The June 2024 Doom Charts – 40 to 26
Stoner Hype
It took a bit longer than usual, but here we are again, collecting what we did on our little Facebook page right 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… Because we like to keep things nice and tidy and it helps us
spread the good word about them on Instagram as well…
OH HIROSHIMA – ALL THINGS SHINING
"All Things Shining by Oh Hiroshima,
delivers glorious post rock, shoegazing moments and progressiveness.
And turns your adventure through their landscape into a labyrinthian
experience. And every time you wander pack into their wonderous terrain,
things will be different...."
THE GHOST NEXT DOOR – CLASSIC SONGS OF DEATH AND DISMEMBERMENT
"Out on Ripple Music, the new The Ghost Next Door
gives you Tool-like progressiveness, with overtones of nineties grunge
and eighties metal. There is more grit and harshness though and this is
exactly what sets Classic Songs Of Death and Dismemberment apart from
all other progressive metal albums. Tasty!"
YOUNG ACID – MURDER AT MAPLE MOUNTAIN
"Out on Majestic Mountain Records, the glorious debut album Murder At Maple Mountain, by Young Acid!
A veritable supergroup that is not more than the sum of its parts! It's
an entirely different machine and its one of those albums that will
slowly but surely seep into the very core of your being..."
BLACK ON HIGH – ECHOES THROUGH TIME
"Black On High's
Echoes Through Time delivers doom tuned, down low and grunge toned
stoner rock. Seven tracks that resound that early nineties vibe, while
giving it a very own edge. It's delicious!"
WYTCH PYCKNYCK – WYTCH PYCKNYCK
"Wytch Pycknyck!!!
Noisy, metal, garage and punk inspired ruckus, it's that skate vibe and
that thrashy stoner touch that will surely make you fall in love with
this four-piece from the UK... I know I am... And it's a freakin debut
album! And and and... That last track... Frostbite... Now there's a
change and a change within, starting with UK (the) street(s) rap, moving
towards psych and space and punk, metal and then doom tones to set you
off on whatever rampage you feel like... Wowzah!"
WHITE CANYON & THE 5TH DIMENSION – THE GOLDEN KEY TO THE KINGDOM OF NO RETURN
"Returning
from our holiday in Spain we asked what album we should listen first.
From multiple direction we were advised to immediately check out the new
White Canyon & The 5th Dimension
album The Golden Key To The Kingdom Of No Return . Which meant, we
immediately did! The psych is wild here! Tribalistic, spacious and often
trance inducing! "
DESERT TWELVE – THE LAST DARK WOOD
"The new The Last Dark Wood album by Desert Twelve
definitely has its moments and a lot of inspiration coursing through
its veins. It unfortunately also to seems to waver a bit in production
and in delivery, but it's nonetheless a worthy successor to their debut
from 2022! "
SUMAC – THE HEALER
"SUMAC's
The Healer feels like an experimental simulacrum of sounds and shifts,
which will leave some listeners bewildered and others in blissful
ecstacy. An one hour and fiftee minute long trip... "
EL JEFAZO – COLISIÓN BRUTAL
"El Jefazo!
Brutal and so delicious! stoner metal, doom, sludge and a hefty dose of
pure head on colissions! Colisión Brutal, is the perfect name for
this amazing release! "
AMON ACID – SUBMERGING
"We've been digging Amon Acid since we ever came across them... But the new Submerging is something else! And I guess Desert Psychlist's Frazer Jones
hit the spot with this words: "Excellent grooves of spacious and heavy
doom tinted with elements of Bauhaus like goth." Loving it! "
PIJN – FROM LOW BEAMS OF HOPE
"I assumed Pijn
hailed from the Netherlands, but they're from Manchester, UK and their
post-metal on FROM LOW BEAMS OF HOPE is riddled with audio samples and a
truly breathing entity that envelops and embraces as you descend with
them into an emotional torrent... "
BLACK SPELL – INTO DARKNESS
"𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕾𝖕𝖊𝖑𝖑 Band
's Into Darkness indeed sees the darkness doubling, and with it you
descent into the murky depths of the scuzzy, lo-fi, acid doom. Proto by
default, this preaches that ancient lust for blood... "
YAJAIRA – EPOPEYA
"Yajaira rock
is one of those bands that will make you want to move to Chile! EPOPEYA
is a huge album, delivering epic scaled stoner metal and monumental
doom! Once played, it will be played some more... And more... "
NEBULA / BLACK RAINBOWS – IN SEARCH OF THE COSMIC TALE: CROSSING THE GALACTIC PORTAL
"It's not been easy listening to the Nebula / BLACK RAINBOWS
split In Search Of The Cosmic Tale: Crossing The Galactic Portal
knowing what happened to the lovely bassist Ranch Sironi. The three
songs being studio debut with the band its hard to listen to. Wild
songs, wild energy and a Nebula that seemed destined to surf the
galactic waves once again... This HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS split has 6 mythical songs that will surely become even more legendary over time... "
ATOMIC VULTURE – PILGRIMS OF THE SUN
"Atomic Vulture
has been an absolute favorite band over here, their instrumental albums
always an amazing go to for stonerized psych and space rock. The new
Pilgrims Of The Sun is no different, a bit darker, a bit more energy and
a wild current running through the tracks... 41 minutes of pure
instrumental bliss!"
Tune in next month when we do this Stoner Hype again for the number 40 to 26 of the July Doom Charts... Live during the weekend on our little Facebook Page or afterwards when we collect them here... But for now... Go listen to all of the 40 of June if you haven't already!