Onwards and Upwards in 2024!
Best of wishes to each and everyone out there! Take care of yourself and the ones you love! Be good to the people you meet. It’s the most important thing you can do. And of course, promote all those bands and albums you love so dearly! May 2024 be as rockin’ as 2023 was! We know who produced the Number 1 album of 2023 according to all you lovely voters! Dozer! And their Drifting In The Endless Void album. Almost all of the lists that came in had Dozer somewhere on that list and many had it on one or their top five…
But of course, you all voted for many many many more albums. We won’t be sharing the total list of 789 albums, but we will share the Top 21 to 100. With Ruff Majik’s Elektrik Ram album on 21, my personal Number 1, missing only FOUR points to tie with Tidal Wave’s The Lord Knows on Number 20. And Purple Kong with their Blood Lightning album needing 340 points to do the same. Those are the 21 to 100 in spots, where quite a lot are tied as well. If we would not publish the ties separately on this list, we would need another 44 spots, and would bring Goat Explosion - Threatening Skies up as the Number 100 album. Yes, loads of albums ended up with the same amount of points below the Top 20, which leads me to deduct that the quality of the releases this year has been stunning! Amazing and awe-inspiring! 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 2024 brings as much of the good and heavy once again!!
Ruff Majik – Electric Ram
Kanaan – Downpour
Kadabra – Umbra
Thunder Horse - After The Fall
Acid Magus - Hope Is Heavy
Baroness – Stone
Gozu – Remedy
Almost Honest - The Hex Of Penns Woods
Swan Valley Heights - Terminal Forest
Clouds Taste Satanic - Tales Of Demonic Possession
King Potenaz - Goat Ride
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Land Of Sleeper
Mondo Drag – Through The Hourglass
Kind - Close Encounters
Desert Storm – Death Rattle
The Machine – Wave Cannon
The Golden Grass - Life Is Much Stranger
Formula 400 – Divination
Frankie And The Witch Fingers - Data Doom
Stoned Jesus – Father Light
High Priest – Invocation
Giöbia - Acid Disorder
Blood Ceremony – The Old Ways Remain
Moon Coven - Sun King
La Chinga - Primal Forces
Rrrags – Mundi
Child – Soul Murder
Dead Feathers - Full Circle
Slomatics - Strontium Fields
Rotor – Sieben
Wolfnaut - Return Of The Asteroid
Humulus - Flowers of Death
Borracho - Blurring The Lines Of Reality
Spidergawd – VII
White Canyon & The Fifth Dimension – Gardeners Of The Earth
Duskwood – The Last Voyage
Phe – Nothing Else Is Real
Lucid Sins - Dancing In The Dark
Lord Mountain - The Oath
Blackwulf - Thieves And Liars
Burn Ritual - Grave Watcher
Mammatus - Expanding Majesty
Dead Quiet – IV
Yawning Balch – Volume One
Dorothia Cottrell - Death Folk Country
Astronomie - Interstellar Nomad
Yawning Balch – Volume Two
Morag Tong – Grieve
Omega Sun – Roadkill
Restless Spirit – Afterimage
Auralayer - Thousand Petals
Isaak – Hey
Cleõphüzz - Mystic Vulture
Westing – Future
Love Gang – Meanstreak
Bongzilla - Dab City
Kvelertak – Endling
Yawning Man – Long Walk Of The Navajo
Mars Red Sky - Dawn Of The Dusk
Royal Thunder - Rebuilding The Mountain
Ghorot – Wound
Blessed Black - Seasons Vol. 1
Occult Hand Order - Silence By The Raging Sea
I Am Low – Úma
Queens Of The Stone Age – In Times New Roman…
Black Helium – Um
Sorcia - Lost Season
Hibernaut – Ingress
Outer Head - Delirium
The Ocean – Holocene
Signo Rojo - There Was A Hole Here
Dead Shrine - The Eightfold Path
Moonstone – Growth
Dune Pilot - Magnetic
Spirit Adrift - Ghosts At The Gallows
Sandrider – Enveletration
Faerie Ring - Weary Traveler
Ahab - The Coral Tombs
Wizard Master - Ablanathanalba
Purple Kong - Blood Lightning
The above links, link to mentions on Stoner HiVe.
This year we only link to actual reviews of that album... 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...
