Wow, I had no idea Kadavar got so popular so quickly! I guess vintage proto-metal trumps doom this year. Countdown so far - http://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-countdown-so-far.html
1. …2. Kadavar - Kadavar3. Graveyard - Lights Out 4. Om - Advaitic Songs 5. Orange Goblin - A Eulogy for the Damned 6. Mamont - Passing Through the Mastery Door7. Goat - World Music8. Royal Thunder – CVI9. Stubb – Stubb10. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis11. Colour Haze - She Said12. Troubled Horse - Step Inside13. Wo Fat - The Black Code14. Greenleaf - Nest of Vipers15. Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Primum16. Horisont - Second Assault17. My Sleeping Karma – Soma18. Ufomammut - Oro: Opus Alter19. The Sword – Apocryphon 20. Major Kong – Doom for the black sun
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 31 December 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
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“Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power and they will reign with him for a thousand years.” Revelation 20:6
I guess there’s only one way and one place to end this list truly righteous and beautifully poetic. For it is the year of Sweden and of a lust for that vintage feeling of musical magic. So it is fitting that these guys that sparked so many of the bands we listen to ended up on the Number One position. For they themselves honor the music that inspired them and most of the other great releases this year. With twenty points more than Kadavar they pay homage to the heavy and darkened sounds of yore and exhume a dusty brown air of nostalgia but never one that is stale or forlorn. In fact their vintage atmosphere has a loud and modern feeling to it. Which is something they might have to thank their new members for. It is mystical music that speaks of ancient legends and conjures up visions of true artists fighting their way out of kaleidoscopic straightjackets of their own making. And cast away they dare to take flight in a new fashion that takes some getting used to. But once the buttons are buttoned; it is snug and fits like a glove!
Witchcraft – Legend
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Here's the Captain Beyond Zen Top 20. http://captain-beyond.blogspot.com/2012/12/top-40-of-2012-1-20.html
Happy new year.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
Love that CBZ list. Windhand at #3!
― x-gau, uncut gau, The Bomb! (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
Giant compilation of unsigned stoner/psych/doom/sludge bands, thought you guys might be interested in checking it out. There might be a few gems on here: http://heavyplanet.bandcamp.com/album/bong-hits-from-the-astral-basement
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Someone's gonna make sure there's one of these threads in 2013, right? Not two...
― alpine static, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
This one was first. But maybe it makes sense to continue to have the separate psych/drone/freak thread, and roll all other stoner/doom/sludge/space/retro discussion into the general Rolling Metal thread. Activity was kind of low here and most people follow the metal one.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, the Obelisk results are finally in! 296 people voted, very nice. However, it sounds like he did not weigh votes based on ranking, which is odd, but interesting results either way.
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2013/01/01/readers-poll-results-the-top-20-of-2012/
01. Om, Advaitic Songs – 108 votes02. High on Fire, De Vermis Mysteriis – 10603. Graveyard, Lights Out – 8604. Neurosis, Honor Found in Decay – 6505. Ufomammut, Oro – 6305. Witchcraft, Legend – 6306. Colour Haze, She Said – 5606. Saint Vitus, Lillie: F-65 – 5607. Kadavar, Kadavar – 4907. Pallbearer, Sorrow and Extinction – 4908. Orange Goblin, A Eulogy for the Damned – 4609. Baroness, Yellow and Green – 3910. Conan, Monnos – 3811. Swans, The Seer – 3512. Astra, The Black Chord – 3113. Greenleaf, Nest of Vipers – 3113. The Sword, Apocryphon – 3114. Royal Thunder, CVI – 2614. Wo Fat, The Black Code – 2615. Ancestors, In Dreams and Time – 2516. Torche, Harmonicraft – 2317. Corrosion of Conformity, Corrosion of Conformity – 2218. Enslaved, Riitiir – 1919. Goat, World Music – 1819. Melvins Lite, Freak Puke – 1819. Soundgarden, King Animal – 1820. Amenra, Mass V – 1720. Samothrace, Reverence to Stone – 17
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
xpost i never even differentiated between the two. to me, they seem like two threads dedicated to essentially the same stuff that both survived the year, more or less. and it seems like it would be easier to keep it all in one place.
i mean, i understand the difference between the genres, etc., but... i guess maybe the words psych and drone being in both titles may be throwing me off. if it were psych/space/freak and sludge/doom (i think of drone separately anyway), then i could see the point.
but if everyone else thinks they have distinct purposes as they are, by all means, ignore me.
― alpine static, Friday, 4 January 2013 08:46 (eleven years ago) link
and for the record, i for one definitely want some sort of thread that's dedicated more to psych, space, drone, kraut, whatever than folding any/all of that into rolling metal... these two threads were basically my sweet spot in 2012
― alpine static, Friday, 4 January 2013 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure which of the rolling threads to post this in (seems like non-indie punk may be more appropriate than this one, but this one is fresher) and there aren't any 2013 rolling threads yet but I've just discovered this record out of Philly on Richie Records and it sounds greathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbfjxIRMSV0
― Trip Maker, Friday, 4 January 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
It's Spacin "Deep Thuds." Lots of touchstones being signified in this one.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 4 January 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
sorry about that alpine, I didn't remember who said it when I went off on the other thread, but knowing that it was out of a desire to keep things straight, rather than just moaning about pointless threads, makes what I said sound even worse than how I meant it #banDrugs2013
― Peter "Et" Cetera (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 4 January 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
oh no worries at all. i wasn't riled up or anything. was just wondering if that was what you were responding to, or if there had been other discussion I'd missed, etc. all good.
― alpine static, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
i was responding to a few other things, but i'd rather just drop the matter entirely
― gullible lochinski (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 4 January 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link