Tony Maim’s – Personal Top 20 of 2023

 

Tony Maim’s – Personal Top 20

of 2023!

We were done with posting all the Personal Top 20 lists of the Stoner HiVe Team Members. Or so we thought! Cause there is always Madman Tony Maim to consider! Not really all that active on Stoner HiVe or his own Black Insect Laughter last year, but still here and ready to jump out of the bushes when you least expect it. Yesterday for instance!

Like the rest of the team he’s involved with the Doom Charts. So his list will appear there as well. And as we mentioned he’s got his own Black Insect Laughter blog, which he unfortunately has had little time for and of course all that music that’s pouring out of his brain. Guitars On Drugs, which released DubFuzz in 2022. Always diligent when it comes to punk and noise and sending his list for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown. Well, it’s Madman Tony Maim; and he’s right, we’re wrong. And when the Madman speaks, we listen! So, here's his choice list of 25 favorite albums of 2023!!

1. Sonic Demon - Veterans Of The Psychic War

2. Hibushibire - Magical Metamorphosis Third Eye

3. Kvelertak - Endling

4. Heavy Blanket - Moon Is

5. Liturgy - 93696 

6. King Kraken - MCLXXX

 7. Tar Pond - Petrol 

8. Vanishing Kids - Miracle Of Death 

9. Clouds Taste Satanic - Tales Of Demonic Possession 

10. Mutoid Man - Mutants 

11. Dopelord - Songs For Satan 

12. Silvermoth - Black Bay 

13. Scum Giant - Space Vampire 

14. Demonio - Reaching For The Light 

15. Bongzilla - Weedsconsin

16. Church Of Misery - Born Under A Mad Sign

17. Stepmother- Planet Brutalicon

18. Jaaw - Supercluster

19. Hail The Void - Memento Mori

20. Explosions In The Sky - End

21. Shipwreck Karpathos - Being Human

22. Isaak - Hey

23. Cleophuzz - Mystic Vulture

24. Margarita Witch Cult - Margarita Witch Cult

25. Squid - O Monolith

And check out the one review/blurb he wrote last year here: 

Clouds Taste Satanic - Tales Of Demonic Possession

Kyle SB – Personal Top 20 - 2023

 

Kyle SB – Personal Top 20

of 2023!

 

Don't forget it's almost January 6! Why you ask? Cause it's his birthday! We congratulated him in advance and even more so with starting his own PR company called Good Boy PR! It must be one of the many highlights of the past twelve months. We can also congratulate him with his Personal Top 20! And indeed Kyle SB (formerly know as Shasta Beast) is also part of the Doom Charts, and he runs the Instagram page of the Doom Charts. And his Personal list will of course also appear on the Doom Charts, but perhaps slightly edited, perhaps not. Cause this is the Top 20 he sent in back when we asked for your lists for the Top 20 Countdown. Check out his list of majestic releases and Let Slip the Dogs of Rock 'n Roll!

 

BURNER - IT ALL RETURNS TO NOTHING

 

LOMA BAJA - PISCINAS VERTICALES 

 

PHARM - THE TOWER

SANDRIDER - ENVELETRATION

 

GRAND CADAVER - DEITIES OF DEATHLIKE SLEEP

 

ZORN - ZORN 

MAGDALENA - THE DYINGPROCESS

BARING TEETH - THE PATH NARROWS 

SOLIPNOSIS - SINTESIS SILENCIOSA

WORM HERO - THE INEFFABLE CONSEQUENCE OF DREAMING

 

WHITE CANYON & THE 5TH DIMENSION

THOUSAND VISION MIST - DEPTHS OF OBLIVION 

CRAB - VISIT THE INNATE TEMPLE

 

DOZER -DRIFTING IN THE ENDLESS VOID

 

 PYRE FYRE - PYRE FYRE

 

TROPIC SANTOS - CACCIA GROSSA

 

OOPSY DAZEY - OOPSY DAZEY  

ALMOST HONEST - THE HEX OF PENNS WOODS

PHANTOM HIGH - VALLEY OF SICKNESS

BLOOD CEREMONY - THE OLD WAYS REMAIN 

 

 And check out the thirtheen reviews/blurbs he wrote last year here:

 

Almost Honest - The Hex of Penns Woods

 

Almost Honest - Amish Hex

 

Oopsy Dazey - Oopsy Dazey

 

Phe - Nothing Else Is Real

 

Phe - Saviour

 

Bigstrut - Bigstrut

 

10% Reptile - Holographic Fuzz 

 

Grand Cadaver - Deities Of Deathlike Sleep 

 

Radiant Knife - Pressure

 

Dread Spire - Endless Empire EP

 

Pyre Fyre - Pyre Fyre

 

Cooling Tower - Saint Vitus

 

Guara - Fauna

 

 

 

Doktor420’s – Personal Top 20 - 2023

 

Doktor420’s – Personal Top 20

of 2023!

It’s the good Doktor420’s Personal Top 20 of 2023. The Guru himself blesses us with his Top 50. And was struggling to keep it to that minimum. So, these are the good Doktor420’s Personal Top 50 albums of 2023, it’s what he prescribes. For a good time and for reflecting on what 2023 brought us all musically. Best be listening to them all then! Soon it will also appear on the Doom Charts; cause as you know these dudes all are involved with that gang as well. But, it’s here first… And yes, there's even MORE medicine below the Top 50 for you to discover! All albums that only barely missed out on a ranked position... Check’m all out!

1. Black Rainbows - Superskull

2. Shivalila - Meditations On The Kali Yuga

3. Emperors Lair - Dare Mighty Things

4. Giöbia - Acid Disorder

5. Speck - Eine Gute Reise

6. Kanaan - Downpour

7. Throw Down Bones - Three

8. Kosmodrom - Welcome to Reality

9. Fargo - Geli

10. Dozer - Drifting In The Endless Void

11. Outer Head - Delirium

12. Mammatus - Expanding Majesty

13. Ruff Majik - Elektrik Ram

14. Fire Down Below - Low Desert Surf Club

15. Domkraft - Sonic Moons

16. Rotor - Sieben

17. Apex Ten - Aashray

18. Loose Sutures - Sado Sex For Dummies

19. the Spacelords - Nectar of the Gods

20. ːnepaal - Protoaeolianism

21. Hazeshuttle - Hazeshuttle

22. Cyclist Conspiracy - Mashalla Plan

23. IAH - V

24. Tropic Santos - Caccia Grossa

25. Smoke The Light - The Great Never Ending

26. Signo Rojo - There Was A Hole Here

27. Moon Coven - Sun King

28. Colour - Colour

29. Acid Rooster - Flowers & Dead Souls

30. Aathma - Dust from a Dark Sun

31. Cyclist Conspiracy - Mashalla Plan

32. Oopsy Dazey - Oopsy Dazey

33. Moonstone - Growth

34. Garden of Ash - Garden of Ash

35. Machine - Wave Cannon

36. Phe - Nothing Else Is Real

37. Silver Linings - Pink Fish

38. Astronomie - Interstellar Nomad

39. Cleõphüzz - Mystic Vulture

40. TFNRSH - Tiefenrausch

41. SPURV - Brefjære

42. Ethyl Ether - Violent Entertainment

43. Gorilla Pulp - Mask Off!

44. Mushroom Giant - In a Forest

45. Peregrino - BongoBonzoo

46. Giant Lungs - Giant Lungs

47. Acid Magus - Hope Is Heavy

48. Green Lung - This Heathen Land

49. Warlocks - In Between Sad

50. Wet Cactus - Magma Tres

 

More medicine, but in alphabetical order...|

Abanamat - Abanamat

Acid King - Beyond Vision

AcidSitter - Make Acid Great Again

Alligator Wine - Bones and Teeth

Bahboon - Thunder Ape

Borracho - Blurring the Lines of Reality

Cavaran - Nights At Josan

Damage Therapy - Panacea

Dead Shrine - The Eightfold Path

Dryad - Y

Dune Pilot - Magnetic

Formation Ritual - Doors to the Dead

Fuzz Evil - New Blood

Fuzz Sagrado - Luz e Sombra

Gozu - Remedy

Grandma's Ashes - This Too Shall Pass

Graveyard - 6

Gray Goo - Circus Nightmare

Green Yeti - Necropolitan

Honeygiant - Honeygiant

Howlin' Rats - Should Have Smelt A Rat

Howling Giant - Glass Future

Iglesia Atomica - Los Demonios Andan Sueltos

Illusions Of An Orange - Into The Orangeverse

Jukebox Monkey - Smiles Becoming Teeth

Kal-El - Moon People

Kanaan - Diversions Vol. 2 Enter the Astral Plane

King Potenaz - Goat Rider

King Solomon - Heights

Kombynat Robotron & DUNDDW - split

Kombynat Robotron - Frohe Zukunft

Levitating Snakes - Zodiac

L'Ira Del Baccano - Cosmic Evoked Potentials

Margarita Witch Cult - Margarita Witch Cult

Mountain Of Misery - In Roundness

Mouth - Getaway

Mud Spencer - Kliwon

Musing - Somewhen

Narbo Dacal - Elysium Now

Oddplay - Inherited

Orsak:Oslo - In Irons

Pilot the Dune - Pilot The Dune

Plainride - Plainride

REZN & Vinnum Sabbathi - Silent Future

Saint Karloff - Paleolithic War Crimes

Santo Rostro - Después No Habrá Nada

Sativa Root - Kings of the Weed Age

School Disco - Denton Rock

Shem - III

Snakemother - Snakemother

Spidergawd - VII

Spotlights - Alchemy For The Dead

Sun Dial - Messages From The Mothership

Swan Valley Heights - Terminal Forest

Tidal Wave - The Lord Knows

Titane - Hyperspace

Travo - Astromorph God

the W Likes - II

Zeup - Mammals

And check out the two reviews/blurbs he wrote last year here:

Crabe – Visite du Temple Inné

Mountain Of Misery – In Roundness

Reek of STOOM - Personal Top 20 - 2023

 

Reek of STOOM’s Personal Top 20

of 2023!

Reek of STOOM aka Stevie Reek's Personal Top 20 is here for you the peruse! It's a Top 30 though and it's filled with albums all in tuned to his impeccable taste. We're honored to present it here first as it will also go up on the Doom Charts page soon! It’s the best of the best and contains everything one might hear on his very own Howls From The Hollow. Tune in and hear all that howling...

 THE THIRD MIND - THE THIRD MIND 2

THEY WATCH US FROM THE MOON - COSMIC CHRONICLES, ACT 1: THE ASCENSION

WOUNDED BUFFALO THEORY - PARACHUTE

GEIST - BLUEPRINTS TO MODERATE SEDATION

ALMOST HONEST - THE HEX OF PENNS WOODS

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - PETRODRAGONIC APOCALYPSE

PYLAR - LIMYTE

HIPPIE DEATH CULT - HELICHRYSUM

LONDON ODENSE ENSEMBLE - JAIYEDE SESSIONS VOLUME 2

CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC - TALES OF DEMONIC POSSESSION

CROWN LANDS - FEARLESS

IGNU - UNITY III

SUNROT - THE UNFAILING ROPE

GOAT - THE GALLOWS POLE ORIGINAL SCORE

GRAND CADAVER - DEITIES OF DEATHLIKE SLEEP

WHITE CANYON & THE FIFTH DIMENSION - GARDENERS OF THE EARTH

DOMKRAFT - SONIC MOONS

DOPELORD - SONGS FOR SATAN

LUCID SINS - DANCING IN THE DARK

APPALOOZA - THE SHINING SON

KANAAN - DIVERSIONS VOL. 2: ENTER THE ASTRAL PLANE

LOS TABANOS EXPERIENCE - SONS OF ETHER

MOS EISLEY SPACEPORT - FURTHER

AAWKS - LUNA

GURU GURU - THE INCREDIBLE UNIVERSE OF GURU GURU

LAURA LA SANGRIENTA - PROFETA

ENGRAVER - RITUALS

MARS RED SKY - DAWN OF THE DUSK

ORESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE - CARNIVAL IN PORTUGAL

KOSMODROM - WELCOME TO REALITY 

And check out the four reviews/blurbs he wrote last year here: 

The Sound Of Origin - Man In The Arena 

 

Tumanduumband - Throne of Grief

 

Geist - Blueprints To Moderate Sedation

 

Seer Of The Void – Mantra Monolith

 

Top 40 Most Scrobbled Artists of 2023

 

 

Top 40 Most Scrobbled Artists of 2023

Before we get going with the Personal lists… My own Personal Top 20, and the lists of the few crazies that do something for the HiVe whenever they have time and energy. We want to share the list of Most Scrobbled Artists of 2023... Cause yes, we still scrobble, we scrobble the shit out of a lot of stuff. And this list of scrobbles, is a list of scrobbles that does not include Youtube, Soundcloud, Spotify or Bandcamp. All of which we also use. Spotify very very little. Youtube and Soundcloud a bit… And Bandcamp quite a lot. We love Bandcamp! But this here is a list of most scrobbled artists as scrobbled by a media player. One of those old school media players. That’s right, some people still use them! Simply because of digital promos sent and digital albums bought and downloaded. So, this isn’t the amount of vinyl listened or cd’s played. Nor is it the amount of listening sessions while on the road to nowhere in particular or something very particular. Nope, this is a list of artists scrobbled while sitting fully clothed or stark naked behind a computer screen typing away and reaching auditory climax by all that heavy goodness scrobbled… So, here’s once again, is the 40 Most Scrobbled Artists of the total number of 858 artists scrobbled this way in that violent year we call 2023…

1.    Ruff Majik
2.    Earth Altar / Sun Below
3.    Phe
4.    My Sleeping Karma
5.    Domkraft
6.    Santo Rostro
7.    Dozer
8.    The Hives
9.    King Potenaz
10.    Fatso Jetson / Dali’s Llama

11.    Green Lung
12.    Acid King
13.    Saturna
14.    Ghost
15.    Hail The Void
16.    Baroness
17.    Black Rainbows
18.    Saint Karloff
19.    Acid Magus
20.    Royal Thunder

21.    RRRags
22.    Lamassu
23.    Ping Machines
24.    Iron Jinn
25.    Isaak
26.    REZN & Vinnum Sabbathi
27.    Fire Down Below
28.    Helms Alee
29.    Lowdrive
30.    My Midnight Creeps

31.    Demons My Friends

32.    Queens of The Stone Age
33.    Samán
34.    Hypnosaur
35.    Sonic Moon
36.    The Same River
37.    KRPL
38.    Margarita Witch Cult
39.    Omega Sun
40.    High Noon Kahuna

The links link either to the Review of their last album on Stoner HiVe or to their bandcamp site if we did not review it…

The Red Lantern

 

 

The Red Lantern

We haven’t been able to do a Red Lantern post every year. Cause the albums that earn the Red Lantern are only those on a sent in list of twenty entries, where they occupy the 20th position, and then only get voted for that one time. The years when this did not happen at all, we just invented the Bottom Dwellers post. But the reason why, remains the same. We just love the fact somebody out there loves these albums so hard they want other people know about them. And we are here to help out! If only a little bit.

So, since the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown is a weighted list and not every lovely freak out there sends in their list as a Top 20. Some send more, some send less. And we only count the albums that receive a Number 20 spot on any of the lists sent in as a contender for the Red Lantern, so this year, we have SEVEN albums that received only one vote as a Number 20 spot on someone’s list.

Amplifier – Hologram

The Manchester (now) duo Amplifier delivered their newest album back in April and sounds on many levels like a progressive rock opera of yore. But the touches of something nineties, something stoner and that heavy guitar sound, make it something special. Sort of continuing where their former album Trippin’ with Dr. Faustus, from 2017, left off. Hologram, highly eclectic and eccentric!

Center Of The Earth – Mars

This Danish quartet Center Of The Earth just as easily delivers a doom chug, a stoner riff or a psychedelic outburst. Three songs, almost forty minutes and not one bad second to be heard! Mars deserves to be explored! There’s life to be found!

Complete Snake – Red Hog

An Australian metalcore outfit that implores black and death and makes it all incredibly scuzzy, filthy and demented. Complete Snake are go! Four tracks, almost twenty-five minutes and something freaky and jazzy, make Red Hog that album you might need when you are on the verge of a high fever delirium tremens… If only to push you over!

Fatmas – External Internal Eternal

Fatmas hails from Australia and delivers some alternative metal that uses doom, sludge, stoner and something atmospheric to get the message across. And thus, makes it progressive and extremely delightful! External Internal Eternal gives you five luscious tracks and once again something varied and fat!  

Mother Misery - From Shadow To Ghost

In 2024, Mother Misery will have contributed to the Swedish rock/metal scene for 20 years. From Shadow To Ghost is another highly diverse album, which seems to be the common thread throughout these Red Lantern albums. Metal, eighties touched one moment or seventies and almost proto the next. Progressive influences are there in abundance and something nineties as well. And always highly melodic; and thanks to all that diversity and pristine production, very modern!

Tribe Of Pazuzu - Blasphemous Prophecies

Blackened death metal straight out of the Canadian wastelands! Tribe Of Pazuzu pounds you into submission from the first song: We Serve Under No God! A smidgen of technical, thrash and speed metal, the eight tracks on Blasphemous Prophecies not only demands submission it also offers up release. Yes, and especially if you are a lost soul looking for some pristine death metal to set you free!

Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament

Four-piece Wytch Hazel offer a shining and Angelic lighted seventies inspired classic rock album that not only goes the way of all that proto goodness, but it also implores the best of NWOBHM and that prog feeling of yesteryear. And yes, even the Christian themed lyrics are brought in such a way, such warm harmonies you will be feeling some sort of spirit in no time. For me it was the spirit of hold school rock ‘n roll!

Onwards and Upwards in 2024!

 

 

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...