The Doom Charts for October 2022

 

 

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“Yo, when is the November Charts? I can’t live like this!”

~ Sifir Rakam

“I can’t get into doomcharts here in the UK!? The most recent entry is for 3 Wheeler Band, that Halloween posting. Has something got stuck or …?”

~ Paul Hennelly

The amount of emails and messages we received from all of you in distress about what was keeping the new Doom Charts were heartwarming. Even though we reckoned we made it abundantly clear that the publishing date for the Doom Charts had moved from the 1st of every month to the 1st Friday of every month. This would enable more Contributors to do more work for the Doom Charts and might give more credit to albums released on the final days of the month… And there are so many albums released monthly, during the whole month and on those final days that it still often feels unbearable to not be able to pay attention to them all… Below are 38 all NEW heavy rock albums! Thirthy-eight, but any shift in votes might have resulted in a different version. Cause I don’t know if you’ve seen some of the lists the Contributors posted on their own sites? Many have only a handful or perhaps a few more than a handful of votes for the same albums. And yes, you can safely bet that those other records on their respectives lists are stunning as well… Sometimes it feels wrong to not do even more for those albums, but I guess the Doom Charts are purely here to state clearly that the ones listed here, those Forty albums, of the 268 that received votes this month, are the absolute cream of the crop. The cherries on the doom pie, the pick of the heavy litter, the albums filled with every stoner bell and psychedelic whistle you can wish for… And when they arrive with such a loud bang as this months Number One… You can bet your furry little ass that it’s something special! It’s the First Friday of the Month and it’s the October Doom Charts! 

The October Doom Charts just went live! 

The first time we publish on the First Friday of the month... Which we will do henceforth... The Doom Charts, featuring forty heavy rock albums all ready to rock your world! Personal votes that made the list went out to:

All Souls, Black Space Riders, Elder, Liquid Earth, King Buffalo, Sahg, Black Math Horseman, Red Mess, Lágoon, Faith In Jane, Thammuz, Near Dusk, Psychonaut, Half Gramme Of Soma, Ruby The Hatchet and The Otolith...

And we shall spin all Forty of them in a row again! Starting with awesome Vampiric Visions Vol. I: Living Blood album by Lady Luna And The Devil! Go find your new favorite one or share the ones you feel should have been on the Charts!?!

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 October 2022 

Faith In Jane – Axe to Oak

 

 

Faith In Jane – Axe to Oak
Grimoire Records - 2022
Rock, Hard, Stoner, Doom, Southern, Blues
Rated: *****

Second track She Moved Through The Fair, immediately throws you a curveball and has you listening to an old Keltic tale, a traditional Irish folk song, performed by many greats before the Thurmont, Maryland three decide to record their version. Daring perhaps, to put this track so early on the album, cause the swing and groove of the opener, that had you envisioning trekking along, moving forward through the forest peaks of Catoctin Mountain Park, is substituted by those views of an old carnival and foggy Irish moors. I always dug whatever Faith In Jane decided to put out into the world, but only ever mentioned their 2020 Mother To Earth release. Opening their new album Axe To Oak with an amazing, very strong Whisky Mountain Breakdown, you immediately get the idea where the band is coming from and where they will be heading, and perhaps they wanted to quell your expectations with that second track. Either way, ballsy. Love the vocals by Dan Mize, although he might make more careful or sparse use of his tonal endings of certain words, it’s cool, it’s works, but use it too often and it will turn it into a pastiche or gimmick. Enter Her Light, the third track, with its incredibly soulful guitarwork, that dragging drum almost reluctantly pushing you forward together with that mighty bass work showing you how  Faith In Jane can take flight on the magic wings of chemistry. How the three seem to perfectly understand each other is underlined once again with the fourth more bluesy rocker Heavy Drinker. That rough edge, that southern touch; easily convincing the listener of how gifted all three musicians are. Two and half minute long instrumental interlude How Many Ships Sail in the Forest? has you bobbing along a warm bath of reverb; enchanting and mysterious, the track seems to serve as a comfortable middle point to move to title track Axe To Oak. A more metallic take on what came before, more nineties alternative and grunge, but still highly soulful and so silky how all that raw and roughness is executed with fine brush strokes. Final track The Seeker continues in this vein, and cements their lauded craftmanship, their knack for restrained power. Axe To Oak is classy, soulful and we should roll out the red carpet for  Faith In Jane everywhere…

(Written by JK)

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Stoner HiVe’s Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week…

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s
Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week…

Umbilicus
Wölfhead
The Black Angels
Early Moods
Miscellen
White Hills
Paterikon
Psychlona
Faith In Jane
Sonic Flower

It’s been a week since the last update. My bad. Shit happened. Shit happens. You know the deal! But, we promise to hit you all with a couple of updates before the week is through! And hey, it’s not like we’re the only crazy heavy music fiend spreading his love! There are enough channels out there that promote the shit of out everything heavy! And we love all of them for doing that!

Stoner HiVe’s Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Month…

Stoner HiVe’s

Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Month…

Dendrites

Stargo

Dandy Brown

Pale Divine

Phantom Druid

Faith In Jane

Mothers of The Land

Slap Guru

These Wicked Rivers

Voltage

The Doom Chart for May 2020

Doom Chart

    “You see, there’s nothing to do anymore. Everything decent has been done.  All the great themes have been used up, turned into theme parks. So I don’t really find it exactly cheerful to be living in the middle of a totally exhausted decade where there’s nothing to look forward to and no one to look up to….

    ….I like the idea that a voice could just go somewhere uninvited like a dirty thought in a nice clean mind.”

    ~ Mark Hunter (Pump up the Volume, 1990)

As the mysterious Mark Hunter preached in the cult classic Pump up the Volume, released back in 1990, the feeling of despair is as relevant today as it ever was. The difference now being we have dedicates blogs and websites along with thousands of new and eager bands everywhere to challenge and pay homage to the great themes of yesteryear. We are amidst some revolutionary times in both music and humanity. We’ll stick to what we’re good at here being the hard, and heavy underground music. At the Doom Charts we like to think we’re doing our part to divert the chaos from the real world into the peaceful anarchy of our stereos. This pandemic can’t compete with the heavy underground for much longer. We’re at our breaking point and so are our speakers. Let’s put the doom and gloom that dominates the news outlets and world politics on mute and pump up the volume with the top 30 albums currently on rotation decided by the Doom Charts voting booth for the month of May.

I could not have said it better… And even though that’s not all that matters; there are more important things in the world. But this thing we’ve got right here, the heavy stuff, that will definitely keep us sane… Now let’s hope we all get through the pandemic safe and we come out of it on the other end better, on every level. We feel for every human being on this globe and we cannot fathom our luck to have been born where we have been born. WE get to enjoy this world. This society and all this freaking good heavy music. There are many out there that can’t and have not been born so lucky… But before I go rambling in that direction… Let’s get the word out that the Doom Charts for May are here! And we we’re so lucky, to write a short blurb about Horisont… And we were so lucky to see many of our choices end up on the Chart. Wolftooth and Black Rainbows ofcourse! But also Faith In Jane and Kayleth, man, those have been on heavy rotation as well! Geezer! How Groovy can you get?! Vitskär Süden, a different kind of heavy; and so addictive. And Wailin’ Storms on Number 26! Ye gods, what a storm it is! And guess what, of the 308 albums that made the final total list, I could not find one I dislike! How lucky are we! Here’s the May 2020 Doom Charts! And here’s me continuing to hope humanity will finally find a way…

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and album 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 Chart for May 2020

Faith In Jane - Mother To Earth

Faith In Jane - Mother To Earth

Self released - May 2020

Doom, Stoner, Psych, Southern

Rated: ****

Maryland heavy treasures Faith In Jane return with their seventh release in almost as many years, and deliver once again. True to their method, the newest album Mother To Earth sees the trio add creative layers to their trademark sound, topping off their psychedelic doom and stoner crunch with classic 70s licks and some southern flavor to boot. The guitar soars, the thick bass grooves clearly in the mix, and the drums switch deftly between mad rushes and delicate play. Needless to say, the deep vocals are as strong as ever, both coarse and stirring. Opener "The Circle" begins with an uptempo rush that quickly launches into a psyched out solo, starting the album off at full speed. The following throwback shuffle's tones are warm without losing heft or the rumbling low end, and is just a taste of things to come. Across the LP's ten tracks, Faith In Jane range from bluesy southern flair in "Patient and Simple" to the eerie stop-start doom of "Weight Of A Dream" and the title cut's stomping proto riffs. Standout epic "The Well" brings the group's wide range of strengths fully to bear in its eight minute plus runtime. Quick, ringing licks from the school of Soundgarden cut into the slow roll, and soon an upbeat southern boogie coated in fuzz takes over. The track swells and accelerates into a crunching attack, then comes back to Earth to resume its doomed groove amid trippy solos and deft cymbals. Faith In Jane have outdone themselves yet again on Mother To Earth, an epic ride that's both fresh and unmistakably theirs. The added 70s and southern touches flow together seamlessly with the group's doom and roll, creating an album of entrancing, toe-tapping heavy brilliance.

(Written by Shasta Beast)

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