Temple Fang & Phe – Live at Muziekcafé Helmond

 

 

Temple Fang & Phe – Live at Muziekcafé Helmond

Tomorrow, April 1st, some might be so lucky to catch Temple Fang perform the second show of their new Tour at Muziekcafé in Helmond. The long form, space rock, psychedelic masters are finally able to take the stage again and hypnotize all those lucky bastards in the crowd! Support will be done by Phe; the Helmond three that never got to celebrate the release of their Glooming Dawn album, due to that sordid pandemic business. So, the best band of the Netherlands and the best band of Helmond on one bill… You might need to score yourself a ticket! Or more, cause your neighbor might need to see this as well before they become as big as the Beatles!

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Seum – John Flag

 

 

Seum – John Flag

Hear ye, hear ye! We’re honored to announce that on April 2nd we shall be premiering the new single by Montreal's very own "doom 'n' bass trio" Seum! It’s called John Flag and it’s the lead single for a certain and very particular smoke break they took while preparing for a new full-sized album. And well, that certain and very particular smoke break turned into a three track EP called Blueberry Cash; which will be unveiled on the appropriate time of the year. Indeed, best get ready for 4:20! But first; let us prepare to welcome John Flag! April 2nd!

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Otu – Fuzzy Tunes

 

 

Otu – Fuzzy Tunes
Self released – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Metal
Rated: ***

This guy has done what has always been lingering fantasy somewhere in those dark recesses of my mind. Sure; my thoughts would be to either form the Desert Monkeys and just do stonerrock versions of Arctic Monkeys songs. Or form a stonerrock cover band to stonerize other songs that have nothing to do with heavy rock. Well, the guy behind Moonic Productions, has named his project Otu and has delivered an excellently produced stonerrock album with 13 stoner songs called Fuzzy Tunes. You might also know him from the vocals he provided for Headless Monarch or his other band Kaiser. But Otu and Fuzzy Tunes is just the man himself. We must confess though that some of the tracks feel a little unnecessary or a bit too much like the original. But the album is already worth it because of the White Stripes cover Fell In Love With A Girl. A great version; all Kyuss’d up! The same can be said about Nirvana’s You Know You’re Right and a High On Fire take of Iron Maiden’s Gangland. Amazing how he can do it all; those different styles of vocals; the different styles of metal and stoner. Damn freakin cool! Here’s to Otu! Kippis!

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week…

Foo Fighters
Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders
Birds of Satan
Achachak
Medussa
Crimson Tower
Cypress Hill
Chivo
Cryptophaser
Dead Level

Rest In Peace – Taylor Hawkins

 

 

Rest In Peace – Taylor Hawkins

We’ve been spinning all those albums Taylor Hawkins was involved in since we got the news. The drummer that became the drummer in the band of the other drummer. You’ve got to have skills to be able to do that. And Taylor had those! Seen him perform with the Foo Fighters many times; twice with his Coattail Riders and had the honor to talk to him back when the Sonic Highways Series came out. A gentleman, down to earth and whole lot of fun. Asked him back then about the absolute best moment during that amazing and highly musical Sonic Highways project, to which he said: “Eating that chili dog in Austin, Texas, a taste of pure heaven!” It’s just so fucking sad. Another one of the good people gone…

Here's to you Mr. Hawkins, may you be rocking hard, wherever you are…

The Atomic Bitchwax, Valley of the Sun, and Borracho - Live at Hill Country Barbecue, Washington DC

 

 

The Atomic Bitchwax, Valley of the Sun, and Borracho - Live at Hill Country Barbecue, Washington DC – March 20th, 2022

What better way to close out a weekend than with loads of live fuzz. Local DC venue Hill Country Barbecue put on a show for the ages with the rock-solid lineup of hometown heroes Borracho, Ohio riff slingers Valley of the Sun, and the garden state's own legendary The Atomic Bitchwax.

Borracho kicked the doors open with their trademark rolling, gargantuan grooves, treating the audience to a sneaky preview from their upcoming album before time traveling backwards through their discography. Cuts from last year's "Pound of Flesh" lead the way, with "Holy Roller" and "It Came From the Sky" inducing head-nodding trances that would last through the set's end. Deeper cut "Empty" showed 2013's "Oculus" some righteous love, and throwback high speed ripper "Concentric Circles" helped close things out with a kick in the ass.

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In the unenviable position of following Borracho and opening for a certain TAB, Ohio's Valley of the Sun took the stage with years of well-earned confidence and proceeded to throw an absolute banger of a party. Frontman Ryan Ferrier's soaring vocals and gruff growls ushered in the Valley's grungy, desert-tinged stoner and slapped on the crowd's dancing shoes. Highlights like hit track "Hearts Aflame" from "The Sayings of the Seers" brought the Monster Magnet vibes with walls of fuzz, and the welcome toe-tapping QOTSA riffage of "Land of Fools" was a homerun.

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Finally, enter headliners The Atomic Bitchwax. Being a longtime fan and first-time show-goer, it's an understatement to say anticipation was through the roof, and the sentiment was shared. Band members in the crowd from both the opening acts and local groups spoke in awe of the sight we were about to behold, and hot damn we were not disappointed. Chris Kosnik and crew greeted the crowd with easygoing cheer and big grins, and promptly went to work melting faces clean off.  Cut after cut of auditory adrenaline shots were hammered out at breakneck speed, opening with the bawdy screams of "Hope You Die" and classics like "Houndstooth" and "Liv A Little". Not to mention the audience was blessed with not one, but two songs about kung fu. The high point of the night, however, was without question the display of top musicianship that is "War Claw". Every bassist in attendance craned for a look at the blur of fingers that was Chris Kosnik's right hand, and no one said it better than Borracho's own Mario Trubiano: they shouldn't be allowed to be that good. Mind blown.

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Cryptophaser – XXII

 

Cryptophaser – XXII
Self released / Music ADD Records – 2022
Rock, Metal, Stoner, Doom, Instrumental
Rated: ***

They’re two parts of the Flying Vipers, Destroy Babylon and we believe many other projects and bands; they’re identical twins and they rock out as a duo under the name Cryptophaser. On their debut release XXII they dubbed their sound dungeon fuzz. And you need to check it out! It’s not a huge time constraint for the six tracks on this release will only take thirteen minutes out of your day. Which is without any doubt the major weakness to this release; we would not have minded one bit to listen to more of opening title track Cryptophaser, grooving second track Fuzzmodic, anthemic third pounce and stomp Wet Brain, the three minute and thirty-two minute long battleship of the release called Solid State Transmissions with its middle eastern signature, the atmospheric space drone October 83 or damn fine rumbling stoner closer DOTMFG. You see; all those tracks have its merits and sound pretty darn good… It’s just too short. You can claim of course that everything that’s damn good will always be over too fast. But in this case it feels over before it can properly explode… Alright; Cryptophaser, you’ve got my attention now here’s me hoping for something more! A lot more!

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War Honey – Shard To Shatter

 

 

War Honey – Shard To Shatter
Handstand Records – 2022
Rock, Indie, Slowcore
Rated: ****

Fourpiece (Or Five-piece? Or three-piece?) War Honey hails from Brooklyn, New York and deliver sorrowful indie and woeful slowcore. Their 2020 release Shard To Shatter is now available on vinyl through Handstand Records. Hinting at love for the jazz-age, the thirties and the grand gestures we only have four tracks to get wisped away by. Wisped away to a dream sequence of a masquerade party in a crystal ball about to be shattered. A forlorn, slightly sinister vibe permeates the entire release and sad love, a kind of pale jewel shines its dim glow across the tracks. Lyrically, the songs address even darker themes and questions evoked by the ever more destructive effects of capitalism and inequality. All of these get even more weight due to the pandemic and the open spaces within the music where you can hear echoes and resonance of something pastoral and ethereal. Not music for an early morning peptalk or a wild late night party; but it will bring you into a higher state of mind. Just listen to that wonderful voice of Gabrielle Dana; and you will undoubtedly feel the pain, want to do better and wish for a light of hope to see us all through…  

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Boris – W

 

 

Boris – W
Sacred Bones / Konkurrent – 2022
Rock, Post, Experimental, Alternative, Avant-Garde, Metal
Rated: ***

I could have sworn we mentioned Boris before; cause we’ve always been following whatever weird stuff these Japanese freaks come up with. But apparently we only got around to mentioning their 2017 release Dear. And as we’ve only just come to grips with their January release W; they go and re-release their 2019 album called 1985. Reminding us once again about the insane amount of releases the band has released in the almost thirty years of their existence. And all of those releases are very different, listening to them in a row will make you hop, skip an jump through all sorts of rock and metal releases, with only one common denominator; it has something avant-garde, experimental and artsy. And if there is a big surprise on their new album W, it might be the fact that it sort of feels like a continuation of their 2020 record NO. Haunting, murky and misty atmospheres swirling up towards even more abstract takes on what everyone might constitute as music; whispering voices and rustling noises that wisp away whenever a metallic interlude crashes through and oscillates until the fog becomes dark and twisted clamor. Ambient doom lurking around the corner to be instilled into all the drone, the shoegaze and slow hypnotic drowse that is most present on W. But don’t forget they can also do punk sludge… Be ready to be jolted wide awake!

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

 

 

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

Antumbra
Firpo Chompeavy
Gravity Well
Smoke Wizzzard
Nebula
Sheev
Banditos
Bongzilla
Crowbar
Desert Clouds

World Wide Premiere - The Absurd - Possum Kingdom

 

 

World Wide Premiere - The Absurd - Possum Kingdom

 

We’re honored to bring to you the world wide premiere of The Absurd’s version of Possum Kingdom! Indeed that nineties grunge classic by Toadies. We love The Absurd and have done so ever since discovering that Boots On The Ground single back in 2018. We still spin the shit out of their The Sun Still Rises album and whenever we’re in the mood some cool relief; we take a ride with their The Absurd Goes To The Beach EP. So, in short, we love The Absurd! And if we are to trust the words of frontman Josh; he loves us too or at least things we’re cute…

 

Josh on the premiere: "We, El Absurdo Supreme, are most stoked to be featured on a blog as prestigious as this one. Joop is a warrior and a king, and also he's cute. Beware his axe. We have felled many a troll together. Also we hope you like our cover of Possum Kingdom. We switched up the drumbeat a bit, and sludged it up. It's a great song and hopefully we did it justice!"

 

 

 

 

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The Anomalys – Glitch

 

 

The Anomalys – Glitch
Slovenly Records / Shattered Platter PR – 2022
Rock, Punk, Garage, Surf, Thrash, Rockabilly
Rated: *****

And briefly, and only for those lucky few, who had ears enough to recognize it, music was good again. Charged with a dangerous current of electricity the nine tracks on the new Glitch album by the Dutch punk trio The Anomalys will sound near cracking perfect in your favorite shithole dive bar. It sure as hell does on my home stereo… Anyway, the new incarnation of this Amsterdam wrecking crew will see you lust for cheap nostalgia about the punk boom that happened in the late seventies. Here are three crazies that have enough swagger between the three of them that you will surely take notice even at the wildest of firework shows. Combining surf, rockabilly, punk and thrash with their garage rocking mania the nine tracks courtesy of main man and The Anomalys founder Bone have this even wilder streak to them now that the trio is rounded out by Remy Pablo, the amazing drummer of Weird Omen and second guitar looney Looch Vibrato (The Magnetix, Louder Than Death). With Glitch, The Anomalys have reached the pinnacle of their creation and even though they have been surfing the global punk current ever since their foundation, this might hopefully get them to ride that 50-year storm wave! Stunning; wild and dangerous; just check out the video and single Panic below and be convinced…

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The Anomalys – Panic

 

The Anomalys – Panic

Fear not! Don’t Panic! Just be ready to become that speed freak, to go ‘bad’, to become that thrill seeking, pleasure hungry sensualist, always looking to get shocked, amused, terrified, seeking to fill that empty spot in your heart with something new. It will happen. This is what the new lead single and video Panic for the new Glitch record by Dutch trio The Anomalys will do for you…

 

 

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