The Chug Charts Story
What had been running for years as a shared mediocre Google Sheet between friends is now a mediocre website where those ratings are on display for others.
We’re just a couple of guys who love hard rock and harder metal, who aren’t afraid to get a little progressive, that listen to everything possible within these spaces each year. We’re doing the hard work of sifting through the sewage that is most music to bring you the best of what there is on offer.
The Mission
The mission of Chug Charts is to be your reliable source for the latest good metal. Your home for good metal, if you will. You come here to be spoon fed the best metal each year has to offer, as it’s offered.
The Team
You know those reviews you’re reading? These are the people responsible.
The resident cave dwelling, chug loving, prog snob that doesn’t like prog. You’ll find me overindulging in mediocre music and rating it way too high.
Sorting the musical gems being released through the swampy waters is a tedious task, so why not let me do it for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is it that you do?
We’re a review website that gives you quick, to the point reviews of the best metal released as it’s released.
If you want any of these things in your reviews, we’ve got you:
- A proper, objective, and reasoned rating for an album
- All the review information delivered straight to your head in less than a minute (or so… most of the time)
- Current reviews as albums get released
- A resource to find your next metal favourite
- Samples of the music
- Coloured numbers
If you want any of these things, we do NOT got you:
- Reviews of every album (we don’t grade trash – if we don’t like it, it’s not here)
- Positive reviews of bad music
Why didn't you review [ALBUM]?
We haven’t gotten around to adding it to the site.
OR
We listened to it… and it was shit. It doesn’t belong here. Unless it made such an impact that we did review it…
How could you only give [ALBUM] a 7? Are you stupid?
Yes.
Why aren't some genres listed?
If an album we’ve reviewed fits the description of the genre, it will be on there. If it’s not, chances are we have not reviewed an album of that genre yet.
What the hell is Base Metal?
Base Metal is what we call metal of the standard variety. Colloquially it would be “regular metal”, but that term doesn’t do it justice. Easy examples are bands like Alter Bridge, Sevendust, and Disturbed. At least, this is how we conceptualise these bands in the sense of a subgenre that isn’t simply “metal”.