“Dooooooooooom!” ~ (probably misheard) line from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan The Third Friday of the month, high time for the Doom Charts Peroration for March 2024. That show of dedication and love for more of the albums floating around the Heavy Underground. We cannot stress enough that the Doom Charts is a labor of love for the many Contributors. They all have their personal sites, zines, blogs, podcasts and radioshows to maintain. And still they manage to do the work involved with getting the monthly Doom Charts posts up. We cannot thank them enough! And once again, we want to state th ..read more

“My god, it’s full of DOOM!“ ~ Dave (probably misheard quote from 2001: A Space Odyssey) We here at the Doom Charts pride ourselves on loving all that the heavy underground has to offer. Not only doom in all its dark and deadly forms, but all the other strains of heavy and metal out there. That being said, to our sinister delight this March turns out to be an especially misbegotten month. From top to bottom, soup to nuts, Ozzy to Dio, this month’s charts are filled with DOOM! Stoner, psychedelic, classic, you name it, it’s here. Of the hundreds of albums submitted, the one unifying thread eve ..read more

PIA ISA – BURNING TIME As we come to the end of another Friday Freebie extravaganza, we have to leave you all with one last amazing release. It’s the new three track solo EP by Superlynx’s PIA ISA! It’s called BURNING TIME and is the precursor to the new full-sized album to appear later this year. Doom gaze, psychedelic drone, slow and highly atmospheric. The three tracks have no difficulty in dragging you along in its mesmerizing and languorous soundscape… Time will flicker out like a candle touched by wind, and you will float away like the smoke curling towards the heavens.. . Frazer Jones ..read more

SNAIL – THOU ART THERE: LIVE AT THE OBELISK ALL-DAYER It still Friday right? Well… Their Fractal Altar album from 2021 rode the Doom Charts for two months in a row, but some six years earlier they delivered their Feral album. And it was right after that tour that The Obelisks‘s very own JJ Koczan had decide to host a festival. SNAIL was one of the bands he needed to have on board and the codes we share with you today are for the live album that was recorded right then and right there: THOU ART THERE: LIVE AT THE OBELISK ALL-DAYER! Out on Argonauta Records, this is a celebration of that special ..read more

WITCHSNAKE – DEATHCULT OF THE SNAKE Just when you thought it was over… We have another Friday Freebie for you all! This time for an album that made the Number 14 spot back in December 2023! It’s WITCHSNAKE and their DEATHCULT OF THE SNAKE release. We’re honored to present you with these codes after also being able to share them for self-titled debut back in 2022. Out on Regain Records, it delivers all that scuzz and fuzz in tenfold! Go check out the DEATHCULT OF THE SNAKE! Thierry “Pumpkin-T“ François (Metal Intégral) wrote back then: “Deathcult Of The Snake is the second bite of the WITCHSNAK ..read more

INSIDE OF ME – THE FIRST ONE We’ve got another Friday Freebie for all you crazies out there! And we’ve got another Spanish band for you all! Do you care to guess which village they’re from? Wait? What? Indeed! How the hell does Torelló, Osona, Catalonia deliver so many and diverse bands, cause where Bon Baguer gives you grindcore and extreme metal, Astral Warrior delivers heavy, classic and power metal… And INSIDE OF ME gives you alternative rock, grunge and metal, with progressive touches and something eighties. INSIDE OF ME is the solo-project for Raül Galvez from Apostasía, Urband Rockers ..read more

ASTRAL WARRIOR – METALUNYA More Friday Freebies! More from Catalunya! Just like those extreme metalists Bon Braguer, this band hails from Osona, a sub region in Catalonia, Spain. But not only that, they also come from the same village! Torelló, with only around 15,000 inhabitants is able to produce those crazy four from Bon Braguer and this four-piece power metal formation called ASTRAL WARRIOR! A band started in the late nineties and restarted by founding member Mia Campdepadròs not that long ago. During this long hiatus, he also played in a band called Salem, and found time to write and reco ..read more

BON BRAGUER For those of you who spilled their coffee all over the ceiling listening to that debut release by Spanish quartet BON BRAGUER, we’ve got a treat for you with this Friday Freebie! We’re honored to be able to treat you all to almost every release these Spanish wild ones ever released… So, if you can’t get enough of their crazy, wild and extreme mix of grindcore, hardcore, punk, metal, thrash, speed and ruralism, scroll down and claim a code for each of their albums, singles and EP’s… REDEEM HERE BON BRAGUER – SPLIT W// BONESTORM Codes: b67j-h23l wnw7-5clj c5pa-bc5y p79r-xxbr 8l2w-5 ..read more

BON BRAGUER – TANT DE BO NO US AGRADI Good morning! It’s the Fourth Friday of the Month, time for another Friday Freebie… Or two… We explode out of the gates, with a crossover, punk, hardcore, grindcore, blackened, thrash and speel metal ordeal called TANT DE BO NO US AGRADI by Spanish quartet BON BRAGUER! Released in 2018 these fourteen tracks deliver a ruraltrash take on social and political criticism with a sense of humor, screamed in the Catalan language, this is extreme in every sense of the word! Grab a coffee and get ready to have very fiber of your being completely shattered, exhauste ..read more

“I don’t care if Monday’s blue Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too Thursday, I don’t care about you It’s Friday, I’m in love with the Doom Charts…” ~ (probably misheard) lyrics from The Cure The Third Friday of the month, high time for the Doom Charts Peroration for February 2024. That show of dedication and love for more of the albums floating around the Heavy Underground. We cannot stress enough that the Doom Charts is a labor of love for the many Contributors. They all have their personal sites, zines, blogs, podcasts and radioshows to maintain. And still they manage to do the work involved w ..read more