DOOM CHARTS – OCTOBER 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 […]

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Doom Charts – April 2021

“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, […]

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Doom Charts – August 2020

“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 […]

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Doom Charts – October 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 […]

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Doom Charts – September 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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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 […]

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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 […]

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