zaterdag 8 januari 2022

JK’s – Personal Top 20

 

 

JK’s – Personal Top 20


The Stoner HiVe Team Members are all involved with the Doom Charts as well. So most of the personal lists already appeared there or probably will in the near future. But we’re (re)posting them here once again. Just because we like to keep things nice and tidy; and up with the tradition…

What an amazing musical year once again! Sure, the rest of the world, society, politics, environment, economics are all shot to hell. But the music man! Wow, triple wow! It’s amazing. And has been ever since Stoner HiVe started back in 2009. The Scrobbled Albums count alone already reaches 1,705 different albums. That’s not counting streams, cd’s, vinyl and offline listening. Man o Man! And most of all that, is just our little niche of heavy rock that is. Can you imagine the amount of amazing stuff being released in other genres as well? Staggering! Anyway, below follows a list of my Personal Top 20. Followed by another 30 that are just as amazing. Those Top 20  albums did so much for me on so many levels. And the 30 that follow as well, but just a bit less perhaps. But still a truckload! And below that are about a hundred more that could be named as well. But we shall refrain from doing so… (With clammy hands and cold sweat at the lower back.) Cause we adore those as well! And all of those could be your next favorite album of 2021! Anyway, enough with all the sappy stuff. We thank all the bands and artists again for their amazing music and hope they shall continue till the end of the world. Cause we love the shit out of it! And it is what keeps us going... And sane... Somewhat...


JK’s – Personal Top 20 (errr, Top 50?)


1.    King Buffalo – The Burden Of Restlessness

2.    Green Lung – Black Harvest

3.    Temple Fang – Fang Temple

4.    Per Wiberg – All Is Well In The Land Of The Living But For The Rest Of Us… Lights Out

5.    Greenleaf – Echoes From A Mass

6.    Stone Cadaver – Memento Mori, Motherfucker

7.    Maragda – Maragda

8.    Stonekind – Spirit Of The Void

9.    Terminus – The Silent Bell Toll

10.    Snake Mountain Revival – Everything In Sight

11.    High Desert Queen – Secrets Of The Black Moon

12.    Stargo – Dammbruch

13.    Messerschmitt – Oh Death

14.    Sonolith – Voidscapes

15.    Kal-El – Dark Majesty

16.    Redscale – The Old Colossus

17.    Atomic Vulture – Moving Through Silence

18.    Agusa – En Anna Värld

19.    Motorpsycho – Kingdom of Oblivion

20.    Mastodon – Hushed & Grim




21.    The Vintage Caravan – Monuments

22.    Monolord – Your Time To Shine

23.    The Waterfall King – Vol.I

24.    Kadabra – Ultra

25.    Duel – In Carne Persona

26.    Wolves In Haze – Chaos Reigns

27.    Gods & Punks – The Sounds of The Universe

28.    Hippie Death Cult – Circle Of Days

29.    Dunerider – Ruins


30.    Robots Of The Ancient World – Mystic Goddess

31.    Birmani – Birmani

32.    LáGoon – Skullactic Visions

33.    Stonus – Séance

34.    Vokonis – Odyssey

35.    Yawning Sons – Sky Island

36.    Holy Monitor – Southern Lights

37.    Miss Lava – Doom Machine

38.    Nekromant – Temple of Haal

39.    Spidergawd – VI


40.    A Better Tomorrow – Spiritual Crossing

41.    Billy F Gibbons – Hardware

42.    Blod – Serpent

43.    Carcano – By Order Of The Green Goddess

44.    Plaindrifter – Echo Therapy

45.    Djiin – Meandering Soul

46.    Daily Thompson – God of Spinoza

47.    King Buffalo – Acheron

48.    Komatsu – Rose Of Jericho

49.    Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – The Magnetic Ridge

50.    Mojave Lords – Expensive Feelings



vrijdag 7 januari 2022

Doktor420’s Personal Top 20

 

 

Doktor420’s Personal Top 20

Today we read up on Doktor420’s Personal Top 20. The Guru himself blesses us with his Top 25 and then some. Indeed, he has ranked 25 of his very favorite albums and listed the rest of his favorites in alphabetical order. And we can trust the good Doktor; it’s all there! Soon it might also appear on the Doom Charts; cause as you know we all are involved with that gang. (Did you see his awesome Speck blurb last month for instance?) But we treasure the fact that we got it here first!


Doktor420’s – Personal Top 25 (Err, Top 55!)

 


1.    King Buffalo - The Burden of Restlessness

2.    Blind Tendril – α

3.    Speck – Unkraut

4.    Snake Mountain Revival - Everything in Sight

5.    Glasgow Coma Scale – Sirens

6.    Valid blU - WFYB.TV

7.    Greenleaf - Echoes from a Mass

8.    delving – Hirschbrunnen

9.    Terminus - The Silent Bell Toll

10.    Bentrees - Two of Swords

11.    Kal-El - Dark Majesty

12.    MØTRIK – MØØN The Cosmic Electrics of MØTRIK

13.    Spacelords - Unknown Species

14.    Wolfnaut – III

15.    Monster Magnet - A Better Dystopia

16.    Sheev - Mind Conductor

17.    Ugly Kings - Strange, Strange Times

18.    Lords Of The Opium Church - Lords Of The Opium Church

19.    Redscale - The Old Colossus

20.    King Buffalo – Acheron

21.    Motorpsycho - Kingdom of Oblivion

22.    Vintage Caravan – Monuments

23.    White Hills - Tone Spores

24.    New Candys – Vyvyd

25.    IAH – Omines


From here - alphabetical order:

Appalooza - The Holy Of Holies
Band of Spice - By the Corner of Tomorrow
Black Keys - Delta Kream
Book of Wyrms - Occult New Age
Borracho - Pound of Flesh
Datsuns - Eye To Eye
Deiv Id Fuzz - Playa Atomica
Elara Sunstreak Band - Vostok 1
Indica Blues - We Are Doomed
JakeTheHawk - Hinterlands
King Weed - Let There Be Weed
Lady Luna and the Devil - Mother of All Sin
LáGoon - Skullactic Visions
Liquid Sound Company - Psychoactive Songs For The Psoul
Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE3
Long Distance Calling - Ghost
Miscellen - Blue Ruin
Mustasch - A Final Warning - Chapter 1
Plaindrifter - Echo Therapy
Planet Cruiser - Riders Of The Edge
Quill - Earthrise
Red Fang - Arrows
ShiMa - Vol.02
Sleepfighter - Sleepfighter
Slow Voyage - Soul's Whisper
Starified - Fat Hits
Stone Cadaver - Memento Mori, Motherfucker
Stone Deaf - Killers
Wall - Wall
Yawning Sons - Sky Island



Reek of STOOM’s Personal Top 20

 

 

Reek of STOOM’s Personal Top 20

Reek likes to do things differently! Mr STOOM will deliver his monthly choices for a best of list for the Doom Charts. Indeed, his very favorite album from each month. And you bet your ass it will not be the Doom Charts Number One of every month... But we’re honored to have received his favorite list of albums surmised for the entire year. And we're proud to share that with you all! It’s the best of the best and contains everything one might hear on his very own Howls From The Hollow. Which will be publishing it’s hundredth edition soon!



Reek of STOOM’s Personal Top 20 (Err, Top 25!)


SPELLJAMMER - ABYSSAL TRIP

STARIFIED - FAT HITS

BLIND TENDRIL - α

KAL-EL - DARK MAJESTY

KANAAN - EARTHBOUND

MYTHIC SUNSHIP - WILDFIRE

MOTORPSYCHO - KINGDOM OF OBLIVION

ALASTOR - ONWARDS AND DOWNWARDS

BOSS KELOID - FAMILY THE SMILING THRUSH

DUST MOUNTAIN - HYMNS FOR WILDERNESS

NOTHING IS REAL - TRANSMISSION OF THE UNEARTHLY

AFGHAN HAZE - NIHILISTIC STONER HYMNS

HOLY MONITOR - SOUTHERN LIGHTS

ACID OMENS - DREAMS

WEEDPECKER - IV: THE STREAM OF FORGOTTEN THOUGHTS

THE SPACELORDS - UNKNOWN SPECIES

PLASTIC WOODS - DRAGONFRUIT

A BETTER TOMORROW - SPIRITUAL CROSSING

PAPANGU - HOLOCENO

WIZERD VS MERLIN - TURNED TO STONE CHAPTER III

VEILE - THE GHOST SONATA

AGUSA - EN ANNAN VÄRLD

MISCELLEN - BLUE RUIN

GREEN LUNG - BLACK HARVEST

KADAVER & ELDER - ELDOVAR - A STORY OF DARKNESS & LIGHT

 



donderdag 6 januari 2022

Shasta Beast’s - Personal Top 20

 

 

Shasta Beast’s - Personal Top 20

We of course wanted to post Shasta Beast’s - Personal Top 20 on January 6… Why you ask? Cause it’s his birthday! So we congratulate Shasta Beast! Best of wishes for the upcoming year and may it be a brilliant one. And we also congratulate him with his personal Top 20 today. Of course, the Stoner HiVe Team Members are all involved with the Doom Charts as well. So most of the personal lists already appeared there or will appear there soon. But we’re posting them here as well. Just because we like to keep things nice and tidy; and up with the tradition…


Shasta Beast’s - Personal Top 20 (Errr, Top 44!)


Snake Mountain Revival - Everything in Sight

Matt C White - Creepshow Peepshow: Act II

Matt C White - Creepshow Peepshow: Act I

Wolves in Haze - Chaos Reigns

Draken - Draken

Stone Cadaver - Memento Mori, Motherfucker

The Lance Vance Vengeance - Broglie

Seum - Winterized

Comet Control - Inside The Sun

Lucifer's Fall - III - From The Deep



King Woman - Celestial Blues

Peregrino - Peregrino

Black Totem - II: Shapeshifting

Rostro del Sol - Rostro del Sol

Acid Magus - Wyrd Syster

Surfsquatch - Revealed

Papangu - Holoceno

Timo Ellis - Death Is Everywhere

Offernat - EP

Farfisa – Gänger


Atom Driver - Is Anything Alright

Holy Death Trio - Introducing...

Messerschmitt - Oh Death

Cruzeiro - Cruzeiro

Fever Dog - Alpha Waves

Glowing Brain - Brain Dust

Grand Cadaver - Into The Maw Of Death

Caution Boy - Alligator

Elcam- Axe

Jointhugger - Surrounded by Vultures

Bog Monkey - Bog Monkey E.P.


Wall - Vol. 2

Wall - Vol. 1

Hippie Death Cult - Circle Of Days

Wasted Death - Ugly As Hell II - Uglier Than Hell

Wasted Death - Ugly As Hell

Woodcreeper - Mephisto's Kite

Battle Jacket - Cowboy Killers

GLöD - GLöD

10% Reptile - The Big Boycott

Blunt Horse - Split

EarthOmen - Beyond the Pale

TarLung - Architect

Santa Planta – EP




woensdag 5 januari 2022

Tony Maim’s – Personal Top 20

 

 

Tony Maim’s – Personal Top 20


As we mentioned before, the Stoner HiVe Team Members are all involved with the Doom Charts as well. So most of the personal lists already appeared there or will probably appear there in the near future. But we’re honored to be the first to post Madman Tony Maim’s Personal Top 20 first… Even though he might have posted the same one on his own Black Insect Laughter site… Hell, last year he even delivered a different one for the HiVe then the one for the Doom Charts, cause the HiVe, in his words back then: "has more latitude with the genres..." And we thank all the freaks in the HiVe for that! And we’re proud to have a list by the Madman, cause he has been active on his own Black Insect Laughter blog, been even more active with all his musical outlets like Guitars On Drugs of which Forbidden Place Records released a first CD called ‘Spies and Dub’ back in August of 2021. It’s the Madman Tony Maim; and he’s right, we’re wrong and the other way around. But when the Madman speaks, we listen! 

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Tony Maim’s – Personal Top 20 (Errr, Top 47)



1. Idles - Crawler

2. Converge & Chelsea Wolfe – Bloodmoon: I

3. Sonic Demon - Vendetta

4. Squid – Bright Green Field

5. Love Your Witch – Fucking Relentless

6. Fucked Up – Year Of The Horse

7. God Is An Astronaut – Ghost Tapes #10

8. Melvins – Working With God

9. Part Chimp - Drool

10. Haaz - Andra

11. Rostro Del Sol - Cynical Mind

12. Turnstile – Glow On

13. Blasting Rod - III

14. Jointhugger – Surrounded By Vultures

15. Tropical Fuck Storm – Deep States

16. Kowloon Walled City - Piecework

17. Death From Above 1979 – Is For Lovers

18. Mother Iron Horse – Under The Blood Moon

19. Mdou Moctar – Afrigue Victime

20. Junkbreed – Music For Cool Kinds


21. Leon III – Antlers In Velvet

22. 2 Headed Dogs – The Engine Is On

23. Domkraft - Seeds

24. Cha Wa – My People

25. Cerce – Cowboy Music

26. Ill Considered – Liminal Space

27. Mythic Sunship - Wildfire

28. 10000 Years - II

29. Kills Birds - Married

30. Dinosaur Jr – Sweep It Into Space


31. Stomatopod – Completing With Hindsight

32. A Better Tomorrow – Spiritual Crossing

33. The Lords Of Altamont – Tune In, Turn On, Electrify

34. Watchman – Doom Of Babylon

35. Heavy Temple – Lupi Amoris

36. Chihuahua – Violent Architecture

37. Spotlights – We Are All Atomic

38. Uranus Space Club – Another Planet, Another Love

39. God Damn – Raw Coward

40. Duel – In Carne Persona

41. X'ed Out – We All Do Wrong

42. Fere - Visceral

43. Mono – Pilgrimage Of The Soul

44. Monolord – Your Time To Shine

45. The Pop Group – Y In Dub

46. Tv Priest - Uppers

47. Irreversible Entanglements – Open The Gates




dinsdag 4 januari 2022

The Bottom Dwellers 10 of 2021!

 

 

The Bottom Dwellers 10 of 2021!


We used to be able to do a Red Lantern post about the albums from the year that passed. It entailed the album or albums that got voted for once; and only once and only on the 20th position of a sent in list. But that hasn’t been possible every year. Due to the fact that not every lists has 20 albums on it. Some have less some have more. And for some reason, every one of those lists sent in, with exactly 20 albums on it, had an album on that 20th position, which got voted for more times. So, since we wish to mention a few of those albums that had a very limited amount of votes, we invented the Bottom Dwellers post. Albums that ended up at the very bottom of the list. Which means they were still damn freaking good! Cause they got voted for! But perhaps a bit off center to the normal HiVe heaviness. Perhaps a bit more metal? Or pop? Or punk? But it still means they are featured on a small list of only 585 albums. And to think that among the HiVe Team Members alone, the have listened to at least 2500 different heavy albums! And we all know there are even more out there! More great records to be discovered! Which we shall continue to do! Damn, how we love this heavy stuff! Go check out the Bottom Dwellers 10 from 2021! Who knows, it might just feature your new favorite one!


Civic – Future Forecast

Bruit - The Machine Is Burning...

Veile - The Ghost Sonata

Night Battles – Year Of No Days

Eutanasia – Cosmonauta


Fere – Visceral

Sepulcros – Vazio

The Jazz Butcher – Dr Cholmondley Repents…

The War on Drugs - I Don't Live Here Anymore

Cactus Black  - The Marrow of Our Truth

maandag 3 januari 2022

Onwards and Upwards in 2022!

 

 

Onwards and Upwards in 2022!



And there we have it folks! The Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2021 came to its rightful conclusion yesterday with the Domkraft album Seeds on Number 1. Twenty-five different albums were featured on those Top 20 positions. But ofcourse, you crazy heavy rock fiends voted for many many many more albums. In fact, in total: 585 albums received votes from you all. Below we feature the Numbers 21 to 100. The Silent Bell Toll by Terminus only missed entering the Top 20 by 5 points. While Ruins by Dunerider needed 340 points to do 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 thirty albums. Which would make Kentucky Green and their Galactic Acid album the 100th spot on the list. But we’re sticking with the list below. And marvel at the amount of amazing freaking heavy music release this year! Hell yeah!



Terminus – The Silent Bell Toll
Blind Tendril – Α
Planet Of The Dead – Pilgrims
Jakethehawk – Hinterlands
Mystic Sons – Curses And Spells
Monstroid – Set 2: Burnt Sky
Amenra – De Doorn
Bottomless – Bottomless
Bogwife – A Passage Divine
King Buffalo – Acheron

Kadabra – Ultra
Deathchant – Waste   
Here Lies Man – Ritual Divination
Borracho – Pound Of Flesh
Kabbalah – The Omen
Hippie Death Cult – Circle Of Days
Khemmis – Deceiver
Indica Blues – We Are Doomed
Savanah – Olympus Mons
Boss Keloid – Family The Smiling Thrush

Paralyzed – Paralyzed
Eldovar – A Story Of Darkness & Light
Zombi – Liquid Crystal
Weedpecker – IV: The Stream Of Forgotten Thoughts
Mastodon – Hushed And Grim
Red Fang – Arrows
Kanaan – Earthbound
Stöner – Stoner’s Rule
1968 – Salvation If You Need
Duel – In Carne Persona

The Spacelords – Unknown Species   
Robots Of The Ancient World – Mystic Goddess
Redscale – The Old Colossus
Dope Smoker – The Devil’s Bridge
A Better Tomorrow – Spiritual Crossing
Green Desert Water – Black Harvest
Spaceslug – Memorial
Plaindrifter – Echo Therapy
Mother Iron Horse – Under The Blood Moon
Bongzilla – Weedsconsin

Fever Dog – Alpha Waves
Bentrees – Two Of Swords
Black Sky Giant - Planet Terror
Low Flying Hawks – Fuyu
Acid Magus – Wyrd Syster
Howlin Rain – The Dharma Wheel
Iah – Ominess
Stone From The Sky – Deepwater
Zahn – Zahn
Slowshine – Living Light

Delving – Hirshbrunnen
Spidergawd – VI
Snail – Fractal Altar
Samsara Blues Experiment – End Of Forever
Acis's Trip – Strings Of Soul
Goodeye – Goodeye
Cult Of Luna – The Raging River
Year Of No Light – Consolamentum
Blackwater Holylight – Silence/Motion
The Kings Of Frog Island – VII

Goat Girl – On All Fours
Scarecrow – Scarecrow II
Lords Of The Opium Church – Lords Of The Opium Church
Holy Monitor – Southern Lights
Gojira – Fortitude
Mere Women – Romantic Notions
Prosperina – Flag
Zintnieks – No Aizkurienes
Khirki – Kτηνωδία
Zeahorse – Let's Not (And Say We Did)

Komatsu – Rose Of Jericho
Jess And The Ancient Ones – Vertigo
Thrice – Horizons / East
Plastic Woods – Dragonfruit
Shewolf – Parasite
Devil Electric – Godless
Kosmodome – Kosmodome
Monster Magnet – A Better Dystopia
Book Of Wyrms  - Occult New Age
Dunerider – Ruins 

 

The above links, link to mentions on Stoner HiVe. Some are 'reviews'; others are total mentions of the band on the blog, or simple 'Most Listened' posts. But on those 'Most Listened' posts you wil find the proper Bandcamp links to the album... If there is no link, we never mentioned the band on Stoner HiVe before... And we should be flogged for it!

zaterdag 1 januari 2022

Number 1

 

 

 

Number 1



There can be only one… We jump a whopping seven hundred points from King Buffalo on Number 2 to reach the Number 1 spot of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2021… An album that quickly took the lead when the votes started coming in and never really relinquished it. The Swedish outfit did the same back in April when it made the Doom Charts and has been turning ever more into the all out favorite. Or as The Doom Oracle wrote on the Doom Charts: “The album provides in a mercilessly challenging way that seems to beat the ever-living breath out of you with tracks like Perpetuator, Into Orbit and Dawn of Man only to be lured into a false sense of safety from an instrumental Krank Blekhet, then chewed apart and spat back out again by Audiodome, at its conclusion, left bereft and speechless and in a painfully deafening silence longing for more. Without a doubt, we’re going to be hearing about this release all year and into end-of-year lists if not at the top of them.” Exactly, it is a pummeling affair, without much moments of clarity or moments of light; it is something that grows beneath the surface and actually promises something for a new future that will be here soon. Or might in fact be here now. Organic. Electric. Hypnotic. Loud. We wish all the bands, all the people that voted for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2022, and everybody else on this rock that soars to space, all the best for 2022! The HiVe freaks have spoken, the Gold Medal goes to, the Number 1 album of 2021 is, according to you all out there that voted:



Domkraft – Seeds

 



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vrijdag 31 december 2021

The Countdown so far...

 

 

The Countdown so far...


So, here we are. Almost midnight. Almost time to announce the Number 1 album of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2021 according to 123 of you lovely freak out there. Those fellow heavy music fiends who had the time and energy to send their list to us. We thank you once again, cause without you crazies this could not be possible. And it is the whole reason Stoner HiVe every started; all the way back in 2009. It has been a crazy year. We all know so. But all of us that are lucky enough to be able to enjoy the good music, the heavy stuff and not have to strife to survive on a daily basis; will forever have a shoulder to turn to, a universe to escape into. It has been a crazy year across the globe and with this pandemic far from over; we will need that escape even more… On a daily basis… 



And luckily it is there! In numbers we cannot even fathom. Cause while the Countdown was rolling, many great albums got released every day and January will continue on that way. Amazing. Stunning. Incredible. The amount of great music being produced around the globe. We tip our hats and give a standing ovation to all those bands and artists that continue to amaze us all with the music they produce… Thank you all! From every inch of our being… And please, keep it coming! Ho ho ho! 



But before we enter 2022; before we know the Number 1 album according to you all, let’s state a few things about 2021 and list all the albums that have been featured on the Top 20 Countdown of 2021. 25 of the best albums that were produced this year, made it to the Top 20 Countdown of 2021. But the total list contains so much more! We shall publish the Numbers 21 to 100 soon enough. And soon all the personal lists of the Stoner HiVe Team members will go up. Unfortunately, no album received the 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 once again 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 2021 according to you voters out there! Thanks everyone and let's all make sure 2022 will become the best year ever! Or at least the best year 2022 can be! Heavy, loud and amazing! The best of wishes for each and everyone! 



1.    …

2.    King Buffalo - The Burden Of Restlessness

3.    Greenleaf - Echoes From A Mass

4.    Spelljammer - Abyssal Trip

5.    Green Lung - Black Harvest

6.    Jack Harlon & Dead Crows - The Magnetic Ridge

7.    Acid Mammoth - Caravan

8.    Jointhugger - Surrounded By Vultures
   
9.    High Desert Queen - Secrets Of The Black Moon

10.    Monolord - Your Time To Shine

11.    Heavy Temple - Lupi Amoris & Kal-El - Dark Majesty & Void Commander - River Lord

12.    Motorpsycho – Kingdom Of Oblivion

13.    Low Orbit- Crater Creator
   
14.    Lucid Sins - Cursed!
   
15.    Sunnata - Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth
   
16.    Dvne - Etemen Ænka
       
17.    Maha Sohona - Endless Searcher

18.    Holy Death Trio - Introducing... & The Age Of Truth - Resolute
   
19.    Dunbarrow - Dunbarrow III & Thunder Horse - Chosen One

20.    Alastor - Onwards And Downwards & Snake Mountain Revival - Everything In Sight


Number 2

 

 

Number 2



Today we get to hear which album, which band will receive the Silver Medal for it’s album in 2021. The Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2021 is nearing conclusion, only two spots left. And we know Greenleaf and their Echoes From A Mass record is situated nicely on Number 3. So, who will it be? Well, we jump almost hundred points from Greenleaf on Number 3 to reach the album on Number 2. An album that fits the times so perfectly; even though it might not have been written with the state of the world in mind, it shows that these three cats can do more if not all with their music. As we already wrote back in May when we mentioned the album on the blog: “For you know, what might be missing from loads of great albums we all love so dearly in this enormous heavy rock niche we all curl up into to hide from the outside cold. Might be a sense of urgency and the ability to transcend the mundane; offering insights and feelings about what the human condition is going through. These guys have the strength and ability to make you feel that both we and they are hemmed in and torn by similar walls, frustrations and tragedies. The new album is dense enough to be compulsive, somewhat hard to hear at first, the precision and the fury that resides underneath the riffs and rhythms. Where their earlier record offered a same approach but all layered with a different sort of shade, they now show more humility and a dazed frenzy. The new album is about casualties, a search for alternatives, for something to do, something worthwhile. They emerge as masters at rendering the boredom and desperation of living comfortably in this society. Of translating the impossibility to escape the prison of prosperity. Often the sense of helplessness and impotence is not particularly pleasing; and such withering and brutal personal honesty is what now sets this band apart from most peers. The same can be said about those synapse-snapping shifts in tempo and tone or the way the bass weaves itself beneath all the different elements, lifting them up and with that emphasizing each one even more. It brings focus to every note played and every color chosen. Dense, concentrated and heavy but opening up whenever they allow the tension to slacken. The first of a set of three... Amazing artists with sublime craftmanship...” Second place, the Silver Medal of 2021 goes to the album on Number 2:





King Buffalo – The Burden Of Restlessness

 



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donderdag 30 december 2021

Number 3

 

 

 

Number 3



We’ve arrived at the Bronze Medal position. The Number 3 spot. Thanks to everyone that voted we got almost crushed to death by the heaviness of Abyssal Trip, that Spelljammer album on Number 4. But we survived and jump almost three hundred points to reach Number 3. Where we find a band that has made the third spot of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown before and a Number 14 spot, a Number 9 spot , O’ and a Number 1 spot… So, we can safely assume all your crazy heavy rock fiends out there, that vote for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown, love everything this band does. And I reckon we could have known the album that was released in March of this year would make the Top 20 Countdown. It ended up on Number 3, thanks to all your votes. A band that got started as a side-project has been turning everybody on ever since its first release. And where the first four records could even really be seen as side-project releases; it was the fifth album that discovered a sound that they slowly wanted to churn into a maelstrom of perfection. With the drummer and vocalist that joined back then in 2014 they turned to perfect those rumbling drums, those circling riffs, that drawling voice and make it all their very own sound. Ever more propelled by a powerful groove and a thundering boogie the tracks take a life of their own. With some blues and old roots influences they have become what they possibly set out to become from the beginning… It can’t get better than this, can it? On Number 3:



Greenleaf – Echoes From A Mass




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Number 4

 

Number 4


We jump almost two hundred points today to reach Number 4. Leaving that wild Green Lung album Black Harvest back on Number 5. It’s been amazing seeing all those lists and votes come in before it all started and it quickly became a Top 7 that sort of left the others behind. But on the final days it became clear that there would be a Top 4. And judging from the amount of points and the difference between each album in the Top 4, every one of those albums is now situated in their rightful spot. On Number 4 we find an album, released very early in the year, that immediately grabbed everyone’s attention. Starting off with that almost minute long fade in of rumbling distortion the opening track immediately shows what color this deep and vast album is made off. Sludge and swamp, thundering doom, the crushing weight of heaviness. It’s one almost forty five minutes long trip into the incomprehensible depths of existence. Where every tone inhabits this perpetual dark and harrowing bottomless space… On Number 4 we find:


 




Spelljammer - Abyssal Trip

 


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woensdag 29 december 2021

Number 5

 

Number 5


Number 5 already… We’re edging closer and closer to the Top 3 and the albums that received the most votes from all you crazies out there. But first up, we do an almost and yet only thirty points jump from Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows on Number 6 to reach the Number 5 spot. Where we find an album, we sort of had expected to land on Number 2 or 1… Indeed… It’s an album that dwarfed everything else when it made the Doom Charts and it’s a follow-up to an album that did the same thing back in 2019. The growth displayed on that album, compared to the EP that came before held so much promise for the future. And that future, is here now. This album is darker, heavier, doomier and even more accomplished. There doesn’t seem to be one note, one sound or one idea out of place and that makes this album the best follow-up they could have made. It’s that vintage sound, that proto sound, that occult touch, the psychedelic meandering and those masterful riffs! It’s all there and a plenty… Get your belly filled till it bursts with the album on Number 5



Green Lung - Black Harvest 

 


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