Few releases for 12.6.2026: Upupayāma, Øresund Space Collective, Phantom Logic + my Doom Charts list

Last months Doom Charts was a bit of an personal dissapointment, since the usual suspects ended up on the top slots, even though I think they weren’t the strongest candidates (oh how this reminds me of politics, goddamnit).
I mean, to each their own and we all have individual tastes, but it feels to me like some of the votes came from a lazy place (it’s an effort to listen lots of new artists). This moaning can all just be me being bummed that my favourites didn’t get up there, but you know 🤷‍♂️

In spite of my bitching and moaning, check out the Doom Charts for May 2026!

Anyway, below are the three releases I’m recommend you check out and then at the end you can find what my Doom Charts list was like.

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First one is Italian bänd called Upupayāma. They play psychedelic folk rock that reminds me of Goat, The Heads and the time when I found this type of music. This is hard to put into words, but it is a comforting sounds of music that picks a lot of psychedelic elements from 60’s music and marries them with world music elements.

album.link: Upupayama - Honesty Flowers
Bandcamp - Discogs - Musicbrainz

Øresund Space Collective is a danish collective of musicians, visual artists and what-have-you. They’ve been creatings improvised space rock for quite a while now and I’ve had the pleasure of seeing them live quite a few times, but also meet some of the personnel (greets to Dr. Space 🫡). It’s what you’d expect and then some.

album.link: Øresund Space Collective - Progably You're Wrong
Bandcamp - Discogs - Musicbrainz

Three piece instrumental heavy psych rock band from California, collaborating with Isaiah Mitchell (of Earthless fame) for some twin-guitar action. Phantom Logic delivers some gloriuous spaceous psychedelic rock with lots of guitars!

album-link: Phantom Logic - Salton Dust
Musicbrainz - Instagram

My top ten from last month were:

1. Yawning Balch - Volume Four
2. Liquify - Voyage To The Outer Worlds
3. Blke - Blke
4. The Dead At Sea - III
5. El Altar Del Holocausto - Ecos
6. Warp Transmission - Excess Currents
7. Maliciouz - Sympathypnotic Intercession
8. Elder - Through Zero
9. Conan - D.I.Y Series 2
10. Goldfish Kaseem - For A Bryter Future

Also worth checking out in my opinion were:
Goddess - Ritual Of The Cloven Hoof
Mantra Machine - Echoes Forest
The Oblivion Expedition - Intergalactic Gateway To Infinity
Jesus The Snake - Ethereal Waters

Out of the Doom Charts top ten, on my list Elder was at postition 8, I found the new album quite mediocre and missing the things I usually like about them. It felt to me like they made a safe bet.
All Them Witches (14) was also good, but they’ve changed their style so much that it felt like a different band, way folkier, airy and “lighter” so to speak. I liked the weight on previous recordings.
With Monolord (16) I didn’t get a promo, so I didn’t have time to listen to it too much before hand. After few listens it felt kinda like Elder, familiar in sound and excecution, but missing some of the “essence” I usually like about them.
Robot God (~40+) was well above my lists mid-tier, but obviously outside the top 25 submitted, but it felt quite a bit lighter than their previous “Time Capsule Chronicles”. Same goes for Restless Spirit (~40+), while Gozu (~40) failed to impress me in anyway and felt like a generic metal band with sprinklea of stoner.
Sönus was below my mid-tier (~50+) with their southern boogie rock, Goddess was at (11), The Quill at (28) doing what they do but with less power (my notes said “basic Quill rock”) and Skull Servant just behind Gozu (~40).

Many of those bands felt very generic and familiar to me, so I gravitated to sounds and vibes that were not so disctinctly “this band” or “that band”.