Doom Charts for 12/22/12

Plenty of upheaval at the top of the list with 5 of the top 6 songs retiring from the charts.  "The Queen of Death" by Necronomicon, "The Cloven Sea" by Arkham Witch, "Tower of Skulls" by Beastwars, "Leaving You" by Graveyard and the epic "Follow the Forest Lights" by The Wandering Midget are joined by "Night" from Ice Dragon's 'Tome of the Future Ancients' in music history.  Their places are taken by such worthy songs as "Searching" by Three Seasons; "I Am Thunder" by Mammoth Thunderpower; "Rivertown" by Bison, Bison; "Amaranth" by Windhand; "Understanding Ouroboros" by Ice Dragon and "Cosmic Cruiser X" by Mage.  "Searching" was the highest debut at number 12.

It's always painful to bump albums from the top 25 because I still like every album that gets bumped.  I have a 'Top 30 Albums' playlist on which Vinum Sabbatum, Mount Fuji and Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell are still on after all these months.  Maybe next week we'll go with a Top 30 Albums here.  For now though, a number of new entries in the Albums chart are making waves including new releases by The Heavy Eyes; Dryasdust; Year of the Goat; The Quartet of Woah! and Three Seasons.

Top 25 Songs

#). Song Title (artist/album)

1. Haywire (Gandhi's Gunn / The Longer the Beard the Harder the Sound)
2. Forgotten Past (Kadavar / ST)
3. Horsepuncher (Lord of the Grave / Green Vapour)
4. Blackbird (Dwellers / Good Morning Harakiri)
5. Modern World (The Bad Light / Marrow of Sound)
6. Rock 'n' Rollin Maailma (Seremonia / ST)
7. Tribe of the Cosmic Crow Giant (Spectral Haze / ST Demo)
8. Circle Eater (Harvester / The Blind Summit Recordings)
9. Centauri Teenage Riot (Indian Handcrafts / Civil Disobedience for Losers)
10. Season of Decay (Ice Dragon / Season of Decay single)
11. elf[11] (Mount Fuji / ST)
12. Searching (Three Seasons / Understand The World)
13. Dry Hex (Zosimos / ST)
14. Anxiety Puke / Lovelessness (Bison B.C. / Lovelessness)
15. Cosmonauts (Axxicorn / 7" single)
16. Cosmic Cruiser X (Mage / Black Sands)
17. The Same Way (Corrosion of Conformity / ST [bonus tracks])
18. Nobody Knows (Sun Gods in Exile / Thanks for the Silver)
19. Two Gods / Caput Algol (Electric Taurus / 7" single)
20. Damn the Sky (Beastwars / ST)
21. The Curse Is a Lie (Down / Down IV Part I: The Purple EP)
22. I Am Thunder (Mammoth Thunderpower / I Am Thunder EP)
23. Rivertown (Bison, Bison / ST)
24. Amaranth [demo] (Windhand / Hymns from the House of Horror comp.)
25. Understanding Ouroboros (Ice Dragon / A Gallery of Rogues comp.)

Top 20 Albums
#). artist - album title

1. Necronomicon - The Queen of Death
2. Blue Aside - The Moles of a Dying Race
3. From Beyond - The Color Out of Space EP
4. Lord of the Grave - Green Vapour
5. Seamount - Earthmother
6. At Devil Dirt - Chapter II "vulgo gratissimus auctor"
7. Greenleaf - Nest of Vipers
8. Mage - Black Sands
9. The Shooters - Planet of the Black Sun
10. Seremonia - ST
11. Corrosion of Conformity- Megalodon EP
12. Arkham Witch - Legions of the Deep
13. Sticky Digit - ST
14. Kadavar - ST
15. Mamont - Passing Through the Mastery Door
16. Abrahma - Through the Dusty Path of Our Lives
17. The Heavy Eyes - Maera
18. Manlord - ST
19. Dryasdust - ST Demo
20. Spectral Haze - ST Demo
21. Voltron - Kaventsmann
22. Molior Superum - Into the Sun
23. Year of the Goat - Angels' Necropolis
24. The Quartet of Woah! - Ultrabomb
25. Three Seasons - Understand The World

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