Stoner HiVe: Number 19

maandag 19 december 2022

Number 19

We listened to Sleepwulf and Sasquatch on Number 20, but now we move on to Number 19! Where we find no less than three albums. We do jump 27 points from Number 20 to reach Number 19, but we do this to get groovy with three albums all at once. Those final lists that came in on that final day, pushed them all into the same spot. We only mentioned one of these albums this year, although the other two bands did already make the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown during past editions. Both of them with their 2018 release. (Number 10 and Number 12.) This time around, that one release will undoubtedly serve as perfect evidence for their craftmanship as doom metal alchemists. Their skill in combining heavy metal, with sludge and doom will live on forever. Crushing you with their mighty riffs and severing your head with those bludgeoning rhythms, for it seems, there can be only one. The other album shoots among the stars at the opposite spectrum of the heavy universe. Their heavy psychedelic rock goes the way of post rock, atmospheric stoner and infuses tiny elements of metal and doom, but aims forever into the vast emptiness of space, filling it all with mighty guitar work and controlled drums. It will surely help them escape, if only for a moment, all the ugliness going on in their home country. Another band that will point the listener into the direction of a nation at war, of people struggling, is that third band, with their newest album, which we mentioned earlier in the year. On which they bring you two tracks in Farsi, the language of Iran. Two stand out tracks, that will show you that this German based band can do much more than what you might expect from them listening to the more Palm Desert stonerrock inspired opening of their album. I’m sure those one sentence write-ups you just read already made it perfectly obvious which three albums we find on Number 19… But if not, scroll down and see who is who and then go listen to all the great rock once again… On Number 19 we find: