Winter is here! Or well, Autumn is in full swing. Damn it’s suddenly cold over here. Not necessarily in temperature, but it’s the kind that sticks to yer bones. Or maybe I’m just not quite ready for Summer to be over? Or the week for that matter… Damn that went fast! Again! But we did manage to write a thing or two about Helldorado Festival, Mojave Experience Festial, the amazing new Shit The Cow record, that scorching 1968 album and thundering Triptonus release. And after that the new September edition of the Doom Charts went live! You found your new favorite record yet? We hope to do something this week, but we are kind of booked up by rent paying work… So not sure if the time will be available… But we will definitely try!
Winter is coming! Days are getting shorter and therefore seem to rush by even faster. Cause it is Monday already and again! But hey, that also means Friday is only a few days away. Did you manage to catch the Doom Charts Freebie bonanza last Friday? Hope you managed to grab a code or two… Last week we had the honor of premiering the video for the Temptation’s Wings track AquaTusk and the full Stormforged EP was released a day later. Which you can read about here. We also jotted down some words about Appalooza, Birds of Nazca and Spin The Skull. Go check’m out! Check’m all out..
Ps. We are refraining from making a Spotify Playlist. Unless you reckon we should make one anyway?
Is it Monday already? Yikes! Well, we managed to do a review or two and were absolutely honored to premiere two smashing singles! Did you check out that stonerrock anthem by Black Charger? Or the wicked and wild new Malkasian track? If not, you can still do so and be ready for those full albums to drop! And we might just have another premiere coming later this week! We also mentioned the Afghan Haze scorcher and all that sexy swagger delivered by Supernaughty. We hope to do a bit more this week… And we are uncertain if we should continue with the Spotify playlist? We know, its not a very decent company and the people behind it are doing worse things with their investments on a daily basis. We just always used it solely to promote those albums we love and listened to. But hey, maybe we should switch to another possibility? Any suggestions?!
Afghan Haze – Sermons of Filth and Disgust Self-released – 2025 Metal, Doom, Sludge Rated: ****
“Can you hear me? Let me get one thing straight… This is just the beginning…" Aaaargh!!! Stepping into Sermons of Filth and Disgust is like opening a doorway into a crumbling world, one painted in ash, soaked in gasoline, and lit by the flickering flame of a dying joint. Afghan Haze don’t so much invite you in as they drag you, kicking and hallucinating, through their most volatile creation yet. From the opening seconds of Copperheads, the air thickens with distortion. It’s slow, deliberate, and crawling with menace. The riffs lurch like a predator out of the swamp, filthy and bloated, while the vocals spit out visions of everlasting doom, and all the evil and paranoia that comes with them. There's an unshakable "weedian" haze surrounding the track, a spiritual continuation of the band’s earlier work, now infected with something darker, like someone dropped a tab of nihilism into their bong water.
You’re Marked kicks down the door next, trading in the sludgy crawl for a more vicious pace. There’s a psychedelic shimmer here, brief flashes of cosmic wonder buried beneath layers of grime, but it doesn’t last. Soon, the band veers into thrash-tinged territory, slicing through the haze with razor-sharp precision. You can feel the sneer in every riff, the contempt dripping from each line. It’s like being on a bad trip in a collapsing city, where the buildings breathe and the shadows scream. Then comes The Butcher, and with it, a turning point. This is where the album begins to spiral inward and downwards. The riffs feel ceremonial, like funeral processions marching through swampland, and the vocals take on a detached, almost feral tone. Like rusted metal, Afghan Haze twists it all into something uniquely their own: part blackened doom, part cosmic dread, part back-alley sludge.
As the second half of the album unfolds, the world Afghan Haze have created becomes more unhinged. With every track that follows you seem to descent deeper into Dante’s hell. And yet, buried within all this chaos are moments of unexpected clarity. A riff that hits just right. A solo that screams louder than any words. A brief, crushing silence before another wall of fuzz obliterates the space. There’s a track-by-track rage that builds here, not the performative kind, but the kind that feels lived-in. Afghan Haze sound truly pissed off. Not at anything specific, but at everything. And rather than scream into the void, they’ve built a cathedral of filth and disgust to echo their fury. By the time the final notes ring out, you’re left dazed. The record doesn’t end; it releases you. You’re spit out on the other side, ears ringing, brain humming, soul just a little more corroded. Sermons of Filth and Disgust isn’t just another heavy album, it’s an experience, a bad dream you willingly re-enter. For anyone chasing that raw, nerve-ripping sound born from the underbelly of Doom, Sludge, and Stoner Metal, Afghan Haze are not just torchbearers. They’re arsonists…
It’s been awhile… Oops! Sorry for that Staind flashback. I just meant to say that it has been ages since we did a Quick Fire Friday segment. And with the onslaught of so much great and fun heavy music, it’s a good time to do a new one. And with the Doom Charts Peroration Post for September going online just now, you will have so much great music to listen to we should prolong the weekend! Cause we know, there’s so much our there! So much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. But here it is… Another Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!
November Fire – Through A Mournful Song
Released about a week ago, the debut album by New England three November Fire called Through A Mournful Song. Manic energy in abundance, savage, ruinous and delirium inducing. You will surely strive in vain to penetrate the entire mystery surrounding the sounds of this release. Sadness oozing through the compositions, turning the seemingly haphazardous into something that feels like a grand design. Like life itself?
Two of the heaviest, rolling it up for a spliff split and getting you high! It’s Afghan Haze and Purple Kong with their seven inch split Leaving Earth / Bound And Gagged. Released September 27th the two sides of this one release are no tranquil voyage towards infinity. Every riff will fill your being with visions of monuments in ruin and the fall of civilizations, but you will want to keep toking, cause in it, you will see our future.
Released… TODAY! (Or it should be according to the books...) The debut three song release by French quartet Sheraff called Concrete By The Ocean. Sure, they released a demo in 2023, but the improvement these Brest four show on their official release is stunning. Compressed and massive, the three stonerrock tracks are raw and powerful, gritty and colossal, thanks to the doom touches and the metal movements. Sheraff has got the goods!
Back in 2017 the four Men of Mayhem released their Doomed To Life album. Stoner rock, metal, speed rock, hard rock and more. More mayhem that is! And Church Of Crow Records took it upon themselves to re-release that wonderful seven track album. And it will arrive in one week time, on October 25th!
Boogie down and get groovy with the new CCQueen single Electric Kisses. A damn cool video to boot! We mentioned their damn cool Scavenger album back in 2022 and hope the new single is a precursor to a new album soon. Only two and half minutes long, it oozes sensuality and will surely make your body move!
Aeternal Chambers does have some of that Obiat vibe. You know, that band that released that awesome Indian Ocean album in 2022. And Aeternal Chambers features three of its members and turns their sound into a slightly heavier and totally instrumental version. Living in different parts of the UK and Australia, it’s safe to assume they send each other their parts and played of what was received. The output is stunning, highly atmospheric post metal and intense arcs combining and intertwining the light and the dark, the fleeting and the Aeternal…
Ultima Radio hails from Graz, Austria and has been releasing amazing stuff since 2015. Basement Session is their newest six track release and came out on October 4th. Crazy good stonerrock, alternative metal and all sorts of heaviness. With a new frontman at the helm, on the synth, guitar and vocals, the band has grown to immense proportions. Don’t touch that dial, you can have it on for the rest of the day, it’s Ultima Radio!
Wait. There is more. No wait, let’s start at the beginning. All I See is the new single, out since October 4, for the new Mount Hush album II which will be released November 9th. An amazing fuzz filled psychedelic blues track that makes you long for more Mount Hush . You will want to run to the record store and beg the wise and elder owner to order every copy available… . .. . .
Wait… You can! In the form of an amazing RPG game called Into The Hush. Playable of phone or computer it’s a stunning top down look into the past of computer games and Mount Hush . For by playing the game you can earn demos to all of the new songs and if you complete the game a grand prize awaits! “Browse through a record store in the woods, help the people there and complete quests to earn demos of every new song on the album! Save your progress and get a special reward for finishing the game. Listen to new and old Mount Hush songs in this homage to 1990s videogames.” Wow!
