The Countdown so far...

 

 

The Countdown so far...

Later on, after the clock strikes twelve and this insane year of 2020 finally ends, we will know what the best album of 2020 is according to 147 of you lovely freaks out there. Those music fiends who had the time and energy to send their list to us. We thank you once again, cause without you fellow freaks in the HiVe this could not be possible. And in spite of everything else, it has once again been a wonderful year for all sorts of heavy music, without any question. Amazing, stunning and incredible, the amount of great music being made around the globe. A huge bow for all those bands, artists and artieste!

And it seems the good stuff will keep on coming! Cause the pre-releases of January and February are a pretty darn stunning! As for 2020; 23 of the best albums made this year, made the Top 20 Countdown of 2020… But ofcourse you guys voted for many more great and magnificent albums. All of which deserve to be on all those personal lists. Cause they’re all awesome! And yes, we shall publish the Numbers 21 to a 100 in a few days. Probably on January 2nd… We will feature the personal lists of the HiVe team members; although most of those are already up on the Doom Charts page!  And unfortunately, once again, there was NO album that holds The Red Lantarn this year. There was not one album that was voted for on the twentieth position of someone’s list and only once… But we shall mention a few of those bottom dwellers; cause who knows, it might just be your new favorite album! But before we tear up or start professing our love for this or that, let's run though the countdown one last time and prepare for fireworks, (if you're in a country where it is allowed) a truckload of champagne and the knowledge of who produced the Number 1  album of 2020 according to you voters out there! Thanks everyone and let's all make sure 2021 will become the best year ever! Or at least the best year 2021 can be! Heavy, loud and amazing!

 

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2.    Psychlona – Venus Skytrip

 
3.    Elephant Tree – Habits

 
4.    King Buffalo – Dead Planet

5.    Kryptograf – Kryptograf

6.    Forming The Void – Reverie

7.    Bonehawk – Iron Mountain

8.    Sun Crow – Quest For Oblivion

9.    Slift – Ummon

10.    All Them Witches – Nothing As The Ideal

11.    Witchskull – A Driftwood Cross

12.    Kind – Mental Nudge

13.    REZN – Chaotic Divine

14.    Motorpsycho – The All Is One

15.    Black Rainbows – Cosmic Ritual Supertrip

16.    Ritual King – Ritual King & Butterfly – Doorways Of Time

17.    Arcadian Child – Protopsycho

18.    Elder – Omens & Acid Mammoth – Under Acid Hoof & Uubbuurruu – Uubbuurruu

19.    Mountain Tamer – Psychosis Ritual

20.    Dopelord – Sign Of The Devil

Number 2

 

 

Number 2

The jumps become incredibly huge now. We jump over a thousand and two hundred points from Elephant Tree at Number 3 to reach the Silver Medal position. We can safely state that all the albums that have popped up on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 of 2020 deserve to be there! But I guess when the amount of points received by the votes of all you crazy freak out there is this enormous; there is no denying the fact that the Numbers 1 and 2 are dead set in their position. I’ve been very vocal about this album during the year; cause it is without any doubt my personal favorite. And if Shasta Beast had not taken the lead, I would definitely have written something about this amazing album. Shasta wrote back in August:  “There's no holding back either as the album opens with one of its most entertaining cuts. The aptly named "Blast Off" starts with one of the best licks on the record, piercing guitar notes that seem to strobe and echo out to the farthest reaches of space. Underneath are rocksteady drums that build towards the inevitable explosion of distortion, a  launchpad for a driving groove.” And right he is, best opening track from 2020 on the Silver Medal album according to all the voters that sent in their list to the Stoner HiVe… On Number 2 we find!

Psychlona - Venus Skytrip

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Number 3

 

 

Number 3

We can’t believe we are already at the Number 3 position of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020. The Bronze Medal! And shit, we can’t believe this fucked up year is almost done as well! And that we can look forward into 2021 with some hope that the fucked up thing of 2020 will finally be done with. But before we get into that state of mind, you know, that state, we put on King Buffalo we found on Number 4 yesterday one last time (for now); so we can try and come to grips of jumping another big hundred and sixty points to reach Number 3. Yes, another hundred and sixty points higher than that amazing King Buffalo album… And here we find a band that reached the Number 14 position of the 2016 Top 20 Countdown with their previous album and obviously reached the first spot of the Doom Charts back in April with their new one. This English psychedelic stoner rock formation delivers their take on earthy and folky inspiration with a high dose of fuzz and equal amount of enchanting atmosphere. Some doomy energy here and a lot of progressive touches turns this album into a must-have classic with no effort at all. For the unbelievable amount of earth shaking riffs and thundering grooves seem to continue on like a tsunami of heaviness. You can’t remain the occasional user listening to this one; it will enlarge any form of habit or addiction you have to this kind of music; it will balloon and it will be majestic! So, once more, into the breach for the Bronze Medal. On Number 3 in 2020 we find!

 

Elephant Tree – Habits

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Number 4

 

 

Number 4

Can’t get enough of Kryptograf! Can you? That Number 5 album is such a wild ride! But we move on to Number 4 today and we do that with a jump of over a hundred and seventy points! Those jumps just keep getting bigger thanks to all the voters who loved the albums! Well, their 2018 album reached the fifth position of that years Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown and this years is once again an album that jumped to Number One of the March Doom Charts. It is doomy, it is metal, it is psychedelic, it is sludge and most of all it dares to fare into different territories, turning experimental into this precious adventure that one and all enjoys and wants to experience over and over again... It’s a trip, addictive by nature and always leaving the listener wanting more; a tapestry of intricate textures and of a multitude of colors, ever building and masters in delaying the inevitable, they are the kings, the captains that know exactly how much elongation is required to get you to the exact point of climax and then leaving you there for just a few minutes longer… Just think of the sex you could have with this album and you will know… Number 4 is:  

King Buffalo – Dead Star

 

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Number 5

 

 

Number 5

 

Yesterday at Number 6, we found another absolute personal favorite, namely: Forming The Void. But to reach the next album on the next position we jump a bit more than hundred and fifty points! Indeed, the jumps get bigger and bigger, which perhaps might serve as a testament to the position the albums occupy. On Number 5 we find a debut album that just immediately turned everything and everyone around them on and in on their sound. The four Norwegians have found their own little filthy proto hole to curl up in and transform all the weird stuff they find into proto gold, occult love and prog addiction. With some doom influences, psychedelic touches and a lot of sixties and seventies devotion the four from Bergen give us once again an album married to all that brilliance out of the original golden age of heavy rock. Sharing vocal duties between three, the four ride out the fuzz wherever it may take them. And it will take you on such a wild and amazing adventure that you cannot help fall head over heels with this album… A classic in every sense of the word. On Number 5 we find:

Kryptograf – Kryptograf 

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Number 6

 

 

Number 6

To reach Number 6 we jump a hundred and forty points from BoneHawk on Number 7. Where we find a band that has made the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown before; back in 2018 they reached the Number 12 spot. Once again we hear a partnership between sludge metal, stoner and prog being performed at the very edge of the alchemic dreamstate. You will soon be lost in an golden oblivious state and you will experience the impressionistic compositions in all its glory. With ever more use of melodies, intricate structures and dynamic extremes they conjure up a majestic groove that will swallow you whole. It turns the heavy churn into something transcendental, mystical and magical. And it turns their sound into the all encompassing greatness of genre breaking and boundaries shaking music. An album that should be in everyone’s possession! On Number 6:

Forming The Void – Reverie

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Number 7

 

 

Number 7

That Sun Crow album that was there on the first day of Christmas at Number 8 just a minute or two ago, gets dwarfed by almost a hundred and twenty points by the album we find on Number 7. An album, we must confess, we were pretty late to get hip to. The rest of Doom Chart Contributors were already grooving to this beast of an album and voting it up on the Doom Charts before it could grab us, pull us in an infect us with its mountainous riffs and rhythms. Intensely dynamic and continuously shifting color; the nine tracks on this album move from classic sounding hard rock and metal to stoner infused new day magnificence. Yes, for these guys its an effortlessly small step from the seventies psych, jam and blues to harmony and heavy trucking from the nineties. They’ve got their very own strange kind of magic and it will spellbind you and slowly infect you with its addictiveness. On Number 7 we find!

Bonehawk – Iron Mountain 

 

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Number 8

 

 

 Number 8

 

We love that Ummon album by Slift, which occupied Number 9 so much! So much! It even hurts a bit to continue on. But we have to, cause the Top 20 Countdown waits for nothing. So, we arrive at Number 8 after another jump of almost forty points. Where we find another band that rocketed to the Number One position of the Doom Charts. And this happened; only a month ago. Yes, we are talking about that proto, nay, paleo metal effort from Seattle. Adventuring through the blues roots and the doom beginnings; they turn their metal something dark, brooding and colossal. And it just grows and grows  and becomes bigger and bigger as the album progresses; and we launch straight towards the edge of the known universe. Where time melts and every law of nature we assume has merit disappears like an asteroid turns into one single atom. It is an adventure, it a quest, a search for something one cannot name… On Number 8:

 

Sun Crow – Quest For Oblivion

 

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Number 9

 

 

Number 9

As we move towards the zero digit placings and leave behind All Them Witches on Number 10 we jump another seventy-three points. On Number 9 we find an album that implores hefty stoner riffs, cumbersome doom influences, a whole universe filled with space rock and all that lovely kraut to color their own style intense heavy prog. And there is that jazzy side; which is so much in debt to the drummer and propels the band evermore forward and always to greater heights. Turning all into one king hell of an electric kool-aid acid trip! There are distant echoes and reveries, celestial choirs illuminating space. Ancestral voices and ancient extraterrestrial rites. Abyssal doom and apocalyptic noise. There's chaos. And there's silence. There’s a pull, a push, a change, a swing and a shift! On Number 9 we find:  

Slift – Ummon

 

 

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Number 10

 

 

Number 10

Entering the Top 10 today… And this means another big jump from Witchskull on Number 11 to reach Number 10; a jump with over a hundred points in fact. Well, there aren’t that many bands that can truly deliver this kind of feeling and atmosphere with a potent mixture of mercury stoner riffs, grinded blues patterns and pressed psychedelic ambience. There is a presence lurking hear that feels weird and will ride your body like a wave of goosebumps. Changing up their magical concoction with every record, the (now) trio delivers something stunningly sinister and majestically gothic. Nothing seems to be standing in their way of imploring gritty metal riffs and chugging rhythms to create their ideal and seemingly perfect universe… Creepy by default and completely enthralling! Furious, epic and cinematic! Indeed, here is Number 10!

All Them Witches – Nothing As The Ideal

 

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Number 11

 

 

Number 11

Yesterday’s Number 12 featured Kind and their Mental Nudge album thanks to all the votes that came in and ofcourse due to the fact that it is such an incredible album. But the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020 list goes on and there is an amazing album lurking around every corner. Next up is an album with so much metal in it; it’s hard not to fall heavily in love with it. It’s doomy, it’s trippy, it’s pure class and intense classic metal. The riffs will lure you in, the drums will pound you into submission and the vocals with haunt you for the rest of your life. It’s thick, it’s vast and it’s electrifying. We continue to be dragged down the rabbit hole of this metal album; and love it for all the metal that it is. Even the occult touches, the stoner twitches and the Sabbath tics cannot steal away any second of the metal that is present. It is in the blood, it is marked and it is on the cross... On Number 11:

Witchskull – A Driftwood Cross

 

 

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Number 12

 

 

Number 12

Our infatuation with Chaotic Divine by REZN which we found on Number 13 grows by the day and so does our love for the Number 12 album. Another one of those albums that skyrocketed to the Number 1 position of the Doom Charts. It’s been five years, but now they’re back with a super album from what you can call a supergroup! Comprised out of members that already earned their heavy spurs on band such as Roadsaw, Elder, Rozamov and Black Pyramid. The seven tracks on their new album are heady, heavy, punchy, proggy and powerful. There is all sorts of heavy here that can all be taken at face value, but better experienced as a whole. And a whole it is; it feels round, complete and perfectly layered. It will submerge you into your own inner sphere and it will prod your psyche into every possible direction. It will do so aggressively without turning it into a violent act or violate any part of your mind, body or soul. There is something about this album that will resonate much longer than you might expect; in fact… It might resonate with you, with me and everybody who might come in touch with this album for as long as they will live… And then it will ring on into eternity… On Number 12 we find:

 

Kind – Mental Nudge

 

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Number 13

 

 

Number 13

As we pass Motorpsycho on Number 14 with almost thirty points to reach the next album, we remember bang the re-release of their 2017 album made earlier in the year as well. The Off The Record Label facilitated it and it sold like crazy. Just like the new album that was done by that same awesome Off The Record Label and the band themselves. It jumped to the Number One position of the Doom Charts upon release and it took the art of psychedelic doom to a whole new level. They’ve churned mud into mercury and grime into gold. A conceptual and exceptional piece of art that shines a different kind of light on all the heavy genres we love so dearly; it shows us that heavy riffs, quiet melodies, wild sax and intense synths can work together in perfect harmony to create something so divine yet chaotic. Yes, on lucky Number 13 we find:

REZN - Chaotic Divine

 

 

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Number 14

 

 

Number 14

Man, how I have been loving that Black Rainbows album! And I would have definitely loved, thought and hoped it would have ended higher than Number 15. Same goes for more albums that we passed and that did not even make the Top 20 Countdown of 2020. But that’s how it goes. And that’s exactly what happened to Number 14 as well! How can this album not be higher on the list? What will be in the Top 10 if we find this pure masterpiece on Number 14? We make a bigger jump in points for this album; we climb 136 points from Number 15 to reach Number 14. All of their albums have always been one long trip, filled with tension arcs that demand exploration, devotion and adoration. The new record is no different and probably takes it all to the next level. the final piece in a trilogy that started back in 2017. Filled with long winded yet highly entertaining jams, rock tracks that have this intense pop side and rock that shimmies up against folk and prog. The biggest effort though is heard in a piece of art, a five pieces, piece of art. Five pieces make up the ending section of the album and gives us forty minutes of brilliant prog rock and a multitude of melodic themes. Fresh and vital sounding meandering sections of strings and almost otherworldly compositions, sounding so effortlessly and so unabashedly musical and precise. And unendingly inspirational; it will make you dream and it will make you want to create… On Number 14:

Motorpsycho – The All Is One

 

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Number 15

 

 

Number 15

We jump twenty-two points from the two albums we found on Number 16 to reach Number 15. After this we make the first bigger jump in points. As mentioned a few times now, these positions were all very close and there was a moment in time when it looked like the album we find on Number 15 actually wasn’t going to make it on. Being one of my personal favorites I could not fathom such a thing happening. They’ve had a majestic run with earlier albums and this one might just be better than all of them. And that’s saying something! There’s a different kind of groove here, more electric and more grating, more punch and more smash ‘n grab. Fast paced and invigorating. Everything feels thick, dense and swirling. Like a cosmic maelstrom that turns solid fast and then drops out of the sky with a heavy pounce. And there is twelve tracks of this. And seriously, all of them have an amazing edge to them. High energy and a weighty sound! Or as Madman Tony Maim said: “Tight, taut songs that hit you between the eyes… A potential masterpiece!” We're going straight to the devil on Number 15!

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Number 16

 

 

 Number 16

We pass Arcadian Child on Number 17 with only 17 points to find ourselves on the Number 16 position, which once again features two albums. And I must confess that the amount of votes for one of them really surprised me, not because I do not dig the album or understand the heaviness, I guess I just did not dive deep enough into it as all of you did. Even though it featured highly on the Doom Charts. But we’ll mention the other one first; cause that was a HiVe favorite and one mentioned by that dastardly Reek of Stoom. He wrote something like: “Seven titanic tracks of first-degree sensorial assault. Crunch, crush and charisma - seismic bass tones pinning currents of savage Stoner riffery with clean, clear vocals soaring like a hunting Kestrel. Jazz-infused beats suddenly give way to Doomy smatterings of harsh abrasive riffs, pierced by sweet guitar noodles. The album delivers breadth, width and height: the full dimensions of Modern Underground Metal in all it's geometric gelignite.” Right on! The other release is a classic in every sense of the word, classic metal, classic hardrock and classic compositions. It’s classy, has many albums outclassed and is almost unclassifiable. Sorry about that, we just dove deep into this magical Melbourne time machine and saw the proto-metal, seventies hardrock and eighties metal in all its glory; it made me flutter like a butterfly… On Number 16:

Ritual King – Ritual King

Butterfly – Doorways of Time

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Number 17

 

 

Number 17

An album that jumped into the Top 20 thanks to those final lists that were sent during the final night and on the final morning before the final deadline passed. Jumping enough to settle 20 points above those three we found on Number 18. A band that many voted for and many lists featured it high on their list; but as mentioned before the Number 15 to 40 are all pretty close together in comparison to what comes later and before. So anyway, those last few lists, made it reach the Top 20… Their 2018 record got spun to an incredibly degree over here and the new one just improves on every aspect of that record. With eastern and world influences their psychedelic folk rock often leaves you breathless and giddy with joy; that in a world that seems to be burning at both ends, a release like this can be so uplifting and delightful. The melancholy that might be present on a track or two gets powered over by those sixties and seventies inspired grooves, the wide open atmosphere and that bright shimmering light at the end of the tunnel. No more tea for me please, just put this record on as pick me up and feel the warmth blow away all that negative energy and that cold winter spirit… And by sheer coincidence (cause that is how the Great Magnet rolls) the honorable JJ Koczan put up a review of the album on The Obelisk this very day… On Number 17 we find! 

Arcadian Child – Protopsycho

 

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Number 18

 

 

Number 18

Even with such a great amount of lists pouring in, so many votes cast, there is still apparently the possibility of multiple albums receiving the exact amount of points. And in this case, no less than three! Three albums that beat Mountain Tamer’s Psychosis Ritual which stood proudly on Number 19 with exactly 14 points. One of them released Number One album after Number One album the past years but has not managed to claim that position with their new album among fans this year. Perhaps there already was a hint or a sign when they gave the album that title? However portentous it all might be, we definitely still adore the album and so many of you out there do as well, but not as much as all their earlier releases. So they’re stuck on Number 18 with two other bands. One of them is a deep dive into proto-metal, doom and heavy psychedelic meandering. It is that tried and tested Sabbath worshiping goodness from the ancient days that implores just enough sludge and stoner to resurrect their hairy beast and make every stomp and trample highly addictive. Just like the third act present here, a rock ‘n roll time machine running on an eclectic amalgam of genres ranging from late ‘60s psychedelia all the way to more contemporary stoner metal. Their fuzzed out and dynamic sound could be described as a new strand of classic rock or as the purest of vintage grooves revitalized for the modern age. Whichever path you take; whichever music you need, be sure to listen to all three of the albums we find on Number 18 ! 

Elder – Omens

Acid Mammoth – Under Acid Hoof

UUBBUURRUU – UUBBUURRUU

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Number 19

 

Number 19

 

The Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020 commenced yesterday after tallying all those votes that came in during the past two weeks and it amazed me that the bottom region of the Top 20 was so close together. Dopelord’s Sign Of The Devil on Number 20 for instance only received twelve points more than the one on Number 21; but the Number 19 also only grabbed twelve points more than Number 20. A three piece heavy psychedelic rock formation out of California that released it’s third album this year. It’s got as much doom moments as it has punk and it drowns us all with their demented ritual. Leaving us all breathless and bordering on psychotic after the seven tracks have passed. Only 32 minutes long this release starts of slow, cloying and diffuse; then quickly starts to pick up speed, aggression and intensity and in the end will feel like a mountain of seismic energy has crushed every part of your being. On Number 19 we find:

Mountain Tamer – Psychosis Ritual

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Number 20

 

 

Number 20

Last year we made this weird remark about the beginning of the end of humanity when we put up the Number 20 of 2019. This year the end of humanity seemed upon us for a moment or two, right? Cause c'mon, for a moment there we all assumed the pandemic would turn at least some of us into zombies? Cause c'mon the amount of zombies in popular culture can't be for nothing? It might have been sign?It might all have been a sign? In fact the amount of albums released this year with omens or signs in the title, is also a bit disturbing. One of them features proudly on the Number 20 position of 2020. Their doom rock, their occult touches and their sludgy moments have gotten better with every release these four from Poland have put out. And now they’ve infused it with deliriously tasty space rock moments and dope ass psych. Never quite reaching that first spot on the Doom Charts the album stayed on it for quite some months. Which is logical when the peaks are so high and the energy so wild. With every track delivering gloriously evil momentum and the perfect beat to do that twisted little dance with the devil. Number 20 for your pleasure and that of Satan!

Dopelord – Sign Of The Devil

 

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The Stoner HiVe top 20 countdown of 2020

  

The Stoner HiVe top 20 countdown of 2020

And so it begins…

We have long since passed the 12:00 CET deadline on December the 13nd of this freaking idiotic year of 2020; but once again so amazing in musical sense. Stupendous once again when it comes to heavy music releases. And each year, since the beginning of Stoner HiVe back in 2009 has been filled with so many great albums. It is simply stupefying to think of all that heavy magic and musical mojo! Really, it blows my mind… So, my thanks goes out to all those amazing bands and artists who provided us with so much incredible music, so much musical mojo, that we all love so dearly. But hey, the deadline for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020 has passed! And we have dwarfed our record of last year! 147 lists! Wow! A new smashing record! Thanks everyone for sending your list. The ones that sent their Top 5’s, their Top 10’s, Top 20’s or detailing 40 or even a 100 great and favorite albums. Thanks! Thanks and thanks a million! We love it! And now, we go on to reveal the Number 20 of 2020! The Number 20 according to all you cats out there who decided to vote for the Countdown this year!

So, one final thank you, to all of you, the ones who made all those heavy albums we all love and to those who listened to it, fell in love with it and decided to vote for it for the HiVe! Cause without you gals and guys this would not be possible! The votes have been cast, the lists are in… Let’s start the countdown!

So… without further ado…

We give you, according to all of your votes,

NUMBER TWENTY!

The Absolute Final Hours

  

 The Absolute Final Hours

Still entering lists that were sent our way! Amazing degree of participation on your part! And we are counting those final seconds of the final hours before the deadline passes and the Top 20 Countdown of 2020 starts… There are still a few hours left before the deadline closes. So if you still have time, energy and the will to contribute: send your list of favorite albums to our EMAIL. The Final Deadline is a few hours away: December 13th 12:00 CET. After which we will tally the last votes that came in and we shall publish Number 20 as soon as that is done! And, well, it’s already shaping up to be a records breaking good one! So join in on all that heavy fun!

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The Final Hours

 

 

The Final Hours

We’ve seen a couple of posts to try and propel a certain album unto the Top 20 Countdown of 2020 and we’ve warned about the approaching deadline. And it’s approaching very fast now! It is the reason the Stoner HiVe was started. So there was a vehicle to countdown the best albums of a year. Voted for by all you freaks in the HiVe… And so, after revisiting all those amazing albums of 2020 as we try and make a choice which we love more we look forward and back again. Forward to the Top 20 Countdown that will commence tomorrow and back into the hazy past of 2020! There are still a few hours left to send your list of favorite albums of 2020 to us!  The final deadline will be tomorrow, December 13th, 12:00 CET. And we will see the first post, the Number 20 of the Top 20 Countdown of 2020 appear a few hours after that…

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I Saw The Deep – Vimana - Top 20 Push

 

Top 20 of 2020 album push post!

As we approach that jump off date for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020; we notice that certain highly loved albums aren’t getting the number of votes we hoped they would. So we enlisted the help of the Stoner HiVe Team to try and do one last push to get them higher on the end list…

Up next is the pusher promotion post by Joop Konraad!

I Saw The Deep – Vimana

 

Being the guy entering all the lists doing all the tallying, I notice some of my Top 10 albums of 2020 not getting enough votes. I could actually make a promo post about a lot of them! Grrr! And yes, it’s actually quite distressing to see only a handful of votes for Kayleth’s 2020 Back To Earth and Elden’s Nostromo pass before my eyes. But I’ve chose to commit to doing my PR work for I Saw The Deep and their Vimana release! Vimana is a gigantic slab of doom, progressive and psychedelic and with a massive amount of heaviness. Heavy and deep sci-fi rock, which features power rock drumming with metal riffing and grungy vocals, all combined through experimental escapades. A cathedral of sound! Full of prog, space, stoner and doom. Executed to such an amazing degree with such a freakin awesome amount of heaviness. Seriously! This is stunning! Stunning when it was released in February, stunning now and stunning me for the rest of eternity!

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Kaskadeur - Uncanny Valley - Top 20 Push

 

  

Top 20 of 2020 album push post!

As we approach that jump off date for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020; we notice that certain highly loved albums aren’t getting the number of votes we hoped they would. So we enlisted the help of the Stoner HiVe Team to try and do one last push to get them higher on the end list…

Up next is the pusher promotion post by Shasta Beast!

 

Kaskadeur - Uncanny Valley

As list upon list is tallied this month, it's become clear that the number of fantastic albums in 2020, of all years, is overwhelming. To get my two cents in and add another album to your pile, submitted for your consideration is "Uncanny Valley" by Kaskadeur! At the top of my personal 2020 list, I've raved about these psych/jazz/prog wizards before, and gladly do so again. Not content to fit neatly in just one or two genres of heavy, the German rockers formerly known as Stonehenge display dazzling skill they wind through hit after diverse hit of groovy twists and turns. One minute they' throw u down whiplash-inducing riffs, and in the next breath deliver spaced out organ, and it all works seamlessly. Kaskadeur's experimentation and evolution from their stoner roots paid off in spades, resulting in one of the most dynamic and unique albums of the year.

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