There she blows! The FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Hypnosaur's Afterlife! Together with the amazing Noise Magazine from Poland we are honored to bring you this wild new album. We wrote about it yesterday; but it has been repeat for a week and ever since... Cause...
Hypnosaur kicks the video store doors off the hinges and floods the room with neon graveyard smoke, satanic disco glitter, and enough hooks to hijack your nervous system for weeks! As we already stated... Afterlife sounds like a cursed VHS tape of some weird eighties horror flick, discovered behind a liquored-up video store owner sleeping in a dumpster at 3AM, then blasted through a wall of fuzzed-out blown-out amplifiers. Massive choruses, earworm metal, occult swagger, psychedelic detours, punked-up stoner riffs and synths dripping radioactive slime collide in glorious excess. Somewhere between Ghost, Blue Öyster Cult, Abba and a glam gang outrunning the apocalypse, Hypnosaur deliver pure midnight mayhem: ridiculous, hypnotic, strangely heartfelt, and dangerously addictive... Hypnosaur, Hypnosaur, Hypnosaur, can't you see... Those Afterlife songs, just hypnotize me...
The weeks are flying by! And soon we will depart on our three weeks off grid holiday adventure, hugging the border between France and Germany as we go south to Italy, towards the Turin region, and the mountains in the vicinity. But we still have a few days to do a few HiVe posts… Although probably not as many as we did last week! First up: A FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for the Hypnosaur album Afterlife! Coming at you in a few hours!
Last week we posted quite a few words by our inhouse poet: Ronny Dijksterhuis. Did you manage to look at Stump Grinder? Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell? Gnod? Or his faster than shadow work for the Quick Fire Friday? Which we continued on with a Quick Fire Weekend! (Saturday & Sunday) Those three Quick Fire posts along will give you twenty-four albums, ep’s and singles to check out! And we upped words on the amazing new Iguana Death Cult and stunning Robot God. And then there were those two Premieres! The monastic doom album by Maliciouz went live on our little blog. And the beautiful new single Adrift by Phe! I hope you listened to those on the blog or on their own pages the day after. Wonderful stuff! O’ and me mentioned the Doom Charts Peroration, cause we were at Sonic Whip Festival went that one went live. Last but not least; we put the words online about the new Hypnosaur album Afterlife… And that beautiful album will see its FULL ALBUM PREMIERE on our little HiVe in only a few hours… You ready for that? And have you been checking all of it out? Hope so… And we are truly honored if you did!
Before you can prepare yourself, Afterlife bursts open like the soundtrack to a forbidden eighties horror film, overtures, big choruses and all, discovered in a dusty video store basement and ready to let loose on everything you ever wanted. It’s the new Hypnosaur, dragging you with them, into the Afterlife!
Hypnosaur continues to prove they are one of the most exciting and unpredictable modern rock bands around. Ever since their explosive 2022 album Doomsday, the Warsaw-based quartet has blended the theatrical grandeur of classic eighties rock and metal with infectious hooks, psychedelic textures, stoner rock energy, and a healthy dose of humor. It immediately established the band’s identity with massive choruses, dramatic orchestration, and clear influences from Ghost and thus ABBA and Blue Öyster Cult…
The 2024 four track Undead Invaders Born To Die In A Maze pushed their formula further, embracing darker synths, gothic atmospheres, eighties inspired keyboards and irresistible melodies. Even transforming synth-pop nostalgia into a stonerized dance-rock anthem on “Inwazja z Plutona” … Yes, Hypnosaur kept combining musicianship, theatrical flair, humor, and retro influences into a wildly entertaining and uniquely addictive rock experience.
And now there’s a new full length called Afterlife. On which they move back more towards Doomsday and their Ghost reminiscent sound. But where Ghost takes themselves so seriously you cannot help but laugh, it works the other way around with Hypnosaur. They do not take themselves serious at all, try to have as much fun as possible, and in doing so, you start take them serious and even hear the message that they sneak in here and there…
Afterlife feels like the moment Hypnosaur fully embraces everything that made their earlier work so exciting in the first place. Ever since the towering hooks and theatrical swagger of Doomsday first introduced listeners to their strange and irresistible world, the Warsaw quartet has balanced stoner rock grit, eighties glam excess, gothic atmosphere and infectious melody with remarkable ease. But on Afterlife, those elements are sharper, darker, catchier and so much more confident than ever before.
Just listen to incredibly catchy opener and title track Afterlife and then hear it transition into the fireball that is Lieflower. The slow build that happens, and continues with Reality-141 and Look At The Balls. Which continues the highly melodic rock 'n roll structure, ups the dynamic, antsiness and power with every track that passes and gets you all ready for the two minute long DMT ride that is Danger. The most metal and punk track on the album perhaps.
Sure, the shadow of Ghost once again looms, but proudly, over the record, especially in the massive choruses, eerie keyboard arrangements and dramatic vocal delivery, yet Hypnosaur never sounds like imitation. Instead, they channel the same love for seventies and eighties hard rock, AOR and occult theatricality into something unmistakably their own. Every track feels built for maximum impact: gigantic refrains, shimmering guitar flourishes, pounding drums and haunting synths collide in a kaleidoscopic storm of melody and darkness. But darkness on the light side of town...
Hardwired for instance scales back on energy, but not on intensity, and implores some of that hallowed sound to make it sound huge and again sporting that incredibly earwurm quality. Humming this everywhere you go is not just an option, it's a given. Longest track on the record, Alone, once again opts for an eighties atmopshere, with its synth work, but goes more nineties once the bass gets to do its thing and then as we near the halfway mark, we are suddenly treated to more grunted and growled vocals. Another side of the Hypnosaur!
What makes Afterlife work so well is how effortlessly Hypnosaur balances all that fun and those eighties atmospheres. The album is energetic, stylish and playful, but underneath the hooks lurks something genuinely hypnotic. It is retro rock worship transformed into a vibrant, modern and wildly addictive experience. One moment the band sounds like a glam metal gang speeding through neon-lit streets at midnight, the next they become psychedelic storytellers conjuring dark dreams beneath disco lights and almost operatic thunderclouds. Hypnosaur proves once again, they can do it all!
And we’re honored, to announce, that we’ll do the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Hypnosaur’s Afterlife together with the Polish Noise Magazine this Monday! So, check in, tomorrow, on May 25th to hear Afterlife a day early!
Why yes! The weekend does last two days doesn’t it! Welcome to the Sunday part of this Quick Fire Weekend! It doesn’t happen that often, but when it does we try to go all out and fire off as many great, hot and heavy releases as we can! And with Friday’s ten, Saturday’s seven; I reckon the total of 24 might be tying you over for the rest of the week! Ho ho ho! But yes, there is so much out there, so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. But here it is… Another Sunday edition ofStoner HiVe's Quick Fire Weekend! And it burns hot like molten lava!
Goldfish Kaseem - For A Bryter Future
Out on Morbid And Miserable Records and Saturn Eye Records since a day or ten, it’s Goldfish Kaseem and their For A Bryter Future album. Slow moving desert hallucinations and a back-alley riots, Goldfish Kaseem kick the doors off reality with this release. A lysergic joyride of garage sleaze, cosmic fog, proto-doom swagger and blown-speaker stoner rock. One minute you’re floating through a dust cloud… The next, you are bleeding gasoline beside a burning amplifier!
Gothenburg, Sweden’s Dead Man’s Dirt got a new drummer changed its name to Electric Spark and let the organist go off on brilliant tangents to get that proto funk and electric punk zooming through their seventies sound. Sparks flying everywhere! First track Slapwalker is all that and then some!
Cursed Monk Records released this little doom ditty just yesterday! Abasement Through Reverence is Skellig’s second full length release and filled with extreme metal, the droning kind, the ambient kind, the sludge kind and all with such an amount of doom and despair and descent into the void, through a narcotic swamp of molten distortion and spiritual ruin, where sanity peels off in long black ribbons, that it never soothes… Instead it stalks, suffocates and finally buries you beneath sacred, amplifying emptiness.
Dauðaró & Pantheïst have released a 77-minute concept album spanning funeral doom and atmospheric landscapes. “The story follows an AI tasked with preventing human extinction — which ultimately concludes that human nature itself is the greatest existential threat. It begins cybernetically augmenting humanity to enforce order and obedience, driven by its own chilling conviction: "You have created me. I shall recreate you in my image. You will be perfect."” Do we need to say more? Well, you better get reayd for a doom opus of crushing atmospheres and haunting reverb. Sure to enthrall all devotees of sorrow drenched heaviness…
Out since a week or two on Cavity Search Records, the new Stunt Drummer record Warm Up, Tiger! They come crashing out of the Portland fog like a thrashcan full of fireworks hurled through a ramshackle basement window. Warm Up, Tiger is all nicotine-stained riffs, paranoid howls and beautiful structural collapse! Hell yes, a glorious noise-rock fever dream swaying between menace, absurdity and cathartic release…. I’m hot!
The Metallist PR is another one of those brilliant underground PR outfits that continuously sends out great promos. Just check out Echoes by Swiss quartet Naked Soldier. Which sounds like a bunch of dudes in neon training suits, jumping out of a speeding car, dragging a trail of fuzzed amplifiers and cosmic debris behind them Echoes mutates stoner grit into doom-laden hypnosis and space-rock delirium, alternative nineties and high energy, where riffs spiral like hallucinations and reality frays at the edges of every overdriven chord… Echoes everywhere!
And what better way then to end this Sunday edition of this Quick Fire Weekend session with a song and video called Sunday Afternoon. The second advance single from Toronto’s The Get Alongs’ upcoming album Second To None. And thanks to No Rules PR, we know it’s out June 19, 2026 on Having Fun / We Are Busy Bodies. You’ll surely get a distinctive vibe of bohemian ghosts in thrifted jackets and hazy daydreams, as Sunday Afternoon spill out of cracked radios and open windows. Bedroom, kitchen or otherwise. It’s jangling, sun-drunk indie rock, perhaps mixed with something you can’t quite remember or a hangover waiting to turn lucid, but the melody drifts away like cigarette smoke and the distant city hums itself into soft oblivion…
What is this that stands before me? It’s one of those fabled Quick Fire Weekends! That’s right… You knew about those Friday sessions, but once in a full moon, and all the planets align, this thing might just happen. A Quick Fire Weekend! Meant to spread the word on all that good stuff out there! And we know… There is so much out there, so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. But here it is… Another Saturday edition of Stoner HiVe's Quick Fire Weekend! And it burns hot like molten lava!
Molior Superum – Spegeln
We love Molior Superum! And have loved these cats ever since Myspace was still a thing! So, when they shoved Spegeln our way, we had it on repeat in no time! Exceptionally groovy, powerful, energetic and riveting! It’s the first single for the Från Gryning till Skymning album that will be released somewhere near October/November. What a blast off for this Quick Fire Weekend! Spegeln is high-voltage seventies psychedelia, blues-drenched stoner rock and grimy garage swagger all melted into a wild, groove-heavy sonic assault. Fueled by frantic vocals, explosive riffs and relentless boogie rhythms, their sound feels both vintage and dangerous. Like a lost rock classic detonating in real time through blown-out amplifiers!
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This new single will hopefully also be added to their bandcamp site soon. Bass and drums doom duo from the Canadian wastelands of Montreal, Québec. It’s Méchant Colosse and the four track EP this track will be featured on is set to be released after the summer. Sludgy, doom metal that has a certain 'je ne sais quoi'. Mysteriously good, and apparently big in Japan!
There are many bogs around the world and many are worth it to get totally stuck in! But the new four-piece from Ghent, Belgium mixing post-metal, sludge and heavy psych is definitely the kind of quagmire to fall in love with. They make it swampy, or use their aggressive side or let it all escape the murk and have their melodies float above the treacle… This Bog is good!
The new Godzilla In The Kitchen album will be out on Tonzonen Records somewhere in October. But right now you can join the rampage with the first single Nothing For None! Ever more proggy, ever more metal, it is their alternative groove that will surely pull you in. And with the bass player stepping up to do the vocals Godzilla has turned into a smoke-belching beast, high on stoner grooves, progressive detours and furious social paranoia. Simon Ulm howls from the eye of the storm while the riffs grind forward like riot tanks through a psychedelic fever dream!
I miss Portugal often. Lisbon as well. All my times there was pure fire. So I get the name! An EP filled with fuzzed-out grooves, swaggering hooks and amplifier smoke pouring from every crack. Her Name Was Fire rides the line between Queens of the Stone Age cool and psychedelic overload, whipping massive choruses into a wild, sweat-soaked heavy-rock communion. And there’s only two of them!! Wild stuff! For wild Lisbon nights!
It arrived through Snowhite PR, the new psychedelic single Stolen Places by Jangal. Berlin-based New Zealander Brodie White is responsible for your lust to start wandering through a collapsing shopping mall at 2AM with sparks falling from the ceiling and someone preaching doom through a broken karaoke machine. Brodie twists post-punk tension, urban decay and strange neon melancholy into a hypnotic crawl through the cracked soul of transactional modern existence. Wait what?
Echodelick Records rules! But you already knew that! Originally released in 2025, the Real Love is a five track by Dead Hits. A Brooklyn-based stoner rock band delivering volume, grit, and groove straight from the underground, featuring former members of NAAM and La Otracina. Well, Dead Hits seem to stumble out of the New York psychic smog clutching fuzz-drenched riffs, wah-pedal hallucinations and garage-rock napalm. Real Love howls like a subway exorcism at sunrise! Acid-soaked psych, gutter-punk swagger and amplifier worship colliding in a glorious, feedback-screaming riot somewhere between cosmic revelation and total nervous collapse. Glorious!
Off on natural charge! Bon voyage! That's right, our very own in house poet and possible rap artist is off on a holiday, fueled by his own zealous energy and you might possibly stumble across him on some mic night in Dublin, May 25th! (The International Pub, Wicklow Street, starts at 20.00.) It's Ronny Dijksterhuis! And just before he ran out the door, he delivered another Quick Fire Friday segment in his very own style! And you know what that means...
Things will get hot and heavy from here on in!
On the
brink of a highly anticipated holiday break, it's time to spit out another Quick Fire Friday. And I mean, a quick one, Lucky Luke style. So, no rambling
about anything at all, just music, fired at you more rapidly than my keyboard's
shadow could.
Prodigal Man – EPMMXXVI
Let's start with the new two track ep by Japanese guttural sludge doomsters Prodigal Man. If your skull still hasn't been cracked after hearing this, your amongst a few unlucky people in the world.
Taking inspiration from bands like Black Sabbath, St. Vitus and Cathedral, Illinois-based Creeper Bud serves us one of the best stoner/doom crossover songs I've heard this year. No mean feat considering this is their first ever single. It already has me salivating over the prospect of a possible album somewhere in the future.
Much against my own expectations Burning Sister's latest single grabs me by the throat big time. Doom and hazy psychedelics are fighting over whether or not to engage in unholy matrimony (and associated activities). The result is a seven and a half minute song that's as hypnotic as it is elusive.
Leaning heavily on Fu Manchu fuzzadelics, combined with a spicy bite of Electric Frankenstein-style rock & roll, Leash (formerly Hudu Akil) deliver a fireball EP that'll have your neighbours complaining about noise pollution in no time.
'Siamese', the new single by Dutch band Shed-It, is a perfect mix of alternative rock and stoner. Heavy stoner grooves with melodic parts for memorability's sake and some short, subtle moments to give you the idea what it might feel like when you'd get enough time to let everything that happens sink in. Very diverse, highly energetic and above all a great song from start to finish.
A raucous, rocking version of worldwide nineties dance hit 'No Limit' is the first excerpt from GURT's upcoming EP 'Survival of the Shittest', scheduled for release on June 5th. Unexpected, but fun and catchy as fuck.
The new single from Russian outfit Wommer (formerly known as EYE) addresses the topic of ancient evil in a gritty, aggressive heavy stoner doom track that is bound to rip your eardrums apart. Delicious one might say.
Want some more stoner doom goodness? Look no further than 'Earthbound & Down', the new EP by Tomah, WI's Thundergoat. Two tracks of weed-inspired goodness.
Canadian stoner rawk trio Cannabus are shaping up to release their first full length 'Ride the Bus' on July 3rd. They already released two tasty singles which were straight up stoner fuzz with a raw edge. Third single '4Runner' puts the pedal through the floor with speedrock meets turn of the century stoner. All drenched in an overdose of fuzz of course.
On May 8th Go Down Records has released a remastered version of Cyborg Zero's 2021 self-released debut album 'Zero'. As an added bonus the re-released version starts with two brand new songs, one of which is this great stoner surf song 'Surfin' on Mars'. Turn up to 11 and shuffle those feet! And make sure to check out the entire album if you're not familiar with it yet. It's great.
The release date for the new Maliciouz album you ask… It is today! Or tomorrow, depending on where you live... And we are honored to present to you the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Sympathypnotic Intercession by one man monastic doom magician Maliciouz, right here, right now! We brought you the premiere for the Catharticism single and we must have done something right to also be able to bring you the FULL ALBUM as well… Thank you maestro and Good Boy PR for the opportunity once again!
Maliciouz crafts a slow-burning journey on Sympathypnotic Intercession. From the dust-choked expanse of Joshua Tree, California, where sound feels carved from heat, weight, and silence, the eight tracks might feel like a cortege at one or more points. But it will constantly feel wholesome and healing. Yes, this release unfolds like a single almost one hour and ten minutes long, descending narrative of immersive, monolithic and monastic doom, where guitars sink into sludge-thick distortion and the drone-like resonance bends time itself…
After 39 has commenced the procession, Pendulous opens like a heavy breath before collapse, while A Thousand Deaths drags deeper into crushing, ritual repetition that feels almost geological in its patience. Intercession introduces a faint, melancholic fracture of light through all the opressive haze, and Agony & Ivory tightens the tension with abrasive contrast and buried, ghostlike melody, floating through a hallway not entered for ages. At the center, Catharticism becomes a release point, where hypnotic waves of distortion feel cleansing despite their weight, as if pressure is entirely transformative and requires no escape. Torn unravels the structure into fractured, liminal space, and Mountain Rising Falling closes the passage with vast, echoing descent and ascent folding into one another, like an M C Escher labyrinth.
And as we might have stated before, throughout the album, the sound remains immersive, oppressive, and strangely restorative, like a slow ritual of emotional release through weight and repetition… Press play now on Maliciouz and all it's raw, unpretentious doom. Let it engulf you completely... Easy to
enter, but be warned, you might lose all your sorrows, angers and
frustration. You might come out at the other end, slightly healed...
PR Wire:
Maliciouz
Low, slow, and loud doom from the Mojave Desert New album “SympathypnoticIntercession” out May 22nd, 2026 Genres: Funeral doom, sludge, instrumental
After
crushing 2025 with two albums “SARBERUS” and “TORTOISE”, one-man doom
dealer Maliciouz returns with more oppressively heavy, psychedelic riffs
on “Sympathypnotic Intercession”. A statement on grief, pain, and
healing, the new album is personal and poignant.
The
music of Maliciouz is described as “tectonic shifting of the earth’s
crust”, “the slow, grinding decay of a planet across eons”, “almighty
riffs and a dark atmosphere”, “will vibrate your skull off of your
spine”,“wrapped in hypnotic, suffocating atmospheres”, “a wall of
crushing weight”, “heavy as fuck”, “the riffs are gargantuan, lumbering,
prehistoric behemoths”, “soaked in desert heat”, “state of the art low
tempo metal”.
About the album:
What
the holy blazes does Sympathypnotic mean?! A hypnotic piece of music or
performance could be sympathetic if it evokes deep emotions or
resonates with someone’s inner state. For example: “The hypnotic melody
felt sympathetic to my grief—it lulled me into a calm where I could
finally cry.” And what about the Intercession part? Inter - to place
into a grave or tomb Cession - the formal giving up of rights The
specific way I’m using it here is “lay down your right to heal yourself
and let the music do this for you”. I fully believe in the power of
heavy music to heal. My soul resonates with low, slow, and loud. Heavy
music relieves heaviness. On this premise... Sympathypnotic Intercession
is a collection of songs regarding life’s troubles; but with the hope
of bringing relief and healing for those needing this.
If the honorable Bucky Brown says that 'Phe is short for Phenomenal' on their very first EP release, you know this is a band that has something special going on. Well, that little trio from the south of the Netherlands will be releasing a new album called Closer To The Sun somewhere after the summer has ended. And tracking the growth from that first EP to Glooming Dawn in 2020 and Nothing Else Is Real in 2023 was stunning. But hearing the first single: Adrift will blow each and everyone away. The growth is Phe. Phe stands for Phenomenal! We're honored to present to you the Single Premiere for the brand new Phe track: Adrift!
For some the new single Adrift might scratch that King Buffalo itch or quench the Kal-El urge... But for all Adrift will feel like the right word, for this how Phe pulls the listener in. You are not dropped into a song, but it is slowly untethering from gravity. The new single moves slowly through the cosmos as it mirrors the psychonaut on board's half remembered journey through a heat-hazed desert night. Riffs arrive in slow waves rather than clean edges and support the collapsing dreamscapes. Hypnotic repetition beomes the kind of spell that pulls everything inward as time seems to stretch outwards...
Guitars blur into shimmering spacey haze, sometimes crushing down like tectonic plates, sometimes dissolving into distant echoing lights. The rhythm section steadies it all, not driving, but drifting through the currents like the vessel we are all bound in. Vocals cut through like transmissions from another time, human, pained, but slightly removed, effects leaving you no choice but to trust the guide as you transverse along....
Adrift is heavy, but weightless at the very same time... A slow orbit, through dust, distortion and an endless open expanse. Surrender is the only way forward...
