The January 2024 Doom Charts – 40 to 26

 

 

The January 2024 Doom Charts – 40 to 26

This is what we normally do on our little Facebook page during the weekend after the new regular edition of the Doom Charts goes online. We count down from 40 to 26, and try to type in a few words about that album or ep that makes sense to us. It’s not a review; but usually a miniscule blurb, a little sentence to entice, to hype. A Stoner Hype… Well, we collected them here to post for you in one nice little post on the blog… And in this way, we will try to spread the good word about them on Instagram as well.. 

HEAVE BLOOD & DIE – BURNOUT CODES

"How can anyone not immediately fall in love with that opening track Dog Days! Just go play Heave Blood & Die's new Burnout Codes album... Forceful post punk, alternative rock, a bit of kraut energy and psychedelic touches make this eight-track album the kind of album to kickstart the new year and send it into overdrive! Amazing, start to finish!"

HUNDEN – A CALMING PRESS 

"A Calming Press gives you this vibrant, gritty stoner metal sound, that touches base with grunge and punk and even noise and makes this Hunden debut a definite bite and bark!" 

CHEDDAR – PSYCHE

 "Cheddar, Psyche... You would assume they're Brits, but now, this is a Spanish quintet... Proggy, world wide melodic influences, psychedelic, metal and these floating and flying female vocals... Crossing boundaries and ripping out border posts... You can never go wrong with a good piece of Cheddar!"

MOHAMA SAZ – MÁQUINA DE GUERRA

"I love it when I see albums like M​á​quina de Guerra by Mohama Saz appear on the Doom Charts... The mediterranean, middle eastern psych and folk rock, sits on an entirely different side of the heavy underground, but one that deserves every bit of your attention as well... Kraut influences or trance rock, turns their sound into something very organic almost tribalistic and very dream inducing!"

 
SCAVENGER MT – FERAL

"Looking for some Feral metal? Look no further! Scavenger MT, brings you all that brutish and burling metal, stoner, sludge, drifting towards classic, heavy or prog sometimes, but always with this wild and savage energy! Indeed Feral!"

RED SUN SERMON – QUEEN OF SWORDS

"Red Sun Sermon is here to provide audience with the Queen Of Swords... Offerings of southern touched blues, by way of doom, metal, hard rock and stoner. Diesel powered and extremely soulful!" 

 DUST MICE – ROOM WITHIN A ROOM

"The high flying Dust Mice turn their classic sounding rock into a space odyssey one moment and into vintage progressiveness the next... Sometimes very jam oriented flare outs and then turning inwards with more garage rocking, Room Within A Room feels like a Russian doll..."

 

 
TEEN MORTGAGE – TEEN MORTGAGE

"Teen Mortgage... Post-punk and punk adorned with some stoner influence, garage, noise and even a tiny hint of surf here and there. It’s so good, you will want to sell your house and buy every Teen Mortgage record available!" 

GOZD – UNILATERALIS

"The Heavy Underground in Poland is on fire!! We managed to listen to that cool Unilateralis album by GOZD yesterday as well! Doom, stoner, metal, but also something gritty, gnarly and grimy. Like there's some punk blood underneath it all! Love it!" 

 

GUHTS – REGENERATION

"And GUHTS's Regeneration also made these walls buzz with excitement... So many layers, and so many genres all merging into one beautiful, yet often melancholic or anguished piece of art..." 

 

 

 HEXEREI – NIHIL I CELANDUM

"Today we continue on with Hexerei and their Nihil i Celandum release... Doomy grunge, grungy doom, seventies inspired rocking, stoner trucking and a lot of proto energy! These seven tracks will surely cast a spell on you!" 

 

 
MOON WIZARD – SIRENS

"Moon Wizard, straight out of Salt Lake City, deliver that occult and doom touched heavy rock, classic styled and proto loving. You know that good stuff, that stuff that we love from bands like Green Lung. But then with female vocals, funkier drumming and more progressive guitar work… Over the moon over here, listening to their third album Sirens!"

 
SPECTRAL SORCERY – DUNGEONS OF DOOM

"And yes! It's Monday now... But we still managed to get groovy in the Dungeons of Doom yesterday! The three track Spectral Sorcery debut EP spell out their lust for darkness, and decay, and dungeons and doom... Classic doom for all you haze loving freaks!"

 
BAGUAL – INHVMAR

"And Bagual was there as well, providing that stoner metal, sludgy goodness. Sure, Inhvmar starts out very doom, but soon turns metal, stonerized and with sludge tones. Even a bit of black comes into play here and there, and then there are those moments when it opens up into more post metal and atmospherics... This is some really good stuff!"

 TANGLED HORNS – LIGHTER

"Tangled Horns's new Lighter album has been on heavy rotation over here and was high on my list of votes... The Belgian quintet excels in delivering emotive grunge, stonerized and melodic, but always gritty and with a tension that constantly seems on the verge of exploding! Out on Polderrecords this is one of the books!"

 


Tune in next month when we do this Stoner Hype again for the number 40 to 26 of the February Doom Charts... But for now... Go listen to all of the 40 of January if you haven't already!