Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Weekend

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Weekend

It’s happening! The very first Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Weekend of 2023! In fact it’s only the fourth time we are doing this Quick Fire thing for an entire weekend. Trying to get the word out on all that good and heavy stuff that’s been out there. The first Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday segment was done somewhere in 2014 and was started as a vehicle to get some quick words out about a handful of bands and only a small amount of words to help spread their musical prowess… Cause we realize there’s just so much out there! There is no way we can mention it all or even a small percentage of all that heavy stuff we all love. Well, this way, we hope to spread just a tiny bit more…  And we know… There is so much out there, so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is. The first Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Weekend of 2023! And it burns hot like molten lava!

Fuzz Voyage – Heavy Compass Demo

'Dar on guitar, Jeremy on bass and Ben on drums.' It’s Fuzz Voyage and their Heavy Compass four track demo. Twenty minutes of instrumental stoner and doom rock, brought to you with definite punk, surf and skater touches. Those choppy drums, attacking the skins with feverous energy during opening track South Side Moss for instance, how rad! And those shifts, from completely fuzzed out doom, to those fast paced, punk rocking freak outs, majestic! This trio got style! And lots of it!

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Sunbeam Overdrive – Crimson Stains

Soon, on Tentacle Industries, the release of the new album by French quartet Sunbeam Overdrive. It’s called Diama and Crimson Stains is the new single to entice you for the rest of the album soon to come. Scream, djent, progressive, alternative metal and all sorts of core elements come at you from all sides. Circling around you like a riff tornado, this single is but one of the many tracks that hurl you through space and time, and the storm both inside and out of you. It fits perfectly with the concept that seems to be surrounding the album…

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Redshift – Entropy

It’s the lead single and cool video for their new Laws Of Entropy album, which will be released on April 28th through the awesome Pale Wizard Records. We’re talking about Entropy by Redshift. Quirky? Prog metal fun? Jazz infused weird metal? There’s a lot of crazy stuff going on, that sort of feels like they threw some old school video games into a blender, poured all sorts of prog, metal, jazz and funk over it, shaked the shit out of it and put some eighties sounding ice cubes into it. A twisty straw and start guzzling! But since well, Entropy is a song about the absurdity and the anxiety of an existential crisis. It completely fits!

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Kilmore – From The Inside

Heavy riff rock straight out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It’s Kilmore and their six track From The Inside EP. Hard rock, classic rock, stoner rock, alternative rock, grunge and even some metal and prog, there’s a lot going on during these six tracks. The amazing vocals by Heather Harris are the one constant factor as the six tracks shift color and dive into whatever aspect the band felt was right for the song. Another constant is the fact that they manage to pull everything off; and what it might lack in catchy kicks, it makes up for in melody, tone and emotional charge… Tenfold.

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Blindfolded & Led to the Woods - Hallucinative Terror

Their Rejecting Obliteration album will be premiering on Prosthetic Records May 19th! Its avant-garde progressive death metal band Blindfolded & Led to the Woods and this is their lead single Hallucinative Terror. Extreme in delivery and blasting away tension, the dynamics are off the scale intense and nerve wrecking. If wasn’t for that final moment of reverie, you would surely be having daytime nightmares…

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Dead Earth – Fear No One

They’ve delivered their first full-sized album back in 2019 called Truth Hammer, followed that up with a four track EP entitled All Hail The Dark and are about to come back swinging sledgehammers and chainsaws, with three tracks on an EP called Fear No One. It’s Cleveland, Ohio’s Dead Earth. The now five piece brings you metal, with overtones of thrash, some speed and a classic heavy metal touch that sees their melodic antennas peeking and the guitar work shine with pure excellence. Brutal, aggressive and very savory!

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Shem – III

The natural follow-up to II, it’s Shem’s III. Out on Clostridium Records since April 1st, Shem is back with another highly atmospheric kraut rocking adventure. This time it takes on a very tribalistic, ritualistic, shamanistic identity. The slow but determined movement in opening track Paragate will induce a trance before the five minute mark is up; and then you still have eleven more minutes to go. The journey will take some of you inwards and others out towards the edges of the universe, or part of the infinite multiverse. And the funny thing is, part of the infinite multiverse is still infinite. And so are the dreams you might have while listening to Shem’s III. Turn on, tune in, and go places…

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