DOOM CHARTS
FEBRUARY 2026
“Traveler now reach the stream, the audial flight adapter
From the pain-sheath sound ascends – the Non-returner hears
Empathy release me – and the Doom Chart rise triumphant…”
~ probably misheard lyrics by Om
The shortest month usually feels the longest when you’re waiting for the frost to break under the sun’s warmth, but the Heavy Underground has a way of warming your bones. As we venture further into this desolate year, the sheer volume of music being poured into our ears remains staggering. This month our contributors listened to, agonized over and eventually submitted a total of 200 different albums. And that’s only the ones they mentioned in their quantitatively restricted submissions, they probably listened to hundreds of albums!
From the smoke-filled basements of stoner rock, to the open fields of ambient, to the echoing cathedral naves of post-rock and cavernous lairs of doom, the variety continues to prove that “heavy” is a wide spectrum, not a single point. There continues to be an astounding amount of debut records submitted — bands emerging from the ether with fully-formed identities and riffs that sound like they’ve been aging in oak barrels for decades. Well, some of them do have the distinct edge of raw spirit rotgut. Of course, we still have to navigate the foggy musical swamp we’re wading through. We aren’t interested in the perfect performance or immaculate production, let alone committee engineered pop hooks; we want grit! And the small mistakes, the driving passion and the raw power that only comes from real people totally smashing on their real instruments.
So, here it is: the top of the Doom Charts February 2026. A one-stop shop for the best new heavy releases out there, at least the best we could find! Dig in, support the bands, and let the music do the talking and screaming.
~ Jukka ‘Shrike’ Kolehmainen (Psychotropic Caravan, Abhorrence, Shrike’s Playlists)
Nicely worded by Jukka and we still can't wrap our heads around the sheer amount of albums released on a daily basis. But luckily we have the Doom Charts and all those other blogs, zines and podcasts to shed a light on many of them. And it's great when it happens on a Friday... For...
Already featured on Stoner HiVe:
Hermano – Clisson, France (Live album)
Mount Palatine – Wormholy World
FULL ALBUM PREMIERE - Mount Palatine – Wormholy World
FULL ALBUM PREMIERE Sons of Gulliver - Tetrahedric Hellscape Cannon
Oreyeon – The Grotesque Within
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…
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