The Doom Chart for October 2020

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    “When I was younger I knew I could do anything – I could be the president if I wanted to, but that was a stupid idea – I’d rather be a rock star...” ~ Kurt Cobain

 

Kurt Cobain for president? Can we write him in? I’m sure somebody somewhere is thinking the same thing. Maybe being a rock star wasn’t a good idea and had he taken a different path we could be voting him into office right now? Fun to imagine, but we know the reality…

October is one of my favorite months mostly due to the nostalgia surrounding the changing of the colors, shorter days, and the crisp, cool mornings. Lately it’s seemed like no month will top the last in the music realm, yet here we are banging our heads in disbelief on the quality of tunes still coming at us. We’re continually climaxing month to month in terms of relentless exposure to music in the heavy underground.

In typical fashion, nearly 300 different albums voted to chart this month and for the first time in the history of the charts, to my knowledge, besides the very first chart, the entire top 25 albums are NEW meaning no repeats from last month. This is just insane, and that’s not even counting the host of bad ass albums just released on October 30th as our voting closed up for the month.

The all new October Doom Charts are here! Yes, ALL NEW! As Bucky already mentioned; every album on this list wasn’t on it a month prior. Almost 300 albums got voted for and the Top 25 are all brand new! Incredible! Sporting all that good and heavy stuff we all love so dearly! Personal votes went out to Fumarole, Pallbearer, Temple of the Fuzz Witch, Occult Hand Order, Ruff Majik, Horizon, Molassess, Big Scenic Nowhere, Fuzz, NARLA, The Re-Stoned & Sautrus ... Yikes! Quite a lot to make the final list! And there is even more of that good stuff out there! Cause just below the 30 posted are albums like Last Ride by Vessel of Light and Run To The Sky by Falcon Haptics waiting to jump on the list… Perhaps next month they will sire higher? Or perhaps another 25 all new albums will appear? Who knows… But it is all good and all heavy! And we love them all!

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 October 2020

Fuzz – II

Fuzz – II

In The Red/Konkurrent – 2015

Rock, Psych, Garage

Rated: ****

On that first album we travelled back in time to 1969 or perhaps 1968 when the fuzz and heavy psychedelic waves sounded exactly this amazing. The perfect age and the perfect time of the year when Summertime heralded that massive sound from the boys from Blue Cheer. On their second album ‘II’ the San Francisco garagedelic threesome founded by Ty Segall continue their track through that heavy fatherland. Combining their bluesy, Sabbath-like guitar riffs with which they can level any crowd and those small touches of harmony that will have all you smile in disgust. Yes, indeed, you like it! You love it! Wild guitars and Ty drumming right alongside like a controlled maniac. This is high-energy hard edged garage rock and heavy psych that has a stoner edge thanks to wild antics of all players involved. Fuzz, a righteous name to live up to!  You’d better keep doing your damn best Mr. Segall!

(Written by JK)

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Fuzz – Fuzz

Fuzz – Fuzz

Konkurrent / In The Red / Trouble in Mind – 2013

Rock, Hard, Psych, Stoner

Rated: *****

We travel back in time towards the age of 1969. Or perhaps 1968 when the fuzz and heavy psychedelic waves sounded this great. That perfect age and the perfect time of the year, when Summertime heralded that massive sound from the boys from Blue Cheer. But we’re talking about Fuzz here. The San Francisco garagedelic threesome that Ty Segall founded early this very year. This time around the man puts his arse on the drum stool and handed over the guitar to Charlie Moothart, who ain’t no fool. Who has an amazing color range in his fingers and is able to whirl your mind with intense solos that make you dream of that kandy-kolored-dancing-girl. This is high-energy hard garage rock and heavy psych that has a stoner edge thanks to the impressive basswork by Roland Casio and his heavy bop and bump. And when we hear this kind of love for the heavy stuff from monsieur Segall we hope to hear more of this and less of something like the Sleeper album; so we can dance around like crazy and do that insane foot stomp. (By the way, Sleeper was also damn good.) But Fuzz holds you captive, hostage and demands full attention like some demented Wizz. There’s no escaping this…

(Written by JK)

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