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Shape of Despair is a Doom metal act. Their sound grew out of Darkthrone and Unholy. Those roots explain a lot about how Shape of Despair arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Slow, Daylight Dies, My Dying Bride, Nortt and Clouds, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into DOOM:VS and Angellore, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 10 connections around Shape of Despair, reaching back through Darkthrone and forward to DOOM:VS. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Shape of Despair connections
Shape of Despair grew out of Darkthrone and Unholy, shares an orbit with Slow, Daylight Dies, My Dying Bride and Nortt, went on to shape DOOM:VS and Angellore. 10 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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