The Doom Charts For July 2023

 

 

Doom Charts

“This? This can’t be the Doom Charts. I’m heavier than this…”

~ Misheard quote from Stephen

We hear all sorts of stuff from all sorts of angles and sources, but what we should really lend our ear to is all those stories of hope, love and wonder. And of course, those fine and mighty Heavy Underground albums. Sorry, been feeling a bit emotional and philosophical of late, Sunil Singh, posted a great story at the exact right moment for me. Leading me down a rabbit hole of books about ‘knowing’, ‘humanism’ and ‘synchronicity’. Conclusion: we know very little, but can feel all that more. And letting that feeling ride the almighty wave of the Great Magnet, can transfer the right kind of energy to you and all around you… And that, can lead to ‘connectedness, wholeness, and timelessness’… The way a song can circle back towards that main riff is amazing, the way a song can circle back to the one that started the story is truly miraculous. And that’s what music is, a fucking miracle… And the sheer amount of great music we can listen to makes it all even more wonderous and huge. It’s magical… And to serve you all again, with 39 new albums on this month’s edition, out of a voted list of 241 heavy albums, is a blessing… Sorry, I’m feeling a different kind of heavy, the heavier side of emotions… And I know, I should be heavier than this… So, let’s press play and let that energy be transformed into the other kind of heavy! 

The first Friday of the new month means a new edition of the Doom Charts! July brought the heavy and the weird and since we all like heavy and weird, July has been good! 241 albums got voted for by the Contributors... Go, check out the 39 brand new albums! 

Personal votes of the ones that made it went out to: Agusa, Dismyth, Jukebox Monkey, The Fire Mystical, Dead Gallery, TIEFENRAUSCH, Yawning Balch, REZN & Vinnum Sabbathi, Malterra, Ursular, Cavern Deep, Auralayer & Mutoid Man !

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 July 2023

 

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

 

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

Lacing
Sinéad O’ Connor
PJ Harvey
Royal Thunder
Mojo Blizzard
Ajeeb
Sergeant Thunderhoof
Alain Johannes
Cavern Deep
Hail The Void

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

 

 

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

Spoon Benders
Cavern Deep
Dead Canyon
Mudlarker
Black Air
King Howl
The Gray Goo
I, Captain
Moonshine Mojo
Dread Spire

Cavern Deep – Breach

 

 

Cavern Deep – Breach
Bonebag Records – 2023
Metal, Doom, Stoner, Psych
Rated: ****

They have the art of concept art down to an art and tattooed across their heart! Their debut album took you down with them towards the heart of darkness in a deep and perilous mountain, to search out the remnants of a lost civilization. They provided an album long psychedelic video for it a little while after, yes sir, a video 42 minutes long, covering the entire album, journey, and adventure. And now, Cavern Deep is back with the follow-up to that dangerous spelunker adventure. And not just a follow-up, a continuation, the sequel, part two, and it’s called Breach! So, once more… The cavernous doom provided by the three Swedes comes in six tracks and a seventh bonus track. The Attuning single featuring Thomas V Jäger from Monolord was released in December 2022 and actually serves as a bridge between the first album and the new one, acts as the bonus track and serves as a hairpin to start the journey all over again. Which you will undoubtedly do, for the damp and dripping doom, not only paints you a story, and provides the hollowed atmosphere, it also sets the mood and sends the right kind of shivers up your spine. The theatrics involved serve to lift the music up beyond all that’s doom and brings it into the light of something almost symphonic or operatic. Seeing something like this performed in places like Minack Theatre, in Penzance, England would be the dream. A dream with little hope of coming to fruition, I fear. So, for now, you will have to be contend with dreaming the story, which will remain mournful and without much hope as well. And even though through the ending track of The Pulse, with guitar work and keys that seem to let in some light, you will feel some peace come over you. There seems to be nothing left. Music that seems to perfectly translate dissolution. And Breach does that over and over again. The other track featuring Susie McMullan from Brume, Primordial Basin for instance, starts with a definite view over the underground basin, before the terror breaks loose, and rage commences. Both aspects of the story, effortlessly interpreted. Brilliant story, strong compositions, beautiful production, stunning vocals and instrumentation, the band delivered an amazing debut, but grows immeasurably on their second album. Hats off!

(Written by JK)

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Cavern Deep – Cavern Deep

 

 

Cavern Deep – Cavern Deep

Holy crap! The three guys from Cavern Deep made a full album video. Indeed, a video to accompany 42 minutes of excellent heavy rock that is their self-titled album. All eight tracks, one movie. Excellent work crazies!

The album syposis is as follows:

"The start of the expedition. One archaeologist and 49 men stand at the gates of a previously unknown civilization, for a moment staring down into the bowels of the mountain before they begin their decent. The journey downwards turn out to be more dangerous than expected, they climb down through whirling stairs lit only by organic fluorescent lights.. Further down the path turns more and more crumbled, eventually they must use ropes to traverse the broken bridges and tunnels over the deep chasms below. Filled by the promise of treasure they continue downwards. Many men go missing as they’re tasked to explore diverting tunnels, they never return and their screams are followed by silence. the only thing found is their safety ropes, driven by greed the archaeologist continues the expedition."

The album is out on Interstellar Smoke Records and the video is streaming on the 666MrDoom channel!

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O’ and you might wanna pop over to the Doom Charts page; cause they will be spreading some bandcamp codes provided by the band tonight!