The Doom Charts for January 2023

 

Doom Charts

“After all, the wool from the black sheep is just as warm.”

~ Sister Margaretta

Before we get to the nitty gritty so to speak, one more heartfelt thank you to all you followers out there. It is humbling to see your reactions and it warms our entire being. That also goes for all the bands. Seeing your response to all those Personal Lists and that final Top 100, well, is once again humbling and overwhelming. We do it all for those amazing albums and getting the good word out about them to all you followers. So, when we see we reach both… Well… Thank you! Thank you!

It’s 2023, and has been for a month. So… Welcome to the first regular, January edition of the Doom Charts of the new year. We’ve got Thirty-Nine spanking new albums listed below and one album that was released in November, made the Doom Charts back then and is now present once again. Should we consider that one the ‘black sheep’ of the list? Or should we consider all of them as black sheeps? Cause this is the Heavy Underground we’re talking about and we shall not hear many of those albums or songs out shopping, standing in an elevator or listening to a big radio station. And even though our warm little niche is growing every day, it will forever be our cozy, dark, heavy and rocking little hole to curl up into and shelter us from the cold, and the harsh realities outside… No less than 292 albums received votes this month… And below you can see which of those made the published list… 

The brand new, first, January edition of 2023 of the Doom Charts went up on Friday the 3rd, as planned... Once again, a great selection of heavy rock from the dephts of the underground! Damn fine releases one and all! Voted for by the many Contributors and tallied by the one and only Remi VL!

Personal votes of the ones that made it, went out to: Tidal Wave, WARP, Dread Witch, Godsground , Shivalila, Buddha Sentenza, Signo Rojo, Solar Trip, Giant Sleep, I Am The Mansion, Draken, Strider, Zeup, & Lord Mountain .... Will start spinning them from 40 to 1 today... Stating with that damn fine trio from Dunkirk, France called Mama Youth! How about you?! What are you listening to?

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 January 2023