Rolling Stoner/Psych/Retro/Space Thread 2015: Red With Purple Flashes

“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

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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

“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

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.

“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

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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

^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)

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) | Bamdcamp
38. 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-Dec
44. 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)

A lot there to chew on. I didnt see thr genre lists; those are really great, too

Grazie

Captain Beyond Zen Top 40
http://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 - Hide
https://fleshofthestars.bandcamp.com/album/hide
2. Path of Samsara - The Fiery Hand
https://pathofsamsaravan.bandcamp.com/album/the-fiery-hand
3. Horisont - Odyssey
4. Uncle Acid - Night Creeper
5. Mirror - Mirror
6. With the Dead - With the Dead
7. Tarot - The Warrior's Spell
8. Khemmis - Absolution
9. Demon Head - Ride the Wilderness
10. Demon Eye - Tempora Infernalia
11. Dopethrone - Hochelaga
12. Goatsnake - Black Age Blues
13. Ecstatic Vision - Sonic Praise
14. Ruby the Hatchet - Valley of the Snake
15. Magic Circle - Journey Blind
16. Kadavar - Berlin
17. Aktor - Paranoia
https://aktor.bandcamp.com/album/paranoia
18. Flight - Flight
19. Gold - No Image
https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-image

20. Knife Ritual - Old Earth
https://kniferitual.bandcamp.com/album/old-earth
21. Saturnalia Temple - To the Other
22. Iron Void - Doomsday
23. Magister Templi - Into Duat
24. Witchsorrow - No Light, Only Fire
25. Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
26. Goya - Obelisk
27. Monolord - Vænir
28. The Sword - High Country
29. Stoned Jesus - The Harvest
30. Limb - Terminal
31. Visigoth - The Revenant King
32. Dead Lord - Heads Held High
33. Black Trip - Shadowline
34. Tombstones - Vargariis
35. Obsidian Sea - Dreams, Illusions, Obsessions
36. Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence
37. Shepherd - Stereolithic Riffalocalypse
38. Golden Void - Berkana
39. Mondo Drag - Mondo Drag
40. Behold! The Monolith - Architects of the Void

new thread for '16?

Happy to see Elder at number one.

Enjoying "the Outcast" by Witchcraft ATM

yes to new thread for '16!

new Hexvessel album soon

https://youtu.be/6uHPHn5Zwmo

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/