Number 9

Number 9

An eleven point jump is needed to leave Clouds Taste Satanic’s Evil Eye album behind on Number 10 to reach the Number 9 position of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2019. An album that soared high when the votes came in and actually holding on to the Number Two spot for quite some time. As it did when it came out at the end of February through Ripple Music. The four from Sweden created their own little niche to curl up into and out of the cold, warming themselves by the cauldron fire bubbling with a mixture of traditional doom, classic metal, NWOBHM and the old rock atmosphere of when it first started sounding evil. The infectious heavy riffs seem to have been summoned straight out of the seventies and when they get their hooks in you, there is no letting go. There are so many dynamics and so much dark passion at work throughout the record, it really is dizzying. Like awakening from a proto doom dream and not really being sure if you’re awake and where you are… On Number 9!

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Witchers Creed – Awakened From The Crypt

Witchers Creed – Awakened From The Crypt

Ripple Music – 2019 (February 22^nd)

Doom, Proto-Metal, Heavy Rock

Rated: *****

Witchers Creed make no secret of their love for 70’s Doom and dude, these Swedes make the most of it. Heavy riffs but with a groove, carry the tunes along the highway entitled Proto-Metal. Thick sounding production by Tony Reed (Mos Generator) combined with a punk snottiness makes this Awakened From The Crypt album an absolute killer. With a slew of doom bands emerging every day, it is rare to hear such authentic sounds coming out of your speakers. Distortion is lovingly used (hey kids, you know how much I dig it) but all the instruments shine out. Stop reading this and pre-order now!

(Written by Tony Maim)

Thanks to Richard S Jones from Sheltered Life PR for the promo.

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The Doom Chart for March 2017

Doom Chart

“But there was only that silence, as in the five or ten minutes before a vicious thundersquall strikes, when the purple heads stack up in the sky overhead and the light turns a queer purple-yellow and the wind dies completely and you can smell a thick aroma like overcharged car batteries in the air…” ~ Stephen King, It

It’s a fine and weird bunch. That congregation of heavy music fiends that send in their lists every month. Most of those lists differ so much that it really takes all of the lists to arrive before a final tally can be done. And as we wait for those list, the air, pregnant with anticipation, seems to shimmer and flicker through all the different possibilities. For some of us dwell on the dark side, the black, the malignent and the for ever praised doom. Others take to the psychedelics, the heavy blues and the stoner trek through a steamy desert landscape. But all of those heavy and underground albums are equally amazing and appreciated by all of us. There are once again eighteen new releases featured on this March edition of the Doom Chart. And it could have been about a hundred and eighty…

Can you imagine? A list that would go on and on. We would not have time to eat, drink and barely to breathe… But with such an amount and an end result of only twenty-five amazing albums on the list we publish there are a few that only just fell off. Like Bask and their Ramble Beyond album, Libido Fuzz and their A Guide Into Synesthesia or the self-titled Witchers Creed record. But hey, next month there will be a new edition of the Doom Chart. And everyone of those might just end up somewhere on that edition...

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio and podcasters and album reviewers from the doom-stoner underground around the globe. Each month, our critics submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge metal and stoner-psychedelic 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 March 2017