Maison Dieu - Città Nascosta

 

Maison Dieu - Città Nascosta
Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records – 2026
Rock, Psych, Stoner, Folk, Doom
Rated: ****

Maison Dieu, the Italian trio, is about to release their full-sized debut Città Nascosta through the Argonauta Records imprint Octopus Rising. A wild continuation of their strange and wonderful mix of genres. Think psychedelic doom, ritualistic folk, Eastern influences and something that feels borrowed from the more Sardinian traditional music. The result is something entirely enchanting and hypnotic. And they do not hail from Sardinia, but from Senigallia, in the Marche region of eastern Italy, on the Adriatic coast. Either way, the world building, the foundation laid with their debut EP Herbacea is developed and made grandiose. A mystical journey into a shadowy universe, where fuzz laden guitars and weighty rhythms meet ancient instrumentation, haunting vocals and a distinctly otherworldly sensibility…

Dio Ci Vuole Nudi, the lead single, already out there for a month, with a video, already showing much of their art and intention. There’s a shadow lurking whenever the evocative folk starts to become heavy, there is an earthly primal energy waiting to be released and this all leads to some psychedelic doom touched tension. It moves you and gives you shivers at the same time. And that is after opener Caligramma already dragged you down from the first seconds by a dark hand reaching up from below. And Città Nascosta has seven more tracks that all seem to explore the space between the organic and the occult folklore. Sliding effortlessly from intimate to monumental. Without any doubt, Città Nascosta aim to build and provide an ever prevalent atmosphere. The immersive experience being more important than pure heavy riffing. 

And with all its repetition, ritualistic vocalization and chanting, the entire album serves as a compelling invitation into the hidden city, the place where the three from Maison Dieu reside. Mysterious by default and utterly enchanting, the forty-two minutes of Città Nascosta seem to unfold like a passage into a different world. Where ancient spirits still linger and time moves to slow the pulse of the earth. Maison Dieu’s Città Nascosta is an album you may never fully understand, yet one that continues to feel strangely familiar. As if some distant part of you has always know the way into the heart of the hidden city…

And we are truly honored to present to you… Tomorrow, on the 21st of September, the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for this wild and wonderful album! So, check back tomorrow, for the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Maison Dieu’s Città Nascosta! 

(Written by JK)

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Moon Destroys – Omni

Moon Destroys – Omni 
Blues Funeral Recordings – 2026
Rock, Stoner, Psych, Grunge
Rated: ****

Moon Destroys’ Omni is a head-first plunge into a swirling vortex of crushing riffs, psychedelic haze and dangerously infectious melodies. And all of those Doom Charts writers that wrote about it on the September issue and it’s Peroration were absolutely right. Omni is beautiful! Building on She Walks By Moonlight, the band sharpen their songwriting without sacrificing the sprawling atmosphere that makes their sound so intoxicating. Juan Montoya’s colossal riffs rumble like machinery from the bowels of the earth, Evan Diprima's drums powers the vortex ever forward, while Zach Amster’s melodic, emotionally charged vocals cut through the distortion like a flare in the night sky. Tracks like Invasion, Flowers and Motion Sickness burrow into your skull, their hooks lurking beneath layers of fuzz and hypnotic rhythms. Meanwhile, Lost Hearts offers a brief escape from the sonic onslaught, drifting into a weightless, dreamlike haze. Does the fog ever dissipate, no! But through it all, eyes closed, Omni becomes one hell of ride. Dangerous by default, heavy without suffocating and dreamy without losing any of its bite! Omni is what happens when you set the spinning wheel on fire! 

(Written by JK)

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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…

DeWolff
Castle
Witchthroat Serpent
Gods & Punks
Hijss
Black Space Riders
Domkraft
Firebreather
Graveyard
Growth

Morning. Hectic times continue. Rent paying work, family obligations and rush assignments that need to be finished way too quickly all take away from our time to HiVe. Which fills my heart with a quiet sorrow. Even more so, because I have a bunch of review and posts almost done and I foresee another week or very limited time… This time due to some travelling and an interview article with DeWolff that needs to be finished before I leave… But we will try and will do our best… 

Last week saw the Doom Charts Peroration for September go live, a review for the new Adjustable Mustard and a post about that wild new King Buffalo single. And of course the announcement for the deliriously fun festival that is inching ever closer: Helldorado! Will we see you there? Be sure to check in again soon, cause I know… For certain… That a premiere is waiting just around the corner… And it’s a wild one! Just like those ten bands and their albums listed above these words… 

 

None of the new albums are currently in my Bandcamp collection... Does the Bandcamp Playlist work for anyone anyway? Or should we do a Spotify playlist again? 

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The Doom Charts Peroration - September 2026

 

The Doom Charts Peroration 

September 2026

 

“Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles
I’m feeling very still
And I think the Doom Charts knows which way to go…”

~ misheard David Bowie lyrics

Time flies by ever faster. And the faster the world spins, the shorter the lights will glow. But luckily, we have these amazing albums to bring us into a time and space where everything can last forever. Music is an entirely different kind of art, and the only one that can truly do this. Because those sounds, those notes, those rhythms, and those riffs, leaking away from the Earth, will travel through the universe for all time, beyond our comprehension of the very concept of time itself… Below are 18 albums capable of granting you escape velocity. Climb aboard, leave the world behind, and let the music carry you beyond the boundaries of time…

This month featuring:  7 WEEKS, Castle, Early Moods, Earth Altar, Equisetum, Exitium Sui, Lume, Mama Doom, Maunah, Mister Earthbound, Moon Destroys, Mortuary Cave, Problem With Dragons, SATURNA, Still Water Zombies, Sub Ruinam, The Well and Villagers of Ioannina City...

The following are words of adoration from Doom Charts Contributors, devotions to albums they could not stop spinning. Each month, our writers gather to celebrate the finest in doom, sludge, metal, stoner, progressive, psychedelic, and other heavy realms. Their selections are woven into the Doom Charts, published on the first Friday of every month. But some affections run too deep for the regular edition. Some albums fall just outside the chart, or inspire so many write-ups, and only one was chosen. Here, those excesses of love remain… Unfiltered, unbound, and still echoing… A few last words which hopefully will inspire you to listen to those albums…

 

The Doom Charts Peroration - September 2026 

 

Adjustable Mustard – Denatured Blue

 

Adjustable Mustard – Denatured Blue
Dumpster Dog Records – 2026 
Rock, Psych, Sixties
Rated: ****

I’m always extremely happy when the postman drops off a package obviously containing a new vinyl record. Completely giddy before opening the package. Even more so when I haven’t ordered one or even expecting one. And to top that feeling, it all turns golden brown when you open the package, put the vinyl on the player, the needle down and hear those warm soulful and fuzzy sounds of Denatured Blue, the new album by the Adjustable Mustard duo… 

And with the new Denatured Blue, the Adjustable Mustard two drift deeper into the fuzz-drenched haze of psychedelic rock, without ever losing their soulful sixties glow. But on the new album, the guitars are allowed to bloom like wildflowers and Katie Pitts smoke tinged vocals rise like incense in a room lit by winter sunlight. There are echoes of a long forgotten acid dream here, that is without any doubt that sixties glow that courses through their veins, even though it might feel half remembered, it is still restless and alive in these tunes. 

Born from intuition, old notebooks and the beautiful poetry that is coincidence, so I’ve learned, the album feels like a gem discovered in the attic. The couple of Will White and Pitts followed the fragile sparks of inspiration wherever they lead, and allowed melodies to wander, as ideas took on a life of their own. Thanks to a great interview by former Doom Charts colleague Nick Pipitone, from The Third Eye blog and site, I’ve learned about a brutal Nashville ice storm, which became part of this album. And perhaps, the album might indeed feel like the eye of the storm, where chaos was suspended into the creative process. 

Your music muscle memory will spark to life on many occasion, without ever coming close to naming the legends of yore that might have made it flare up. Most of all, Denatured Blue sounds like the perfect reminder, that some things, cannot be manufactured. True artist don’t search for perfection. They search for the right lightning strike in the storm. The one they want to capture. The beauty and poetry of the unexpected. Denatured Blue is pure. The quiet freedom of making music simply because the soul demands it… 

(Written by JK)

Go listen to the first two singles, Dickerson and Need To Work On Me, now and get ready for the Denatured Blue album to drop on November 9th!

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Adjustable Mustard – Adjustable Mustard

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King Buffalo - Vagabond

 

King Buffalo - Vagabond

We could almost state, instantaneously quintessential, like a sonic blueprint for the King Buffalo sound! That’s right, the new Vagabond single is all that and a calling card for the new Doomsayer album to arriving December 4th! Go check out the new Vagabond… Or the earlier released The Slick And The Dead and feel at home in the distilled essence of all that is King Buffalo! 

 

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Review of Burden of Restlessness

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Review of Longing To Be The Mountain

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Regenerator, Number 2 on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2022

The Burden Of Restlessness, Number 2 on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2021

Dead Star, Number 4 on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020

Longing To Be The Mountains, Number 5 on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2018

 
 

 

Helldorado Festival

 

 

Helldorado Festival

One Month! Till we get to travel to fabled Helldorado once again! Drive your stake through a darkened heart... That wild festival in Eindhoven, the Netherlands where anything can happend and everything will. Ooooooo-ooo-oh yessssssss! These long strange nights... These warped and twisted nights! But you will never be quite sure you were even there... A lost golden festival of rock 'n roll! Lost in a haze and lost in time... Are you ready to get lost? 

Still a handful of tickets left... 

 Look at that stunning line-up!

Amazing bands one and all, but with 30 years of Peter Pan Speedrock, the party atmosphere will surely be grand from the get-go! Amenra! Converge! Ramkot! Prong! The Lords of Altamont and so many more! The Eagles Of Death Metal for instance! Let's boogie! 

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

 

 

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

The Grok
Queens of The Stone Age
Domkraft
LáGoon
Black Space Riders
Dozer
Phe
Steak
Bobbie Dazzle
Stinking Lizaveta

Good mornin! Rent paying work keeps interfering, but I guess you all know the deal. Some of it is fun though, and this week will have another cool assignment, hanging out with the guys from DeWolff in their studio. It does mean, less time to HiVe… So, last week we only had time to post about the wild new Stinking Lizaveta and Argentinian doom masters En La Niebla. Besides editing and reposting about that awe inspiring Golem album and scuzzy skater crazies of LáGoon. Hopefully we can post some more this week. Cause listening to the new Phe, Domkraft, Dozer, Steak, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Grok and Black Space Riders damn well get the creative juices flowing! Have a great week y’all! 

Below is the playlist for Week 42, featuring a selection of albums and tracks from my Bandcamp collection that are currently available to listen to...

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Stinking Lizaveta - Cassandra, Prophet of Doom

 

 

Stinking Lizaveta - Cassandra, Prophet of Doom
SRA Records – 2026
Rock, Instrumental, Punk, Stoner, Doom
Rated: ****

The reissue of their debut Hopelessness and Shame was magnificent, the tour that followed and their gig at Stoned From The Underground Festival was glorious and the new album continues with that victory march. Yes, thirty years on and the beast refuses to be tamed! Philadelphia’s instrumental power trio Stinking Lizaveta returns with Cassandra, Prophet of Doom, an eight-track slab of beautifully unhinged musical mayhem that proves some things only grow more dangerous with age… 

There’s still that off center story telling two step here and there, there’s still that punk spirit whispering through the songs and there’s still an arc and majestic drops to contend with. The guitar is allowed to tell that story, with twists, howls, noodling and pure fire. The bass following the steps or rumbling like subterranean thunder. And Cheshire Agusta’s drums keep the whole magnificent contraption hurtling towards the abyss, or inching towards the edge… 

The ride has two faces and both of them are glorious! For it all comes together as their progressive touches collide with the psychedelic detours, powerful Cassandra, Prophet of Doom-laden riffs and flashes of something akin of mischievous exuberance. The instinctive understanding between these three musicians, who have spent decades sharpening their skills, give you all the muscle and madness you can handle…
 
Instrumental, no maddening cries, no vocals, no compromises. Just three individuals that move by the speed of inspiration and instinct, pushing, pulling and occasionally almost dismantling the very music they create. They offer no visions of the future, but show how Stinking Lizaveta became the unruly force of nature it has become. Cassandra. She maybe the prophet of doom. Of predictions of ominous events lying in wait. But Stinking Lizaveta, to this day, remains the soundtrack to surviving all of it… 

(Written by JK)

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Golem – A Tale Of Dust And Tide

 

 

Golem – A Tale Of Dust And Tide
Self-released – 2026 
Rock, Stoner, Hard, Alternative
Rated: ****

There are of course many bands named Golem. Did that fact deter us? We might never know. W do know, we were late to this Golem party. We arrived as the votes came pouring in. Noticing all the Doom Charts Contributors voting for A Tale Of Dust And Tide by Uruguayan five-piece Golem we pressed play and by the time the cowbells arrived, we could not escape the grasp of the Golem! And we loved getting squeezed and clenched tight in between all those adventures! 

Cause five-piece Golem go for the gusto with their first long-play album! For A Tale Of Dust And Tide is definitely that! A long-play album, eighteen tracks, and more than two hours!! You want value for your buck on over on Bandcamp?! Next Bandcamp Friday, is November 6th. Cause wow! Unusually ambitious debut for a relatively obscure underground band right? But you’d better believe that those two hours are jam-packed with tight riffs, wild guitar work and thunderous rhythms. Fuzz-drenched, groovy and catchy these two hours fly by! And as you traverse the Golem universe you will be led through a fantastical world of crusades, wonderous battles and mythological creatures that turn up when you least expect it… A sprawling, immersive journey where ancient tales rise from the dust and the tide carries you ever onward. Ambitious. Absolutely. But Golem make the journey feel effortless, leaving you wanting to turn around and walk back into the haze for another two hours of dusty tales… 

(Written by JK)

 

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En la Niebla - Consuelo del Infortunio

 

 

En la Niebla - Consuelo del Infortunio
Self-released – 2026 
Rock, Doom, Metal, Stoner
Rated: ****

Do you hear? Something has awoken. Something ancient seems to stir beneath Consuelo del Infortunio. The new release by Argentinian trio En La Niebla, who lure you into their world of smoke, dancing shadows and slow-burning heat, where fuzz drenched guitars move like spirits and every riff carries primordial dread or at least something devious that has long been buried…

Rooted in doom, stoner and metal, the album moves through crushing heaviness, hypnotic grooves and psychedelic passages with an ever present haze. And with its raw, almost live-room quality, the incantation only becomes deeper. Nothing feels polished, the guitars crackle at the edges, riffs linger, cymbals sound off into the distance, where the bass lumbers and then suddenly seems to perform its own little ritual. The whole record seems to hum at its very own pitch.
 
And even though En La Niebla sing in Spanish, except for the Drop of Blood single, you can feel the essence of all the songs throbbing through your veins. Death, desire, occultism, they drift through the songs like fleeting figures glimpsed through the fog. And while the music remains intensely physical and gripping, heavy enough to feel it in your entire being it is also hypnotic enough to lose yourself completely. And there among the strange warmth of the shadows, you surrender to the darkness and find comfort in everything Consuelo del Infortunio… 

(Written by JK)

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LáGoon – Forget What You Heard

 

LáGoon – Forget What You Heard
Interstellar Smoke Records / Evil Noise Recordings – 2026 
Garage, Doom, Punk, Psych, Stoner
Rated: ****

We’ve always had a thing for LáGoon. It’s the kind of longing that slips quietly into your mind, then settles deeper… An itch beneath the skin, a shiver along the spine, a restless little ache that refuses to be ignored. A need to surrender to the craving, to quench whatever thirst it has awakened in you. And once it takes hold, there’s no sense in resisting. No reason to wait. No way to delay the satisfaction of giving in…

 
Luckily, we’ve had the pleasure of returning to the albums they’ve released over the years, the side-projects Anthony Gaglia was involved with and even talking to him one day many moons ago. And we’ve also had the pleasure of premiering that first single for their brand new album! 

Yes! LáGoon return with six rounds of Portland fuzz-damaged lunacy fired straight from the heavy underground and aimed directly at your eardrums! Punk, Doom, Garage, Psych and Stoner collide on Forget What You Heard in pure LáGoon fashion! You know the deal, blown speakers, bad behaviour and wild scuzzy riff worship! You Tried (You Failed) is that languid stoner punk and garage burner, slowly seeping into your veins, spicing up your blood and giving you Skullactic Visions, but not before majestic opener Kill The Messenger already kicked the door off its hinges with some glorious chaos, house burning kind of stoner noise! Once heard, Forget What You Heard, will be in your blood forever… Constantly giving you the itch and the perfect way to satisfy it! 

(Written by JK)

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Interview with Anthony Gaglia - LáGoon – Instinctive, fast and not so serious…

Anthony Gaglia responds on the review through a short lived segment called: 

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

 

 

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

Golem
Editors
Stinking Lizaveta
Hostile Tides
Matt C. White
The Fierce & The Dead
The Ocean
Polymoon
Black Space Riders
Plastic Woods

It was a wild week and an even wilder weekend! We headed out immediately after the Doom Charts went online. Hence, the later post about it on the HiVe… Still, even though there was limited time, we still managed to get a few little ditties  up and out. First and foremost, we got to premiere the new Erosions single for the Psalm / Erosions split album soon to be released as a first release for the new Space Goat Records. We could not resist mentioning the new A Perfect Circle single, For Whom It May Concern, perhaps simple in execution, it still works, or at least for me… We mentioned the debut by Kurtys Kidd, the new album by Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats, the fantastical Organic Green Monster Machine, the wild Hostile Tides and the smashing new album by Plastic Woods… Not bad for a busy week! Let’s see what happens this week… Hope it will be grand for you all!