Novembers Doom is a death/doom metal band from Chicago, Illinois. Novembers Doom is one of the earliest U.S. doom/death metal bands that are still active today among with Evoken and Rigor Sardonicous. Novembers Doom formed in 1989 as the death–thrash metal band Laceration. Gradually the band began to change their sound towards a heavier, slower style, at which point the name Novembers Doom was adopted as the band members felt it more suited their current direction.