Finally, the time is here for my monthly list, this time going to 11. Check out the full list on the Doom Charts. But these are my favorites for the month, and I’m sure I’ll be writing about something I missed during this hectic month. Thanks for reading! HIBERNAUT – INGRESS I guess if a […]
Read More My Top 11 Stoner/Doom Releases, May 2023I always flashback to opening bands from back in the day, usually some variance of White suburban punk band with a chip on their shoulder and a bad cocaine habit coupled with an inhuman tolerance to alcohol while wearing a ripped Blag Flag or Bad Brains t-shirt. This was certainly not that.
Read More Throwing Down Live at the Local 506: Imperfect Son, EvilLeaf and Lie HeavyCheck out my reaction video (live, with the the band). Hit ’em up on Bandcamp, maybe even throw them a buck or two for the single. Luurch is the real thing, and if the upcoming full release is anything like this, they might have a monster on their hands.
And if I had a small, independent label, I’d take a few notes…
Read More The Single Life: Luurch unleashes The Pull (AKA Giraffe Nuts)Evil Leaf have been great friends and supporters of this blog and YouTube Channel, and I don’t know what we’d do without them! They have a GOOD chance for a spot in a lineup that would give them great exposure and help take them to the next level. They’ve been working their asses off, and […]
Read More Vote for Evil Leaf!!!That might be the only flaw to Speak Your Mind. It delivers the goods with a velvet-wrapped jewelry hammer and not a maul. An audience craving earth-shattering bombast may have missed this “stoner” gem.
Read More Late to the Party: Mystic Majesty- Speak Your MindIngress by Hibernaut is one of my favorite releases so far this year. There’s a spirit, a vibe to it that reminds me of the bad ol’ days, when underground bands didn’t stand a chance against the likes of Cinderella, Ratt or whoever else media moguls declared as Metal. Back in the days when you had to know about a release you read about in a fanzine, or your friends shared with you with hushed tones and wild eyes.
Read More Hibernaut: IngressI also love their name: no goats were harmed in the making of the band. Big sigh of relief!
Read More The Single Life: Shadow of Jupiter Crosses the Bridge of SighsBut here it is: the best of the best that I listened to this month. These are the exact titles in the exact order that I submitted to the Doom Charts. I’m opting to start at #1 this month, and not do the countdown thing. As always, ANY of these coulda been the best for me, and might be for you.
Read More My Top 10 Stoner/Doom Releases: April, 2023nd yet, it goes beyond that. Because these moogerfoogers sound like they’re having a BLAST pumping out some of the most magically delicious tunes I’ve heard all year. Everyone gets the spotlight at the party. A band of equals who give one another room to do their thang. It’s fucking intoxicating.
Read More Faerie King: Weary TravelerThere’s an old concept in science called “the observer effect,” where just observing something changes it. In counseling, there’s the “observer-effect bias.” I think people in treatment can intuitively feel when that’s happening.
Read More 30 Years of Heavy Recovery: Chapter 5- 30In Space, all you can do is SCREAM!
Read More Late to the Party: We Follow the Earth Dooms with Lightbearer!!!If anything, losing to Jethro Tull simply endeared Metallica to us even more deeply. They became our heroes, symbols of our innermost selves, struggling to make it in the marketplace that frankly didn’t give a shit about us or our music.
Read More Metallica: the Great BetrayalShe Said is another 18-minute epic. You’re killing me smalls. Such long songs take some dedication. Stoner Doom fans must all have ADHD and take their Adderall on a regular basis to stay tuned into such great music for so long.
Read More Newbie Doomer: Colour HazeThis is the kind of “fame” that Mean Green is dealing with, right now. They went from being totally obscure in their niche in Boone, to hundreds of people being aware of them, buying their album and wanting to see them. I think it’s a scary spot to be in. It’s hard to make sense of it, hard to know what to do with it.
Read More How Mean is the Green?The latest jolt to my generational sense of being is Memento Mori by Hail the Void. The album is exceptional, the kind of work that can take its place among the best, the very best, in the history of Heavy Metal. I’m not pulling my punches here, and I don’t give two shits if you […]
Read More Rock has Indeed Died, and It Now Hails the Void“Once you start down the Doom Charts path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.” ~ Yoda April has been heavy! Heavy on all … DOOM CHARTS – APRIL 2023
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