Suncraft – Welcome To The Coven

 

 

Suncraft – Welcome To The Coven
All Good Clean Records – 2025
Rock, Metal, Punk, Hardcore, Stoner, Speed
Rated: ****

Welcome to… Welcome To The Coven! Suncraft’s back alley ritual where punk, stoner and black metal all showed up drunk and ready to hustle and fight! The Oslo five-piece have bottled their mania into a forty minute blast of pure ruckus that should make little sense. But it does anyway, it’s Suncraft’s way to destroy all expectations. Their name might whisper stoner, but this is not it, this is a demolition of all genres, and they do so with a malicious grin! 

Battering ram Ragebait kick things off like a lit fuse, pick slides, blast beats and enough TNT to blow up the entire neighborhood. But just as you are bracing for the explosion, Suncraft’s shifts gear and seamlessly into a majestic groove. Immediately revealing their biggest forte, showing their chaos with open hands and then squeezing it into needle point precision…

Their three guitar madness is a high-wire act! Riffs spiraling, tumbling and swapping with an incredible aloof kind of swagger. It all feels improvised, but well, it clearly isn’t! The only thing that seem to keep this on the ground is bass player and vocalist Rasmus Skage Jensen and drummer Tobias Paulsen’s manic drum work. Well, until they detonate too! Dynamite stuff! Addictive, unruly and the kind of pandemonium you love to wake up after being knocked unconscious… 

(Written by JK)

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We Kill Cowboys – Back From The Dead

 

 

We Kill Cowboys – Back From The Dead
Mongrel Records – 2025
Rock, Grunge, Alternative, Stoner, Punk, Metal
Rated: ****

South African cool cats We Kill Cowboys is signed to wicked Mongrel Records and should stick with them for the rest of their career. Cause it seems like the perfect fit, the outfit and label both have a snarl. And a certain way to wag their tail if they have some delicious rock and roll bone in their snout! And rest assured, they won’t let go until you hear it as well. And if you follow the HiVe you know we’ve been mentioned a lot of singles they’ve released over the past years. And now, on December 5th, they will be releasing a six track EP called Back From The Dead! A highly infectious take on late nineties alternative that not just snarls but bites as well! 

They signal the new EP Back From The Dead as a rebirth for the Cape Town quartet turned five-piece. A band long fueled by the grit of punk, the weight of grunge, a splice of stoner and the bite of post-hardcore. A bite that has definitely gotten deeper on the new six-track. After stepping fully into the role of lead vocalist, Alex Muller drives this new chapter with a voice that cuts through like wildfire. Powerful and decisive, carrying tales of rebellion and resilience. The arrival of guitarist Floris Le Roux thickens the band’s sonic storm, locking in with Mornay, Andrew, and Miggs to forge a force that feels dangerous, growling, untamed, yet intentional. Rising from the underground’s chaos, they return louder, sharper, and fiercely alive, even if the whole EP is over in 23 minutes… We Kill Cowboys is Back From The Dead and not wasting any time killing it!! Ferocious stuff! 

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Only thing missing from this amazing band and this powerful release is a bandcamp account…

But you can check most of their songs on Youtube.. 

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

 

 

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

Mark Lanegan
One Dimensional Creatures
Ambra
Drink The Sea
Elepharmers
Kadavar
You Guitarprayer
Cleaning Women
Baba Pen
Slift

It’s the first Monday after the first announcement for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025 has appeared online! So, good morning and I hope many of you will send your list before the deadline of 20:00 CET, December 14th of 2025. Still two weeks away and we hope to write down some words on other wonderful albums this week. Last week we only had time for the amazing Ambra album, the stunning call to arms that is One Dimensional Creatures and finally posted some words about the landmark that is Mark Lanegan’s Bubblegum XX. Let’s aim for one more this week! Either way, we hope you will slowly start jotting down your favorites of the year, so you can send that list our way! Much love, have a great one!