Friday, 12 December 2025

New Mexican Doom Cult Announce New Album Ziggurat Out January 23 Lead Single “Cloudrider” Out Now!


From the frozen edges of Gävle, where the Baltic winds carve deeper than memory and winters seem to stretch into eternity, New Mexican Doom Cult return with their new album Ziggurat, 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 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 ritualistic gloom. Their music is a slow-moving avalanche, massive, ominous, ritualistic.

The band recently revealed the lead single “Cloudrider,” a fuzz-drenched hymn inspired by Babylonian demons and “based on true events.” It pays homage to the founding fathers of doom while carving deeper into the band’s own expanding mythology.

Listen to "Cloudrider" here.

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.

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