Joop Konraad – Personal Top 20 of 2024

 

 

Joop Konraad – Personal Top 20 of 2024

As with everyone else I guess, my Personal Top 20 for 2024 keeps changing. It evolves, it morphs, it grows. Cause every day I discover another amazing album released in 2024. Every day! Ever since Stoner HiVe started in 2009 the amount of great releases in our little Heavy Underground niche is mind boggling. And every year the amount seems to be growing. So, I present to you my current Top 20. O' and all the albums I also thoroughly loved this year in a massive list of some 140 albums in alphabetical order. They all deserve to be heard in my opinion... And I am sure, dead sure, I'm forgetting to mention a few! As well as that I'm sure of the fact I will be discovering more amazing albums from 2024 in the weeks to come... Let’s hope we are treated to as many great albums in 2025 as well…

1.    Ruff Majik - Moth Eater (The Lorekeeper's Bible)
2.    Psychlona – Warped Vision
3.    Luna Sol – Vita Mors
4.    High Noon Kahuna – This Place Is Haunted
5.    Slomosa – Tundra Rock
6.    Orange Goblin – Science, Not Fiction
7.    Black Pyramid – The Paths Of Time Are Vast
8.    High Desert Queen – Palm Reader
9.    Jegulja – Anguilla Guerrilla
10.    Sergeant Thunderhoof – The Ghost Of Badon Hill
11.    Greenleaf – The Head & The Habit
12.    Slift – Ilion
13.    Dö – Unversum
14.    Scorched Oak – Perception
15.    Acid Rooster – Hall of Mirrors
16.    Cosmic Fall – Back Where The Fire Flows
17.    Castle – Evil Remains
18.    Duel – Breakfast With Death
19.    Elephant Tree / Lowrider – The Long Forever
20.    Kintsugi Empire – Shun

 Albums with links have been reviewed on the HiVe. And we should be tarred and feathered and dragged through the streets for not reviewing those amazing High Desert Queen and Duel albums..

10,000 Years - All Quiet On The Final Frontier
Abrams – Blue City
Acid Mammoth - Supersonic Megafauna Collision
Acid Row - Poisoned Mind
Altareth - Passage (The Welfare Sessions)
The Anomalys - Down The Hole
Apodemus – Monotone
Astral Kompakt - Goldader
Atomic Vulture – Pilgrims Of The Sun
Birdstone -The Great Anticipation
Black Elephant - Fall Of Gods
Black Toaster – Flying Rage Machine
Blessed Black – Seasons Vol.2
Blue Heron- Everything Fades
Brant Bjork Trio - Once Upon A Time In The Desert
Burning Leaf - Amber and Gray
Buzz' Ayaz - Buzz' Ayaz
Captain Zero – Disarray In Unison
Carpet – Collision
Castle Rat – Into The Realm
Causa Sui - From The Source
Cleen – Excursion
Clocktopus – Clocktopus
Clouds Taste Satanic – 79 A.E.
Cobranoid – Cobranoid
The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World
Daily Thompson – Chuparosa
Deadpeach – The Cosmic Haze And The Human Race
Deaf Lizard – The Last Odyssey
DeWolff – Muscle Shoals
Djiin – Mirrors
Dool – The Shape of Fluidity
Drive By Wire – Time Horizon
Early Moods - A Sinner’s Past
Earth Tongue – Great Haunting
Empty Frame – Underdogs
Empty Full Space – From The Limbo
Emu – Emu
The Endless - The Endless
Erronaut - The Space Inbetween
E.T. Explore Me – Drug Me
Familiars - Easy Does It
The Fërtility Cült - A Song of Anger
Flamebearer – Brazen
Fostermother - Echo Manor
Free Ride - Acido Y Puto
Full Earth- Cloud Sculptors
Fu Manchu - The Return Of Tomorrow
Full Tone Generator – Refuge of Sinners
Gjenferd - Gjenferd
Gnome - Vestiges Of Verumex Visidrome
Grand Magus – Sunraven
Guenna - Peak of Jin'Arrah
Hashtronaut - No Return
The Hazytones – Wild Fever
Heath – Isaak’s Marble
Heavy Temple - Garden Of Heathens
High Reeper – Renewed By Death
Hollow Drifter – Devolve
Holy Tears – Holy Tears
Huanastone- Son Of Juno
Hypnosaur – Undead Invaders Born To Die In A Maze
Iron Jinn – Live at Roadburn
Iron Slug – Unrepentant Grin
Jerry Cantrell – I Want Blood
Jhufus – Arrival
Julie Christmas – Ridiculous and Full of Blood
Karkara - All Is Dust
KANT – Paranoia Pilgrimage
Kayleth – New Babylon
Kombynat Robotron - West Mata
Kraken Waker – Be Good
Laura Palmer – Exploding Head Syndrome
Lord Buffalo - Holus Bolus
The Lumberjack Feedback – The Stronghold
The Lunar Effect - Sounds Of Green & Blue
Magmakammer - Before I Burn
Mammoth Volume - Raised Up By Witches
Maragda – Tyrants
Massive Hassle – Unreal Damage
Mirror Queen – Dying Days
Momovudu – Momovudu
Monkey3 - Welcome To The Machine
Mooch – Visions
Mothercrow - Foráneo
Mould - Pull & Repulsion
Mount Hush – II
Mr. Bison - Echoes From The Universe
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God
No Man’s Valley - Chrononaut Cocktailbar / Flight of the Sloths
Occult Witches - Sorrow's Pyre
Old Horn Tooth - Mourning Light
One Eyed Moon – MegaRitual
Orotoro - The Age of Stars
Per Wiberg – The Serpent’s Here
Phantom Hound - From Boom Town To Ghost Town
Qilin - Parasomnia
Ramkot – Rosa
Rezn – Burden
Robot God – Portal Within
Robot God - Subconscious Awakening
Sacred Buzz - Radio Radiation / Rebel Machine
Sacri Monti – Retrieval
Schubmodul - Lost In Kelp Forest
Sidewinder – Talons
Silverships - Kingdom Of Decay
Skraeckoedlan – Vermillion Sky
Slow Green Thing - Wetterwarte / Waltherstrasse
Smoke / Doomsday Profit - Split
Sonic Wolves – III
Sonolith - III
Sons of Arrakis - Volume II
Sons of Morpheus – Fruits
Spirit Mother – Trails
Starmonger– Occultation
Stonerhead - Running High
Sundrifter - An Earlier Time
Sunnata - Chasing Shadows
Surfsquatch - Time Vampire
The Swell Fellas - Residuum Unknown
Tangled Horns – Lighter
Tet – Tet
Tigers On Opium – Psychodrama
Tommy and the Teleboys - Gods, Used, in Great Condition
Torso - Brain Cells
Tricklebolt – Honey From The Sky
Ufomammut – Hidden
Valley Of The Sun – Quintessence
Van Groover - Both Shop EP's
Vessel - The Somnifer
Vitskär Süden – Vessel
Volume - Joy Of Navigation (a trip through the eternal unknown)
Warpstormer - Warpstormer
Whores. – War.
Wormsand - You, The King
Yajaira - Epopeya
Young Acid - Murder At Maple Mountain
Your Highness – Under The Weight
Zeal & Ardor – Greif


A lot of the albums on the alphabetical list have something written about them, just click on the corresponding 'Label' to the right of the page to find out...