Rolling Stoner/Psych 2020

Yeah I can't imagine a remaster of a 2017 album would have an easily noticeable difference, unless the original was really screwed up somehow.

Of the Dec entries, stuff by Superlord, Black Spell, Satorinaut and Mollo Rilla were available NYP so I got 'em.

3. Elephant Tree – Habits
This English psychedelic stoner rock formation delivers their take on earthy and folky inspiration with a high dose of fuzz and equal amount of enchanting atmosphere. Some doomy energy here and a lot of progressive touches turns this album into a must-have classic with no effort at all. For the unbelievable amount of earth shaking riffs and thundering grooves seem to continue on like a tsunami of heaviness. You can’t remain the occasional user listening to this one; it will enlarge any form of habit or addiction you have to this kind of music; it will balloon and it will be majestic!

2. Psychlona - Venus Skytrip
“There's no holding back either as the album opens with one of its most entertaining cuts. The aptly named "Blast Off" starts with one of the best licks on the record, piercing guitar notes that seem to strobe and echo out to the farthest reaches of space. Underneath are rocksteady drums that build towards the inevitable explosion of distortion, a launchpad for a driving groove.”

There can be only one… We climb almost two hundred points from the amazing Venus Skytrip album by Psychlona on the Number 2 position of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020 to reach the Gold Medal. The Number 1 of 2020! According to all the lists sent our way, all the votes cast, this is the best album of 2020. So we thank all of you once again for voting, for helping the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown become more valid with every passing year and we thank all the bands for delivering all those amazing albums! Twenty years ago this Swedish quartet delivered a landmark album and now the boys are back with a follow-up and yet another masterpiece! Atavistic stoner rock with a majestic groove; an ode to all that pure heavy rock goodness and that spacey delivery. It is not the work of a band trying to recapture the magic of that first album but just a band of brothers that are finally taking the next step of their journey. We can go on and on about all the albums that we heard during this insane year; we can profess our love for many of them; but this one delivered all of that condensed and turned their sound into quicksilver and made it move through all manner of energy and particles that simply became unbreakable adoration for all that we worship about this thing called stoner rock. It is a dream come true, an ode once again and even bigger that before! We bow before the four and beg them to keep taking a next step in their majestic journey; we give you the Number One album of 2020… The Gold Medal goes to:

1. Lowrider – Refractions

Thx fast

The Lowrider was also number 1 on The Obelisk’s list that went up today.

For one of the founder members of the stoner hive groups on audiogalaxy and slsk and also owner of the fb group, im terrible at missing the ballot deadline. 3 years in a row I've forgotten to vote. Joop has given up reminding me haha but as always he's done a great job.

Lets hope the gap between Lowrider albums isnt as long next time. Superb album, as was their last one all those years ago. I had the CD of it but got the vinyl reissue this year.

Thanks, Fast! I don't listen to as much stoner/heavy psych as I'd like but I love the shit out of that Lowrider album. Well deserved imo.

Yeah, been re-listening to the Lowrider and appreciating it more. I sometimes get stoner rock fatigue keeping up with the Doom Charts, hence underrating it.

Yet another damn list, and annoyingly most of it's good so had more to catch up on ;)

https://fragmentedflaneur.com/2020/12/28/50-essential-albums-2020/

Stop your smokin' and start your votin'.

Don't neglect to observe that the Metal 'n' Heavy Rock poll is not just for metalheads.

Six days till the deadline.

2020 Metal ’n’ Heavy Rock Poll: VOTING & FURTHER CAMPAIGNING thread (open until February 19)

Yeah I can't imagine a remaster of a 2017 album would have an easily noticeable difference, unless the original was really screwed up somehow.

Incidentally, I bought the CD (Colour Haze - In Her Garden) and it seems like Stefan may indeed have remastered and quietly reissued it in 2019 (!). Super solid and lovely album, and finishing on the Skydancer / Skydance double whammy takes it above and beyond.

I don't feel like starting a new thread for this because I'm not even sure it fits here but surely the new Plankton Wat will be of interest to some people:

https://planktonwat.bandcamp.com/album/future-times

The music of Portland musician Dewey Mahood exists in constant communion with nature. From acclaimed albums with heavy-psych mainstays Eternal Tapestry to his prolific solo excursions, Mahood’s work has always been defined by his restless exploratory spirit and reverence for the environment. As Plankton Wat, his expressionist compositions exude a supernatural grace and patience, reflecting the resplendent beauty and mythical energy of the West Coast’s wild places. Piece blossoms from low-lit, porchside ambience into powerful head-trips, ushering the listener through ravines of feedback and along warm currents of synthesizer drift to peaks of lysergic bliss. Mahood’s masterful and distinct guitarwork consistently blurs the confines of the instrument, at once texturally and melodically rich. Future Times elevates Mahood’s psychedelic instrumentals to new planes. Written to the backdrop of social unrest and climate change fueled fires, Mahood lays out a sprawling cinematic and psychedelic survey of a planet in crisis that weaves a path of hope through the darkness.

also, if you're tired / wary of loving good music made by terrible people, Dewey is absolutely just the *best* dude.

i've been listening to this band from boulder a bit. i'd link a youtube but i don't think they have any. they seem to have slid from more core psyche and space into a more stoner feel to my ear, but the drone and gaze components work really well for me.
https://grass.bandcamp.com/album/grass

dunno if there's a new thread but this album is great. They're from Barcelona

https://maragda.bandcamp.com/album/maragda

“This record tells the story of Maragda, a civilization that took refuge underground after the Great Disaster. Many years have passed now, and the memory of a life on the surface has completely faded. People live under the oppression of a totalitarian government, The Core, when suddenly a strange voice speaks inside their minds. After this call, a group of rebels launches an expedition through The Unknown, willing to discover the secrets of Maragda”

Psychedelic rock and progressive rock from Barcelona.

OUT on 15th October 2021.
Pre-order available from 10th September 2021.

"Hermit" Official Video: youtu.be/ny2ii-9lpWE

Don't know if there's a new 2022 thread for this kinda stuff but

https://weloveyoujunzo.bandcamp.com/album/strato-arcology

n February 2022, Junzo fell from a train platform in Tokyo and was rendered unconscious. Junzo suffered intracerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage. He regained consciousness and is now in a rehabilitation hospital.

Junzo cannot access his own Bandcamp or PayPal right now so this page has been set up by his friends Tabata Mitsuru & Ned Netherwood to support him.

Pretty heavy monster jamming stuff.

Mt. Mountain - Centre

from Perth, this very chill smear of drone, motorik, and psych is so so nice. sometimes reminds me of an ambient versh of the flavor crystals, but probably more on their prev release Cardinal Fuzz Shop, also great.

Oooh sounds nice, I'll have to check that one out.

I've been digging the new Kaleidobolt, kinda stoner kinda prog kinda heavy psych that doesn't take itself too seriously.

hello stoner/psych amigos! here's a record from earlier this year that i really like:

https://dhidalahggb.bandcamp.com/album/sensoria

(brought to you by Guruguru Brain)

omg nepaal

Man I don't know how I missed out on REZN before, but this stuff is killer!