Rolling Stoner/Psych/Retro/Space Thread 2015: Red With Purple Flashes

Slight title change since Doom/Sludge is discussed plenty in Rolling Metal. Wear your earplugs and keep hydrated...

Psych record I wish I heard in 2014 but is kicking my ass in 2015: "the band whose name is a symbol" - Pathfinder:

https://thebandwhosenameisasymbol.bandcamp.com/album/pathfinder

Upcoming releases I'm looking forward to:

Pond – Man It Feels Like Space Again (Modular) 27-Jan
Burning Saviours – Unholy Tales From The North (Transubstans) 28-Jan
The Amazing – Picture You (Partisan) 17-Feb
Ruby The Hatchet – Valley Of The Snake (Tee Pee) 24-Feb
Torche – Restarter (Relapse) 24-Feb
Elder – Lore (Armageddon) Feb
Moon Duo – Shadow Of The Sun (Sacred Bones) 3-Mar
Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors (Relapse) Mar
Ufomammut – Ecate (Neurot) Mar
Lucifer – Lucifer (Rise Above) May
Goatsnake – TBA (Southern Lord) Spring

This one says 2014 on the Bandcamp page but I think is being officially issued on some label this year:
https://kalamata.bandcamp.com/releases

Hope to also hear more from: Fellwoods, Mansion, Arenna, Cherry Choke, Christian Mistress, Dead Man, Dead Skeletons, Demon Eye, Dungen, Graveyard, Hammers Of Misfortune, Rose Kemp, Om, Sleep, Snail, Spirit Caravan, Troubled Horse, USX/U.S. Christmas, Witchcraft.

Most of the bands I mentioned are confirmed to have been in the process of recording albums last year, but just no titles or release date info yet.

Anthrorprophh - UFO (Cardinal Fuzz) Jan
You're Smiling Now But We'll All Turn Into Demons - Population IV (Cardinal Fuzz) Jan

http://https%3A//pbs.twimg.com/media/B45ocGBIQAAoQks.jpg%3Alarge

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The Myrrors - Arena Negra (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond) Mar 24
https://themyrrors.bandcamp.com/album/arena-negra-2
https://beyondbeyondisbeyondrecords.bandcamp.com/album/arena-negra

I've been listening a lot to Iceland's Dead Skeletons. Dead Magick (2011) was good, but I belatedly checked out their singles, which I love more and more - (Ord), Buddha-Christ and Dead Comet. Hope they finally come out with a new full-length this year.
https://deadskeletons.bandcamp.com/
http://open.spotify.com/artist/3WKbZ04INiYd993MWfJrzb

They also cover "Riders On The Storm" on last year's A Psych Tribute To The Doors which also includes Elephant Stone, Black Angels, Psychic Ills, Camera and Clinic.

Lol I take it the You're Smiling Now etc.album title is a Randy Holden reference

hell yes to starting the year with some male nymphs who have egg yolk heads
i'm gonna miss the freak and drone though
where does that go now?

Ha, I just mentioned that "Psych Tribute to the Doors" on another thread. I am really enjoying it, funny but satisfying at the same time.

And I love Dead Skeletons lately.

Yes, and they probably are also missing genitalia! Glad to see it's appreciated.

To my ears a lot of freak and drone are psych and would fit here. I don't recall seeing much beyond that posted in the previous threads, and some thought these non-existent posts would belong in a different thread. *Shrug*, whateveryouwannado

Another example is just because I removed metal from the title, doesn't mean I won't be discussing the hell out of metal bands with strong elements of stoner/psych/space rock, such as Ufomammut!

Like the title (and thanks for starting this)

UFOMAMMUT Reveals Details of Their Completed Seventh Album, Ecate, Due Out in March via Neurot Recordings

Ecate is the title worthy of deities and of Ufomammut's seventh album, which is due out in March — March 31st (US), March 30th (UK/EU), March 27th (GER) — via Neurot Recordings.

The Italian power trio, known for their almightily heavy capabilities and psychedelic prowess, have as many discernible similarities as they do differences to their formative roots. Never pandering to the easy classification of doom, Ufomammut charge their sludgy output with inimitable energy and wild, wayfaring ambition which is matched by the tight-knit musical understanding that flows telepathically between the three members; Poia, Urlo, and Vita.

On their latest album, Ufomammut take a confident step forward with their craft, orchestrating atmospheric processions that take the six songs on the album to places as of yet uncharted, the only guide being that of Ecate (Hecate in English), the three-sided goddess who moves between the realms of the living, the dead, and the gods. Traditionally associated with matters of the liminal (statues of her can be found at crossroads and city walls, where she would be believed to either bless or curse travelers), she represents the link between the past, the present and the future in a way which resonates true with Ufomammut, and with the name of the band, too.

Watch the first in a series of video trailers for the album, which we shall be revealing over the course of the next few weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVO6Xx9EyLA

These short videos offer a chance to explore the story behind the recording of the album and the roots of their sound, re-affirming the band's DIY approach to everything they do. Also check out the track listing for Ecate, and upcoming live shows...

Ecate track listing:
1. Somnium
2. Plouton
3. Chaosecret
4. Temple
5. Revelation
6. Daemon

UFOMAMMUT LIVE IN 2015:

APRIL 2015
23. Desert fest – Berlin (D)
25. Desert fest – London (UK)
MAY 2015
21. MARYLAND DEATH FEST – Baltimore – MD (US)

In addition to the Neurot Recordings CD and LP release, Supernatural Cat shall be releasing a limited edition LP version for Europe and worldwide (excluding the US) so stay tuned for further details and pre-order links.

http://neurotrecordings.blogspot.fr/2015/01/ufomammut-reveals-details-ecate.html

Yaaassss.

Since I first posted this, I updated it once again as I continued to discover new psych from last year:
http://fastnbulbous.com/psychedelic-holiday-late-additions/

The Spotify playlist is up to date, but some albums are not available there. Clicking on a photo of some of the CDs might result in something tho.
http://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/1HjNMbEZGb0GTuARqRwVK0

this seems relevant:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2015/01/12/376167434/vikings-choice-visigoth-the-revenant-king

Well my campaign to get stoner/doom/psych folks voting in Pazz & Jop was a complete failure, unless they just voted for D'Angelo, Run the Jewels, War On Drugs and FKA twigs. I was the only one to vote for everything on my ballot except for Pallbearer. I can't believe at least Wovenhand, Blues Pills, even Electric Wizard did not receive any other votes. I'm bummed.

http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/critics/2014/685986/

Truckfighters - 657
Colour Haze - 722
Wovenhand - 462
Spiders - 757
Blues Pills - 782
The Sea Kings - 1381
Lola Colt - 1420
Pallbearer - 55
Electric Wizard - 1505
Slough Feg - 1530

They did publish one of my comments. They do accept submissions from non-pro bloggers, so next year, dammit.

Some stuff that did get votes:

27 Ty Segall, Manipulator
52 Ariel Pink, Pom Pom
54 Mac DeMarco, Salad Days
55 Pallbearer, Foundations of Burden
58 Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Soused
87 Yob, Clearing the Path to Ascend
134 Behemoth, The Satanist
150 Temples, Sun Structures
154 Eyehategod, Eyehategod
163 Triptykon, Melana Chasmata
166 Goat, Commune
180 Morbus Chron, Sweven
183 Godflesh, A World Lit Only By Fire
206 Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Midnight Sun
207 Thou, Heathen
213 Nothing, Guilty of Everything
226 Judas Priest, Redeemer of Souls
231 Midnight, No Mercy for Mayhem
231 Opeth, Pale Communion
252 King Tuff, Black Moon Spell
257 Earth, Primitive and Deadly
259 Agalloch, The Serpent & the Sphere
262 David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights, End Times Undone
262 Richard Dawson, Nothing Important
266 Inter Arma, The Cavern
268 Mastodon, Once More 'Round the Sun
268 Coffinworm, Iv.i.viii
279 White Fence, For the Recently Found Innocent
279 Purling Hiss, Weirdon
290 Floor, Oblation
322 Quilt, Held in Splendor

botanist got at least one vote from me :)

I voted too. Stuff I voted for applicable to this thread - Comet Control and Black Bombaim.

Dorthia Cottrell - Dorthia Cottrell (Forcefield) Mar 3 - Windhand singer's folky solo debut. I'm diggin' "Annabelle Lee"!
https://soundcloud.com/forcefield_records/01-annabelle-lee/s-ND9WT

xxxpost, I'm surprised Wovenhand and E-Wiz didn't get any other votes, too.

well, I just went to fact-check this and it looks like Wovenhand did get one other vote. But still, the point is the same.

i had the same thought about half the albums on my ballot, but 10 records is just not many, man. when people have to narrow down to that few, a lot of great records are gonna get left off a lot of lists. like, I love half the records on your list, and I voted for none of them!

love dorthia!! "evergreen" was one of the best parts of the last windhand album.

Yeah the ballot of 10 is limiting.

I've got my ticket to this:

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/psychoca.jpg

PSYCHO CALIFORNIA ANNOUNCES HEADLINERS: SLEEP, PENTAGRAM AND CULT OF LUNA

WEST COAST METAL FESTIVAL HAPPENING MAY 15, 16 & 17 AT THE OBSERVATORY IN SANTA ANA

Jan. 15, 2014, Santa Ana, Calif. – Psycho California, the west coast’s first annual metal festival and a must see for fans of doom, heavy psych and sludge, has announced the headliners for this year’s event: Cult of Luna (May 15), Sleep (May 16) and Pentagram, who will perform First Daze Here in its entirety (May 17).

"2015 is going to be a slow year for Cult of Luna. However as much as we are musicians we are also fans,” said Cult of Luna’s Johannes Persson. “Evaluating if the offer to play Psycho California was worth dusting off our instruments was not hard after looking on the line-up. Being on the same bill as Pentagram, Sleep and a festival packed with the best bands around is a privilege in itself and we’ll try to live up to that honor."

The lineup for Psycho California is: Sleep, Pentagram, Cult of Lune, Kylesa, OM, Earth, Russian Circles, Bedemon, Conan, Wrench, Eyehategod, Indian, Earthless, Pallbearer, Stoned Jesus, Old Man Gloom, Cave In, Acid Witch, Truckfighters, Tombs, Bang, Electric Citizen, Coffinworm, SubRosa, Eagle Twin, Mammatus, True Widow, Anciients, Bellwitch, Dead Meadow, Lord Dying, Death By Stereo, Radio Moscow, Ancient Altar, Samsara Blues Experiment, Atriarch, Elder, Mothership, The Well, Deathkings, Wo Fat, Rozamov, Destroyer of Light, Highlands, Bloodmoon, Slow Season, Goatsnake, Crypt Trip, Wrench, Lords of Beacon House, Tumbleweed Dealer, Sinister Haze, Blackout, Red Wizard, Banquet and Loom.

Festival interludes will be provided by Housecore Records’ artist Author & Punisher and vinyl DJ set from Bob Lugowe (Relapse Records) and Sean Pellet (Last Daze Here).

Previously announced early bird tickets sold out immediately. Tickets for the festival are on-sale this morning with both a 3-day pass ($149.50) and a 3-day VIP pass available ($256.66)

VIP packages include a 3-day festival pass, a signed screen print concert poster by David D’Andrea, express entry via artist check-in booth, access to artist VIP lounge, a limited edition Thief X Obey festival tee, a Psycho record bag and patch as well as access to a complimentary craft tequila bar, premium microbrews and artisan snacks.

http://psychoca.com/
www.facebook.com/psychocalifornia

That Lola Colt album was awesome. I'm p sure I wouldn't have heard it in time for P&J but it was v enjoyable...

levitation-chicago tix on sale today
lineup looks pretty awesome!!

pop group
oren ambarchi
swervedriver
lotsa others

<3

new Elder track:

http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2015/01/16/elder-lore-compendium-premiere/

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This is out sometime this month. Check out the first single, "Mountain."

FOGG - High Testament (Under The Gun)
https://fogg.bandcamp.com/album/high-testament

Their demo and first album Death reminded me of Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats and Satan's Satyrs at first, though the lo-fi sound wasn't entirely intentional, they just had trouble getting it down.
https://fogg.bandcamp.com/album/death

Young dudes still possibly in their teens based in Fort Worth, TX. I like how they're into lots of obscure proto-metal and psych prog: http://www.psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com/2014/08/fogg-interview-with-chase-jowell-and.html?m=1

Fogg are getting better and better by leaps and bounds. They're in their late teens and early 20s, and are absorbing music like sponges. Quickly moved on from retro stoner rock to what is now more prog with krautrock flourishes. The improvement from the first time I saw them a year or so ago to their December show is huge. Definitely guys to keep an eye on.

Plus, when I tweeted about them Chase's mom proudly tweeted back at me. He found it extremely embarrassing.

haaaaahahahahahahahah yes
get over it kid!

Stoner Rock band name generator. Hilariously on the money.

http://www.cheezus.com/stoner/

Lol I got Hair Bird, Grand Lake, Heavy Mammoth

Adj Noun v popular

I remember You're Smiling Now But etc etc kicking around the UK punk scene 12, 13 years ago. they did a vaguely drawn-out vaguely hard rock type of post-hardcore iirc? not caught up w/ them outside of reading this thread, I thought they'd been broke up for years

The Elder tune "Release" is immense, so good

WTF man, how come everyone else has heard the Elder album? I've been a longtime supporter of the band who directed me to Armageddon to get a preview and they are unresponsive.

Late list from StonerRock.eu
http://www.stonerrock.eu/allgemein/results-album-of-the-year-community-voting-2014

1. Colour Haze – To The Highest Gods We Know (59 Points)
2. Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Punk Band – Black Power Flower (55 Points)
3. Truckfighters – Universe (54 Points)
4. 3rd Ear Experience -Incredible Good Fortune (47 Points)
5. Blues Pills – Blues Pills (45 Points)
6. Mars Red Sky – Stranded In Arcadia (42 Points)
7. 1000 Mods – Vultures (36 Points)
8. Greenleaf – Trails and Passes (34 Points)
9. Dyse – Das Nation (29 Points)
10. Pyrior – Onestone (28 Points)
11. YOB – Clearing the Path to Ascend (27 Points)
12. Electric Wizard – Time to Die (27 Points)
13. Fu Manchu – Gigantoid (25 Points)
14. Coogans Bluff – Gettin’ Dizzy (23 Points)
15. Earth – Primitive and Deadly (19 Points)
16. Orange Goblin – Back from the Abyss (17 Points)
17. Wo Fat – The Conjuring (16 Points)
18. Dopelord – Black Arts, Riff Worship & Weed Cult (15 Points)
19. Papir – IIII (15 Points)
20. Bongripper – Miserable (15 Points)

I haven't heard it either FWIW

I should be all over that Levitation Chicago thing, as I love The Pop Group and Swervedriver, and Lumerians. However, I was totally planning to see Torche on the 14th, and they won't say which bands are playing which night and are not giving the option to buy a ticket for just one night. So I'm on the fence and waiting to see.

Also excited for Wand & Heaters at Empty Bottle on 4/5.
http://emptybottle.com/show/5576755/
https://heaters.bandcamp.com/album/solstice

Stoked for Psycho California. Previously they have put on a few other events at The Observatory, Psycho De Mayo, which also had a great lineup, and Day of the Shred. Has anyone been? What's the venue like?

Psycho De Mayo
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/bp/psycho-de-mayo.jpg
PENTAGRAM
SAINT VITUS
KADAVAR
DEAD MEADOW
FATSO JETSON
THE SHRINE
DAHGA BLOOM
ZIG ZAGS
SONS OF HUNS
SUUNS
LUMERIANS
ZOMBIE ZOMBIE
SUN ARAW
WHITE MANNA
AL LOVER

Day of the Shred
RED FANG
Weedeater
Windhand
Ancestors
ELDER
BONGRIPPER
THE SHRINE
RADIO MOSCOW
DANAVA
Hot Lunch
ALL THEM WITCHES
GLITTER WIZARD

http://lizardqueenband.bandcamp.com/album/third-eye

i like this too:
https://heavypsychsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/killer-boogie-detroit

Updated release dates:

FOGG - High Testament (Under The Gun) Jan?
Hey Colossus - In Black And Gold (Rocket) 9-Feb
A Place To Bury Strangers - Fixation (Dead Oceans) 17-Feb
Six Organs Of Admittance - Hexadic (Drag City) 17-Feb
Corsair - One Eyed Horse (Shadow Kingdom) 24-Feb
Pelican - The Cliff (Southern Lord) 24-Feb
Elder - Lore (Armageddon) 28-Feb
The Lucid Dream - The Lucid Dream (Holy How Are You?) 28-Feb
Cherry Choke - Raising The Waters (Elektrohasch) Feb
Dorthia Cottrell - Dorthia Cottrell (Forcefield) 3-Mar
Black Rainbows - Hawdope (Heavy Psych Sounds/Shellshock) 14-Mar
WAND - Golem (In The Red) 17-Mar
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire (Thrill Jockey) 24-Mar
Ufomammut – Ecate (Neurot) 31-Mar
Mammoth Mammoth - Volume IV - Hammered Again (Napalm) 7-Apr
Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors (Relapse) 7-Apr
Acid King - Middle Of Nowhere, Center Of Everywhere (Svart) 14-Apr

Portland, Maine's Murcielago. Sound like they should have been on Man's Ruin.

https://murcielagorock.bandcamp.com/

one of my favorite words in Spanish!

so much cooler than bat.

That's a great word. Also a fan of tinieblas.

http://https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3596167080_10.jpg

Mondo Drag - Mondo Drag (Bilocation) - One of the first great surprises this year, some fabulous psych prog. They have a few albums, started more psych. Radio Moscow's rhythm section Zack Anderson and Cory Berry recorded with them before moving on to Blues Pills. With new rhythm section, they're now based in Oakland, and hopefully planning to hit the road.
https://mondodrag.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

Obelisk outdoes itself: Tomorrow’s Dream 2015: 90 of the Year’s Most Anticipated Releases
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2015/01/21/tomorrows-dream-2015/

Details on Goatsnake album coming soon. Correction, the FOGG album won't be out for a few months.

AMT touring US/Canada with ST 37, clearly doing their part to make sure a certain Drugs AMoney can die happy

Follakzoid announce new album + single
http://www.belmontbookings.nl/follakzoid-join-belmonts-european-roster-announce-new-album-single/

Witch Mountain found a new vocalist already, Kayla Dixon of Cleveland's Demons Within.
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2015/01/29/witch-mountain-kayla-dixon/

Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries (Thrill Jockey) Feb 24 - New double album coming.

I've had a few days with the upcoming Elder and it is magnificent. Their sound is evolving from fuzzy stoner doom to a more prog direction.

Out now:
Burning Saviours - Unholy Tales From The North (Transubstans)
Spidergawd - Spidergawd II (Crispin Glover) - Norwegian stoner psych/prog/hard rock. I'd just heard their first one last month and already there's another. Don't ask me what's going on with the cover!
http://www.magnificentmusic.de/bands/spidergawd/Spidergawd_cover_II.jpg

Captain Crimson - Ageless Time (Moving Air) - I totally didn't know this was coming out. Out yesterday. Also available on iTunes.
https://captaincrimson.bandcamp.com/
http://open.spotify.com/album/7Jj9PIGkJiAC1KnYwsbG1n

Nudity (Oly, WA)LP "Astronomicon" coming soon. Looking forward to catching them live in a week; everything I've heard from them has been pretty great.

http://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/astronomicon-lp-lungs-062?from=embed

The Quietus are streaming one track off the upcoming Ufomammut album Ecate

http://thequietus.com/articles/17168-ufomammut-temple

Also, holy shit.

http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-thule

Ann Arbor stoner/sci-fi band released recent album (may have been covered in last year's thread?) Something tells me EZ might dig this

This is solid. Sometimes is a little too Kyuss (which, as I've talked about before, is not my thing) and the dude isn't the strongest singer, but the overall vibe is great.

This was released today.

https://corsair.bandcamp.com/album/one-eyed-horse

thanks, enjoying this

UFOMAMMUT Finally Tours North America!
http://fastnbulbous.com/ufomammut-finally-tours-north-america/

Kicks off just down the street from me at Reggie's!

i will see you there!! tickets go on sale friday and it's on my calendar. i'm kinda pissed that i'm going to miss electric wizard but it's on one of my school nights and also UFOMAMMUT makes up for it.

Dangit, Graveyard are touring with Mastodon and Clutch but for some reason aren't going to Chicago. They are playing Milwaukee on 5/13, the same night as Ufomammut!

yep - totally going to hit that triple bill in Milwaukee instead - you've talked up Graveyard live for so long, now I have to see 'em!

You know, I may try to make them both. The show at The Rave starts at 7-ish, and Graveyard opens. Reggies' doors open at 7 too, and only Usnea is scheduled to open so far. But as long as they pack in another band or two last minute like they usually do, it should be feasible to make it in time for Ufomammut later in the evening! I've seen Mastodon and Clutch plenty of times, so not an issue for me. That will definitely be a tip-top night for rock 'n' cosmic doom!

I'd be really impressed if you pulled that off and were able to catch both sets.

I don't wanna risk missing Ufomammut (or a $300 Wisconsin speeding ticket!), so only if they announce more opening bands at Reggie's.

there was a "and TBA" on the flyer...

New ST 37 album out. Report with more after listening to it...

Picked up the Nudity record at their tour kick-off. Very impressive! I get a sort of Hawkwind at their Krautiest vibe with a lot of NWOBHM flourishes.

Ok, I have had Bardo Pond's "Dilate" for quite a few years, have given it quite a few listens and like it quite well.

What would be a best second album by Bardo Pond?

Hmm... Lapsed, Amanita or On The Ellipse would be my recommendations. Set and Setting never grabbed me for some reason.

Nothing else they've done is really like Dilate, so it's best to prepare yourself for something different but still awesome.

stream new oriental folk metal album from Melechesh here:
http://www.metalinjection.net/av/stream-melecheshs-new-black-metal-opus-enki-in-full

(warning: not very folky at all)

Isn't it pretty much death metal?

i'm not hearing the middle eastern influences as much on this album but previous albums have had more (and they talk a lot about trying to incorporate middle eastern sounds into their death metal)

new al-namrood EP tho (ana al tughian) super middle eastern folky

http://cleorecs.com/store/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1976-ST37.jpg

Listened to most of the ST 37 album today, called I'm Not Good and can only be found on Spotify under "ST-37" (dash included). I guess it was released late last year, and contrary to the title it's very good, so much so that I can see putting it on my top 10 of my ILX ballot, had I heard it in time. It's actually a lot like Glare, their masterpiece from 1995, 20 years ago!, but the mix is more in your face, with guitars, and eespecially vocals briught up to intelligible levels. Sonically it's a heady stew of dense spacerock guitars in a terminal state of Echoplex, surreal dissociative lyrics ("Doppleganger" mumbles on for multiple verses about bringing the silverware home), movie dialogue from (I think?) the 50s, backwards tape loops, a couple of deconstructed covers (including a ten-minute version of Edwyn Collins' A Girl Like You), all manners of discombobulating electronic effects and acid-fried weirdness. I suck at Spotify links but you can def find it there (remember the dash: ST-37), and I would recommend checking it out p much as soon as possible.

Doom Charts are back http://doomcharts.com/2015/03/01/the-doom-chart-for-march-2015/

you might let 'em know they've got Torche's album title where Black Pussy's "Magic Mustache" should be

Awesome shit from Ireland http://ironmountain.bandcamp.com

This is sounding pretty good on first listen: https://gurugurubrain.bandcamp.com/album/gypsy-house

New japanese psych that sounds like it could have been made in the early 70's.

New Elder album crushes.

Excited to see them on Saturday

The lineup for that show is Elder, MOS Generator, Blood of the Sun, Wo Fat, & Duell. I will hear ALL THE RIFFS.

What I enjoy about the album (and Elder Spires before it) is that it's not JUST riffs, but huge, open-string melodies too (like on the title track as the verse comes in around 1:30), that are just decipherable in the crunch.

...and the rhythm the drummer has, which is unhurried and free of filler (though I do remember a couple of triplets somewhere on the new album). But case in point is when the drums come in at the beginning of "Release"...just perfect, letting the guitar work breathe in space.

EZ, I'm super jealous of that line-up!

is that what ppl want from a drummer these days? uncluttered and steady? asking for a friend

The Elder album loses me with that super long track in the middle. Just feels like a chore to get through. The rest is very good but that track ruins it IMO.

That's the highlight of the album!

new Kult of the Wizard is out today:

https://kultofthewizard.bandcamp.com/album/the-white-wizard

They've morphed from Electric Wizard worship into more of a Witch Mountain-y vibe with the addition of a female vocalist. Even bust out a Heart cover. And, in the interest of full disclosure, they used some of my noise theremin squawking as the soundbed for "Plasma Pool". They've done a "noise track" on each of their prior two albums and they reached out to me this time around to help with that song.

Listening to this now and totally diggin' it - hope they come to Chicago.

They're hoping to get some shows booked in the near future. The lineup seems pretty solid now. I would guess that if they start playing outside Minneapolis they'll head your way.

http://helzgloriam.misantrof.net -- full album free

HELZGLORIAM is pure evil hailing from Persia: the group is ruled by the dark magic of passion and is inspired by the memories of ancient Satanic cults in The East. Is inspired by what the great Persian Empire meant. This is the beginning before any end. This is pure and unique energy created by musicians accepting SATAN as their creator and strongly intending to promote the mysteries of chaos in reality.

HELZGLORIAM is sublime symphonic black metal with extreme power, groove and energy. It sounds heavier and darker than most modern Scandinavian music of the same genre nowadays. “Infernal Monarchy” is purely dark lord worshipping.

This is what you were waiting for. This is what you needed. This is your beginning. This is your end.

….And death is whispering in the desert winds and SATAN is rising with the sandstorms...

they've got a great sound and loads of middle east folk influences (opening track has maqam stylings, chanting)

Shame about the stupid name, since this Black Pussy record is actually really good.

i was wondering if we were going to get away with leaving that one alone

the guy interviewed here does not appear to have the rhetorical skills required to defend his exceptionally awful band name
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2015/03/exclusive-interview-ryan-mcintire-black-pussy/

Yeah, they released another statement after a show was canceled that was more braindead doubling down on the name.

https://heavychainsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-warriors-spell < i like this

I couldn't help it, I made an Elder thread. Love these guys.
Elder (band)

Wand's "Golem" album's sounding pretty good, almost scratches the itch I have for Tame Impala and Uncle Acid to collaborate.

Yeah, I can second that WAND album, it's a lot of fun. It falls more closely to garage rock than stoner rock, but you can definitely feel the influence of the latter.

So here's a very preliminary list of my favorite records of this type from the first quarter of 2015:

Elder - Lore
Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries
WAND - Golem
Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun
Saturnalia Temple - To The Other
Crypt Sermon - Out of the Garden
Mondo Drag - Mondo Drag
Corsair - One Eyed Horse
Awful Band Name Here - Magic Mustache
The Silence - The Silence
Black Rainbow - Hawkdope
Kult of the Wizard - The White Wizard
Shepherd - Stereolithic Riffalocalypse
Bose - Ultimate Temple of Doom
Pond - Man, It Feels Like Space Again
Sorcerer - In the Shadow of the Inverted Cross
Ruby the Hatchet - Valley of the Snake
Disappears - Irreal
Torche - Restarter
Cherry Choke - Raising the Waters
Captain Crimson - Ageless Time
The Midnight Ghost Train - Cold Was the Ground
Brothers of the Sonic Cloth - Brothers of the Sonic Cloth
Dopethrone - Hochelaga
Spidergawrd - II
Killer Boogie - Detroit
Omega Soul - Void
Stonebringer - Those Winds
Chiefs - Tomorrow's Over
Stoned Jesus - The Harvest
Fakir Thongs - Habanero

I know, I know, stretching the categories here (I know we dropped doom from the title), but this is how I wanted to list 'em.

Kult of the Wizard! Woohoo!

Yeah, I somehow missed out on the first couple EPs, but I really like that new one. I'm anxious to hear what a full length will sound like though.

I think this lineup will be steadier than prior ones so the potential is high for a full length. They're also looking into playing their first shows in the next few months. Alas, I won't be able to play "Plasma Pool" with them.

Well, dammit, that was my favorite part of the EP. I do hope they make it over to Chicago when they tour though.

I hope so to. I'll make sure and let you know of any dates.

Wand rules so hard.

I agree that Black Pussy album's pretty good. I think it's a shame many of the music writers / rock crits I've seen - good, smart ones, no less - have let the terrible name stop them from actually listening to and assessing the music.

New Torche album is really good, I think. I've always liked the idea of Torche but never quite gotten down with the execution before.

these guys are playing my store on the 17th. the british sunburned? i dunno. if i close my eyes i can almost hear bunnybrains circa 1994.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gbwIP2GGjs

Falling asleep to wand the last couple of evenings. Strangely relaxing

I've been quiet because I was packing, moving, unpacking, but not totally out of the loop. I saw Wand on Easter Sunday and they were even better than I hoped! http://fastnbulbous.com/wand-golem-in-the-red/

I then saw Electric Wizard on Tuesday, and it was pretty great, though the sold-out crowd were annoying and decided moshing was a good idea. I wasn't too impressed by the drummer, and making "Time To Die" last 20 minutes was kind of excruciating, but otherwise if was a good mix.

The Lucid Dream – The Lucid Dream (Holy Are You? Recordings) - I'd imagine this will get popular. First album available cheap on Bandcamp (https://theluciddream.bandcamp.com/), new one is on Spotify, or can order CD for £7.
http://fastnbulbous.com/the-lucid-dream-the-lucid-dream/
https://open.spotify.com/album/6FuFh339KQJDa0cyVlNoWQ

More:
http://fastnbulbous.com/royal-thunder-crooked-doors/
http://fastnbulbous.com/new-albums-of-the-week-march-31/
http://fastnbulbous.com/ufomammut-ecate-neurot/
http://fastnbulbous.com/elder-lore/

Ufomammut tour kicks off at Reggies in Chicago, and I now live just a mile down the street from there. I met Jon from here at Uncle Acid, and anyone else going, let us know!

King Woman EP on Flenser's pretty cool. Excepting the band name.

Follakzoid announce new album + single
http://www.belmontbookings.nl/follakzoid-join-belmonts-european-roster-announce-new-album-single/

browsing in fopp a few days ago, i experienced this almighty groove and layered guitars.
i hung around for a while, until the next track, which was more of the same only bigger and better.
ok, done deal.
i asked to see the cd, turned out to be follakzoids new release III.
checking the details, i found out that my old FAX fave, atom heart is involved in this crews new album adding electronic tweaks here and there.
so, given that fopp have the new release for a damn fine price, and their previous album for a bargain i got both.

cannot recall the last time i heard something in my lunch hour and bought the album there and then.

the end result : this is my new favourite group.

yeah, it may be all the usual elements of kraut/psych ..
but both albums are done so well, and the production is fantastic, that i cannot help but succumb.

Skot I got into some Desmadrados last year. If you're into that check out Cosmic Dead's Easterfaust too. I liked both of them bcz it felt like they were entering into the psych/space/kraut continuum using the last couple songs off VU & Nico, instead of the typical Floyd/Hawkwind/Neu paradigm

Also, Flenser's quickly becoming one of favorite labels to watch for.

Seeing elder on the 5th in greenpoint

Updated list of upcoming releases:

Mikal Cronin – MCIII (Merge) 5-May
Jacco Gardner – Hypnophobia (Polyvinyl) 5-May
Rose Windows – Rose Windows (Sub Pop) 5-May
Venomous Maximus – Firewalker (Shadow Kingdom) 5-May
Demon Eye – Tempora Infernalia (Soulseller) 8-May
Seremonia – Kristalliarkki (Svart) 8-May
The Holydrug Couple – Moonlust (Sacred Bones) 12-May
Mondo Drag – Mondo Drag (Kozmik Artifactz) 12-May
Sammal – Myrskyvaroitus (Svart) 15-May
The Helio Sequence – The Helio Sequence (Sub Pop) 19-May
Valkyrie – Shadows (Relapse) 19-May
The Vintage Caravan – Arrival (Nuclear Blast) 18-May
Orchid – Sign Of The Witch (Nuclear Blast) 25-May
FOGG – High Testament (Tee Pee) May-15
The Darkness – Last Of Our Kind (Wind-Up) 1-Jun
Goatsnake – Black Age Blues (Southern Lord) 2-Jun
My Sleeping Karma – Moksha (Napalm) 9-Jun
Lucifer – Lucifer I (Rise Above) 16-Jun
High On Fire – Luminiferous (eOne) 23-Jun
Glowsun – Beyond The Wall Of Time (Napalm) 26-Jun
Agusa - Agusa 2 (The Laser's Edge) 21-Jul

Out today:
Monolord – Vænir (RidingEasy)
http://fastnbulbous.com/monolord-vaenir/

Been out a while but finally reviewed:
Ruby The Hatchet – Valley Of The Snake (Tee Pee)
http://fastnbulbous.com/ruby-the-hatchet-valley-of-the-snake/

Torche – Restarter (Relapse)
http://fastnbulbous.com/torche-restarter-relapse/

Ufomammut tour kicks off at Reggies in Chicago
keep your eye out for me

Will do!

http://puja.bandcamp.com/album/merkabah

May Doom Chart: http://doomcharts.com/2015/05/02/doom-chart-may-2015/

Elder in bkln last night - guitarist/voc dude is the real deal and kind of looks like a cute 18 year old girl. Bass was way too loud and drumming not technically amazing but did swing. Obnoxious 20 year olds slam dancing in the front.

https://instagram.com/p/2U9BwZrvcw/

Wow, they're traveling quick, a friend saw them in Oakland on the 9th, melting brains coast to coast.

Arenna – Given To Emptiness (Nasoni)
http://fastnbulbous.com/arenna-given-to-emptiness/

Demon Eye – Tempora Infernalia (Soulseller)
http://fastnbulbous.com/demon-eye-tempora-infernalia/

ufomammut were great!! the usa seems to be agreeing with them and their visual aid included a repeating segment with cave footage/stalactites/mites/glow worms just like in the caves episode of planet earth.
very enjoyable!

I'd have liked to chat with you more La, but I wasn't used to having 12 other friends at a show while simultaneously having my shivering brain incapacitated by Ufomammut!

So yeah, amazing show. Highly recommend everyone who can, go!

5/14/2015 Now That’s Class – Cleveland, OH
5/15/2015 Bug Jar – Rochester, NY
5/16/2015 Mod Club – Toronto, ON
5/17/2015 Le Ritz – Montreal, QC
5/19/2015 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY
5/20/2015 Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA
5/21/2015 Maryland Death Fest – Baltimore, MD [no Usnea]
5/22/2015 King’s – Raleigh, NC
5/23/2015 Drunken Unicorn – Atlanta, GA
5/25/2015 Siberia – New Orleans, LA
5/26/2015 Walter’s – Houston, TX
5/27/2015 Red 7 – Austin, TX
5/29/2015 Sister – Albuquerque, NM
5/30/2015 Flycatcher – Tucson, AZ
5/31/2015 Complex – Los Angeles, CA
6/02/2015 Catalyst – Santa Cruz, CA
6/03/2015 Elbo Room – San Francisco, CA
6/04/2015 Press Club – Sacramento, CA
6/05/2015 WOW Hall – Eugene, OR [no Usnea]
6/06/2015 Rotture – Portland, OR
6/07/2015 Chop Suey – Seattle, WA
6/08/2015 Neurolux – Boise, ID
6/09/2015 Bar Deluxe – Salt Lake City, UT
6/10/2015 Hi-Dive – Denver, CO
6/12/2015 Turf Club – St Paul, MN
6/13/2015 Metal Grill – Milwaukee, WI

From my friend Philip:

“Immersive” isn’t a big enough word for Ufomammut. These Italian psychedelic-doom sorcerers play narcotically heavy, tail-swallowing grooves that propel you through the incandescent arteries and throbbing chambers of a cosmic cardiopulmonary system. The magma-thick riffs recirculate hypnotically, with the thunderous heartbeat of the drums and the roaring, detonating vortices of the guitars often driven by two distinct metabolisms. The vocals confuse the question of whether this trip is through inner space or outer darkness—sometimes they whisper and murmur like an occult presence infiltrating your skull, and at others they howl and chant like bestial priests, their distant cries often processed into iridescent gales of noise. Curtains of electronic keyboard glisten and sizzle like diabolical aurora, and even the ambient interludes simmer with vast and obscure life rather than discharge the tension built by the music’s inexorable spiraling orbits. This spring’s Ecate (Neurot), the band’s ninth studio full-length (if you count 2012’s Oro: Opus Primum and Oro: Opus Alter as two), makes liberal use of Ufomammut’s best trick: a cycling pattern whose bone-simple rhythms and black-hole blocks of distortion elude easy grasp by cunningly slipping in and out of phase with each other. The nearly 11-minute “Chaosecret” opens with the drums in nine-beat phrases and the guitars in 12, and the slippage between the two keeps the part engrossing for the four solid minutes it repeats. The ur-example of this technique, though, remains “Oroborus” from Opus Alter—its evil anaconda of a riff uses paired groups of seven and eight pulses that shift on or off an implied 4/4 downbeat with each loop, gathering heat and density till the song ignites like the nuclear furnace of a newborn star. This is only Ufomammut’s third trip across the Atlantic in their 16 years together, so don’t count on another chance to see these amplifier-abusing space wizards in the flesh.

He has top notch descriptive skills. It was definitely a sonic inferno. I had been up since 6am and was worth it to see such exuberance. Good show for sure.

Saw Acid Mothers Temple & ST 37 last night. Good show! I was super tired but I'm glad I dragged myself out. It was my first time seeing Acid Mothers Temple and I finally get it. I've liked some of their records but didn't think they were anything special. They're a very, very good live band that just can't capture it in the studio.

Hard Rock Ascending
http://fastnbulbous.com/hard-rock-ascending/

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/hard-rock-ascending.jpg

so much to listen to. looking forward to going through all these recommendations! thx

I originally had this listed for this week, but further digging shows I think it's just an EP and not out until July:

Orchid – Sign Of The Witch (Nuclear Blast) 25-May

Now that things are slowing down, I'm going back and listening to stuff I missed, like Finnish trad metal Lord Fist, and also thinking about what's coming up, like Christian Mistress, Graveyard, even Iron Maiden!

Night Demon is touring, I might see them at LiveWire on 6/9. They're not on Spotify but here's a playlist with some others, including latest by Ironsword: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/1N0Ri7fJejEyzLgDZrT4WS

Followed through on my anticipated thoughts, which is part wishlist, though I hope the piece will rattle the cages of some of the bands and get them to give an update :) http://fastnbulbous.com/anticipated-albums-2015/

There's also a Satan album coming up. That's the one I'm anticipating most.

I like the Sammal record a lot. 70s-sounding prog that stays pleasantly loose and casual.

I didn't know about the Satan! Re Sammal, along those lines I look forward to Agusa!

Goatsnake – Black Age Blues (Southern Lord)
http://fastnbulbous.com/goatsnake-black-age-blues/

Also, psych noir! It's becoming a thing!

10 000 Russos (Portugal) came out recently, Dead Skeletons (Iceland) has had several EPs and should have a new album at some point. They're my favorite. The Janitors (Sweden) and The Black Waves (France) should also have new stuff coming.

https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/10000-russos
https://theluciddream.bandcamp.com/album/the-lucid-dream
https://deadskeletons.bandcamp.com/
https://thejanitors.bandcamp.com/album/evil-doings-of-an-evil-kind-ep
https://thejanitors.bandcamp.com/album/drone-head
https://theblackwaves.bandcamp.com/album/thousands-of-visions

https://tamanshud1.bandcamp.com/album/viper-smoke

I got to debut "Joy OF Home" from FOGG at Last Rites. One of the best local bands and they've got a new album, High Testament out on Tee Pee later this month. They do the proto-metal thing without the occult cheese. Lots of Blue Cheer in them.

http://lastrit.es/articles/934/the-fogg-has-landed

I got their DEATH cassette a while back, definitely looking forward to their Tee Pee album.

It's a huge leap forward from the Death cassette. Out June 23rd.

New single from Midday Veil feat. Bernie Worrell: https://soundcloud.com/mike-newman/01-babel

I hear some of these $3 games are good but are they CUP OF COFFEE GOOD?

Sorry wrong thread!

What else from this year sounds like the Wand album????????

they are like my ideal heavy rock band sound i.e. stoner Tubeway Army

this Mondo Drag album sounds cool on a cursory listen

Have you heard this band Tame Impala

There's a new White Manna
https://whitemanna.bandcamp.com/album/pan

Finding more than one stoner/psych Tubeway Army within the same year, let alone a decade is a tall order! I like that White Manna. The latest Thee Oh Sees is heavier than previous stuff, not quite as good as Wand. Heaters, who I saw open for Wand, have an album out in Aug. I really love the Male Gaze - Gale Maze EP, post-punk-psych!

I'm working on a Psych Noir piece that hopefully people will enjoy.

Latest on upcoming releases:

Glowsun - Beyond The Wall Of Time (Napalm) 23-Jun
Ecstatic Vision - Sonic Praise (Relapse) 30-Jun
Bevar Sea - Invoke The Bizarre Jun
Agusa - Agusa 2 (The Laser's Edge) 21-Jul
Black Space Riders - Refugeeum (Black Space/Cargo) 24-Jul
Sundays & Cybele - Heaven (Beyond Beyond is Beyond) 31-Jul
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss (Sargent House) 7-Aug
Ghost - Meliora (Loma Vista) 21-Aug
Kadavar - Berlin (Nuclear Blast) 21-Aug
Motörhead - Bad Magic (UDR) 21-Aug
The Sword - High Country (Razor & Tie) 21-Aug
Hills - Frid (Rocket) 28-Aug
Pentagram - Curious Volume (Peaceville) 28-Aug
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - The Night Creeper (Rise Above) 4-Sep
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower (Relapse) 18-Sep
Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence (Nuclear Blast) 25-Sep
Heaters - Holy Water Pool (Beyond Beyond is Beyond) 25-Sep
Christian Mistress - To Your Death (Relapse) Sep
Clutch - Psychic Warfare (Weathermaker) Sep

wow @ september releases

New Hills is great news, at least!

I'm working on a Psych Noir piece that hopefully people will enjoy.

My interest is piqued. Piqued!

Couple of Kikagaku Moyo live sets turned up on Dime over the last few days.
Now got Chui Wan from LA last month this morning.

Hoping more of both appear. Hadn't heard Chui Wan before.

Liked the new White Manna right off the bat. Production is a cut above.

Saw Chui Wan at both LA shows - new album is so great.

Don't miss out on the Birdstriking set from the same night.

Is Lola Colt going to be in your psych-noir piece, fnb? Because that band is the freaking best.

https://youtu.be/TL-4O5VjLEY

Don't miss out on the Birdstriking set from the same night.

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, June 19, 2015 5:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THanks for that, since i had somehow managed to miss it otherwise. Got it d/loading now.

Kaleidoscopes & Grimoires: Psych Noir
http://fastnbulbous.com/kaleidoscopes-grimoires-psych-noir/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/2PegSe2opuqlDPF2zWCB7P

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/psych-noir.jpg

Enjoyed the article, thx for sharing

I was pretty fried at the end of the work week, and once I got some sleep I was able to flesh out the last section starting at "Guns, Peyote ‘n’ Dark Highways," including Devil Worshipper, The Black Angels, 10 000 Russos, Sonic Jesus, The Janitors, The Lucid Dream & Taman Shud.

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/psych-noir-2.jpg

That article looks amazing, definitely going to read the whole thing when I get a chance!

Arthur Magazine
‏@arthurmagazine

We've got this feature length concert film of ArthurFest 2005 directed by Lance Bangs. Who wants to put it out?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIuNQ8dUkAAi_Vl.jpg

The first few days it was published, July 2-6, it was missing the damn second paragraph, which was accidentally deleted when I added the Spotify widget and didn't notice! It was kind of important to the piece!

What’s surprising is that it took so long for a significant collection of artists to focus on consistently dark subject matter. It wasn’t until the past eight years that what I consider psych noir really took off. While occult rock is the most commonly used descriptor, I feel it is inadequate, because the majority of the bands are not serious practitioners of the occult, mysticism, black magick or Satanism. The occult is simply one of many themes in their lyrics that match up with the dark, psychedelic atmospherics of their music, just like doom is only a minor element of only some of the bands. While I don’t know if anyone else is ever going to use it, I think psych noir is the perfect descriptor, if not genre name. Just like how there is disagreement among scholars whether “film noir” is a legitimate genre, or a “style,” or just a “cycle,” “phenomenon,” “mood” or “series.” Either way, it’s a useful way to address a diverse body of work that shares a disposition and group of elements without having to share every element. Just as not every film noir movie has a femme fatale or a hard boiled detective, not every psych noir band references the occult, witchcraft or hails Satan.

Psychedelic Psummer: Tame Impala’s Synths Vs. All the Guitars
http://fastnbulbous.com/psychedelic-psummer-tame-impalas-synths-vs-all-the-guitars/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/372tkPi9hSI3FdCFZa6RlT

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/psychedelic-psummer-2015.jpg

Oh awesome. Can't wait to delve into this.

Out today and last week:

Sundays & Cybele - Heaven
https://open.spotify.com/album/5npxhgwoUwRBzVpswMaeL2

Year Of The Goat - The Unspeakable
https://open.spotify.com/album/0ECeTz3h31GCSMfoFQphyZ

Sacri Monti - Sacri Monti
http://fastnbulbous.com/sacri-monti-sacri-monti/
https://open.spotify.com/album/7wreY3ojQtvQSWEYCirk7y

Lee Dorrian is curating Roadburn! I'm so going.

http://www.roadburn.com/2015/08/lee-dorrian-to-curate-roadburn-2016-with-his-rituals-for-the-blind-dead-parts-1-2/

In the last few years, Dorrian has been assembling an amazing roster of new bands on his Rise Above label that span a fascinating range of psych, prog, folk, doom, proto-metal and more, with Galley Beggar, Lucifer, Death Penalty, Hidden Masters, The Oath, Troubled Horse, Saturn, Iron Man, SerpentCult, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Blood Ceremony, Purson, Age of Taurus, Horisont, Noctum and Ghost. Hopefully his new band made up of former members of Electric Wizard, With The Dead, will also make an appearance.

While there should be a healthy representation of bands from his label's roster, of course he'll also want to reach far beyond that. There should be plenty of surprises. I would expect a once-in-a-lifetime reunion a favorite psych prog band from that 1968-72 era, along the lines of High Tide, Gun, Night Sun, Blackwater Park, T2 or Flower Travellin' Band. Fingers crossed! My wishlist would include Spirits of the Dead, Motorpsycho, I Am The Mansion, Jess & Jess and the Ancient Ones, Colour Haze, Syd Arthur, Wolf People, Anekdoten, Dead Skeletons, Lola Colt, Messenger - Band, Avatarium, Blues Pills, Goatess, Spiders, 40 Watt Sun, Sonic Jesus, The Janitors, The Lucid Dream, The Black Waves, Taman Shud, mostly European-based bands that never make it to the U.S. that I've never seen. Plenty of other great worthy American bands that would fit in too, like Magic Circle, Fellwoods, Golden Void, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band, Fuzz, Wo Fat, Green & Wood, Brimstone Coven, Demon Eye, Quilt, Argus, Devil Worshipper, etc.

More about Dorrian's psych prog tastes in the beginning of this thread: Psych Prog 1968-72

In the “150 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” issue of Classic Rock Magazine, his piece called <a href="http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/psych-prog.pdf";>"Prog Psych: The Great Lost Albums of British Rock, 1968-72"</a> covered 20 albums that inhabited what was special about the transition from 60s psychedelic rock to 70s progressive.

In the “150 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” issue of Classic Rock Magazine, his piece called Prog Psych: The Great Lost Albums of British Rock, 1968-72 covered 20 albums that inhabited what was special about the transition from 60s psychedelic rock to 70s progressive.

http://doomcharts.com/2015/08/07/doom-charts-for-august-2015/

https://www.facebook.com/events/431532273700189/

Fuzz Club Festival, London
FRIDAY NOV. 13th
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THE KVB
CAMERA
THE TELESCOPES
10,000 RUSSOS
NEW CANDYS
THROW DOWN BONES

SATURDAY NOV. 14th
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THE MYRRORS
LOLA COLT
SONIC JESUS
MUGSTAR
THE CULT OF DOM KELLER
RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON
THE JANITORS
THE ORANGE REVIVAL
DEAD RABBITS

http://doomcharts.com/2015/09/04/doom-charts-for-september-2015/

So quiet here. So in one of those What Are You Listening Now groups, someone bragged about having the new Dungen, and I wanted to reach out thru the 'net and smack 'em. I have it pre-ordered, but no promo yet. So would it be just as annoying if I said I'm enjoying my first few listens to Horisont, Graveyard and Christian Mistress? I saw Christian Mistress last week, great show in a tiny room. Davis' voice started losing power partway through, but the band more than made up for it. Graveyard isn't what I expected so taking some adjustment but I'm on board with it. Horisont have stepped up their songwriting big time. Some psych, but bit of Judas Priest going on there too!

A recent review: Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – The Night Creeper (Rise Above)

why were you upset at the dungeon dude? the album leaked a couple days ago

Not upset, just annoyed -- I had been unable to track anything down at the time and he didn't say anything about what it was like. I finally did, and I like it, though it's not a big departure from the last couple, jazzy, Swedish lyrics, etc. There's a lot coming out. Similarly, I also pre-ordered the Golden Void but will not receive it 'til next week, though it's out tomorrow. The two tracks I heard are great.

Also, new Wand album is streaming:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/09/wand_streaming.html

http://fastnbulbous.com/christian-mistress-to-your-death/
http://fastnbulbous.com/golden-void-berkana/
http://fastnbulbous.com/graveyard-innocence-decadence/

It's raining rock and I can't keep up:

Snail - Feral
Wand - 1000 Days
Horisont - Odyssey
Dungen - Allas Sek
Marvel - The Hills Have Eyes

this is gonna be hot. tell your friends.

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/12042680_10204783702531442_4907634168779688876_n.jpg?oh=ea500d00ad76f0f55fa0ed0759ecd52b&oe=568C7DD1

New Dungen is a little too earnest and cute for me, mostly---will listen more, but I remember them as being more robust---do really like the coda of last track; never heard anything quite like it--and a couple of others.

Oh yeah---may have already pasted this from the The Future Is Now thread, but worth mentioning again

Another xpost electric lunch break< with 37'58" more sustaining than a lot of double-LPs:
Sonic Praise, the 6/30 debut album offering of Ecstatic Vision. Philly souls are among those who already Know, but new to me.
"Journey" arrives with the droning sting of a dinosaur's tail, bass & drums bouncing and swaying over thee ancient dust of another Monday, replenished by well-timed injections: pedals and petals of guitar, keys, maybe a sax sometimes---obv. they like Hawkwind, with Lemmy-like throats.
"Astral Plane": better keep your butts in gear up here: "Look in the mirror and tell youself, space is the place to be....believe what you want to believe..." *What* a balancing act.
Somewhere in here (scribbled notes) is either "Everyday we work now behbeh," or is it "Everyday don't work"? Both? They both fit, over and under onslaughts/
"Don't Lose The Vibe," with an exclamation mark after each word in the chanted title.
Title song sounds like they also like bands with "Temple" in the name*, while getting further from the sludge appeal, kneeling on and rattling International Dateline---
"Crossing The Divide" puts it all back together, as Sasquatch drums reappear, bidding bobbing heads to rise and dance through aurora borealis (might be some buzzsaws working overtime in there).
*Bio sheet adds influences of Aprodites Child, Olatunji, Can, and early Amon Duul.

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3352706445_16.jpg

Ecstatic Vision went down a storm at last week's Uncle Acid/Ruby The Hatchet show. Everyone thought they should headline.

September’s Lucky 13
http://fastnbulbous.com/septembers-lucky-13/

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/september-2015-lucky-13.jpg

A countdown to catch up on short reviews of:
Snail – Feral (Small Stone)
Dungen – Allas Sak (Mexican Summer)
Horisont – Odyssey (Rise Above)
Wand – 1000 Days (Thrill Jockey)
Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness (Domino)
Windhand – Grief’s Infernal Flower (Relapse)

Out today:

Spelljammer - Ancient Of Days (RidingEasy)
Old Man's Will - Hard Times - Troubled Man (RidingEasy)
Kylesa - Exhausting Fire (Season Of Mist)
Clutch - Psychic Warfare (Weathermaker)

these guys are playing at my store tomorrow. looking forward to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8viuQ3rx6wQ

Julia Holter? OK...

Yes, my interests sometimes go beyond this thread, sorry for letting it leak through!

The new Doom Charts:
http://doomcharts.com/2015/10/06/doom-charts-for-october-2015/

I saw Kadavar the other night. Definitely one of the best touring hard rock bands in the world right now, highly recommend 'em. There were probably only about 60 people there -- while it was a Sunday night, it's a good example of why more European bands like Spiders, Witchcraft, Colour Haze, 40 Watt Sun, Blues Pills don't tour North America much. In contrast, here was their recent show in Mexico City:

http://tono.tv/fotos/2015/kadavar/kadavar-21.jpg

that Ecstatic Vision is just an unbelievably tight 37 minutes of rock.

this was so great last night in the basement. sunburned + dredd foole + j. mascis on electric sitar. i was pretty drunk so sorry about the shakeycam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w_j0XkFQls

I am new to them, but I'm really feeling Snail's "Feral" right now.

incoming...
https://spacin.bandcamp.com/album/total-freedom-2016

Yessssssssssssssssssss

Deep Thuds still gets put on regularly. Great band.

Fuzz - II is out. Avatarium is out in Europe, but available in North America on Spotify. I need to listen to it more, but so far so good.

http://fastnbulbous.com/fuzz-ii/

http://doomcharts.com/2015/11/01/doom-charts-for-november-2015/

Many tasty doom treats to go with yr leftover Halloween candy. Witchskull (the band, not the candy bowl I used to freak out trick-or-treaters) is a nice surprise that I'd missed previously -- ordering CD now. Also prompted me to spend quality time with Flight, Roundtable and Sergeant Thunderhoof. Unsurprising that With The Dead dominates, though it hasn't really grabbed me yet. The only possible reason everyone isn't slavering over the new Magic Circle is everyone didn't get their promos yet. Out Nov. 20 oh lord yeah! I did the blurbs for Golden Void and Horisont.

French band The Socks released an excellent debut last year of hard rock 'n' psych, and are back with a new name, Sunder, switching from Small Stone label to Crusher/Tee Pee. More psych and sophisticated songwriting this time around sees 'em at a whole new level: http://fastnbulbous.com/sunder-sunder/

xp from Rolling Metal -

Witchskull - The Vast Electric Dark - The band, not the candy bowl I used to freak out trick-or-treaters. Australian rock 'n' doom!
https://witchskull.bandcamp.com/album/the-vast-electric-dark

Roundtable - Dread Marches Under Bloodied Regalia - What you get when you slow down High On Fire by a factor of three and substitute epic fantasy lyrics for UFO paranoia. Plus xtra prog.
https://roundtableband.bandcamp.com/album/dread-marches-under-bloodied-regalia

Flight - People have been rating this for a couple months but I'm not sure about the vocals. Guitars sound great.
https://badomenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/flight

Any writers/bloggers are welcome to participate in the monthly voting (top 20) for Doomcharts.com, organized in FB group. Msg me for an invite: https://www.facebook.com/Fast-n-Bulbous-155855751138025/

This stuff is super hippie-dippy and I'm late in posting it but this has a good shot at being one of my favorite albums of the year. Some gorgeous droning sustain here.

http://lampoftheuniverse.bandcamp.com/

(^heads up, La Lechera!)

sorry, can't resist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySK1tdCY-Vg

https://soundcloud.com/heavenlyrecordings/sets/night-beats-sunday-mourning/s-5rEyo

take this 17 minute trip...

Mammatus – “Ornia” (Stereogum Premiere)
http://www.stereogum.com/1841812/mammatus-ornia-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

^ cool track

Out Friday, new Singapore Sling album. Lead by Henrik Björnsson from Iceland, who's also a founding member of Dead Skeletons and Bang Gang. White Light/White Heat, Suicide, Jesus & Mary Chain & psych noir, nothing new, but such a demented twist on at all, essential listening.

Singapore Sling - Psych Fuck (Fuzz Club)
http://psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com/2015/11/its-psychedelic-baby-presents-singapore.html
http://blaue-rosen.com/singapore-sling-release-new-album/

Also on Fuzz Club, I slept on this Swedish psych album that came out last month:

https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/futurecent

Sweet baby Krampus, this is not safe for work (NSFW):

Luna Sol - Death Mountain
https://youtu.be/qeMQLnRbKP4

New Mammatus album Sparking Waters is sounding pretty good, and could be mistaken for Mark McGuire for sustained passages

This is a mixed bag of genres:

http://fastnbulbous.com/the-last-roundup-2015/
http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/last-roundup-2015.jpg

fun covers!

loving the new wand album

will be following this thread

The last month of this thread is mainly my reposting year-end lists. But please do add more. I aim to have mine finalized by around December 10-12, so if there's anything not mentioned yet that's a must-hear, pipe up!

PSYCH INSIGHT: 20 ESSENTIAL PSYCH ALBUMS 2015
http://www.backseatmafia.com/2015/11/28/psych-insight-20-essential-psych-albums-2015/

Simon Delic likes his psych dirty, fuzzy and droney.

Minami Deutsch by Miami Deutsch (Cardinal Fuzz/ Guruguru Brain)
Neither Virtue Nor Anger by Sonic Jesus (Fuzz Club)
Arena Negra by The Myrrors (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
Horse Dance by Josefin Ohrn and the Liberation (Rocket Recordings)
Out To Sea by Carlton Melton (Agitated)
Spectral Domain by Dead Sea Apes (Cardinal Fuzz)
Jet Black Hallucinations by Blown Out (Golden Mantra)
III by Follakzoid (Sacred Bones)
I Declare Nothing by Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe (A Recordings)
Masters of the Molehill by The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol (Cardinal Fuzz/ Captcha)
Highly Deadly Black Tarantula by Teeth of the Sea (Rocket Recordings)
Love Monster by Zone Six (Vinyl – Deep Distance/ CD – Sulatron Records)
10000 Russos by 10000 Russos (Fuzz Club)
Negative Feedback Resistor by Destruction Unit (Sacred Bones)
Theory of Mind by Electric Moon (Sulatron)
Infinity Machines by GNOD (Rocket Recordings)
Pan by White Manna (Cardinal Fuzz/ Captcha)
Frid by Hills (Rocket Recordings)
Subversive I by Radar Men From The Moon (Fuzz Club)

Live at Casazul by Black Bombaim (Lovers and Lollypops/ Cardinal Fuzz)
Eyes of the Melancholy Palm by Cathode Ray Eyes (Cardinal Fuzz/ Captcha)
Cosmos Inside by Polska Radio One (Clostridium)
Golem by Wand (In The Red)
At The Centre of All Infinity by Yuri Gagarin (Kommun2)
Radio Static High by Hey Colossus (Rocket Recordings)
Shadow of the Sun by Moon Duo (Sacred Bones)
Live At Daemonens Port by Hills (Kommun2)
Walks For Motorists by White Hills (Thrill Jockey)
Planetary Engineering by Blown Out (Oaken Palace Records)
Wild Strawberries by Eternal Tapestry (Thrill Jockey)

this

http://cdn6.bigcommerce.com/s-flwskuyr/products/165/images/391/TIM098_IAHRQ_1600x1600__19084.1444053011.1280.1280.jpg?c=2

Man, that's a great cover.

http://doomcharts.com/2015/12/03/doom-charts-for-december-2015/

I had never heard any of these, listened to the first track of most. Liked uncle acid the best

I love the Uncle Acid, but so far the new Jess and the Ancient Ones is edging it out on my list...
http://fastnbulbous.com/jess-and-the-ancient-ones-second-psychedelic-coming/

I recently bought an album from 2008, as part of a 10 CDs-for-40 Euros deal from the Alone label out of Spain. It's Horizonte de Sucesos, the only album by an instrumental psych/space-rock trio called Bëiruth. They're kinda in the neighborhood of Pink Floyd and Hawkwind circa '71 crossed with SubArachnoid Space. The album's on Spotify, and I recommend checking it out. It's definitely lights-out stuff.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2pxr1CkaemiAKyhpsNB6jT

gotta shout out Flavor Crystals, sort of a slept-on band in my opinion but some great kinda gothy shoegazey action from mpls. david kilgour cover too

https://flavorcrystals.bandcamp.com/

I really liked their 2012 album Three so I def will check out their new one

i think this new one might be my favorite of theirs. all are good though.

god they're good live too, i'm still kind of flying from seeing them last night!

Can't wait until they get out west again.

Aside, the new Heather Leigh album is doing my head in.

Duly noted

I finally pulled the trigger to try out the $5/month subscription with Ripple because 1) They signed Wo Fat, and will release their next album in January, and 2) I get both Blackwulf and doom-psych supergroup Kind (Matt Couto from Elder, Darryl Shepard from Black Pyramid & The Scimitar and Tom Corino of Rozamov) albums tomorrow for my $5. You also get 11 other extras including Chron Goblin, Grifter, Weed Is Weed, Earthen Grave, etc.

https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/subscribe

You'll also get the upcoming Mothership Live at Freak Valley which is amazing.

For those who want to vote:

http://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-stoner-hive-top-20-countdown-of-2015_7.html

Really digging this instrumental mix of psych/space/kraut/post-punk from Throw Down Bones:

https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/throw-down-bones

Fester’s Lucky 13: 2015 Year-End Summary
http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-best.jpg

Looking forward to catching up with these! Happy to see Lore on there

Still working on this but I've got the first 6 hours sorted, so might as well dig in ;)

Spotify Mix: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/3CzB0KNI9urwE83NJjkAAK

Gonna enjoy digging into that, this stuff is totally my shit these days

And if anyone wnats the MP3 mix of what's not on Spotify, ho ho ho!

StonerHive countdown begins.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P-SC_x1VKgo/Vm3g3w5QXUI/AAAAAAAAJrU/nq4HKXHo5OA/s320/Taart-Begin.jpg

http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/

20. Witchskull – The Vast Electric Dark

These cats, the biggest surprise to burst onto the Doom Chart in November, have beaten Ponamero Sundown with one point and knocked the amazing Vedesta album off the Top 20 countdown list. But these Aussies have an amazing knack for exploring all facets of atavistic rock, booking excellent time in classic doom, proto metal and bluesy stoner. And this eclecticism only adds to amazing quality of the entire album. Raw, full of grit and mystic power that quickly turns you on to their shamanistic ritual… So, find yourself a dark corner to curl up into and put on your headphones…

19. With The Dead – With The Dead

This trio are championed by a leader who was part of a legendary outfit and the two lieutenants as well. They made the Number one position of the Doom Chart and will be loved unconditionally by fans of Cathedral and Electric Wizard and ofcourse by many more. Ponderous metal mixed with thunderous rock and a multitude of dark and dusty tones and extremely malevolent sounding riffs. It is the sound of yore and of intense, powerful compulsion. Exorcism and resurrection and the birth of something wild and wonderful…

18. Monster Magnet – Cobras and Fire (the Mastermind Redux)

Another legendary outfit. One who made it to the Number 6 position in 2013 and Number 14 position in 2010. And are now positioned at Number 18. With a re-imagining of the album released in 2010. And on it we are once again treated to novel arrangements, different lyrics, upgraded bonus tracks and a cover version of the Temptations song Ball Of Confusion. And we can definitely state we love the record and we love the fact Wyndorf and his mates keep enjoying messing around with their material this much. Yes, Cobras and Fire!

17. Ruby The Hatchet – Valley of The Snake & We Hunt Buffalo – Living Ghosts

“I’ve had a variety of body parts in all different kinds of cakes. But for me, the strawberry cheesecake or the cinnamon apple ones will always remain the top contenders. For what you ask? I will leave that to your imagination.” ~ Lars Ulrich

On Number 17, and yes once again with one sole point more than Monster Magnet we find… Two outfits. One from Pleasantville, New Jersey, United States and one from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Respectively a five-piece and a trio, both rocking out like true masters with a penchant for psychedelics and grand gestures. I’ve been in love with one of these bands since I first discovered them. The Canadian bunch, the rowdy grunge/fuzz freaks that always go for the big boom and take you down with them relentlessly. And I will definitely be digging deeper into the other one, now that I know all of you lovely freaks out there love it so much. And while typing, I’ve naturally just put on the album. I get it. And now I want to Live there; among the Ghosts... In The Valley Of The Snake…

http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2015/12/number-16.html

“I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.” ~ Grace Slick

Three points above those two crazy bands on Number 17 we find no less than three groups celebrating all that goodness that free rock and stoner trucking entails. Three bands that came through with albums this year that a lot of you out there thought were the best of the entire year. But still, they did not get enough points to end up higher than this wild Number 16. Perhaps there was some heavy warfare on route to the country. Or perhaps the psychic power never made it completely into the mind of everyone. Well, they did make into yours! And they sure as hell made it into mine. So above We Hunt Buffalo & Ruby The Hachet we find…

Clutch – Psychic Warfare,
Freedom Hawk – Into Your Mind &
The Sword – High Country

http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2015/12/number-15.html

“Sunshine Cake is just a fun hobby thing. That's about it.” ~ Krist Novoselic

We climb another two points to find an album that has not just made the list of many heavy rock lover; but also lists of every other kind of music fiend. This album has been championed by lovers of rock, metal, pop and musical theater maniacs. Yes, we are ofcourse referring to those cats in robes that know what Blue Oyster Cult was all about, as well as ABBA. And on all those moments that they rock hard and sound good you are enjoying the hell out of yourself. But on those almost pompous, dramatic moments of overtures, you know this is what these robed freaks do best, turn the theatrical into something catchy and addictive. So yes, above Number 16, above the amazing Clutch, The Sword and Freedom Hawk we find on Number 15…

15. Ghost – Meliora

“Then there was the bad cake. It would hit your stomach like a brick. You would have to puke all night and sweat all day. Not unlike detoxing or having a nasty flu. You feel like a bunch of sodden leaves in the rain, too wet and heavy to move. What? Of course I am talking about cake! What else?” ~ Axl Rose.

I was surprised to see so many of you out there vote for the guys we find on Number 14. Not because they don’t deserve it or aren’t that good. But simply because there has been so much great music this year and I reckoned a lot would forget about these wonderful cats. So on Number 14, with once again only one point more than Ghost we celebrate the first instrumental effort on the Top 20 countdown. Hailing from Berlin, this quartet knows how to create universes within their songs, but all the while moving towards atavistic stoner one minute and eerie psychedelics the next. It is their fifth record and with it they display a true love for everything we freaks hold dear in all these amazing heavy genres… So, without further ado…Number 14 !

14. Rotor – Funf

“Mr. Cohn was a champion of the bakery. His cakes, cookies and pastries were only rivalled by his own hearty tartes. Those were the real treats. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that fact, but it meant a lot to him and to the people cueing up for his sweetness. I was just the drunk lying in front of his store.” ~ James Maynard Keenan

As we pass Rotor on Number 14, we jump five points and find yet again two outfits occupying the same spot. Both of which ofcourse made the Doom Charts and one of these two bands made it all the way to the third position on the Stoner HiVe top 20 countdown of 2013. The Spanish five-piece, “captivates you entirely with heavy psychedelic jams, pure desert stonerrock, doom and sometimes even with a folk or pop vibe. Six epic songs to take you on a journey through time and space and with an acoustic guitar outro to bring you back to earth.” As the good Doktor420 said back in May. The Richmond, Virginian quintet once again mesmerize with that languid and husky voice that floats atop the sluggish doom riffs. They’ve turned their doom syrup into something even more swampy and wooly. Offset against the more concise songs and less lengthy compositions, it turns the entire record into a highly psychedelic wall of repetition. Less oppressive and less deceitful than the 2013 album, this flower truly opens up for the listener… The two albums on NUMBER 13 are!!!

13. Windhand – Grief’s Infernal Flower &
Arenna – Given to Emptiness

http://doomcharts.com/2015/12/21/best-of-2015/

“We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.” ~ Tom Morello

Only one point again. It all was that close this year. We climb one point from Arenna & Windhand on Number 13 to reach these dubious kings on Number 12. After an absence of almost ten years they finally returned. And they did this with a sure fire bang. “Think of this album as a shamanistic journey that deserves to be heard in one sitting rather than dipping in and out. This should be the slab of excellence that brings them back into their well-deserved place at the top of the underground swamp.” As Madman Tony Maim said back in February of this year. Well, in an amazing field of incredible albums they managed to grab the Number 12 spot of the Stoner HiVe top 20 countdown. It must be their tripped out vibes that has gotten all of us hooked!

12. Acid King – Middle Of Nowhere, Centre Of Everywhere

“No cake has ever been so fatal or so hideous. And yet, we eat it. We gorge and we barf and we puke and regurgitate and eat it all over again. Yes, we are beasts.” ~ Bono

As mentioned before, I’m always surprised about the level of commitment of all you lovely freaks out there. As much as I am surprised by the amount of great music released every year and let’s state the obvious, the amount of this year is absolutely stunning. So even though I dug the fifth album of this Dutch trio when it was released back in June I had definitely not expected it to make the countdown. Which is wrong on many level. For the album is filled with their most structured songs to date; even though they are supported by two devious psychedelic bookends at the beginning and end of the record. Their Hendrix influences might be fading and a bit more of Kyuss might be surfacing, their new record is without a doubt a typical record for this amazing trio. So, again, only one point above Acid King on Number 12 we find as a definite free rock lift-off those three boys that made the list back in 2009 and 2010 on Number 11 !!!

11. The Machine – Offblast!

“Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.” ~ Vaughn Monroe

As we pass The Machine with four points and enter the Top 10 it feels only fitting to let someone else do the talking about this album. Also, because we talked a lot about this band, this year and in other years. Cause they ended up on the third position in 2012 and on the second position in 2011. So here’s Charlie Tooth: “Apparently the only thing Dylan, the Animals and Derek And The Dominoes have on these Swedes is that they didn't make the list! Their 2015 LP is a perfect example of why classic never really goes out of style. How can a band that started around 2006 sound so classic? My guess is pure feel, emotion with a sense of natural playing and writing ability. Their 2015 album is pure and clean. It's not surprising these blues rockers rank so high on the Stoner HiVe people's picks! a truly cool blues based machine that set themselves apart from the Iommi worshiping guitar bands!” Number 10 is taken up by…

10. Graveyard – Innocence & Decadence

“I really thought it was chocolate cake!” ~ Ozzy Osbourne

We jump three points after Graveyard brought us into the top 10 to find a true psychedelic screed on Number 9. Mentioned only days before the start of the Countdown the second album of this Finnish six-piece is psychedelic rock performed on the very edge of the needle. Chuck full of classic riffs and an intense occult atmosphere it is without a doubt that the female voice is the one that drags you down with the band. With a powerful and much tougher pronunciation. There is still a bit of Grace Slick in there, but for the most part her voice is still that lovely creature that seemed to skid out of control with every corner she took, but without any hesitation, for she knows, even if she doesn’t make that corner, it will still sound incredible. On Number 9 we find…

9. Jess & The Ancient Ones – Second Psychedelic Coming: the Aquarius Tapes

“I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.” ~ Amanda Marshall

With seven points above Jess And The Ancient Ones we make a bigger jump to reach Number 8. A band that released their last album fifteen years ago and since then became legendary. Like their reunion gig on Roadburn 2010. Instant legendary. And then to return with an album that punches out magical riffs that rattles, churn and flutter without ever taking the leading role. Cause that is reserved for the vocalist who surfs and skates across all the incredible music delivered. Awesome blues for the dark dark days… Number 8!

8. Goatsnake – Black Age Blues

The Obelisk Presents: THE TOP 30 ALBUMS OF 2015
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2015/12/22/top-30-of-2015/

30. High on Fire, Luminiferous
29. CHRCH, Unanswered Hymns
28. Golden Void, Berkana
27. Stoned Jesus, The Harvest
26. Graveyard, Innocence and Decadence
25. Death Hawks, Sun Future Moon
24. Spidergawd, II
23. The Midnight Ghost Train, Cold was the Ground
22. Leeches of Lore, Motel of Infinity
21. With the Dead, With the Dead
20. Clutch, Psychic Warfare
19. Mondo Drag, Mondo Drag
18. Lamp of the Universe, The Inner Light of Revelation
17. Mammatus, Sparkling Waters
16. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, The Night Creeper
15. Death Alley, Black Magick Boogieland
14. The Machine, Offblast!
13. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth
12. Kind, Rocket Science
11. Bloodcow, Crystals and Lasers
10. Kadavar, Berlin
9. Goatsnake, Black Age Blues
8. Kings Destroy, Kings Destroy
7. Cigale, Cigale
6. Sun Blood Stories, Twilight Midnight Morning
5a. Colour Haze, To the Highest Gods We Know
5. The Atomic Bitchwax, Gravitron
4. All Them Witches, Dying Surfer Meets His Maker
3. Snail, Feral
2. Acid King, Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere
1. Elder, Lore

I've only heard 5 of those but happy to see elder at numero uno!

Hey hey, Lamp of the Universe!

“Cake? Who needs cake? I’d rather guzzle drink and put other stuff up my nose!” ~ Keith Richards

Two points above Goatsnake on Number 8 we find a trio that has been aweing fans all across the world with their stage performance and stunning shows. And the albums did well as well. Reaching Number 2 back in 2012 and Number 5 in 2013. But for some reason they never completely lived up to their live concerts. This one perhaps is closer to that awesome truth. Or as Madman Tony Maim put it back in September: “Thank fuck, these Germans have come up with new killer riffs, cool song compositions and a slightly more polished production sound which has expanded their sonic horizons, meaning the tracks sound massive and rock like a bastard.” No extra words needed. Check out Number 7!

7. Kadavar – Berlin

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LydxOPsMcDU/VoJMFJkCBII/AAAAAAAAJx4/nW4fpKdaHbg/s320/6fromfreedomhawk.jpg

http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2015/12/number-6.html

“All the good cakes have already been eaten by people with wigs and stuff.” ~ Frank Zappa

A massive jump of fourteen points takes us up to Number 6. A band that made the list at Number 7 back in 2011 and the absolute Numero Uno according to Charlie Tooth. So let’s let him do the talking. “I ask you, how can a band like this not make the list? That's right, no way in hell it wouldn't! This year’s release is kick ass, bad ass and downright dirty. Ten tracks of unadulterated bliss, from Sexecutioner right to the pop savvy Ice Age Hey Baby. This trio is a bands band in every sense of that statement. Pantella, Ryan and Kosnik all shine on this record. For a band that has been around well over a decade the shit just keeps getting better. And have you ever seen a bassists fingers eat lighting and crap thunder like Kosnik's do? (Sorry, I had to fit that in. Hahaha) Thank you for another awesome atomic release.” Fourteen points above Kadavar on Number 7 we find on Number 6 ...!

6. The Atomic Bitchwax – Gravitron

“I've learnt that if I tell myself I'm not allowed something, I binge on it later. So if I want chocolate, I have chocolate. If I want biscuits, I have biscuits. I love cake. I just love cake.” ~ Geri Halliwell

Perhaps. To be completely honest, the biggest surprise for me, comes after the jump of two points from The Atomic Bitchwax on Number 6 to Number 5. Once again, let me state the obvious, incredible album and one that deserves every inch of the spot they are on. I just had not expected it this high. But Madman Tony Maim recognized its greatness back in March when it was released. “Hints of fuzz electric blues are scattered throughout with searing effect and yes, it does make me want to drive faster with my arm hanging out of the window, music blaring from the speakers on the way to some humdrum place of work, having my soul lifted by this potential masterpiece.” Hell yeah! I’m ordering the LP as we speak! Number 5 is… !!!

5. Black Rainbows – Hawkdope

“I’ve been eating cake since the day I was born. Been eating cake, drinking whisky and seducing the ladies!” ~ Lemmy

The final one point jump takes up to Number 4. After this amazing album come the big leaps. Have you recovered from taking in the Hawkdope record? Cause Black Rainbows ended up on Number 5. I haven’t, it truly is a masterpiece. A big thank you to all you lovely freaks out there that voted for it, it has brought it back to my attention. The band that follows is one that released their debut this year and is championed by a true legend. A legend that formed bands like Hermano, Supafuzz and Asylum On The Hill and a real hero for yours truly. There’s something dark and brooding about this record. Which might be due, once again, thanks to the weird mountain folklore and scary stories his backyard is steeped in. You can almost smell the blood dripping of the hooks, riffs and growling guitars. Dirty power chords and bourbon soaked drums. It’s steamy and with every track that passes you feel the shadows come alive around you… Number 4!

4. Luna Sol – Blood Moon

http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2015/12/number-3.html

“My mother made this upside-down cake that went horribly wrong. I made her make it again and again, for years, because I liked it so much. It never worked, yet it always worked, if you get my drift.” ~ Lemmy

We jump thirteen points from Luna Sol at Number 4 to reach the Bronze medalist of 2015. A band that has been doing great for years and had been having doubts about where to go to next after the album they released this year. But when you release such a glorious record, there is no way to go but on and on. Cause that is the only aspect of time that is constant. It goes on. Just like this album. An instrumental masterpiece. An intricate work of art. Like a high prized Swiss clock it turns and shifts and balances out on the exact right moment. The pounding drums and growling riffs have you soaring high. The time-umbrella concept really feels like an adventure; and thanks to all the minutiae you keep discovering little musical trinkets with every new listening session. This is definitely an album for the ages and I am happy to discover all you lovely freaks out there felt the exact same way! Number 3 !

3. Glowsun – Beyond the Wall Of Time

i thought kadavar were a new band, and due to the last album cover, one that were all about the classic 70s heavy rock groove.
sounds like i need to investigate.

“The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.” ~ Lemmy

No less that forty points! Yes, we jump forty points from Glowsun’s Beyond The Wall Of Time on Third place to our Silver medalist. A band that has been making the Top 20 countdown almost since their conception. Ending on Number 12 back in 2011 and Number 15 in 2013. Apparently everyone out there has been even more in love with their newest release. Less of a nightmare but still scary and intense and it will definitely give you the creeps. Or as Madman Tony Maim put it back in September: “A heavier sound which still retains the ‘69/’70 Blue Cheer vibes but at the same time turning up the psychedelic and druggy feel which holds so much allure to warped minds like myself – and indeed you – my dear Stoner HiVe readers.” So without further ado, let’s get wicked with NUMBER 2 !!

2. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – The Night Creeper

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xQbU040iknQ/VoTiUUf-xkI/AAAAAAAAJ0g/TIeOe-9UG40/s320/cake1.jpg

http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2016/01/number-1.html

“My rider is a few biscuits, a few cakes, a meat plate, a cheese plate, some cigs, some JDs. I must say, I'm not completely fixated on Jack Daniel's – it's just that it's the one with the best distribution system worldwide. At one point I mainly drank Southern Comfort mixed with Special Brew. What was I thinking?” ~ Lemmy

The jump from Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats as runner-up in the Stoner HiVe top 20 countdown of 2015 is no less that thirty-seven points. The absolute Gold medal this year goes to a trio that was already predicted to steal the prize back in February. And who already took first place back in 2011 with their Dead Roots Stirring album. They managed to turn the musical year upside down and uprooting the expected slow start of the year. They ran away with the Doom Charts those first months and came in second place in the overall Doom Charts. Where yours truly wrote: “Stupefying all of us. Or at least most of us. They came out swinging with an album at the very beginning of this year that perhaps even bested that awe-inspiring performance on Roadburn 2013. The Boston trio released their album unto the world in February and all of us kept spinning that record until the needle ran through the groove. Their mixture of psychedelic rock, heavy stoner and epic metal will have you climbing to incredible heights in the dreams they evoke. There is no escaping and once you’re in, there is really no way out until those final mythical fading moments... For the album is one gigantic tension arc. It will make you forget all about time and place and experience something that only the true wise men know. It won’t teach, but simply show…” The stuff of legends, a contribution that will live on forever in the pantheon of rock. A perfect record, a pure ballistically delivered album, a blow against the empire, a rigging singular beautiful strike, a hammer of the gods that will sound on for eternity…

1. Elder – Lore

^this is a really good album

Fsstnbulbous are you going to be posting your psych list here this year? I love those (though if you don't gave the time, I understand)

Well, I hope you all looked at this page: http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-15/#breakdown

That has the top 13 of psych and psych noir. If you go to my database at http://fastnbulbous.com/list.php, this is what comes up in a search for psych, not filtered to albums that are primarily psych:

1. Golden Void – Berkana (Thrill Jockey)
2. Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors (Relapse)
3. Elder – Lore (Armageddon)
4. Ufomammut – Ecate (Neurot)
5. Sunder – Sunder (Tee Pee)
6. Fuzz – II (In The Red)
7. Jess And The Ancient Ones – Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes (Svart)
8. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – The Night Creeper (Rise Above)
9. The Lucid Dream – The Lucid Dream (Holy How Are You?)
10. Wand – Golem (In The Red)
11. Dungen – Allas Sak (Mexican Summer)
12. Horisont – Odyssey (Rise Above)
13. Kadavar – Berlin (Nuclear Blast)
14. Jacco Gardner – Hypnophobia (Polyvinyl)
15. Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castle Face)
16. Anekdoten – Until All The Ghosts Are Gone (Musea/Virta)
17. The Exploding Eyes Orchestra – I (Svart)
18. Sacri Monti – Sacri Monti (Tee Pee)
19. Sundays & Cybele – Heaven (Beyond Beyond Beyond)
20. Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Horse Dance (Rocket)
21. Stara Rzeka – Zamknęły się oczy ziemi (Instant Classic)
22. Male Gaze – Gale Maze (Castle Face)
23. Minami Deutsch – Minami Deutsch (Cardinal Fuzz/Guruguru Brain)
24. Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope)
25. All Them Witches – Dying Surfer Meets His Maker (New West)
26. Wand – 1000 Days (Drag City)
27. Mammatus – Sparkling Waters (Spiritual Pajamas)
28. Singapore Sling – Psych Fuck (Fuzz Club)
29. House Of Laurence – Awake (House Of Laurence)
30. Glowsun – Beyond The Wall Of Time (Napalm)
31. Mother Engine – Absturz (Gebrüder Schall)
32. Sonic Jesus – Neither Virtue Nor Anger (Fuzz Club)
33. Vidunder – Oracles & Prophets (Crusher)
34. Mondo Drag – Mondo Drag (RidingEasy)
35. Weedpecker – II (Weedpecker)
36. Electric Moon – The Theory Of Mind (Sulatron)
37. Arenna – Given To Emptiness (Nasoni) | Bamdcamp
38. Lucifer – Lucifer I (Rise Above)
39. Monster Magnet – Cobras And Fire (The Mastermind Remix) (Napalm)
40. Ancient River – Keeper Of The Dawn (Summer Moon)
41. Ruby The Hatchet – Valley Of The Snake (Tee Pee)
42. Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet – 2 (Trouble In Mind)
43. KIND – Rocket Science (Ripple) 11-Dec
44. The Vintage Caravan – Arrival (Nuclear Blast)
45. Moon Duo – Shadow Of The Sun (Sacred Bones)
46. The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – Masters Of The Molehill (Cardinal Fuzz)
47. Carlton Melton – Out To Sea (Agitated)
48. Black Space Riders – Refugeeum (Black Space/Cargo)
49. White Manna – Pan (Cardinal Fuzz/Captcha)
50. 10 000 Russos – 10 000 Russos (Fuzz Club)
51. FOGG – High Testament (Tee Pee)
52. Nocturnalia – Above Below Within (Gaphals)
53. Astral Son – Silver Moon (Headspin)
54. Kelley Stoltz – In Triangle Time (Castle Face)
55. Old Man's Will – Hard Times - Troubled Man (RidingEasy)
56. Sexwitch – Sexwitch (Echolyn)
57. Hills – Frid (Rocket)
58. Bop English – Constant Bop (Blood And Biscuits)
59. The Underground Youth – Haunted (Fuzz Club)
60. Death Hawks – Sun Future Moon (Svart)
61. Ecstatic Vision – Sonic Praise (Relapse)
62. RotoR – Fünf (Nois-o-lution)
63. Blown Out – Jet Black Hallucinations (Golden Mantra)
64. GNOD – Infinity Machines (Rocket)
65. Dead Sea Apes – Spectral Domain (Cardinal Fuzz)
66. Spidergawd – II (Crispin Glover)
67. Datura4 – Demon Blues (Alive)
68. My Sleeping Karma – Moksha (Napalm)
69. The Smoking Trees – TST (Burger)
70. Grusom – Grusom (Kosmik Artifactz)
71. Föllakzoid – III (Sacred Bones)
72. Destruction Unit – Negative Feedback Resistor (Sacred Bones)
73. Throw Down Bones – Throw Down Bones (Fuzz Club)
74. The Holydrug Couple – Moonlust (Sacred Bones)
75. Shellfin – Cities Without Names (Shellfin)
76. Agusa – Två (The Laser's Edge)
77. DoctoR DooM – This Seed We Have Sown (Ripple)
78. Black Rainbows – Hawkdope (Heavy Psych Sounds)
79. Koes Barat – Koes Barat (Sub Pop)
80. Zone Six – Love Monster (Sulatron)
81. Cathode Ray Eyes – Eyes In The Melancholy Palm (Cardinal Fuzz)
82. Blandbladen – Vederkvickelse (Kommun 2)
83. Radar Men On The Moon – Subversive I (Fuzz Club)
84. Sendelica – Anima Mundi (Sendelica)
85. Taman Shud – Viper Smoke (Trashmouth)
86. Spiders – Why Don't You EP (Crusher)
87. together Pangea – The Phage EP (Burger)
88. The Butterscotch Cathedral – The Butterscotch Cathedral (Trouble In Mind)
89. Seremonia – Kristalliarkki (Svart)
90. Weird Owl – Interstellar Skeletal (A Recordings)
91. Cherry Choke – Raising The Waters (Elektrohasch)
92. Mini Mansions – The Great Pretenders (Fiction)
93. Blues Pills – Blues Pills Live (Nuclear Blast)
94. Pretty Lightning – A Magic Lane Of Light And Rain (Cardinal Fuzz)
95. Hey Colossus – In Black And Gold (Rocket)
96. The Myrrors – Arena Negra (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)
97. You're Smiling Now But We'll All Turn Into Demons – Population IV (Cardinal Fuzz)
98. Blown Out – Planetary Engineering (Golden Mantra)
99. Kylesa – Exhausting Fire (Season Of Mist)
100. zZz – Juggernaut (Excelsior)

A lot there to chew on. I didnt see thr genre lists; those are really great, too

Grazie

Captain Beyond Zen Top 40
http://captain-beyond.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-top-40-albums-of-2015.html

Unusually unique at the top end of the list:

1. Flesh of the Stars - Hide
https://fleshofthestars.bandcamp.com/album/hide
2. Path of Samsara - The Fiery Hand
https://pathofsamsaravan.bandcamp.com/album/the-fiery-hand
3. Horisont - Odyssey
4. Uncle Acid - Night Creeper
5. Mirror - Mirror
6. With the Dead - With the Dead
7. Tarot - The Warrior's Spell
8. Khemmis - Absolution
9. Demon Head - Ride the Wilderness
10. Demon Eye - Tempora Infernalia
11. Dopethrone - Hochelaga
12. Goatsnake - Black Age Blues
13. Ecstatic Vision - Sonic Praise
14. Ruby the Hatchet - Valley of the Snake
15. Magic Circle - Journey Blind
16. Kadavar - Berlin
17. Aktor - Paranoia
https://aktor.bandcamp.com/album/paranoia
18. Flight - Flight
19. Gold - No Image
https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-image

20. Knife Ritual - Old Earth
https://kniferitual.bandcamp.com/album/old-earth
21. Saturnalia Temple - To the Other
22. Iron Void - Doomsday
23. Magister Templi - Into Duat
24. Witchsorrow - No Light, Only Fire
25. Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
26. Goya - Obelisk
27. Monolord - Vænir
28. The Sword - High Country
29. Stoned Jesus - The Harvest
30. Limb - Terminal
31. Visigoth - The Revenant King
32. Dead Lord - Heads Held High
33. Black Trip - Shadowline
34. Tombstones - Vargariis
35. Obsidian Sea - Dreams, Illusions, Obsessions
36. Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence
37. Shepherd - Stereolithic Riffalocalypse
38. Golden Void - Berkana
39. Mondo Drag - Mondo Drag
40. Behold! The Monolith - Architects of the Void

new thread for '16?

Happy to see Elder at number one.

Enjoying "the Outcast" by Witchcraft ATM

yes to new thread for '16!

new Hexvessel album soon

https://youtu.be/6uHPHn5Zwmo

Anyone who cares to feel free to name and start the new thread. I've been taking a break, but will think about a title in the next couple days if no one else does.

I'm looking forward to the new Electric Eye - Different Sun (Feb 5)
http://www.xsnoize.com/electric-eye/

Here's their last one:
https://electriceye.bandcamp.com/