The February 2024 Doom Charts – 40 to 26
Stoner Hype
This is what we do and did on our little Facebook page during the weekend 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…
SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM – OF THE LAST HUMAN BEING
"And yes, we immediately pressed play on of the Last Human Being by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum when we pushed publish on the February Doom Charts... But we had already been listening to it since Stevie Reek had been raving about it incessantly for quite some time... So here's his BC blurb: "The Greatest resurrection of All-Time! A dazzling, extraordinary melee of Invention which runs the gamut of genres through Avantgarde, RIO and beyond! Impeccable musicianship and cohesion throughout!"
SHADES OF DEEP WATER – COLD HEART
"Kippis! Shades of Deep Water bring that blackened, frostbitten doom from the Finland wastes. Death-doom, with funeral touches and melodic spikes... It will not warm the soul, but it will surely let your COLD HEART creak and groan with pleasure..."
"The off-kilter, alternative rocking, progressive loving, jazz toting, math inspired Them Moose Rush is back! And Zepaxia turns all the quirky into catchy! Perfect pop-prog for bopping down the streets and feeling funky!"
"The Cull, will cull the metalheads... For Verminthrone hits you with some filthy sludgecore, groove, doom and eighties metal inspired violence and thrash! Yes, yes, yes! Deemed worthy you shall be slamming around with best of metalheads for almost forty minutes in total!"
"You will go absolutely beserk and destroy furniture dancing around to this highly distorted kraut rockin madness! Psychedelic, doom touches, stonerrocking and space trucking noise from a totally different sonic dimension! Misleading will really make your head explode! I need to see these cats live!"
THE PALADIN – COCKROACH CRUSADE
"Another
band from Finland! The Paladin and their Cockroach Crusade give you
fifty minutes of stonerrocking, progressive, metal touching and
psychedelic wizardry. Perhaps the vocals can be a tad out of control
here and there, but on every other front this debut album will capture
your heart and sou! And them cockroaches in the cellar..."
"Do you need some sunshine in your life? Check out the experimental, psychedelic, folk and world music splattered platter by SONS OF ZÖKU. Ëndlëss is filled with hypnotic chanting and sun-dappled spirituallity... These almost forty minutes of music will surely turn that frown upside down!"
"We wrote about Weedow just yesterday... And we love their album! And had hoped to see it higher up on the Doom Charts... Read on what we wrote here: REVIEW."
"Straight from Tasmania comes the six-piece GlitchCraft. That’s right, they reside in Hobart, and that’s about as Down Under as you can get. On their self-titled debut album they turn all that progressive rock upside down, stick it with some metal touches, jazz, psych and punk to turn it all into this big funky fusion fest! That’s right, they themselves like to call it Party Prog and they got that moniker down to an art! Out on Psychedelic Salad Records since February 2nd, we have been going absolutely wild with GLITCHCRAFT!"
"PondDigger hails from Brodhead, Kentucky and brings a hailstorm of hazy, fuzzy doom and stoner. Their self-titled debut sports all that ten ton heavy good stuff! No stress, no seeds, no stems, no sticks! Some of that real sticky-icky-icky stoner doom!"
MOTOROWL – THIS HOUSE HAS NO CENTER
"Motorowl was high on my list for these February Doom Charts... Their prog rock, adds a bit of doom and metal and brings that sound into darker and ominous territories. Simply put, you need to hear this and then you will believe it. This House Has No Center and you can run around through these tracks forever and ever..."
STYGIAN CROWN – FUNERAL FOR A KING
"We continue the rundown today with Stygian Crown... Out on Cruz Del Sur Music their Funeral For A King album gives you almost forty-five minutes of absolute thundering doom metal with a slaying sludge ton, that clearly evokes images of everything classic metal! A million ton heavy machinal record that makes massive and gigantic sound like understatements..."
NEBULAS GARDEN – NEBULAS GARDEN
"Nebulas Garden is a slow builder, a slow grower, but in the end when you have been overrun, overgrown by all their psychedelic rock you cannot help but return to their sprawling universe over and over and over..."
Tune in next month when we do this Stoner Hype again for the number 40 to 26 of the March Doom Charts... But for now... Go listen to all of the 40 of February if you haven't already!