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

 

 

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

Spider Kitten
Jesika Von Rabbit
Dozer
Pink Floyd
Blood Vulture
Bloodwood
Maliciouz
Seoi Nage
The Delayed
The Howling Eye

Welcome to your Monday! May it be a lovely one and a great start of a good week! Looking at the week past, it’s been hectic and jumping in to get the June Doom Charts done, limited even more of the time available for Stoner HiVe. So, we only managed to post Doktor420’s blurb about White Noise Generator. Our own Spider Kitten and Paddang blurbs for the Doom Charts. And wrote some words about the upcoming very cool Hibernaut album and the already out there King Potenaz. Both deserving every moment of your time, just like it did mine. And the same goes for Birds of Nazca. Love that band! Check out their new single! And check all the others out, it’s good and it’s heavy!  

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Week 27

Birds of Nazca – Pangea

 

Birds of Nazca – Pangea 

It’s a pre-order, fundraiser and a way to get the not just the word out about the new album to arrive in October. But also to get you soaring high on the new video and single Gang Rinpoché! We’re talking about Birds of Nazca and they are in the process of finalizing their new album Pangea! It’s instrumental brilliance is apparent from that opening lift off to the powering middle storm and the night sky that shines bright with all the stars. Birds of Nazca is a two piece from Nantes, France and know how to walk that tight rope between stoner rock, heavy psych and doom in perfect fashion! 

We loved their first album from 2020 and white bandshirt (grin) and the four track Héliolite from 2023 was on repeat for months. We can’t wait to hear Pangea and hope more will help out getting the Birds of Nazca to soar high across the globe… 

And have those bandshirts once again in white... 

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Stoner HiVe on Birds of Nazca - Héliolite

Stoner HiVe on Birds Of Nazca

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King Potenaz – Arcane Desert Rituals Vol.1

 

King Potenaz – Arcane Desert Rituals Vol.1
Majestic Mountain Records – 2025
Rock, Doom, Stoner 
Rated: ****

The Italian trio going by the name of King Potenaz has gone through a ferocious development in just three years. Delivering their first two track demo back in January 2022, following that up with two singles and then turning those tracks and four more into the wonderful debut full-sized album that is Goat Riders which was released in April 2023. And then, back in March we already got the news that a new one was on the horizon and that Rivers Of Death would be the lead single. A doom march rife with the occult and slithering with creepiness. As warm as a freshly dug grave, the fuzz is ever present and so is the feeling of death, lurking around the corner. And that feeling and that atmosphere is ever present on the new album called Arcane Desert Rituals Vol.1. Out on Majestic Mountain Records it contains four tracks filled with mysterious doom and ritualistic proto rocking. There’s a sludgy touch, something wicked and something wild. Most tuned down low, slow and morose. And then sometimes, when the moon is full and the energy feels especially right, they speed up or turn a corner that leads into a heavy metal Cul De Sac. Psychedelic middle parts of a swing and groove to sway to and let fly your thoughts, it’s all there and more. Although Arcane Desert Rituals Vol.1 might not be the immediate power grab, it soon starts to take hold and slowly strangle you until you fold and submit to King Potenaz. And once you do, you start to hear those minutely infused weird drum parts, that bass that goes into a different direction and those vocals that sound like Satan storming into heaven. Final track Ariadne, The Serpent Witch adds the wonderful voice of Jana Maista to make it an even grander ritual, an arcane and ancient sounding opening, only slowly turning away from that atmospheric glow to become this harsher thunderstorm and then letting the voice radiate again with all her elven and angelic beauty. But of course, she’s a witch. So, the darkness and the wickedness does return. Before it all dissipates into the shimmering ritualistic fantasy it all might have been… 

(Written by JK)

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Paddang – Lost In Lizardland

 

 

Paddang – Lost In Lizardland
Stolen Body Records / Le Cèpe Records – 2025
Psych, Stoner, Fuzz
Rated: ****

I’m certainly not the biggest King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard fan. Same can be said about the The Oh Sees, Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees or Osees. But I’ve definitely danced like a maniac to the music of all of the above on various festivals in a multitude of countries. Well, out of France and straight into the Lizardland they went, the trio known as Paddang! A fourth member was added for their new album Lost In Lizardland, but the result stays the same. A wild and wonderful psychedelic scorcher. Fans of all them Osees bands or King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will surely move their asses to this one, but as the opening atmospheric soundscape The End Of Hanoumane ends, everyone else will surge forward as well, me included, and become as manic as the girls and guys around you…

(Written by JK)

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Hibernaut – Obsidian Eye

 

 

Hibernaut – Obsidian Eye
Self-released / Kozmik Artifactz / Olde Magick Records – 2025
Metal, Doom
Rated: ****

They’ve released the first single and title track for this album on May 9th. And they’ve done it in the perfect way in my opinion. For it is not the opening track of the album and more importantly, they released it with a great b-side. Not that many bands do that anymore, but we love b-sides and we therefor love Hibernaut! But you might have already known that. For even though we never got around to mentioning their debut album Ingress on Stoner HiVe, it was and is still one of our favorite albums from 2023. Obsidian Eye is the single and the title of the new album to be released on July 11th. That’s only a few days away! A few more days till you get treated to a most wonderful doom metal album. Dense and compressed in all the right ways, the six tracks seems to sludge fight and mow everything to the side as they pummel and pounce. It truly is a slaughter, with guitars that cascade upon each other. Gravelly vocals that are as heavy as they are chased. Bass work with a continuously ominous touch and drums that turns every track into a monolithic statement of intent. You’ve heard those ten ton heavy records, but this is dropping a hundred tons upon you! And while you are buried beneath all that massiveness, that’s when you hear it, when that subliminal groove takes over and the strange melody turns that menacing feeling into exhilaration and jubilation. One look into the Obsidian Eye is enough to turn you into a Hibernaut… Petrified, but inside rocking like a madman and feeling free… 

(Written by JK)

The album drops on July 11th! But you can hear three singles and b-sides today!

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Five Bandcamp codes for Ingress that might still work: 

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Spider Kitten – The Truth Is Caustic To Love

 

 

Spider Kitten – The Truth Is Caustic To Love
APF Records – 2025 
Alternative, Grunge, Sludge, Americana
Rated: ***

It was the foul year of our lord 2021 when we first mentioned a Spider Kitten album on the HiVe. It wasn’t our first dive into the Spider Kitten universe; it was however the record that tangled us up and made us stick around for all the decided to weave afterwards. Like that damn fine and once again different A Pound For The Peacebringer from 2023. For yes, it’s Spider Kitten. They do things differently. Every time again. Changing things up with every album released. Even though dust never gets the chance to settle when one is referring to Spider Kitten. The new album The Truth Is Caustic To Love is once again a different side of the beast, stretching yet another one of its many legs. Fourteen songs, thirty-seven minutes. Grunge powering down, sludge slamming it home, offset by Americana touched strumming and open, personal and vulnerable songwriting that turns many of the songs into a confessional statement. Another album that weaves and builds their gigantic web of heaviness…

(Written by JK)

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The Doom Charts for June 2025

 

DOOM CHARTS

JUNE 2025

“Are you gonna bark all day, little Doom Charts, or are you gonna bite?”

~ probably misheard quote by Mr.Blonde
(Rest In Peace Mr Madsen..)

The summer is in full swing! Festivals a plenty and holidays on the horizon. And the Heavy Underground keeps on giving. No less than 208 albums received votes from the Contributors this month and below are the forty that rose to the top of that majestic heap. A gigantic pile filled with amazing records that romp through all the genres that slowly encompassed everything linked to the Heavy Underground. From doom to death to psych to stoner to prog and back again… It’s all there and below you might find your next favorite summer time record! Enjoy the tunes, enjoy the sun and smile at the folly that is man…

 

It's summer time! You need some cool riffs today?

 

Check out the June 2025 Doom Charts! Forty brand new albums to cool you down or fire you up!

 

Could have voted for all forty obviously, but only voted for: Goya, MOOCH, King Potenaz, Lorquin's Admiral, 1968, Woodhawk, Electric Citizen, Fusskalt, Spider Kitten, ACEVES and Vandhali... 

 

Gonna be listening to all forty in a row, starting with Erf by The Howling Eye !

And of course Lorquin's Admiral already got some attention over on Stoner HiVe... 

Check out the interview here: 

Interview - Lorquin's Admiral - Dawn and Dandy Brown 

 And the review here:  

Lorquin’s Admiral – Lorquin’s Admiral 

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…

 

The Doom Charts for June 2025  

 

White Noise Generator – Myriads

 

 

White Noise Generator – Myriads
Self-released - 2025
Heavy Psych, Prog-, Stoner Rock
Rated:

Myriads was recorded live already in 2022 and finalized in March and now released by themselves (they search for a new label). After their 2019 debut album Dead Leaves the band moved a bit from Stoner to the Prog side of Psychedelia. Again the four tracks, most far beyond the ten minute mark, take you on a long journey, sometimes guided by strong vocals, but most of the time as an instrumental trip – epic.

(Written by Doktor420) 

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