https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3FGRRAd3kNQCzei1sS7xeQ?pi=YmH1uollS-mzx

In this playlist my buddy and I put the heavy/harder music we listen to, maybe yyou find something there… Best of luck to you friend.

For low vocal Black Metal, I’d look at Celeste.

Stoner/Doom look at Sleep, Candlemass.

For a more Gothic/Doom feel try Unto Others.

Also: Isis. Rosetta (older stuff). Mountain Caller.

Inferi is good, but I feel that might be a little too attention-grabbing, maybe?

Gojira (progressive death/groove metal) has a ton of non invasive and introspective tracks, like The Silver Cord for a nice short bass instrumental, Born in Winter for a quiet build up and a nice payoff, Shooting Star for a sludgy, groovy drone.

Obituary (old school death metal) has Redneck Stomp, which is a nice simple instrumental that still kicks ass and definitely sets a vibe.

Witchery (black/death/thrash metal) and Metal Church (heavy/power/thrash) have very driving instrumentals that sound very similar to one another, for when you want to stress the group out, e.g. time is of the essence lol. Track names are Merciless Onslaught - Metal Church and Bone Mill - Witchery.

Hope that helps, rock on and game on friendo.

With vocals:

• Castle Rat would make sense
• Blood Incantation (ambiant stuff or death metal)
• Fantômas (Director’s Cut or Delirium Cordia)

Without vocals:

• The Bakerton Group (basically Clutch without the vocals)
• “Slow” tracks on the latest Cattle Decapitation albums (they always have 1 or 2 of these, usually right before the last track)
• John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity
• Estradasphere
• Ophidius
• Nova Collective

Since they describe it as a doom metal album of a game I’d suggest you go with doom and adjacent stuff such as sludge/post metal and such. These genres are also lower on vocals and better as background music than some others, imo.

Post metal-ish stuff: the ocean, isis, neurosis, cult of luna, russian circles, intronaut, pelican, dvne

Clear vocals doom either classic/epic stuff like black Sabbath (duh), candlemass, saint Vitus, reverend bizzare Or more “serious” stuff like isole, while heaven wept, warning - watching from a distance, thy listless heart, pallbearer, solitude aeturnus

And then there’s funeral doom which is heavier and fewer vocals but there’s growls. You’ve got Ahab, Bell witch, shape of despair, evoken, thergothon, doom:vs, funeral

There’s also the more “stoner” side of doom like sleep, electric wizard, yob (amazing stuff), bongripper (amazing instrumental stuff despite the silly name), acid king, monolord

And other stuff that’s good but just didn’t fit there cause there’s too many different styles: my dying bride, swallow the sun

Some of them have big enough catalogues that if you like their vibe, you can just stick to that and be fine. Like a playlist that’s just Ahab or just bongripper and you’re done. Ez pz.

Sodom and Vader are very German metal bands with a solid sound that’s predictable enough not to take over your attention. For Prog metal I’d probably choose some later era Death like the album Symbolic

May I suggest the album “Hunted”, by Khemmis? I’ve always thought it’d make a great accompaniment to a tabletop game.

Both Black Sky Giant and Pelican (older stuff here) provide great atmosphere at the table.

• Meshuggah
• Opeth
• Gojira
• Some of Haken’s instrumentals like “Nil by Mouth”
• Some of Tesseract’s heavier songs from their earlier albums and theif latest one.
• I’m also releasing a Doom-inspired EP next month. lol