JK’s – Personal Top 20

JK’s – Personal Top 20

The Stoner HiVe Team Members are all involved with the Doom Charts as well. So most of the personal lists already appeared there. But we’re reposting them here once again. Just because we like to keep things nice and tidy and up with the tradition…

JK’s – Personal Top 20 (errr, Top 30)

What a year it has been once again. Rock has been declared dead so many times. Or declared a Titan Arum that bloomed for the last time around the seventies an equal amount of times. But it seems the heavy side of rock just keeps on blooming. It’s just different nowadays! Because of the internet or perhaps thanks to the internet. There are so many outlets to find the music to suit your exact taste. I personally just hope that all you crazy music fiends out there keep on trying out the other stuff as well. Cause we can all get swamped in our own little niche of danceable stoner pop, blackened doom or grimy garage sludge. But there are so many amazing album being released on a monthly basis. It is stupendous, insane and absolutely stunning. Below follows a list of thirty albums that did a lot for me on many levels. But I can just as easily name twenty or fifty more that also did a lot for me. And that’s just the heavy stuff. Looking at the thirty I sent in; I’m thinking: ‘what the hell?!’ How can you leave off Nightstalker? Or Lunar Effect? Or Ealdor Bealu? Solace? Horseburner? Emily Jane White? Or those two amazing records that were released at the very end of December 2018: Pfund and Son Cesano? It feels wrong, and it feels like I should revise the entire list again. Or even just include them all. All of the ones that I love. Well, I guess I just loved the thirty below just a tiny, almost unmeasurable, amount more. Upwards and Onwards in 2020! Let’s get heavy once again! ~ Joop

30.    Planet of The 8’s – Tourist Season

29.    Per Wiberg – Head Without Eyes

28.    ZED – Volume

27.    The Grand Mal – The Grand Mal

26.    Warp – Warp

25.    Lo-Pan – Subtle

24.    Ulysses – On Safari

23.    Gold – Why Aren’t You Laughing

22.    Cold In Berlin – Rituals of Surrender

21.    Torche – Admission

20.    Obsidian Sea – Strangers

19.    No Man’s Valley – Outside The Dream

18.    Gin Lady – Tall Sun Crooked Moon

17.    Howling Giant – The Space Between Worlds

16.    Roadsaw – Tinnitus The Night

15.    Year Of The Cobra – Ash And Dust

14.    Crypt Trip – Haze County

13.    Green Lung – Woodland Rites

12.    Spidergawd – V

11.    Luna Sol – Below The Deep

10.    Monomyth – Orbis Quadrantis

9.    Saturna – Atlantis

8.    American Sharks – 11:11

7.    Zoahr – Off Axis

6.    The Devil And The Almighty Blues – Tre

5.    Black Wizards – Reflections 

4.    Wallace Vanborn – A Scalp For The Tribe

3.    Arrowhead – Coven Of The Snake

2.    John J Presley – As The Night Draws In

1.    Kamchatka – Hoodoo Lightning