The Doom Charts for September 2023

 

 

DOOM CHARTS

SEPTEMBER 2023

“The music junkies see the Doom Charts as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual, like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or dancing, or a good nap in the afternoon.”

~ Anthony Bourdain (probably misheard quote)

And that ends September… We’ve been blessed with so many amazing albums already throughout the year. But September was something else. There was so much, so many albums released that the Contributors were starting to revolt. They demanded longer lists. They wanted to extend the published list. They wanted extra lists. They wanted more. Because they received so much more! Well… After much deliberation within the group, we decided we wouldn’t budge and we would not waver. We only wanted to state that we understand their grief, their toil and sweat. We feel their pain. It was hard selecting the best ones in our opinion. And it was even more difficult to stick to that rigid amount of a mere twenty-five. Below, is the result. Forty brand new albums representing September 2023, a month so full of great releases that the ones featured on this list are really something else… 

As usual we highlight the ones on the list we voted for ourselves... But we can't stress enough that we could have voted for them all... Cause it's been one hell of a September! I had hoped a few would have ended up higher or assumed even. And a bit sad that a few of my choices did not even make the Top 40, but this was inevitable... September was one hell of ride! But of the ones that made it, we voted for: Domkraft, Fire Down Below, Dead Feathers, Humulus, Lord Velvet, I Am Low, Omega Sun, Formation Ritual, Stone of Duna, Demons My Friends, Superlynx, Stepmother, Hey Colossus, Rrrags, Fulanno, Nova Doll, Earth Altar / Sun Below and Sonic Speculum.

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 September 2023