After the pandemic cut them off from their usual rehearsal venue, Los Angeles genre-hyphenates Vitskär Süden put together a garage studio to regain a bit of sanity and begin writing new material. A recent live session found them veering deep into the weeds with an off-the-cuff rendition of a certain Halloween favorite, reimagined with a […]
Read more "Halloween Special – Vitskär Süden"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 […]
Read more "Doom Charts 2019 Favorites – Tom Schmahl"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 […]
Read more "Doom Charts 2019 Favorites – Remi VL"“Did you know that there’s an acceptable level of rat turds that can go into candy bars? It’s the government, jack. Even government doesn’t care that much about quality. You know what is okay to put in hot dogs? Huh? Pig lips and assholes. But I say, hey, have at it bitches ’cause I love hot dogs.”
Read more "Doom Charts – November 2019"“We know the sound of the freeway better than we do the rivers, the howl of distant trains better than wolf howls, we know the smell of gas and freshly wet concrete and burned rubber better than we do the smell of cedar or sage or even fry bread – which isn’t traditional… But nothing […]
Read more "Doom Charts – October 2019"“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Frank Zappa This month the Doom Charts theme is progression. Not in a literal sense, but as Mr. Zappa says above, deviation from the norm. Norm being popular music and trends that we see getting attention in mainstream culture. The Doom Charts aren’t here to compete […]
Read more "Doom Charts – September 2019"“Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well here I am.” ~Marilyn Manson Not unlike Manson The Doom Charts are here. Feel free to use us as a scapegoat while also discovering the hottest heavy underground albums for the month of August. Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest […]
Read more "Doom Charts – August 2019"On the seventh month of Doom the July charts crushed the sun. Good thing, its damn hot up in here.
Read more "Doom Charts – July 2019"We want the old Rome! But a better version of Rome!” That’s just me going “you want a better version of yourself in the future”. I want to build a better version of me who’s more compassionate, more understanding, more awakened more loving. All those things that you think “I could have been but I […]
Read more "Doom Charts – June 2019"“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ~Thomas Merton It’s amazing what is happening in the heavy underground scene right now. The artistic endeavor involved in all aspects of music is what makes it so immersive as a total experience both physical and mental. Yes, most of us our […]
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