to define of the three since it has a number of subgenres that are pretty different from each other, but basically I'd class it as metal with a fairly direct line of descent from Black Sabbath. Characteristics include fuzzy guitar riffing and much less emphasis on the drums than other varieties of metal.
Stoner—I would mostly consider this a subgenre of Doom. Of all styles of metal this is the one most likely to display some of the blues influence from metal's earliest years, though not always. Tempos are slow, guitars have that fuzzy doom riffing style, vocals are generally clean and songs are often quite long.
Sludge—I view sludge as sort of a 50/50 mix of doom and hardcore and as one of the noisiest types of metal. Guitars are distorted and abrasive, tempos are slow and vocals are screamed.