The saying “one good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain” means music can have a powerfully distracting and healing effect, allowing a person to momentarily escape their physical or emotional pain. It highlights music’s ability to provide comfort, uplift the mood, and create a sense of peace. And it can […]
Read more "DOOM CHARTS – NOVEMBER 2025"“The power of DOOM compels you! The power of DOOM compels you! The power of DOOM compels you!” ~ possibly misheard quote from The Exorcist Welcome to the October Doom Charts, a fitting season for our spooky scene and all the dark, devilish doom it conjures, and this year’s Samhain came through in spades! 40 […]
Read more "DOOM CHARTS – OCTOBER 2025"Here we are, at the end of everything… No, just kidding, it’s just the end of a massive run of lists featuring the Personal Favorite albums of quite a few of our Contributors. Now, we could have asked everyone to submit those lists and make a Top 100 out of those. But that’s not how […]
Read more "Doom Charts Top 100 Albums of 2023"“Don’t take away the musicIt’s the only thing I’ve gotIt’s my piece of the rock…” ~ Tavares Nobody can listen to more than a fraction of all the music ever released, during their lifetime. And even the amount of music being released on a daily basis in what we have started calling the Heavy Underground […]
Read more "DOOM CHARTS – OCTOBER 2023"“As from the smoke is freed the blaze,So let our faith burn bright!And if they crush our golden ways,Who e’er can crush Thy light?” ~The First Walpurgis-Night , Goethe We end the month of April with a folklorically traditionally time, an ancient holiday of sorts. That which is known as The Witches Sabbath or Beltane, […]
Read more "Doom Charts – April 2021"The Doom Loom’s Top 40 Albums of 2020It has been a crazy year. There is no doubt it was. You don’t need me to tell you that. However, we must count ourselves fortunate that great artists continue to create in a time of despair for most. Art is an outlet. This year, artists have had […]
Read more "Doom Charts 2020 Favorites – The Doom Loom"Today we feature our dear friend Remi VL who’s been contributing for over a year now, he’s all over the map with his taste, which is awesome and he has all kinds of amazing stats. Check out what he has to say about 2020 listening below. And keep scrolling he went nuts with a top […]
Read more "Doom Charts Favorites 2020 – Remi VL"“We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone … And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we […]
Read more "Doom Charts – August 2020"“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 […]
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