Ingest All Deliriants at the Door: Rolling Stoner/Psych/Retro/Space Rock Thread 2016

Also, if any ilxors are there might be fun to meet up! Today I'll be working at the Hi-Fi Klubben stand talking about turntables. I go by my dn.

Bummer, I totally didn't see this, I was at Roadburn, and I did make a mix of some of the bands I was getting acquainted with.

http://fastnbulbous.com/roadburn-recap/

Cool piece

xp lol! maybe next year

cool piece

Loving it:

Tonsstartsbandht
LIVE IN CHRISTCHURCH
January 7th 2015

SIDE A
1. "Opening Medley"
Susie
Last Train Home -> (Pat Metheny)
Alright
Live At L'Esco --> (Sugar Boys)
Alright
Dad Beating Up Dudes Downtown (Orlando, 1992)
Black Sea
2. Tio Minuter --> (Pärson Sound)

SIDE B
1. May The Circle Be Unbroken --> (Spacemen 3)
1953 Blue Boogie Children --> (Sonny Sharrock & The Savages)
Miks & Lomix
Reva Pop
2. Yo A.J.J.Hess
3. Rodas 1916
4. Skyline --> (Pharaoh Overlord)
Olde Feelings
5. Hymn Our Garden
Midnite Cobras
Welsh Souper
6. "Encore"
Portobello Road
My Favorite Things
A Whale of A Tale

Recorded by Andy White
January 7th 2015
at Dux Live
Christchurch, New Zealand

i forgot about those guys. i'll have to check that out

Playlist updated for April.

ILM'S Rolling Stoner-Psych Thread 2016

Hey fastnbulbous, you listen ti the Heron Oblivion album yet? Ex-members of Comets on Fire getting together with Meg Baird, whose band Espers I'm not very familiar with, but whose voice has a little bit of a Sandy Denny lilt to it. Anyways, they join forces to make what sounds to me like a witchier Bardo Pond. Probably one of my favorite things I've heard this year so far...

http://youtu.be/bNgij4jBNJI

http://youtu.be/4ZHlZ5GHfyE

Full album youtube here

http://youtu.be/a6JlKhxX4Tc

I did listen to the Heron Oblivion when it came out and it should push all the right buttons, but for some reason it sank down in my playlist. I will revisit! Bright Curse - Before The Shore is kind of meat n potatoes stoner psych, but a few tracks are grabbing me. I'm kind of fatigued by the massive output of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard but am listening to new one now. I'm going to work on writing something about the Purson and Electric Citizen albums soon.

Boogarins are a Brazilian psych band, a bit of a chill Tame Impala vibe with touches of prog. They're opening up for Dungen on current tour, I'm thinking of seeing them on the 15th.

https://soundcloud.com/stereomonomusic/sets/boogarins-manual
https://youtu.be/h-KiU3UogWs

A fun older discovery, Chilean surf/blues psych band The Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane from 2010: https://youtu.be/HvjreAhINX8
https://volantediscos.bandcamp.com/album/the-psychedelic-schafferson-jetplane
http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/the-psychedelic-schafferson-jetplane

The Boogarins are enjoyable. Can hear a bit of Unknown Mortal Orchestra guitar tones and even chording.

I can hear that. Looking forward to seeing Boogarins and Dungen on Sunday. The Radiohead album could almost fit in this thread with some of its psych folk leanings!

Kikagaku Moyo - House In The Tall Grass - Out on Friday. At first I felt the mellow psych folk was a bit slight, but it's grown on me. The longer tracks ("Green Sugar," "Silver Owl," "Trad") offer some guitar freakouts eventually.
https://gurugurubrain.bandcamp.com/album/house-in-the-tall-grass

Causa Sui - Return To Sky - There's always a danger of my getting bored with instrumental jams, but Causa Sui always offers gorgeous tones, lush textures and subtle jazz/prog complexity. This might be my favorite of their sizeable discography. Destined to be an underdog as usual.
https://soundcloud.com/elparaiso/sets/causa-sui-return-to-sky-full
http://elparaisorecords.com/artists/causa_sui

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity - The neverending album loop concept is gimmicky, but I love the furious garage punk energy they bring to this in comparison with other recent albums. There's also a bit of a Mahavishnu Orchestra feel to it.
https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/nonagon-infinity-2

Mythic Sunship - Ouroboros - New labelmates on Causa Sui's Danish El Paraiso label, also out Friday. I haven't heard all of it yet, but comparisons to Amon Düül II, Earthless, Guru Guru, Travellin’ Flower Band are promising. For some reason only LP is available on Forced Exposure site, no CD.
https://soundcloud.com/elparaiso/mythic-sunship-ophidian-rising

Lol this stuff is looking great

wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLRlmbCultg
Kawabata Makoto & Baisong Wu - "Base Chamber"

the pickup at the beginning sounds like Nick Drake – "Which Will"

That's nice!

I like the new Cosmic Dead album, Rainbowhead . Alternates between their trademark hard-drving cosmic highway music and more weird synth-y passages that almost remind me of the last Kemialliset Ystavat album

http://thecosmicdead.bandcamp.com/album/rainbowhead

saw Kikagaku Moyo live saturday and they were stellar, highly recommend catching a show if possible, very joyous, lots of smiling in the audience

cd also v good

Boogarins were a blast live, highly recommend seeing them.

Cavern of Antimatter can hardly be considered 'rock' but their album has a p great kraut edge and wouldve fit in with a lot of the psych & prog stuff that I loved from last year

Comet Control are BACK!

And they're sounding awesome :D

holy shit, the last track is a Freebird for the stars, or something

actually, it's the best Spiritualized song in 15 years

This is v. nice at first impression

Oh shit

yeah this is good

Not my fave synth sounds in a few places.

Just listened to the first album for the first time, I like it too.

omg this first one WOOOOO.

From Drag City News:

SPOTLIGHT ON HIGGINS

Gary Higgins is back from the time-space continuum with not one, but TWO, upcoming live performances! Way back in 2005, Drag City introduced his 1974 psych-folk classic, the previously privately pressed Red Hash, to listeners around the world. The world has never been the same, as we were all acutely touched by Gary's carefully-arranged, darkly utopian songs - songs that proved an inspiration for many, including some of our very own sons of darkness, like Six Organs of Admittance. Red Hash has been widely recognized over the past decade as a classic of its time, and its resurgence kept Gary busy traveling through the cosmos and releasing more righteous tunes: new material in Seconds., and more from the vault in A Dream A While Back.

Despite all that activity, Higgins live performances have been rare. So with two shows on the horizon, it goes without saying but we're going to say it anyway: this is a BIG DEAL! Adding icing to the cake, these shows will feature a set byGary's old band, Random Concept, as well! Catch the mythical man NOW, East Coasters!

7/20/16 at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn, NY*
7/26/16 at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT^

*w/ Ed Askew Band and Calvin LeCompte
^ w/ Random Concept

Portland Psych Fest is coming up. Any of these bands I oughta pay special attention to? Lemme know! I pretty much only know The Asteroid #4, and I remember Plastic Crimewave on an old Arthur Magazine comp, but maybe that was a different Plastic Crimewave or something?

Spindrift
LSD & The Search For God
The Asteroid #4
Cambrian Explosion
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate
The Spiral Electric
Hawkeye
Zozma
The Young Elders
The Veldt
Lemat
Hi Hazel
Down Dirty Shake
Jackson Boone
Zodiac Death Valley
San Dbabes
Mosquito
Howler

In a gentler freak folk vein, I love the last record from Mori Wa Ikiteru, called Good Night on P_Vine records out of Japan.

https://soundcloud.com/mori_wa_ikiteiru/surigarasu

thread playlist is updated.

I like this Banquet album okay. Very self-consciously San Franciscan, with the vocals esp. I detect traces of the influence of bands like Mad River and Jefferson Starship

banquetsf.bandcamp.com/album/jupiter-rose

Am enjoying the 2014 & 2016 albums by The Murlocs.

love the sound. very stylish almost ethereal psych country soul.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMpowXZB9L0

That's very nice!

Wow, Young Blindness is choons plus, thanks for this!

Sonafa... such a bummer when I find out a band had come all the way from Chicago and played my hometown before I was aware of 'em. The Murlocs toured the U.S. in May.

I did catch The Mystery Lights and Night Beats a couple nights ago, a perfect, sweaty evening of garage noir! I've been digging the Mystery Lights debut, who have been around a while, migrating from Cali to NY. In a recent interview they namechecked the Voidoids as another influence, and I wish I heard more of that, but they're still promising. Night Beats were really smokin. They've got the live energy down. They inherit a bit of the spirit of Cramps and Gun Club, plus some groove.

http://media.digitalphotogallery.com/jbrfybykbmyj/images/c7c26d46-c5b5-11e5-9701-cea02bb2ca2c/night_beats105_website_index_qiao_standard.jpg%3F20160128115355

https://themurlocs.bandcamp.com/
https://nightbeats.bandcamp.com/
https://themysterylights.bandcamp.com/album/the-mystery-lights

I also highly recommend the French band Os Noctàmbulos, who just released their second album Stranger last month. They've got the garage noir thing plus some surf guitar.

https://osnoctambulos.bandcamp.com/

Don't forget the latest Lola Colt, which is amazing. My recap: http://fastnbulbous.com/second-quarter-rundown-2016/

same plastic crimewave iirc?
dude is still out and about

the veldt is a blast from the past though -- didn't know they were still around

xp I meant all the way from Australia to Chicago. Wasn't fully awake yet.

I chatted with Steve Krakow of Plastic Crimewave earlier in the year when he gave a reading/Q&A about his book My Kind of Sound: The Secret History of Chicago Music. Great book, great guy who's done a lot of good for the music scene.

Oh yeah, Krakow's buddies with Numero, think he's done some podcasts or other commentary for them; I know there have been live events, panels and stuff. Also a couple of albums on bandcamp; here's Wire blurb for their self-titled:
"Now's the time to drink deeply from the grail of psych, for its bearers Plastic Crimewave Syndicate are among us once more. From the splatter vinyl to the extra-heavy cardboard sleeve, Crimewave leader Steve Krakow knows how to recast the spell of psych's golden hour. Such obsessive detail is behind his Galactic Zoo Dossler magazine and in every fuzz-fierce and echo-soaked riff on this new self-titled LP. The music, however, is far from being revivalist or a mere pastiche of past glories. These six heavy and transcendental compositions channel inspiration in a way akin to Loop, Terminal Cheesecake or even Skullflower on a track like "Void 0f Eternity". lt's a double pleasure of the old and new. Now, are you ready to dream the dream - or ride the nightmare?" - Wire
released December 1, 2015 The 2013 album, Cage of Gold, has guests from Comus.

And speak of the devil---this just in [Drag City News prosody approaching, adjust shades]

AT THE 'ZOO
So then, for the month of July, the darkly psychedelic electro-acoustic love-light of Faun Fables. But what to accompany these complex yet elemental vibrations into the public eye? Actually, the Drag City deck is STACKED with appropriate companions - but since Plastic Crimewave finished the new ish of the Galactic Zoo Dossier, what REALLY might be more perfect? Since the GZD (as we sometimes call it when we want to save time that we then waste by explaining what we are doing by abbreviating it) is all about the preservation and promotion of the superiority of former cultures that remain present and influential in our otherwise thoroughly-changed landscape today, which if you think about it is right on a similar line as the folks in Faun Fables, with tantalizingly different results! And hey, speaking of the Galactic Zoo Dossier, it's high time (hyuk) there was a new issue - nearly five years since last heard from, almost the same scenario as Faun Fables! The difference is, Steve "Plastic Crimewave" Krakow is also a curating-crazy DJ, columnist, musician and label-head whose GZD Disk imprint has issued vintage material from Sandy Bull, Tony Caro and John, The George-Edwards Group, Michael Yonkers and Midnight in the time elapsed since the last 'Zoo Dossier. This has kept Galactic Zoo's consciousness alive (along with available copies of the past two issues! - step-right-up ed.) right up until the crucial moment of NOW. Worth the wait is GZD #10, organized by your addled editor as "The Interview Issue" as well as a "20th Anniversary Special"! With over 150 pages of hand-written and drawn ravings of pure, uncut fandom from not only Mr. Crimewave, but also esteemed contributors George Hansen, Gareth Goddard, Frankie Delmane, Robert Jaz, Tom Szidon, Dawn Aquarius and a handful of others, Galactic Zoo Dossier #10 is packed with psyched-out oddments from The Wonderful World of Comics as well as advertisements, articles and other ephemera from the silver age of rock and roll (60s and 70s, yo!). And didn't we mention interviews? Oh yeah - spoken with are living legends Arthur Brown, Edgar Broughton, Shirley Collins, Richard Pinhas, Max Ochs, Michael Chapman, and MANY others! PLUS pieces on Biker Movie Soundtrax! The Insect Trust! Circus Maximus! Space Rock! And of course, Unicorns! All of it penned, xeroxed, photographed, cut and pasted in grand zine fashion! Forgive us if you've heard this one before, but: Galactic Zoo Dossier - they're not the best at what they do, they're the ONLY ONES at what they do!

Here's my second annual Psychedelic Psummer piece:

Psychedelic Psummer: Return to the Dark Side
http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/psychedelic-psummer-return.png

Includes: Lola Colt, Os Noctàmbulos, Thee Oh Sees, Levitation Room, Kikagaku Moyo, Night Beats, The Murlocs, The Mystery Lights, Doug Tuttle, Salem's Pot, Comet Control, Mythic Sunship, Electric Eye, Elkhorn, Heron Oblivion, Mondo Drag, Dead Coast, Heaters, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Holy Wave, Psychic Ills, Sunflower Bean

Awesome. I always look forward to hearing some new stuff fnb.

i am enjoying this new horseback album but the vocals on "the lion killer" are a little distracting before they turn wordless. totally dig the music.

Lol @ Salem's Pot

love this teaser for the new Daniel Bachman: https://youtu.be/KOhpR4apQIM

Cosmic Dead are playing here tomorrow and I can't go. ;_; I've listened to black rabbit at like 12 several times today.

i am enjoying this new horseback album but the vocals on "the lion killer" are a little distracting before they turn wordless. totally dig the music.

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, August 16, 2016 3:28 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was coming here to post about this album too. I really dig it. Have not listened to any prior Horseback, but I gather that earlier stuff was more metal. This is more spacey, explicitly indebted to This Heat and the like. Good interview here by one Ned Raggett:

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/horseback-dead-ringers-interview-premiere

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…

http://outlawsofthesun.blogspot.com/2016/12/steve-howe-top-albums-of-2016.html

01. Geezer – Geezer
02. Cough – Still They Prey
03. Truckfighters – V
04. Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree
05. Brant Bjork – Tao Of The Devil
06. Haast's Eagled – II: For Mankind
07. Slomatics –Future Echo Returns
08. Slow Green Thing – II
09. Slabdragger – Rise Of The Dawncrusher
10. Kvelertak – Nattesferd
11. Holy Serpent – Temples
12. House Of Lightning – House Of Lightning
13. Comacozer – Astra Planeta
14. Demonauta – Tierra Del Fuego
15. Year Of The Cobra – In The Shadows Below
16. Conan – Revengeance
17. Mars Red Sky – Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)
18. Vokonis – Olde One Ascending
19. High Fighter – Scars & Crosses
20. Domkraft - The End Of Electricity
21. Greenleaf – Meadow
22. Borracho – Atacama
23. Wo Fat – Midnight Cometh
24. Sourvein – Aquatic Occult
25. Megatherium – Superbeast

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!

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…

6 Egypt – Endless Flight
6 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…

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…

Call moonship journey to baja; Egypt placed

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!

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…

free In Gowan Ring release ( I think it's a sampler?)

https://ingowanring.bandcamp.com/album/compendium-2016-free-download

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

Ok lol it's not streaming there

https://youtu.be/Z_nP1VHQIi8

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…

https://boxrecordsshop.bandcamp.com/album/temporary-infinity

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!

(Hey thx fnb for finding that 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…

Stoner Hive

1. Greenleaf - Rise Above The Meadow
2. 1000mods – Repeated Exposure To…
3. Asteroid – III
4. Goatess – Purgatory Under New Management
5. COUGH – Still They Pray
6. Egypt - Doom – Endless Flight & Wasted Theory – Defenders Of The Riff
7. Witchcraft – Nucleus
8. Wo Fat – Midnight Cometh
9. DUNSMUIR – Dunsmuir
10. Sinister Haze – Laid Low in the Dust of Death & Geezer – Geezer
11. Wretch – Wretch
12. Holy Serpent – Temples & Curse the Son – Isolator
13. Brant Bjork – Tao Of The Devil
14. Truckfighters– V & Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree
15. Gojira – Magma & BLACK RAINBOWS – Stellar Prophecy
16. Baby Woodrose – Freedom & Mars Red Sky – Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)
17. Mos Generator – Abyssinia
18. Baroness – Purple
19. Komatsu – Recipe For Murder One
20. The Re-Stoned – Reptiles Return

Doom Charts

1. ASTEROID – III
2. WO FAT – MIDNIGHT COMETH
3. COUGH – STILL THEY PRAY
4. ELEPHANT TREE – ELEPHANT TREE
5. GEEZER – GEEZER
6. BRANT BJORK – TAO OF THE DEVIL
7. WITCHCRAFT – NUCLEUS
8. GREENLEAF – RISE ABOVE THE MEADOW
9. YEAR OF THE COBRA – IN THE SHADOWS BELOW
10. VOKONIS – OLDE ONE ASCENDING
11. WRETCH – WRETCH
12. BORRACHO – ATACAMA
13. BRIMSTONE COVEN – BLACK MAGIC
14. SLOMATICS – FUTURE ECHO RETURNS
15. CONAN – REVENGEANCE
16. YOUNGBLOOD SUPERCULT – HIGH PLAINS
17. BABY WOODROSE – FREEDOM
18. GOATESS – PURGATORY UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
19. GOZU – REVIVAL
20. SVVAMP – SVVAMP
21. SLABDRAGGER – RISE OF THE DAWNCRUSHER
22. LA CHINGA – FREEWHEELIN
23. DOMKRAFT – THE END OF ELECTRICITY
24. MAMMOTH WEED WIZARD BASTARD – Y PROFFWYD DWYLL
25. KING BUFFALO – ORION
26. FOGHOUND – THE WORLD UNSEEN
27. TRUCKFIGHTERS – V
28. WITCHTHROAT SERPENT – SANG-DRAGON
29. MOS GENERATOR – ABYSSINIA
30. HOWLING GIANT – BLACK HOLE SPACE WIZARD PART 1
31. MARS RED SKY – APEX III (Praise for the Burning Soul)
32. WASTED THEORY – DEFENDERS OF THE RIFF
33. MEPHISTOFELES – WHORE
34. DEMONAUTA – TIERRA DEL FUEGO
35. 1000MODS – REPEATED EXPOSURE TO…
36. BEASTMAKER – LUSUS NATURAE
37. LORD VAPOUR – MILL STREET BLUES
38. SALEM’S POT – PRONOUNCE THIS!
39. CHURCH OF MISERY – AND THEN THERE WERE NONE…
40. KHEMMIS – HUNTED
41. DUNSMUIR – DUNSMUIR
42. OLD BLOOD – OLD BLOOD
43. FIRE DOWN BELOW – VIPER VIXEN GODDESS SAINT
44. BUS – THE UNKNOWN SECRETARY
45. LIMESTONE WHALE – LIMESTONE WHALE
46. CHILD – BLUESIDE
47. SINISTER HAZE – LAID LOW IN THE DUST OF DEATH
48. AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED – ARC
49. TROLL – TROLL
50. THE HAZYTONES – THE HAZYTONES

Obelisk Readers
http://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)

Man I need to listen to this Greenleaf album. I still really love this song of theirs from 2012.

https://youtu.be/mK99nLljBEE

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.

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