The Doom Chart for March 2020

Doom Charts

"Don’t worry ’bout a thing, cause every little thing’s gonna be alright." ~Bob Marley

"And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be." ~The Beatles

Doom as defined; ruin, death, fate of destiny, unavoidable ill fortune. To those of us here who know Doom intimately as a music scene and community, know its in fact a blessing, a hope, birth, and/or a wonder. One thing we can all agree on; music can calm the nerve and ease the pain with universal healing powers. Lets take this time to revel in Doom. The good kind of Doom, a collective of heavy music and kinship representing all things heavy each and every month. We’re all in this together. 

March has brought us a surge of fantastic album discoveries, with over 300 unique album votes and 21 new entries in the top 25. There are no excuses, we must listen to more music to stay sane during these times of quarantine. If you’re reading this, you’re likely as timid as we are on what the future may bring but you’re also a part of the best of the best in the heavy underground scene; Welcome to the newest edition of the Doom Charts! We’re here to help.

Yes, exactly what Bucky said… We’re here to help! And they're out there... Once again... The March Doom Charts! (Has a nice ring to it...) Get yourself some good tunes to get you through these perilous days! I think six of my choices made the list... But a few others only just missed out... Gomer Pyle, Elder, Sky Valley Mistress and Siena Root for instance are just below that published list... And then there are 300 more below those! What the hell!?! The sheer amount of great music is incredible! The past two months have been amazing music wise! So there’s always a silver lining to those dark doomy clouds… 

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and album 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 Chart for March 2020

Gomer Pyle – Before I Die I…

Gomer Pyle – Before I Die I…

Suburban – 2020

Rock, Stoner, Grunge, Space, Psych

Rated: *****

The February Doom Charts are once again chuck full of amazing albums. But the following was one of my top choices, it’s heavy and it moves you to the core, and we were honored to write the small blub about their new album. The Dutch outfit Gomer Pyle has been around for more than 20 years and has always been known for perfecting the mixture of stoner and grunge. But their second album Idiots Savant from 2009 already added more to that concoction. Psych, Space, you name it, they did it. Musically diverse the tracks became genres upon their own. Slow forward to the summer of 2017. On a festival in Germany, long time friend of the band, label owner, member of Astrosoniq and their booker Bidi, passes away. The news hits like lightning on a bright and clear summer day. This album pays homage to their friend, (hence the name: Before I Die I...) but also to vocalist Mark Brouwer’s father and all the others they lost. It also pays homage to friendship, to love and so much more. In short: it pays homage to this thing called Life. And they do that on nine amazing tracks that all feel like a different kind of canvas; all filled with their brilliant splatters of heavy rock. It’s colorful and all the somber moments are offsets by shimmering and dazzling moments of beauty.

(Written by JK)

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