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― all that glitters ain't cyber gold (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
new Elder track:
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2015/01/16/elder-lore-compendium-premiere/
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 17 January 2015 11:59 (nine years ago) link
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― bingo dabber acid, Saturday, 17 January 2015 12:12 (nine years ago) link
This is out sometime this month. Check out the first single, "Mountain."
FOGG - High Testament (Under The Gun)https://fogg.bandcamp.com/album/high-testament
Their demo and first album Death reminded me of Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats and Satan's Satyrs at first, though the lo-fi sound wasn't entirely intentional, they just had trouble getting it down.https://fogg.bandcamp.com/album/death
Young dudes still possibly in their teens based in Fort Worth, TX. I like how they're into lots of obscure proto-metal and psych prog: http://www.psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com/2014/08/fogg-interview-with-chase-jowell-and.html?m=1
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 17 January 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
Fogg are getting better and better by leaps and bounds. They're in their late teens and early 20s, and are absorbing music like sponges. Quickly moved on from retro stoner rock to what is now more prog with krautrock flourishes. The improvement from the first time I saw them a year or so ago to their December show is huge. Definitely guys to keep an eye on.
Plus, when I tweeted about them Chase's mom proudly tweeted back at me. He found it extremely embarrassing.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 17 January 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link
haaaaahahahahahahahah yesget over it kid!
― groundless round (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Stoner Rock band name generator. Hilariously on the money.
http://www.cheezus.com/stoner/
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
Lol I got Hair Bird, Grand Lake, Heavy Mammoth
Adj Noun v popular
― groundless round (La Lechera), Sunday, 18 January 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
I remember You're Smiling Now But etc etc kicking around the UK punk scene 12, 13 years ago. they did a vaguely drawn-out vaguely hard rock type of post-hardcore iirc? not caught up w/ them outside of reading this thread, I thought they'd been broke up for years
― hot takes: audit in progress (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 18 January 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
The Elder tune "Release" is immense, so good
― calstars, Monday, 19 January 2015 03:25 (nine years ago) link
WTF man, how come everyone else has heard the Elder album? I've been a longtime supporter of the band who directed me to Armageddon to get a preview and they are unresponsive.
Late list from StonerRock.euhttp://www.stonerrock.eu/allgemein/results-album-of-the-year-community-voting-2014
1. Colour Haze – To The Highest Gods We Know (59 Points)2. Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Punk Band – Black Power Flower (55 Points)3. Truckfighters – Universe (54 Points)4. 3rd Ear Experience -Incredible Good Fortune (47 Points)5. Blues Pills – Blues Pills (45 Points)6. Mars Red Sky – Stranded In Arcadia (42 Points)7. 1000 Mods – Vultures (36 Points)8. Greenleaf – Trails and Passes (34 Points)9. Dyse – Das Nation (29 Points)10. Pyrior – Onestone (28 Points)11. YOB – Clearing the Path to Ascend (27 Points)12. Electric Wizard – Time to Die (27 Points)13. Fu Manchu – Gigantoid (25 Points)14. Coogans Bluff – Gettin’ Dizzy (23 Points)15. Earth – Primitive and Deadly (19 Points)16. Orange Goblin – Back from the Abyss (17 Points)17. Wo Fat – The Conjuring (16 Points)18. Dopelord – Black Arts, Riff Worship & Weed Cult (15 Points)19. Papir – IIII (15 Points)20. Bongripper – Miserable (15 Points)
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 19 January 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
I haven't heard it either FWIW
― calstars, Monday, 19 January 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
I should be all over that Levitation Chicago thing, as I love The Pop Group and Swervedriver, and Lumerians. However, I was totally planning to see Torche on the 14th, and they won't say which bands are playing which night and are not giving the option to buy a ticket for just one night. So I'm on the fence and waiting to see.
Also excited for Wand & Heaters at Empty Bottle on 4/5.http://emptybottle.com/show/5576755/https://heaters.bandcamp.com/album/solstice
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
Stoked for Psycho California. Previously they have put on a few other events at The Observatory, Psycho De Mayo, which also had a great lineup, and Day of the Shred. Has anyone been? What's the venue like?
Psycho De Mayohttp://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/bp/psycho-de-mayo.jpgPENTAGRAMSAINT VITUSKADAVAR DEAD MEADOWFATSO JETSONTHE SHRINEDAHGA BLOOMZIG ZAGSSONS OF HUNSSUUNSLUMERIANSZOMBIE ZOMBIESUN ARAWWHITE MANNAAL LOVER
Day of the ShredRED FANGWeedeaterWindhandAncestorsELDERBONGRIPPERTHE SHRINERADIO MOSCOWDANAVAHot LunchALL THEM WITCHESGLITTER WIZARD
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
http://lizardqueenband.bandcamp.com/album/third-eye
― Mordy, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
i like this too:https://heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/killer-boogie-detroit
― Mordy, Thursday, 22 January 2015 03:18 (nine years ago) link
Updated release dates:
FOGG - High Testament (Under The Gun) Jan?Hey Colossus - In Black And Gold (Rocket) 9-FebA Place To Bury Strangers - Fixation (Dead Oceans) 17-FebSix Organs Of Admittance - Hexadic (Drag City) 17-FebCorsair - One Eyed Horse (Shadow Kingdom) 24-FebPelican - The Cliff (Southern Lord) 24-FebElder - Lore (Armageddon) 28-FebThe Lucid Dream - The Lucid Dream (Holy How Are You?) 28-FebCherry Choke - Raising The Waters (Elektrohasch) FebDorthia Cottrell - Dorthia Cottrell (Forcefield) 3-MarBlack Rainbows - Hawdope (Heavy Psych Sounds/Shellshock) 14-MarWAND - Golem (In The Red) 17-MarLightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire (Thrill Jockey) 24-MarUfomammut – Ecate (Neurot) 31-MarMammoth Mammoth - Volume IV - Hammered Again (Napalm) 7-AprRoyal Thunder - Crooked Doors (Relapse) 7-AprAcid King - Middle Of Nowhere, Center Of Everywhere (Svart) 14-Apr
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 23 January 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
Portland, Maine's Murcielago. Sound like they should have been on Man's Ruin.
https://murcielagorock.bandcamp.com/
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 23 January 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
one of my favorite words in Spanish!
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 23 January 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
so much cooler than bat.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 23 January 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
That's a great word. Also a fan of tinieblas.
― pelvic slang (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 24 January 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
http://https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3596167080_10.jpg
Mondo Drag - Mondo Drag (Bilocation) - One of the first great surprises this year, some fabulous psych prog. They have a few albums, started more psych. Radio Moscow's rhythm section Zack Anderson and Cory Berry recorded with them before moving on to Blues Pills. With new rhythm section, they're now based in Oakland, and hopefully planning to hit the road.https://mondodrag.bandcamp.com/album/s-t
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 24 January 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Obelisk outdoes itself: Tomorrow’s Dream 2015: 90 of the Year’s Most Anticipated Releaseshttp://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2015/01/21/tomorrows-dream-2015/
Details on Goatsnake album coming soon. Correction, the FOGG album won't be out for a few months.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 January 2015 06:10 (nine years ago) link
AMT touring US/Canada with ST 37, clearly doing their part to make sure a certain Drugs AMoney can die happy
― proggy went a-courtin' (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
Follakzoid announce new album + singlehttp://www.belmontbookings.nl/follakzoid-join-belmonts-european-roster-announce-new-album-single/
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
Witch Mountain found a new vocalist already, Kayla Dixon of Cleveland's Demons Within. http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2015/01/29/witch-mountain-kayla-dixon/
Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries (Thrill Jockey) Feb 24 - New double album coming.
I've had a few days with the upcoming Elder and it is magnificent. Their sound is evolving from fuzzy stoner doom to a more prog direction.
Out now:Burning Saviours - Unholy Tales From The North (Transubstans) Spidergawd - Spidergawd II (Crispin Glover) - Norwegian stoner psych/prog/hard rock. I'd just heard their first one last month and already there's another. Don't ask me what's going on with the cover!http://www.magnificentmusic.de/bands/spidergawd/Spidergawd_cover_II.jpg
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 30 January 2015 04:13 (nine years ago) link
Captain Crimson - Ageless Time (Moving Air) - I totally didn't know this was coming out. Out yesterday. Also available on iTunes. https://captaincrimson.bandcamp.com/http://open.spotify.com/album/7Jj9PIGkJiAC1KnYwsbG1n
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 1 February 2015 01:27 (nine years ago) link
Nudity (Oly, WA)LP "Astronomicon" coming soon. Looking forward to catching them live in a week; everything I've heard from them has been pretty great.
http://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/astronomicon-lp-lungs-062?from=embed
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Monday, 2 February 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
The Quietus are streaming one track off the upcoming Ufomammut album Ecate
http://thequietus.com/articles/17168-ufomammut-temple
Also, holy shit.
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 4 February 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-thule
Ann Arbor stoner/sci-fi band released recent album (may have been covered in last year's thread?) Something tells me EZ might dig this
― the saer returns (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 7 February 2015 10:21 (nine years ago) link
This is solid. Sometimes is a little too Kyuss (which, as I've talked about before, is not my thing) and the dude isn't the strongest singer, but the overall vibe is great.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 7 February 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
This was released today.
https://corsair.bandcamp.com/album/one-eyed-horse
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 02:43 (nine years ago) link
thanks, enjoying this
― calstars, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 03:16 (nine years ago) link
UFOMAMMUT Finally Tours North America!http://fastnbulbous.com/ufomammut-finally-tours-north-america/
Kicks off just down the street from me at Reggie's!
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
i will see you there!! tickets go on sale friday and it's on my calendar. i'm kinda pissed that i'm going to miss electric wizard but it's on one of my school nights and also UFOMAMMUT makes up for it.
― groundless round (La Lechera), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Dangit, Graveyard are touring with Mastodon and Clutch but for some reason aren't going to Chicago. They are playing Milwaukee on 5/13, the same night as Ufomammut!
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 20 February 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
yep - totally going to hit that triple bill in Milwaukee instead - you've talked up Graveyard live for so long, now I have to see 'em!
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 20 February 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
You know, I may try to make them both. The show at The Rave starts at 7-ish, and Graveyard opens. Reggies' doors open at 7 too, and only Usnea is scheduled to open so far. But as long as they pack in another band or two last minute like they usually do, it should be feasible to make it in time for Ufomammut later in the evening! I've seen Mastodon and Clutch plenty of times, so not an issue for me. That will definitely be a tip-top night for rock 'n' cosmic doom!
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 20 February 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
I'd be really impressed if you pulled that off and were able to catch both sets.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 February 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
I don't wanna risk missing Ufomammut (or a $300 Wisconsin speeding ticket!), so only if they announce more opening bands at Reggie's.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 20 February 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
there was a "and TBA" on the flyer...
― groundless round (La Lechera), Friday, 20 February 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
New ST 37 album out. Report with more after listening to it...
― the saer returns (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 22 February 2015 07:04 (nine years ago) link
Picked up the Nudity record at their tour kick-off. Very impressive! I get a sort of Hawkwind at their Krautiest vibe with a lot of NWOBHM flourishes.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Monday, 23 February 2015 00:50 (nine years ago) link
Ok, I have had Bardo Pond's "Dilate" for quite a few years, have given it quite a few listens and like it quite well.
What would be a best second album by Bardo Pond?
― earlnash, Monday, 23 February 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
Hmm... Lapsed, Amanita or On The Ellipse would be my recommendations. Set and Setting never grabbed me for some reason.
― rabatment of the rectangle (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
Nothing else they've done is really like Dilate, so it's best to prepare yourself for something different but still awesome.
― rabatment of the rectangle (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 24 February 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
stream new oriental folk metal album from Melechesh here:http://www.metalinjection.net/av/stream-melecheshs-new-black-metal-opus-enki-in-full
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
(warning: not very folky at all)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Isn't it pretty much death metal?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
i'm not hearing the middle eastern influences as much on this album but previous albums have had more (and they talk a lot about trying to incorporate middle eastern sounds into their death metal)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
“We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.” ~ Tom Morello
Only one point again. It all was that close this year. We climb one point from Arenna & Windhand on Number 13 to reach these dubious kings on Number 12. After an absence of almost ten years they finally returned. And they did this with a sure fire bang. “Think of this album as a shamanistic journey that deserves to be heard in one sitting rather than dipping in and out. This should be the slab of excellence that brings them back into their well-deserved place at the top of the underground swamp.” As Madman Tony Maim said back in February of this year. Well, in an amazing field of incredible albums they managed to grab the Number 12 spot of the Stoner HiVe top 20 countdown. It must be their tripped out vibes that has gotten all of us hooked!
12. Acid King – Middle Of Nowhere, Centre Of Everywhere
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 21 December 2015 22:58 (eight years ago) link
“No cake has ever been so fatal or so hideous. And yet, we eat it. We gorge and we barf and we puke and regurgitate and eat it all over again. Yes, we are beasts.” ~ Bono
As mentioned before, I’m always surprised about the level of commitment of all you lovely freaks out there. As much as I am surprised by the amount of great music released every year and let’s state the obvious, the amount of this year is absolutely stunning. So even though I dug the fifth album of this Dutch trio when it was released back in June I had definitely not expected it to make the countdown. Which is wrong on many level. For the album is filled with their most structured songs to date; even though they are supported by two devious psychedelic bookends at the beginning and end of the record. Their Hendrix influences might be fading and a bit more of Kyuss might be surfacing, their new record is without a doubt a typical record for this amazing trio. So, again, only one point above Acid King on Number 12 we find as a definite free rock lift-off those three boys that made the list back in 2009 and 2010 on Number 11 !!!
11. The Machine – Offblast!
“Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.” ~ Vaughn Monroe
As we pass The Machine with four points and enter the Top 10 it feels only fitting to let someone else do the talking about this album. Also, because we talked a lot about this band, this year and in other years. Cause they ended up on the third position in 2012 and on the second position in 2011. So here’s Charlie Tooth: “Apparently the only thing Dylan, the Animals and Derek And The Dominoes have on these Swedes is that they didn't make the list! Their 2015 LP is a perfect example of why classic never really goes out of style. How can a band that started around 2006 sound so classic? My guess is pure feel, emotion with a sense of natural playing and writing ability. Their 2015 album is pure and clean. It's not surprising these blues rockers rank so high on the Stoner HiVe people's picks! a truly cool blues based machine that set themselves apart from the Iommi worshiping guitar bands!” Number 10 is taken up by…
10. Graveyard – Innocence & Decadence
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 24 December 2015 15:12 (eight years ago) link
“I really thought it was chocolate cake!” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
We jump three points after Graveyard brought us into the top 10 to find a true psychedelic screed on Number 9. Mentioned only days before the start of the Countdown the second album of this Finnish six-piece is psychedelic rock performed on the very edge of the needle. Chuck full of classic riffs and an intense occult atmosphere it is without a doubt that the female voice is the one that drags you down with the band. With a powerful and much tougher pronunciation. There is still a bit of Grace Slick in there, but for the most part her voice is still that lovely creature that seemed to skid out of control with every corner she took, but without any hesitation, for she knows, even if she doesn’t make that corner, it will still sound incredible. On Number 9 we find…
9. Jess & The Ancient Ones – Second Psychedelic Coming: the Aquarius Tapes
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 25 December 2015 00:46 (eight years ago) link
“I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.” ~ Amanda Marshall
With seven points above Jess And The Ancient Ones we make a bigger jump to reach Number 8. A band that released their last album fifteen years ago and since then became legendary. Like their reunion gig on Roadburn 2010. Instant legendary. And then to return with an album that punches out magical riffs that rattles, churn and flutter without ever taking the leading role. Cause that is reserved for the vocalist who surfs and skates across all the incredible music delivered. Awesome blues for the dark dark days… Number 8!
8. Goatsnake – Black Age Blues
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 28 December 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link
The Obelisk Presents: THE TOP 30 ALBUMS OF 2015http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2015/12/22/top-30-of-2015/
30. High on Fire, Luminiferous29. CHRCH, Unanswered Hymns28. Golden Void, Berkana27. Stoned Jesus, The Harvest26. Graveyard, Innocence and Decadence25. Death Hawks, Sun Future Moon24. Spidergawd, II23. The Midnight Ghost Train, Cold was the Ground22. Leeches of Lore, Motel of Infinity21. With the Dead, With the Dead20. Clutch, Psychic Warfare19. Mondo Drag, Mondo Drag18. Lamp of the Universe, The Inner Light of Revelation 17. Mammatus, Sparkling Waters16. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, The Night Creeper 15. Death Alley, Black Magick Boogieland14. The Machine, Offblast!13. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth12. Kind, Rocket Science11. Bloodcow, Crystals and Lasers10. Kadavar, Berlin9. Goatsnake, Black Age Blues8. Kings Destroy, Kings Destroy7. Cigale, Cigale6. Sun Blood Stories, Twilight Midnight Morning5a. Colour Haze, To the Highest Gods We Know5. The Atomic Bitchwax, Gravitron4. All Them Witches, Dying Surfer Meets His Maker3. Snail, Feral2. Acid King, Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere 1. Elder, Lore
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 28 December 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
I've only heard 5 of those but happy to see elder at numero uno!
― calstars, Monday, 28 December 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
Hey hey, Lamp of the Universe!
― ho ho ho, very funny (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 29 December 2015 08:07 (eight years ago) link
“Cake? Who needs cake? I’d rather guzzle drink and put other stuff up my nose!” ~ Keith Richards
Two points above Goatsnake on Number 8 we find a trio that has been aweing fans all across the world with their stage performance and stunning shows. And the albums did well as well. Reaching Number 2 back in 2012 and Number 5 in 2013. But for some reason they never completely lived up to their live concerts. This one perhaps is closer to that awesome truth. Or as Madman Tony Maim put it back in September: “Thank fuck, these Germans have come up with new killer riffs, cool song compositions and a slightly more polished production sound which has expanded their sonic horizons, meaning the tracks sound massive and rock like a bastard.” No extra words needed. Check out Number 7!
7. Kadavar – Berlin
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LydxOPsMcDU/VoJMFJkCBII/AAAAAAAAJx4/nW4fpKdaHbg/s320/6fromfreedomhawk.jpg
http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2015/12/number-6.html
“All the good cakes have already been eaten by people with wigs and stuff.” ~ Frank Zappa
A massive jump of fourteen points takes us up to Number 6. A band that made the list at Number 7 back in 2011 and the absolute Numero Uno according to Charlie Tooth. So let’s let him do the talking. “I ask you, how can a band like this not make the list? That's right, no way in hell it wouldn't! This year’s release is kick ass, bad ass and downright dirty. Ten tracks of unadulterated bliss, from Sexecutioner right to the pop savvy Ice Age Hey Baby. This trio is a bands band in every sense of that statement. Pantella, Ryan and Kosnik all shine on this record. For a band that has been around well over a decade the shit just keeps getting better. And have you ever seen a bassists fingers eat lighting and crap thunder like Kosnik's do? (Sorry, I had to fit that in. Hahaha) Thank you for another awesome atomic release.” Fourteen points above Kadavar on Number 7 we find on Number 6 ...!
6. The Atomic Bitchwax – Gravitron
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
“I've learnt that if I tell myself I'm not allowed something, I binge on it later. So if I want chocolate, I have chocolate. If I want biscuits, I have biscuits. I love cake. I just love cake.” ~ Geri Halliwell
Perhaps. To be completely honest, the biggest surprise for me, comes after the jump of two points from The Atomic Bitchwax on Number 6 to Number 5. Once again, let me state the obvious, incredible album and one that deserves every inch of the spot they are on. I just had not expected it this high. But Madman Tony Maim recognized its greatness back in March when it was released. “Hints of fuzz electric blues are scattered throughout with searing effect and yes, it does make me want to drive faster with my arm hanging out of the window, music blaring from the speakers on the way to some humdrum place of work, having my soul lifted by this potential masterpiece.” Hell yeah! I’m ordering the LP as we speak! Number 5 is… !!!
5. Black Rainbows – Hawkdope
“I’ve been eating cake since the day I was born. Been eating cake, drinking whisky and seducing the ladies!” ~ Lemmy
The final one point jump takes up to Number 4. After this amazing album come the big leaps. Have you recovered from taking in the Hawkdope record? Cause Black Rainbows ended up on Number 5. I haven’t, it truly is a masterpiece. A big thank you to all you lovely freaks out there that voted for it, it has brought it back to my attention. The band that follows is one that released their debut this year and is championed by a true legend. A legend that formed bands like Hermano, Supafuzz and Asylum On The Hill and a real hero for yours truly. There’s something dark and brooding about this record. Which might be due, once again, thanks to the weird mountain folklore and scary stories his backyard is steeped in. You can almost smell the blood dripping of the hooks, riffs and growling guitars. Dirty power chords and bourbon soaked drums. It’s steamy and with every track that passes you feel the shadows come alive around you… Number 4!
4. Luna Sol – Blood Moon
http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2015/12/number-3.html
“My mother made this upside-down cake that went horribly wrong. I made her make it again and again, for years, because I liked it so much. It never worked, yet it always worked, if you get my drift.” ~ Lemmy
We jump thirteen points from Luna Sol at Number 4 to reach the Bronze medalist of 2015. A band that has been doing great for years and had been having doubts about where to go to next after the album they released this year. But when you release such a glorious record, there is no way to go but on and on. Cause that is the only aspect of time that is constant. It goes on. Just like this album. An instrumental masterpiece. An intricate work of art. Like a high prized Swiss clock it turns and shifts and balances out on the exact right moment. The pounding drums and growling riffs have you soaring high. The time-umbrella concept really feels like an adventure; and thanks to all the minutiae you keep discovering little musical trinkets with every new listening session. This is definitely an album for the ages and I am happy to discover all you lovely freaks out there felt the exact same way! Number 3 !
3. Glowsun – Beyond the Wall Of Time
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
i thought kadavar were a new band, and due to the last album cover, one that were all about the classic 70s heavy rock groove.sounds like i need to investigate.
― mark e, Wednesday, 30 December 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
“The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.” ~ Lemmy
No less that forty points! Yes, we jump forty points from Glowsun’s Beyond The Wall Of Time on Third place to our Silver medalist. A band that has been making the Top 20 countdown almost since their conception. Ending on Number 12 back in 2011 and Number 15 in 2013. Apparently everyone out there has been even more in love with their newest release. Less of a nightmare but still scary and intense and it will definitely give you the creeps. Or as Madman Tony Maim put it back in September: “A heavier sound which still retains the ‘69/’70 Blue Cheer vibes but at the same time turning up the psychedelic and druggy feel which holds so much allure to warped minds like myself – and indeed you – my dear Stoner HiVe readers.” So without further ado, let’s get wicked with NUMBER 2 !!
2. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – The Night Creeper
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 31 December 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xQbU040iknQ/VoTiUUf-xkI/AAAAAAAAJ0g/TIeOe-9UG40/s320/cake1.jpg
http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2016/01/number-1.html
“My rider is a few biscuits, a few cakes, a meat plate, a cheese plate, some cigs, some JDs. I must say, I'm not completely fixated on Jack Daniel's – it's just that it's the one with the best distribution system worldwide. At one point I mainly drank Southern Comfort mixed with Special Brew. What was I thinking?” ~ Lemmy
The jump from Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats as runner-up in the Stoner HiVe top 20 countdown of 2015 is no less that thirty-seven points. The absolute Gold medal this year goes to a trio that was already predicted to steal the prize back in February. And who already took first place back in 2011 with their Dead Roots Stirring album. They managed to turn the musical year upside down and uprooting the expected slow start of the year. They ran away with the Doom Charts those first months and came in second place in the overall Doom Charts. Where yours truly wrote: “Stupefying all of us. Or at least most of us. They came out swinging with an album at the very beginning of this year that perhaps even bested that awe-inspiring performance on Roadburn 2013. The Boston trio released their album unto the world in February and all of us kept spinning that record until the needle ran through the groove. Their mixture of psychedelic rock, heavy stoner and epic metal will have you climbing to incredible heights in the dreams they evoke. There is no escaping and once you’re in, there is really no way out until those final mythical fading moments... For the album is one gigantic tension arc. It will make you forget all about time and place and experience something that only the true wise men know. It won’t teach, but simply show…” The stuff of legends, a contribution that will live on forever in the pantheon of rock. A perfect record, a pure ballistically delivered album, a blow against the empire, a rigging singular beautiful strike, a hammer of the gods that will sound on for eternity…
1. Elder – Lore
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 2 January 2016 08:01 (eight years ago) link
^this is a really good album
Fsstnbulbous are you going to be posting your psych list here this year? I love those (though if you don't gave the time, I understand)
― tycoon rebuki (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 2 January 2016 12:41 (eight years ago) link
Well, I hope you all looked at this page: http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-15/#breakdown
That has the top 13 of psych and psych noir. If you go to my database at http://fastnbulbous.com/list.php, this is what comes up in a search for psych, not filtered to albums that are primarily psych:
1. Golden Void – Berkana (Thrill Jockey)2. Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors (Relapse)3. Elder – Lore (Armageddon)4. Ufomammut – Ecate (Neurot)5. Sunder – Sunder (Tee Pee) 6. Fuzz – II (In The Red) 7. Jess And The Ancient Ones – Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes (Svart) 8. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – The Night Creeper (Rise Above) 9. The Lucid Dream – The Lucid Dream (Holy How Are You?)10. Wand – Golem (In The Red)11. Dungen – Allas Sak (Mexican Summer) 12. Horisont – Odyssey (Rise Above) 13. Kadavar – Berlin (Nuclear Blast) 14. Jacco Gardner – Hypnophobia (Polyvinyl)15. Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castle Face)16. Anekdoten – Until All The Ghosts Are Gone (Musea/Virta)17. The Exploding Eyes Orchestra – I (Svart)18. Sacri Monti – Sacri Monti (Tee Pee)19. Sundays & Cybele – Heaven (Beyond Beyond Beyond)20. Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Horse Dance (Rocket)21. Stara Rzeka – Zamknęły się oczy ziemi (Instant Classic)22. Male Gaze – Gale Maze (Castle Face)23. Minami Deutsch – Minami Deutsch (Cardinal Fuzz/Guruguru Brain)24. Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope) 25. All Them Witches – Dying Surfer Meets His Maker (New West) 26. Wand – 1000 Days (Drag City) 27. Mammatus – Sparkling Waters (Spiritual Pajamas)28. Singapore Sling – Psych Fuck (Fuzz Club)29. House Of Laurence – Awake (House Of Laurence)30. Glowsun – Beyond The Wall Of Time (Napalm)31. Mother Engine – Absturz (Gebrüder Schall)32. Sonic Jesus – Neither Virtue Nor Anger (Fuzz Club)33. Vidunder – Oracles & Prophets (Crusher) 34. Mondo Drag – Mondo Drag (RidingEasy)35. Weedpecker – II (Weedpecker)36. Electric Moon – The Theory Of Mind (Sulatron) 37. Arenna – Given To Emptiness (Nasoni) | Bamdcamp38. Lucifer – Lucifer I (Rise Above) 39. Monster Magnet – Cobras And Fire (The Mastermind Remix) (Napalm) 40. Ancient River – Keeper Of The Dawn (Summer Moon)41. Ruby The Hatchet – Valley Of The Snake (Tee Pee)42. Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet – 2 (Trouble In Mind) 43. KIND – Rocket Science (Ripple) 11-Dec44. The Vintage Caravan – Arrival (Nuclear Blast)45. Moon Duo – Shadow Of The Sun (Sacred Bones)46. The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – Masters Of The Molehill (Cardinal Fuzz)47. Carlton Melton – Out To Sea (Agitated)48. Black Space Riders – Refugeeum (Black Space/Cargo)49. White Manna – Pan (Cardinal Fuzz/Captcha)50. 10 000 Russos – 10 000 Russos (Fuzz Club)51. FOGG – High Testament (Tee Pee)52. Nocturnalia – Above Below Within (Gaphals)53. Astral Son – Silver Moon (Headspin)54. Kelley Stoltz – In Triangle Time (Castle Face) 55. Old Man's Will – Hard Times - Troubled Man (RidingEasy)56. Sexwitch – Sexwitch (Echolyn) 57. Hills – Frid (Rocket)58. Bop English – Constant Bop (Blood And Biscuits)59. The Underground Youth – Haunted (Fuzz Club)60. Death Hawks – Sun Future Moon (Svart) 61. Ecstatic Vision – Sonic Praise (Relapse)62. RotoR – Fünf (Nois-o-lution) 63. Blown Out – Jet Black Hallucinations (Golden Mantra)64. GNOD – Infinity Machines (Rocket)65. Dead Sea Apes – Spectral Domain (Cardinal Fuzz)66. Spidergawd – II (Crispin Glover) 67. Datura4 – Demon Blues (Alive) 68. My Sleeping Karma – Moksha (Napalm) 69. The Smoking Trees – TST (Burger) 70. Grusom – Grusom (Kosmik Artifactz)71. Föllakzoid – III (Sacred Bones)72. Destruction Unit – Negative Feedback Resistor (Sacred Bones)73. Throw Down Bones – Throw Down Bones (Fuzz Club)74. The Holydrug Couple – Moonlust (Sacred Bones)75. Shellfin – Cities Without Names (Shellfin)76. Agusa – Två (The Laser's Edge)77. DoctoR DooM – This Seed We Have Sown (Ripple)78. Black Rainbows – Hawkdope (Heavy Psych Sounds)79. Koes Barat – Koes Barat (Sub Pop) 80. Zone Six – Love Monster (Sulatron) 81. Cathode Ray Eyes – Eyes In The Melancholy Palm (Cardinal Fuzz) 82. Blandbladen – Vederkvickelse (Kommun 2) 83. Radar Men On The Moon – Subversive I (Fuzz Club)84. Sendelica – Anima Mundi (Sendelica)85. Taman Shud – Viper Smoke (Trashmouth)86. Spiders – Why Don't You EP (Crusher) 87. together Pangea – The Phage EP (Burger) 88. The Butterscotch Cathedral – The Butterscotch Cathedral (Trouble In Mind) 89. Seremonia – Kristalliarkki (Svart)90. Weird Owl – Interstellar Skeletal (A Recordings) 91. Cherry Choke – Raising The Waters (Elektrohasch)92. Mini Mansions – The Great Pretenders (Fiction) 93. Blues Pills – Blues Pills Live (Nuclear Blast) 94. Pretty Lightning – A Magic Lane Of Light And Rain (Cardinal Fuzz)95. Hey Colossus – In Black And Gold (Rocket)96. The Myrrors – Arena Negra (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)97. You're Smiling Now But We'll All Turn Into Demons – Population IV (Cardinal Fuzz)98. Blown Out – Planetary Engineering (Golden Mantra)99. Kylesa – Exhausting Fire (Season Of Mist) 100. zZz – Juggernaut (Excelsior)
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 2 January 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
A lot there to chew on. I didnt see thr genre lists; those are really great, too
Grazie
― tycoon rebuki (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 2 January 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
Captain Beyond Zen Top 40http://captain-beyond.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-top-40-albums-of-2015.html
Unusually unique at the top end of the list:
1. Flesh of the Stars - Hidehttps://fleshofthestars.bandcamp.com/album/hide2. Path of Samsara - The Fiery Handhttps://pathofsamsaravan.bandcamp.com/album/the-fiery-hand3. Horisont - Odyssey4. Uncle Acid - Night Creeper5. Mirror - Mirror6. With the Dead - With the Dead7. Tarot - The Warrior's Spell8. Khemmis - Absolution9. Demon Head - Ride the Wilderness10. Demon Eye - Tempora Infernalia11. Dopethrone - Hochelaga12. Goatsnake - Black Age Blues13. Ecstatic Vision - Sonic Praise14. Ruby the Hatchet - Valley of the Snake15. Magic Circle - Journey Blind16. Kadavar - Berlin17. Aktor - Paranoiahttps://aktor.bandcamp.com/album/paranoia18. Flight - Flight19. Gold - No Imagehttps://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-image20. Knife Ritual - Old Earthhttps://kniferitual.bandcamp.com/album/old-earth21. Saturnalia Temple - To the Other22. Iron Void - Doomsday23. Magister Templi - Into Duat24. Witchsorrow - No Light, Only Fire25. Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower26. Goya - Obelisk27. Monolord - Vænir28. The Sword - High Country29. Stoned Jesus - The Harvest30. Limb - Terminal31. Visigoth - The Revenant King32. Dead Lord - Heads Held High33. Black Trip - Shadowline34. Tombstones - Vargariis35. Obsidian Sea - Dreams, Illusions, Obsessions36. Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence37. Shepherd - Stereolithic Riffalocalypse38. Golden Void - Berkana39. Mondo Drag - Mondo Drag40. Behold! The Monolith - Architects of the Void
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 04:31 (eight years ago) link
new thread for '16?
― calstars, Thursday, 14 January 2016 03:08 (eight years ago) link
Happy to see Elder at number one.
Enjoying "the Outcast" by Witchcraft ATM
― calstars, Thursday, 14 January 2016 03:11 (eight years ago) link
yes to new thread for '16!
― alpine static, Thursday, 14 January 2016 07:23 (eight years ago) link
new Hexvessel album soon
https://youtu.be/6uHPHn5Zwmo
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Saturday, 16 January 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
Anyone who cares to feel free to name and start the new thread. I've been taking a break, but will think about a title in the next couple days if no one else does.
I'm looking forward to the new Electric Eye - Different Sun (Feb 5)http://www.xsnoize.com/electric-eye/
Here's their last one:https://electriceye.bandcamp.com/
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link