Give Me a Lamp, It's Going to Be Weird: Rolling Stoner/Psych/Retro/Space Rock Thread 2018

Ha ha, I was thinking it was gonna be Clutch, but StonerHive folks had something else in mind:

We move twenty-five points up from Bronze Medal album Hear The Rivers by Greenleaf on Number 3 to reach the album you voters voted for to reach the runner-up position on Number 2. Another band that has been making the final list for multiple years. And even reaching Number 2 before. Number 8 back in 2011 and the Silver Medal for their 2014 album. This time around they were bested by almost forty points by the album that ended up on Number One. But lets focus on the raw album that lays before us. A record that translates into sound all that angst, fear and worry the writer felt when going through an awful period. It will be choking you with emotion and harrowing visions. It will be pummeling you raw with pounding riffs and grate your soul with a bone chilling voice. And that is how the record grabs you and sits you down, it will speak to you and philosophize about it all. And all of that resounds in the music. Oppressive and suffocating on one hand and expansive and progressive on the other end. There is light at the end of the tunnel…

The Silver Medal goes to…

2. Yob - Our Raw Heart

We jump almost forty points to reach the Gold Medalist of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2018 according to the 79 of you lovely freaks that sent in their lists of favorite albums this year. We thank all of those voters once again, without you this would not be possible and it would not be this much fun to do. We also thank all those bands that made the Top 20 with all of those amazing albums! But we also thank the bands that did not make it; cause there is beauty on all of them! And like every year, we will list the 21 to 100 in the next few days somewhere. So, at least a few of those albums will get a little more attention; even though they probably deserve even more. But even though it was obvious from the picture above, we still need to say a few words about the Number 1 album of 2018. Cause it came with a bang! Like a gunshot on an empty street! Like a hammer strike against the Gods… We are referring to the album released by a legendary trio. A gang of three who had not produced a full album for twenty years. The doom is vibrant, alive and more ingenious than ever. This is not doom that will drag you towards the abyss, but one that takes you up high and on an adventure. We’re going on a journey packed with riff-axes and bass-machetes. Raw, slow, delaying and discoloring sludge-riffs, carrying monotonous vocals that waft you to sleep. Thick, dirty, bass-tones deliver the perfect heartbeat for your slumber and dreams of the ideal marriage between stoner metal and doom… The Gold Medal goes to…

1. Sleep - The Sciences

good call on this HOLLOW HAND album \m/

https://doomcharts.com/2019/01/04/doom-charts-top-100-albums-of-2018/

fast, thanks for posting

some ppl I know in the band Comets Ov Cupid just did a low budget midwest Live at Pompeii shit at a decommissioned missile silo in the middle of North Dakota, the Safeguard Missle Complex (aka North Dakota Pyramid or “Illuminati Pyramid”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WybCfU_L6o0&fbclid=IwAR1-08J-U3O6ebO73X_QUFfZqKgiceUcYqnL7SlHdX-YKNly8aHyDnx29U8

oops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WybCfU_L6o0

Liking this Yob album

It is good to see Apostle of Solitude finish that high on the Doom 100 list.

we don't have a 2019 yet?

been enjoying this LA band

https://deathchantnoise.com/releases

Any point in a new thread?

Anyway. Here's former snooker star Steve Davis with some goddamn legit kosmische

https://thequietus.com/articles/26595-the-utopia-strong-s-t-kavus-torabi-steve-davis

Loving this Lastryko album.

https://lastryko.bandcamp.com/album/t-tno-pulsu

And then the Cosmic Dead release their best album since their self-titled one:

https://thecosmicdead.bandcamp.com/album/scottish-space-race

I was only kidding about space-rock GAPDY but between "Scottish Space Race" (the title track) and Terminal Cheesecake's "Golden Hare" I definitely get the impression that the DMBQ record, at least, made major waves in the English space-psych community

Great song title, have to listen to it now

Ok I'm now convinced this is the best Cosmic Dead album

It’s awesome i can dig it.

I had to look sorta hard for this thread, assumed there was a 2019 release ha.

from 2019:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqSQnucm3co
ASHINOA - Hendwe

do i mention the fact that there's a new Kairon; IRSE! coming out here?

http://kaironirse.bandcamp.com/album/polysomn-2

do (I see you did)