Fringe Sociology – Karma Carcass, Soul Queen

 

 Video and Single debut, Premiere

Fringe Sociology – Karma Carcass, Soul Queen

Are you always searching? You looking for something out there? Something off center? Weird? Crazy? Not easily explained? Look no further and head off on a little jaunt with Fringe Sociology! It’s their debut single Karma Carcass, Soul Queen and we are completely honored to Premiere this wicked little ditty for you all. The main cats behind all this scheming is Lars Carlberg from Grandier and Bokor and drummer Hampus Landin. And together they produce some bizarre yet utterly tantalizing ruckus. Metal, with sludge, doom, thrash and industrial. Something tribalistic at work and sounds that carry with it some ancient secret knowledge, Fringe Sociology has discovered something... And will howl it in  your ear...

“It's really just an excuse for hanging out and having a few beers. But we've recorded and mixed most of an album ranging from some kind of sludge to Pink Floyidish crap. We shot an awesome/terrible video of one song that we think actually kicks ass.”

“The band is me and Hampus Landin at the moment. We've been hanging out in our studio now and then, having a few beers and writing, rewriting, rerecording, remixing stuff since... early 2022? I do the guitars, bass and vocals and Hampus does drums and other assorted stuff. He's also very involved in artwork and production. We've been nagging people to do some guest stuff, like fancy guitar solos and shit, but nobody seems to want anything to do with us, hahaha! (Except for an old friend laying down some amazing keyboard stuff on one song)."

"I started Fringe Sociology as some kind of placeholder dump for trying out stuff, back in 2018. Music but also some writing, photography and other creative stupid hobbies. Part of the fun is learning how to produce shit from scratch all the way to the finished release, never done the whole lot ourselves before. We've got the luxury of being part of a small music association that runs a studio, making it possible. Lately we've been thinking about doing some Fringe Sociology live, yeah, but we're being sidetracked all the time. Like with this video that started out with Hampus having that ugly pig mask, and then we got an old friend to act out his secret loathing for everything and everybody. And I got to learn more about how to cut video and mess shit up with filters and bad light and stuff. Betrayer-Kreator-feeling, haha. We're "unsigned" as of now, whatever that means these days? We've got an album kinda finished, just two more songs to go. And half of an EP. There's always one or two more songs to go. Someway or other we'll get our shit together and release more stuff, probably the album, during 2024. It's done when it's done, as they say...”

Video sponsored by NorseNomad brewery, starring master brewer Håkan in a pig mask. No other people or animals were hurt or involved in this production.

Youtube

Facebook

The Doom Charts for November 2022

 

 

Doom Charts

“I see The Doom Charts…” “In your dreams? While you’re awake? How often do you see them?” “All the time. They’re everywhere…”

I see the Doom Charts… But luckily we see them only once a month. On the First Friday of every month, the new edition of the Doom Charts go up. It doesn’t feel like they’re everywhere and all the time, right? There is no Doom Charts overkill is there? Cause even though we do the Friday Freebie sessions and we do the Peroration Post, we try to limit the amount of Doom Charts posts. Cause we’re only here to try and guide you all to albums that comes straight out of the Heavy Underground and that we feel need to be heard by everyone… Sure, there are some big names among them, sometimes. Or big names to the Heavy Underground ears. But the Contributors all feel that the albums we vote for every month, should be heard by everyone. And there is so much. There really and truly is. This month, 221 different albums, all received votes. That’s another 181 albums that aren’t featured among the forty below. And soon, the year-end-lists will start appearing. All of them listing the top albums of 2022. And if you consider the fact that we all keep discovering new amazing albums from past months and past years as well… We can only conclude that we live in amazing times, musically speaking… If only we could get our act together on all the different fronts as well.. Than we all would truly be rocking! But hey, below, especially for you, the esteemed heads from the Heavy Underground, are the November 2022 Doom Charts, with 37 brand new entries to rock out to! Go rock! Go roll!

I see the brand new November Doom Charts...

And they're not scary at all! Hell no, they're awesome... Featuring 40 amazing albums straight out of the heavy underground... Personal votes that made it, went out to:

Elder, GAUPA, WARLUNG, Vitskär Süden, Witchfinder, Onségen Ensemble, Cowboys & Aliens, Desert Wave, High Noon Kahuna, Grandier, Thammuz, Astrosaur, The Otolith, Odonata, Dune Sea, Black Mirrors & The Grand Mal

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 November 2022  

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

 

 

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

Elder
Grandier
Samavayo
Planes Mistaken For Stars
Diggeth
Guara
Shamanic Ritual
Gaupa
Deseret
Edna

This should have gone up on Monday… Obviously. But, well, Helldorado happened and we’re swamped with other work. So, updates might be few and far between for a week… Should magic happen and we get all the work done quickly, we will be getting down to some Doom Charts and Stoner HiVe business tomorrow… Or perhaps surely… Cause we all know what day it is tomorrow… Grin!

World Wide Full Album Premiere – Grandier - The Scorn And Grace Of Crows

 

    

World Wide Full Album Premiere

Grandier - The Scorn And Grace Of Crows

We’re honored to bring you the World Wide Full Album Premiere of Grandier’s new album The Scorn And Grace Of Crows. A full review will follow shortly; but here are some quick words of praise to take with you as you dive headfirst into this doom metal tour de force. Written, performed, recorded, mixed and produced by the duo of Patrik Lidfors and Lars Carlberg, all aspects of this album are commanding and opting for huge gestures and gigantic vistas. Slow, lumbering doom, pounding their message into your heart with precision, and with an almost velvet touch. Indeed, this doom, even though it’s large in atmospheric scale is also gentle and often even tender. Not in its message or intend, but with that gradual and measured doom caress… Mastered by Monolord’s Esben Willems at Studio Berserk, and out on Majestic Mountain Records, the duo will be aided from now on by Hampus Landin formerly from Swedish folkmetal band Taiga on drums, but the album was finished before he joined and the result The Scorn And Grace Of Crows is an album as strong as granite and as graceful as a flower…  And how about that lovely album artwork by Thomas Moe Ellefsrud (Hypnotist Design) ?!

Now go, and get lost… In The Scorn And Grace Of Crows… 

Homepage

Bandcamp

Facebook

Instagram

Majestic Mountain Records

Big Cartel