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Number 13

A bit more than thirty points takes us from Warcoe on Number 14 to lucky Number 13. Released in February through the German Prophecy Productions label, it brings a close to a six year long smoke choked wait we all had to endure. For yes, the Seattle duo comes roaring back with a self-titled album that will knock you out of your socks and hits you over the head like a rhythmic ritual performed at full volume. Powered by some colossal bass work and hypnotic no-fear vocals which are locked in mortal combat with feral bone-rattling drums, this is the doom and this is the stoner, stripped of excess and pumped completely full of high powered adrenaline. Guitars, we don’t need them, we don’t miss them, as psychedelic sludge, grunge grit, hard rock swagger and shoegaze haze coil together into something all encompassing. Grooves crawl, scramble, creep, lurch and then crush, dragging you in, under, swallowing you whole before spitting you out… Smiling… Captured with cinematic weight, this is heavy music that bites… Sharp teeth, radiant soul and zero compromise gives you a record that demands to be played loud, extremely loud, until you feel it vibrating in your chest… 

On Number 13 we find: 

YEAR OF THE COBRA - YEAR OF THE COBRA

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Number 12 on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2019

 

 

Number 13

 

 

Number 13

Are you ready for some proto touched doom jive? We leave Fu Manchu on Number 14 and jump 36 points to reach Number 13. Where we find the sophomore album by this Norwegian trio. That vintage, obscure, garage and steamy sound, that hazy and dirty atmosphere, it is all so highly addictive and drags you along a mind trip of gigantic proportions. And it will feel like one psychoactive and occult touched merry go round. Round and round it goes! Gigantic is also a word one can use for the hooks, the riffs and the efficiency in which it is all delivered. The bass that seems to bop from basement walls like the relentless dripping of a leak. And a touch of sinister gives it that ominous feeling, punctuated by the drums that stomp like those evil footsteps in a dark cul de sac in the middle of the night. We might meet the devil there… But before I burn, I need to listen to this album just one more time…

According to all of your votes, on Number 13 we find: 

Magmakammer - Before I Burn

 

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Number 13

 

 

Number 13

Another twenty points jump to reach lucky Number 13. Out on Heavy Psych Sounds released back in March, this fourpiece delivered an album that is doom in truly every sense of the word. Formed back in 2011, the band are known for their droning fuzzed out doom, their drums of doom and their unholy vocal lines of, well, you get the drift. And drift it does! Vocals that drag you along that doom trod around the cauldron, guitars that drift like ghosts of lost souls through the ominous night sky. And this fourth full-sized album defines their sound even more, turning their cultist touch into something you want to be a part of. The weight of this release, the drag and the hangtime is incredible, and offers more than those six tracks that plod out the destiny. This is that heavy doom smoke that swirls, with blood red coloring and offering a lingering smell of evil rituals…

On Number 13 we find…

Witchthroat Serpent - Trove Of Oddities At The Devil's Driveway


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Number 13

 

 

Number 13

Unlucky Number 13, has always been a special number for me. Friday the Thirteenth a special day. And by sheer luck we find an album on this spot which is very special to me and naturally high on my personal list. And album that dropped in and dropped out of the Top 20 Countdown on multiple occasions, but was propelled to the Number 13 spot by all those final day lists that got sent in. We find it, nineteen points above Mammoth Volume on Number 14. We were late mentioning this album on the HiVe, even though we had been in love with it since it was released in May. Imploring ever more influences from every nook and cranny of music you can think of; the ten tracks take you on a journey, that feels like you’re just rocking out to some awesome heaviness one minute and then to some earthshattering prog influenced album the next. For there’s an arc here and a setting, but many of the songs can also be listened to individually. Opting for grandiose and gravitas, the songs all have this highly organic feel and natural psych touch. Whirl winding, maelstrom inducing, are all words that fit the bill when you talk about this album... On Number 13 we find!

Besvärjelsen – Atlas

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Number 13

 

 

Number 13

After rocking out with Cursed! the Lucid Sins album that made it on Number 14, we jump almost forty points today to reach Number 13. Indeed, so far, all the albums were very close together with only a handful, ten or perhaps almost twenty points in between. Even bigger jumps are coming, but this is the first a bit bigger jump; for album that is close together with what comes tomorrow. But we are here now, and not gone yet. So let’s vaguely talk about that massive boom and that majestic groove that happens when you explode upon a surface of a planet somewhere. It’s their third album and a mighty rumbling effort. Straight from the barren wastelands of Canada comes a trio that will bore down deep into your soul with their intense, intergalactic and incredibly heavy riffs! Doom, stoner and sludge all so extremely low, groovy and gritty that it cannot come from anything but a huge cave or crater on a forlorn, dark, dangerous and twisted sphere somewhere orbiting through space… Indeed… On Number 13 we find:

Low Orbit – Crater Creator

 

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Number 13

 

 

Number 13

As we pass Motorpsycho on Number 14 with almost thirty points to reach the next album, we remember bang the re-release of their 2017 album made earlier in the year as well. The Off The Record Label facilitated it and it sold like crazy. Just like the new album that was done by that same awesome Off The Record Label and the band themselves. It jumped to the Number One position of the Doom Charts upon release and it took the art of psychedelic doom to a whole new level. They’ve churned mud into mercury and grime into gold. A conceptual and exceptional piece of art that shines a different kind of light on all the heavy genres we love so dearly; it shows us that heavy riffs, quiet melodies, wild sax and intense synths can work together in perfect harmony to create something so divine yet chaotic. Yes, on lucky Number 13 we find:

REZN - Chaotic Divine

 

 

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Number 13

Number 13

From those two amazing bands, Zed and The Lunar Effect on Number 14 we jump 35 points to reach Number 13. It’s lucky Number 13 today and it’s Friday; (can anyone crush the cosmic numbers on that one?) and it features an album everyone loved since it came out and I personally had expected higher up on the list. Some otherworldly heavy psychedelic and progressive gold that will have you floating through the space between dimensions in no time! Or as hombre Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker (Riff Relevant) already stated on the Doom Charts of September: “Nashville’s genre distorting, cosmic craftsmen to the power of 3 blast off on their first full-length journey. It’s a conceptually-themed construct capturing one of underground music’s most promising acts in all their psyche-punk / stoner metal glory… with Sci-Fi ever their muse, they have set the bar high outside the box and way above the stratosphere. One may stamp Album Of The Year Contender on this opus… One small step for Blues Funeral Recordings, one Howling Giant leap for greatness!” And we could not agree more, Number 13!

Howling Giant - The Space Between Worlds

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Number 13

All Them Witches and their ATW album soared high on the psychedelic blues current on Number 14. And now we move on with a mere 4 points to unlucky Number 13. Where we find an album that was massively voted for by the first lists that came in and stayed among the top albums until suddenly the votes faltered. But come hell or high water this album will mesmerize and will force you into submission. There’s so much Jazz here that the entire record becomes one fluent groove of doom, drone and stoner. It’s dark, its’s dusty and it’s deliriously sultry. In a big part thanks to the vocals that sway and weave across the tracks. So take a little walk to the edge of town and go across those tracks. Where the viaduct looms, like a bird of doom... (sorry)... There is so much determination and audacity that you soon become engulfed by this pure feast to your ears… On unlucky Number 13 we find…

Messa - Feast For Water