Zero is one of my favorite albums of the year btw. I didn't even know it was on bandcamp! Thanks for that too!
― slack thompson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 17 December 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
I thought the Vanishing Kids record was called 'Heavy Dreamer' - regardless - it's really good.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 17 December 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
I don't know how I got the name Creation. Thanks!
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 17 December 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
The Graveyard album is absolutely underrated. It's great! I'll be checking out a lot of stuff from these lists, thanks.
― Dinsdale, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 05:00 (five years ago) link
Late entry I was late in absorbing cuz it wasn't on Bandcamp.
Hollow Hand – Star Chamber (Talkshow)https://www.hollowhand.com
After a promising self-released debut of psych pop and progressive folk, Ancestral Lands (2015), the new one shows the London group lead by Max Kinghorn-Mills in full songwriting bloom. Folks are dropping names like Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Syd Barrett, Ray Davies. Perhaps, but it definitely mitigates my disappointment of recent singer/songwriter fave Jacco Gardner releasing an album without singing, and Doug Tuttle not releasing anything this year.
Psych Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/7nhJ26VAdEW3jBd4fdoywL?si=QfGbKedHQ9GjOCsPKZFmfw
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 20 December 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
<a href="https://stonerhive.blogspot.com/"><b>Stoner Hive Countdown</b></a>
20. Orange Goblin – The Wolf Bites Back19. Electric Citizen – Helltown19. Spaceslug – Eye The Tide19. Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want18. Stoned Jesus – Pilgrims 17. 1968 - Ballads of the Godless16. Castle – Deal Thy Fate15. JIRM - Surge Ex Monumentis
https://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2018/12/number-15.html
Technically #18 should be 16 and so on, but it is Stoner Hive, lol.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 20 December 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
14. All Them Witches – ATWhttp://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2018/12/number-14.html
13. MESSA - Feast For Waterhttp://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2018/12/number-13.html
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 21 December 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
12. Forming the Void – Rift12. Conan – Existential Void Guardianhttp://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2018/12/number-12.html
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 22 December 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
I really enjoyed EL Heath's album from this year, Smiling Leaf, gentle folky psyche.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j6sHjk-g-4
― MaresNest, Saturday, 22 December 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
11. Boss Keloid - Melted On The Inchhttp://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2018/12/number-11.html
https://psychinsightmusic.com/2018/12/11/psych-lovers-top-twenty-albums-of-2018/
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 22 December 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
10. Somali Yacht Club – The Sea10. ASG – Survive Sunrisehttp://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2018/12/number-10.html
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 23 December 2018 13:45 (five years ago) link
FnB has done an amazing job of playlisting the year already; here's my very small contribution: a playlist with all the music discussed on the thread.
ILM's 2018 Rolling Psychedelic Rock Spotify Playlist
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 23 December 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
Thanks mate! I'm slowly churning out a variety of playlists, but this is great to have for everything.
9. Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats – Wastelandhttp://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2018/12/number-9.html
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 24 December 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
8. Weedpecker – IIIhttp://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2018/12/number-8.html
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 06:01 (five years ago) link
On the second day of Christmas we move forwards towards Number 7 with a jump of almost twenty points once again. Leaving Weedpecker’s album III on Number 8 with a melancholy and woe dressed up as a hangover. But we shall return there. For sure. Just like we will keep returning to most of the albums we have already passed on this Top 20 Countdown. We thank all of you who voted once again, cause without you this thing would not be possible. We love doing this and we hope it shows. We also love the next album that we are going to visit now. The band has made the Countdown before. They reached Number 13 back in 2015 and Number 3 back in 2013. It’s a bit heavier than those albums, a bit muddier, a bit swampier, a bit grungier, but just as enchanting. They lure you in with seemingly effortless song structures and easy to ear doom; but once in their clutches they mesmerize you with melted edges of fuzz and eerie psychedelics. And there are those vocals, ethereal and it makes you see eternity… On Number 7 we find…
7. Windhand – Eternal Return
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
I loved this album!! windhand are def one of my favorite currently active heavy bands. saw them for the second time this year & i was so excited after the show i bought a tshirt! and it came in my size!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
If you ever meet and get to know Dorthia, she gives good doom hugs too!
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
More playlists.
Space Rock: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/3mDlC0pcd7K0ps0vJnJJsx?si=PDuRNrHuSoKDPemDr6-MxwKosmische: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/3HDK9inAaSzpZrfn3tJ2bh?si=e6ldaGZoQYiuETu7MYQxuAPsych Noir: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/3hvUzXkLzH7SYgUsHVIE5I?si=uPQ2AZGsQo-IP4R6MtD8aw
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 27 December 2018 06:44 (five years ago) link
finally a list with both Windhand and Uncle Acid.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 27 December 2018 07:21 (five years ago) link
And then, out of the blue, Christmas has come and gone and we’re back to the grind. Slaving away at whatever it is we all do out there. But luckily there's is all this great music to give us our moments of peace and respite... And on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2018 where we pay homage to all those amazing album that were released this year. We jump another big twenty points to reach Number 6. Leaving Windhand and their awesome Eternal Return album on position Number 7. The album we arrive at now was recorded in the fabled Rancho De La Luna studio. It has turned their mighty jam-band-status into something much more concise and groovy vintage. It has turned it into a much bluesier take on everything they did and what’s even a bigger change, is that the mostly instrumental band has decided to use the vocal possibilities as well and that has resulted in the fact that we are now serenaded to for almost three quarters of the album. And it, rest assured, fits the music and it lifts the entire album up into the domain of legendary records. It’s bluesy, it’s psychedelic, it’s heavy and by God, it’s good! So, on Number 6 we find ourselves….
6. Earthless – Black Heaven
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 27 December 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
Doom: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/2tuf0xjSVpumYfjPpu3j9l?si=FuNeQnvQQbezIksTtbX2QA
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 27 December 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
To reach Number 5 we do a minor jump of only six points. But after that, all the jumps become bigger and bigger to reach the final entry of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2018. So, we leave Earthless and their Black Heaven on Number 6 and move on to an atmospheric record of mountainous proportion. One that has quickly become a favorite around the globe. And we had the honor to write a short blurb for the Doom Charts about this album. Which we began with an admiration for the album title alone… “… is one of the best album titles and already offers an insight to what is to come. It's simply gorgeous in all aspects. In tune with nature the new record takes you through the wide expanse and above the big wide divide. This is sleeping the dream kind of stuff! This is introspective and stellar at the same exact moment. It is so spacious and so luscious that it feels like cream to your ears. It is a true odyssey and adventure that makes you fall in love with everything all at once. Expertly weaving hypnotic and dreamy into something that not only feels grandiose but really is gigantic. Not in a bombastic sense, but in the sense of something true and honest. It reminds of that line from a long-lost poem: ‘all my life, my heart has sought for a thing I cannot name’. And with this album we can state: it has been found…” Here’s Number 5 !
5. King Buffalo – Longing To Be The Mountain
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 28 December 2018 06:52 (five years ago) link
As we mentioned on position Number 5, where we found Longing To Be The Mountain by King Buffalo, the jumps in points get bigger and bigger now. We jump almost forty points to reach Number 4. An album, which, I must confess, I had definitely not expected this high. Ofcourse it’s good and the band has been making the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown with almost every album they released. Reaching Number 10 in 2015, Number 3 in 2012 and Number 2 in 2011. And we must admit we have loved everyone of those albums and one of them has become an all time favorite. And it wasn’t because the band had announced they were calling it quits some six months prior to this release. No, it’s simply because it seemed like the album had not been making the waves like all their others did before this one. But I’m glad to see it arrive at Number 4. Cause they are back! And with knives in their teeth! We can state that all their records are wild and wonderful, but that some of the sharp edge and danger slowly dissipated the during the course of their albums. It’s back now. On this album they sound much more chased, hunted and on the run. They sound like they have something to prove again. That there is no peace on their mind. Gritty, bluesy, grungy hard rock and with that ever-prevalent love for the seventies that these cats always displayed. Does the new drummer change the sound? No, he sounds like the perfect replacement for the old one, he continues the wildness we love and injects it with a new razor-sharp edge! Before we enter the Top 3 we have to deal with Number 4!
4. Graveyard – Peace
The album also kicks off my Hard Rock playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/0eM482z3FJdDoUwblNk4vb?si=j7O0J8FbT6eut6Q8JjGKpA
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 30 December 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
And now as we enter the Top 3 and see which record ends up with the Bronze Medal, we can probably guess which ones ended up on Number 2 and Number 1 as well. I am pretty sure you all know which. There was no escaping that fact. On a lot of the lists that came in the three were riding high and glorious on top. So we pass Graveyard and their Peace album on Number 4 with almost thirty points to go see about that album on position Number 3. Which is once again a band from Sweden and once again an album that has seen many editions of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown. Number 9 back in 2014, Number 14 in 2012 and Number 1 last year. This record continues where the last album left off. And thus; it gives us their very own groove and energy, it’s their bounce, it’s their stomp and you cannot help but bounce and stomp along. Chuck full of majestic riffs and amazing hooks it shows once again that these cats know what their signature sound has become. And even if you feel for a second that the album sounds like the band sounded on the last one, you realise that it is the sound which drew you in in the first place. And hey, riding that green water rapid makes everything alright! All the time!
So here is the Bronze Medal, which goes to the Number 3 position... Where we find...
3. Greenleaf - Hear The Rivers
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 30 December 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
FnB, I rarely listen to any of these tracks (not my cup of tea) but make a point of reading your descriptions closely. They are excellent. Keep them coming pls!!
― tobo73, Sunday, 30 December 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
^^^
― calstars, Sunday, 30 December 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
Thanks, but the StonerHive countdown blurbs I'm posting are mostly written by my bud Joop Konrad. I'll pass on the love! I do contribute blurbs to the Doom Charts, and of course everything on my own summary - http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-18/#breakdown
It's no mystery what the top two will be, one is in my own top 20 overall, the other I'm not as big a fan of, but I've enjoyed their chunky chugs in a live setting, and saw firsthand their extremely devoted fanbase.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 30 December 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
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
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 31 December 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
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
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 1 January 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
good call on this HOLLOW HAND album \m/
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 1 January 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
https://doomcharts.com/2019/01/04/doom-charts-top-100-albums-of-2018/
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 4 January 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
fast, thanks for posting
― calstars, Friday, 4 January 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 January 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
oops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WybCfU_L6o0
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 January 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
Liking this Yob album
― calstars, Friday, 11 January 2019 01:49 (five years ago) link
It is good to see Apostle of Solitude finish that high on the Doom 100 list.
― earlnash, Friday, 11 January 2019 02:24 (five years ago) link
we don't have a 2019 yet?
been enjoying this LA band
https://deathchantnoise.com/releases
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 08:36 (five years ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
Loving this Lastryko album.
https://lastryko.bandcamp.com/album/t-tno-pulsu
― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 September 2019 07:26 (four years ago) link
And then the Cosmic Dead release their best album since their self-titled one:
https://thecosmicdead.bandcamp.com/album/scottish-space-race
― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 September 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
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
― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 September 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link
Great song title, have to listen to it now
― calstars, Saturday, 28 September 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
Ok I'm now convinced this is the best Cosmic Dead album
― the cretin hits the cast (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 29 September 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
It’s awesome i can dig it.
I had to look sorta hard for this thread, assumed there was a 2019 release ha.
― Hunt3r, Monday, 30 September 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
from 2019:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqSQnucm3coASHINOA - Hendwe
― budo jeru, Thursday, 11 June 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
do i mention the fact that there's a new Kairon; IRSE! coming out here?
http://kaironirse.bandcamp.com/album/polysomn-2
― making gazebo money (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 26 June 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
do (I see you did)
― calstars, Friday, 26 June 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link