Onwards and Upwards in 2023!

 

 

Onwards and Upwards in 2023!

Best of wishes to each and everyone out there! May 2023 be as rockin’ as 2022 was! Cause we’ve got the conclusion of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2022. Number 1 was the new Elder record Innate Passage according to all the votes that came in. But of course all you crazy followers voted for many many many more albums. We won’t be sharing the total list of 620 albums, but we will share the Top 21 to 100. Which we feature below. With Greenbeard and their Variant album missing exactly 1 point to make it to the Top 20 and Grin with their Phantom Knocks album 258 to do exactly the same. Which shows that many albums are close together in points in that Top 100. And quite a few have the same amount of points. If would go down the list to Number 100 in actual points, we would have to add another 27 albums. Which would make Sönus and their Usurper Of The Universe album the 100th spot on the list. But we’re sticking with the list below. 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 2023 brings as much once again!!

Greenbeard – Variant
Peth – Merchant of Death
Warlung – Vulture’s Paradise
Alunah – Strange Machine
Colour Haze – Sacred
Vitskär Süden – The Faceless King
Ruby The Hatchet – Fear Is A Cruel Master
My Sleeping Karma – Atma
Hazemaze – Blinded By The Wicked
Earthless – Night Parade Of One Hundred Demons

Fostermother – The Ocean
Ecstatic Vision – Elusive Mojo
Black Lung – Dark Waves
Obiat – Indian Ocean
Ufomammut – Fenice
Psychonaut – Violate Consensus Reality
Geezer – Stoned Blues Machine
10,000 Years – III
Aawks – Heavy On The Cosmic
Las Cruces – Cosmic Tears

Acid Row – Afterglow
Smoke The Light – Ego Death
Abrams – In The Dark
Caustic Casanova – Glass Enclosed Nerve Center
Druids – Shadow Work
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – The Harvest
Zom – Fear And Failure
Oreyeon – Equations For The Useless
Mutautu – Graveyard Of Giants
Sun Voyager – Sun Voyager

Carson – The Wilful Pursuit Of Ignorance
Obsidian Sea – Pathos
Baardvader – Foolish Fires
Sunczar – Bearer of Light
Eric Wagner – In The Lonely Light of Mourning
Black Capricorn – Cult of Blood
Thammuz – Sons Of The Occult
Sky Pig – It Thrives in Darkness
Gnome – King
Motherslug – Blood Moon Blues

Dune Sea – Orbital Distortion
The Swell Fellas – Novaturia
Humanotone – A Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand
Russian Circles – Gnosis
Tigers On Opium – 503.420.6669.Vol_Two
Gypsybyrd – Visions
The Black Angels – Wilderness of Mirrors
Birth – Born
Albatross Overdrive – I See Red
JIRM – The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam

CB3 – Exploration
Oceans Of Slumber – Starlight And Ash
Smoke – The Mighty Delta Of Time
Robot God – Worlds Collide
Chat Pile – God’s Country
Holy Witch – Levitating
Mississippi Bones – Creature Features & Cult Classics
Half Gramma Of Soma – Slip Through the Cracks
Blue Rumble – Blue Rumble
Parish – Parish

Frayle – Skin & Sorrow
Mister Earthbound – Shadow Work
Devil's Witches – In All Her Forms
Electric Mountain – Valley Giant
Hydra – Beyond Life and Death
Volcanova – Cosmic Bullshit
Ian Blurton’s Future Now – Second Skin
Cities of Mars – Cities of Mars
Spellbook – Deadly Charms
Aye Mammoth – Eternal

Cachemira – Ambos Mundos
Motorpsycho – Ancients Astronauts
Deville – Heavy Lies The Crown
Dröög – Dröög
Josiah – We Lay On Cold Stone
Rosy Finch – Seconda Morte
Cult of Luna – The Long Road North
Might – Abyss
Museum of Light – Horizon
Grin – Phantom Knocks

 

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