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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. […]

Monday Minute – Bandcamp Codes El Rojo

Today’s freebie comes impromptu all the way from Morano Calabro, Italy. The band is El Rojo and we’re ready to turn those Monday Blues into some Monday heavy rocking blues. This is some high energy, hard rocking, groove inducing, shit kicking rock n’ roll. Ya, it’s not Doom but if you’ve been paying attention it […]

Freebie Friday – Bandcamp Codes from Transcending Obscurity Records

I don’t know about you guys but we appreciate bandcamp codes. A LOT! This round we are blessed with some hot and heavy new Atmospheric Death/Doom Metal brought to us by Transcending Obscurity Records. The label has been kind enough to kick down a grip of codes for not one but TWO albums off their […]

Doom Charts February 2018

“All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, ‘I’m a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!’ So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and […]

Doom Charts January 2018

Welcome to the Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio and podcasters, and album reviewers from the doom-stoner-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 […]

Doom Charts for December 2017

“Take a little walk to the edge of town And go across the tracks Where the viaduct looms Like a bird of doom As it shifts and cracks Where secrets lie in the border fires In the humming wires Hey man, you know You’re never coming back” Red Right Hand by Nick Cave I carry […]

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 […]