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

 

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

Void King
Thammuz
Mandy Manala
Red Eye
Billy Rudin
Ghost
Ball
Miss Lava
Tier
Brathair

Good morning! A new week is once again upon us, a week that will see the April Doom Charts go live. Did you manage to be a part of the Doom Charts Friday Freebie madness? Free codes were strewn like confetti last Friday. Hope you caught something. There were definitely some posts last week. Jon McGough came out swinging with a brilliant write-up about a brilliant album called Lifted From The Wind by Temple Fang. We wrote about Thammuz, Motorpsycho, Ghost, Tier, Void King and put up songs or videos by Museums, Lorquin’s Admiral, Sour Blood and Dozer. We were honored to bring you the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Void Kings’ The Hidden Hymnal: Chapter 2 and extremely grateful to receive a gift from the Grey Czar guys. Euarthropodia on Orange vinyl, and I have thing for Orange vinyl.. Marvelous! A week that in review looks busy enough. Well, let’s hope for a similar one this week. We’ll see, cause we still have some big stuff to finish up as well…

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Week 18

Thammuz – III

 

 

Thammuz – III
Argonauta Records
Rock, Metal, Stoner, Sludge
Rated: *****

After the debut album Into The Great Unknown from 2020 and Sons Of The Occult from 2022, Thammuz is back with their third full-sized album, and they aptly titled it: III. And with this new album the Dutch foursome become fearsome and solidify the Thammuz sound with blood and fuzz. Nine tracks oozing atmosphere and thunderous grooves. Songs like Ishtar, final track Devil’s Gallow or the interlude Risen, give III so much color and scenery that it widens the arc of every other track as well. Something you might not immediately expect when that quaking fuzz drenched When Darkness Comes opens the ball. A midtempo groove drags the listener along cobblestone bass work and nasal vocals before the guitar lifts it all towards a higher plain. Cutting to a meandering solo that slowly but surely turns the set up for the final rampaging stretch of darkness. Thammuz has entered the building! Following Old Man starts out anxious and luring you into the expectation of another blow-out but turns on its head and into a more dynamic and slow burning groove. Almost contemplative as the guitar rolls away from the sparing vocal lines that give you the perfect amount of thoughts to take with you, as the roll out becomes a rising tide and a final splash. Which you can imagine going higher, rising more and going on much longer when performed live. The earlier mentioned Ishtar sees Thammuz waltz with another Mesopotamian god, slowly dissolving the gloom and showing nothing but gauzy silhouettes of the magical beings they are. Transfixed you listen to the dance and the movie snippets that cut through the haze. It is beautifully done and the transition into Bloodlust, turns the songs into a two-headed beast that shimmers with beauty and fierceness. Together they seem to become the centerpiece to this wonderful new album, showing much growth for the Thammuz four. Cause their fuzzy and gritty stoner sound was already written cuneiform on a tablet, but this opens up their view point, widens the vista, both showing a different form of restraint and force. Like death and rising, like destroying and bringing to life, Thammuz is all about those ancient rites. Till all that faint air is troubled with song… All record and all night long…  

(Written by JK)

You can listen to first single When Darkness Comes right now! 

The full III album by Thammuz comes out on Argonauta Records on the 9th of May

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Motorpsycho – Motorpsycho

 

Motorpsycho – Motorpsycho
Det Nordenfjeldske Grammofonselskab – 2025
Rock, Prog
Rated: ****

Yay! A new Motorpsycho album! Sorry, I had to do it. Anyway... Been lucky enough to have experienced Motorpsycho many times and in many incarnations. For throughout their existence they have shifted shape, morphed and invited artists to join their ranks. But of course after more than 35 years of existence, we all know that Motorpsycho is that fabled duo of Bent Sæther and Hans Magnus Ryan. And those two cats will continue to do whatever they feel like. This has led to so many amazing albums and a few that unfortunately could not entertain me in the least. Only logical right? Which was also the case live. There have been one or two shows that left me wondering if they themselves knew what they were doing. But I guess they do, and when you call your new album, the twenty-seventh or even thirtieth studio album, I lost count, Motorpsycho, you show intent and that it might serve as a standing stone to proclaim your destiny henceforth. And that is perhaps to forever incorporate all the different styles, genres, designs, shapes and forms that they have dived into all those albums that have come and gone. And yes, they stated as much in their press release as well; and we can say with gladness in our heart, that it is true. They have returned to the prog rocking fold, tones of yore and older are dappled across the compositions that range from two to twenty minutes and with a total run time of 1 hour and twenty-one minutes, there is a lot to dive into. And it is worth it, cause as you submerge in their universe, you feel their sounds envelop you, fondle you and hold you as you hear these sparkling melodies cast brilliant rays of Motorpsycho sun through it all… It’s a new day…

(Written by JK)

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 Motorpsycho – Yay!

Kingdom of Oblivion on Number 12 of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of  2021

Motorpsycho – Kingdom of Oblivion

The All Is One on Number 15 of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020

Motorpsycho – The All Is One

Motorpsycho – The Crucible

Motorpsycho – The Tower

Heavy Metal Fruit on Number 10 of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2010 

 

Vinyl HiVe - Grey Czar – Euarthropodia

 

 

 

Vinyl HiVe - Grey Czar – Euarthropodia

 
We were absolutely honored to premiere this amazing album on April 9th...

And we are extremely grateful to receive this wonderful gift from the guys... Much love!

Out on Argonauta Records and Octopus Rising since April 11th, this is :

GREY CZAR - EUARTHROPODIA!!

If you can read it, you can claim the bandcamp code..

 

FULL ALBUM PREMIERE : Grey Czar – Euarthropodia

Grey Czar – Euarthropodia Review

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Ghost – Skeletá

 

Ghost – Skeletá
Loma Vista / Concord Records – 2025
Metal
Rated: ***

Had to do this little write-up today of course… You know why. One Pope being buried while the self-professed heavy metal Pope is standing tall and rocking hard. Had the pleasure of interviewing the man behind it once, forgot to ask him if he had stolen the album title to his 2016 album Popestar from the review we wrote back in 2013 about Infestissumam. Next time perhaps. Well… Ghost is back. And even less has changed in respect to the albums that came before. Good news for the fans that get psyched by his metal and pop pastiche, but not the best news for the ones that dug their beginning. But there is no turning back, his trajectory has been set for a while. This time he’s called Papa V Perpetua delivers his unmoving, steady but pristine vocals in the same fashion. Some minor guitar solo’s stand out, inviting more eighties tones into the Ghost palate. Everything else is still there, grandiose gestures, opting for operatic and excessive. And compositions that are unavoidably catchy. A bit more lighthearted perhaps when it comes to the Guiding Lights song or a tad more heavy as brought to you by second track Lachryma. All in all, on Skeletá we hear Ghost is still alive and doing its own pop metal thing. Rest In Peace Pope Francis. Long live Pope Papa V Perpetua!

(Written by JK)

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Ghost – Meliora

 

Ghost B.C. – Infestissumam

Museums – In Waves

 

 

Museums – In Waves

Sometimes you need to slow down, bop your head and smile as your hear a summer time guitar jangle and a voice speak the universal truth that everything comes In Waves… This is the new single by Montreal, Québec, Canada fourpiece Museums. And it is the first track to the two track single out on Petit Village Records Not as heavy as you might be used to from Stoner HiVe headquarters, but this indie, slowcore, summer-psych kind of music just feels perfect for this budding springtime…

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Temple Fang – Lifted From The Wind

 

 

Temple Fang – Lifted From The Wind
Stickman Records – 2025
Rock, Psych, Free
Rated: *****

Temple Fang are here with five long masterworks built around psychedelic passages, spiritual journeys, and enlightenment. There’s a true sense of wonder and divinity as the emotional vocals put you in a state of heightened awareness across ‘Lifted From The Wind’. The four piece from Amsterdam utilize progressive structures and heavy psych across the long-form backdrop to create a mind-blowing album that resonates deep to the core. Like an ancient spirit speaking through the darkness, Temple Fang are the radiant light reminding you to close off the outside world and nourish the inner mind, body, and soul.

The first single, ‘The River’, is a great introduction to the band, their sound, and what to expect for the duration of ‘Lifted From The Wind’. With a running time of over eighteen minutes, it’s not even the longest track on the album! Just as the song, a river flows with no fixed path, there are twists and turns. There’s expansion, transformation, and growth. The three pieces of ‘The River’ flow flawlessly altering the riverside, eroding the ground from underneath. With the gentle beginnings of ‘Once’ we are presented with a different vocalist, in fact three-quarters of the band provide vocals on ‘Lifted From The Wind’ adding more diversity to an already talented roster of musicians. It’s a slow building track with shamanic spoken words, a sanctuary of thoughts that flicker like candlelight, afterwards escalading into cosmic swells and electric storms.

Exhale the tension, exhale the world, everything under the sun is golden. A bountiful yield of psych enriched melodies and bottom end vibrations await you on ‘Harvest Angel’. The polychromatic layers and changes of time implore you to turn face from the sun and follow the rainbow. Though ‘The Radiant’ is the shortest song on ‘Lifted From The Wind’ it is a mighty force to be reckoned with, shining its bold rays of harmonious vocalizations throughout while keeping the mood pleasantly buoyant. We are one with everything upon this earthly realm seeking the guidance and acceptance of the universe. ‘Josephine’ shifts from a beautiful, sunbathed day of warmhearted memories to a more dramatic turn in musical direction and events, with fear settling in after the loss of love to the ravages of time.

The struggles of the band from lineup changes to the dreaded plague have forged Temple Fang into a band with an iron will. Fortunately, their desire and strength to carry-on outweighed any of the detriments thrown their way and with ‘Lifted From The Wind’ have elevated themselves farther beyond possibly what even they could have imagined.

(Written by Jon McGough)

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Lorquin's Admiral - Aren't We

 

Lorquin's Admiral - Aren't We

 

Had the pleasure of talking to Dawn and Dandy Brown recently about the new Lorquin’s Admiral project. And soon I will be sharing many of those words with you all. But the band is already sharing the second single and video right now. It's called Aren't We, and it's one of the many highlights on the album. Check it out and check back soon for more on Lorquin’s Admiral!

 

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Heavy psych explorers Lorquin’s Admiral unveil their latest official video for ‘Aren’t We’

"While all the songs on the Lorquin’s Admiral album reflect deeply emotional experiences, the inspiration behind the song Aren’t We comes from observing the absurdities humans use to define their lives. The song itself is a mirror to how music and art in general allow us a glimpse into existential concepts and our attempts to immortalize and rein in the absurd.  In the end, though, it’s really just a song, perhaps just a “love song”, among billions of other songs people use for comfort, belonging, or whatever else they need to gather in and hold onto the parade of moments that constitute our lives." - says Dandy Brown

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Featuring a stellar lineup of current and former members of Afghan Whigs, the Fizz Fuzz, Hermano, Luna Sol, Orquesta del Desierto, Sons of Alpha Centauri, and Yawning Sons, the band delivers a unique blend of soul-stirring harmonies, mesmerizing riffs, and unforgettable hooks.

Building on the critically acclaimed writing partnership between Marlon King, Nick Hannon, and Dandy Brown (first established on the widely celebrated Yawning Sons album Sky Island), Lorquin's Admiral encapsulates the essence of psychedelic rock while pushing the genre into exciting new territories. The band’s debut album highlights the stunning vocal interplay of husband-and-wife duo Dawn and Dandy Brown, and the commanding rhythms of celebrated drummer Steve Earle, creating an immersive sonic experience that is both heavy and hypnotic.

Adding to the album’s allure, guitar virtuosos David Angstrom (Hermano, Luna Sol) and Country Mark Engel lend their distinctive touch, enriching the record with lush, textured guitar landscapes. Angstrom’s contributions span seven tracks, while Engel’s masterful work graces two.

Drawing inspiration from desert rock pioneers while seamlessly incorporating elements of blues, psychedelic, and alternative music, Lorquin’s Admiral appeals to fans of Kyuss, Fu Manchu and Fatso Jetson, as well as admirers of the Cranberries, Screaming Trees and Garbage. The band carves out a unique space in the heavy-psychedelic scene, proving that rock music remains a powerful and evolving force.

 

Stay tuned for the release date of Lorquin's Admiral’s debut album and follow Argonauta Records for updates, singles and exclusive previews.

Or check out some more Dandy Brown stuff below... 

Dawn & Dandy's The Fizz Fuzz – Palmyra Review

Dawn & Dandy's The Fizz Fuzz - Deserts, Mountains, Oceans Review

Dave Angstrom's Asylum On The Hill – Passage To The Puzzle Factory Review

Dave Angstrom's Luna Sol – Demo Review

Dave Angstrom's Luna Sol – Blood Moon Review

Dave Angstrom's Luna Sol – Vita Mors Review 

Yawning Sons – Sky Island Review 

Sons Of Alpha Centauri – Push Review

Sons of Alpha Centauri / Karma to Burn – Split 7” Review

NEWS - Lorquin’s Admiral Signs with Argonauta Records

 

FULL ALBUM PREMIERE - Void King - The Hidden Hymnal : Chapter 2

 

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Void King - The Hidden Hymnal : Chapter 2

The new The Hidden Hymnal : Chapter 2 album by Void King stands like a twisted pillar of doom metal in many universes at once. Displaying not only the immeasurable growth of the band, but more importantly, their ability to implore whatever direction, genre or burst of genius they want into crafting their art. The Hidden Hymnal : Chapter 2, write-up HERE, feels like a doom metal album that secretly obscures the fact that it implores a lot of prog to weave their tale. And weave it does and spin it does and regale you with a tale that stays with you it does. In fact, it does a whole lot more and it does it all so well. And you can hear that for yourself right here, right now…

Out on Argonauta Records, this Friday April 25th, this is the new Void King album, The Hidden Hymnal : Chapter 2. Press Play!



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Tier – Backwood Blues

 

 

Tier – Backwood Blues
Pink Tank Records – 2025
Rock, Blues, Stoner, Southern
Rated: ****

German trio Tier has a lot of cool friends. One of them stopped me at Freak Valley 2023, talked about their Dawner album and pushed the CD into my hands. And now, another buddy of them emailed me about their upcoming Backwood Blues album. Still some time before the release becomes official, but it has been playing quite incessantly over here. And when you also have the magnificent Mel Lie in your corner spreading the word, you can safely state there is no shortage of love for Tier. And I’m about to try and spread that love some more… I love the blues, especially that stonerized version known all over the world as Diesel Blues. Coined by the legendary Ventilators band from the Netherlands, it’s a term that should sweep the globe and produce many offspring. Well, or at least it’s known in my little mind as Diesel Blues and even though Tier probably never head of that term, they often produce great anthems for the genre on the eight track Backwood Blues album. There’s even a moment on the Keep Sweet single that reminds a little bit of Fuckin Pain by Ventilators. But to be honest, Backwood Blues is on a different level, and we should forget the comparison. Take the more psychedelic Aether Ride and its blissful guitar intro, and lovely percussion, the way it meanders and carries itself like a magical energy current. Hang Em Up, Keep Sweet and Execution Song have that Southern touch and that glorious working on a chain gang kind of vibe. Entropy, the more atavistic, high energy stonerrock track, with a riveting guitar solo that turns into a heatseeking missile before returning to the riff fold and taking the track to its conclusion. You get my drift right? There’s so much to love about this album, so it’s only logical that they have many lovers. And after you’ve heard this album, you will surely be one of them… Keep Sweet!

(Written by JK)

Listen to the Hang 'Em Up single right now and get ready for the Backwood Blues album, dropping May 16th through Pink Tank Records! Tier!

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Sour Blood - Damaging Control

 

 

Sour Blood - Damaging Control

 

 It's just one of those days! And it's the new video by Polish alternative three Sour Blood. Building up anticipation, releasing anxiety and frustration through a wicked nineties and eighties influence rock song and video entitled: Damaging Control. Thank you Solid Rock PR for kicking Sour Blood into our general direction!

 

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Polish band SOUR BLOOD (alternative rock) presents brand new song "Damaging Control"

For fans of: Muse, The Smashing Pumpking, Green Day, Stone Sour
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SOUR BLOOD is an alternative rock band from Poznań, Poland.

April 23, 2025, band Sour Blood already released brand new song "Damaging Control" together with video done by Maciej Gensler from costamwyszlo. Song is also available for listening at popular streaming platforms. "Damaging Control" was produced by Konrad Janiszewski (Heresy Denied, Stayfires, Kansha).

Band comments: "Damaging Control deals with the ups and downs in life and psychological mechanisms such as deflection, repression, or fury. We use them to seemingly make our life easier, while more often than not, those turn out to be double-edged swords. You can also find a reference to control abuse, as well as very much weakened, but still existing power to break away from the bonds of the past to achieve a peaceful and stable tomorrow. Often, despite tarnished patience, a gnawed soul and loss of hope, we push forward. Perhaps under the next page torn from the book of life there is something more than disappointment and pain. Perhaps... there is hope.

On the other hand, not to be so damn serious all the time, we made a completely ridiculous video to place the rather morose lyrics in juxtaposition to rather funny visuals. We hope you have as much fun watching it as we had making it". 

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Void King - The Hidden Hymnal : Chapter 2

 

 

Void King - The Hidden Hymnal : Chapter 2
Argonauta Records – 2025
Metal, Doom, Stoner, Prog
Rated: *****

The first chapter to The Hidden Hymnal story was released in 2023 and made it to the Number 9 spot of the April Doom Charts and gathered many new fans from all over the globe for the one and only Void King. The fourpiece from Indianapolis, Indiana in the USA released their first three track effort Zep Tepi almost exactly ten years ago and immediately turned heads with their gasoline dripping stoner doom. And with every release they stepped up their game and left many of us craving the fumes coming out of their doom metal exhaust pipes. And now, with The Hidden Hymnal : Chapter 2 we are treated to the Void King weaving an even grander tapestry, delivering a concept album about birth and death, about origin, creation and departure. Soulful and atmospheric, the songs dive deep into the very nature of soul and being, trans morphing the sound into ever more layered or barren soundscapes, whatever the composition calls for. Void King has evolved quickly from their earlier motoring and blues derivations into this more melodic and complex stuff, and now, as mentioned, with The Hidden Hymnal : Chapter 2 they are getting into grand conceptual suites. This is the kind of pie you eat whole, at once or not at all.

The seven tracks and forty one minutes of progressive doom starts off with the almost nine minute long The Birth Of All Things. Seemingly creating its own oxygen between the different riffs and lines, the instruments inhabit their very own spot in the composition. Leaving room for the gritty vocals to become the burly troubadour that can wind its tale or spin a more evocative narrative that turns his serrated voice into pure gold. Crackling drums, spreading the shadowy sound ever wider like a majestic fire can do while the bass runs deep and low kindling the slow and building force. With almost nine minutes the opening track along feels like an album on its own. A tour de force opening that promises as much as an opening song possibly can. And the following, and as a single released, A Union Of Expired Souls, takes the slow and low into a different thunder and lightning area, instantly delivering on that promise. Those two sections of this bold and weighted album, offer instantaneous satisfaction for the metal lover. Grappling doom over prog and throwing menacing riffs and thrilling tones in whirling sections all around you…

A new chapter calls for a Prologue, a two minute long scene setter that offers the listener a glimpse behind the curtain and an insight into the shadowy blanket that will come down upon you. For following Attrition with its battering drum opening, will wear you down, not just because of the ever descending lines, the desperate lyrics show a mind at the very end of its tether. The questioning is its only resolve, it’s only minor spark amid all its worrying in the dark. Convalescence, follows, and wants to show the other side of the Attrition coin, but cannot, in good conscience pass by all the questions that still reside in its mind. Growing ever darker and less subtle, the album becomes oppressive and stifling towards the Expiration track. Fitting title and the denseness of the riffs, the vocals become growling and fill you with a worry about expiring. Luckily, there is still the Epilogue that even though it descends into a dark territory first as if stepping on a staircase towards the bottom, you also seems to get the feeling that like an M C Escher like variation, you end up at the top and are ready to be reborn…

And we are honored to bring you all the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for The Hidden Hymnal : Chapter 2 tomorrow, Wednesday the 23th of April. So, check back tomorrow to hear this glorious new VOID KING album in Full!

(Written by JK)

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NEWS: Dozer - Rewind to Return: Rarities, Singles and B-Sides

 

Dozer - Rewind to Return: Rarities, Singles and B-Sides

Even though many of the Dozer fans will be in possession of these B-Sides and Singles, it is still a record too look forward to. For these will all be remastered to a new standard, showing off once again what kind of band Dozer already was. And continues to be. And as a first taster, they release the single Rings Of Saturn. It's the vinyl only bonus track for the Madre de Dios album from 2001 released through Molten Universe, which was limited to a 1000 issues... And now... It will be available for all Dozer fans! Thanks to Blues Funeral Recordings... Dozer rules. All Dozer, all the time...

 

 

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Stoner rock legends DOZER to release "Rewind to Return: Rarities, Singles and B-Sides" double album on Blues Funeral Recordings; US summer tour announced

In celebration of their 30th anniversary, Sweden's godfathers of stoner rock DOZER announce the special release of the "Rewind to Return: Rarities, Singles and B-Sides" double album on August 1st via Blues Funeral Recordings and share a first excerpt with "Rings of Saturn". Don't miss them on their upcoming European and US shows!

🪐 Listen to Dozer's volcanic new track "Rings Of Saturn" 🪐
 

Formed in 1995 in the town of Borlänge, Sweden, DOZER led the earliest wave of stoner/desert rock, a fusion of proto-metal, riff-rock and punk that blasted forth from Scandinavia and Europe in response to the tectonic heft and sun-baked fuzz of American bands Kyuss and Fu Manchu.
 
30 years on, DOZER are heralded as undisputed forerunners of a movement and champions of volcanic energy.  Their status was affirmed in 2023 with the release of the landmark Drifting in the Endless Void, an amp-splitting return that dominated best-of lists and turntables, which Distorted Sound called, "a perfectly executed stoner album and then some" and was dubbed "an outstanding comeback" by Hellfire and "a magnetic fireball of propulsive hooks and cosmic majesty" by Decibel.  This renewed dominance led to DOZER’s first US tour in 20 years and set the stage for their three-decade milestone in 2025.
 
DOZER have always been prolific. Driven by take-no-prisoners energy, they'd hit the studio often, laying down songs in rapid-fire batches with little concern for schedules and album planning, and their early days saw the band self-release a multitude of small-run 7-inch singles that tapped into their DIY leanings and allowed forward momentum at maximum velocity.  More songs surfaced on compilations and as limited-release b-sides, while others went into the proverbial vault.
 
In celebration of their 30th anniversary, DOZER enthusiastically present Rewind to Return, a double album of singles, rare tracks and b-sides from across their prolific history. Neither a chronological document nor a comprehensive collection of every non-album track, this is a carefully considered selection of the band's favorites, chosen for their meaning and impact, brilliantly remastered by Karl Daniel Lidén and assembled to create the best possible record to commemorate DOZER’s vast catalog and untouchable legacy.
 

DOZER "Rewind to Return: Rarities, Singles and B-Sides"
Out August 1st on Blues Funeral Recordings (2xLP/CD/digital)
Preorder on BFR website, Bandcamp and European store


TRACKLIST:
1. Tanglefoot
2. Hail The Dude
3. Centerline
4. Southern Star
5. The Electrocuter
6. Universe 75
7. Serpent’s Head
8. Rings Of Saturn
9. She
10. Mammoth Mountain
11. Silverball
12. Star By Star
13. Season of Giants
14 Vinegar Fly
15. 2 Ton Butterfly

 
DOZER further underscore three decades at the forefront of the scene with a handful of European dates in 2025, along with a live return to the US this summer, embarking on a West Coast tour with spectacular up-and-comers ABRAMS and MOON DESTROYS supporting the monumental run.
 
European festival dates
May 3 - Izegem, Belgium @ Headbanger's Balls Fest
May 23 - Berlin, Germany @ DesertFest Berlin
October 17 - Thessaloniki, Greece @ Eightball Club
October 18 - Athens, Greece @ Arch Club
Nov 14-15 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Fuzz Festival
 
Return to the Endless Void US Tour 2025 (with Abrams and Moon Destroys)
August 7 - Las Vegas NV @ The Swan Dive
August 8 - Los Angeles CA @ Lodge Room
August 9 - San Diego CA @ Brick By Brick
August 10 - Palmdale CA @ Transplants Brewing
August 12 - San Francisco CA @ Bottom Of The Hill
August 13 - Eureka CA @ Savage Henry Comedy Club
August 14 - Eugene OR @ John Henry's
August 15 - Portland OR @ Dante's
August 16 - Vancouver BC @ Rickshaw
August 17 - Seattle WA @ Substation

DOZER is
Fredrik Nordin - Guitar & Vocals
Tommi Holappa - Guitar
Johan Rockner - Bass
Sebastian Olsson - Drums

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

 

 

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

Messa
Void King
Temple Fang
Woodhawk
Elderstag
Pearl Handled Revolver
Yama
Daevar
Growing Horns
Lorquin’s Admiral

Good morning! It is a Tuesday, we know. But the Monday was different and today feels like the real start of the grueling week ahead of us. But we will try to HiVe as much as possible! Be sure to check in later for a few words on the new Void King. And definitely check in tomorrow when we have the honor to premiere that new Void King album, The Hidden Hymnal: Chapter II. It’s savage and powerful! Last week we also put up a few words about Messa and were blessed with the new Black Magic Tree single. How groovy is that one right? Stevie Reek wrote a blurb about Lilac Vegetal and Jon McGough wrote something length about the new Nightstalker. And of course, lets not forget, the Doom Charts Peroration for March went live. Lots of great music, lots of heavy albums! Hope y’all have a great week!

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Week 17

Nightstalker - Return From The Point Of No Return

 

 

Nightstalker - Return From The Point Of No Return
Heavy Psych Sounds – 2025
Rock, Stoner, Hard, Desert, Psych
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Greek legends Nightstalker released their seventh studio album ‘Return From The Point Of No Return’ last month and not only is it fantastic but it’s also a testament to the band’s longevity. Most bands are lucky to have a few years of creativity and relevance, whereas Nightstalker have had decades, which only shows the strength and endurance of the band. Whether they acknowledge or embrace the title is anyone’s guess, but Nightstalker are known as stoner rock legends. Titles and genres aside the power of the music is what compels us, so about this new album…

Bringing a heavy load of stoner-tinged grooves and distorted guitars Nightstalker hit like a ton of bricks smashing down from a ten-story building crashing down on our heads. There’s an energy swell in songs like ‘Dust’ where the drums are absolutely commanding, adding fuel to an already burning inferno of fuzzy guitars and thumping bass. Of course, Argy’s vocals are some of the most recognizable you’ll ever hear as his slightly accented and mid-tone Ozzy range narrates us through ‘Heavy Trippin’. It’s a more settled in song than its predecessor and ‘deeper’ subject wise with lyrics of self-reflection, soul searching, and one’s own existence within this thing called life, topics we can all relate to.

There are hints of grunge mixed in that may have been overlooked before from Nightstalker and are noticeable in tracks like ‘Uncut’ which is a headbanging powerhouse of energy. On the title track ultra-distorted guitars and heavy bass both vie for attention, later even ‘battling’ it out on the song. The mix and levels are perfect with all instruments pushed up equally in the production throughout the entire album, which is masterfully done. The echo on the vocals is a nice touch hooking and reeling you in towards the point of no return.

The somber beginnings of ‘Shipwrecked Powder Monkey’ are short-lived as the stoner rock fuzz hits bringing with it a powerful vocal and heavy power chords. Nightstalker remind you that songs don’t have to be overly complicated to get their point and emotion across. Possibly the favorite of the album is ‘Shallow Grave’, it starts slow and steady with great melody and lyrics. It’s brilliant how the second and fourth lines say, “A grave with no name…on”, with the exclusion of ‘it’ making the line that much better. The song is built in anticipation and just before the three-minute mark crashes into a crescendo of heavy rock as all instruments come in at full volume.

We’ll leave the last two alone in hopes that you explore them as well as the whole album. ‘Return From The Point Of No Return’ is a solid release of heavy rock with stoner qualities, one that proves the band are showing no signs of slowing down. Even having already placed their stamp on the rock world and being giants in the heavy underground, Nightstalker continuously kick out the jams. This one is on repeat at headquarters and hopefully our fine readers are already enjoying it as well. The only thing left to do is pick up the record…

(Written by Jon McGough)

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DOOM CHARTS PERORATION – MARCH 2025

 

 

The Doom Charts Peroration - March 2025

 

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light…”

~ Dylan Thomas

The Peroration Post for March is here. Nothing but love for albums that one or more Contributors admired, cherished and had on repeated rotation. And hopefully still has! Please check all of them out, they may be your next favorite record as well! And please keep on spinning all those cherished records new and old. Do not go gently into that good night… Do not continuously chase the horizon. Those amazing albums on the other side will get to you, we will make sure. Keep spinning the ones you love and simply open your heart to let the new ones in… They will come…

 

We apparently hardly ever post about the Doom Charts Peroration Post on the little old blog... But we should, cause it's a damn fine monthly post. Nothing but love for nothing but great records! Some a bit older or some a bit newer. Either way, good and heavy! We also forgot to enter our very own Stevie Reek's blurb about Lilac Vegetal, which we immmediately put up on the HiVe instead. But since it is a damn fine release, we will also be putting up the Lilac Vegetal blurb on next months Peroration Post. That's what it is therefor, to bring more attention to the albums we, the Contributors, love! I therefor chopped up what we wrote about Minerall, Ditch and Del-Toros for the HiVe to bring more light to them, cause they are deserve to be heard!

The following are professions of love and adoration by Doom Charts Contributors for albums they could not stop spinning. Each month, the Doom Charts critics submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge, metal, stoner, psychedelic and other sorts of heavy rock and metal albums. The results are compiled and tabulated into the chart which is published on the First Friday of the new month. However, sometimes a love is so great, but for whatever reason the album unfortunately did not make the published Doom Charts Edition or because there were so many contributors in love with that one album, that multiple blurbs were written, and only the one got published… Well, you can peruse that love here…

 The Doom Charts Peroration - March 2025

Lilac Vegetal - The Accursed Share

 

 

Lilac Vegetal - The Accursed Share
Grazil Records - 2025
Sludge, Post-Metal, Hardcore
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Hailing from Vienna, Austria, Lilac Vegetal have a dissonant and angular approach to Sound: Weaving tapestries of noise and off-kilter signatures, "The Accursed Share" is a very inventive and accomplished album that will grab your ears and not let go lightly!

(Written by Stevie Reek)

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SINGLE PREMIERE - Black Magic Tree - Roadway

 

 

SINGLE PREMIERE 

Black Magic Tree - Roadway

 

After being in love with their earlier album Through The Grapevine and the Págos single they released in January, we are thoroughly thrilled to bring you the SINGLE PREMIERE for the brand new track by Black Magic Tree! Taken from the new Terra album, soon to be released on Majestic Mountain Records this is raver, a road song, that travelling companion that takes you on a wild romp through the stoner, psych and seventie rock scene. It's called Roadway and its entirely impossible not to fall in love with... I mean, just listen to that guitar, the tone, the riff, and round it goes! Impossible not to fall in love with! All over again!

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The German rockers Black Magic Tree is back with another banger with their 2nd single 'ROADWAY' taken from their new album TERRA that will be released later this year!

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Black Magic Tree is a Berlin-based German band formed in 2015, known for their heavy blues rock'n'roll, stoner, and psychedelic rock sound. Drawing inspiration from the 50s, 60s, and especially the 70s, they blend classic rock vibes with modern flair. The band consists of Alessandro Monte (vocals), Christian Reuter (guitars), Max Milan Bergrath (guitars), Michael Hupp (drums), and Philipp Ott (bass). After releasing their debut EP "Of Animals and Men" in 2019, they dropped their first full-length album, "Through the Grapevine," in 2021 via Karma Conspiracy Records. Rooted in Berlin’s vibrant music scene, they continue to evolve, with a new album currently in the works. Now signed to Majestic Mountain Records for the release of their sophomore album "TERRA".

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"ROADWAY combines heavy guitar riffs with playful and infectious melodies that'll get stuck in your head instantly. This ass shaker is filled to the brim with good time rock swagger vibes and head nod grooves!"

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