The Stoner HiVe top 20 Countdown of 2025

 

 

The Stoner HiVe top 20 Countdown of 2025

Three days left to send in your lists for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025! Which will start on December 15th! For yes, just like every year since the HiVe started, back in 2009, we do the year end Countdown. And just like every year we need your help! We need to know what albums made your head spin, blood race and your bones jump with pure euphoria! So please, my lovely fellow heavy music freaks, send your lists to our EMAIL... 

The rules: vote for any amount of albums or EP’s released in 2025. (And at the very end of December 2024.) If you dug only one; name that one. If you dug 78; name all of them! It doesn’t matter how much, one, five, 10, 13, 20 or 41. We just want to know which albums made you go crazy! The amount of lists already received is crazy… But we can always use more! So please, send yours now, so we can best our grand total! The deadline to send in your list closes on December the 14th , 20.00 CET! So there’s still enough time to get crackin… Three whole days in fact! Go on… If not for yourself or me; do it for all the rest of the lovely freaks out there… Scurrying in the HiVe…

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Stoner Hive’s Quick Fire Friday

 

Stoner Hive’s Quick Fire Friday 

Put on some groove resistant gear, flex your muscles, get your laptop, your computer, your phone (whatever), open a can of lager (or another preferred beverage), add some chips and get the party started by checking out a brand new Quick Fire Friday. Lots of doom and stoner coming your way, as well as a dash of punk and even an admirable cover of one of Mark Lanegan's songs. So, don't wait any longer and dive into this pit of darkness served to you on a beat-up plate we unearthed somewhere in the heavy underground...

 

Desértica - MobyDick

Desértica is an instrumental psychedelic stoner/doom outfit from La Plata, Argentina that takes you on a 50 minute interstellar trip through time and space on what appears to be their debut album 'MobyDick'. Only three tracks with each one clocking in at way over ten minutes, with closer 'Desértica' almost touching the twenty minute mark, yet there isn't a dull moment in sight. Indeed a stellar album.

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American Heat - Too Much Heat

American Heat isn't here to reinvent the wheel on their debut ep. Hell no, they come at you with scorching heavy rock that will have fans of Clutch, Mississippi Bones and Gay Paris salivating with joy. Raw as sandpaper and catchy as fuck. Combine those two and you're in for some kinky kind of lovemaking, courtesy of two guys from the state of Ohio.

 

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 HooR - Delicate Tonen

Ries and Mies from Leiderdorp, The Netherlands, have been operating as Helleveeg and Krush, but have decided to change their name to HooR, in honour of Orange Goblin's Joe Hoare. 'Delicate Tonen' (Delicate Tones) is a title not to be taken too seriously, as this is a ferocious, no holds barred mix of stoner and punk with Dutch lyrics that have a unique take on more or less serious social themes, brought to you with a healthy (over)dose of humour.

 

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Mientras Las Abejas Duermen - Los hijos perdidos de Umrica / Cruz del Tajo

Mientras Las Abejas Duermen is a band form Cadiz spain that recently released a two-track ep through underground label Estudio Mazmorra. 'Los hijos perdidos de Umrica' starts the proceedings and is a thumping amalgamation of stoner and doom that comes storming at you in a dust cloud of desert sand. A fantastic song that demands to be heard. Second track 'Cruz de Tajo' is a short, quiet instrumental that swirls and swerves around an axis of percussion and engulfs you with a perfect atmosphere for coming down and lets you realise what the hell just happened. One of the coolest singles released in quite a while.

 

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Void & The Nothingness - Ride Out / Witching Hour

After releasing a surprisingly good debut album a year ago, Germany's Void & The Nothingness are back with a two track ep of traditional doom. A deep, dragging sound lures you into their world, while the hypnotising clean singing functions as the icing on the cake. 'Ride Out / Witching Hour' is an enjoyable second stop and could lead them to underground stardom sooner than one might expect.

 

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Arabbia - Trimurti

This EP was released back in October, but deserves to be mentioned here. Arabbia is a stoner rock power trio from Brazil that knows how to lay down the grooves and spit them in the collective face of mankind. Nice detail: the three band members share vocal duties, with all three being capable singers. That'll leave a lot of bands envious, ready to chase Arabbia's tale like a horde of revved-up boogie vans.

 

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Bärlin - Resurrection Song

If there ever was a band capable of covering a Mark Lanegan song the right way, it would be French alternative rockers Bärlin. They recorded a beautiful version of 'Resurrection Song' - one of the bonus tracks that comes with buying 'Mook Lanegan', an Exit Musik fanzine special dedicated entirely to the legendary singer and songwriter. You can order the magazine HERE (in French).

 

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David Kent - Fairweather Friend

And to close this episode of Quick Fire Friday on a more energetic note, we present you the new single by David Kent, released through Glory or Death Records. It's a weird, slightly chaotic mix of stoner, sludge, heavy psych and glam rock that's got a presence all its own. Dive in and experience is the way to go. Once you've done that, you'll probably find exactly what you need.

 

 

 

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This Quick Fire Friday segment was brought to you entirely by our very own poet: Ronny Dijksterhuis.

 

Video Premiere - Hot Ram – Vimana Swamp

 

 

Video Premiere

Hot Ram – Vimana Swamp 

We’re honored to present to you the video premiere for the brand new Hot Ram single! The three piece out of Atlanta will be releasing their new EP Near Fall on January 30th 2026. And this right here, is called Vimana Swamp and introduces you all over again to that sludgy goodness that is Hot Ram! Remember that wild Electric Medicine album from 2021? Well, the boys in grime are back with another sludge riddled hallucination! Slow burning and with enough metallic grit to break a tooth or two! The riffs grind and shimmer in equal measure, all coated in a fuzz so thick the tooth you lack make it difficult to chew it all down. And then there are the vocals, that seem to crawl out of some shadowy corner, with a feral and snarling sort of gravity. And lurking in that dark shadow as well are the drums, ready to lunge, like they know something you don’t! Like the truth about the ancient flying machines that are translated by some swirling guitar work in the middle of it all… Vimana Swamp is the kind of sludge that sticks, doomed and veering off course like a wayward machine, but always with this crooked kind of confidence. Hot Ram is back, swamp soaked and ready for a cosmic ascent! 

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Beaten By Hippies – Sidetracked In El Paso

 

Beaten By Hippies – Sidetracked In El Paso
Polderrecords – 2025
Rock, Stoner, Alternative
Rated: ***

Out on the scorched plains, where genres blur like a shimmering heat mirage, it does not matter at all what name you give to a dust storm. Beaten By Hippies rides again! Using their mix of alternative rock genres to spur Sidetracked In El Paso through that blistered territory. After their debut album back in 2019, Belgian foursome Beaten By Hippies released two singles before finally introducing us to their new full-sized record Sidetracked In El Paso. They sure took their damn time, but that’s what you get when you get Sidetracked In El Paso. Or covid. Or life in general. Or the four members innate wish to do whatever the hell they want… That might cause for a collision or two when writing songs. Perhaps? Perhaps not and all that happened was El Paso… 

Released back in May on Polderrecords they return, older, surer, their sound tempered like iron left in the desert darkness. Expertly mixing all sorts of alternative rock with a lot of fuzz, groove and stoner.  With an aloof kind of humor, a lust for nostalgia and storytelling, the lyrics go from elegant, beautiful to bordering on cringe and back in a just a few lines. Most of them wonderfully vocalized by Stephane Legat, who definitely grew as a singer. Touching a raw nerve when the songs call for it and uses a more velvet approach when we need something slick… 

We open with Know For Sure, the earlier single, a galloping thing, whose riffs strike like rifle cracks across the endless empty flats. Legat’s voice, rasped, weathered, limited like a man who has shouted too long at the horizon. The drums, charging forward, hitting like flint sparks all across the board, igniting the entire track. And then there’s The Fall, where we hear vocals that strain for nuance, a ballad ushered by strings that drift like windblow prayer flags caught on barbed wire. There is no reason this should work in this inhospitable territory, yet it does, haunting and human. Which is the same with the enigmatic and wonderful title track, ghostly campfire glow and carved slowly into sun whitened whale bone… 

The true sand storm happens when Roar comes on. Burning cosmic trails across the blackened desert skies, shooting forward, leaving nothing but dust and hoofprints in the sand. Born In The 80’s is fun, almost indie, or at least very catch. And for those of us that grew up in the era, filled with the memories that made it all tick. You almost start missing the Walkman and the cassette tapes. Final track Filter made me put on The Cable Guy soundtrack after having this album on repeat, one of my all time favorites. Thundering, whipping around like stonerized blues and nineties nods, it’s a three minute send off that leaves a lingering taste for more for hours… 

Beaten By Hippies is back, doing whatever the hell they want to do, not reinventing anything, not showing the way to the promised land. But hidden, in the grit of all these songs, and in their stubborn swagger that shows an unashamed love for dust and fuzz, lies something very simple. Something that should be the core of every freaking album. Good songs make a good album and it takes a good band to produce them. The four from Leuven, Belgium, might have gotten Sidetracked In El Paso, but they know their way around now and they know which desert to claim as their own… 

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Magic Acid - The Cellar of the Evil Jinn

 

 

Magic Acid - The Cellar of the Evil Jinn
Self-released - 2025
Doom, Stoner, Blues
Rated: ****¼

Magic Acid is a band from Moscow that lays down those traditional instrumental doom grooves, while adding a touch of blues for good measure. 'The Cellar of the Evil Jinn' is their debut album and the intro of the title song that opens it throws me back to the good old times when Abdullah released their first album. That slow, minimalistic passage with a bluesy twang. But it doesn't take long before a full on, frontal attack of fuzz comes barging in through the walls of the wooden shack you imagined you were relaxing in. A whirlwind of sonic debris shattered across the room, fire from burning logs that where once the foundation on which your cozy little hiding place was built upon surrounding you, suffocating every living creature in close proximity - you. The raw energy displayed here is the focal point of Magic Acid's music, both when they build a deadly wall of sound and when they open up the sky to let some dark and soothing passages control your delayed moves, echoing through every muscle and blood vessel your body somehow manages to preserve.

The epic 'The Power of Buzz' for example is exactly that - a swarm of giant, man-sized bees moving in slow motion, producing a scary, elongated, repetitive, rumbling noise that somehow turns the world upside down in stinging fashion, while 'March Dolboebov' indeed follows a certain scheme, but not one that forces people to march to their death while blindfolded by indoctrination. No, it's got some kind of dragged-out zombie swing that brings the deceased back to life while making you wonder if that's something to cheer about or be scared of when you see the undead wandering through the streets of temptation in bloody, skeletal fashion, limbs moving awkwardly, skin hanging from bones.

'Heavy of Libations' on the other hand is so hazy at times, it hands you a VIP seat on Icarus' wings for a journey to the sun - with falling down to earth being nothing more than a meandering dream constituted of metaphysical thoughts. And talking about lifting things up: album closer 'The End of the Drip' is by far the most uplifting track of them all. It's the shortest and fastest one of the bunch, like it wants to say the trip doesn't end here - it's merely a confirmation that the slow penetration of auditory fluids has caused enough erosion to the bubble surrounding you, so the gates are able to open entirely with a loud creak, making room for a flood of crunchy riffs bound to wake you up from the dreamlike mindstate you've been wallowing in for the past 50 minutes. It's an unexpected, but fitting end to a seven track album that pulls at the heartstrings of doom from various angles, using an experimental, out of the box take on traditional blues as an undercurrent; a distant guideline to locate miscellaneous dots in an abstract universe.

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Doomherre – Plaguelords

 

 

Doomherre – Plaguelords
Skatbo Records / Majestic Mountain Records
Metal, Doom, Classic
Rated: ****

They’re back! And with Plaguelords, Stockholm’s Doomherre hit harder than a hammer on frozen skull! From the very first riff of Serpent Shrine, you are dragged into their universe. A world full of molten guitar lines, thunderous bass work and drums that roll and pummel like an ancient war drum out of a Norse saga. Epic is the word! This is the doom with a pulse, a groove and a way to get all that ice cold blood a racing. This is a wonderful universal nod towards all the legends of yore, the classic metal and the doom we all love so dearly… 

Two years after the remarkably self-assured Bonegoat, this is an album that confirms the trio as one of the most compelling forces in today’s doom underground. Victor Takala’s vocals soar and bite, straddling clean heroics and gritty menace, carrying tales of Nordic myth and shadowy landscapes. Tracks like Dark Hand and Blodregn (Sabbatsberg II) whisper, then roar, while the title track and final track This Burning Guilt crash and hit like cinematic lightning bolts.

Plaguelords is the calling card from your newest doom heroes. And it’s a calling card you can feel in your bones. A battering ram. You feel it smash through your chest, dark, melodic, and gloriously unrelenting! We loved Bonegoat, but with the new album Doomherre you realize the three horsemen have truly arrived… And yes… They have brought the apocalypse… 

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You Guitarprayer - I Am The Light / The Light I Am

 

 

You Guitarprayer - I Am The Light / The Light I Am
Worst Bassist Records – 2025
Rock, Noise, Psych, Stoner, Garage, Punk
Rated: *****

Do you have a weird kind of rock itch that Triggerfinger used to scratch? Are you in need for some raw power? Some energy that feels tangible yet has this enormous mysterious quality? Look no further, for there’s a trio out of Cologne that plays noise rock, stoner touched and with a punk attitude, that scratches everything out. For this is alive! With currents biting through skin and concrete, twisting, thrashing, spitting fire into your veins. It’s chaos, it’s holy, it’s everything and it’s coming straight at you!

They’re called You Guitarprayer, and I’m sure they’ve been getting flak for their chosen name ever since they started back in 2016. But Soheyl Nassary (vocals, guitar), Scharco, (bass) and Spiro Kotsomitopoulos (drums) are old dogs and have been earning their spurs in all sorts of bands for ages. And if you listen closely,  you might just be able to hear every scar and spark from those days in the way they attack their instruments. Their sound… Never polite and it sure as hell isn’t tidy, manages to combine so many different genres and goes on strange tangents that not many bands can truly pull off. The balancing of those scales, is an art! It’s noise, psych, stoner, garage, shoegaze, and cinematic fever dreams that seem to be wrestling around in the same freaking notes… 

Now, You Guitarprayer where a complete and happy surprise for me, and I had not heard their Art Won’t Tear Us Apart Again, (love that title and the obvious nod) debut album. But hearing it now, it shows they knew from a start that they would never be aiming to fit into anybody’s scene. Sharp, heavy and wild, but also very open, spacious and windy, as if they’d left the windows cracked during a storm. Walls were shaking and there are definite moments where you could hear the air move. That’s a rare balance and they nailed it! There it is again… Balance… 

And on I Am The Light / The Light I Am they nailed it even harder! They obviously kept pushing, playing hard, staying loose, letting instinct steer the wheel. The singles they dropped showed a band stretching out, growing teeth in all the right places and shedding skin to grow scales. There are no apologies and You Guitarprayer knows, they’re never needed anyway. They’re committed and way too invested, and everything worth doing, is worth doing right… 

And all of that has led to I Am The Light / The Light I Am becoming bigger, deeper, vibrant and absolutely alive. It’s still very raw, and there are moments when there is this weird wistful energy and then you imagine someone like Iggy Pop definitely giving the nod to these guys on stage. After which the beautiful chaos they’ve owned since they started, becomes something radiant and glowing, and with so much soul deep inside their noise. Thrilling! Goosebumps all over…

Forgive them their name, for You Guitarprayer is a band of three, three brethren that are following the pull of something real. This is music that hits you in the chest. You feel it in your stomach. It sends shivers down your spine. You Guitarprayer aren’t just playing these notes, they’ve captured a lifetime within an they’ve got voltage running through them! 

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

 

 

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 Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Suncraft
Winds of Neptune
Kadavar
We Kill Cowboys
Ningen Isu
Howling Giant
The Apulian Blues Foundation
Malkasian
Vast Pyre
Mount Palatine

Welcome to your Monday! And welcome to the final week to send your list of favorite albums of 2025 to our email address: stonerhive@hotmail.com ! So they can be added to the total of lists already received for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025!! The lists are rolling in nicely and we hope to receive as many as possible. Thanks to everyone who already sent one! Very humbling once again! Below is the Top 10 Most Listened and apart from the November Doom Charts that went live on Friday we also managed to get a few other posts out. Two of them were featured on the Doom Charts and reposted here though. The awesome Winds Of Neptune album and the revanche release for Kadavar! And we mentioned We Kill Cowboys, Suncraft and that wild blues album by Malkasian! This week will see at least two reviews and one Album Premiere! So stay tuned and check out all of the above! They’re all damn tasty! 

Malkasian – Heavy Blues

 

 

Malkasian – Heavy Blues
Self-released / Desert Bloom PR – 2025
Rock, Blues, Psych, Stoner, Alternative 
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They’ve got style! But we already knew that. Cause we loved their The Macabre album and were truly honored to premiere the Hedonic single from their new album Heavy Blues. Dark, dirty, dripping with blood kind of blues. Yes, Malkasian is back! They’re back with a fist through the floorboards. If you remember and love The Macabre, you know the drill… Twisted, deranged, stoner-blues noir. But now with sharpened claws and a cigarette that burned down to ash and fell to the floor with nobody noticing and a band that continues to play. Drunk on blues, rumbling, feverish and filthy. You remember Hedonic right? And that harmonica? Howling like a junkie at the end of the night… 

Have you been there? Those dubious watering holes where even biker gangs show up fully armed. Well, this is their soundtrack. Riffs drag like the hungover bodies strewn about, the guitar sweats hundred percent alcohol, bass shudder and the drums stomp on the terra like a beast that knows there might never be another time. But it’s still the blues. The Heavy Blues, thick with dust and bourbon fumes. And those vocals, exactly hauntingly enough, close enough to follow you around like a shadow. And wild enough, so they might never quite let you go… It all just creeps under your skin and cut straight to the marrow. It rattles the bones and lingers like slow swirling smoke in a dim room. It’s Malkasian at their rawest. And Malkasian at their finest. Remember when All Them Witches started out as a blues band? Indeed… Well, Heavy Blues drags the old blues through alley grime, mixing bruised hearts, loud sorrow, and worn-out rage into something intense and bloody raw.

 

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Kadavar – Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin

 

Kadavar – Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin
Clouds Hill – 2025
Rock, Stoner, Psych
Rated: ****

The I Just Want To Be A Sound album arrived only months ago, but Kadavar storm back like fuzz crazed time travelers kicking down the doors of heavy rock’s ancient granaries. Their new album, Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin, is an intense mix of stoner grit, doom thunder and classic rock swagger. Their earlier album flirted with pop and self-reinvention, but this one?! This is the sound of a band truly becoming it and being possessed by it. It is the most chaotic and most Kadavar record they ever released. With every member throwing riffs, ideas and groove into the cauldron. The result isn’t just hard rock, retro or whatever, it’s a highly familiar yet definite mutant echo of heavy rock’s past. But most of all, the record seems to be bursting with raw rock and unfiltered joy. And that’s a sound we all want to become…  

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Winds Of Neptune – Winds Of Neptune

 

 

Winds Of Neptune – Winds Of Neptune
Small Stone Records – 2025 
Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock 
Rated: ****

Skidding across a Detroit parking lot, is Michigan’s Winds Of Neptune and their chrome-plated UFO as they crash land into the heavy underground landscape. Muscular, loud, unpolished and undeniable. Born during the pandemic by three veterans who played in bands like Flogging Molly, The Meatman and 500 Ft. of Pipe, their debut is a fuzz soaked love letter to the seventies! Freeway burning, bell bottom swagger, cosmic power and enough guitar heroics to make you go nuts! And smeared across that veneer, is a lysergic shimmer that makes every track feel like its leaking some weird color radiation fluid! Gravitational and centripetal all at the same time!

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The Doom Charts For November 2025

 

DOOM CHARTS

NOVEMBER 2025

“One good thing about music on the Doom Charts, when it hits you, you feel no pain…”
~ Bob Marley

The saying “one good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain” means music can have a powerfully distracting and healing effect, allowing a person to momentarily escape their physical or emotional pain. It highlights music’s ability to provide comfort, uplift the mood, and create a sense of peace. And it can do so much more for so many of us. And with the amount of great music constantly growing larger, it could possibly become the universal healer. And when it becomes too much, there is always that off switch. If only for a few minutes, hours or even a week. And then you come back to your favorite albums all fresh and in a desperate need to hear them once again… Below, there are 40 listed that might just become one of those albums! The Number One from October carried over and the Contributors voted for a total of 224 different albums this month, 24 different albums received a Number One vote from at least one Contributor and on Number 41 we find THE HYENA KILL with their Collapse album… And all of them have the ability to offer you escape… 

 

It's Bandcamp Friday! And the November Doom Charts just went live! There goes your paycheck... And December is already such an expensive month... But how can you say no to more great music? Ho ho ho!

An amazing list of heavy underground albums once again and will start my listening run down with Number 40: Vast Pyre...

Could have voted for all of them I'm sure... But of the ones that made it, I only voted for: Vast Pyre, Liquid Silk, Silver Orbs, Moonstone, YOU GUITARPRAYER, Papir, Dune Aurora, Doomherre, BLACK MAGIC TREE, Yawning Man (Official), Pale Horse Ritual, Maha Sohona & Winds Of Neptune .. .

 Already featured on Stoner HiVe: 

SUNCRAFT – WELCOME TO THE COVEN

HOWLING GIANT – CRUCIBLE & RUIN

SILVER ORBS – SILVER ORBS

YAWNING MAN – PAVEMENT ENDS

MAHA SOHONA – A DARK PLACE 

 

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 November 2025 

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… 

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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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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!