FRIDAY FREEBIE – GREY CZAR

GREY CZAR – EUARTHROPODIA Label: Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records Hailing from Salzburg, Austria, GREY CZAR is a four-piece heavy rock band blending melodic, riff-driven soundscapes with progressive elements. Their music shifts seamlessly between heavy and mellow tones, enriched by dual guitars, keys, bass, and dynamic multi-vocal arrangements. Euarthropodia is a concept album exploring themes of decline […]

FRIDAY FREEBIE – THRÆDS

THRÆDS – IMPERMANENCE Label: Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records Impermanence is the powerful debut album by Berlin-based progressive post-metal band THRÆDS, a visceral and emotionally charged exploration of transience, chaos, and transformation. Blending elements of progressive metal, post-metal, and atmospheric rock, the band crafts an intense and immersive sound that draws clear inspiration from acts […]

FRIDAY FREEBIE – MOLDERA

MOLDERA – COLONIZELabel: Octopus Rising / ARGONAUTA Records MoldEra is a Belgian heavy quartet blending stoner doom, post-metal and progressive sludge into a hypnotic and immersive sound. Their new album Colonize expands their vision with massive riffs, atmospheric depth, and themes of environmental collapse and societal unrest. Fans of Yob, Isis, King Buffalo and Alice […]

FRIDAY FREEBIE – TRANCE BILL

TRANCE BILL – UNLEASHED It’s Friday… The Fourth one… So, you know what that might mean! Welcome all you early risers over there in Kiribati! And to kick off the day we have some gritty stuff from your vicinity, namely Cirebon, Indonesia… A gothic, psychotic, rock noir, and punk album that becomes this highly addictive […]

DOOM CHARTS PERORATION – JUNE 2025

“Big black shape with eyes of fireTellin’ people their desireThe Doom Charts are sittin’ there, they’re smilin’Watches those flames get higher and higher” ~ probable misheard lyrics by Black Sabbath It’s that time again, the Peroration post is here with 22 albums the Doom Charts crew couldn’t get enough of, and get a chance to […]

DOOM CHARTS PERORATION – MAY 2025

“In a hole in the ground there lived the Doom Charts. A nasty, dirty, wet hole full of worms and oozy smells” ~ probable misheard quote by JRR Tolkien The Doom Charts crew once again were swamped with an outpouring of new albums this May from the Heavy Underground, far too many to give all […]

DOOM CHARTS PERORATION – MARCH 2025

“Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light…” ~ Dylan Thomas The Peroration Post for March is here. Nothing but love for albums that one or more Contributors admired, cherished and had on repeated rotation. And hopefully still has! […]

FESTIVE FREEBIE – VAST PYRE

VAST PYRE – VAST PYRE It was released through Argonauta Records and Octopus Rising, its the five track self titled album by VAST PYRE! And today’s Festive Freebie. Doom metal, ominous and misty, touched by an occult ridden finger and a shiver of proto. This album on repeat might bring you to the end of […]