“And then one fine Doom Charts — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past...”
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Music can be a true healer. Or the fuel to continue on, no matter what. And whenever one of the Contributors suggests a certain album, we know there’s something great about it. It can be the medicine you need that day. The extra fill to move you forward. And below, there are thirty of those albums that can do that for ya. Wonderful things! Magical things! A few also made the January 2025 Doom Charts, but many are featured for the very first time. Savor your experience of listening to them the very first time. And then keep coming back to them if they give you energy… Or make you feel…
The following are professions of love and adoration by Doom Charts Contributors for albums they could not stop spinning. Each month, the Doom Charts critics submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge, metal, stoner, psychedelic and other sorts of heavy rock and metal albums. The results are compiled and tabulated into the chart which is published on the First Friday of the new month. However, sometimes a love is so great, but for whatever reason the album unfortunately did not make the published Doom Charts Edition or because there were so many contributors in love with that one album, that multiple blurbs were written, and only the one got published… Well, you can peruse that love here…
BLAZING TOMB – SINGLES FROM THE TOMB
Death Metal
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Creator-Destructor Records
Locked and loaded with enough ammunition to explode your skull into a thousand pieces, Singles From The Tomb by BLAZING TOMB is a triple dose of death metal warfare. Blistering skin like an unexpected solar flare, boiling blood like a nuclear reaction and igniting your soul like the hate of a thousand suns, these tracks are the ultimate annihilation to any adversary who dares stand before them. This groove laced, guttural growling, double bass weapon of mass destruction can not be so willingly passed along in large quantities. Let the limited dose of these hefty singles be warning enough to anyone who dares test their delivery of death.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
BLOOD LEMON – PETITE DEATHS
Indie/Stoner Doom
Boise, Idaho, USA
Moon Ruins
Petite Deaths is the second album by BLOOD LEMON female trio. Brutal and distorted guitars, powerful drums and majestic bass lines fill my ears. From the first track I can appreciate the punchy sound of their rock. Against the rough and hard instrumentation stand melodious voices that reveal more melancholic and soft emotions. I was also struck by the strong identity of each track on this album — none sounds like the next, and each has its own qualities. So, five songs mean five different reasons to love this record.
~ Thierry “Pumpkin-T“ François (Metal Intégral)
CACTUS ROJO – DUNE
Desert Rock, Stoner, Heavy Psych
Tepatitlán, De Morelos, Mexico
Smolder Brains Records
Mexico has a ripe Stoner/Psych/Rock scene and CACTUS ROJO are a rare desert rose that has sprung forward and fully bloomed with ‘Dune’. Their love of Sci-Fi and literature led to this Dune themed concept album, their first full length. Not only does the band take you on a trip lyrically and thematically, but also through the music. The songs are methodically fashioned and chock-full of hooks and huge choruses that are just waiting to be explored. I don’t know what I love more, the relentless crunchy guitar attack on the more stoner rock parts or the more laid-back psych jams that really show off the intricateness of the band. The answer of course is both!
~ Jon McGough (Stoner Rock Army, Stoner HiVe, Outlaws Of The Sun)
CANAAN – SOME LAST ECHO
Dark, Cold Wave, Experimental
Italy
Eibon Records
With a patient arc of the reaching soul that searches for more in this world, the album is not afraid to touch upon the delicate nature that is within our hearts and minds. With a witness to the dark world we live in, it carries a psychological message that can feel emotionally heavy while the tone is seemingly weightless in texture.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
CENTURY – SIGN OF THE STORM
Traditional Heavy Metal, New Wave of British Heavy Metal
Stockholm, Sweden
Electric Assault Records
Sign of the Storm, the sophomore album from Swedish NWOBHM band CENTURY, picks up right where their debut left off, continuing to deliver concentrated and energetic doses of old school heavy metal. The band also preserves their retro production style, bringing a dark and hazy quality to the sword and shield vibes and calling to mind bands like Angel Witch and Diamond Head. The ten tracks on Sign of the Storm are powerful, confident, and anthem-like with impressive instrumental chops, charging riffage, and wailing solos. The vocals recount each epic tale, soaring above the instrumental battleground and often punctuating stanzas with a characteristic heavy metal wail. In a nutshell, Sign of the Storm shows CENTURY steadfastly wielding the torch of the NWOBHM bands that came before them, and they keep that flame burning brilliantly.
~ Stephanie Zalta (DoomCakes, Screaming From The Heavy Underground)
DEER LORD – DEER LORD GOES INTO THE BEAM
Heavy Psych, Doom, Stoner Metal
Santa Rosa, California, USA
Self-released
DEER LORD‘s musical arrangements are brilliant, and their subtle style of mixing stoner metal, doom, space rock, and heavy psych is flawless. Wait for me, I am going into the beam with you.
~ Michael D’Amato (Playgroundz Rocks, D’Amato Production)
DUNES – LAND OF THE BLIND
Stoner, Hardrock
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Ripple Music
The Number 1 album from January 2025. Land Of The Blind by DUNES had three blurbs published. But more were written…
UK band DUNES is drenched in 90s alt rock and grunge in all the best ways on their latest record, Land Of The Blind, their first release with Ripple Music. Land Of The Blind gives us some serious chunky riffs, fuzzy atmosphere, cool vocals, and a moody and dark feel to go along with all of the heavy goodness the band brings across the nine tracks. Get your flannel out of the mothballs…
~ Rich Piva (Musipedia of Metal, FuzzDoomRip)
DUNES explore the sounds of the northern deserts, invading them with fuzzy riffs and catchy melodies through a raw and authentic sound that will quickly conquer the lovers of the most purist Stoner. But these guys do not do it lightly, but rather they do it taking care of all the details of catchy songs that contain the best elements of the genre. Tracks full of hooks played with great fluidity make ‘Land Of The Blind‘ is a delicacy for the most exquisite palates. In a genre that is sometimes stagnant, this album is a breath of fresh air that allows us to have hope in a sound genre in which, at times, everything seems to have been invented. Their powerful riffs recorded live have been polished with careful vocal melodies developed in psychedelic atmospheres and some grunge winks, making this album irresistible. Having their purpose clear, DUNES focus on their purpose based on high doses of fuzz to achieve a diffuse, heavy, THC-soaked stage.
~ Roberto Lucas (Denpa Fuzz)
FISH BASKET – FISH BASKET AND HIS SECOND ALBUM
Prog, psych, post-stoner
Warsaw, Poland
Interstellar Smoke Records
Out of the gate with one of the strongest albums of the new year, Poland’s FISH BASKET are in fine form on their sophomore album. Instrumental, progressive, and firmly compositional, they come across almost like My Sleeping Karma without the Indian influence. But make no mistake, FISH BASKET are their own animal. Whether you’re looking to bliss out or ride the careening waves of their playing, they’ve got you covered. If FISH BASKET’s second album is an indicator of what 2025 has in store musically, I’ll be a very happy man.
~ Ben Bellum (The Greatest Thing You’ve Never Heard)
GOATLORD CORP. – TEMPLE OF THE SERPENT WHORES
Black Metal
France
Nomad Snakepit Productions
Like an expertly sharpened blade, this slides across flesh with no stumble or stutter. The blasting pace never lets up, creating a friction that is red hot with malice and sin. There should be no mistaking the intent of this release as it smolders with sulfur long before the listener starts the audio sequence.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
GOIA PARANOIA – PANDEMONIUM OVERDRIVE
Stoner Metal, Doom, Psych
Gothenburg, Sweden
Self-released
Don’t you just love it when a band seemingly falls out of the ether bringing with it a raw and fresh debut? Well, GOIA PARANOIA have done just that with Pandemonium Overdrive. Metal influenced Stoner Doom with a large supply of chugging riffs to fulfill your headbanging needs and wicked vocals that are reminiscent of the vocalist from High Reeper. The lyrics scream (literally at times) of a variety of topics, including madness, megalomania, and of course paranoia. GOIA PARANOIA are fairly new having just formed in 2024 but they’re well on their way with this fantastic album, so give Pandemonium Overdrive a listen. You can trust them; I promise they’re not out to get you. But then again…
~ Jon McGough (Stoner Rock Army, Stoner HiVe, Outlaws Of The Sun)
INBORN SUFFERING – PALE GREY MONOCHROME
Doom Metal, Gothic Doom, Melodic Death/Doom
France
Ardua Music
This album is loaded with wonderful melodies and expansive harmonies. These elements are intertwined into the very foundations of the song, making their home next to massive riffs, extreme vocals, and drums that are far more impressive and intricate than a lot of doom. Even though all these elements, these layers, are pieced together seamlessly, they can all be enjoyed separately. This is an album that you can push play on and let it wash over you. Taken as a whole, it’s a full sound of an ever expanding void that is as grippy as it is bleak. But your ears can follow any of the individual elements and find yet another journey. It’s amazing to hear how all these pieces come together for the great whole. The production and mixing keeps it neat and straight, never cluttered or too blended that it loses the very identity the band have so expertly crafted.
~ Justin Wittenmeier (DoomedForMetal)
KRATZEN – III
Kraut Wave, Post Punk, New Wave
Cologne, Germany
Self-released
The soft pulse of post-punk becomes our rhythmic heartbeat as III by KRATZEN delicately weaves its magic into our blood. Like a metronome of a cryptic universe silently sending out signals that guide our decisions without our knowledge, there is a significant influence in this listening experience. It feels warm and welcoming like an open door to an outsider standing in the cold. Stand beside the warmth of the fire and feel the comfort in your bones. Something that can seem both foreign at times to some and still so overwhelmingly normal to others who tend to neglect it. This is exciting to the senses and a welcoming change of pace that chooses not to rush but to remain in a stable cycle.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
LAND MAMMAL – SURVIVE THE HIVE
Heavy Psych, Alt Rock, Fuzz Rock
Dallas, Texas, USA
Self-released
Survive The Hive by LAND MAMMAL is a fuzz-drenched, heavy-hitting blend of stoner rock, punk energy, and psychedelic mysticism. Packed with crushing riffs and raw attitude, this EP is a headbanger’s dream. Self-released with little fanfare, consider this your wake-up call—don’t sleep on Survive The Hive!
~ Ryan Foster (Slightly Fuzzed)
MALICIOUZ – SARBERUS
Sludge Metal, Instrumental Doom, Funeral Doom
California, USA
Self-released
My favorite projects in all of heavy rock and stoner doom are the one-man-band type projects – the one’s in which a single individual has all the creative control. I enjoy these because more often than not, it allows a single individual to artistically express themselves with zero creative restrictions. MALICIOUZ’ most recent instrumental epic is a picture-perfect example of what I mean by this. With MALICIOUZ himself in full control, we’ve been gifted an unbelievably heavy album full of some of the most genius genre-mashing I’ve heard in several months. The effortless fusion of sludge and funeral doom in particular are quite the sounds to behold, as is the production quality. Single-person projects rarely have production qualities of this high a standard, but that is no problem whatsoever on Sarberus. All in all, at 57 minutes you’ll be getting quite the bang for you buck!
~ Jacob ‘Reverend Fuzzcut’ Baker (CleanAndSoberStoner, Monster Riff)
MEMBRANE – DEATHLY SILENCE
Post Hardcore, Post Rock, Noise Metal
Vesoul, France
Blind Prod / Ma Saret Records / Dayoff Records / Araki Records / Pogo Records
While the stone walls reek of dust and decay, these songs begin to shake the remains of a once desolate dungeon into a living frenzy. Rats will scatter as nothing shall hold the angst found here. Though I do not speak the language, these words commit to bringing the entire cavern down before they rest upon this anger any longer.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
MMNK – LEGENDA YBOKAJ ANEB JAKOBY NAOPAK (OFFICIAL ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK)
Psych, Alternative Rock, Jazz
Brno, Czech Republic
Kabinet Records
It took me some spins to really get into this album by MMNK – a soundtrack for a Czech movie. It alternates between songs and what appears to be audio samples from the movie, backed with music created by the band, all blended together into one continuous flow. It’s a weird combination of styles with psych and alternative rock being the main influences, but also ventures into funk and jazz, as well as a short doom passage can be heard. That the sound quality of the recordings is sub-par doesn’t make it easier to get into either. But when you put some time and effort into it, you’ll be surprised with the musicianship and the quality of the music presented. Quite literally a diamond in the rough.
~ Ronny Dijksterhuis (Stoner HiVe)
MOGWAI – THE BAD FIRE
Rock, Post-Rock, Alternative
Scotland, UK
Rock Action Records
There is a bright light rising in the corner of our darkest moment as The Bad Fire by MOGWAI ignites memory and further growth of humanity’s ability to create beautiful art in strange times.There is a subtle place where we all connect with our inner thoughts and explosive emotions when MOGWAI becomes our listening palette for the day’s colorful introduction. What can occasionally feel somber always rolls back into a brighter world of musical arrangements. It can be larger than life or quieter than our thoughts. The band has mastered the creative caress that paints soft beauty like the first stroke of a watercolor brush bleeding softly into the canvas. It is a wonderful thing to hear a new celebration of the band in top form. Complete with their sarcastic song titles and beautiful musical passages that bring both tears of happiness and contemplation.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
MOUNTAIN DUST – MOUNTAIN DUST
Heavy Psych, Stoner Rock, Desert Rock
Montreal, Québec
Self-released
MOUNTAIN DUST is a modern hard rock, stoner, desert, and heavy psych band who has been making music since about 2013. The band is a true chameleon, whose sophisticated and poignant tunes move fluidly between lighter, colorful psychedelic moods and heavier, grittier earth tones. Most of the songs on MOUNTAIN DUST‘s new self-titled album are saturated with notes of the desert, but these vacillate between nods to West Asia and the southwestern US, truly giving the listener the best of both worlds. As if that’s not proof enough that MOUNTAIN DUST‘s music is noticeably flexible, the emotive vocals and adaptive instrumentals carry each track through a gamut of feelings, illustrating a complete cycle of mental processing within each. This is one of those albums that is meant to be savored, enjoyed, and deeply felt, much like a compelling novel.
~ Stephanie Zalta (DoomCakes, Screaming From The Heavy Underground)
Seven years since ‘Seven Storms’ and nine since the album ‘Nine Years’, MOUNTAIN DUST have returned with their long awaited third album and damn it’s extraordinary! The album starts with the powerful blues doom track ‘Reap’ which creeps along, building a permanent place to reside within your stimulated grey matter. Next up are the singles ‘Only Them’ and ‘Black Sails’, both are upbeat and feature the organ sorcery and the alluring vocals we love from MOUNTAIN DUST. The song ‘This Is It’ exhibits the emotional side of the band with a sorrowful and haunting performance, which acts as the prequel to the final and unsettling track ‘All Eyes But Two’. Mountains of great songs and piles of different approaches, the album takes you down many paths, yet holds you paralyzed with its charm and enchantment.
~ Jon McGough (Stoner Rock Army, Stoner HiVe, Outlaws Of The Sun)
MURA – NEEDLE CATHEDRAL
Death, Doom
Czechia
Doomentia Records
Absolutely crushing death doom to be found on this three track, twenty minute EP. Sounding like a building crashing down around you, you’ll find yourself diving for cover while listening to this. It doesn’t get heavier than this!
~ Chris Tighe (The Mighty Decibel)
MUTAGENIC HOST – THE DISEASED MACHINE
Death, Sludge, Doom
London
Gurgling Gore / Dry Cough / Memento Mori
Like a cold steel coated engine of war, these songs carry the abusive weight of annihilation like a badge of honor. Beware to those who are unsuspecting. There will be no quarter for the innocent as the landscape is laid to waste. This is a true face of death yielding not to sympathy but drawn from malice and sludge soaked doom.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
NEGATIVE 13 – RECOVER WHAT YOU CAN
Sludge, Punk, Doom
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Self-released
Be prepared for a sludge soaked, hardcore punk smash to the face as Recover What You Can by NEGATIVE 13 leads the charge to steamroll over a corrupt humanity. There is no place for me among the hate and evil that seems to pour from modern society. Find the ability to remain strong in the knowledge that there is always a good seed growing in the distance. Even when unseen, it nourishes. Preparing to feed our feeble and depleted bodies with life giving nutrients untouched by the hand of man. Let the self destruction of this society take hold and see a brighter day for us in the distance. The pendulum will always swing back to its previous place. Let us hope that we are not cut down upon its return.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
ONIROPHAGUS – REVELATIONS FROM THE VOID
Doom, Death
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain
Personal Records
As the ghastly wave of despair cries out from an echoing distance, that pain of loss is clearly felt. Be it a loss of life, belonging or a wandering soul seeking retribution, these are the tones that draw the ear further into the dense sorrow this record evokes.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
This is dark, deep music with bottomless depth. Much like the title suggests, this is music that sounds like it is being vomited forth from some hellish realm of skinless, blood-soaked nightmares. Deeply rooted in extreme metal, this is an often slow, cavernous album that is even heavier than expected. It’s also very well-written and engaging. Yes, the songs bring me to the edge of the abyss but they also make me want to stay there. To stare into the darkness and have such high quality doom metal returned is truly something special. But doom doesn’t have to mean plodding. The album presents many moments of outright speedy induced carnage when the band embraces their death metal tendencies. It all sounds natural and the transitions smooth. The band’s ability to switch from somber, moody death/doom to profound extremity is impressive, to say the least. Although it is certainly atmospheric, it is also riff based and there is always the metallica edge of riff nearby. I like this because the band doesn’t get lost in itself with long passages that lead to nowhere. Every passage here, long or short, has a purpose.
~ Justin Wittenmeier (DoomedForMetal)
PARISH – QUEEN OF THE SKIES/SISTERS OF THE LIGHT
Proto, Doom
UK
Crypt of the Wizard
We don’t usually include double sided singles in our lists, but this is too important to ignore. The Mighty Decibel has been following the U.K.’s PARISH since its fantastic debut EP from 2020 (God’s Right Hand), so we eagerly pushed play to hear where the band is headed. In the past the band mixed proto doom and psychedelic tracks in their releases, but here the lads focus solely on old school doom w/clean vocals. Great stuff … can’t wait for the sophomore full length!
~ Chris Tighe (The Mighty Decibel)
PRAETORIAN – PYLON CULT
Sludge, Blackened Doom, Hateful
Stevenage, UK
APF Records
Feel your flesh scrape across the cold name plate of the tomb as Pylon Cult by PRAETORIAN reaches from the beyond to drag you into a hateful abyss. This album maintains the gold standard for fans of sludge and doom. With a vocal delivery that can chew through stone and spit gravel at your feet, it lashes out with a viciousness unmatched by many. With every note of the oppressively dense heaviness it feels like the skin is drying out. Tight like a cellophane clinging to the bone. It stretches and molds to every edge, suffocating the last of what life may remain. Unrelenting abuse delivered in ample doses without sympathy. This is the album I have been waiting to hear.We will choke on the dust of this world and be thankful, for we are given what we deserve.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
SAMSARA TRIP – SAMSARA TRIP
Psychedelic, Stoner
Chile
Self-released
From the shimmering hazes of San Antonio, Chile come SAMSARA TRIP: An instrumental outfit who weave hypnotic ragas and heavy riffs to potent effect! Five tracks of transcendental trippiness! Fans of NEOYKA, POSEIDOTICA, KANAAN and THE RE-STONED will be all over this!
~ Stevie Reek (Howls from The Hollows, Doomed&Stoned,Stoner HiVe)
SILENT DEEP OCEAN – IN DARK ETERNITY
Funeral Doom
Venus, Texas & Bulgaria
Self-released
What I’ve always liked about this band is that even though it is firmly in the funeral doom side of the genre, it doesn’t always sound hopeless, cavernous, or utterly devoid of life. For me, Ritchey’s songwriting has always been quite a bit more expansive and open for the genre. To me, that is a good thing. “In Dark Eternity,” finds Ritchey’s songwriting being zeroed in and finding the sound that works best for him.SILENT DEEP OCEAN’s music has always been quite dynamic but never before has it been presented this way. The music across the album’s 9 songs and 1:02 runtime can be crushing as the depths of the ocean or as gentle as a breeze. It’s the journey, not the destination that matters, and each song here lives, and succeeds, by that notion.
~ Justin Wittenmeier (DoomedForMetal)
TFNRSH – BOOK OF CIRCLES
Progressive Rock, Psychedelic, Art
Tübingen, Germany
TFNRSH Records
Book of Circles, the highly anticipated sophomore album from instrumental progressive/psychedelic trio TFNRSH, is the soul cleanse you didn’t know you needed.To me, the album is an introspective journey. It feels like holding up a mirror and looking long and hard at some of life’s heavier emotions, particularly when it comes to the power that they have over us. TFNRSH sonically illustrates these feelings in such a vivid way, as clearly as if they were painted with a brush. It bears emphasizing that this is done in the absence of vocals and lyrics to underline each song’s meaning. Instead, the band communicates with liberal use of contrast, creativity, and as TFNRSH aptly calls it, “bursts of energy”. This is a meditative sonic journey that requires no words, only an “embrace of the soul”.
~ Stephanie Zalta (DoomCakes, Screaming From The Heavy Underground)
ULTRA DEATH CULT – END TIMES ARE GOOD TIMES
Doom, Sludge, Metal
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Self-released
Do you like your riffs filthy dirty? Do you like your band real, yet mysterious? Do you like when things get sludgy but the vocals stay clean? Do you have a hankering for a band that met at a Melvins show and bring all sorts of 90s Pacific Northwest vibes to the party? If you answered yes to any of those questions, the three tracks on the debut from ULTRA DEATH CULT are going to scratch, claw, and rip apart any of those itches you may have.
~ Rich Piva (Musipedia of Metal, FuzzDoomRip)
ULTRA DEATH CULT released their debut three song EP “End Times Are Good Times” fully expecting it to disappear into the ether like so many other bands debut’s have done before it, they did not however reckon with the discerning ears of the underground scenes movers and shakers picking up on its deliciously dirty guitar tones, gritty clean vocals and its thunderously addictive rhythms and then after picking up on it screaming its merits to the world. As the movie misquote goes “if you build it they will come”…
~ Frazer Jones (Desert Psychlist)
WYATT E. – ZAMĀRU ULTU QEREB ZIQQURATU, PART 1
Avant-garde Psych, World Music
Liège, Belgium
Heavy Psych Sounds
In a connection with otherworldly pulses, this album speaks out to lost lands. Let them rise from dust and take our psyche to a place of forbidden oasis. Allow us to drink from the blessed fountain maintaining connection with transversal visionaries of worlds beyond.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
If you love your (heavy) psych to float around like a man-size butterfly from outer space, sipping nectar from a variety of exotic flowers that mainly grow in the Middle East and occasionally in Southern Asia, you’re in for a treat with WYATT E‘s new album ‘zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu, Part 1‘. It’s an organic, mesmerising trip through all things psych and all things world. So well-balanced and utterly intriguing, it’s impossible not to get lost in the massive parallel world they’re creating. And if that isn’t enough, they get vocal assistance on two tracks by none other than Tomer Damsky (Wackelkontakt) and Nina Saeidi (Lowen). A very early candidate for album of the year.
~ Ronny Dijksterhuis (Stoner HiVe)
ZOAHR – MOSAIC
Desert Rock, Heavy Blues, Space Rock
Pirmasens, Germany
Self-released
Parts funky stoner, parts spacious psych and parts weighty blues ZOAHR‘s “Mosaic” is the sound of a band at the peak of their powers, a band revelling in the music they make together be it laying down some melancholic blues or wigging out on a cosmic jam. If you are looking for something that has an across the board level of accessibility yet is at the same time blustering and biting then look no further than this gem of a release.
~ Frazer Jones (Desert Psychlist)
Striking a match toward the fuse, Mosaic by ZOAHR is a scorching batch of high stakes rock and roll with iron in the flames. Glowing brightly from the forge with intense heat, the iron work this band has begun to create is a true to the soul, old fashioned sweat box of hard labor and glorious return. They put in the work from beginning to end with track after track of relentless, back bending, blues soaked, heavy desert rock. The sands will turn to glass when their intense heat rolls over the dunes. There is no hesitation when I recommend a fan of heavy rock take this album for a spin.
~ Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick)
The Doom Charts January 2025 – Peroration Playlist…
Special thanks to the ongoing contributors to the monthly Doom Chart. You folks help give voice to the heavy underground:
Adam Walsh (Earmunchies); Andy Kovalcik (Bandcamp-NYP-Hard&Heavy); A.S. Van Dorston (Fast n Bulbous); Ben Bellum (The Greatest Thing You’ve Never Heard); Billy Goate (Doomed & Stoned); Bob “Mr. Weird Beard” Baker (More Fuzz Podcast); Bobby Rayfield (Monuments In Ruin, Inherent Records, Mystery Pick); Brandon Collins (Morbid And Miserable Records); Bucky Brown (The Ripple Effect); Chris Beck (Doom Tomb Podcast);Chris Tighe (The Mighty Decibel); Clint Willis (Hand of Doom Radio); Damien Regnauld (Stoner Freaks Anthology); The Doom Oracle (Spectral Ecstacy); Edouard Dubuisson (Les chroniques d’Eddy, MetalUniverse); Eric Crowe (Doomsayer Records / Halo Of The Goat Radio); Frazer Jones (Desert Psychlist); ‘The General’ (Stoner Rock Army); Günther “Doktor420” (Stoner HiVe);Ioannis Valiakos (Desert Vulture); Jacob ‘Reverend Fuzzcut’ Baker (CleanAndSoberStoner, Monster Riff); James Sweetlove (CaveDwellerMusic); JC Cansdale-Cook (The MotorFuzzin’ Ibex); Jim Thompson (Heavy in the Hills); Jipsy Froud (CleanAndSoberStoner);JJ “HP Taskmaster” Koczan (The Obelisk); John Gist, (Vegas Rock Revolution / The Doomed & Stoned Show); Jon Cosky (Gravitoyd Heavy Music); Jon McGough (Stoner Rock Army, Stoner HiVe, Outlaws Of The Sun); Jonny Pirie (Hour of the Riff); Joop Konraad (Stoner HiVe); Justin Wittenmeier (DoomedForMetal); Kyle SB (Good Boy PR, Stoner HiVe); Lee Edwards (The Sleeping Shaman); Marc-Eric Gagnon (Stonefly Effects); Mats Florstam (Ozium Records); Matthew Thomas (Taste Nation); Matthew Hartnett (Aftershocks TV / Seismic-Sounds.com); Mel Lie (Sunday’s Heavy Tunes); Michael D’Amato (Playgroundz Rocks, D’Amato Production); Mitch Kline (DoomyRiffs.com);Mr Stone (More Fuzz); Nick Pipitone (The Third Eye, Monster Riff); Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker(The Ripple Effect);Remi VL (Remi Post Too Many Links); Rich Piva (Musipedia of Metal, FuzzDoomRip); Roberto Fuentes (Red House Store); Roberto Lucas (Denpa Fuzz); Rod Reinhardt (Captain Beyond Zen); Ronny Dijksterhuis (Stoner HiVe); Ryan Foster (Slightly Fuzzed); Ryan Hilton (Black Throne Productions); S Patrick Brooks (The Heavy Underground Farm Report, Outlaws of the Sun); Scott Spiers (CleanAndSoberStoner, Monster Riff); Stephanie Zalta (DoomCakes, Screaming From The Heavy Underground); Steve Howe (Outlaws of the Sun); Steve Woodier (Anointing The Sick); Stevie Reek (Howls from The Hollows, Doomed&Stoned,Stoner HiVe); Thierry “Pumpkin-T“ François (Metal Intégral); Tom Hanno (Tom’s Reviews, The Third Eye); Tom Schmahl (Rock Circuz); Tony Maim (Black Insect Laughter,Stoner HiVe).
Feel free to send in your albums to stonerdoomcharts@gmail.com where they’ll be delegated to the crew above to determine their thoughts and gather the votes at the end of the month. Leave us comments below and let us know what you think about the Charts.
