WYNDRIDER – REVIVAL Gotta strike while the iron is hot! And this new album is entirely on fire! The next Friday Freebie comes from the forges within the Mountains of East Tennessee, it’s the new REVIVAL by WYNDRIDER! Released only a month and three weeks ago, it made an early appearance on the May Peroration ..read more

KING OF NONE – IN THE REALM A second Friday Freebie comes straight out of Helsinki, Finland and rocks its way into your soul! We’re talking about KING OF NONE and their smashing IN THE REALM record. Out on Argonauta Records, the nine tracks manage to mash most of the genres that run through the ..read more

THE HAZYTONES – WILD FEVER It’s Friday my fellow heavy music fiends! Well, over in Kiribati that is… And we might just have a handful of Friday Freebies for you all. And we’re lifting off with the absolutely stunning WILD FEVER by THE HAZYTONES! Released on May 10th through Black Thrones Productions, mixed by the ..read more

“There you stood on the edge of the Doom Charts… Expecting to fly…” ~ Buffalo Springfield (probably misheard lyrics) Here we are again. On the edge. And down there, down below you find 28 albums that received a ton of love from the various Doom Charts Contributors. Maybe they already wrote about it for their own personal sites, maybe they wrote it and hoped it would reach the published edition of the Doom Charts or maybe the album made it to the published edition, but not to the top 25 that receive blurbs… Or yes, maybe it received too many blurbs to publish on the regular edition. What ..read more

“What the Doom Charts know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean…” ~ Isaac Newton (probably misheard quote) As we enter July we look back at the months passed and publish the Doom Charts, June 2024 edition. Voted for by many of the bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and reviewers braving the Heavy Underground. As you peruse the list you will notice that there are a lot of self-released albums on the list this month. Cause in this glorious age of independent music this is entirely possible and much easier than during the ages before. A plus for labels perhaps? Cause with one album ou ..read more

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total DOOM” ~ (probably misread) quote from Frank Herbert’s Dune Last month’s heavy underground was fearsome. In a year already packed with quality music and early end-of-year list leaders, there was no way all of May could be packed into one Doom Charts post. But never fear, the peroration post is here, as the Doom Charts crew’s fanaticism gives us even more write-ups and highlights of some of the bands that made May yet another glorious month for heavy. The following are professions of love and adoration by Doom ..read more

POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK – VEIL LIFTER Part the veil and enter the weekend lands with a Friday Freebie! We present the album “Veil Lifter” from two-piece POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK released in April, delivering a crushing mix of doom, grunge, sludge, hardcore, and more in a powerful package. This is a special Freebie… NO CODES! Go forth and download the album for free from the band’s Bandcamp. Their own words: “POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK‘s fourth full-length release Veil Lifter is a tempestuous, 10-track Molotov cocktail channelling doom, grunge, hardcore, and thrash into a crushing new record. Following t ..read more

“The DOOM is strong with this one” ~ Darth Vader (probably misheard quote from A New Hope) We’re almost at the halfway mark of 2024, and the onslaught of quality heavy music shows no signs of stopping. Mark your lists, tally your year-end contenders, rack and re-rack your abacus, because May is yet another bountiful month of doom, stoner, sludge, psych, prog, you name it. Doom or do not, there is no try. Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and reviewers from the heavy underground around the globe.  Each month, our critics s ..read more

BON BRAGUER – HORA DE VESTIR EL MULÓ It’s that time, welcome to the weekend with a Friday Freebie! Released just earlier this month, Spain’s hard-riffing maniacs BON BRAGUER present their blistering new album HORA DE VESTIR EL MULÓ. Sung in Catalan, the band rip through eleven tracks of crossover punk, hardcore, and thrash with monstrous vocals. If this doesn’t wake you up for the weekend, check your pulse! Their own words: “It is the second album, released 6 years after the debut. It’s an album, again sung in Catalan, where the group sings about the non-conformity and madness of modern times ..read more

CASTLE RAT – INTO THE REALM It’s almost nine o’ clock on a Friday night on Baker Island, which means there’s still time for a… Friday Freebie! Well, this Friday Freebie has been out since early April and has been making tsunamis across the globe ever since it was released! We’re talking about INTO THE REALM by New York five-piece CASTLE RAT! Out on that fantastic King Volume Records, it’s that proto heaviness, but delivered with such flair and an occult inspired wildness for lust, blood, death and decay, the CASTLE RAT class surrounding every tone and every vocal line. This is one rat I’d love ..read more