The January 2024 Doom Charts – 40 to 26
This is what we normally do on our little Facebook page during the weekend after the new regular edition of the Doom Charts goes online. We count down from 40 to 26, and try to type in a few words about that album or ep that makes sense to us. It’s not a review; but usually a miniscule blurb, a little sentence to entice, to hype. A Stoner Hype… Well, we collected them here to post for you in one nice little post on the blog… And in this way, we will try to spread the good word about them on Instagram as well..
HEAVE BLOOD & DIE – BURNOUT CODES
"How can anyone not immediately fall in love with that opening track Dog Days! Just go play Heave Blood & Die's
new Burnout Codes album... Forceful post punk, alternative rock, a bit
of kraut energy and psychedelic touches make this eight-track album the
kind of album to kickstart the new year and send it into overdrive!
Amazing, start to finish!"
HUNDEN – A CALMING PRESS
"A
Calming Press gives you this vibrant, gritty stoner metal sound, that
touches base with grunge and punk and even noise and makes this Hunden
debut a definite bite and bark!"
CHEDDAR – PSYCHE
"Cheddar,
Psyche... You would assume they're Brits, but now, this is a Spanish quintet... Proggy, world wide melodic influences,
psychedelic, metal and these floating and flying female vocals...
Crossing boundaries and ripping out border posts... You can never go
wrong with a good piece of Cheddar!"
MOHAMA SAZ – MÁQUINA DE GUERRA
"I love it when I see albums like Máquina de Guerra by Mohama Saz appear on the Doom Charts...
The mediterranean, middle eastern psych and folk rock, sits on an
entirely different side of the heavy underground, but one that deserves
every bit of your attention as well... Kraut influences or trance rock,
turns their sound into something very organic almost tribalistic and
very dream inducing!"
SCAVENGER MT – FERAL
"Looking for some Feral metal? Look no further! Scavenger MT,
brings you all that brutish and burling metal, stoner, sludge, drifting
towards classic, heavy or prog sometimes, but always with this wild and
savage energy! Indeed Feral!"
RED SUN SERMON – QUEEN OF SWORDS
"Red Sun Sermon
is here to provide audience with the Queen Of Swords... Offerings of
southern touched blues, by way of doom, metal, hard rock and stoner.
Diesel powered and extremely soulful!"
DUST MICE – ROOM WITHIN A ROOM
"The high flying Dust Mice
turn their classic sounding rock into a space odyssey one moment and
into vintage progressiveness the next... Sometimes very jam oriented
flare outs and then turning inwards with more garage rocking, Room
Within A Room feels like a Russian doll..."
TEEN MORTGAGE – TEEN MORTGAGE
"Teen Mortgage...
Post-punk and punk adorned with some stoner influence, garage, noise
and even a tiny hint of surf here and there. It’s so good, you will want
to sell your house and buy every Teen Mortgage record available!"
GOZD – UNILATERALIS
"The Heavy Underground in Poland is on fire!! We managed to listen to that cool Unilateralis album by GOZD
yesterday as well! Doom, stoner, metal, but also something gritty,
gnarly and grimy. Like there's some punk blood underneath it all! Love
it!"
GUHTS – REGENERATION
"And GUHTS's
Regeneration also made these walls buzz with excitement... So many
layers, and so many genres all merging into one beautiful, yet often
melancholic or anguished piece of art..."
HEXEREI – NIHIL I CELANDUM
"Today we continue on with Hexerei
and their Nihil i Celandum release... Doomy grunge, grungy doom,
seventies inspired rocking, stoner trucking and a lot of proto energy!
These seven tracks will surely cast a spell on you!"
MOON WIZARD – SIRENS
"Moon Wizard,
straight out of Salt Lake City, deliver that occult and doom touched
heavy rock, classic styled and proto loving. You know that good stuff,
that stuff that we love from bands like Green Lung. But then with female
vocals, funkier drumming and more progressive guitar work… Over the moon
over here, listening to their third album Sirens!"
SPECTRAL SORCERY – DUNGEONS OF DOOM
"And yes! It's Monday now... But we still managed to get groovy in the Dungeons of Doom yesterday! The three track Spectral Sorcery debut EP spell out their lust for darkness, and decay, and dungeons and doom... Classic doom for all you haze loving freaks!"
BAGUAL – INHVMAR
"And Bagual
was there as well, providing that stoner metal, sludgy goodness. Sure,
Inhvmar starts out very doom, but soon turns metal, stonerized and with
sludge tones. Even a bit of black comes into play here and there, and
then there are those moments when it opens up into more post metal and
atmospherics... This is some really good stuff!"
TANGLED HORNS – LIGHTER
"Tangled Horns's
new Lighter album has been on heavy rotation over here and was high on
my list of votes... The Belgian quintet excels in delivering emotive
grunge, stonerized and melodic, but always gritty and with a tension
that constantly seems on the verge of exploding! Out on Polderrecords this is one of the books!"
Tune in next month when we do this Stoner Hype again for the number 40 to 26 of the February Doom Charts... But for now... Go listen to all of the 40 of January if you haven't already!
