Joop Konraad’s – Personal Top 20

 

 

Joop Konraad’s – Personal Top 20

It’s my Personal Top 20. It keeps amazing me the amount of great music released every year. Ever since Stoner HiVe started in 2009 the amount of great releases in our little Heavy Underground niche is stunning. For even though you can peruse my Personal Top 20 here… There are many more albums that I thoroughly loved! Soon, a lot of Personal Top 20 lists of all the Contributors will appear on the Doom Charts Page. And will share mine there as well. Here, it’s just the list. And on the Doom Charts I will add some blurbs for all those amazing albums… Let's hope we are treated to as much good and heavy stuff in 2023 as well!

1.    King Buffalo – Regenerator

2.    Elder – Innate Passage

3.    Sergeant Thunderhoof – This Sceptered Veil

4.    The Same River – Weight of The World

5.    Samán – II. Montaña Roja

6.    Besvärjelsen – Atlas

7.    Psychlona – Palo Verde

8.    Ealdor Bealu – Psychic Forms

9.    Helms Alee – Keep This Be the Way

10.    High Noon Kahuna – Killing Spree

11.    Greenbeard – Variant

12.    Steak – Acute Mania

13.    Mecanicos – Nomade

14.    Vitskär Süden – The Faceless King

15.    Red Sun Atacama - Darwin

16.    The Otolith - Folium Limina

17.    Samavayo – Payan

18.    Valley Of The Sun - The Chariot

19.    AAWKS – Heavy On The Cosmic

20.    Indian Handcrafts – Empress In Decline

And here is a list of another 75 amazing albums in alphabetical order that we had trouble with kicking out of our personal Top 20… And just so you know, below this list, we could mention another 100 that we also dig.  And I’m sure we’re also forgetting to mention a few and we will probably discover another dozen amazing 2022 albums soon enough…

3 Wheeler Band – In The Name Of The Holy Riff
Abrams – In The Dark
Acid Row – Afterglow
All Souls – Ghosts Among Us
Black Lung – Dark Waves
Black Space Riders – We Have Been Here Before
Carson – The Wilful Pursuit Of Ignorance
Cave In – Heavy Pendulum
CB3 – Exploration
Clutch – Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
Conan – Evidence Of Immortality
Cowboys & Aliens – Burn!
Dapunksportif – Old, New, Fast’n’Slow
Demonauta – Low Melodies About Chaos
Desert Wave – Deafening Silence
Deville – Heavy Lies The Crown
Doctor Explosion – Superioridad Moral
Druids - Shadow Work
Early Moods – Early Moods
Ecstatic Vision – Elusive Mojo
Faith In Jane – Axe to Oak
Fire Horse – Out Of The Ashes
Foot – You Are Weightless
Freedom Hawk – Take All You Can
Gaupa – Myriad

Geezer – Stoned Blues Machine
Great Rift – Utopia
Half Gramme of Soma - Slip Through the Cracks
Indus Valley Kings – Origin
JIRM - The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam
Kryptograf – The Eldorado Spell
LáGoon – Bury Me Where I Drop
Mammoth Volume - The Cursed Who Perform The Larvagod Rites
Messa – Close
Mexicoma – Kalpa
Mezzoa – Dunes of Mars
Miscellen – Black Mandala I
Museum of Light – Horizon
My Sleeping Karma – Atma
Obiat – Indian Ocean
Odonata - Gravitational Perturbation
Orango – Mohican
Oreyeon – Equations For The Useless
Paralyzed – Heavy Road
Pariahlord – Vultures
Phiasco – Kessel
Psychonaut – Violate Consensus Reality
Quiet Confusion – Magella
Ruby The Hatchet – Fear Is A Cruel Master

Rumours - The Lower We Sink, The Less We Care
Sasquatch – Fever Fantasy
Sleepwulf – Sunbeams Curl
Somali Yacht Club – The Space
Sons Of Arrakis - Volume I
Supasonic Fuzz – Cobracadabra
Surfsquatch – Planet Neptune
Sweet Cobra – Threes
Telekinetic Yeti – Primordial
Temple Fang – Jerusalem/The Bridge
Tenebra – Moongazer
Thammuz - Sons Of The Occult
The Anomalys – Glitch
The Black Legacy – Stones
The Gray Goo - 1943
The Swell Fellas – Novaturia
The Tazers – Outer Space 
Torpedo Torpedo - The Kuiper Belt Mantras
Torrents – Dual Fates
Ultracombo – Season II
Volcanova – Cosmic Bullshit
Warlung – Vulture’s Paradise
Weddings - Book of Spells
Wo Fat – The Singularity

 

JK’s – Personal Top 20

 

 

JK’s – Personal Top 20

The Stoner HiVe Team Members are all involved with the Doom Charts as well. So most of the personal lists already appeared there or probably will in the near future. But we’re (re)posting them here once again. Just because we like to keep things nice and tidy; and up with the tradition…

What an amazing musical year once again! Sure, the rest of the world, society, politics, environment, economics are all shot to hell. But the music man! Wow, triple wow! It’s amazing. And has been ever since Stoner HiVe started back in 2009. The Scrobbled Albums count alone already reaches 1,705 different albums. That’s not counting streams, cd’s, vinyl and offline listening. Man o Man! And most of all that, is just our little niche of heavy rock that is. Can you imagine the amount of amazing stuff being released in other genres as well? Staggering! Anyway, below follows a list of my Personal Top 20. Followed by another 30 that are just as amazing. Those Top 20  albums did so much for me on so many levels. And the 30 that follow as well, but just a bit less perhaps. But still a truckload! And below that are about a hundred more that could be named as well. But we shall refrain from doing so… (With clammy hands and cold sweat at the lower back.) Cause we adore those as well! And all of those could be your next favorite album of 2021! Anyway, enough with all the sappy stuff. We thank all the bands and artists again for their amazing music and hope they shall continue till the end of the world. Cause we love the shit out of it! And it is what keeps us going... And sane... Somewhat...

JK’s – Personal Top 20 (errr, Top 50?)

1.    King Buffalo – The Burden Of Restlessness

2.    Green Lung – Black Harvest

3.    Temple Fang – Fang Temple

4.    Per Wiberg – All Is Well In The Land Of The Living But For The Rest Of Us… Lights Out

5.    Greenleaf – Echoes From A Mass

6.    Stone Cadaver – Memento Mori, Motherfucker

7.    Maragda – Maragda

8.    Stonekind – Spirit Of The Void

9.    Terminus – The Silent Bell Toll

10.    Snake Mountain Revival – Everything In Sight

11.    High Desert Queen – Secrets Of The Black Moon

12.    Stargo – Dammbruch

13.    Messerschmitt – Oh Death

14.    Sonolith – Voidscapes

15.    Kal-El – Dark Majesty

16.    Redscale – The Old Colossus

17.    Atomic Vulture – Moving Through Silence

18.    Agusa – En Anna Värld

19.    Motorpsycho – Kingdom of Oblivion

20.    Mastodon – Hushed & Grim

21.    The Vintage Caravan – Monuments

22.    Monolord – Your Time To Shine

23.    The Waterfall King – Vol.I

24.    Kadabra – Ultra

25.    Duel – In Carne Persona

26.    Wolves In Haze – Chaos Reigns

27.    Gods & Punks – The Sounds of The Universe

28.    Hippie Death Cult – Circle Of Days

29.    Dunerider – Ruins

30.    Robots Of The Ancient World – Mystic Goddess

31.    Birmani – Birmani

32.    LáGoon – Skullactic Visions

33.    Stonus – Séance

34.    Vokonis – Odyssey

35.    Yawning Sons – Sky Island

36.    Holy Monitor – Southern Lights

37.    Miss Lava – Doom Machine

38.    Nekromant – Temple of Haal

39.    Spidergawd – VI

40.    A Better Tomorrow – Spiritual Crossing

41.    Billy F Gibbons – Hardware

42.    Blod – Serpent

43.    Carcano – By Order Of The Green Goddess

44.    Plaindrifter – Echo Therapy

45.    Djiin – Meandering Soul

46.    Daily Thompson – God of Spinoza

47.    King Buffalo – Acheron

48.    Komatsu – Rose Of Jericho

49.    Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – The Magnetic Ridge

50.    Mojave Lords – Expensive Feelings

JK’s – Personal Top 20

 

 

JK’s – Personal Top 20

The Stoner HiVe Team Members are all involved with the Doom Charts as well. So most of the personal lists already appeared there. But we’re reposting them here once again. Just because we like to keep things nice and tidy; and up with the tradition…

Every year again since we started Stoner HiVe back in 2009 we are stumped, amazed and awed by the amount of majestic releases. Sure, we all curl up in our own little niche most of the time and go absolutely apeshit listening to all that heavy stuff. And that part of the music world alone is already incredible. And then think about the other genres out there and the amount that’s released in that part of the music world. I personally just hope that all you crazy music fiends out there keep on trying out the other stuff as well. Cause we can all get swamped in our own little niche of danceable stoner pop, blackened doom or grimy garage sludge. But there are so many amazing album being released on a monthly basis. It is stupendous, insane and absolutely stunning. Below follows a list of thirty albums that did a lot for me on many levels. But I can just as easily name twenty or fifty more that also did a lot for me. And that’s just the heavy stuff. Looking at the thirty I sent in; I’m thinking: ‘what the hell?!’ How can you leave off The Goners, with their Good Mourning album and that amazing opening track Are You Gone Yet? Or the new 1000Mods album? How about the amazing 10Code? ZOE? Big Scenic Nowhere? And we can list many albums more this way… Well, below our personal Top 20, err Top 30; we list another 30 or so albums that we enjoyed like crazy! And crazy we are! About all that heavy magic! And thanks to the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown I’ve dived deeper into all those albums as well; and all of them should be on my list as well! Man, we love’m all so much! Keep’m comin! Keep’m comin!

JK’s – Personal Top 20 (errr, Top 30)

1.    Psychlona – Venus Skytrip
2.    Honeybone – Spheres
3.    I Saw The Deep – Vimana
4.    Black Rainbows – Cosmic Ritual Supertrip
5.    Kayleth – 2020 Back To Earth
6.    Geezer – Groovy
7.    Lowrider – Refractions
8.    Elden – Nostromo
9.    Slift – Ummon
10.    Forming The Void – Reverie

11.    Ritual Earth – MMXX
12.    All Them Witches – Nothing As The Ideal
13.    Motorpsycho – The All Is One
14.    Elephant Tree – Habits
15.    King Buffalo – Dead Planet
16.    Alain Johannes – Hum
17.    Wolfhand – The Devil Arrives
18.    Vessel – Vagabond Blues
19.    Molasses – Through The Hollow
20.    Phe – Glooming Dawn

21.    An Evening With Knives – Sense of Gravity
22.    Desert Storm – Omens
23.    Jegulja – Exit Sandman
24.    Desert Colossus – Eyes And Tongues
25.    Murcielago – Casualties
26.    All Souls – Songs For The End Of The World
27.    Sky Valley Mistress – Faithless Rituals
28.    Black Elephant – Seven Swords
29.    Wailin Storms – Rattle
30.    Arcadian Child – Protopsycho

10Code – Ride
1000Mods – Youth of Dissent
Atlanta – Nugrybauti
Big Scenic Nowhere – Lavender Blues
Black Helium – The Wholly Other
Cobra Thief – Animal Oxygen
Dool – Summerland
Elder – Omens
Electric Hydra – Electric Hydra
Enigma Experience – Question Mark
Fuzzcrafter – C D
Fuzziebär – Grober Unfug
Gomer Pyle – Before I Die I
Hammada – Atmos
Honeybadger – Pleasure Delayer
Horizon – The White Planet Patrol
Huanastone – Huanastone
Humulus – The Deep
Huntsmen – Mandala of Fear
Karkara – Nowhere Land
Kitchen Witch – Earth and Ether
Laser Dracul – Hagridden
Major Kong – Off The Scale
Mammut – Ride The Fire
Mindcrawler – Lost Orbiter
Qilin – Petrichor
Red Desert – Horizon
Ruff Majik – The Devil’s Cattle
Sorcia - Sorcia
Stonus – Aphasia
Thammuz – Into The Great Unknown
The Goners – Good Mourning
Volcanova – Radical Waves
ZOE – Back Into The Light

JK’s – Personal Top 20

JK’s – Personal Top 20

The Stoner HiVe Team Members are all involved with the Doom Charts as well. So most of the personal lists already appeared there. But we’re reposting them here once again. Just because we like to keep things nice and tidy and up with the tradition…

JK’s – Personal Top 20 (errr, Top 30)

What a year it has been once again. Rock has been declared dead so many times. Or declared a Titan Arum that bloomed for the last time around the seventies an equal amount of times. But it seems the heavy side of rock just keeps on blooming. It’s just different nowadays! Because of the internet or perhaps thanks to the internet. There are so many outlets to find the music to suit your exact taste. I personally just hope that all you crazy music fiends out there keep on trying out the other stuff as well. Cause we can all get swamped in our own little niche of danceable stoner pop, blackened doom or grimy garage sludge. But there are so many amazing album being released on a monthly basis. It is stupendous, insane and absolutely stunning. Below follows a list of thirty albums that did a lot for me on many levels. But I can just as easily name twenty or fifty more that also did a lot for me. And that’s just the heavy stuff. Looking at the thirty I sent in; I’m thinking: ‘what the hell?!’ How can you leave off Nightstalker? Or Lunar Effect? Or Ealdor Bealu? Solace? Horseburner? Emily Jane White? Or those two amazing records that were released at the very end of December 2018: Pfund and Son Cesano? It feels wrong, and it feels like I should revise the entire list again. Or even just include them all. All of the ones that I love. Well, I guess I just loved the thirty below just a tiny, almost unmeasurable, amount more. Upwards and Onwards in 2020! Let’s get heavy once again! ~ Joop

30.    Planet of The 8’s – Tourist Season

29.    Per Wiberg – Head Without Eyes

28.    ZED – Volume

27.    The Grand Mal – The Grand Mal

26.    Warp – Warp

25.    Lo-Pan – Subtle

24.    Ulysses – On Safari

23.    Gold – Why Aren’t You Laughing

22.    Cold In Berlin – Rituals of Surrender

21.    Torche – Admission

20.    Obsidian Sea – Strangers

19.    No Man’s Valley – Outside The Dream

18.    Gin Lady – Tall Sun Crooked Moon

17.    Howling Giant – The Space Between Worlds

16.    Roadsaw – Tinnitus The Night

15.    Year Of The Cobra – Ash And Dust

14.    Crypt Trip – Haze County

13.    Green Lung – Woodland Rites

12.    Spidergawd – V

11.    Luna Sol – Below The Deep

10.    Monomyth – Orbis Quadrantis

9.    Saturna – Atlantis

8.    American Sharks – 11:11

7.    Zoahr – Off Axis

6.    The Devil And The Almighty Blues – Tre

5.    Black Wizards – Reflections 

4.    Wallace Vanborn – A Scalp For The Tribe

3.    Arrowhead – Coven Of The Snake

2.    John J Presley – As The Night Draws In

1.    Kamchatka – Hoodoo Lightning

JK’s – Personal Top 20

JK’s – Personal Top 20

The amount of amazing albums released this year is once again mind blowing. When trying to write down my personal favorites I quickly exceeded a hundred. I then decided to start listing the albums that did the most for me in every way conceivable. And quickly reached fifty. It wasn’t really possible to tone it down to thirty. But I did so anyway. These thirty below are without a doubt the albums that moved me the most. I reckon most of them on the list could easily have ended up higher or a bit lower depending on the moment when I listen to them. And so are the over seventy albums that I absolutely adore as well that I am not listing here… For all intended purposes, the list below are my favorite albums and the numbers 1 to 3 are there for a reason! And yes, as I mentioned, I actually have a list of over a hundred albums that I will definitely cherish until the end of time... Thanks to all the artists and bands for making them!

So, without further ado, here’s the list of Personal Favorites of 2018 by JK!

1.    Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

2.    Trail – Spaces 

3.    We Hunt Buffalo – Head Smashed In

4.    Spacelord – Indecipher

5.    Blondstone – My Dark Sweet Friend

6.    The Legendary Tigerman – Misfit

7.    Hooka Hey – War Cry

8.    Fire Down Below – Hymn Of The Cosmic Man

9.    Six Months Of Sun – Below The Eternal Sky

10.    DeWolff – Thrust

11.    Lady Electric – Four Years After

12.    Satori Junk – The Golden Dwarf

13.    Death Alley – Superbia

14.    Cosmic Fall – In Search Of Outer Space

15.    An Evening With Knives – Serrated

16.    Mythic Sunship – Upheaval

17.    Clamfight – III 

18.    Vvlva – Path To Virtue

19.    King Buffalo – Longing To Be The Mountain

20.    Orango – Evergreens

21.    Mudhoney – Digital Garbage

22.    Arcadian Child – Superfonica

23. The Good Hand – Blissful Yearning

24.    Greenleaf – Hear The Rivers

25.    Yob – Our Raw Heart

26.    1968 – Ballads Of The Godless

27.    All Them Witches – ATW

28.    Earthless – Gifted By The Wind

29.    Somali Yacht Club – The Sea

30.    Komatsu – New Horizon

31.    Ape Machine – Darker Seas