New Mexican Doom Cult reveal lead single »Cloudrider« from upcoming album »Ziggurat«; out January 23rd via Majestic Mountain Records!
Gävle, Sweden based stoner/doom/fuzz rock quartet New Mexican Doom Cult will release their new full-length album »Ziggurat« on January 23rd, 2026 via Majestic Mountain Records.
The band just revealed the lead single »Cloudrider«, a fuzz-drenched hymn inspired by Babylonian demons and “based on true events,” paying homage to the founding fathers of doom while carving deeper into their own growing mythology.
Listen to »Cloudrider« on all major streaming platforms!
Tracklist:
01. The Church Of Starry Wisdom
02. Metatron
03. Cloudrider
04. Return To Babylon
05. Criosphinx
06. Sungod
07. I Stand Alone
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From the ruins of the Great Ziggurat of Uruk, or rather, from the frozen edges of Gävle, where Baltic winds carve deeper than memory and winters stretch into eternit, New Mexican Doom Cult return with »Ziggurat«, their new album set to be released on January 23rd via Majestic Mountain Records.
Forged in isolation and raised on the altar of down-tuned amplification, the quartet channel a sound that feels unearthed from ancient ruins: a towering fusion of stoner doom, fuzz-worship, and myth-soaked heaviness, steeped in tales of forgotten gods, doomed expeditions, and cosmic dread. Their music is a slow-moving avalanche: massive, ominous, and ritualistic.
New Mexican Doom Cult began their journey with the 2019 single »The Passage«, an eerie ode to a doomed Arctic voyage swallowed by seven months of darkness. This was the first glimpse into the band’s penchant for storytelling steeped in isolation, terror, and the supernatural.
In 2021, the singles »Mark Of Cain« and »The Abyss«, recorded with producer Jonas Strömberg at Slowbeat Studios, further defined the band’s aesthetic, biblical fury, primordial chaos, and a steadfast commitment to colossal riffs.
Their true emergence came with the 2023 full-length »Necropolis« (Ozium Records), a sprawling seven-track ritual of subterranean worship and psychedelic haze. The album earned critical praise for its raw atmosphere and monolithic power, cementing the band as one of Sweden’s darkest and most compelling doom exports.
That same year, »From The Crypt« (Olde Magick Records) unearthed the band’s earliest recordings, remastered into a five-song tombstone featuring tales of ice monsters, Sumerian demons, cannibal cults, and phantom ships, a proof that from the beginning, the Cult was destined for darkness.
Now aligned with Majestic Mountain Records, New Mexican Doom Cult unveil »Ziggurat«, their most focused and mythologically rich offering yet. Taking inspiration from the ancient temples of Mesopotamia, the new album feels like a storm gathering over desert ruins, ominous, meditative, and crushingly heavy.
A conceptual continuation of their earlier material, »Ziggurat« fuses the band’s signature fuzz-laden riffs with cinematic atmospheres and occult storytelling. The result is a record that bridges Sweden’s windswept emptiness with the burning sands of ancient myth.
Line-up:
Nils – Guitars/Vocals
Fredrik – Bass
David – Guitars
Magnus – Drums
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well