This is Lucust, Mitch’s son from Operator Generator. I’ll have to show him this video! He’d totally appriciate hearing his band alongside all these other great bands! Thanks for the shoutout Mike! Edit:if you all are interested, he currently plays bass with me live in my band LAZER BEAM. Cheers friends!

I could listen to Mike talk about music for hours. YOB is love.

I'm stoked that he talked about how it feels to connect with Electric Wizard for the first time. Hearing Return Trip off of Come My Fanatics was a pivotal moment for me personally. So heavy, so ugly, but so groovy. Yob, imo, are doom Gods in their own right, so it's cool to hear one doom god give props to the other. This was a good vid. It'll be interesting to see what bands in 20 years are saying are their inspiration. I'm sure Yob will be on there, as will Cough, Windhand, Primitive Man, Pallbearer.

Could we get the 3 hour directors cut with a bonus commentary?? So great.

This got me really into Doom and now I own Electric Wizard - Dopethrone, Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror, and Sleep - Dopesmoker on vinyl.

Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium Pentagram - Relentless Saint Vitus - Born Too Late Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics Sleep - Holy Mountain Winter - Into Darkness Burning Witch - Crippled Lucifer Cianide - The Dying Truth Bethlehem - Dark Metal Nightstick - Blotter

We like this…. You guys should source down more Doom/Sludge dudes!

Mike seems like a chill guy, truly passionate about music, and he articulates his opinions beautifully. Great video, saved it and I'll give a listen (or a re-listen) to these records!

I read this as yob had the greatest doom albums of all time and agreed

Pallbearer have become an instant classic in my mind, their record Sorrow and Extinction is a damn masterpiece.

I appreciate how the Yob guys are good human beings. I’m glad they’re ambitious and hard working enough to be recognized for their talent. They deserve all the good things that come their way.

Happy to see Supercoven and Busse Woods on this list. Electric Wizard and Acid King rulezzz

Solid list, Mike. The PNW is blessed to have Yob. Some of the most emotive Stoner/Doom shows I’ve ever seen were Yob shows. All those spacecakes…in a Y2Kish galaxy far away. Awesome to see you often headbanging up front too. A true musician. A true fan. Mad respect!

Just saw Mike and YOB play in my little mountain town. Such a great show. Thanks for sharing. I came to Doom/Stoner/Sudge later in life and am so glad I did. We all have to keep seeking out new art that "clicks".

Thanks Revolver for creating content for us doomer heads! YOB are legends, and its always fun to see Mike. Awesome picks, Electric Wizard is how I fell in love with Doom Metal too and Supercoven was a huge part of that for sure!

Nice to hear someone give Joey Osbourne from Acid King a 'shout out'... great drummer, always thought he was very like Bill Ward in his approach... fantastic list of albums.

"High on Fire was its own animal. And a pummeling, crushing one."

The beauty of Electric Wizard is that they build up the apprehension of the next note but it's always later than you expect. It would be difficult for me to stay in time with them.

I would add YOB's discography to that list

Like how he talks about "a perfect song" , then says "for you". I completely understand that. For me, "Adrift in the Ocean" is that perfect song.

Man, he killed the picks. Some of my all time favorites especially bussee woods, dopethrone and the art of self defense.

Finally Cathedral get the attention they truly deserve! Autumn twillight, absolute favourite of mine! As a personal pick, i would add Pallbearer to that list. All of their records. I love them.

Operator Generator is one of the classics of stoner rock... It's so groovy and heavy, really up there with Kyuss, Nebula and Acrimony. That doom metal list is amazing, it's maybe only missing stuff like Goatsnake, Disembowelment, Skepticism.

Always love to see Corrupted getting recognition. Paso Inferior is a certified classic along with Dios Injusto.

You cant have a Doom list without the goats of Doom CANDLEMASS!!!!!

My list of favorite/impactful doom or doom adjacent albums, trying to limit to 1 per band: Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction Warning - Watching From a Distance Candlemass - Nightfall Ataraxie - Slow Transcending Agony Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans Windhand - Soma Swallow the Sun - Hope Down - NOLA Neurosis - Times of Grace Katatonia - Brave Murder Day Lord Vicar - Fear No Pain

The Ethereal Mirror by Cathedral is absolutely fantastic. Jaded Entity might be the heaviest song ever.

What a beautiful, genuine dude. With great taste in music!

paso inferior is the pinnacle of what was instigated by black sabbath’s self-titled song. purest doom. respect for picking it!

Mike has been a longtime inspiration to me...it's weird, cuz I didn't really get YOB the first few times I saw them...I saw them early in their career, they weren't quite the juggernaut they are now, and Mike hadn't quite crystallised what yob was to be..it was experimental, wreckless in a good way...I respected it, but couldn't quite handle it for a whole set worth.....we both worked at guitar stores in Eugene (me at lame ass guitar center, him at cool Mckenzie music) and we sent eachother customers...I sold him a red les paul at one point, gave him the best deal I could!! (I wonder if he still has it?) He invited me to high on fire at the samurai duck, god bless him,..and I just wasn't ready for it...I kick my self thinking I just walked out of that show after a few songs...(it was as much the few people there that were kinda assholes as the fact that I didn't quite get the music )then a high school aquaintance turned me on to his band, buried at sea, ..and he left his amp and guitar at our jam space...it was a modded marshall (I think he borrowed a cabinet from me if I remember right) and a kramer with an aluminum neck....I had so much fun playing that guitar tuned to some really low open tuning, then I started to listen to the album more, and I finally got it.. I am far from the doom afficionado that Mike is,..( I like all kinds of stuff), but I finally found out about sleep and electric wizard, and learned of the awesomeness of Matt Pike, and gained a greater appreciation for bands like neurosis, cathedral, etc...no one probably cares about it, but I do...I love Mike...one of the greatest musicians of all time IMO...and though we aren't close, I can count him as my friend...I caught YOB's set opening for Neurosis at the hawthorne theather in Portland a while back, and it was probably the best live rock show I've ever been to...the sound engineers really had it dialed...the bass was poppin, shakin shit off the rafters that had been up there for a long time...gold

Some of my doom favourites: Yob: adrift the ocean Ufomammut : snail king Type of negative : October rust Melvins : lysol

Great picks, dude. It’s a really happy day when I can discover a band or two that slipped through the cracks for me. From one good ear to another, I appreciate you. ❤️

I love Mike, he is the coolest musician i've ever met, he's so kind and down to earth. Meeting him was one of the highlights of my life as someone whose music means so much to me. And this is a great list, wish the video was even longer!

Some more must-listen doom albums: Mammoth Storm - Fornjot Windhand - Windhand Troll - Legend Master Dusk - Dusk / ...Majestic Thou In Ruin Ocean Chief - Tor Slomatics - Estron

What a great video. Loved hearing Mike talk, would gladly listen to him talk about doom / metal in general as long as he wanted to talk! Electric Wizard's Dopethrone was one of my real intros to doom metal, and got me into the genre, and Yob are now one of my favorite bands. Absolutely stellar stuff. Gotta make it to a show one of these days!

Everthing from YOB is in my list, Clearing the Path to Ascend is for me most surprising, intense and shocking piece of art for me, still, like when old times you have your most favourite musics but after hundreds of listen it does not creeps you, its regular and not goosebumping. Along all music experience, YOB is broke this on me. For countless years, even now talking about every single song of them still gives goosebumps, fresh and intense as if it is like first listen. Could you imagine what a gift and lifetime experience that is. Not any appreciation is enough and it is undescribable.

It's weird for Pentagram, St. Vitus, Trouble, Witchfinder General, and Candlemass not to get any love. Glad Cathedral got love though, they are on of my favorite bands.

It's awesome that he loves the first 3 releases of Cathedral. They've stuck with me for 30 years and never disappoint.

YOB was my first true metal concert and it changed my life

The love for Matt Pike is huge and I love it 👌🏾

This is a great video, could listen to Mike talk music for hours.

Great list, I could listen to Mike talk about music for hours.

What an awesome list couldn't disagree with anything he picked, don't ever hear corrupted brought up truly unique band

I met Mike when he was touring with a band called Middian. We played with them at the Alibi in Arcata Ca and they needed a place to crash so I let them stay at my house. He was the most respectful nice and amazing house guest and even left me a thank you note before leaving in the morning. What a guy. So great to see him doing what he loves for a living. Amazing dude and he will always stick out to me for his kindness.

This guys a living legend that not enough people talk about!

Got a few of these on vinyl ,but I should make a Spotify list out of this. Lovely hearing all the passion he’s got for these bands/albums

CANDLEMASS is the epitome of Doom.

I picked up Paso Inferior just because John Chang mentions and thanks them because Discordance Axis played shows with them in Japan. I bought the record having never heard it and expected it to be grind because of DA. What I heard was not grind and what I heard absolutely blew my teenage brains out. I ended up picking it up on CD to find that the CD version is even longer. To this day it’s still one of my favorite records and hardly anyone gives that band the shine that they deserve. Heavy doesn’t even describe it.

Yes so glad you brought up Supercoven! One of the greatest pieces of music ever written! Jus, Tim, and Mark were such masters of the epic long jam. Two tracks and 31 minutes of pure magic.

Fantastic interview. Mike's choices make perfect sense.

wow, great lineup! Most of this is familiar to me, but some of it is brand new, so I'll be plugging in and exploring some of this. Thanks for sharing Mike! YOB brings together so many of these influences, just based on the stuff I'm familiar with in your list, and I dare say that YOB itself would be on many a Doom list!

Hey Mike. From another Mike, I really want to thank you for turning me onto Corrupted! I lived under a rock for too many years and I’ve now been spending the rest of my life and energies catching up on what I missed. ❤️‍🔥

Amazing list, Love Mike and love YOB. I would add Pallbearer and Bell Witch into this mix

I love doom and stoner so much. Incredible list. I think I would pick Dopesmoker over Holy Mountain though. I had listened to that album for 6 years before it finally clicked with me. The tones are just crushing. The way Al sings, especially towards the end, you can hear him putting everything he has inside himself into it. I have had many deeply profound and spiritual psychedelic experiences listening to Dopesmoker that have changed my life in an incredibly positive way.

diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral is a must listen as well.

Superb list. Out of a fair few others, I'd have to add Warning - Watching From A Distance as a crushing and beautiful example. Perhaps the most heartbreaking Doom album ever made.

It's always great to hear someone describe music that has a talent for describing music. It truly is a unique ability. Mike is great at it! If that YOB thing doesn't pan out (joking) I think he may have found another gig. Well done...

Great pics overall! Cathedral will always be one of my favorite doom metal acts. Lee was such a unique and zany vocalist! Love his current project in With The Dead as well.

First off, thank you Mike for what you’ve crushed us with YOB us love 💕 🖤💜🔥

Great shout on Operator Generator, hail Mike.

found the Ethereal Mirror album in '95. Still listening to it to this day.

This list gave me some stuff to listen to, I adore doom metal. Especially the funeral doom side of it, Mournful Congregation being a big changing point for me. Really made me dive into the subgenre. And a little folk doom band called Uaral really hit me in a nice spot. Sounds of Pain is some of the most depressive, painful but beautiful music I've ever heard. They only have two albums and they're masterpieces of folk doom. Also really love the death/doom side. Stuff like the first Autopsy album, October Tide, My Dying Bride. Such a dynamic genre doom is! One of my favorites.

One of my favorite live moments was Yob on Roadburn (one of many great gigs there, think they were playing The Great Cessation fully that day). At the end of the gig Mike lifted his guitar by the neck and bellowed out a primal roar, and you could tell that he had a great time, too.

Great list Mike. Glad to hear the Man's Ruin shout out! Overall really great history for the younger listeners. This list stands on its own, but I'd also add Noothgrush and Church of Misery (who also had a Man's Ruin release) from the same generation of bands.

Great list! Love all these bands so much and they were extremely pivotal to my experience. Great to hear you shout out Acid King. Not a lot of females in DOOM and going to Acid King shows back in the day with the small group of us in SF was a real special time. Love YOB!

Saw you in Ireland a few years ago, somehow managed to get right up the front. One of the best shows I've seen! \m/

Type O Negative’s “World Coming Down” album is probably my favorite. More than just “Doom”, but still very doom-sounding overall.

Excellent picks. He covered some all time faves for sure.

It's weird. I'm a pretty straight-laced suburban dad. I was a heshian back in the 90s, but I cut my hair and went full cargo pants and ASICS. Something... About the sound. There's something screaming in my soul about the doom sound. I'm an HM2 guy, but also am FZ2 guy on top of a TB2 and a BMP. I've been a searcher in the cult of distortion my whole life and when I hear doom and drone it's like a religious experience and it brings such deep shuddering joy in me, and I just don't know how to describe the feeling to people who wouldn't comment in a video like this.

Excellent list! Love hearing your thoughts on these bands! Corrupted is legend! 💜🌙

As I get older albums tend to leave my memory but when you brought up Solstice New Dark Age I literally jumped. I used to listen to that album on repeat. I loved it but didn’t listen to it for like 10 years. Thanks for jogging my memory and bringing it back for me.

Not massively into doom, but I'm digging Subrosa's doomy stoner stuff.

My Dying Bride and Paradise Lost will always be my favorite Doom bands, they were around long before most of these bands. I do love all those albums he named but my favorites are from MDB and Paradise Lost.

New Dark Age is a traditional doom gem. The complexities of the lyrics and instrumentals is always a joy to listen to. Really great addition to this list.

Wow I’m really surprised Mike cites Polar Fleet. I stumbled upon that record a few years ago in a Sleep rabbit hole once. Tom Choi was in AsbestosDeath aka proto Sleep. It’s a great laid back, heady album. I myself also thought It was too good an album for it to be unheard of like it is. Mike if you see this amen brother🤘

Busse Woods is one of the greatest albums of all time

Thank you for posting this. I want get into this music and this is a great introduction.

Buried at Sea and Unearthly Trance were definately a couple other bands that got me into some of the more abrasive doom. Monarch and Ocean as well!

Busse woods blew my 16 year old mind. Electric Machine still pins me to my chair when i hear it now.

Pallbearer, the Heartless album. This album is perfection.

had the pleasure of gigging with Solstice back in the day on the new dark age tour - great guys and awesome live - got to play through Hamish's amp a fine JCM 800

When I just discovering the world of metal properly via the NOLA crowd (CoC, Crowbar, Down, EHG) and past maybe some of the more obvious suggestions (Acid Bath, EW, Sleep) from that pathway, Illusion of Motion was released. Wow. Everything about that record sounded so fresh, mysterious and unique. It still holds up today too. This year, I go to Desertfest London 2022 for the first time in 7 years after catching the first few editions and the predominate reason is Mike - for Yob and his love (plus promotion) of Spirit Adrift. Thanks dude, stay strong. Don't forget Middian too! Bless.

What a lovely , humble , respectful , genuine guy he is .

Fucking cool. Thanks for making this video. I have most of the albums already but Operator Generator escaped my radar until now. Cheers!

I met Mike years ago in DC, maybe 2005/6. He told me to check out Cathedral . I’m eternally thankful

I have enjoyed the video and the comments! Never heard the Operator Generator record, so something to check out. I had listened to Saint Vitus, Trouble etc. along with a steady diet of Thrash since the late 80s, but only really became aware of a specific movement when I heard Reverend Bizarre. Shortly before this we discovered if you played Forest of Equilibrium at 45 rpm the riffs sound surprisingly like Acid Reign. Those were the days....

Awesome to see Mans Ruin Rec and Operator Generator get some Credit they fairly deserve! Hailing this Record since i began to dig deeper into Doom and Stoner Music

Great stuff - I've been waiting for something like this. It has to be the first Dark Passages compilation (1991), Revelation - Never Comes Silence, The Obsessed - Purple Album, Penance - Road Less Travelled / Living Truth, Trouble - S/T (1990), Warhorse - As Heaven Turns To Ash, Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium, Paul Chain - Detaching From Satan, Kyuss - Blues From The Red Sun, Melvins - Dale Crover ep... just for starters! Great vid thanks!

Good to hear about solstice "New Dark Age" This album is so unique and so powerful i get shivers everyone i hear this album.

I love that this was filmed at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn, NY! I miss this room, and I miss YOB! South Carolina needs some YOB!

Thank you so much for this video, trying to get into doom and this is a great right of passage

This is probably the first time I've ever heard anyone publically praise Lee Dorian's vocals. Lee is an underground legend and a lot of people like Cathedral, but they are a good example of one of those "Yeah I love the riffs, just not the vocals" bands. I still couldn't imagine Cathedral without Lee, good on you Mike!

thanks for this shopping list!!

Operator Generator did an ep as well, on Third Stone Records, such an amazing band ❤️

Great list by a true bard. when i think back about what Sabbath perpetuated and what became of it my mind generally goes to very distinct time and place. Trouble is definitely high on the list along with (ALL) Church of Misery’s offerings. Neurosis, Melvins, Monolord, Windhand, Witch, Fu Manchu, Witchfynder General, Cathedral! Thanks to Mike and Revolver!

What a great interview. For me the list would have to include Crowbar, Melvins first two albums and Soundgarden's "Loud Love". Many may scoff at my Soundgarden pick but their tune "I Awake" is doom as fvck for me.

I was lucky enough to see Yob in Eugene, OR when the Great Cessation came out. That show changed my life. It was one of the first times my clothes literally moved because of the volume of the music 😂

Sleep was my intro into doom metal and the genre and its so good to see new bands making that sound evolve into something else. I don't think i would have found my current favorite band Rickshaw Billies Burger Patrol without looking back at where it all started. i aslo suggest some underrated bands like Castle rat, SLUGG, and Gnome

Thanks for sharing

Rad list. I’d add Boris “Pink” and “Akuma No Uta”. Some recent releases too in Torche “Admission” and Sleep “The Sciences”