Various Artists - Dark Passages (1991)

During the early '90s doom metal was just getting popular, and 'Dark Passages' was a great introductory album to all things gloomy. The scene is most certainly saturated now with too many so-called stoner bands and also too many bands with drawn out, depressingly bland albums. 'Dark Passages' featured the classic bands of the time, with tracks from Cathedral, Count Raven, Saint Vitus, and at the time, the more up and coming bands such as Penance, Solitude Aeturnus and Revelation. Doom metal was certainly of a higher quality back then, highlighted by the inclusion of the very cool Stillborn. Good times. 7/10