The Doom Charts for August 2022

 

 

Doom Charts

“In Brody’s dreams, deep water was populated by slimy, savage things that rose from below and shredded his flesh, by demons that cackled and moaned.”

~ Peter Benchley, Jaws

It’s about setting the scene. The dead body in the hotel room. Foreboding music. It’s about the unexpected. About the weird, the wild, and The Cursed Who Perform The Larvagods Rites. Here we are again. Treading through all those amazing releases populating the Heavy Underground. Here we are again. At the first of a new month. With an all new Doom Charts edition. No less than a total of 245 albums received votes this month and of the list of 40 that rose from below, to shred your flesh and are now ready for you to peruse here; there are 37 new entries. But all forty of ‘m are demonically good, they all cackle and moan and will shred you whole!

The August 2022 Doom Charts are here! 

There are those dreams in which we fly, but don't really want to, so it continuesly feels like you are falling. There are those where you feel stuck. In a labyrinth or in a hole... Or where you are chased by ravenous monsters...

Most of them are all just because you were one of The Cursed Who Perform The Larvagods Rites.... It's your own fault! Go remedy that by reading up on the best of Heavy Underground and checking all those albums out! Cause all forty of ‘m are demonically good, they all cackle and moan and will shred you whole!

Personal votes went out to: King Buffalo, Psychlona, Samán, My Sleeping Karma, CB3, Sisteria, Mammoth volume, Motherslug and Sons of Arrakis! Currently we're preparing for an interview tomorrow; but after we're done; we will start the August rundown... Starting with that awesome All Souls and Fatso Jetson split album Live From Total Annihilation !

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 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 for August 2022