maandag 30 april 2018

Doktor420’s album tip of the month! Khan – Vale



Doktor420’s album tip of the month! 

Khan – Vale 


 Khan – Vale

Heavy psychedelic rock, mixed with some progressive tasters and a massive amount of fuzz! The Vale album by Khan is fingerlicking good! You will know when you hear it, this is beyond explanation! So good!




 

Fire Down Below – Saviour of Man


Fire Down Below – Saviour of Man

Viper Vixxen Goddess Saint, the album title along strikes a chord in every heavy rock lover’s heart! Well, our friendly Belgians from Fire Down Below will release their new album Hymn Of The Cosmic Man via Ripple Music on June 8th. And the first single Saviour Of Man is out now, featuring one kick ass video! Thanks to their friend Antoon De Grom and the album artwork provided by Stash! Go check it out! And be saved! 





Lady Electric – 4 Years After


Lady Electric – 4 Years After
Self released – 2018
Rock, Instrumental, Stoner, Desert, Psych, Seventies
Rated: *****

Shall we start by mentioning that the 4 Years After album is on bandcamp and that you can Name Your Price? Shall we than also state that we hope you listen online first and pay after for the download, cause the Polish trio Lady Electric has delivered some damn fine stuff! So good, one hopes that the three amigos’ get enough funding to put this to vinyl. Eight tracks that definitely has a psychedelic sixties or seventies feel, but with something darker lurking underneath. Something twisted with stoner and crazed with desert. The three-piece from the Gdynia harbor town just north of Gdansk manage to turn their sounds into something brooding and dangerous one minute, light and airy the next but always on point. Always full of character and filled to the brim with every righteous possibility. This is not just some long-winded jam session where every instrument wants to carve out her own place. No, this is instrumental goodness in the way Jimi used to play, thinking for every instrument and letting them all weave into one wonderful carpet. 4 Years After is simply put: amazing!

(Written by JK)



Stoner HiVe’s Top 5 artists listened to last week…


Stoner HiVe’s
Top 5 artists listened to last week…


As the rain pours down and the lightning teases the houses across the road; we notice we are still on the verge of physical and mental collapse. No fun and all work make Johnny a dull boy. (Cue Johnny The Boy) Luckily, we still have those amazing albums we can turn to for a little respite. Like the amazing stuff Rancho De La Luna family member Abby Travis puts out. Or the new Sleep, releasing The Sciences (almost) out of nowhere via Third Man Records and delivering proof they are sill the grandmasters of doom. Chuck full of hypnotic riffs, dragging rhythms and with a darker color and even more variation than masterpiece Dopesmoker. Out of this world brilliance! Psychedelic Witchcraft and their latest piece of excellence got some spins again. Sound Of The Wind out on Listenable Records reminds of Jefferson Airplane in many a way and one immediately longs for a time machine to travel to that magical time where the wave had not yet broken and rolled back. A label that always delivers the good stuff is ofcourse Heavy Psych Sounds! And with the new Monsternaut record Enter The Storm they’ve hit yet another homerun! Groovy stoner with sludge and metal influences straight from a little town near Helsinki. And last, but not least, for this record will get spun until the needle runs through the groove, we have the new Mos Generator. Shadowlands comes out on Listenable Records and feels as heavy as it is direct and punchy! Seventies blended with some grungy and progressive touches, it’s stoner and rolling thunder! It’s a generator running on rocket fuel! Get ready for the Mos Generator! And check’m out! Check’m all out!

StonerRock is back!


StonerRock is back!

Somewhere around 2010 the world trembled as StonerRock.com went down. But like all good things or ineradicable weeds, it is back! Together with All That Is Heavy both websites where there for the fan and to deliver the good stuff on all fronts. Well, under the helm of Casey Kelch both websites are back and ready for action! Your action ofcourse, so check out the new forum and subscribe! It’s what keeps the underground alive and rockin!






zaterdag 28 april 2018

Satori Junk – The Golden Dwarf


Satori Junk – The Golden Dwarf
Endless Winter – 2018
Rock, Metal, Prog, Psych, Stoner, Doom
Rated: *****

The Italian fuzzy foursome Satori Junk is back! Three years ago, they released the amazing self-titled record that brought us pure delicate and heavy gold. And now they return with a follow-up called The Golden Dwarf. On it they transform seventies psych and prog into something nasty, creepy and grimy. Full of electronic touches and a wall of fuzz their self-proclaimed acid horror comes to climax on the third track Cosmic Prison. Its sticks, it enchants, and it creeps you out like a crazed haunted mansion. What a song! And they continue that level though out the album with their very own take on psychedelic doom. This is the stuff that dreams are made off, or nightmares! Either way, The Golden Dwarf is your ticket out of this dreary world and into a land of magic and horror! I for one am laying my head down on the Blood Red Shrine to see what Satori Junk and The Golden Dwarf will do with it… They already have my head, heart and soul anyway!

(Written by JK)



Death Alley – Superbia


Death Alley – Superbia
Century Media – 2018
Rock, Hard, Punk, Proto, Psych
Rated: *****

We never mentioned the damn righteous Black Magick Boogieland album released by Death Alley in 2015. We did ofcourse mention that awesome live album recorded at Roadburn released last year. It summoned the spirit of The Devils Blood and some of that is still there on the new album Superbia. Which is logical ofcourse, since Oeds Beydals, is still the main axe-slinger. But there is also new blood in the form of drummer Uno Bruniosson (In Solitude/Grave Pleasures) and guitar player Sander Bus (The Blues Junkies). Together with vocalist Douwe Truijens they still bring us grade A psychedelic and proto punk hardrock that is raw and gritty and grinds its way into your soul. No, I said it wrong, they now bring us that tasty good stuff that sounds pure and ancient. And with much more progressive touches and seventies explorations. This is no simple Black Magick Boogieland follow-up, this is taking the Death Alley sound to much higher dimension, mysterious and wild! Awesome and impressive indeed! The groove will give you goosebumps and the songs will become your new soundtrack to every superb night in the gutter!

(Written by JK)



The Kaak – Chromosomes


The Kaak – Chromosomes

Underaged and in love with the old blues roots and everything punk! Buster and Thor! Here is Dutch duo The Kaak who just released their first self-titled seven inch with four songs in a short and sweet six minutes burst; featuring this little ditty!





dinsdag 24 april 2018

Weird Tales – The Fall


Weird Tales – The Fall
Self released – 2018
Doom, Psych, Rock, Metal, Sludge
Rated: ****

The first physical release The Fall by the Polish three-piece Weird Tales is actually a combination of their two earlier released EP’s Shiny Void and Weird Tales. Both up for ‘name your price’ on bandcamp and so if the digital version of the new release called The Fall. But for the physical version they went all out and made an awesome looking cd-box containing stickers of the cover art of the earlier EP’s and two cd’s with the six tracks. The album art is mystical and suits the music perfectly. Psychedelic doom that meanders and drags you along towards the abyss, sometimes turning over into a bit more sludge or more metallic. But the doom is prevalent and heavy my friends. The doom rides high and mighty, dronish in nature and minimal in its approach and recalls bleak vistas described in weird tales told by the likes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge or Edgar Allen Poe. Especially on those first three tracks. The second cd contains a slightly more psychedelic approach with a little bit of dustier air and foggy light. But that might just as easily be only a mirage; for there is still little hope on the horizon. And darkness and decay and death held illimitable dominion over all…

(Written by JK)



Stoner HiVe’s Top 5 artists listened to last week…


Stoner HiVe’s
Top 5 artists listened to last week…


Sorry my friends, we post this normally on the Monday, but there was even less time to write, thanks to a lot of bullshit stuff. But there is a small glimmer of green light on the horizon. So, go check out those bands listed above! Cause a new release of Sergeant Thunderhoof or Sleep (holy hell?! Sleep?) is always something to honor! We still spin Zigurat and Ride Of The Hoof religiously! And we finally found the right moment in time to post about the awesome Weird Tales. Check out the following mention above… And check’m out! Check’m all out!

maandag 16 april 2018

Stoner HiVe’s Top 5 artists listened to last week…


Stoner HiVe’s
Top 5 artists listened to last week…


We hope to return with some fine HiVe action on Thursday. Till then we are still swamped with work. Loads of uninteresting stuff and one squeaky fun assignment which we are preparing for right now. And as we switch our listening program, in preparation for an interview, to everything Johnny Rotten ever produced, we look back to what we listened to last week. The awesome Phe is back on rotation, since the boys are gearing up for some shows in the Netherlands. Zeke’s damn fine new Hellbender album out on Relapse Records was on heavy rotation as is Weird Tales and their The Fall album. Which we shall write something more about soon. The Blackwater Fever record Delusions got spun and I guess we all need to order the vinyl through Diggers Factory and Lord Ellis and their Mouth of The Mad record. Which you should read about on Desert Psychlist! And ofcourse, you should listen to them as well. And the other ones as well! You need to check’m out! Check’m all out!

zaterdag 14 april 2018

Been swamped with work... But will return to action soon!


Been swamped with work... But will return to action soon!

And while working; the Top 5 we listened to...

vrijdag 6 april 2018

Cosmic Fall – In Search of Outer Space


Cosmic Fall – In Search of Outer Space
Self released – 2018
Rock, Psych, Space, Stoner
Rated: *****

Soon, the vinyl release of the new album In Search Of Outer Space, will be out there very soon! Somewhere around the end of May. And after hearing the new Cosmic Fall record only once, you will surely be getting your hands on it! The German power-trio excels in carving out kandy-kolored-elektrik-kool-aid paintings full of day-glo sounds and trippy digressions. In fact, you will be served exactly what Cosmic Fall does best with the first track Jabberwocky which seems to have all of that in pure form. Free flowing, wild and pure like a gigantic wave of musicality. And you can’t wait to hear what comes next, together with the rest of an anxious universe. The jammy nature of this album feels even more at home surfing those heavy grooves they are known for, the underlying fuzzy tone that this time around is interchanged more often by subdued spells of tranquility. Check out the earlier released First Fall to hear the difference. The mix and match of these segments form a gigantic tension arc that never falters and takes the listener with them on their mighty quest. Holy hell, Cosmic Fall deliver quite the adventure here. Check it out and get ready for that vinyl release!

(Written by JK)



Legend of The Seagullmen – Legend of The Seagullmen


Legend of The Seagullmen – Legend of The Seagullmen
Dine Alone – 2018
Rock, Metal
Rated: ***

Apparently, we have Josh Homme to thank for the maritime metal supergroup called Legend of The Seagullmen. The project came into existence when the aforementioned Queens Of The Stone Age mastermind introduced Brent Hinds from Mastodon to filmmaker and guitar player Jimmy Hayward from Jonah Hex. Soon they found vocalist David Dreyer and the ideas for a ‘nautical spaghetti western’ were flying high! The result is here and also features Tool drummer Danny Carey and Zappa Plays Zappa bassist Peter Griffin. The crazies have delivered a self-titled debut with eight tracks that seem inspired by bands like Rainbow and Black Sabbath. Seventies psychedelic, but then metallic and hot sauced with seafaring craziness and stormy tales of woe. There are parts of the record that come across as drunken and marooned. Some guitar parts sound unfinished or like a rough sketch. As do some of the vocals; as if the fun in the studio was a bit too much for the ol’ boys! But that audible fun is also the main charm of the album. The vintage metal sound, the concept and the theatrical hymns entertain, and one cannot help but want to enlist with the Seagullmen and travel the oceans!

(Written by JK)



woensdag 4 april 2018

The Doom Chart For March 2018

 
 Doom Chart

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” (Roy Batty, Bladerunner)

But before that, maybe take the time to listen to the albums featured in the March countdown. These are not randomly picked statistics but pieces of music that have moved us, made the day seem a bit brighter, rescued us from “just another day at work” or just simply made us stomp our feet and nod our head.

The Doom Charts represent some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio and podcasters, and album reviewers from the doom-stoner-heavy underground around the globe.  Each month, our critics submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge metal, stoner-psychedelic 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…

We returned just in time to see the March 2018 Doom Chart go live! We were on route, ill and on route. Which is always a horrible way to travel. But we are back now and ready to scour those tweny-five amazing albums that are featured on the Doom Charts this month! No less than 250 albums got voted for this month and bands like Messa & Solstice only just fell off the end list. So many great albums and so little time to listen to them all! But we try and we love doing it! Cause there is so much wonderful music out there! So once again, thanks to all the bands for doing what they do and thanks to all the compadres of the Doom Chart for sticking to their heavy guns and firing off their choices and blurbs every month! Let's keep this righteous thing rolling! For all that good heavy stuff out there!



Stoner HiVe's Top 10 artists listened to last month...




(I know, a few days late again. But we were ill and on route once again. We've are back now, but still ill... Damn flu!)