The Doom Charts For December 2021

 

 

Doom Charts

 "It’s a new dawn… It’s a new day… It’s a new life, for me… And I’m feeling good…"
        ~ Cy Grant / Nina Simone

This is not a year-end post. This is not a glance back at what the year brought. This is the regular December 2021 edition of the Doom Charts. Posted; as usual, on the first of the month. In the near future a lot of our contributors will be sending their Personal Top XX lists and they will all go up on the site. Followed by a Top 100 of all the albums that got voted on. And then we close the book on 2021. We won’t stop listening to those albums though, cause they will forever be with us. There have been so many great releases once again; that we cannot do much more but keep promoting all that heavy stuff we love, tip our hats, applaud and give them all the universal nod. But for now; here’s December. 254 albums got voted for this month and that resulted in 22 spanking new albums that got blurbed! Let it blurb, let it blurb… Let it doom, let it doom!

On January 1, 2022, the December Doom Charts of that month went live. That’s only 8 days ago. But since then we’ve been posting all the personal lists of favorite albums, and now it feels like a lifetime. We wanted to do a straight run of Top 20 Countdown and then all the Personal Favorites, hence we never promoted the December Doom Charts of 2021. So, we do that now! Did you visit the site? Did you get wild with all them bands? We hope you did! And hey, the good Doktor420 wrote a blurb again. That Speck one. Nice huh!? Anyway, personal votes went out to: Kanaan, Nekromant, Low Orbit, Spidergawd, Stargo & King Buffalo… And next month, we surely will vote for Speck! What an album! Check it out! Check’m all out!

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 December 2021

Number 13

 

 

Number 13

After rocking out with Cursed! the Lucid Sins album that made it on Number 14, we jump almost forty points today to reach Number 13. Indeed, so far, all the albums were very close together with only a handful, ten or perhaps almost twenty points in between. Even bigger jumps are coming, but this is the first a bit bigger jump; for album that is close together with what comes tomorrow. But we are here now, and not gone yet. So let’s vaguely talk about that massive boom and that majestic groove that happens when you explode upon a surface of a planet somewhere. It’s their third album and a mighty rumbling effort. Straight from the barren wastelands of Canada comes a trio that will bore down deep into your soul with their intense, intergalactic and incredibly heavy riffs! Doom, stoner and sludge all so extremely low, groovy and gritty that it cannot come from anything but a huge cave or crater on a forlorn, dark, dangerous and twisted sphere somewhere orbiting through space… Indeed… On Number 13 we find:

Low Orbit – Crater Creator

 

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