Death-doom is an
extreme subgenre of
heavy metal. It combines the slow
tempos and pessimistic or depressive mood of
doom metal with the deep
growling vocals and double kick drumming of
death metal. The genre emerged in the mid-1980s and gained a certain amount of popularity during the 1990s, but had become less common by the turn of the 21st century. In turn, death/doom gave rise to the closely related genre of
funeral doom as well as to the more melodic and romantic
gothic metal.