vrijdag 2 oktober 2026

Plastic Woods – Mirrors

 

 

Plastic Woods – Mirrors
Discos Macarras Records / Spinda Records – 2026 
Rock, Prog, Psych
Rated: ****

The mirror is lying to you… Plastic Woods have always taken an extra step when it comes to combining inspirations into one brilliant adventure. And Mirrors is another, wild step in that evolution. Out, October 22nd on Spinda Records and Discos Macarras Records the album steps through the looking glass and into a land beyond, taking the listener with them, with grandiose guitar work, progressive compositions and something funky to boot. There are darker moments and lighthearted playful things, like reflected sunlight on the water…

So, step through the Mirrors, leave the troublesome, irksome, violent or sensible world behind and let yourself fall into Plastic Woods third album. Inspired by Tarot archetypes and the strange logic of Lewis Carroll’s looking-glass world, the album plunges headfirst into the collapse of identity. The Tower is falling, The Fool keeps dancing, the reflection is cracking, and somewhere on the other side of the glass awaits the part of ourselves we’d rather not meet. Or some of us want to dance with. 

Musically, Plastic Woods turn the looking glass into a kaleidoscope of progressive rock, psychedelia, hard rock, folk and blues, pushing their sound into darker, more intricate territory. It is an inward trip, and you often feel like you are running through anxiety, false memories and righteous paradoxes as if a monster is right there on your heels. But Mirrors never becomes the album that will lead you out. The mirror might be telling the truth, and the thing you thought was chasing you has been wearing your face all along… 


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Go check out the first two Plastic Woods singles now and be ready October 22nd for the full Mirrors album to drop... 




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Hostile Tides – Dead Man Talking

 

 

Hostile Tides – Dead Man Talking
Self-released – 2026
Stoner, Metal, Punk, Prog, Instrumental
Rated: ***

You want it underground? Heavy underground? You want stoner, metal, punk and prog all mixed into one blissful release? Then go listen to five track Dead Man Talking by Kent, England quartet Hostile Tides. Love the band name. Active since 2024. Instrumental, except for the second track Rumour, which could become the rowdy live track Twenty was to Karma To Burn…

It was recorded Squarehead Studios, but has the feel of an album that was recorded at the final petrol station before all the roads end, the pavement stops and the end of the road is actually a place on the map. Five tracks, filled with fuzz heavy guitars, filthy bass work and thunderous drums. All of it sneaks and crawls through stoner and metal, punk and prog, leaving room for hypnotic grooves and full blown sonic derailments. 

A grimy, intensely cinematic quality seems to be powering the whole thing. A lost soundtrack to a film nobody should have made. The soundtrack remains and becomes this entity on its own. Just listen to Pyramids and you will understand immediately how everything becomes its own thing with Hostile Tides at the helm. Rough edged, atmospheric by default, completely unpredictable and this is just a first release… Hostile Tides are warming up! 


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Organic Green Monster Machine – The Swords of Sorrow

 

 

Organic Green Monster Machine – The Swords of Sorrow
Self-released – 2026
Rock, Psych, Stoner
Rated: ***

There’s a storyteller at work here. And song smithies. For the three tracks on the new The Swords of Sorrow EP are meticulously crafted and immediately audible is that these three tracks would benefit from a bit more production or recording value. But the Bridgetown, Australia, quartet Organic Green Monster Machine released their first single back in 2023 and after three more, this is the first EP. Each of those tracks show great promise and a sincere knack for crafting something special and mesmerizing. 

For The Swords of Sorrow is a spellbinding journey, through heavy psychedelia, smoky blues and sprawling fantastical landscapes. Across three richly textured tracks, the band weaves a hypnotic tapestry of stories and atmosphere, where thunderous rhythms meet delicate melodies and drifting instrumental passages. Opening the EP with The Raven Prince, storytelling and cinematic grandeur. The Blade track follows and sinks into a slow burning psychedelic haze. And it ends with The Highway Song, a Purplesque track, that gradually gathers momentum before erupting into its heaviest passages…

Like a gigantic tome opened at the right pages; the adventures, the tales regaled often feel like a journey through shadow and light, unhurried and deliberate, resounding ancient echoes of mysterious voyages into unknown worlds. Fantastical! Organic Green Monster Machine has awoken; and The Swords of Sorrow is the first chapter of a wild and dangerous grimoire that will surely be written… 


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donderdag 1 oktober 2026

Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats – Shapes of Midnight

 

 

Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats – Shapes of Midnight
Killer Candy Records – 2026
Rock, Garage, Psych, Occult, Doom
Rated: ***

I remember when they came out with Vol 1. in 2010 and Blood Lust a year later. Both stunning releases that felt like they were recorded in a crypt, lit by candles, while hooded figures were drawing pentagrams on the floor with blood. Mesmerizing and hallucinatory and they made you envision pure lust for the sinful properties of man. You know, that vintage spilling of blood…

And then three albums followed that all extrapolated that sound, all losing a bit of that early grit and grime but retaining that touch of the occult and blasphemous. Night Creeper got some of that back and did everything else a bit better. And then we arrived at the year 2024 and the Nell' Ora Blu project was released. One some level we could appreciate their ode to the seventies horror movies tradition of the seventies. Especially live. On record, the vinyl barely returned to the player.

And now Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats are back! And in true Uncle Acid fashion, wearing masks and draping themselves in all the blood they could find. Turning another corner though, and taking their occult sounding garage, psych and doom into a very catchy and hook abundant territory. The heavy drawn chords, the insidious riffs and melodic vocals make Shapes Of Midnight a party that will last till dawn. Blood Lust as a delicious cocktail… 


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Kurtys Kidd – This Dirty Machine

 

 

Kurtys Kidd – This Dirty Machine
Self-released / From The Strait PR – 2026
Rock, Alternative, Grunge
Rated: ***

This Dirty Machine, it rode in on a promo email sent by From The Strait PR, a straight shooting PR firm if ever there was one. The man behind it, Canadian artist/actor, Kurtys Kidd and part of the opening from that email stated:  “This Dirty Machine comes from a time when I was in an emotionally tough place,” Kurtys says of the album. “I drove out to the desert one night and just stared up at the stars and contemplated my life, my place on this earth, and even the place of our existence in the universe. The album tells a story of the night and the process to get through it.” That all meant, we had to check it out!
 
And that quote resonates throughout the album, cause This Dirty Machine sounds exactly like that, like a lone rider crossing a midnight desert, guitars blazing behind him, dust in his wake, and nothing but an endless horizon waiting ahead. Kidd marries the grit and muscle of nineties alternative with a widescreen, cinematic atmosphere, swooping and big. Heavy riffs meet melancholic melodies and rough-edged vocals head on. Working man’s heavy, dirt on the boot. 

Yet, that restless, road-worm quality is more pervasive. These songs feel part outlaw, part drifter and part stargazer, searching for something beyond the horizon and probably something his heart cannot name. Maybe its just the endless search for a place to call home, and if This Dirty Machine is anything, it is that, a home or a soundtrack for that search… 


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A Perfect Circle - To Whom It May Concern

 

 

A Perfect Circle - To Whom It May Concern

I loved those early A Perfect Circle albums and by sheer coincidence talked to Troy van Leeuwen for a short bit about this a week ago. Forward to September 29th and suddenly there’s a new A Perfect Circle single, a tour announced, and yes, even though the word is not official yet… There might be more new music in the near future… But for now, after Starless earlier this year, we now have To Whom It May Concern… The track takes a restrained, atmospheric approach, gradually building tension around themes of social polarization. Mourning a time when people could disagree without becoming enemies, as algorithms amplify outrage and erode empathy between us all. Maynard James Keenan remains unusually subdued, while the band creates an ominous mood with surprisingly few musical elements… 




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dinsdag 29 september 2026

SINGLE PREMIERE - Erosions - Homegrown

 


 SINGLE PREMIERE 

Erosions - Homegrown

 

As announced on Monday... Yesterday... That wild and freaky Single Premiere! Straight from the Psalm / Erosions split album soon to be released, it's the track Homegrown by Erosions! And this isn't just a simple split album, or a simple single... It's the second single for the very first release on that new and crazy Space Goat Records! 

Space Goat Records is the new label on the block. Spearheaded by the one and only Jason Doome of Grand Rapids Doomfest and Sean Brooks of The Heavy Underground Farm Report and HUFR FEST. Two good ol’ boys running a sick new heavy underground label… Stoned, ripped, twisted… Good people!

With one hell of a mission statement:

“Space Goat Records is an independent heavy underground label dedicated to limited-edition split vinyl releases. Premium packaging, collector-quality pressings, and unforgettable riffs unite exceptional bands from the doom, stoner, sludge, and psychedelic underground—one exclusive release at a time.”

And their first Split album, is this one... The one by Psalm and Erosions... And we're honored to premiere for you all the new single: Homegrown. 

Trashy, punky, grimy, gritty... It's all that and more... But most importantly, are you a NBPS? A Natural Born Pot Smoker? If so, you know this kind of energy as it flows through your veins... Homegrown takes its sweet time getting where it’s going, settling into an eight minute haze of rolling riffs, fuzz and slow-burning groove. Erosions lean hard into the weed-soaked reverie of the track, letting the guitars wander before dragging the song back into its central riff... There’s something almost ritualistic in the repetition, a smoky almost spooky sound that grows thicker and more unruly as it moves along. By the time the final stretch arrives, the groove has swollen into beautifully billowing smoke, leaving Homegrown hanging in and drifting through the air like the last hit of bong exhaled in a dark room...

 

 

 

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Primitive scuzz rock from Illinois and trad stoner doom from Las Vegas

Split LP out October 31st, 2026 on Space Goat Records

Psalm single "Pain" out now

Erosions single "Homegrown" out September 30th (Private stream)

Genres: Fuzz Rock • Stoner • Doom • Grunge


This Halloween, the inaugural release from Space Goat Records brings two bands from separate corners of the heavy underground together for six total tracks and one monster of a split LP.

From Freeport, Illinois, fuzzed out trio Erosions bring their beefy brand of raucous, groovy scuzz rock, picking up the torch lit by stoner greats of old and dousing it in beer and gasoline. On the other side of the coin are Las Vegas doom dealers Psalm, armed with dour melodies, soaring vocals, and grunge-fueled crunch. A labor of love by all parties, Erosions and Psalm are honored to the lead the charge for Space Goat.


Born from the heavy underground community it lives and breathes, Space Goat Records is the fully baked brainchild of two of the scene’s biggest fans. Sean Brooks, of Denver’s HUFR FEST and the Heavy Underground Farm Report, and Jason Doome of Grand Rapids Doom Fest, bonded over their mutual love for heavy music and the bands and people who make it.

SPACE GOAT RECORDS

The label's goal is to continue specializing in limited-edition split records featuring bands from the heavy underground, with an emphasis on high-quality vinyl, unique artwork, premium packaging, and releases designed to be collectible rather than mass-produced.

Space Goat Records plans to work with bands from across the United States and internationally, connecting different regional scenes through carefully curated split releases.

The label is particularly interested in doom, stoner rock, sludge, psychedelic rock, heavy psych, desert rock, and other riff-driven forms of underground music.

The ultimate goal is to build a catalog where every release feels like an event and every record tells a story.
        

Sean: “We didn't want Space Goat Records to be another label that simply puts out records. We wanted to create something that felt connected to the heavy underground — the bands, the festivals, the fans, and the people who are still excited about actually owning music.

Erosions and Psalm were the perfect bands to launch the label with. They're coming from completely different parts of the country and have their own distinct sounds, but both bands represent the energy and authenticity we're looking for.”

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Jason: “Where would I like to see SGR go in the future? Into as many hands of music lovers as possible. That’s it. I want everyone to hear these bands because we believe in them so much we’re willing to put out a physical album to tell you about it. There’s no better feeling in the world than to turn someone onto new music that they’ve never heard and they dig it! Bringing the best bands the Heavy Underground has to offer to you the fans. That is and always will be our goal."

WHAT'S NEXT

Erosions aren't slowing down anytime soon. The Freeport, Illinois trio is planning a mini-tour built around HUFR FEST, including an appearance at Tampa Doom and Gloom Fest, while also heading back into the studio to record several new songs. The band is looking forward to expanding its reach beyond the Midwest, playing new cities, and continuing to bring its fuzzy, scuzzy, primitive rock to the road.

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Las Vegas doom trio Psalm has plenty in the works, including a full-length album in addition to the Erosions / Psalm split. The band plans to hit the road and play as many out-of-state shows and festivals as possible, with updated merch on the way. Vinyl releases of both the Erosions / Psalm split and 2025 EP In Darkness Have Mercy are also in the works. Psalm is actively open to festival opportunities, so promoters—get in touch!

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Erosions/Psalm - Split Album

Album out October 31st, 2026
Space Goat Records (Digital, Vinyl)
Artwork by @fadlisafikri_

Erosions is:
Gregg Metzger - Drums
Rocky Lilies - Vocals, Guitar
Tom-T Schoenhard - Bass
Freeport, Illinois
FFO: Black Sabbath • Kiss • UFO • Mephistopheles • Weedeater • Grand Funk

Psalm is:
Jon "Fro" Torres - Vocals, Bass
Ian Henneforth - Drums
Juan Arturo - Guitar
Jeremy Aceves - Bass
Las Vegas, Nevada
FFO: Trouble • Black Sabbath • Deep Purple • Lamb of God • Thin Lizzy

Tracklist:
Erosions
1. Deep Creep (5:54)
2. Too Man Deaths (4:52)
3. Homegrown (8:12)
Psalm
4. Asunder (5:56)
5. Pain (3:52)
6. Psalm 9 (5:08) 

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maandag 28 september 2026

Stoner HiVe’s Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

 

 

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Queens Of The Stone Age
Triggerfinger
Saturna
De Staat
Godzilla In The Kitchen
Wailin Storms
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats 
Kant
Smoke Witch
Gods & Punks

Morning! I hope you all had a great week and an even better one will follow. It was a hectic one, but the ending was beautiful. Off into the Dutch wildlands to listen to deer in rut and watching them burl. We also came across a pack of five wolves as an absolute bonus. Amazing times! This week, back into the chaos! We look forward to presenting to you all another Premiere. And we hope to finish another few reviews we’ve been working on… 

Last week we still managed to mention that amazing Gods & Punks album that has had us hooked for ages and the amazing new Saturna album. Great albums and I think we can manage to put up a post or two more this week… Let’s see what happens! 




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vrijdag 25 september 2026

Saturna – Light and Shadow



 

Saturna – Light and Shadow
Spinda Records / Ripple Music / Discos Macarras – 2026 
Rock, Prog, Psych, Seventies
Rated: ****

I still spin The Elven’s Solstice album religiously and the Shine single whenever I’m struggling with life, emotions or hardship. It always helps. A lot. And two parts of The Elven project are of course also members of Saturna. And on their new Light and Shadow album, you can definitely hear some of those The Elven sonics rubbed off, in the absolutely right way…

So, learning how much we love The Elven and Saturna’s 2023 album The Reset, we naturally could not let their new Light and Shadow pass by without a few of our silly words. Cause the Barcelona quartet returns with a thirteen songs and forty-six minutes of warm, heavy, soulful rock. They’ve turned the lights down and the amplifiers up! It’s radiant and glowing!

The opening track Unheard shoots in with a mighty charge, guitars blazing while the melody keeps the fire under control. Following Falling Apart shoves us back into Saturna territory. The title track follows, a glorious Sabbath-shaped beast, bluesy, heavy and carrying that magic of riffs that sound like they’ve been waiting for fifty years to finally be played.. 

But Saturna isn’t just about the riffs of yore or the golden age of heavy rock. Absence has those beautiful harmonies you love from Saturna, intertwined with acoustic and electric guitars. While following About You strips everything down to its wooden bones, once again showing off the The Elven colors. But the rhythmic groove does not lay dormant for long, as following So Long makes clear. Seventies rock, proto metal, motoring and an easy rider if ever there was one… 

Heavy progressive blues without enough psychedelic touches to make it uplifting when needed or burrowing down and heading for the dark when called for. Indeed, all sides have their moment and their time. Light and Shadow feels like they’re filtering sunlight through an old amplifier, warm, dusty, soulful and alive. Saturna honor the past without becoming its prisoners. They take the old flames, add their own oxygen, and let them burn brightly once again. And even the shadows cast, feel glowing and radiant! 


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woensdag 23 september 2026

Gods & Punks – A Shrine By The Sea

 

 

Gods & Punks – A Shrine By The Sea
Electric Valley Records – 2026
Psych, Doom, Stoner, Prog
Rated: ****

They hail from Brazil and with their 2021 album The Sounds Of The Universe they had me hook, groove and riffs. Since then two EP’s and the Death album followed, which we are ashamed to admit we never got around to mentioning on the HiVe. But in all honesty, we should have mentioned all of the Gods & Punks releases since they started back in 2017…

But we’re here now and we’ve been living with their new one A Shrine By The Sea for quite some time now. As of May, when the promo arrived as a 10 track digital album. And then again as the vinyl two-track it is meant to be. Two tracks, both 21 minutes and 12 seconds long. That’s right: 2112. I’ll let you make the connection. And as that connection might feel deep. The album will make it all feel even more so.. 

A Shrine By The Sea feels like a majestic voyage into the heavy music’s deeper waters. The two sprawling compositions sees the Brazilian quartet navigate beautifully between crushing doom, lysergic psychedelia, stoner haze and some progressive intricacy, without ever staying anchored for long. Riffs rise high like majestically dark swells, before slowly dissolving into drifting guitar passages, ghostlike vocals, acoustic calm and waves of seventies touched organ…

The Lighthouse. Draws you in, and crashes ashore with Sabbathian weight, stormy, dramatic. A restless, tidal fury flows within. Hypnotic and wonderfully unpredictable, The Lighthouse is all that heavy psych turned to an oceanic pilgrimage. 

Poseidon
on the other hand is allowed to drift more. Patient and psychedelic, it begins in spacious waters before gathering its force through hypnotic riffs, shimmering guitar, organ swells and restless progressive turns. There’s a sense of something vast slowly awakening beneath the surface. Strange, fluid and immersive this slower, stranger current is what carries Gods & Punks  into deeper waters. And as those final harmonies fade away, the voices carried away with the tide, you will feel at peace again… 

Yet for all its ambition, nothing feels excessive. Nothing feels overdone and all is measured and delivered with prime execution. Every shift in volume, texture and tempo serves the journey. The result is atmospheric by default, and absolutely progressive, without losing any of its primal heft. It’s allowed to drift and spin, but never becomes weightless. It’s Gods & Punks  and the sea, it’s the sound of the sea forever in the background, it’s the sound forever in your mind. A Shrine By The Sea is a stunning, immersive and beautifully strange trip into deep unknown… 


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dinsdag 22 september 2026

Stoner HiVe’s Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

 

 

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Queens Of The Stone Age
The Armed
De Staat
Tropical Fuck Storm
30,000 Monkies
Gods & Punks
Steel Beans
Lunar Ruins
10,000 Years
Editors

We know. It’s Tuesday evening already… Well, sometimes stuff just gets in the way or things move to mess up the rest of the agenda. But still, we’re always happy to move stuff around so we can talk to Troy van Leeuwen and about everything involving the new album Perfecth! Of course, that interview has now a fast approaching deadline, and we have a little trip coming up. So, there will be little time to HiVe… Just like last week… But will return with a vengeance soon! And make up for all lost HiVe time… I can feel it in my bones! 

But still, we did do that wild Full Album Premiere for the wild Allume – Ex-Luto album! Wow, what a great smash ‘n grab album that is. We also mentioned the new 30,000 Monkies. And of course, if you have enough time, you can still go back and read the wild chat we had Phantom Logic! Or check out the albums above, some are out, some only singles and some will be released very soon! Stay tuned, and keep listening to all those cool tunes… 




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vrijdag 18 september 2026

30,000 Monkies – Super Rebound

 

 

30,000 Monkies – Super Rebound
Fvn Kvlt Records / Viral Propaganda PR – 2026
Metal, Sludge, Noise, Core
Rated: ****

We knew this was coming… And not just because of very own poet Ronny Dijksterhuis mentioned their singles Prism Break and Super Rebound in a July Quick Fire Friday session. But we all know the deal. What goes around, comes around… And this time in sludge noise core album called Super Rebound! It’s the brand new 30,000 Monkies! Out… TODAY! 

We haven’t always mentioned the wild releases by the Beringen, Belgium four. In fact, the only one mentioned was Somewhere Over The Rainbow from 2013. And this one might even be more colorful, brighter and at the same time crushing! 30,000 Monkies are unpredictable and the way the new album Super Rebound crashes and exploded through the speakers is simply glorious.

Their noise core sludge post metal maelstrom, is full of grit, weight and foul tasting riffs! But this time around, there’s color everywhere. Joyful, riotous chaos, pounding drums, twisted melodies and enough powerful riffage to knock all the black out of the darkest corners! That’s where these Monkies truly shine. They don’t just go for the hammer instantly, they build up the tension before dropping it on your head.  

Am I a natural fan of these vocals? Hell no. But they fit, and add to the gloomy melodies, massive walls of sound and screaming guitars. The songs twist and turn through every color and shade of heavy, piling on the groove, the riffs and unholy noise, until everything explodes in technicolor splendor. Super Rebound crushes hard, weirds you out and constantly bring you absolute joy. Its like getting stomped into the netherworld by a rainbow, while the boys grin and turn the volume up to eleven… 


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