31. Earth – “Full Upon Her Burning Lips”

With a veritable takeover of this list by the Black Metal brigade there has been very little room for doom. But here comes one of the greatest doom acts of all time with the band that can be credited for creating drone. Now it has been a long time since Earth’s output had drone aspects to it. Instead they have wandered off into pastures of folk and jazz. “Full Upon Her Burning Lips” is a doom album but it is a warm and comfortable one that devours you in waves of soothing music. There aren’t huge coarse slabs of cold relentless riffs. Instead it is measured and intricate. Like any good piece of doom it is slowness. But here the lack of pace allows each and every tracks to blossom. This is an album that is happy to meander until it slowly unveil its treasures. It has an exquisite beauty at its heart with an aura of contempt and affirmation. Doom but doom that is at one with itself.