Lyrical Content?
Originally, Doom-Metal was based on the feelings of hopelessness experienced by its creators. A great deal of this involved hangovers from the hippie era in terms of spiritual influences, songs challenging or appraising the use and abuse of drugs (in some cases living testaments to what they do to the imagination), and some ultra-pessimistic songs about war. Today, Doom-Metal hasn’t changed a great deal. It continues to focus on feelings of hopelessness experienced by the individuals responsible for the work in question. However, most of the lyrics are now written on a much more personal level, focusing instead on smaller-scale problems such as personal experiences of love, sorrow, bereavement, loss of faith and any number of other topics. Religious texts have also become viewed as a potential source for lyrics and ideas, but the texts themselves are only given a background presence. Foreign languages such as Latin, Spanish, French, Norse, or sometimes even Japanese have become popular
