[porkmarras]

Originally Posted by sun city girl

there is clearly a drone scene, it's been mostly on tiny cdr-labels... of course it's not all the stuff is exclusively drone, but droney elements are used... bands like birchville cat motel, uton, vibracathedral orchestra, yellow swans, hototogisu, bjerga/iversen, thuja, drunjus, anla courtis, A.M., my cat is an alien, taurpis tula, double leopards, skaters, rameses III, peter wright etc. etc.

Drones infiltrated western music for as long as i can remember.What you're basically saying is that there is a resurgence or,better still,some attention is being paid to them again.Doom IS a subgenre of Metal and therefore a development of it.