zondag 1 januari 2023

Number 1

 

 

Number 1

 

Here we are. The clock has struck twelve.. It's a new year. January first. Happy New Year everyone!! And we're here, with the Number 1 album of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2022 according to all you lovely voters out there. It’s been a wild ride once again and to all the followers that voted for Top 20 Countdown and all the followers that just followed the Top 20 Countdown, thank you! Thank you from every fiber of my being. To all the bands that were featured, thank you for releasing such incredibly music, thank you providing us with a moment of solace, release, or the perfect soundtrack to a certain moment in time. We all adore the stuff you do! Please keep doing it! And trust me, there’s a huge list of albums that only barely missed the Top 20, proving once again that there is so much great music released, it boggles the mind! And we are blessed, that we have been privy to discovering the Heavy Underground, and all that good and heavy rock that resides there… BUT… Before we get too sappy, too teary eyed, let’s say a few words about Number 1! The band has been around now for some seventeen years, but they still seem to be able to do the impossible. They seem to be able to release an even more incredible album after the incredible album that came before. This, sixth studio album, is an even more progressive piece of art than what came before. And where some might raise an eyebrow concerning the vocals, for others the vocals on this album raises the amount of love for the album. And thanks to the guest appearance of Samavayo-vocalist, Behrang Alavi on two songs, it becomes on of the best vocal performances the band ever produced. And that idea is something that permeates every little detail of the album. Their best. Take the beautiful guitarwork on Endless Return for instance, the keyword on third track Coalescence or that amazing fourth track Merged In Dreams – Ne Plus Ultra with its intense tension arc, diamond hard riffs and whirling interplay between guitar and keys. It simply does not get any better than this… Well… At one point in the future, the band will surely release another album… The Gold Medal.. The Number 1 album of 2022 according to all you who voted.. is…

 

Elder – Innate Passage

 

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