The Doom Chart for May 2019

Doom Chart

    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ~Thomas Merton

It’s amazing what is happening in the heavy underground scene right now. The artistic endeavor involved in all aspects of music is what makes it so immersive as a total experience both physical and mental. Yes, most of us our mental. Take a look at these album covers, most of them available in physical format on vinyl, CD, cassette, poster, patch, etc…. One of the defining elements of a complete package is the artwork to go along with the musical aspect. It’s downright amazing. This month the charts see more diversity across the planet with new albums from Poland, USA, France, Finland, Romania, and of course Sweden just to name a few. You can always count on Sweden. 18 new entries and 7 repeats keeping the trend going with over 300 different albums voted upon within our teams members’ top 25 individual lists.

As Bucky already stated: over 300 albums got voted for this month! Bands like Stone From The Sky, Beaten By Hippies and The Lucid Furs only barely missed the 25 that got featured. But there are so many more and I thank all the fellow contributors once again for all their work and all their votes. Otherwise I might have missed hearing Electric Paradox by Crow Ballard or Darkness Emotion by The Polvos CCP... Just two that were somewhere in the middle of those 300 albums... Thanks everyone, let's keep this heavy train rollinh!
 

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and album reviewers from the heavy underground around the globe.  Each month, our critics submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge metal, stoner-psychedelic 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 Chart for May 2019