I've been getting more into doom lately. I'm not too sure what has changed since the last time I tried to get into the style, but it seems like the path I'm on at the moment is yielding a lot of bands that have far more appeal to me than those I had tried previously.
I still can't tolerate bands like Skepticism and Thergothon, but I have recently listened to and mostly loved the following -
Evoken - Quietus
Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress
Doom:VS - Empire of the Fallen
Longing for Dawn - A Treacherous Ascension
Officium Triste - Giving Yourself Away
I tried The Monad of Creation from Mournful Congregation as well, but I'm not too sure what I think of it yet... I don't dislike it though.
I think Evoken, Shape of Despair, and Officium Triste appeal to me the most. It might be a combination of the great production values and the fact that those bands tend to change things up throughout the songs - maybe go from excruciatingly slow to a little less slow occasionally, throw some variety into the riffing, have the drums break out of their monotone rhythmic trappings every now and then (Evoken especially seems great at this while still maintaining that feeling of crawling despair), mix up the vocal approaches, and so forth.
If anybody knows other doom bands with a similar approach, lemme know!