Adjustable Mustard – Denatured Blue

 

Adjustable Mustard – Denatured Blue
Dumpster Dog Records – 2026 
Rock, Psych, Sixties
Rated: ****

I’m always extremely happy when the postman drops off a package obviously containing a new vinyl record. Completely giddy before opening the package. Even more so when I haven’t ordered one or even expecting one. And to top that feeling, it all turns golden brown when you open the package, put the vinyl on the player, the needle down and hear those warm soulful and fuzzy sounds of Denatured Blue, the new album by the Adjustable Mustard duo… 

And with the new Denatured Blue, the Adjustable Mustard two drift deeper into the fuzz-drenched haze of psychedelic rock, without ever losing their soulful sixties glow. But on the new album, the guitars are allowed to bloom like wildflowers and Katie Pitts smoke tinged vocals rise like incense in a room lit by winter sunlight. There are echoes of a long forgotten acid dream here, that is without any doubt that sixties glow that courses through their veins, even though it might feel half remembered, it is still restless and alive in these tunes. 

Born from intuition, old notebooks and the beautiful poetry that is coincidence, so I’ve learned, the album feels like a gem discovered in the attic. The couple of Will White and Pitts followed the fragile sparks of inspiration wherever they lead, and allowed melodies to wander, as ideas took on a life of their own. Thanks to a great interview by former Doom Charts colleague Nick Pipitone, from The Third Eye blog and site, I’ve learned about a brutal Nashville ice storm, which became part of this album. And perhaps, the album might indeed feel like the eye of the storm, where chaos was suspended into the creative process. 

Your music muscle memory will spark to life on many occasion, without ever coming close to naming the legends of yore that might have made it flare up. Most of all, Denatured Blue sounds like the perfect reminder, that some things, cannot be manufactured. True artist don’t search for perfection. They search for the right lightning strike in the storm. The one they want to capture. The beauty and poetry of the unexpected. Denatured Blue is pure. The quiet freedom of making music simply because the soul demands it… 

(Written by JK)

Go listen to the first two singles, Dickerson and Need To Work On Me, now and get ready for the Denatured Blue album to drop on November 9th!

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King Buffalo - Vagabond

 

King Buffalo - Vagabond

We could almost state, instantaneously quintessential, like a sonic blueprint for the King Buffalo sound! That’s right, the new Vagabond single is all that and a calling card for the new Doomsayer album to arriving December 4th! Go check out the new Vagabond… Or the earlier released The Slick And The Dead and feel at home in the distilled essence of all that is King Buffalo! 

 

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Helldorado Festival

 

 

Helldorado Festival

One Month! Till we get to travel to fabled Helldorado once again! Drive your stake through a darkened heart... That wild festival in Eindhoven, the Netherlands where anything can happend and everything will. Ooooooo-ooo-oh yessssssss! These long strange nights... These warped and twisted nights! But you will never be quite sure you were even there... A lost golden festival of rock 'n roll! Lost in a haze and lost in time... Are you ready to get lost? 

Still a handful of tickets left... 

 Look at that stunning line-up!

Amazing bands one and all, but with 30 years of Peter Pan Speedrock, the party atmosphere will surely be grand from the get-go! Amenra! Converge! Ramkot! Prong! The Lords of Altamont and so many more! The Eagles Of Death Metal for instance! Let's boogie! 

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Stoner HiVe’s Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

The Grok
Queens of The Stone Age
Domkraft
LáGoon
Black Space Riders
Dozer
Phe
Steak
Bobbie Dazzle
Stinking Lizaveta

Good mornin! Rent paying work keeps interfering, but I guess you all know the deal. Some of it is fun though, and this week will have another cool assignment, hanging out with the guys from DeWolff in their studio. It does mean, less time to HiVe… So, last week we only had time to post about the wild new Stinking Lizaveta and Argentinian doom masters En La Niebla. Besides editing and reposting about that awe inspiring Golem album and scuzzy skater crazies of LáGoon. Hopefully we can post some more this week. Cause listening to the new Phe, Domkraft, Dozer, Steak, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Grok and Black Space Riders damn well get the creative juices flowing! Have a great week y’all! 

Below is the playlist for Week 42, featuring a selection of albums and tracks from my Bandcamp collection that are currently available to listen to...

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Stinking Lizaveta - Cassandra, Prophet of Doom

 

 

Stinking Lizaveta - Cassandra, Prophet of Doom
SRA Records – 2026
Rock, Instrumental, Punk, Stoner, Doom
Rated: ****

The reissue of their debut Hopelessness and Shame was magnificent, the tour that followed and their gig at Stoned From The Underground Festival was glorious and the new album continues with that victory march. Yes, thirty years on and the beast refuses to be tamed! Philadelphia’s instrumental power trio Stinking Lizaveta returns with Cassandra, Prophet of Doom, an eight-track slab of beautifully unhinged musical mayhem that proves some things only grow more dangerous with age… 

There’s still that off center story telling two step here and there, there’s still that punk spirit whispering through the songs and there’s still an arc and majestic drops to contend with. The guitar is allowed to tell that story, with twists, howls, noodling and pure fire. The bass following the steps or rumbling like subterranean thunder. And Cheshire Agusta’s drums keep the whole magnificent contraption hurtling towards the abyss, or inching towards the edge… 

The ride has two faces and both of them are glorious! For it all comes together as their progressive touches collide with the psychedelic detours, powerful Cassandra, Prophet of Doom-laden riffs and flashes of something akin of mischievous exuberance. The instinctive understanding between these three musicians, who have spent decades sharpening their skills, give you all the muscle and madness you can handle…
 
Instrumental, no maddening cries, no vocals, no compromises. Just three individuals that move by the speed of inspiration and instinct, pushing, pulling and occasionally almost dismantling the very music they create. They offer no visions of the future, but show how Stinking Lizaveta became the unruly force of nature it has become. Cassandra. She maybe the prophet of doom. Of predictions of ominous events lying in wait. But Stinking Lizaveta, to this day, remains the soundtrack to surviving all of it… 

(Written by JK)

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Golem – A Tale Of Dust And Tide

 

 

Golem – A Tale Of Dust And Tide
Self-released – 2026 
Rock, Stoner, Hard, Alternative
Rated: ****

There are of course many bands named Golem. Did that fact deter us? We might never know. W do know, we were late to this Golem party. We arrived as the votes came pouring in. Noticing all the Doom Charts Contributors voting for A Tale Of Dust And Tide by Uruguayan five-piece Golem we pressed play and by the time the cowbells arrived, we could not escape the grasp of the Golem! And we loved getting squeezed and clenched tight in between all those adventures! 

Cause five-piece Golem go for the gusto with their first long-play album! For A Tale Of Dust And Tide is definitely that! A long-play album, eighteen tracks, and more than two hours!! You want value for your buck on over on Bandcamp?! Next Bandcamp Friday, is November 6th. Cause wow! Unusually ambitious debut for a relatively obscure underground band right? But you’d better believe that those two hours are jam-packed with tight riffs, wild guitar work and thunderous rhythms. Fuzz-drenched, groovy and catchy these two hours fly by! And as you traverse the Golem universe you will be led through a fantastical world of crusades, wonderous battles and mythological creatures that turn up when you least expect it… A sprawling, immersive journey where ancient tales rise from the dust and the tide carries you ever onward. Ambitious. Absolutely. But Golem make the journey feel effortless, leaving you wanting to turn around and walk back into the haze for another two hours of dusty tales… 

(Written by JK)

 

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En la Niebla - Consuelo del Infortunio

 

 

En la Niebla - Consuelo del Infortunio
Self-released – 2026 
Rock, Doom, Metal, Stoner
Rated: ****

Do you hear? Something has awoken. Something ancient seems to stir beneath Consuelo del Infortunio. The new release by Argentinian trio En La Niebla, who lure you into their world of smoke, dancing shadows and slow-burning heat, where fuzz drenched guitars move like spirits and every riff carries primordial dread or at least something devious that has long been buried…

Rooted in doom, stoner and metal, the album moves through crushing heaviness, hypnotic grooves and psychedelic passages with an ever present haze. And with its raw, almost live-room quality, the incantation only becomes deeper. Nothing feels polished, the guitars crackle at the edges, riffs linger, cymbals sound off into the distance, where the bass lumbers and then suddenly seems to perform its own little ritual. The whole record seems to hum at its very own pitch.
 
And even though En La Niebla sing in Spanish, except for the Drop of Blood single, you can feel the essence of all the songs throbbing through your veins. Death, desire, occultism, they drift through the songs like fleeting figures glimpsed through the fog. And while the music remains intensely physical and gripping, heavy enough to feel it in your entire being it is also hypnotic enough to lose yourself completely. And there among the strange warmth of the shadows, you surrender to the darkness and find comfort in everything Consuelo del Infortunio… 

(Written by JK)

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LáGoon – Forget What You Heard

 

LáGoon – Forget What You Heard
Interstellar Smoke Records / Evil Noise Recordings – 2026 
Garage, Doom, Punk, Psych, Stoner
Rated: ****

We’ve always had a thing for LáGoon. It’s the kind of longing that slips quietly into your mind, then settles deeper… An itch beneath the skin, a shiver along the spine, a restless little ache that refuses to be ignored. A need to surrender to the craving, to quench whatever thirst it has awakened in you. And once it takes hold, there’s no sense in resisting. No reason to wait. No way to delay the satisfaction of giving in…

 
Luckily, we’ve had the pleasure of returning to the albums they’ve released over the years, the side-projects Anthony Gaglia was involved with and even talking to him one day many moons ago. And we’ve also had the pleasure of premiering that first single for their brand new album! 

Yes! LáGoon return with six rounds of Portland fuzz-damaged lunacy fired straight from the heavy underground and aimed directly at your eardrums! Punk, Doom, Garage, Psych and Stoner collide on Forget What You Heard in pure LáGoon fashion! You know the deal, blown speakers, bad behaviour and wild scuzzy riff worship! You Tried (You Failed) is that languid stoner punk and garage burner, slowly seeping into your veins, spicing up your blood and giving you Skullactic Visions, but not before majestic opener Kill The Messenger already kicked the door off its hinges with some glorious chaos, house burning kind of stoner noise! Once heard, Forget What You Heard, will be in your blood forever… Constantly giving you the itch and the perfect way to satisfy it! 

(Written by JK)

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Stoner HiVe’s Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s 
Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Golem
Editors
Stinking Lizaveta
Hostile Tides
Matt C. White
The Fierce & The Dead
The Ocean
Polymoon
Black Space Riders
Plastic Woods

It was a wild week and an even wilder weekend! We headed out immediately after the Doom Charts went online. Hence, the later post about it on the HiVe… Still, even though there was limited time, we still managed to get a few little ditties  up and out. First and foremost, we got to premiere the new Erosions single for the Psalm / Erosions split album soon to be released as a first release for the new Space Goat Records. We could not resist mentioning the new A Perfect Circle single, For Whom It May Concern, perhaps simple in execution, it still works, or at least for me… We mentioned the debut by Kurtys Kidd, the new album by Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats, the fantastical Organic Green Monster Machine, the wild Hostile Tides and the smashing new album by Plastic Woods… Not bad for a busy week! Let’s see what happens this week… Hope it will be grand for you all! 

 

The Doom Charts for September 2026

 

DOOM CHARTS

SEPTEMEBR 2026

“Wake me up when September ends…”

~ Greenday

It did! It’s over. Wake up! September is gone. Dust. In the books. Which means… We get to publish the Doom Charts for September 2026. And on Bandcamp Friday no less! Not sure when your paycheck rolls in, but it might mean October will be filled with dry bread, water and a whole lof of awesome riffs! Check out the list below, the Forty albums of the 175 albums that received the most votes this month… All deserving every bit of your energy and every buck out of your wallet… Go check’m out! 

 

T'was Bandcamp Friday and the new Doom Charts edition went live!What a great start of the weekend...  Say goodbye to all your hard earned cash! And hello to all those great riffs! What a month! As usual, I could have and should have voted for all of them... But of those forty that made it, I voted for:

Uncle Acid and the deadbeats, MR.BISON, SATURNA, GREEN LUNG, Early Moods, Deathchant, The Well, Villagers of Ioannina City, Kongh, Mississippi Bones, KITSA, LáGoon, Allume, Vulture Neck, Stinking Lizaveta... And my personal Number 1: Iron Jinn...

Starting the Top 40 rundown with Chat Pile... 

 

 

Already featured on Stoner HiVe: 

 Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats – Shapes of Midnight

 Saturna – Light and Shadow

FULL ALBUM PREMIERE - Allume – Ex-Luto

Allume – Ex-Luto

Iron Jinn - Zeitgeist on the Run

FULL ALBUM PREMIERE - Vulture Neck – Vulture Neck

Deathchant – Kova 

 

 

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 submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge, metal, stoner, psychedelic, progressive and heavy rock albums. The results are compiled and tabulated into the chart below. This is a one-stop shop for the best new albums in the world…

 The Doom Charts - September 2026

Plastic Woods – Mirrors

 

 

Plastic Woods – Mirrors
Discos Macarras Records / Spinda Records – 2026 
Rock, Prog, Psych
Rated: ****

The mirror is lying to you… Plastic Woods have always taken an extra step when it comes to combining inspirations into one brilliant adventure. And Mirrors is another, wild step in that evolution. Out, October 22nd on Spinda Records and Discos Macarras Records the album steps through the looking glass and into a land beyond, taking the listener with them, with grandiose guitar work, progressive compositions and something funky to boot. There are darker moments and lighthearted playful things, like reflected sunlight on the water…

So, step through the Mirrors, leave the troublesome, irksome, violent or sensible world behind and let yourself fall into Plastic Woods third album. Inspired by Tarot archetypes and the strange logic of Lewis Carroll’s looking-glass world, the album plunges headfirst into the collapse of identity. The Tower is falling, The Fool keeps dancing, the reflection is cracking, and somewhere on the other side of the glass awaits the part of ourselves we’d rather not meet. Or some of us want to dance with. 

Musically, Plastic Woods turn the looking glass into a kaleidoscope of progressive rock, psychedelia, hard rock, folk and blues, pushing their sound into darker, more intricate territory. It is an inward trip, and you often feel like you are running through anxiety, false memories and righteous paradoxes as if a monster is right there on your heels. But Mirrors never becomes the album that will lead you out. The mirror might be telling the truth, and the thing you thought was chasing you has been wearing your face all along… 

(Written by JK)

Go check out the first two Plastic Woods singles now and be ready October 22nd for the full Mirrors album to drop... 

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Hostile Tides – Dead Man Talking

 

 

Hostile Tides – Dead Man Talking
Self-released – 2026
Stoner, Metal, Punk, Prog, Instrumental
Rated: ***

You want it underground? Heavy underground? You want stoner, metal, punk and prog all mixed into one blissful release? Then go listen to five track Dead Man Talking by Kent, England quartet Hostile Tides. Love the band name. Active since 2024. Instrumental, except for the second track Rumour, which could become the rowdy live track Twenty was to Karma To Burn…

It was recorded Squarehead Studios, but has the feel of an album that was recorded at the final petrol station before all the roads end, the pavement stops and the end of the road is actually a place on the map. Five tracks, filled with fuzz heavy guitars, filthy bass work and thunderous drums. All of it sneaks and crawls through stoner and metal, punk and prog, leaving room for hypnotic grooves and full blown sonic derailments. 

A grimy, intensely cinematic quality seems to be powering the whole thing. A lost soundtrack to a film nobody should have made. The soundtrack remains and becomes this entity on its own. Just listen to Pyramids and you will understand immediately how everything becomes its own thing with Hostile Tides at the helm. Rough edged, atmospheric by default, completely unpredictable and this is just a first release… Hostile Tides are warming up! 

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Organic Green Monster Machine – The Swords of Sorrow

 

 

Organic Green Monster Machine – The Swords of Sorrow
Self-released – 2026
Rock, Psych, Stoner
Rated: ***

There’s a storyteller at work here. And song smithies. For the three tracks on the new The Swords of Sorrow EP are meticulously crafted and immediately audible is that these three tracks would benefit from a bit more production or recording value. But the Bridgetown, Australia, quartet Organic Green Monster Machine released their first single back in 2023 and after three more, this is the first EP. Each of those tracks show great promise and a sincere knack for crafting something special and mesmerizing. 

For The Swords of Sorrow is a spellbinding journey, through heavy psychedelia, smoky blues and sprawling fantastical landscapes. Across three richly textured tracks, the band weaves a hypnotic tapestry of stories and atmosphere, where thunderous rhythms meet delicate melodies and drifting instrumental passages. Opening the EP with The Raven Prince, storytelling and cinematic grandeur. The Blade track follows and sinks into a slow burning psychedelic haze. And it ends with The Highway Song, a Purplesque track, that gradually gathers momentum before erupting into its heaviest passages…

Like a gigantic tome opened at the right pages; the adventures, the tales regaled often feel like a journey through shadow and light, unhurried and deliberate, resounding ancient echoes of mysterious voyages into unknown worlds. Fantastical! Organic Green Monster Machine has awoken; and The Swords of Sorrow is the first chapter of a wild and dangerous grimoire that will surely be written… 

(Written by JK)

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