Style recipe for Suno v5

Drone Metal

Drone metal from the 2000s: down-tuned guitar, amp feedback, sub bass, menacing and hypnotic in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

Drone metal slows doom metal down until the riff stops being a riff and becomes a held tone. Guitars ring out in reverb and feedback, beat in the usual sense often disappears, vocals are optional and songs run very long; novelist John Wray compared a show to hearing an Indian raga in the middle of an earthquake. Guitar drones go back to krautrock and to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (1975), but the style itself was founded by Earth, the group of minimalist Dylan Carlson, who drew on the sludge of the Melvins and on La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Tony Conrad. In Seattle Stephen O'Malley carried the idea on with Burning Witch and then Sunn O))), a band first formed as a tribute to Earth and now the name most tied to the genre. Boris in Tokyo and Corrupted in Osaka found the same sound in parallel. The style keeps close company with the art world: O'Malley made an installation with Banks Violette, who likened drone metal to Donald Judd, and Jim Jarmusch said Boris, Sunn O))) and Earth helped him find the world of his 2009 film The Limits of Control.

The recipe

Drone metal, 2000s, menacing, hypnotic…

33 tags, 574 characters, 40–60 BPM — that's the full anatomy of this recipe, born out of the 2000s.

Artists in this style

• Author & Punisher

Similar styles

• Drone2000s · 40–60 BPM
• Post-Metal2000s · 80–130 BPM
• Drone Doom2000s · 40–55 BPM
• Ambient Sludge2010s · 50–70 BPM
• Depressive Suicidal Black Metal2000s · 60–140 BPM
• Noise Drone2000s · 40–60 BPM
• Harsh Noise Wall2000s · 60–90 BPM
• Funeral Doom Metal1990s · 30–60 BPM