Stoner HiVe: Onwards and Upwards

zaterdag 3 januari 2026

Onwards and Upwards in 2026!

Onwards and Upwards in 2026!

These are the Numbers 21 to 100 voted for by you for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025.

How much time do you wait after publishing the Number 1 album from the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025? I never know... Well... Here's how we continue I guess... Best of wishes to each and everyone out there! Take care of yourself and the ones you love! Be good to the people you meet. Treat them as you would like to be treated. It’s the most important thing you can do. And of course, promote all those bands and albums you love so dearly! We know who produced the Number 1 album of 2025 according to all you lovely voters! HOWLING GIANT!

But of course, you all voted for many many many more albums. We won’t be sharing the total list of 572 albums, but we will share the Top 21 to 100. With Psychonaut's World Maker on Number 21, missing thirty points to be equal to Kaiser and Conan on Number 20. And Florist's Adrift needing almost two thousand to do the same. Those are the 21 to 100 in spots, where quite a lot are tied as well. If we would publish the the list to separate the ties, we would need another twenty spots. Which would mean Piece's Rambler's Axe would end up at Number 100.

So once again, loads of albums ended up with the same amount of points below the Top 20, which means once again that the quality of releases has been amazing. We’re sticking with the 21 to 100 list below. As you all voted for it! And marvel, like we do at the end of every year, at the amount of amazing freaking heavy music release this year! Let’s hope 2026 brings as much of the good and heavy once again!!

Psychonaut – World Maker

Winds Of Neptune - Winds Of Neptune

Bask - TheTurning

Elder - Liminality / Dream State Return

Sheev - Ate's Alchemist

Seedy Jeezus - Damned To The Depths

Wolftooth - Wizard's Light

Faetooth- Labyrinthine

Astralplane - Out Of The Void

Mountain Dust – Mountain Dust

Lorquin's Admiral - Lorquin's Admiral

Margarita Witch Cult - Strung Out In Hell

Slomatics - Atomicult

IcarusBurns - Icarus Burns

Hebi Katana - Imperfection

Håndgemeng - Satanic Panic Attack

Rainbows Are Free - Silver And Gold

Acid Magus - Scatterling Empire

TorpedoTorpedo - Arrows Of Time

Crystal Spiders - Metanoia

The Elven -Solstice

Cosmic Reaper - Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned

Dax Riggs – 7 Songs For Spiders

Hög - Blackhole

Appalooza -The Emperor Of Loss

Hibernaut -Obsidian Eye

Grey Czar -Euarthropodia

Pelican - Flickering Resonance

Daevar - Sub Rosa

The Lunar Effect - Fortune’s Always Hiding

Tar Pit - Scrying The Angel Gate

Dead Shrine - Cydonia Mensa

Pale Horse Ritual - Diabolic Formation

Birds Of Nazca - Pangaea

Kadavermarch - Kadavermarch

Black MagicTree - Terra

Ironrat -Beneath It All

Beastwars – The Ship / The Sea

Gaupa -Fyr

Black Moon Cult - Ophidian Future (The Children Of Yig)

Hedonist –Eat Thus

Supernaughty- Apocalypso

Red Eye - III

Warchief - Toil & Trouble

Sleeping Mountain - Sleeping Mountain

Bogwife - From Ashes

Cattlemass - Alpha 1128

Lo-Pan -Get Well Soon

Crop - S.S.R.I

Ordos – Fire

KingPotenaz - Arcane Desert Rituals Vol. 1

Pentagram – Lightning In A Bottle

Earl OfHell - Earl Of Hell

Bentrees -Silver Veins

Hexecutioner - Tornit

Slumbering Sun - Starmony

Stone Nomads - Empires Of Stone

Black Water Rising - The Edge

Zoahr – Mosaic

Electric Citizen - Ec4

Doomherre -Plaguelords

Wyatt E. – Zamāru Ultu Qereb Ziqquratu, Part 1

Turtle Skull - Being Here

Bone Church - Deliverance

Mooch - Kin

Kadavar -Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin

Warlung - The Poison Touch

Gin Lady - Before The Dawn Of Time

Motorpsycho - Motorpsycho

Möuth - Global Warning

Foot - The Hammer

Deafheaven- Lonely People With Power

CloudsTaste Satanic - Birmingham 2024

Fu Manchu - The Return Of… Live

Yawning Man- Pavement Ends

Kombynat Robotron - Aank

Good Spirits - The Greenseer

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Death Hilarious

Miss Lava – Under A Black Sun

Florist - Adrift

The above links, link to mentions on Stoner HiVe. This year we only link to actual reviews of that album... If there is no link, we did not review the album on Stoner HiVe ... And we should be flogged and flailed for it! Tarred and feathered and dragged through the streets...

vrijdag 3 januari 2025

Onwards and Upwards in 2025!

Onwards and Upwards in 2025!

These are the Numbers 21 to 100 voted for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2024.

Best of wishes to each and everyone out there! Take care of yourself and the ones you love! Be good to the people you meet. Treat them as you would like to be treated. It’s the most important thing you can do. And of course, promote all those bands and albums you love so dearly! We know who produced the Number 1 album of 2024 according to all you lovely voters! Slift! Ilion was on so many lists it was crazy and a lot had it listed on the top of their lists…

But of course, you all voted for many many many more albums. We won’t be sharing the total list of 759 albums, but we will share the Top 21 to 100. With Karkara’s All Is Dust on Number 21 missing six points to be equal to Emu at Number 20. And Grin’s Hush needing 412 to do the same. Those are the 21 to 100 in spots, where quite a lot are tied as well. If we would publish the the list to separate the ties, we would need another 32 spots and end up with Witchorious’s album at Number 100. So once again, loads of albums ended up with the same amount of points below the Top 20, which means once again that the quality of releases has been amazing. We’re sticking with the 21 to 100 list below. As you all voted for it! And marvel, like we do at the end of every year, at the amount of amazing freaking heavy music release this year! Let’s hope 2025 brings as much of the good and heavy once again!!