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Wednesday, December 22, 2021
2021 - What.The.Fuck.Was.That? A new dimension of madness. Panic mode in the power of ten. Totalitarian tendencies in the free world.
Lies, hatred and agitation. Perversion on all levels. The only lifeline that could protect us from madness was once again music.
The heavy music underground spat out a lot of glowing hot lava chunks this year.
Here is my personal selection of the hottest chunks!
I heard the bells...hallucinating...stumbling in the dark of a dying world...open up your ears...
Before we stumble into a new year let's look back for the last time to celebrate another year of
DOOM
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Sunday, December 29, 2019
2019 - Not only a year but also a decade is ending. I am looking back with a crying and a laughing eye. It was a phantastic decade and especially the last year. A tremendous number of new releases in the Doom/Stoner/Psych genre saw the light of the world and the quality of so many albums is breathtaking and one climax chased the next, but this could even become a melancholic moment. We'll never be that young again, so beautiful and so enthusiastic, full of courage and confidence. This was a decade of glamour and beauty!
May the next decade be even approximately so phenomenal like the bygone!
Before we stumble into a new decade let's look back for the last time to celebrate another year of
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Thursday, December 27, 2018
Here are my top 25 EPs of 2018...
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2018 - The same procedure as every year: The Doom/Stoner/Psych genre still continues to flourish and grow. My way to show honor for the Doom/Stoner/Psych music scene is to publish my best-of-list. Be forewarned, this list is very subjective. There is no other influence on this list as my personal music taste and listening habits in the last twelve months. If you took notice of my monthly lists, there will be very likely no big surprise for you of my picks for this best-of-list.
Before we stumble into a new year let's look back for the last time to celebrate another year of
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Thursday, December 28, 2017
Here is my list of the top 20 short releases 2017.
Support the underground!
Buy CDs, vinyl, cassettes, downloads and go to their shows!
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017
2017 - What a tremendous year in music! There were so many awesome releases this year that I could easily do a top 100 list.
Do you think we are living in a golden age of underground rock and metal music right now? If your answer is yes, you've come to the right place. This is for you, my friend.
If you think rock and metal is dead, move along folks. Nothing to see here.
Where do we go from here? The future will tell us, but before we stumble into a new year let's look back for the last time to celebrate another year of
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
2016 - What a fucking beast of a year! All sort of hysterical and disgusting fuckshit hunted us. Penetrated by tinfoil hat theories and fake news we realized that the free world with our fundamental values are treated with contempt.
We are doomed and we know it. Stand up and drain the swamp! Make the world great again in 2017!
But before we'll take action, let's look inward for a moment of silence and take a look back in 2016 and take a deep dive into the soundtrack of
DOOM
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Monday, January 4, 2016
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Saturday, January 2, 2016
2015. The years are flying by faster now than ever before. There are no trombones here and nobody speaks in tongues, but the Captain speaks while the world stumbles into chaos: "We should realise that this year-end list celebration may be the last." Therefore I do not any longer hesitate to lift the lid on my
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Monday, December 29, 2014
2014. A year is going to end. The memories are going to fade .. And I am in a mood to celebrate the year 2014 in music. Like every year I put up my list of the top 40 albums of the year. Now it's time to pause for a moment and look back for the last time. Thereafter we want to look forward and live our lifes for the moment. Along these lines...here it is...
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Friday, December 27, 2013
As the year
2013 approaches its last days I celebrate another fantastic year of music. As it is going to be the same procedure as every year I'm going to share the secret and reveal my list of the top 40 albums of
2013. This list makes no claim for completeness and I apologize for any overlooked masterpiece. Be prepared. The countdown starts...now!
Peace☮, love♥ and fuzz♫
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Monday, December 31, 2012
1. Bloody Hammers - s/t
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21. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Here it is. The secret is out.
#1 Uncle Acid and the deadbeats - Blood Lust
#2 Ice Dragon - The Sorrowful Sun
#3 Red Fang - Murder the Mountains
#4 Slabdragger - Regress
#5 Dopethrone - Dark Foil
#6 Orchid - Capricorn
#7 Green & Wood - Devil's Plan
#8 The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch
#9 Leather Nun America - Kult Occult
#10 Wizard Smoke - The Speed of Smoke
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#11 Eggnogg - Moments in Vacuum
#12 YOB - Atma
#13 Belzebong - Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves
#14 Borracho - Splitting Sky
#15 Grifter - S/T
#16 Sleestak - The Fall of Altrusia
#17 Elder - Dead Roots Stirring
#18 Samsara Blues Experiment - Revelation & Mystery
#19 Dark Buddha Rising - Abyssolute Transfinite
#20 The Heavy Eyes - S/T
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
#21 Black Pyramid - II
#22 Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1
#23 Mastodon - The Hunter
#24 Lo-Pan - Salvador
#25 The Moss - Wulfram
#26 The Atlas Moth - An Ache for the Distance
#27 Sungrazer - Mirador
#28 Wo Fat - Noche del Chupacabra
#29 Freedom Hawk - Holding On
#30 Monkey 3 - Beyond the Black Sky
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
#31 Threefold Law - Revenant
#32 Iron Claw - A Different Game
#33 Birch Hill Dam - Colossus
#34 Tia Carrera - Cosmic Priestess
#35 Roadsaw - S/T
#36 Sahara Surfers - Sonar Pilot
#37 Oyabun - Gods And Dogs
#38 The Grand Astoria - Omnipresence
#39 Cultura Tres - El Mal Del Bien
#40 Aver - Aver
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