Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and album reviewers from the heavy underground around the globe. Each month, our critics submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge metal, stoner-psychedelic and heavy rock albums. The results are compiled and tabulated into the chart below. This is a one-stop shop for the best new albums in the world…
Hugo Hulleman, has been blowing my mind recently over at his blog Orange Maze where he reviews some killer albums and proves his taste in the heavy underground. He’s here at the Doom Charts to blow yours with his top 30 Doom Charts albums released in 2019.
30. SPIRAL GURU – VOID
Favorite track: Signs
29. ETERNAL BLACK – SLOW BURN SUICIDE
Favorite track: Lost in the Fade
28. BIRDSTONE – SEER
Favorite track: Alquézar
27. CRYPT TRIP – HAZE COUNTY
Favorite track: Free Rain
26. BURIED FEATHER – CLOUDBERRY DREAMSHAKE
Favorite track: Morphine Bride
25. BRUTUS – NEST
Favorite track: Django
24. THE HEAVY MINDS – SECOND MIND
Favorite track: Footpath To Fortress
23. HASHSHASHIN – BADAKHSHAN
Favorite track: Crossing The Panj
22. THE BLACK HEART DEATH CULT – THE BLACK HEART DEATH CULT
Favorite track: Black Rainbow
21. MORTALES – DEATH RATTLE VALLEY
Favorite track: Warhead
20. DUEL – VALLEY OF SHADOWS
Favorite track: Black Magic Summer
19. MOTE – SAMALAS
Favorite track: Awesome Wells
18. MONOLORD – NO COMFORT
Favorite track: Larvae
17. TORCHE – ADMISSION
Favorite track: Times Missing
16. MORASS OF MOLASSES – THE TIES THAT BIND
Favorite track: In Our Sacred Skin
15. MERLIN – THE MORTAL
Favorite track: Basilisk
14. IRATA – TOWER
Favorite track: Weightless
13. RAKETKANON – RKTKN#3
Favorite track: Ricky
12. YERÛŠELEM – THE SUBLIME
Favorite track: Babel
11. MONOMYTH – ORBIS QUADRANTIS
Favorite track: Aquilo
10. ZEREMONY – COSMIC DYSTOPIA
Favorite track: Space Odyssey
9. KOOK – II
Favorite track: Human Container
8. CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC – EVIL EYE/SECOND SIGHT
Favorite track: Evil Eye
7. CHELSEA WOLFE – BIRTH OF VIOLENCE
Favorite track: Be All Things
6. MONKEY3 – SPHERE
Favorite track: Spirals
5. NEBULA – HOLY SHIT
Favorite track: Tomorrow Never Comes
4. DEMON HEAD – HELLFIRE OCEAN VOID
Favorite track: Strange Eggs
3. CAUSTIC CASANOVA – GOD HOW I ENVY THE DEAF
Favorite track: Boxed and Crated
2. HIPPIE DEATH CULT – 111
Favorite track: Black Snake
1. GREEN LUNG – WOODLAND RITES
Favorite track: Let the Devil In
Special thanks to the ongoing contributors to the monthly Doom Chart. You folks help give voice to the heavy underground:
Aaron Pickford (The Sludgelord); Adam Walsh (Earmunchies); Andy Benson (Nerve Salad); Bryan Coffey (Indy Metal Vault); Bill Goodman (The Evil Engineer); Billy Goate (Doomed & Stoned); Rob Blasko (VolumeForever.com); Bob “Mr. Weird Beard” Baker (More Fuzz Podcast); Bobby Rayfield (Trendkill Radio); Brandon Collins (Super Dank Metal Jams); Bryan Coffey (Indy Metal Vault); Bucky Brown (The Ripple Effect); Clint Willis (Hand of Doom Radio); Chris Beck (Doom Tomb Podcast); Chris Latta (Indy Metal Vault); Doktor420 (Stoner HiVe); Doombeard (DoomBeardZine); Frazer Jones (Desert Psychlist); Geoff Leapord (Atom Heart Mutha); Gram ‘Son of Sam’ Pola (Dirty Denim); Héctor “Mr. Heavyhead” Hurtado (More Fuzz); Hugo Hulleman (Metalfan.nl,Orange Maze); Jamey Morris (Fistful of DOOM); Jason Roach (Indy Metal Vault); Jay Morgan (High Desert Valley Radio); Jim Thompson (Heavy in the Hills); Joe Eldridge (Shadebeast Records); John Gist (Vegas Rock Revolution); Joop Konraad (Stoner HiVe); Ken Elliott (Heavy Planet); Kyle Twadelle (Stoner HiVe); Leanne Ridgeway (Riff Relevant); Lucas Klaukien (Outlaws of the Sun); Lyk (Phantasmagoria); Magnus Tannergren (Into The Void Radio); Marc-Eric Gagnon (Stonefly Effects); Marc C. Pietrek (VITRIOL, INC / A DARK UNITED FRONT); Marcus Greybeard (FuzzHeavy Podcast); Mari Knox Knox (Doomed & Stoned); Mark Partin (The Ripple Effect); Martin Petrov (Rawk’n’Roll); Matt Slighter (Cheeto) (Hwy 420, Core of Destruction Radio); Matthew Thomas (Taste Nation); Matheus Jacques (October Doom); Mathieu Van Der Hert (Dutch European Stoner Rock); Melissa Marie (Doomed & Stoned); Melissa Spence, (Stoner Witch Radio); Mike Williams (I Talk to Planets); Pat Harrington (Electric Beard Of Doom); Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker (Riff Relevant); ‘Papa’ Paul Rote (Doomed & Stoned); Reek of STOOM (Stoner HiVe); Remi (Remi VL); Roberto Lucas (Denpa Fuzz); Roberto Fuentes (La Habitación 235); Rod Reinhardt (Captain Beyond Zen); Samir Asfahani (Super Dank Metal Jams); Steve Howe (Outlaws of the Sun); Steve Miller (Vertical Chamber Apparatus); Steve Rodger (God’s Holy Trousers); Steve Woodier (Shrieks From Below); Svempa Alveving (Into The Void Radio); Tanguy ‘Mr Fuzz’ Dupré (More Fuzz); Tom Hanno (Tom’s Album Reviews); Tom Schmahl (Rock Circuz); Tony Maim (Black Insect Laughter, Stoner HiVe); Tony Van Dorston (Fast n Bulbous)
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