“Turn on your love light… and leave it on.” ~ Ron “Pigpen” McKernan Another Friday in the land of heaviness… Another round of albums for that other Monthly post. The Doom Charts Peroration Post. February 2023, and we’re here to serve you a platter of no less than 27 albums that Contributors blurbed about, because they fell head over heels with them. The 27 club! Alive, kicking ass and grooving hard. 27 albums! Shall we do the math? All resonating with the Doom Charts Contributors on some pure level of adoration… So, here they are, to start your weekend off with a bang! The following are profe ..read more

MERLOCK – ONWARD STRIDES COLOSSUS Next up we’ve got some sludge, some doom, some stoner and some psychedelic goodness for ya! It’s the new album ONWARD STRIDES COLOSSUS by the Spokane, Washington, USA three named MERLOCK! Steve Howe stated: “Onward Strides Colossus is boosted by excellent production values and with them having a slightly DIY approach, Merlock are fast becoming an essential part of the Underground Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal scenes. This is a first rate album packed full of many different twists and turns to delight the most jaded of music fans with. Merlock has released one ..read more

ULTRA VOID – MOTHER OF DOOM They, it, he reached the published list of Forty albums of the regular edition of the February Doom Charts. And deliver what you might view as the one-man album of 2023 everyone should hear. We mean, ULTRA VOID and its MOTHER OF DOOM album! James Sweetlove said: “Instrumentally there’s more crisp, wild, and meandering psych riffs strewn throughout the album than you can shake a stick at. Along with this are plenty of blues influenced elements, which add a moodiness and a certain level of swagger to the mix. Then of course you have your more fuzz laden, downtuned doo ..read more

HOPE HOLE – BEAUTIFUL DOOM As we gear up for a few more Friday Freebie posts, and finally culminating it all with that February Peroration Post we are honored to spread the love of HOPE HOLE and of Beautiful Doom! Scott Spiers said: “If you need a break from power chords and mystical musings from Mammoths and Goats and don’t mind some quirky mashups of almost every sub genre of rock since 1981, this is for you. In fact, for a select group of adventurous souls, this might make your Top 10 for the year and wind up on half a dozen of your playlists.” Frazer Jones added: “The albums title tells y ..read more

WITCHROT – LIVE IN THE HAMMER Next up for this Friday Freebie session is something devestatingly doom, severely sludge, and superbly stonerrock! And it was recorded LIVE in THE HAMMER. The nickname for the Hamilton Studio. Hence the name of the album, by WITCHROT! Mastered by Tony Reed it’s out on Fuzzed And Buzzed Records… Just get a load of those old blues roots, wildly proto metal. WITCHROT virtuosity! Our newest Doom Charts Member Ryan Hilton wrote the following: “The sound on this album is staggering; an incredible massacre of riffs doused in molten sludge, haunting vocals and a bass tone ..read more

SANTO ROSTRO – DESPUÉS NO HABRÁ NADA It’s still Friday and it’s been a week since SANTO ROSTRO ‘s amazing new album Después No Habrá Nada was released on the multitude of labels. Discos Macarras Records, LaRubiaProducciones and Spinda Records did the right thing by making this one happen, for it’s one hell of a wild ride! Frazer Jones said: “WOW! This hits a home run with every track, the guitar tones are raucous, the vocals (Spanish) are gritty and powerful, the grooves are complex and complicated in fact this is pretty faultless on all levels.“ Or as Joop Konraad stated: “This is psychedelic ..read more

TEX – GOODSTONE Another Friday Freebie for all your friendly Doom Charts followers. Djeez, a lot of F’s given there! And they’re all for free. Just like these amazing bunch of codes for an equally amazing album called GOODSTONE… Out on Olde Magic Records, it’s the album by the Salt Lake City, Utah, USA three called TEX! When I hear the name TEX, I used to only think of Tex Murphy. But that will surely just be me. But ever since hearing GOODSTONE, I got that album on my mind. Made the list in January, but could have easily ranked higher we reckon… Cause GOODSTONE ‘s damn good son! Or as Frazer ..read more

“Death is but a doorway, time is but a window, I’ll be back.” ~ Vigo And we are back! Just like clockwork, every damn month again, the Doom Charts are back! The first Friday of the new month and here we are with the February list of forty albums that all those Contributors loved so dearly. A Friday that sees the release of many new albums as well, and since it’s Bandcamp Friday, well… Take your pick! Or buy them all! Three albums carried over from January. Which means there are 37 spanking new albums on the list below. And just so you know, a lot of the Contributors were struggling to whittle ..read more

“For most people, Friday’s just the day before the weekend. But after this Friday, the neighborhood’ll never be the same…” ~ Craig Jones Friday is special… Right? We’re approaching the beginning of a new month again… The First Friday of the new month is when we publish the regular edition of the Doom Charts. The Friday before that, we publish the Peroration. But we also do Friday Freebie’s whenever we have the time on a Friday. Which means, Friday, is Doom Charts day… For many of us, Friday has always been new music day. And ofcourse Friday is the start of the weekend for most of us. Which me ..read more

MOTHER ROOT – CLAMOUR OF SOULS Up next is MOTHER ROOT and their CLAMOUR OF SOULS release. Two brothers, four tracks, featuring guitar, percusion and vocals. Metal, doom, sludge, stoner and pure all out heaviness! With a definite love for grunge and punk… And clamour! Frazer Jones said: “Four tracks of gnarly assed grooviness delivered by two brothers who seem pretty adept at delivering that sort of thing!” Their own words: “Two brothers making noise in the backwoods of the Snoqualmie Valley. Turn it on, turn it up, and go grind pool coping.” REDEEM HERE: Codes: c7w2-3k6d cwh5-x99h csef-j86v s ..read more