The Doom Charts For January 2026

 

DOOM CHARTS

JANUARY 2026

“Affection, it can’t be combined with
perfection something so divine
we could’ve had our own little world
but you chose to run away with the… Doom Charts…”

~ probably misheard lyrics by Slomosa

 

As we enter another year, where the Doom Charts scours the Heavy Underground in search of all those amazing albums. We cannot help but think about all those albums that have already been featured since 2015. And those that weren’t. Cause on average the Contributors vote for a total of 200 different albums per month. This month 218. Wow… That’s a lot of heavy music. And we shall continue to spread all that music and our love for it… Even though there’s all that Generative AI stuff to work through now as well. And the amount of it is growing. Some of it is pretty decent even. Some only part AI. And some will undoubtly slip through and make it on to the Doom Charts… We don’t understand at all why one would use a plagarism machine to spill out music, when one could just try to come up with something completely their own. I for one am not interested in what a machine can rehash out of the million ideas it has been fed. There are programs out there that can make your music sound perfect. I am not interested in perfect. Perfect is boring. And it’s not what people can actually do. There’s no fun there. I for one am interested in your idea, your take, your riffs and your energy… Your mistakes. It’s what makes it human. There might be nothing new under the sun, but your take of that will forever be your take and thats what matters and what makes it interesting…

Everything worth doing, is worth doing right… 

 

 

January started with a bang! Big and loud! A stunning array of amazing records released in the first month of the new year... And you can judge it yourself by ransacking the January 2026 edition of the Doom Charts! Forty amazing heavy albums that all shimmer like legendary gold and jewels...

Will be starting the rundown with Swarm's Air...

And of the ones that made it, my votes went out to:

New Mexican Doom Cult, Capacopter, GIANT, Lord Elephant, Temptress, RitualArcana, Redwood.band, Indica Blues, Hällas, Shamayna, TarLung - Band, Iron Head, Aeon Temple, Wild Fuzz Trip, MOTSUS, Voodoo Queen, Planet Hunter, Undulathund, HOT RAM, Gran Moreno, Slowrepeat, Liquid Pennies, SHΔDΞ and Hostal Handshake...

 Already featured on Stoner HiVe:

 

Iron Head - Fundamental

 

Hostal Handshake – Stone Oracle 

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 2026