My Top 25 Albums for the Doom Charts February 2024

Posted by Captain Beyond Zen on Thursday, February 29, 2024

My Top 25 Albums for the Doom Charts February 2024:

1. GVLLOW - TWIN FLAMES
2. THE OBSESSED - GILDED SORROW
3. RIDERS OF ROHAN - WITH HOPE OR WITHOUT...
4. WRITHEN HILT - ANCIENT SWORD CULT
5. COLTRE - TO WATCH WITH HANDS TO TOUCH WITH EYES
6. NIGHT FEVER - DEAD END
7. PLANET B - FICTION PREDICTION
8. TWIN TRIBES - PENDULUM 
9. CYBERAKTIF - ENDGAME
10. WITCHORIOUS - WITCHORIOUS

11. SPLIT SYSTEM - VOL.2
12. SAMSARA JOYRIDE - THE SUBTLE & THE DENSE
13. SUNDRIFTER - AN EARLIER TIME
14. BARREN WOMB - CHEMICAL TARDIGRADE
15. COWER - CELESTIAL DEVASTATION
16. CRANEIUM - POINT OF NO RETURN
17. BIG SCENIC NOWHERE - THE WAYDOWN
18. STYGIAN CROWN - FUNERAL FOR A KING
19. SONS OF ZÖKU - ËNDL​​​Ë​​​SS
20. PLANTOID - TERRAPATH

21. SPIRAL GURU - SILENCED VOICES
22. BOKASSA - ALL OUT OF DREAMS
23. MÆNTIS - TO BECOME KING
24. GLITCHCRAFT - GLITCHCRAFT
25. MR. BISON - ECHOES FROM THE UNIVERSE


My Top 25 Albums for the Doom Charts January 2024

Posted by Captain Beyond Zen on Friday, February 2, 2024

My Top 25 Albums for the Doom Charts January 2024

1. HEALTH - RAT WARS
2. HEAVE BLOOD & DIE - BURNOUT CODES
3. KONTACT - FULL CONTACT
4. GUHTS - REGENERATION
5. SLIFT - ILION
6. ISLAND APES - ISLAND APES
7. TEEN MORTGAGE - TEEN MORTGAGE
8. MOON WIZARD - SIRENS
9. MEGA COLOSSUS - SHOWDOWN
10. SPRINTS - LETTER TO SELF

11. HOT GARBAGE - PRECIOUS DREAM
12. NORMANS - NORMANS
13. ONE EYED MOON - WASTELAND
14. THE SLOW AND EASY - HAND ME DOWN
15. HAZEHOUND - MACRODOSE
16. RIDGE - HYMNS FROM THE RENASCENT GHOST
17. LUCIFER - V
18. HEXEREI - NIHIL I CELANDUM
19. QILIN - PARASOMNIA
20. HUNDEN - A CALMING PRESS

21. THE CLAMPS - MEGAMOUTH
22. SLOWER - SLOWER
23. SANTACREU - CANÇONS D'AMOR, DOL I ENYORANÇA
24. BLOODY HEAD - PERPETUAL EDEN
25. BAGUAL - INHVMAR


My Top 16 Albums for the Doom Charts December 2023

Posted by Captain Beyond Zen on Tuesday, January 2, 2024

My Top 16 Albums for the Doom Charts December 2023:

  1. BALL - MIDNIGHT HEAT
  2. KRYPTA - OUTO LAAKSO
  3. AFTERBIRTH - IN BUT NOT OF
  4. RITVS - DER TAG NAHT
  5. HEBI KATANA - III
  6. MARS RED SKY - DAWN OF THE DUSK
  7. WARCOE - A PLACE FOR DEMONS
  8. MOS EISLEY SPACEPORT - FURTHER
  9. CHIEF OF SMOKE - SHORT CUTS
  10. SATURNA - THE RESET
  11. PSYCHIC TRASH - PSYCHIC TRASH
  12. HOLY GIANT - DIVINERS & DIVIDERS
  13. NEW MEXICAN DOOM CULT - FROM THE CRYPT
  14. WITCHSNAKE - DEATHCULT OF THE SNAKE
  15. TAXI CAVEMAN - UGH!
  16. MAMA DOOM - BLOOD SALT SACRIFICE

Top 40 Albums of 2023

Posted by Captain Beyond Zen on Friday, December 22, 2023

 


Bad times produce good music. 2023 was a prime example of this. One great album followed the next. Who is on the throne after 12 months and why? Evil Blizzard with their album gnawed at my auditory coils like rats at leftover food and ate so deeply into my soul that they even dethroned my interim winner Baroness. 'Rotting In The Belly Of the Whale' is an irresistible Psych Prog Glam Doom Punk masterpiece that eats up your heart, no matter where you put the needle, whether on the almost one-minute 'Tiny People', the glam punk hit 'Rotting In The Belly Of The Whale', the ear worm 'All You Bad, Bad People' or the bleak and atmospheric 'Darkness'.

But not only my number one is a winner, all 40 albums are such a great pieces of art and are all worth listening to. My greatest respect to all the wonderful artists and musicians who produce such masterpieces!
Many thanks to Joop Konraad and all the other hardworking and tireless contributors of the Doom Charts (doomcharts.com). Doom on!
Uhuh, uhuh, all you bad, bad people, I love you!

1. Evil Blizzard - Rotting In The Belly Of The Whale

2. Baroness - Stone

3. Creeper - Sanguivore

4. Poison Ruïn - Härvest

5. Naked Lungs - Doomscroll


6. Ball - Midnight Heat

7. Margarita Witch Cult - Margarita Witch Cult

8. Green Lung - This Heathen Land

9. Blood Command - World Domination

10. Angel Du$t - Brand New Soul


11. Black Magick SS - Burning Bridges

12. Persekutor - Snow Business

13. Krypta - Outo laakso

14. Super American Eagle - Super American Eagle

15. Danava - Nothing but Nothing


16. By Fire and Sword - Glory

17. Vanishing Kids - Miracle of Death

18. Wizard Master - Ablanathanalba

19. Lucid Sins - Dancing In The Dark

20. Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain


21. Island of Love - Island of Love

22. The Stools - R U Saved?

23. Witch Ripper - The Flight After The Fall

24. Hippie Death Cult - Helichrysum

25. Pardoner - Peace Loving People


26. Lüger - Revelations of the Sacred Skull

27. Lord Mountain - The Oath

28. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land of Sleeper

29. Smokey Mirror - Smokey Mirror

30. Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament


31. C.O.F.F.I.N - Australia Stops

32. Civic - Taken By Force

33. Stepmother - Planet Brutalicon

34. Molten Gold - Futures Past

35. Zorn - Zorn


36. Westing - Future

37. Motorbike - Motorbike

38. Graveyard - 6

39. Faerie Ring - Weary Traveler

40. Polymoon - Chrysalis



Captain Beyond Zen's Top 100 Releases of 2023 (in alphabetical order)

Posted by Captain Beyond Zen on Saturday, December 2, 2023

 Albums:

  • Acid King - Beyond Vision
  • Acid Magus - Hope Is Heavy
  • Angel Du$t - BRAND NEW SOUL
  • Ball - Midnight Heat
  • Baroness - Stone
  • Black Magick SS - Burning Bridges
  • Blazon Rite - Wild Rites And Ancient Songs
  • Blood Ceremony - The Old Ways Remain
  • Blood Command - World Domination
  • Blood Star - First Sighting

  • Borracho - Blurring the Lines of Reality
  • Bretwaldas Of Heathen Doom - Summoning the Gatekeepers
  • By Fire and Sword - Glory
  • Century ឵឵ - The Conquest of Time
  • Church of Misery - Born Under a Mad Sign
  • Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade
  • Civic - Taken By Force
  • C.O.F.F.I.N - Australia Stops
  • Creeper - 05 Sanguivore
  • Danava - Nothing but Nothing

  • Deathchant - THRONES
  • DOMKRAFT - Sonic Moons
  • Dommengang - Wished Eye
  • Dopelord - Songs for Satan
  • Dozer - Drifting in the Endless Void
  • Empire State Bastard - Rivers Of Heresy
  • Evil Blizzard - Rotting In The Belly Of the Whale
  • faerie ring - Weary Traveler
  • The Fierce & The Dead - News From The Invisible World
  • Flight - Echoes of Journeys Past

  • Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Data Doom
  • Goat Explosion - Threatening Skies
  • The Golden Grass - Life Is Much Stranger
  • Graveyard - 6
  • Green Lung - This Heathen Land
  • Hail the Void - Memento Mori
  • Håndgemeng - Ultraritual
  • Hippie Death Cult - Helichrysum
  • Howling Giant - Glass Future
  • Island of Love - Island of Love

  • Kadabra - Umbra
  • Kerrigan - Bloodmoon
  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse;
  • Krypta - Outo laakso
  • Kvelertak - Endling
  • Legendry - Time Immortal Wept
  • Loose Sutures - Sado Sex for Dummies
  • Lord Mountain - THE OATH
  • Love Gang - Meanstreak
  • Lucid Sins - Dancing In The Dark

  • Lüger - Revelations of the Sacred Skull
  • Margarita Witch Cult - Margarita Witch Cult
  • Molten Gold - Futures Past
  • Mondo Drag - Through The Hourglass
  • Moon Coven - Sun King
  • Motorbike - Motorbike
  • Mutoid Man - Mutants
  • Naked Lungs - Doomscroll
  • Oceanlord - Kingdom Cold
  • Outer Head - Delirium

  • Pardoner - Peace Loving People
  • Persekutor - Snow Business
  • Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land of Sleeper
  • Poison Ruïn - Härvest
  • Polymoon - Chrysalis
  • Purification - Elphinstone
  • Pus - Pus II
  • Raspberry Bulbs - The World Is Empty, The Heart Is Full
  • Reverend Mother - Seven Nights In Memphis
  • Rezn - Solace

  • Ritual King - The Infinite Mirror
  • Ritvs - Der Tag naht
  • Saint Karloff - Paleolithic War Crimes
  • Shadows - Out For Blood
  • Smokey Mirror - Smokey Mirror
  • Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance
  • Sonic Demon - Veterans Of The Psychic War
  • Stepmother - Planet Brutalicon
  • Stoned Jesus - Father Light
  • Strange Horizon - Skur 14

  • The Stools - R U Saved?
  • Super American Eagle - Super American Eagle
  • Tidal Wave - The Lord Knows
  • Triumpher - Storming The Walls
  • Tyrann - Besatt
  • Vanishing Kids - Miracle of Death
  • Warp - Bound by Gravity
  • Westing - FUTURE
  • Witch Ripper - The Flight After The Fall
  • Witchthroat Serpent - Trove of Oddities at the Devil's Driveway

  • wizard master - Ablanathanalba
  • Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
  • Zorn - Zorn

Live Albums:
  • Hällas - The Hällas Saga - Live at Cirkus
  • Rainbows Are Free - Heavy Petal Music
  • Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Slaughter On First Avenue (Live)

EPs:
  • Acid Blade - Shooting Star
  • Amethyst - Rock Knights
  • Bergfried - Romantik II
  • Spectre - Lonesome Gambler