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Bursting, Smoking & Distorting Stories (A Lesson In Sludge & Stoner By Guib) Welcome everybody to a little lesson on the history of Sludge & Stoner Metal. I'm Guib and today I have the immense pleasure to serve as your humble teacher.
Please take a seat and travel with me through time as we explore the very best of those two, often blurred, genres. The goal here is simple, I want to get you familiarized with the styles. I want you to understand where they come from through albums on a timeline and while we're at it get a sweet selection of great releases that you might not know and that, hopefully, will get you hooked to explore even more! But this is a classroom and in my classroom there are a few rules. We want to keep this clean, clear and prevent having a 500+ albums mess. So here are the rules we'll follow throughout this lesson. - - - - - The Rules - - - - - 1. We will settle for a maximum of 4 albums per year and they will be listed from oldest to newest. Makes it simple to navigate. Those releases will represent what I consider to be hallmarks of the genres for that year. Essentials if you want, yes? Of course, I'll sprinkle a bit of my personality here and there so you will find some unorthodox choices and some less known albums from time to time. It would be boring otherwise... and also why not? 2. We will begin the journey with Melvins' "Gluey Porch Treatments" released in 1987. Why? Because it is arguably the first album to be widely considered as Sludge. 3. The list will mostly feature studio albums. So no Demos & bare minimum when it comes to EPs if any at all. Thank you. 4. I am not going to include releases by Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Hawkwind, etc... I fully understand and recognize the influence older bands had on Stoner Rock, but this is not the list for them. 5. Lastly, not really a rule but more of a note. Considering that we're talking about Sludge & Stoner, it is inevitable that Doom, Post, Progressive, Grunge & Hardcore acts will be featured in this list. Those genres simply go together naturally and are often mixed so do not be alarmed! - - - - - - - - - - That is it, I hope you will all discover something to enjoy through my little history lesson. Also, do not hesitate to comment below if you agree or disagree with some of my picks. After all, this is a classroom and debate is invited as it can be fun and educative. As long everything's done respectfully, of course. Enjoy & Have Fun... Class dismissed! NOTE: I will now add my picks for best album of the year using this format (best of xxxx) in the chosen album's description. - Guib - - - - - - - - - - - Guib's best Sludge/Stoner Album Picks Best Of 2023: Urne - A Feast On Sorrow Best Of 2024 So Far: O Zorn! - Vermillion Haze - - - - - - - - - - Last Update: May 3rd, 2024
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Created by Guib
on 13.08.2023
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Stoner Rock - Metal Fuzz Pedal, Psychedelia, Black Sabbath, Brant Byork, Dust, Desert, Sand, Ice, Skates,Long Jams in The Dunes, Boogies, Southern California, Acid, Dope, Oil, Gasoline, Evil Eye and UFO’s. Those are elements to consider before listening Stoner Music.
In the Decadence of Grunge Rock A bunch of guys leading by The multi instrumentist Brant Bjork, bring to life a kind of Masters Of Reality 90’s version more aggressive and Psychedelic the result was a great combination of Metal Psychedia, Doom and energy distorted calling Stoner Rock Metal
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Created by Blackcrowe
on 17.05.2022
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Album Of The Year 2020 Subjective list | Top albums of 2020
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Created by Ruisdier
on 01.11.2021
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Tominator's 2020... Best To Worst Another end to a year, another list to make.
Like always I've added the specific genre/subgenre so you can easily pick out the albums that might be of interest to you. I know some of you like statistics, so I put in a bit of extra effort to add some numbers: - 317 albums - Total points given: 2366,1 - Average Score: 7,46/10 - Albums with a score of 7 or above: 79,11% - Albums with a score of 8 or above: 36,39% - Albums with a score of 9 or above: 1,27% - Albums with a score below 5: 2,53% - Nationalities: 35 - USA: 73 - (23,10%) - Germany: 31 - (9,81%) - Sweden: 28 - (8,86%) - UK: 25 - (7,91%) - Finland: 18 - (5,70%) - Greece: 18 - (5,70%) - Brazil: 10 - (3,16%) - France: 10 - (3,16%) - Poland: 10 - (3,16%) - Italy: 9 - (2,85%) - Spain: 9 - (2,85%) - Canada: 8 - (2,53%) - Belgium: 6 - (1,90%) - Norway: 6 - (1,90%) - Russia: 6 - (1,90%) - The Netherlands: 6 - (1,90%) - Australia: 5 - (1,58%) - Denmark: 5 - (1,58%) - Czech Republic: 4 - (1,27%) - Mexico: 4 - (1,27%) - Colombia: 3 - (0,95%) - Switzerland: 3 - (0,95%) - Argentina: 2 - (0,63%) - Austria: 2 - (0,63%) - Chile: 2 - (0,63%) - Japan: 2 - (0,63%) - Portugal: 2 - (0,63%) - Puerto Rico: 2 - (0,63%) - Slovakia: 2 - (0,63%) - Costa Rica: 1 - (0,32%) - Egypt: 1 - (0,32%) - Estonia: 1 - (0,32%) - Ethiopia: 1 - (0,32%) - Israel: 1 - (0,32%) - Peru: 1 - (0,32%)
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Created by tominator
on 31.12.2020
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Top 30 Of 2020: A Non-exhaustive Summary Of Some Of The Highlights Of The Lowlight Year I don't think these are necessarily the best 30 albums of this year, but they're the ones that have I guess endured in my psyche and inspiried revisits more than most others. I was tempted to do a top 50, but after around #26 or so, I found myself confronted with about 50 albums that could've conceivably made it in, most of which I hadn't relistened to enough to rank above the others with confidence.
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Created by musclassia
on 29.12.2020
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Top 20 of 2020.
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Created by ShapeshiftingD
on 19.12.2020
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My Mostly Metal Playlist - Top 100 Of 2020 updated, but still more bands to consider
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Created by prnzokoshiroltra
on 13.12.2020
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Things I Heard: 2020 In rough order of enjoyment, the albums I've listened to from 2020
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Created by Sir Yupp
on 19.11.2020
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2020 My favourite albums of 2020.
I've taken a new approach this year - switching to ratings out of 5, rounded to the nearest 0.5. Trying to rate everything to the nearest 0.1 was becoming a chore. Anything rated lower than 2/5 has been excluded. Also, while my previous lists have been 99% metal, 2020 has seen me exploring music across a much broader range of genres.
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Created by Moose
on 20.09.2020
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Top 101 albums of 2020 Well here it is!
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Created by KaninStryparn
on 08.08.2020
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Tea[m]ster's 2020 Sucks List Horrible times. Thank the metal gods for music.
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Created by tea[m]ster
on 20.06.2020
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My Favorites Of 2020 Haven't made one of these in awhile. Damn life. But I love to share music and have quality discussions on it
List is IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER Suggestions more than Welcome. Let's listen.
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Created by EnigmaLake
on 25.05.2020
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2020 In Metal Aqui se enumeran todos los discos que he escuchado en lo que va de año 2020 desde el mejor hasta el peor.
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Created by andytepedino
on 02.05.2020
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STONEPRIL "CALENDAR MADE OF METAL"
April = Stoner Metal Listening to as many albums as possible in said genre during said month and listing them here as I go. Suggestions welcome.
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Created by Daddy Pig
on 01.04.2020
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Ace Frawley's Favourite Albums of 2020 These are my favourite albums from the year 2020, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.
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Created by Ace Frawley
on 28.03.2020
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