10 Sinister Haze – Laid Low in the Dust of Death10 Geezer – Geezer
And now, entering the Top 10, we once again find two bands occupying that same spot. I guess there were just too many albums released in 2016 that were so freaking good! And yes, once again only a few points above Number 11 and both very different animals. One of them delivering one of the best cosmic stoner blues albums of the year and the other high octane psychedelic heaviness. Yet also very alike. Both of them lead the Doom Charts at one point and both of them have this outlaw quality to their music. You know, the soundtrack to a marauding herd speeding down the middle of the highway, tense for action, long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping. Riffs that shine like filthy chrome and vocalists that run flat out through the eye of a beer can and up your daughter’s leg with no quarter asked and none given. Indeed, two bands that are here to show the squares some class and give’m a whiff of those kicks they’ll never know…
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 23 December 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
great lists! really enjoying the lucid dreams right now and looking forward to checking out more stuff
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 23 December 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2016/12/20/top-30-of-2016/
1. SubRosa, For this We Fought the Battle of Ages2. Mars Red Sky, Apex III (Praise for the Burning Soul)3. Gozu, Revival4. Asteroid, III5. Brant Bjork, Tao of the Devil6. Greenleaf, Rise Above the Meadow7. Wight, Love is Not Only What You Know8. King Buffalo, Orion9. Wo Fat, Midnight Cometh10. Slomatics, Future Echo Returns11. Mos Generator, Abyssinia12. Elephant Tree, Elephant Tree13. Zun, Burial Sunrise14. Hexvessel, When We are Death15. Fatso Jetson, Idle Hands16. EYE, Vision and the Ageless Light17. Geezer, Geezer18. Baby Woodrose, Freedom19. Conan, Revengeance20. Neurosis, Fires Within Fires21. Curse the Son, Isolator22. The Golden Grass, Coming Back Again23. Borracho, Atacama24. Black Rainbows, Stellar Prophecy25. 1000mods, Repeated Exposure To…25a. Egypt, Endless Flight26. Foghound, The World Unseen27. Beelzefuzz, The Righteous Bloom28. Droids Attack, Sci-Fi or Die29. Comet Control, Center of the Maze30. Talmud Beach, Chief31. Blaak Heat, Shifting Mirrors32. Truckfighters, V33. West, Space & Love, Vol. II34. Seedy Jeezus with Isaiah Mitchell, Tranquonauts35. Yawning Man, Historical Graffiti36. Causa Sui, Return to Sky37. Vokonis, Olde One Ascending38. Hotel Wrecking City Traders, Phantomonium39. The Wounded Kings, Visions in Bone40. It’s Not Night: It’s Space, Our Birth is but a Sleep and a Forgetting41. Beastwars, The Death of all Things42. Naxatras, II43. Holy Grove, Holy Grove44. Worshipper, Shadow Hymns45. Wretch, Wretch46. Colour Haze, Live Vol. I: Europa Tournee 201547. Zaum, Eidolon48. Bellringer, Jettison49. Young Hunter, Young Hunter50. Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, Y Proffwyd Dwyll
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 24 December 2016 07:18 (seven years ago) link
9 Dunsmuir – Dunsmuir
http://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2016/12/number-9.html
We pass Geezer and Sinister Haze on Number 10 with five points to reach the band on Number 9. An album, I must confess, that only pulled me in after the new listening sessions started when I saw the votes come in. Man, how could this have passed me by when it was released back in July. Seventies inspired hard rock with heavy metal colors and stoner trucking. And yes, it surely reminds of The Company Band and even Clutch. But then we know why, don’t we? Just as it has some Fu Manchu takes here and there and faster paced Sabbath song rhythms. And there’s a simple reason for that as well. Yes. If ever there was a supergroup, it is this. I just can’t fathom why the album did not grab me right away back then. Cause it did now. But then again, this also happened with Graveyard’s Hisingen Blues back in 2011, which became my favorite album of the year very fast after that. And these cats are now doing the very same thing! It should have been higher on the list! Or did this happen to a lot of you freaks out there? It should have been higher! But that’s just my opinion… My late to the party opinion…
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 24 December 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
http://outlawsofthesun.blogspot.com/2016/12/steve-howe-top-albums-of-2016.html
01. Geezer – Geezer02. Cough – Still They Prey03. Truckfighters – V04. Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree05. Brant Bjork – Tao Of The Devil06. Haast's Eagled – II: For Mankind07. Slomatics –Future Echo Returns08. Slow Green Thing – II09. Slabdragger – Rise Of The Dawncrusher10. Kvelertak – Nattesferd11. Holy Serpent – Temples12. House Of Lightning – House Of Lightning13. Comacozer – Astra Planeta14. Demonauta – Tierra Del Fuego15. Year Of The Cobra – In The Shadows Below16. Conan – Revengeance17. Mars Red Sky – Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)18. Vokonis – Olde One Ascending19. High Fighter – Scars & Crosses20. Domkraft - The End Of Electricity21. Greenleaf – Meadow22. Borracho – Atacama23. Wo Fat – Midnight Cometh24. Sourvein – Aquatic Occult25. Megatherium – Superbeast
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 24 December 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
8 Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh
Dunsmuir on Number 9, has been on repeat ever since our renewed acquaintance. And with a definite moment of pain we move on to the next band. But only for a moment ofcourse. For the cats on Number 8 have been riding high on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown with many of their earlier releases, and it was only logical this one would make it as well. Number 1 in 2014. Number 13 in 2012. Number 8 in 2009 and now once again in 2016. Swampedelic as ever, it is their blues rock based heavy psychedelic doom and stoner metal sounds that we simply can’t live without. It is heavier, darker and doomier than ever before. But just as epic and just as grand. There is absolutely nothing wrong with his album or out of place. Or perhaps, perhaps, track two should have opened the record. Cause it shines through like a true mission statement. ‘We live by the old ways, we know what came before. Build ourselves a purple haze. We are the Riffborn’. Right on! It’s all happening man. It’s all happening!
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 26 December 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
7 Witchcraft - Nucleus
The fat ass Wo Fat album Midnight Cometh made it to Number 8 of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2016. We have already passed so many good albums. What hell is still to come? Well, on Number 7 we find an album released early this year. An album by a band that made the Number One spot before and has always inspired controversy among fans. Sixteen points above Wo Fat we find a band that has been doing so since their inception sixteen years ago. Wow, how’s that for poetic justice. Well, new members a plenty and with only the man responsible for forming the band back in 2000 as the only member of old around, they continue the sound of their 2012 album. But everyone must be pleased with its more organic take on that sound and the darker and doomier approach. And judging from the amount of votes, the solos, the furious backbeats, the stoner breakdowns, the psychedelic minimalism, the doomed march, the long winded stretch and all else that surrounds and whirls around the core of this album has struck a chord with everyone out there. And, if this album has not really turned you on, maybe their next will, cause they don’t go around repeating themselves…
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 27 December 2016 05:23 (seven years ago) link
6 Egypt – Endless Flight6 Wasted Theory – Defenders Of The Riff
And there we find two bands, one was released on my birthday in December 2015 and the other at the end of October 2016. Oh, yes, another band from December making the list and this high even! But then again, it was to be expected, cause the album soar high in the beginning of 2016. It lead the Doom Charts in fact and the other band this as well towards the end of the year. So, it’s definitely logical to find these two cracking our flights or riffs together. Smooth, warming blues metal, hard rock and swampy doom-tinged psychedelic vistas that enchant with their majestic jams! And that’s just the first album we mentioned. The second one is different creature but big on riffs for sure. In fact, they make a statement about being guardians of the guitar magic and they surely are. Stoner metal trucking that just keeps unloading riff upon riff, getting fatter and heftier as you drive along. Infusing their love for the riffs with your heart and soul, becoming like them protectors of that charm as well. Standing with them, flag in hand, on that hill, fighting off all oncomers to defend what we all hold so dear…
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 06:12 (seven years ago) link
Cough - Still They Pray
Egypt and Wasted Theory, two great bands with seriously amazing albums occupying the Number 6 position. But at Number 5 we find only one and one alone. For after Number 6 come the serious jumps. Before this spot, every position we moved up was with one point, five points, a few more or even twenty five. But now, we make a gigantic leap of a hundred and fifteen points. That’s right, everyone in the top five was voted miles ahead of the rest of the field by 76 sent in lists. 76 of you lovely freaks out there thought the 21 albums we already visited were the finest of the fine. But all of you, who voted, reckoned the following were even better! So... Six years had passed since their former album. This one being a meticulous deconstruction of their feedback driven melodies. No hope on the horizon, just an endless barrage of pessimistic riffs and tortured grooves. Yes, mostly low tempo, high distortion terrorism. Drugged out thrash and warbled blues odes. Bone chilling, hair raising and blood curdling. And even if there is no hope left and no green light on the horizon… Still, they pray…
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Call moonship journey to baja; Egypt placed
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
4 Goatess – Purgatory Under New Management
As mentioned when we showed Cough on Number 5, every one of the bands we now encounter got way more votes than the rest below. So we jump another fifty points to reach the next cats. A band I saw live this year in a setting you would not quite believe. Okay, so it was right after Roadburn. That might explain part of it. Okay, it was in my birth town, a dusty hell hole in the south of the Netherlands. But still… Well, besides their own friends, relatives and crew, there were about five to ten people in the audience. Incredible. We pulled up barstools and set tables in front of the stage and settled down for a night filled with a truckload of beer and a band that was allowed to do whatever they wanted. And they did. With a vocalist suffering from some throat issues, they still managed to enchant and make those few freaks sitting on their stools go crazy. With their heavy nodding to Sabbath, their version of doom metal, doom rock and occult sounding heavy rock and stoner curveballs they made the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown before. Number 16 back in 2013. But this one is so much better than that debut effort, we can surely say the Devil visited Sweden again to gather up a few new souls. And we can pretty much state with conviction that he is now the new manager of this heavy quartet!
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 December 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
3 Asteroid – III
http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2016/12/number-3.html
We enter the Top 3 by jumping twenty six points from Goatess on Number 4. The bronze medal so to speak. And ofcourse, the album title also hints at the third position, so it is, once again, a fine example of poetic justice. It is also a fine example of a highly natural take on a space rock adventure that has only a tiny amount of cosmic radiation glowing over all that psychedelic goodness, stoner trucking and seventies fuzz extraordinaire. In fact, that voidian sounds could also be attributed to the progressive nature of all the compositions. Or as Tony Van Dorston of Fast N Bulbous stated on the Doom Charts, where they were a definite fixture for a couple of months straight: “They revel in the natural sounds of their instruments, letting the bass and drum interplay flow with a virtuosic groove that has more in common with the most accomplished classic rock than scruffy underground fuzz heads. They sparingly unleash the fuzz effects, most notably on ‘Wolf & Snake,’ giving me a fond flashback to Sungrazer. The album ends with a bang with “Mr. Strange,” chock full of changes from guitar harmonies to space jams and “whoa whoa” vocals. The record should seal the trio’s spot in the top tier of heavy rock bands, not just in Sweden, but the world.” And we simply could not agree more. A definite spot among the top tier in the world and a definite spot among the best records in my house. So, on the Third Spot on The Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2016 we find…
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 30 December 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
free In Gowan Ring release ( I think it's a sampler?)
https://ingowanring.bandcamp.com/album/compendium-2016-free-download
― sleeve, Friday, 30 December 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link
I know its way late in the game, and this album came out in Jan. but holy ctap this Haikai No Ku album is the business! On some kind of Loop-meets-Goslings tip!
https://haikainoku.bandcamp.com/album/temporary-infinity
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 31 December 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
Ok lol it's not streaming there
https://youtu.be/Z_nP1VHQIi8
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 31 December 2016 02:35 (seven years ago) link
Doom Charts Best of 2016
https://doomcharts.com/2016/12/31/best-of-2016/
“There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
A snide dig at the current state of the world. But that is all you will get from us here. For you have come to the right place, acolytes of the Apocalypse. This is Doom Charts, a global collective of bloggers, journalists, album reviewers, podcasters and radio show hosts with their fingers on the pulse of the heavy underground. Each month, our fellow heavy rock fiends submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge, metal, stoner and psychedelic rock albums. The results are compiled and tabulated into a chart. This month however they’ve sent their top picks of the entire doomed year of 2016. Yes, the Doom Charts have a final say about all those great albums released in the twelve past months…
First off we thank all the bands for releasing all that great music we find on the list and we say thanks for the ones that delivered equally impressive music that unfortunately just fell short of making this final Doom Chart list. Secondly, a thanks goes out to everyone working on the chart and everyone out there keeping the underground scene so vibrant. That means you, you silly bugger reading this. For everyone buying the records, cd’s, downloads, shirts, visiting the festivals and concerts, and wanting more of that good stuff over and over makes sure this thing we’ve got here can grow and continue to blossom into the most beautiful monster it can be…
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
https://boxrecordsshop.bandcamp.com/album/temporary-infinity
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
2 1000Mods – Repeated Exposure To...
http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2016/12/number-2.html
nd now we jump another forty-seven points for the Silver Medal on Number 2. Indeed, forty-seven points to reach they sun bleached tones and dried out fuzz. A band that made the 13th position of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2011 with their soundtrack to a super vacation. This one exposes your over and over to a truckload of fantastic riffs, fine arcs, vistas and unquestionable good hooks. Every one of the eight tracks on this record are filled to the brim with those amazing riffs and hooks, interspersed here and there with some psychedelic freak outs, bluesy solos or droning guitars. Add to this the wild bass work and intense drumming and we have a legendary album in the making. And if that isn’t enough to fulfill that prophecy we have vocal lines that are exactly, smack dab, in the middle of the mix and precisely right. Some might claim that continuous, repetitive contact with music and message could be viewed as brainwashing and mind control. Well, I don’t believe that. I do believe in this quartet. Completely and utterly! “We are the Gods, the kings of nowhere…” They are Gods alright. Greek gods, and we will worship them as they rightfully should be. By everyone!
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 31 December 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
(Hey thx fnb for finding that link)
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 31 December 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
1 Greenleaf – Rise Above The Meadow
http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2017/01/number-1.html
There can be only one. A 1000Mods stood firm on Second Place. But to reach our Gold Medalist, the Numero Uno, the one true legendary album of 2016, we almost have to double the amount of points of the 1000Mods album Repeated Exposure To… Incredible! And something I had not expected. Not because of some form of doubt about this album or this band. Cause they were ofcourse also present on the Countdown before, on Number 9 back in 2014 and Number 14 in 2012. But because there were so many great albums released this year. I reckoned the field would have been much closer together. I, have to say, to some shame perhaps, that I had not recognized the status and amazing beauty of this album. In former years I knew, as everyone probably did, that Elder would win. Or Wo Fat or even Electric Wizard. But while I kept listening to this album over and over and enjoying every freaking riff and moment of it. I had not recognized it’s true quality. I do now. And it will continue to be pure energy for me from this moment on. Righteous fuel. And I need fuel. I am a serious consumer. And I am a firm believer, that on some nights, when the moon is full, and the animals are on the prowl, a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles with the right kind of music very loud on the radio… And yes, this album will make it run even faster and even further…
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 1 January 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
Stoner Hive
1. Greenleaf - Rise Above The Meadow2. 1000mods – Repeated Exposure To…3. Asteroid – III4. Goatess – Purgatory Under New Management5. COUGH – Still They Pray6. Egypt - Doom – Endless Flight & Wasted Theory – Defenders Of The Riff7. Witchcraft – Nucleus8. Wo Fat – Midnight Cometh9. DUNSMUIR – Dunsmuir10. Sinister Haze – Laid Low in the Dust of Death & Geezer – Geezer11. Wretch – Wretch12. Holy Serpent – Temples & Curse the Son – Isolator13. Brant Bjork – Tao Of The Devil14. Truckfighters– V & Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree15. Gojira – Magma & BLACK RAINBOWS – Stellar Prophecy16. Baby Woodrose – Freedom & Mars Red Sky – Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)17. Mos Generator – Abyssinia18. Baroness – Purple19. Komatsu – Recipe For Murder One20. The Re-Stoned – Reptiles Return
Doom Charts
1. ASTEROID – III2. WO FAT – MIDNIGHT COMETH3. COUGH – STILL THEY PRAY4. ELEPHANT TREE – ELEPHANT TREE5. GEEZER – GEEZER6. BRANT BJORK – TAO OF THE DEVIL7. WITCHCRAFT – NUCLEUS8. GREENLEAF – RISE ABOVE THE MEADOW9. YEAR OF THE COBRA – IN THE SHADOWS BELOW10. VOKONIS – OLDE ONE ASCENDING11. WRETCH – WRETCH12. BORRACHO – ATACAMA13. BRIMSTONE COVEN – BLACK MAGIC14. SLOMATICS – FUTURE ECHO RETURNS15. CONAN – REVENGEANCE16. YOUNGBLOOD SUPERCULT – HIGH PLAINS17. BABY WOODROSE – FREEDOM18. GOATESS – PURGATORY UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT19. GOZU – REVIVAL20. SVVAMP – SVVAMP21. SLABDRAGGER – RISE OF THE DAWNCRUSHER22. LA CHINGA – FREEWHEELIN23. DOMKRAFT – THE END OF ELECTRICITY24. MAMMOTH WEED WIZARD BASTARD – Y PROFFWYD DWYLL25. KING BUFFALO – ORION26. FOGHOUND – THE WORLD UNSEEN27. TRUCKFIGHTERS – V28. WITCHTHROAT SERPENT – SANG-DRAGON29. MOS GENERATOR – ABYSSINIA30. HOWLING GIANT – BLACK HOLE SPACE WIZARD PART 131. MARS RED SKY – APEX III (Praise for the Burning Soul) 32. WASTED THEORY – DEFENDERS OF THE RIFF33. MEPHISTOFELES – WHORE34. DEMONAUTA – TIERRA DEL FUEGO35. 1000MODS – REPEATED EXPOSURE TO…36. BEASTMAKER – LUSUS NATURAE37. LORD VAPOUR – MILL STREET BLUES38. SALEM’S POT – PRONOUNCE THIS!39. CHURCH OF MISERY – AND THEN THERE WERE NONE…40. KHEMMIS – HUNTED41. DUNSMUIR – DUNSMUIR42. OLD BLOOD – OLD BLOOD43. FIRE DOWN BELOW – VIPER VIXEN GODDESS SAINT44. BUS – THE UNKNOWN SECRETARY45. LIMESTONE WHALE – LIMESTONE WHALE46. CHILD – BLUESIDE47. SINISTER HAZE – LAID LOW IN THE DUST OF DEATH48. AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED – ARC49. TROLL – TROLL50. THE HAZYTONES – THE HAZYTONES
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 1 January 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
Obelisk Readershttp://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2017/01/01/the-top-20-of-2016-year-end-poll-results/
1. Wo Fat, Midnight Cometh (375 points)2. Greenleaf, Rise Above the Meadow (368)3. Elephant Tree, Elephant Tree (324)4. Asteroid, III (302)5. Brant Bjork, Tao of the Devil (295)6. Gozu, Revival (274)7. Neurosis, Fires Within Fires (253)8. King Buffalo, Orion (244)9. Mars Red Sky, Apex III (Praise for the Burning Soul) (238)10. Conan, Revengeance (232)11. Cough, Still They Pray (228)12. Holy Grove, Holy Grove (218)13. SubRosa, For this We Fought the Battle of Ages (213)14. Truckfighters, V (206)15. Blood Ceremony, Lord of Misrule (200)16. Khemmis, Hunted (192)16. Red Fang, Only Ghosts (192)17. Inter Arma, Paradise Gallows (181)18. Witchcraft, Nucleus (174)19. Opeth, Sorceress (173)20. Church of Misery, And then there Were None (159)
Honorable mention to:Causa Sui, Return to Sky (157)Goatess, II: Purgatory Under New Management (157)Black Mountain, IV (148)Mos Generator, Abyssinia (144)Wretch, Wretch (140)
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 1 January 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
Man I need to listen to this Greenleaf album. I still really love this song of theirs from 2012.
https://youtu.be/mK99nLljBEE
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 1 January 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link
11 Wretch - Wretch
A band that names itself after the first album of the band that started everything has some gigantic balls. Yes, we just assume they did that.
I assumed it was because the last GoS album was called The Wretch.
― 𝐌𝐀𝐁-BAM-O BAM A – 𝐔𝐒-H US SEIN-U.S.-UNITED STATES (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 02:51 (seven years ago) link
Playlist is finalized; added several of those playlists though not all. Lots to listen to tho!
ILM'S Rolling Stoner-Psych Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link