From 2009 to 2014, Uta Plotkin was the vocalist for the Portland band Witch Mountain. Those years in American doom had the shape of a miniature heavy metal epoch. A half-decade is an eternity in scene years: The term “New Wave of British Heavy Metal” was coined in 1979, and that movement had petered out by 1984. There were also just five years between 1986, the Year Thrash Broke, and 1991, the year Metallica broke thrash. Between 2009 and 2014, Pallbearer, Khemmis, Windhand, Dark Castle, Occultation, Usnea, and Un all released their debuts, and the slightly older SubRosa, Elder, and Yob put out some of their most celebrated work.
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