Doom Charts
“We know the sound of the freeway better than we do the rivers, the howl of distant trains better than wolf howls, we know the smell of gas and freshly wet concrete and burned rubber better than we do the smell of cedar or sage or even fry bread – which isn’t traditional… But nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed…” ~ Tommy Orange, 'There There'…
And that is, perhaps, why all us contributors love all of that heavy music that flows out there. Simply because it pays homage to what came before. More than most of the other stuff out there… The last time such a movement felt as righteous and big as this one right now; was back in the sixties, when there was that one faint moment in time when Peace & Love almost took the upper hand to everything else… We are not a political movement. We are not here to preach about anything else but music. Even if most of us are in fear for the current state of the world. The depletion of all the resources Mother Earth give us or the pollution we are causing. We are all living dangerously close to a precipice. The worldwide surge for Nationalistic values. The cancelling of treaties, conventions and agreements. It is eerily similar to the situation before WWI. Sorry; we mentioned the above when we are here to spread the good music; the stuff that makes us smile and the stuff that makes us go crazy… But it happened because the quote above actually refers to the history of the Native American, the Indians that used to populate the Americas. The ones that were brutally massacred by the white man ever since setting their boots upon its soil. Indeed… It seems there is no higher purpose for us… Mankind’s one and only destination is to destroy itself… After which, in a few thousand or million years, a new species will have its day in the sun… Everything is new and doomed…
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…
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