HB420's Top 15 2011 Albums

[hb420]

Originally Posted by daimonos

Great choice for #1. It's up there for me, too.

Have you checked out Windhand? I'm positive you'd like that, since you're you're the other big doom/stoner/sludge lover on this board.

[daimonos]

Originally Posted by hb420

Have you checked out Windhand? I'm positive you'd like that, since you're you're the other big doom/stoner/sludge lover on this board.

I'll get on it.

[smearCampaign]

Excellent list. I am not familiar with your 7 thru 9 so I've got some stuff to check out.

The title track from Atma is one of the best songs of the year, hands down.

[Seventhzealot]

Originally Posted by smearCampaign

The title track from Atma is one of the best songs of the year, hands down.

[BlackDiamond]

Originally Posted by hb420

05. Elder - Dead Roots Stirring


*Im just going to post what i said about this, from my other thread. Pretty much though if you love stoner metal your life will not be complete til you hear this cd.*

The sophomore effort by Elder is easily a modern classic, five amazing cuts. That make up what I believe is the best stoner metal album in the past decade at least. As soon as you press play you're hit by an onslaught of HUGE riffs that ride an unbelievable rhythm section. The bass is perfect really low dirty but sticks out just enough. While the drums not being technical or anything are really dynamic and powerful. They bring something that I think is sorely lacking in stoner rock/metal now a days, and that's groove. This is the type of stuff Black Sabbath, Sleep and Kyuss were made of. I shudder to think what their follow up to this mammoth will sound like.

Such a phenomenal album. I had never heard of this band until you had recommended the album in a previous thread and it's some of the best shit I have heard in a while.

[hb420]

Originally Posted by BlackDiamond

Such a phenomenal album. I had never heard of this band until you had recommended the album in a previous thread and it's some of the best shit I have heard in a while.

Glad you dug it, Dead Roots Stirring is supremely awesome. That's all I really want from this thread is to get people to notice these albums that they might not have before. All the bands talked about deserve to be so huge, but probably won't and that really sucks.

Smear, thanks and yeah check that stuff out if you haven't.

[hb420]

Decided to do a list just for doom/stoner/sludge since it's the genre I know best. And I'd love to get people into some of this stuff.

1. YOB - Atma
2. The Atlas Moth - An Ache For The Distance
3. Elder - Dead Roots Stirring
4. Windhand - Windhand
5. SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones (Holy shit... have I missed out when it came to this. Gave it a spin a couple of days ago and was blown the fuck away, I can't believe I slept on this.)
6. Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit
7. Red Fang - Murder The Mountains
8. Orchid - Orchid
9. Batillus - Furnace
10. Rwake - Rest
11. Premonition 13 -13
12. The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre
13. Morne - Asylum
14. Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance
15. Saturnalia Temple - Aion of Drakon
16. Lo Pan - Salvador
17. Weedeater - ...Jason The Dragon
18. Krux - III: He Who Sleeps Amongst The Stars
19. Loss - Despond
20. Pentagram - Last Rites
21. Dopethrone - Dark Foil
22. Witch Mountain - South of Salem
23. Sourvein - Black Fangs
24. The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch
25. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
26. Black Cobra - Invernal
27. Wo Fat - Noche Del Chupacabra
28. Dark Castle - Surrender To All Life Beyond Form
29. Indian - Guiltless
30. Mournful Congregation - The Book of Kings
31. Hail Hornet! - Disperse The Curse
32. Black Tusk - Set The Dial
33. Graveyard - Hisingen Blues
34. Sigirya - Return To Earth
35. Crowbar - Sever The Wicked Hand
36. Devil - Time To Repent
37. Lord Vicar - Signs of Osiris
38. The Wounded Kings - In The Chapel of the Black Hand
39. Bong - Beyond Ancient Space
40. Curse The Son - Klonopain