Tusoc – Monolito

 

 

Tusoc – Monolito
Self-released – 2026
Rock, Stoner
Rated: ****

Maybe it was erased by time or blown away... But I was sure I wrote something about their damn fine 2023 release Éter; just as I was sure the new album Monolito would rank high on the April Doom Charts. And indeed, the new Tusoc album made the published list of 40 out of more than 200 albums that received votes. But I assumed it would end up higher. I also found out I never got around to mentioning Éter… Or maybe it floated away on some strange desert wind… 

They have more and earlier releases as well, live album Vivo Desde el Éter from 2025 and Un Ciprés en Llamas from 2022. But Éter felt like a gigantic step forward and onto a road that would always combine their very own mysterious atmosphere around their drifting, floating version of stoner rock. And on Monolito they manage to do that even more, for each track seems to drift like a chapter from a book that never admits its ending, shifting from haze to eruption, from grief to firelight. 

The Tusoc four have this strange ability to create music that is entirely tangible yet feels like it might vanish as you are listening to it, leaving only minor footprints behind. The pages written with ancient soot crafted ink, remembers the dim lit room where the sounds were created. Somewhere inside a forgotten building in Rosario, Argentina, where the stone corridors sparked with electricity and the air inside remembers those old storms. The bass, the drum, they move like that ancient thunder that emptied the streets, while guitars have the keys to all those hidden doors… Sometimes they open to the riffs conjured by the desert heat outside and at other times submerged cathedrals of sound become everything you can see and feel. 

The vocals, distant and in Spanish, feel like the messages that were written on the walls that have long since crumbled, like on those monuments in ruin… Themes rise, fracture, and dissolve into atmosphere, as if the album is slowly erasing the path by which it was travelling, dusting away those footprints. Monolito by Tusoc is an album that will grab you completely and entirely and you will need to grab, with both hands, both ears and your entire heart. Otherwise it might float away on the desert wind… 

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Black Lung – Forever Beyond

 

 

Black Lung – Forever Beyond
Magnetic Eye Records – 2026
Rock, Prog, Psych
Rated: *****

The American outfit Black Lung released their self-titled debut EP back in 2014 and followed that one up with two albums that matched that first release in quality before blowing all of that out of the water with the brilliant 2022 album Dark Waves. And since the beginning of March there’s a new addition called Forever Beyond, an album that proves to be even more beautiful than all that came before. The psychedelic rock continues to drift ever closer to the sound of All Them Witches, but where that band leans into an increasingly oppressive atmosphere, Black Lung instead expands outwards… Crafting something wide, grandiose, and filled with sweeping gestures. Even when the themes touch on fascism, blind nationalism, and the suffocating machinery of capitalist oligarchy, the music remains strangely alluring: seductive, provocative, and at times even dreamlike.

At moments, the band veers into blues-inflected passages, or even allows hints of metal to surface, but always the result is the same, an invitation to lose yourself, to smile quietly, and to drift into reverie. Added to this is the remarkable voice of vocalist Dave Cavalier, which arrives precisely when needed to deepen the emotional resonance of each passage. The result is an album that stands as one of the finest you are likely to hear this year. Thematically, it may speak to the current condition of human society, and in doing so perhaps achieves a kind of  timelessness. In any case, it all feels as though Forever Beyond has been made for eternity…

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Elder
Tusoc
Birds of Vale
A Very Old Ghost Behind The Farm
Black Lung
The Same River
Glowsun
We Follow The Earth
Pelican
Deathbird Earth

Good morning! After a week filled with three interviews, preparing for those and of course a new edition of the Doom Charts, this one will be marked off by a show in Utrecht by the one and only Hermano! Can’t wait to see the Hermano heroes once again! And with Solace and Troy Torino as pre-show this is one hell of a night! Might be going to bed early, just so Friday arrives early… 

And on the HiVe we managed to post something about the new Iron Jinn single, re-posted those words on Corrosion of Conformity and Phantom Logic. And started with that wild Single Premiere for the new Maliciouz! Have you been healed yet by the glacial doom of Catharticism? Check it out! Check’m all out!

Iron Jinn - The Futurist

 

 

Iron Jinn – The Futurist

Back in 2023, on a hot and sweaty day, I had the honor of being a fly on the wall as Alain Johannes and Iron Jinn went through the setlist of what songs they would be playing for most of the dates they would go out together. A few weeks later, on another sweltering day, I caught that show, live in Nobel, Leiden, where the entire show felt like a wild feverish dream. And that energy is something the band always manages to conjure….

Just listen to the new single The Futurist, a nearly eighteen-minute long progressive rock journey, where you descent into a humid, flickering interior where groove and atmosphere coil like smoke. The band drifts deeper into shadowed prog terrain and become this pulsing, hypnotic, unsettling, yet strangely radiant force of nature, as if some distant light keeps breaking through. If The Futurist is the seminal calling card for the new album to arrive this fall on Suburban Records, we’re all in for one hell of a compelling, immersive and incredibly intense adventure… 

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Iron Jinn presents ‘The Futurist’
…and Reich and Rolls towards the new album

Iron Jinn releases the first single of their upcoming album and simultaneously coins ‘Reich & Roll’ as their new genre. On the 19th of September Iron Jinn present their new album at Doornroosje, Nijmegen. They invited the legendary kraut duo zZz as a special guest. Tickets are on sale now. In the 18-minute epos ‘The Futurist’ you hear jazzy McCoy Tyner chords and riffs like molochs roll into a Steve Reich-ian minimal music jam, where guitars, cellos and keys subtly build a cathedral of sound; brick by brick. A lot of bands are psychedelic in sound, but Iron Jinn excels in mind-bending ideas. A distorted banjo is used to churn out rapid rolls like machine gun fire, while the voices of singers Wout Kemkens and Oeds Beydals reverberate their words about a world where technology is seen as salvation and models and data as messiahs. A reality where people are expected to adapt to the systems instead of the other way around. Later in the song Kemkens croons and echoes the words of Oppenheimer and Plato and just a few moments later (in the closing seconds of the track) you hear the most balls out version of Iron Jinn yet. This band is all about contrasts and it really  shows in ‘The Futurist’. Yes, if you want to be hard as a rock you also have to be sweet as silk.

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Iron Jinn’s upcoming studio album (september 2026) is their first as a fivepiece. Within the new compositions, seven pieces in 70 minutes, the band places a strong emphasis on dynamics and musical interplay. Unlike their debut album (2023), an ambitious studio project as a trio, this new studio album was refined and deepened on stages through Europe. It introduces new colors in the form of two adventurous players: bassist Gerben Bielderman and keys player Jarno van Es, the latter debuted with Iron Jinn on Roadburn and luckily never left. The album  recordings - under the helm of Pieter Kloos (Motorpsycho/The Devil’ Blood/DOOL) - took place in a former dance studio, quite fitting since the band plays more light-footed than on Iron Jinn’s former heavy, sometimes doomy, studio work.

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Phantom Logic – Salton Dust

 

 

Phantom Logic – Salton Dust 
Glory or Death Records – 2026 
Rock, Psych
Rated: ****

Not to dismiss the rest of the band, cause this is some beautiful long form psych rock! But why is it that sometimes a musician comes along that has that special something, that spark, that energy, that always manages to give a song that extra edge, that extra beauty… The single Glyphwave already felt like riding a sandstorm on a broken amplifier, with no escape possible, your body constantly filled with both serenity and electrical panic. And the entire debut album Salton Dust by Phantom Logic has that vibe and truly sounds like it was dragged out of some ghostly mirage somewhere on the edge of a desert. Sun-bleached, fuzz-drenched, and beautifully unhinged in the best possible of ways. This is heavy psych rock as a desert hallucination: twin guitars slithering and colliding like heat mirages, rhythm section locked into a sand-scorched trance and everything vibrating at its very own pitch. And yes, with Isaiah Mitchell of Earthless igniting around the edges, on every of the four tracks, the record doesn’t just drift, float, or fly, it careens, slides and explodes, turning repetition into ritual and all that majestic tone into terrain. There is no room for compromise and none needed! Why would you even want to escape from all this beauty, mesmerizing chaos and grand desert sermon for tone and volume? Indeed, it would defy all logic…

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Corrosion Of Conformity – Good God / Baad Man

 

Corrosion Of Conformity – Good God / Baad Man
Nuclear Blast - 2026
Heavy Metal, Southern Rock, Sludge
Rated: ****

We love them, and when our resident poet Ronny Dijksterhuis mentioned their Gimme Some More single on a Quick Fire Friday segment, I remembered this was coming. For yes, that single heralded the coming of that amazing new Corrosion Of Conformity album Good God/Baad Man. The last album by COC, No Cross No Crown, was released in 2018. That’s quite a while ago, but a lot has changed since then. Two years after that album, drummer Reed Mullin passed away after a life marked by alcohol and drugs, and not long after that, co-founder and bassist Mike Dean decided to leave the band. That left founder, guitarist, and singer Woody Weatherman and guitarist/singer Pepper Keenan, a member since 1989, as the remaining core. But with newly recruited bassist Bobby Landgraf (ex-Down, Honky) and drummer Stanton Moore, who previously played on In The Arms Of God (2005), new energy and new fire has returned. The result is the double album Good God/Baad Man, over an hour-long journey through COC’s eclectic metal world. The first half is packed with furious metal in all the familiar COC styles, while the second half explores new paths: hard rock, blues, stoner, and even psychedelic touches. Producer Warren Riker described the album during recording as their “Dark Side Of The Doom,” a label that perfectly captures the versatility, intensity, and boldness of this powerful record…

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The Doom Charts For April 2026

 

DOOM CHARTS

APRIL 2026

“Hello, Doom Charts, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again…”

~ probably misheard lyrics by Simon & Garfunkel

 

Wow, that felt like an extremely short month! And once again chockfull with amazing releases. So many, that the forty below only begin to scratch the surface of the Heavy Underground. No less than 211 albums received votes, but as always, only forty are published. And those forty and all those others you already discovered or will in the near future, are there to offer you some respite and relief in a world full of constant upheaval. Getting lost in these records might allow the listener to release pent-up, excessive emotions, leading to emotional, spiritual, or intellectual relief and a balanced state. Perhaps the entire world should start listening? 

Indeed, what a month once again! Look at all the heavy splendor! And from the bands that made it I voted for: A Very Old Ghost Behind The Farm, Birds of Vale, Ampacity, Beneath The Skin, Tusoc, Admiral Sir Cloudesly Shovell, Black Weedow, Myar, Gurthworm, Elefus, American Sharks, Cesar Sun, White Tundra, Phantom Logic, Angine De Poitrine,  Bismut, Glowsun, Spirit Adrift, Purple Skies, Abrams, Bronco Forte, Occult Hand Order and Corrossion of Conformity... 

But as always... I could have voted for all who made the list! Gonna be starting the rundown soon with Number 40. The very cool Objective Counsciousness by Deathbird Earth... 

 

Already featured on Stoner HiVe:  

Album Premiere - Beneath The Skin - Beneath The Skin

 FULL ALBUM PREMIERE - White Tundra - Stories From The Dark

White Tundra – Stories From The Dark

Abrams – Loon

Bismut – Matsutake 

 

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and reviewers from the heavy underground around the globe.  Each month, our critics submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge, metal, stoner, psychedelic, progressive and heavy rock albums.  The results are compiled and tabulated into the chart below.  This is a one-stop shop for the best new albums in the world…

The Doom Charts for April 2026 

Single Premiere - Maliciouz - Catharticism

Single Premiere 

Maliciouz - Catharticism

 

Maliciouz will be releasing his new album Sympathypnotic Intercession on May 22nd. But we're honored to present to you now the first single for that album called: Catharticism! There's poetry at work here. From Joshua Tree, one-man-doom-magician Maliciouz crafts a hypnotic, molasses-heavy journey where crushing riffs and melancholic drone stretch time itself. The glacial doom feels less somber than earlier work but still unfolds in slow, immersive waves with a hallowed touch. Getting lost in the track allows the listener to release pent-up, excessive emotions, leading to emotional, spiritual, or intellectual relief and a balanced state. It’s raw, unpretentious doom that engulfs 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...

 

 

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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”.

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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. 

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Naxatras
John 5
Temple Fang
Abrams
Bismut
Black Toaster
White Tundra
Goddess
Fuzzing Nation
The Only Sons

It’s Kingsday over here in the Netherlands, and we’ve just returned from a two day break at the beach with our little six year old niece. Which meant, no updates and no time to keep track of everything. And last week, well, we had our Thursday and Friday spent doing all that Friday Freebie madness for the Doom Charts! As well as heading over to Tilburg for an amazing live show by Naxatras! If they ever turn up in your neighborhood, don’t miss out! But we did do a little last week and most importantly, that FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for White Tundra! Have you listened yet? Or that Black Toaster record! Which came out in February, highly addictive stuff! All of it… So check it out… All of ‘m! 

FULL ALBUM PREMIERE - White Tundra - Stories From The Dark

FULL ALBUM PREMIERE 

White Tundra - Stories From The Dark

The time has come! As we mentioned on Monday, today is the day we get to PREMIERE for you all the FULL ALBUM by Norwegian fourpiece White Tundra! It's called Stories From The Dark and it's brooding, menacing and full of dread... For Stories From The Dark creeps in like those eyes that watch you through those frozen woords, that glint you think you see just beyond the firelight. And as the storm approaches, you can feel the storm growing with each crushing riff and shifting shadow. Their sound stalks and lunges, one more a heavy deliberate prowl, and the next a like a cosmic void pulling you under. And then those voices, snarling, chanting, grunting in Nordic tongue or English. And beneath all that massive weight, melodies flicker like dying embers... This is no ordinary album, hell no... It's a saunter through the dark, where every step feels thrilling and just dangerous enough you dare to keep going... 

 Right?  

If you dare, go and push play on White Tundra's Stories From The Dark! 

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 Norwegian heavy voyagers White Tundra are back with their second full length album, “Stories from the Dark”, set for release on April 24th 2026 via Octopus Rising and Argonauta Records in deluxe vinyl and digital formats. The band also unveils their new single and official videoclip, “Kultarberget”, offering a first glimpse into the dark, atmospheric world of the album.

Formed in 2023, White Tundra emerged from the northern landscapes of Norway with a sound that fuses heavy atmospheric melodies, hypnotic grooves and a deep Scandinavian mystique. Their music drifts between desert rock energy, doom laden textures and Nordic folklore inspired narratives, balancing the raw power of 70s hard rock with modern stoner and dark rock influences. Often compared to Red Fang, Witchcraft and Skraeckoedlan, the band maintains a unique identity that is unmistakably their own.

Following their acclaimed self titled debut album in 2023, which secured a place on the Doom Charts, White Tundra spent 2024 rebuilding their creative core. With the arrival of lead guitarist Kjell Andres Nilsen and bassist Øyvind Persvik, the band began crafting what would become “Stories from the Dark”. Recording took place at AutumnSongs Recording Studio with producer Rhys Marsh, who also worked on the debut album, and mastering was completed by Joona Hassinen at Studio Underjord.

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“We started working on this album early 2024 when Kjell Andres joined on lead guitars. He had been piling up ideas for a while and came into the band with fresh blood and energy. After a while, Øyvind joined on bass and we really started to focus on writing in the summer of 2024. Many songs were in the loop for this album, but we settled on these final six tracks as the ones who fit best together. The winter and spring were used for demoing and pre productions, and Ola recorded the drums in mid July. Bass, guitar and vocals were recorded during two consecutive weeks in August.

The music has partly been written after the lyrics, often starting with creating the chorus and main mood of the songs and building from there. Other songs were partly finished musically before the lyrics fell into place. Ola wrote all the lyrics, with help from singer Steven to adapt them to the music. Thematically it takes off where the previous album ended, with lyrics about escaping from society, exploring the unknown and incorporating local folklore. The closing track, White Tundra, attempts to capture the entire soul and journey of the band, from desert rock inspiration to the white, stormy tundra.”

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Healer 04:43
Huset 05:38
Riderless Horse 06:51
Kultarberget 04:56
The Lake 05:27
White Tundra 08:44

With “Stories from the Dark”, White Tundra deliver a cohesive, immersive experience that cements their place as one of the most compelling voices in the modern heavy underground. Fans can explore hypnotic riffs, soaring melodies and atmospheric heaviness that spans Nordic darkness, desert rock grit and folklore-inspired storytelling.

 

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Black Toaster – Astrobird

 

 

Black Toaster – Astrobird
Self-released – 2026
Rock, Stoner, Alternative, Punk
Rated: ****

Starting off incredibly catchy, with pop sensible alternative rock and a punkish attitude woven through the title track, the Black Toaster three make their intentions clear from the get-go. They are here to entertain and make bodies move! It’s Astrobird, the track, the six track release and the soaring quality of their sound. For it takes off like a Peregrin Falcon carrying a jetpack!  This is stoner rock with its boots on the table and punk grease under its fingernails. Especially as the second track Liberty Loan commences, lurching forward on thick, rumbling bass lines that immediately declare occupation of the low end. While vocals and guitar aim to take flight once again. Drums hammer like a massive chugging engine refusing to stop. Liberty Loan is the kind of track that means business. 

Lord of The Mountain follows, and you’d better be ready to rumble once again. For the bass work is out of this world, detonating through you skull and you start to understand what the band meant by their own description: “We sound like an old Jeans jacket”. But this isn’t just clothing, this is survival gear for every wild night on the town! And as those fuzzed, fried and fired up riffs shoot through your bloodstream, Lord of The Mountain becomes that magical nod machine. This is what its all about. Acid Metal Man, swinging from swaggering groove to high-speed freeway panic, the kind that makes you check your rearview mirror for consequences. It revs, it howls, it careens forward and soon feels like controlled wreckage disguised as rock ’n roll. Action rock, which captures that worn-in, blue-collar spirit with a high-octane blend of stoner rock, punk grit, and alternative brightness once again. 

And this interplay of styles is seamless, punk urgency, stoner heft, and melodic accessibility blur together into a cohesive and distinctive sound. And to add to this they then decide to add a bit of slower momentum and a bit of Elvis into the mix with the longest track on the album Dead Inside,  you know Black Toaster is the real deal. Starting out again like the action packed rock you have become accustomed to, rumbling base, choppy drums and spitting guitars. They slow down half way through, where the sprinkles of doom come into play and a guitar is left to fly and perform a flurry. Before the Hound Dog joins the circus… Fireflies ends the twenty five minute long Astrobird release and takes it back to the beginning. Action packed and eager, high-octane, catchy and chunky. Propulsive drumming makes the album surge forward and towards the end with purpose. The bass once again warbling like a maniac, making it all even more steaming. Powerful, and impossible to ignore just as the rest of the Astrobird release. Black Toaster! That old jacket, right? The thing you love and was always there for all those good times… Put it on! It's time... 

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White Tundra – Stories From The Dark

 

 

White Tundra – Stories From The Dark
Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records – 2026
Metal, Stoner, Sludge, Doom, Prog
Rated: ****

It’s sludgy, it’s got razor sharp teeth, its menacing, it has style up the wazoo and we are honored to have the new White Tundra album Stories From The Dark as a Full Album Premiere for you all this Wednesday! That’s right, the Norwegian four are back! We mentioned their Honningfella release back in 2021 but should have mentioned their 2023 self-titled album as well. Both have that special edge to it, making you bit scared as well as very excited to be listening to it! Well, be sure to come back on Wednesday, if you dare, cause you will be hearing the full Stories From The Dark album here first! 

Stories From The Dark kicks open a frozen door with the single Healer and drags you into the storm that blasts across the tundra. Which is followed by Huset, riffs heralded by the drums, immediately become as thick as molasses, fuzz-soaked and all of it rumbles like thunder closing in fast. And then it opens up, everything stretches outwards, and turns into a swirling expanse, where time feels optional and the sweat will be running down your back. One moment you’re locked into a swaggering, groove-heavy stomp, the next, you’re drifting through cosmic haze, guitars spiraling and bending as if pulled by some unseen gravity and a momentum that will surely send you whirling back towards that groove.

It’s what they do best, White Tundra craft a dense, riff-driven sound that fuses the weight of doom and stoner metal with the color and sprawl of psychedelic and progressive rock. Their music leans heavily on fuzz-drenched and sludge guitar tones. But there are always those groove-centric rhythms, and a raw, unpolished edge that keeps everything feeling immediate, visceral and slightly menacing. 

Like a wolf grinning from the dark, there’s a wildness to it all. Vocals snarl, chant, grunt and beg to be howled along with. Beneath the noise, though, rising from the dark, there’s craft: hooks buried in distortion, melodies glowing through the murk, and a deep-rooted love for heavy rock tradition and a progressive edge that gives the right amount of atmospheric story telling. Just listen to the opening section of third track Riderless Horse for instance. Elements of classic heavy rock and Nordic atmosphere seep through, giving their sound a windswept, ghostly quality. Fitting for that track, but bleeding through on more moment throughout this magical album.

Vocals in both Norwegian and English, vocalized by a duo of voices, implore you to shout along or sound like a shadowy ritual. The gravel voiced prophets know exactly how to hit the right moments as they shell out their sermons across all the thunderous tones and grooves. It’s all walking a tightrope between hypnotic communion and creeping deception, dark Nordic woods are conjured and all those magical whispers will linger, like ominous echoes that both entice and unsettle. Do you dare to wander through all these Stories From The Dark?

(Written by JK)

It’s out, April 24th on Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records, but you can hear the Stories From The Dark album this Wednesday, the 22nd, right here on Stoner HiVe! 

Or check out White Tundra’s chosen opening track Healer right now! 



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