Demon Head – Viscera

 

 

Demon Head – Viscera
Metal Blade Records – 2021
Rock, Doom, Occult, Proto, Gothic, Noir
Rated: ****

Demon Head has been making the Doom Charts with many of their releases and we’ve loved them all. So we quickly jumped at the honor to write the little blurb for their newest release Viscera. Those first Demon Head releases were much more lo-fi, occult and proto sounding. But don’t worry, the new album Viscera still retains some of that old Demon Head sound. But slower, much more intense and with a much grander arc and grandiose gestures. The atmospheric qualities have risen to cathedral proportions and the result is an unhurried, gothic, rock noir album with an everlasting mystical ambiance. There are some that might be taken aback with the new sound the Demon Head quintet seems to implore; but given time this new direction will surely captivate even the most reluctant diabolical soul. This is a showcase of atmospheric rock and moody doom; one that will slowly seep into your entrails and infect your blood and guts…

(Written by JK)

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Number 21 on the February Doom Charts

Stoner HiVe’s Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week...

Black Hatch
Lords Of The Opium Church
Demon Head
Grande Fox
Melvins
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Alice Cooper
Holy Monitor
Jumping Jack
Soothsayer Orchestra

The Doom Chart for February 2021

 

 

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For most of us this time last year we were getting our first taste of the COVID blues. Fast forward to 2021, and it appears there is some light at the end of the tunnel. In many areas live music is making its way back on track, cases seem to be trailing off and we’re beginning to ease into a sense of normalcy. That said, the music continues to blow our minds and has remained a staple while everything else around us seemed more like pandamonium. 

February features a tight race at the top with many albums clearly influencing the listeners. Several records from January hang on for another round this month seeing 21 new entries dominating the charts as per usual, with a total of 279 unique albums voted upon.

No quote this month. Nobody knows why. But we don’t need quotes, we need music! And there she goes! The wait is over... The all new February edition of the Doom Charts went live on March 1! Featuring no less than 21 new enties and a new Number One! Will be running through all of those amazing albums once again today. There are even a few I haven't had the chance to listen to yet! Incredible! Zålomon Grass for instance! Can't wait to hear that one!  Personal votes went out to From The Ages, Kabbalah, Mos Generator, VOKONIS, Demon Head, Electric Mother, Komatsu, Rostro Del Sol, Holy Monitor, Indica Blues, Void Commander & Spelljammer… 

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 February 2021

The Doom Chart For June 2017

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“Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.”

    – Walter M. Miller, Jr. (A Canticle for Leibowitz, 1959)

Welcome to the soundtrack to the apocalypse.  This is Doom Charts, a collaboration of bloggers and broadcasters who have their ears to the ground listening for the latest and the best in heavy music from the cursed earth.   While it is indeed July as I pen these words, this is a good time to remind you that The Doom Chart always looks back to the previous month of listening activity, giving you a window into the vibrant world of doom metal and stoner rock, with every imaginable variation.

Overall, we had a robust array of submissions from our panel of critics for the June chart — over 200 unique albums chosen among the lot of us.  Following is the consensus list of the critics’ picks, over half of which are making their Doom Charts debut.  At the same time, we say goodbye to long-time chart dominators Goya and The Obsessed.  Will Elder, Geezer, and Telekinetic Yeti hold their positions as tenaciously in the months ahead?   We shall see.

It is worth noting that for this go-round, we have our first “tie” since the Doom Charts inception, with Pyreship and Medusa1975 vying for the 25th spot to begin the countdown.  Also, we welcome the return of Demon Head after taking a month off from the charts.  Now, grab a good spot to watch the world burn, as we bring you the June edition of Doom Charts!

The Doom Chart For June 2017

This month tallied by Bucky and edited by Billy...

Doom Chart for August 2015

 

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“You are about to experience one of the strangest meetings ever convened — a joining of […] the most unusual people on Earth! Sit quietly in the shadows of this clandestine conference and observe it well! For from it shall soon be born … The DOOM PATROL” – Arnold Drake

It’s that time of the month again. Or better yet, last Saturday was that time of the month again! The new Doom Chart went up! And we can’t stress the fact enough that they are compiled our of some forty amazing bloggers, journalists and music fiends from around the world who send their top albums of past month to one of them to compile the ultimate Doom Chart. It’s a highly democratic adventure that unfortunately will leave some of those great albums and bands hanging just below the Top 25 that is published… And guess what… Mr. Bucky Brown, the guy who compiled last month’s issue, also did a Mid-year breakdown. But before or after you check that one out; be sure to feast your eyes and ears on the Doom Chart of this hot and steamy August!! Who will be the Numero Uno this month? And what great new bands entered the list and who do you miss? Go check it out! Go check it out…

Go check it out and head on over to the Doom Charts to read up on all those amazing albums!

Spoiler alert for...

Number 12!

The band have outgrown any obvious  influences and are forging ahead down their own, dark path. Even with some big releases in 2015 so far, this album will surely take some beating for pure doom and riffage this year. So be sure to check out Goya’s new album Obelisk, and this time around not just because Tony says so, but the Doom Chart as well!

Doom Chart for August 2015

Demon Head – Demon Head / Winterland

Demon Head – Demon Head / Winterland

Levitation Records – 2014

Rock, Doom, Proto, Seventies, Psych, Blues

Rated: ****

A seven inch that sounds like Orange Sunshine or Santa Cruz has taken on a new identity once again. But this is not the case. Demon Head hails from Copenhagen, Denmark and sounds as wild, colorful, lucid and acidic as anything Guy Tavares might serve us. The five-piece has a highly occult sounding edge that is as proto as they come and on the two tracks that make up this seven inch; they display a definite feel for ancient lust and dubious mystical atmospheres. Think of Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats, Witchcraft, Pentagram and a steady classic rock band and you get the idea. Based on the blues of yore and with enough Day-Glo guitar colors to psych out even the maddest goat staring biker the two fuzzy, analog and lo-fi tracks are simply mind warping. Fine riffs indeed and with a vocalist that haunts and enchants with its soulful wildness and romantic drama, the music seems to whisper dark secrets in your ear and there is no escaping the fact that these cats are in it for the pure love of it... Demon Head, it gets in your head, heart and blood…

(Written by JK)

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