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

 

 

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

Lo-Pan
Torche
Chiefs
Black Pussy
Cherry Choke
Rifflord
Spidergawd
Acid King
Masters Of Reality
Shepherd

Morning! Welcome to another new start of the week and a Stoner HiVe glance back to the  week passed. It’s gonna be a hectic week and a very annoying day over here. But luckily we have that amazing music to help us get through it all! We’ve been listening to the albums that made the First ever Doom Charts list from March 2015, and that is reflected in the list above of course. Congrats once again to the DC and all its Contributors. We did a Quick Fire Friday, posted videos by An Evening With Knives, Komatsu and Point Mort. Love For Loud published her list of gigs for March and yes, we also promoted that interview with did for Aftershocks TV / Seismic Sounds. We talked a lot about Stoner HiVe and Doom Charts and it was a weird honor to do so. The honorable poet Ronny Dijksterhuis delivered two amazing reviews for the split album by TTTDC and Sons Of The Ionian Sea and Hempire. And yesterday we posted reviews for Ironrat and An Evening With Knives. Not too shabby listed like this. But of course, we always want to do more… Don’t think that can happen this week. But we’ll try! Go check out the write-ups and check out the playlist for the list above, mostly filled with amazing albums from March 2015! Thank you Doom Charts and your big ears!

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Week 10

An Evening With Knives – End of Time

 

 

An Evening With Knives – End of Time
Argonauta Records / Electric Spark Records – 2025
Metal, Post, Sludge, Prog
Rated: ****

Two weeks from now the world will quake and tremble just a little bit more from all those stereos around the globe set to volume eleven! It will signal the coming of the End Of Time. And by that we do not mean the biblical end of times, but the new album by Eindhoven, the Netherlands metal trio An Evening With Knives. The first studio release with new drummer Jarno van Osch, who was already introduced to the world by that wonderful FNR Sessions from 2023. Which made clear the sound would be turning a more aggressive and even more turbulent corner. End Of Time is definitely that! Furious, fiery and ferocious. There are a few moments here and there where the vocals of Marco Gelissen sound a little less convincing than on earlier albums. As if he was searching for the right direction or sound to aim for. But those moments are quickly dispersed by the righteous roars that usually follow. Like a lion about to devour his competitors! Those are perhaps two of the obvious differences in comparison to the earlier quality releases. Another one is that not just the drums are more direct, so are the compositions. Not a note too much seems to have been the adagio and this gives the songs, paradoxically enough, more room to come into their own. Eight tracks with the perfect vinyl running time of almost 39 minutes. Singles Pride Of Lions, The Mistake and Voices have been out for a bit now and turned heads. But those heads will be needing neck braces after hearing the short deviously whirling Death and the final and longest track on the album S21. S21 with seven and a half minutes takes the listener to Cambodia and speaks of all the atrocities that went on during the reign of the Khmer Rouge. Slowly picking up the pace, grabbing back the most perhaps to the sound of earlier albums, they start out very atmospheric and with the malicious utterings of Gelissen, you can feel the disgust seeping into your veins. Beautiful guitar work later on, thanks to riveting bass that pushes those guitar lines towards the heavens. It’s one of the many highlights on the album. And all of it is sure to set off a seismic event…

(Written by JK)

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Ironrat – Beneath It All

 

 

Ironrat – Beneath It All
Argonauta Records – 2025
Metal, Stoner, Doom
Rated: ****

Bradford, UK born Ironrat has been around in some shape or form for many a year. Releasing that gritty Monument album back in 2014. A quintet back then, they are now a four-piece. Still featuring a core three of Wayne Hustler on guitar, Stuart Hillman on bass and Martin Wiseman (a name you might know from Psychlona) on guitar and vocal duties. Cause vocalist Chris Flear left as well as drummer Lee Durham, now replaced by Gordon Wilkinson. The four forged Beneath It All out of fiery metal, often grunge or sludge toned, doom infused and stoner touched. The groove is ever-present and in headbanging fashion. They have that chugging and trucking element mastered but also change that up with some moments of dynamic energy. And that bass work, flourishes underneath that concrete riffage, just check out the excellent Tip Of My Tongue track for instance. An excellent atmospheric break setting you up for that final stretch of steam rolling ruckus, with a bass that is allowed to wander and scurry. Like a rat! Third track and single Lost is stoner metal by default. Sports great vocals by Wiseman, but also calming and soaring harmonies later on in the track. Showing promise of even more possibilities for the future. Beneath It All has everything to give the Ironrat four a podium to build on. And a stage to conquer us all!

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Point Mort - Skinned Teeth

 

 

Point Mort - Skinned Teeth

Almost Famous, a damn good movie. It's also a label to keep your eye on. And ear. For they will be releasing the new album called Le Point De Non-Retour by French Postcore, Hardcore, Metal quintet Point Mort. And Skinned Teeth is the first single and video! A riotous, punk, kitty loving and intense track! And those vocals, wowzah!

 

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Doom Charts - 10 Years

 

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Doom Charts - 10 Years

“You are about to experience one of the strangest meetings ever convened — a joining of […] the most unusual people on Earth! Sit quietly in the shadows of this clandestine conference and observe it well! For from it shall soon be born … The DOOM PATROL.”

~ Arnold Drake

Today, exactly 10 years ago, the first official Doom Charts went live. Ever since that time, the list of Contributors have been growing, changing, revolving and all of them have done wonderful things to spread the good word about all those records that reside in the Heavy Underground. We thank all the Contributors old and new for everything they have done for the Doom Charts and the scene. And continue to do. They do a lot of the work for the charts, but they all do so much more and we always hope you check out all of those individual sites. A huge thank you to Lucas, the man that started this thing. It was his crazy idea to do this on a monthly basis. And after some time discussing everything with a few cats, March 1^st, 2015,  turned out to the date it all went live…

We also want to thank all the PR companies and record companies for continuously finding out about the Doom Charts and sending those advance promos for the team to listen to. And even more for releasing and helping spread those amazing album. A big thank you to the bands as well. Cause they make that music we all cherish and want the rest of the world to hear. Thank you for doing what you do and making all of us a part of it. And a huge thank you to you, the followers, the readers, the heavy music fiends. Thank you for following, commenting and checking out what we do. We’re in this together and we have the best scene there is. Many articles have been written, podcasts made and video testaments put out into the world, about how embracing this scene is and how cool you all are and I can only agree with those.

You can follow the link to check out the full list of 25 records that went live on March 1^st, 2015! But looking back to all of them, I can only say: the gang had their ear to the ground from day one! Amazing albums! All of them! And that Top 3. The (sadly) only, yet stunning album by Brothers of the Sonic Cloth. That wild Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere by Acid King. And the Number 1 album of that month (and the month after) Lore by Elder. Can’t argue with any of those!

It’s been a great adventure and amazing ride so far… Thank you everyone and all! Here’s hoping we can do this some more!

The First Doom Charts

THE DOOM CHART FOR MARCH 2015

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and reviewers from the 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…