Stoner Hive’s Quick Fire Friday
On this final Friday of February, we get a first Quick Fire Friday of the month, all done in famous Ronny Dijksterhuis style! Which means, this will get hot and heavy from here on in! You ready?
Thank God it's Friday! Well, not every Friday, but it gets damn near close with the Doom Charts hitting the streets on the first one of every month, the Peroration List on the third and almost every moon cycle also a Quick Fire Friday. Not really sure if I already said it's Friday and we should thank God for that, but hey, it is, so you might as well enjoy these gems and jams we selected for you. Crank up the volume and make your neighbours wish it was Monday again.
Corrosion of Conformity - Gimme Some Moore
Let's start today with a big song by a legendary band. 'Gimme Some Moore' is a heavy, groove-driven beast that feels like a smack in the face with titanium fist and tons of explosives. If this is any indication of the quality on offer, than Corrosion of Conformity's new album 'Good God, Baad Man' (to be released on April 3rd through Nuclear Blast Records) is shaping up the be by far their best since 'Wiseblood'.
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Strawberry Bus Tour From Hell - Rööki-Rainerin paluu
Spotlighting Finnish underground music through the Outola radio show, these blokes also make music under the moniker Strawberry Bus Tour From Hell, whose music regularly serves as the outro for the radio show. Starting out as a pure laidback bossanova noise act, their latest single mixes spacerock, americana, stoner rock and smooth jazz, made complete with stories about the nineties Turku rock scene. In doing so, they come peeking around the corner of the heavy underground and it's our pleasure to let you know.
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Багно – Гідра
Багно is an instrumental doom band from Lviv, Ukraine that straightens the bedsheets in their silver-plated ghost traveling machine especially for you to enjoy an atmospheric brand of heavy doom with added synths to give the overall sound a spooky edge. Like they're wading through the swamp on a hoverboard. Over ten minutes of menacing lightness - or enlightening darkness. The choice is up to you.
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Midnightsun / Maoong - Hymns From: The Edge of Dusk
Travelling a bit farther east, we encounter two bands that are diving deeper into the gutters filled with dirt and gloom. 'Hymns From: The Edge of Dusk' is an appropriate title for a split of these Indonesian bands that have musical aggression tattooed on their foreheads and who both lend a tandem of songs to this release. Midnightsun brings doom with a sludge infused core that comes at you like a diesel train, chugging along at a sluggish pace, but relentless and deadly when it comes to close. Maoong on the other hand is more like a turbo-charged bulldozer that manages to go from naught to sixty in a matter of seconds. Fast stoner sludge and mid- to high-paced doom that is so goddamn raucous they'll run you over before you've got the chance to cry for help. Great work by Robuma Records combining these two totally different, yet strangely complementing bands.
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Low Country Jam Machine - Outta Sight
If you've got to consume well-aged rock music straight because, well, the ice is safely tucked away in a freezer, lock closed, key tossed away, then it won't be a problem being force-fed Low Country Jam Machine's second ep 'Outta Sight'. Four good songs with a strong seventies vibe. For fans of Greta Van Fleet, Rival Sons and Black Spiders.
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Bad Mothers Union - Cut In Half
March 19th sees the release of Bad Mothers Union's new Album 'Sore Losers'. January delivered the first preview through the twisted and slightly alienating heavy psych song 'God's Intercom'. This month these Irishmen treat us to another tune of the album, a mystical, dragging, dark, drawn-out yet exiting experimental psychedelic trip called 'Cut in Half'. God knows how the other tracks will sound, but I for one am more than eager to find out because both previews are killer.
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The Valley - Alcohol Failed
Because you can't go wrong with a bit of stoner meets traditional hard rock, here's the latest fist-pumping single of Italian band The Valley with a serious topic/confession underneath an outer layer of hard knuckle blows and ball-breaking riffs.
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Ruff Majik - For the Life of Me
And we're gonna go out with a bang, because that's what we're supposed to do, right? What band better to handle those closing duties than South African melodic heavy rockers Ruff Majik with their blistering new single 'For the Life of Me', released today. It's one big ball of blistering swing, controlled aggression and melodic goodness. If that isn't enough in itself, South African blues musician Dan Patlansky jumps in to not only give the guys a bit of help, but to blend in seamlessly on this song that'll be spinning in you head for days after just one spin.
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