The Doom Charts for August 2024

 

DOOM CHARTS

AUGUST 2024

 

“Doom Charts is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space…“

~ Dr Brand in Interstellar (probable misheard quote)

Oh yeah, you are right! That misheard quote might have been about love. A thing that truly might be the most important thing humans have got going for them. It is one of the emotions that drives us. Drives us to create. To create art. So it boggles the mind that there is such a thing as AI Art. Or AI Music. It has nothing to do with creating. With putting into writing, drawing or music that feeling you wanted to capture, those memories you want to show, the pain, the hurt, the longing, the love. There is of course no such thing yet as Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Intelligence Art/Music. It’s algorithms and a programmed database or search engine. Combining, twisting, re-using what has been made before. No intelligent thought is present at any time. And no emotion. No love. And for now, most of the (lets keep calling it AI music for now) is still discernable and identifiable as such. But the programs will get better and it will become more difficult. As Doom Charts we have no desire to promote AI Music. And yes we know, one day, an album will slip through the cracks and get mentioned. But why, I ask, would you go through the trouble of letting a program conjure up something like that? There is no emotion present whatsoever. We can’t hear what the artists went through to create their music. To share their thoughts. Their emotions. Their love. Is there anything to gain from entering a few words into an AI Music program? Especially in our loving little Heavy Underground niche…

It's the August Doom Charts! Just in time for Bandcamp Friday...

Go peruse this list of forty amazing albums from the Heavy Underground and then scooch on over to the band's bandcamp page to buy an album or two!

I voted for a handful of bands that made the August list... And those are Jhufus, Goat Generator, Bonzai, Sidewinder, ANCIIENTS, Cobranoid, Erronaut, Emu, Valley of the Sun, Fostermother, Mammoth volume, Free Ride... (Read our reviews about Cobranoid and Erronaut on the blog...)

But could have voted for all the others as well! Gonna be listening to all forty in a row now, starting with Hertfordshire's very own Orme...

And as usual... We'll be jotting down a sentence or two about the Numbers 40 to 26 over the course of the week on the Facebook site... You know where...

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 2024