DOOM CHARTS – APRIL 2023

“Once you start down the Doom Charts path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.” ~ Yoda April has been heavy! Heavy on all fronts! Music wise the amount of stoner and doom masterpieces has once again been staggering. And on a personal note, I’ve been swamped with work, which meant there […]

FRIDAY FREEBIE – MOTHERSLUG

MOTHERSLUG – BLOOD MOON BLUES Melbourne, Australia is home to some damn cool bands! And we got one more Friday Freebie for you today, straight out of Down Under. The cool four that go under the name MOTHERSLUG released their BLOOD MOON BLUES album back in August 2022. It charted all the way to Number […]

DOOM CHARTS – MARCH 2023

“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral […]

Friday Freebie – The Absurd

I don’t know about you, but personally we fell in love with The Absurd on that very first moment we heard that Boots On The Ground single… It’s been a few years; and since then the Absurd three have been delivering great rock for everyone! And I do mean everyone… And the Doom Charts have […]

Doom Charts June 2018

“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.” ― Jim Morrison The year is halfway over already and the intensity continues to build each month here at the Doom Charts. We are growing our roster, our team, our family, reaching into deeper waters and harvesting a larger cross section of the heavy underground. […]

Doom Charts for October 2017

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” ~ L. M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables) Autumn has begun, steadily building its strength for the annual reckoning of Summer. October brings transition, in the color of trees, the chilled weather, a thickening wardrobe. Samhain has come to shout at the Earth […]

Doom Charts for September 2017

“The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Children of Húrin) It doesn’t matter where you wander, you always take you with you. Change your name, change your clothes, change your city. Broken, bent, torn, shattered, doomed… it all goes with you. Remember though, so do the smiles, laughter, those […]

Doom Charts for August 2017

“A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species […]

Doom Charts for September 2016

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, radio and podcasters and album reviewers from the doom-stoner underground around the globe. Each month, our critics submit their picks for the best new doom-sludge metal and stoner-psychedelic rock albums. The results are compiled and tabulated into the chart below. This is a one-stop shop […]

The Doom Charts For June 2016

And then there was a sound. Like a bootheel on a wooden floor. A fist on the lid of a coffin. Slow at first. Then speeding up. Faster and faster until the sound became a furious barrage. And with it came the pure ecstasy of perfect recognition… Indeed. It was my honor to work out […]