Top 30 Most Scrobbled Artists of 2025

 

Top 30 Most Scrobbled Artists of 2025

Before we get going with the Personal lists… You know... My own Personal Top 20, and the lists of those few crazies that write, wrote or do something for the HiVe whenever they have time and energy. We want to share the list of Most Scrobbled Artists of 2025... 

Cause yes, we still scrobble, we scrobble the shit out of a lot of stuff. And this list of scrobbles, is a list of scrobbles that does not include Youtube, Soundcloud, Spotify or Bandcamp. All of which we also use. Spotify very very little. Youtube and Soundcloud a tiny bit… And Bandcamp quite a lot. We love Bandcamp! 

But here is a list of most scrobbled artists as scrobbled by a media player. One of those old school media players. That’s right, some people still use them! Simply because of digital promos sent and digital albums bought and downloaded. So, this isn’t the amount of vinyl listened or cd’s played. Nor is it the list of artists listened to, while on the road to nowhere in particular. Nope, this is a list of artists scrobbled while sitting fully clothed or stark naked behind a computer screen typing away and reaching auditory climax by all that heavy goodness scrobbled… I said auditory climax... 

So, this is the 30 Most Scrobbled Artists of the total number of 714 artists scrobbled this way in the foul year of 2025… 

 

 

Lorquin's Admiral

Masters of Reality

Bask

Komatsu

Kaiser

Temple Fang

Dozer

Grey Czar

Greenleaf

Acid Magus

Howling Giant

Stoned Jesus

The Elven

Mandy Manala

Messa

Black Sabbath

Kadavar

AAWKS

Ditch

Kryptograf

Queens Of The Stone Age

Birds of Nazca

Conan

Homegrown

Void King

Duel

Lacertilia

Yawning Man

Aceves

Supernaughty

 What to know what songs we played the most? 

 

Here's a Top 10! 

 

Temple Fang - Josephine

Temple Fang - The River

Masters Of Reality - Mr. Tap n' Go

 

Khan - That Fair And Warlike Form

 

The Elven - Shine

 

Bask - In The Heat of The Dying Sun

 

Komatsu - Welcome To The Underworld

 

Lorquin's Admiral - These Lovely Things

 

Masters of Reality - I Had A Dream

 

Aceves - The True And Indisputable Meaning of Rock and Roll

 

 

As of tomorrow, we will be posting the Personal Favorites Albums of 2025 of the Stoner HiVe team..  

The Red Lantern

 

The Red Lantern

We haven’t been able to do a Red Lantern post every year. Cause the albums that earn the Red Lantern are only those on a sent in list of twenty entries, where they occupy the 20th position, and then only get voted for on that twentieth spot that one time. The years when this did not happen at all, we just invented the Bottom Dwellers post. And the reason why, remains the same. We just love the fact somebody out there loves these albums so hard they want other people to know about them. And we are here to help out!

 If only a tiny little bit...

So, since the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown is a weighted list and not every lovely freak out there sends in their list as a Top 20. Some send more, some send less. And we only count the albums that receive a Number 20 spot on any of the lists sent in as a contender for the Red Lantern. So this year, we have THREE albums that received only one vote as a Number 20 spot on someone’s list... Three amazing albums we might add! And here they are... 

 

An Evening With Knives - End Of Time

End Of Time by Eindhoven metal trio An Evening With Knives lives up to its apocalyptic promise. Featuring new drummer Jarno van Osch, the album is fiercer, tighter, and more direct than its predecessors, with eight lean tracks packed into a punchy 39 minutes. While Marco Gelissen’s vocals occasionally search for footing, his roaring delivery quickly dominates. Standouts like “Pride Of Lions” and the atmospheric closer “S21” showcase an album that’s aggressive, focused, and seismic.

 Full Review Here

 

Miscellen - Emerald Ash

With Emerald Ash, Miscellen conjures a world where time erodes but leaves echoes of beauty. Nine expansive tracks unfold like weathered statues and fading photographs—fragile yet enduring. Layers of textured instrumentation, from Jason Sevanick’s ethereal strings to Joe King’s primal drumming, entwine with Tyler Wolosin’s expressive vocals, Paul Green’s piercing violin, and ghostly field recordings. Sparse voices and dreamlike passages drift through desolate soundscapes, balancing melancholy with defiance, capturing the fleeting, persistent pulse of life and the quiet strength that lingers beyond impermanence. 

 

The Ossuary - Requiem For The Sun

Italy’s The Ossuary slam full-force with Requiem For the Sun, a crushing mix of doom, classic metal, and psychedelic stoner rock. Blistering riffs, scorching solos, and haunting vocals hit from the first note of “Altar in Black” to the epic closer “Eloise.” Tracks like “Far From the Tree” deliver unforgettable hooks, spine-tingling grooves, and headbanging intensity, while slower, atmospheric moments keep the darkness alive. Inventive, heavy, and relentlessly powerful, this album proves The Ossuary are a modern metal powerhouse you can’t ignore.

 

Check out the Full Top 20 Countdown of 2025 by following these links:

The Number 1 album of 2025

The Countdown so far...  

Or skip the 20 best and visit the Numbers 21 to 100!  

 

Onwards and Upwards in 2026!

 

Onwards and Upwards in 2026!

 These are the Numbers 21 to 100 voted for by you for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025.

 

How much time do you wait after publishing the Number 1 album from the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025? I never know... Well... Here's how we continue I guess... Best of wishes to each and everyone out there! Take care of yourself and the ones you love! Be good to the people you meet. Treat them as you would like to be treated. It’s the most important thing you can do. And of course, promote all those bands and albums you love so dearly!  We know who produced the Number 1 album of 2025 according to all you lovely voters! HOWLING GIANT!

But of course, you all voted for many many many more albums. We won’t be sharing the total list of 572 albums, but we will share the Top 21 to 100. With Psychonaut's World Maker on Number 21, missing thirty points to be equal to Kaiser and Conan on Number 20. And Florist's Adrift needing almost two thousand to do the same. Those are the 21 to 100 in spots, where quite a lot are tied as well. If we would publish the the list to separate the ties, we would need another twenty spots. Which would mean Piece's Rambler's Axe would end up at Number 100. 

So once again, loads of albums ended up with the same amount of points below the Top 20, which means once again that the quality of releases has been amazing. We’re sticking with the 21 to 100 list below. As you all voted for it! And marvel, like we do at the end of every year, at the amount of amazing freaking heavy music release this year! Let’s hope 2026 brings as much of the good and heavy once again!!

  

Psychonaut – World Maker

Winds Of Neptune - Winds Of Neptune 

Bask - TheTurning

Elder - Liminality / Dream State Return

Sheev - Ate's Alchemist  

Seedy Jeezus - Damned To The Depths

Wolftooth - Wizard's Light 

Faetooth- Labyrinthine 

Astralplane - Out Of The Void 

Mountain Dust – Mountain Dust

 

Lorquin's Admiral - Lorquin's Admiral  

Margarita Witch Cult - Strung Out In Hell

Slomatics - Atomicult 

IcarusBurns - Icarus Burns 

Hebi Katana - Imperfection

Håndgemeng - Satanic Panic Attack

Rainbows Are Free - Silver And Gold

Acid Magus - Scatterling Empire  

TorpedoTorpedo - Arrows Of Time

Crystal Spiders - Metanoia

 

The Elven -Solstice

Cosmic Reaper - Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned

Dax Riggs – 7 Songs For Spiders

Hög - Blackhole

Appalooza -The Emperor Of Loss

Hibernaut -Obsidian Eye  

Grey Czar -Euarthropodia

Pelican - Flickering Resonance  

Daevar - Sub Rosa

The Lunar Effect - Fortune’s Always Hiding

 

Tar Pit - Scrying The Angel Gate

Dead Shrine - Cydonia Mensa

Pale Horse Ritual - Diabolic Formation

Birds Of Nazca - Pangaea 

Kadavermarch - Kadavermarch

Black MagicTree - Terra  

Ironrat -Beneath It All

Beastwars – The Ship / The Sea

Gaupa -Fyr 

Black Moon Cult - Ophidian Future (The Children Of Yig)

 

Hedonist –Eat Thus

Supernaughty- Apocalypso

Red Eye - III

Warchief - Toil & Trouble  

Sleeping Mountain - Sleeping Mountain

Bogwife - From Ashes

Cattlemass - Alpha 1128

Lo-Pan -Get Well Soon

Crop - S.S.R.I 

Ordos – Fire

 

KingPotenaz - Arcane Desert Rituals Vol. 1  

Pentagram – Lightning In A Bottle

Earl OfHell - Earl Of Hell

Bentrees -Silver Veins

Hexecutioner - Tornit  

Slumbering Sun - Starmony

Stone Nomads - Empires Of Stone

Black Water Rising - The Edge

Zoahr – Mosaic

Electric Citizen - Ec4

 

Doomherre -Plaguelords

Wyatt E. – Zamāru Ultu Qereb Ziqquratu, Part 1

Turtle Skull - Being Here

Bone Church - Deliverance

Mooch - Kin

Kadavar -Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin

Warlung - The Poison Touch

Gin Lady - Before The Dawn Of Time

Motorpsycho - Motorpsycho

Möuth - Global Warning

 

Foot - The Hammer

Deafheaven- Lonely People With Power

CloudsTaste Satanic - Birmingham 2024

Fu Manchu - The Return Of… Live

Yawning Man- Pavement Ends

Kombynat Robotron - Aank

Good Spirits - The Greenseer

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Death Hilarious

Miss Lava – Under A Black Sun

Florist - Adrift  

 

The above links, link to mentions on Stoner HiVe. This year we only link to actual reviews of that album... If there is no link, we did not review the album on Stoner HiVe ... And we should be flogged and flailed for it! Tarred and feathered and dragged through the streets...