Besvärjelsen - Till Glömskan Ad Oblivionem

 

 

Besvärjelsen - Till Glömskan Ad Oblivionem
Magnetic Eye Records – 2026
Rock, Stoner, Alternative, Prog
Rated: *****

I’ve only been so lucky as to experience Besvärjelsen live once. And on the HiVe we only wrote about a full album once, that amazing Atlas album from 2022. Even though they’ve been releasing damn fine albums since 2015. And sure, we know, the new album Till Glömskan Ad Oblivionem is still some days away from being released. But sometimes you hear a record that immediately tells you where it's going to end up. The sort of record that refuses to leave your turntable, keeps revealing new details with every spin, and already feels destined for the very top of those inevitable Year End lists. If there is any justice in this heavy underground, Besvärjelsen will once again find themselves among the finest releases of the year…

And we know, we should not be surprised about this. Since they formed around 2014, through the combined forces of members from bands such as Dozer, Greenleaf, Afgrund, Lastkaj and V, the Swedish quintet has steadily carved out their own identity. The early  Villfarelser took away the curtain, and they truly stepped on stage with Vallmo, Frost and then the stunning Atlas. Which continued their story and pointed that greater things might still be lying in wait. And with Till Glömskan Ad Oblivionem they do not simply build on that foundation. They grow, they mature, they refine and turn it into their most complete statement yet…

The band might jokingly describe their own sound as 'forest rock', but the description does seem to fit. Sure, there’s still plenty of sun baked groove and even some massive stoner riffs coursing through these songs. But they often feel like they’re wrapped up in something deeper, natural, fresh and unmistakably Scandinavian. The spirit of the Dalarna Forests, which they mention, seems to become this verdant umbrella for the compositions. Lending the album an earthy mysticism, combined with down to earth wisdom and giving room for heavy rock, psychedelia, progressive flourishes and haunting melodies to become seemingly inseparable. 

What truly elevates the record, is the chemistry between the band and vocalist Lea Amling Alazam. As with the rest of the band, she sounds more mature, perhaps calmer and at peace with herself. Even so, her voice remains one of the genre's greatest assets, effortlessly shifting between intimate vulnerability and commanding power. And even though she shows that power less or more controlled on this album, she still easily enchants. Never dominating the music, not is she swallowed by the riffs. Instead, the vocals expertly weave themselves into the dense layers of guitars until the sounds breathe as one beautiful living organism. 

As always, Besvärjelsen understand  that heaviness is not just about delivering crushing riffs. Hooks abound, groove pulling you ever further and beneath every memorable chorus lies another subtle detail waiting to be uncovered. Like for instance The Mountain, which I cannot help but thinking must be a nod towards Lowrider. You know the song. One moment the band is driving with irresistible momentum, and then they drift into expansive psychedelic passages, progressive detours, without ever sacrificing the natural flow of the album. And even the more pop sensible moments and the warm glowing album ballad perfectly. Everything feels organic, effortless, despite the remarkable scope of all its songwriting. 

Till Glömskan Ad Oblivionem feels like such a complete journey, a goal arrived at. And that feels like a massive success. It invites you into its world, surrounds you with towering riffs, hypnotic rhythms and melodies that linger long after the final notes have faded away. Till Glömskan Ad Oblivionem rewards patience. It rewards repeated listens and complete immersion. It constantly reveals new paths through its enchanted forests every time you return… 

(Written by JK)

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Video - An Evening With Knives – The Mistake

 

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An Evening With Knives – The Mistake 

End of Time was released March 2025 and was yet another amazing An Evening With Knives album. We wrote a few words back then as you might have read. But after the album matured for more than a year, we can still state that the eight songs on the album feel forged in fire, thunder and shadow. An Evening With Knives return with End Of Time, eight songs forged in fire, thunder and shadow. Driven by Jarno van Osch’s fierce drumming, the Eindhoven trio sounds leaner, darker and more dangerous, every note striking with purpose. Guitars shimmer, bass surges and drums pound like an approaching storm, while Marco Gelissen’s roars tear through the darkness. From the turbulent fury of The Mistake to the haunting depths of S21, this is metal that breathes, burns and leaves the ground trembling beneath your feet. And we do not mention The Mistake for nothing… Cause just now… A new video was released for that one song… Cause it features proudly on a new two-track single soon to be released called: The Rabbit & The Mistake. Make no mistake, the critique of self-righteous leadership and the sheep-like willingness of others to follow it, still cuts like a knife… 

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 An Evening With Knives Announce New EP The Rabbit & The Mistake and Release "The Mistake" Video
    
    

Dutch psychedelic post-metal trio An Evening With Knives follows up its latest album End of Time with a new two-track EP built around the song The Mistake. The release will be available on all major streaming platforms and is accompanied by a brand-new music video created by artist Paddy Murphy. Alongside The Mistake, the EP also features the previously unreleased track The Rabbit.

With its ominous atmosphere and crushing intensity, The Mistake feels more relevant than ever.

The band comments:

“The world is on fire. Current events speak for themselves and form the perfect backdrop for The Mistake — a track that unfortunately becomes more relevant by the day. When artist Paddy Murphy approached us with an idea for a music video for the song, we didn’t have to think twice. The result is a bizarre visual trip with a confronting nod to the strange reality we currently live in.”

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The EP also includes The Rabbit, a track that until now remained hidden in the shadows of the End of Time studio sessions. The song was one of the first tracks written for the album, but ultimately did not make the final tracklist.

“More songs were recorded during the studio sessions than would fit on the album. The Rabbit is about helplessly surrendering to the whims of others, and the grim satisfaction of witnessing their eventual downfall. To us, this track always deserved to see the light of day — and now, on September 2, it finally will.”

Following the release, An Evening With Knives will embark on a fall tour across the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium. The first show is scheduled for Friday, September 4 at Vera in Groningen.

More information and tour dates at www.aneveningwithknives.com​
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-04-09: Vera - Groningen (NL)
-05-09: Rock Monsieur Festival - Hamont (BE)
-01-10: Charlatan - Gent (BE)
-03-10: The Jack - Eindhoven (NL)
-20-11: Lokvogel - Hemer (DE)
-26-11: Stereo Wonderland - Cologne (DE)
-27-11: Noisebox - Attendorn (DE)
-12-12: MOM Fest - Veghel (NL)

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Marco Gelissen - Guitar & vocals
Peter van Grunsven - Bass guitar
Jarno van Osch - Drums & samples 

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Rezn – Cycles In The Infinite Dream

 

Rezn – Cycles In The Infinite Dream 
Sargent House Records – 2026 
Doom, Psych, Rock, Alternative, Prog, Shoegaze
Rated: ****

Rezn comes on slow. For me at least. I can remember settling in for all those amazing Rezn albums that came before and feeling happy and content after the first listening session. Rarely did it immediately blow me out of my seat. There was of course that Collaborative album with Vinnum Sabbathi that did. And the fact that so many of their releases made the yearly Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown, thanks to all of your votes, is a testament to the fact that these guys deliver the good stuff every time again. Even if it might come on slow. But maybe… Slow is good! 

Cause the same can be said for the new one. But then… When you are about to set Cycles in the Infinite Dream away for while… Zang! Suddenly, out of nowhere you are completely immersed. The collision of dreamlike beauty, with cosmic psychedelia and celestial doom, create this vast inner universe. Rob McWilliams’s soaring vocals guide the journey through waves of synth, saxophone, and lap steel, illuminating the darkness with a human glow. A truly spellbinding voyage from one of heavy music’s most transcendent forces…

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Silent Future with Vinnum Sabbathi – Number 19 on The Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2023 

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Heavy On The Ride – Heavy On The Ride

 

 

Heavy On The Ride – Heavy On The Ride 
Self-released – 2026 
Stoner, Rock, Metal, Alternative
Rated: ****

It came out of the desert… No… It came out of Wales!! From the town of Swansea and these four good old boys have been releasing music for more than twelve years. Atavistic riff rock, primal and untamed! Indeed, stoner, hard driven, channeling the dust and thunder of stoner rock. Add to this the more alternative metal sorts and you have an album that will make your car continue to run once the gasmeter says empty… Indeed, every riff feels like another hundred miles beneath your wheels, every chorus another reason to keep the engine running. Road-tested and weathered by years of experience, Heavy On The Ride tap effortlessly into your musical muscle memory. Dynamic dual vocals, inspired guitar work and stellar production weave together memorable hooks, seismic grooves and unexpected detours, culminating in a self-titled debut that is as adventurous as it is addictive. An album destined to become the soundtrack to every great journey…

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Druglord – Hear It Breathe

 

Druglord – Hear It Breathe
Self-released - 2026
Doom, Stoner, Metal
Rated: ****

Druglord might have been around for ages... Centuries perhaps. In different shapes and forms… And this incarnation went dark for eight years since releasing New Day Dying in 2018. But now, from the mire rises… A heavier, hungrier form. Druglord is back. Shedding none of their grime, sharpening the edges, forging a release of six songs where suffocating sludge collides with galloping metal, hardcore fury and doom. Doom, but often fast moving, fuzz drenched riffs. Changing between relentless charge and oppressive crawl. It’s the contrast that keeps on dragging you along, just like those ragged snarls and solemn harmonies. Hear It Breathe feels like a storm gathering over a scorched earth, crushing all beneath them before disappearing into a final shimmering haze of noise…

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

 

 

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

Buzzard
Stoned Jesus
Heavy On The Ride
Coffin Hunters
Slow Goat
Wailin Storms
Temple King
Old World Astronaut
Rezn
Travo

The most important thing this week… We are honored to present to you new Weekly Top 10 Most Listened art by the one and only Bobby Rayfield from Inherent Records and Monuments In Ruin. Prompted by Shrubbery Terror and his remark that those vinyls on top of each other hurt, Bobby immediately went to work and made this wonderful Stoner HiVe Cabinet, within a week! We can’t thank him enough for all his time and energy, and we can’t wait to start spinning those records all situated nicely in upright position! Grin! 

Another week in front of us, which means another one in the books. Hope it’s been a good one for you all! It was a busy one and hectic finish, but that seems to be the status quo recently. We hope to finish a few things we’ve been working on this week or at least before we leave for Down The Hill Festival. We’re leaving for Belgium on Thursday the 20th, so let’s get cracking on all we want to do till then! Last we week we managed to spread the word on that magnificent and free Bootleg Series by King Buffalo, wrote about that wild Ancestro album, that gritty grunge release by Last Band and the weird and eclectic Modula Nation. And we had the privilege and honor to Premiere the new single by Buzzard! The week ended with the new July edition of the Doom Charts going live! Which is always a good way to end things… Right? Here’s hoping we can get some HiVe stuff done this week… We’ve got a lot waiting to be finished… Enjoy yer week! 

The Doom Charts for July 2026

 

DOOM CHARTS

JULY 2026

“I’m a cold heartbreaker, fit to burn
And I’ll rip your heart in two
And I’ll leave you lyin’ on the bed
I’ll be out the door before you wake
It’s nothin’ new to you
‘Cause I think we’ve seen that Doom Charts, too, aw…”

~ misheard Guns ‘n Roses lyrics

One of our contributors had the audacity to ask an AI program to predict this month’s Doom Charts Top 5. It got the order wrong, but remarkably, every single one of its predicted albums made the chart. Even more unsettling, three of them landed in the actual Top 5. Scary stuff. I think it’s time to break Sarah Connor out of Pescadero State Hospital. She tried to warn us about this sort of thing. We just assumed she was talking about killer robots. Turns out she might have meant doom metal prediction algorithms…

Scary stuff indeed. There’s an ominous feeling in the air, an uneasy current, a lingering sense of dread. It seems to have become the soundtrack all year round. Ever present, impossible to ignore, yet strangely difficult to put your finger on. Zeitgeist on the Run, as the new Iron Jinn album is aptly titled. The spirit of the age itself appears rattled, looking for somewhere, anywhere, to escape to…

Luckily we can escape into the Heavy Underground. Still, beyond the Top 40 albums below, there might still be a small glimmer of hope. For if an AI can learn to understand the Doom Charts, perhaps it can also come to understand the heavy underground… And the people who pour their heart and soul into keeping this beautiful thing alive. Absolutely not for the algorithms or statistics, but because of the strange, stubborn, irrational passion that keeps it alive. All of us, all over the world, creating, writing, recording, promoting, buying records, filling venues, dubious watering holes and bars, and keeping this music alive simply because we all believe it matters. And maybe, in doing so, it can begin to make sense of us. Of humanity. Of why music matters so much to so many of us. Of why life matters. Right? And well… Because if a machine can learn the value of human life… perhaps we can, too…

Burning hot, blazing and scorching! The brand new July edition of the Doom Charts! Forty amazing albums straight out of the Heavy Underground... And of the ones that made the list I happened to vote for quite a few myself...

Like Solace, REZN, Shadow_of_Jupiter_Official, Cannabus, Ealdor Bealu, Mothertomb, Svindel, Gods & Punks, Jovian Queen, Irata, ULTRACOMBO, Beware Of Gods, Morrison Graves, Yeti on Horseback, Witchsorrow, 𝖂𝖎𝖟𝖆𝖗𝖉 𝕸𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗, Dead Meadow (Official) & Heckel & Jeckel...

But as usual, I could have voted for all of them! Starting the rundown with Number 40. That wild Drowner EP by Blackstaff !

 

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, progressive 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 - July 2026

Single Premiere - Buzzard - Disunion

 

SINGLE PREMIERE 

Buzzard - Disunion

 

Buzzard. Our very own heavy underground town crier... The doom troubadour, the one who continues to deliver universal truths in a way our little niche deserves. His music drifts out of the twilight, carried on woodsmoke and echoes of forgotten hills. And his way of preaching continues in grand form on the new album Hush Now. To be released on October 16th. But right here, right now, we’re honored to present to you the lead single of that new album. Out tomorrow, it’s the opening track and first opening statement: Disunion! 

Disunion rumbles like classic metal rolling down those hills, rooted in the weight of doom and is filled with the enduring soul of folk. A song, translating those restless nights, when the world feels heavy and the truth is hard won. Shadowed melodies, minor moments of respite, walk hand in hand with those earth shaking riffs. It’s the old bard’s simple lyrics though, which cut like old wisdom and sting of lived experience. And as on the rest of the album, there is anger here, but it burns like watchfire rather than wildfire. Warning and illuminating. Impossible to ignore. Music for wandering hearts and weary spirits alike, the ones that howl beneath the moon, share glasses of bourbon, and wait for those beacons everywhere to be lit. Or Disunion is simply here, as the rest of Hush Now, to remind you that even in dark times… There’s someone sill singing the truth… 

We’re honored to present to you… 

The SINGLE PREMIERE for the new Buzzard album Hush Now called: Disunion



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Buzzard - Hush Now

Scathing, revolutionary doom folk from Massachusetts

Fourth LP “Hush Now” out October 16th, 2026

Lead single "Disunion" out August 7th


Genres: Doom metal, folk rock, americana, stoner

Buzzard presents its 4th doom folk metal LP installment Hush Now, expanding on the one-man band's trademark blend of heavy fuzz guitar, Americana instrumentation, and socially relevant songwriting. From mellotron to mandolin, Sabbathian riffs to Dylan-esque wordplay, H.P. Lovecraft to Bill Hicks, Hush Now is the fullest expression yet of Buzzard’s unique artistic vision.

Following the success of the politically charged 2025 EP Everything Is Not Going To Be Alright (expanded to a 10-song LP earlier this year), Hush Now broadens its scope. “Disunion” delivers a state of the union address to the void above. “Fireball” is an ode to the music of America. “Knock on the Door” laments the plight of the pawn. “Contaminate, Consume” reveals the purpose of humanity’s finite tenure on Earth.

The 10-track LP has been mastered for vinyl by MixCave Mastering with original art by Indonesian artist Bintang Pratama. As bonus tracks the CD version of Hush Now adds the 6 singles released in 2026, including “The Bombing Will Continue Until There’s Peace,” “Cinderella’s Midnight Surprise,” and “Hillbilly Fuckery (Original version),” all remastered for digital in a digipak featuring additional artwork by Doomolith. EP Everything Is Not Going To Be Alright will also be released on cassette by Doomshire Tapes on August 7th.
        

But wait, there’s more! Also coming 10/16 is a 7-inch pressing of “Hillbilly Fuckery (Extended WTF International Choir Version)”, wherein over 50 Buzzard fans contributed recordings of themselves saying, “What the fuck?”

An apocalyptic lullaby for the absurdity that is 2026, Hush Now suggests that everything, in fact, is going to be alright. As the album’s penultimate track “Take Comfort” proclaims:

“One fine day, the Sun will burn this wicked world away/I take comfort from the fact the Sun will explode some day."

Buzzard - Hush Now

Album out October 16th, 2026
Self-released (Digital, Vinyl, CD)
Massachusetts, United States
Exterior front and back artwork by Bintang Pratama
Mastered by Mixcave Mastering

Tracklist:
1. Disunion (4:49)
2. Shutting Down (4:06)
3. Satan, Your Kingdom Shall Come (3:07)
4. Knock on the Door (4:45)
5. Mount Din (3:51)
6. Fireball (3:32)
7. Contaminate, Consume (4:32)
8. Ten Extinction Credits (3:18)
9. Take Comfort (4:55)
10. Doomsayer Fairy Tale (Heavy Groove Story Time) (4:43)

Everything written, performed, and produced by Christopher Thomas Elliott in his home among the eldritch hills of Western Massachusetts.

 

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Modula Nation – The Rift

  

Modula Nation – The Rift
Tonzonen Records – 2026
Rock, Funk, Prog, Metal, Hardcore, Industrial, Space
Rated: ***

In an era obsessed with labels and algorithms, Modula Nation seems determined to tear a rift straight through them. Heehee.. See what we did there? It’s for albums like these that the term crossover must have been invented. The sheer number of genres thrown into the blender is nothing short of astonishing. Even more remarkable is the fact that it all works. Hailing from Graz, Austria, Modula Nation released their debut three-track EP back in 2009. Now they return with The Rift, a record that effortlessly blurs stylistic boundaries. Across its runtime, the band weaves together elements of funk, progressive rock, psychedelia, space rock, metal, hardcore, industrial, synth rock, krautrock, and even pop, creating a sound that is as adventurous as it is cohesive.

With The Rift they mark their territory, they piss on convention and set the tone as a genre-defying rock act. It’s a bold high energy sound that embraces all that the word crossover might stand for. Inventive arrangements, dynamic on all fronts, balancing funky groove, progressive structuring, moments or riffage and atmospheric textures with a highly danceable and fun attitude. The Rift, Silicon Carne and the expansive Soul Fever all showcase the band’s versatility and commitment to push musical boundaries. Or the Faith No More inspired Shred. And we can only praise the more experimental moments that offset all that pop sensible movement. The reward comes later, after a few sessions with The Rift… For they refuse every musical rulebook. The band transforms unpredictability into an addictive journey that reveals something new with every spin…

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Last Band – Mirrors

 

 

Last Band – Mirrors
Self-released – 2026
Grunge, Alternative, Metal,
Rated: ***

Back in 2024 we mentioned their The Sacrament In Accidents release and kind of felt that the Last Band four were on the verge becoming as their chosen moniker might suggest. Two years later they’re back with Mirrors on which their sound continues to be this dense strain of alternative rock, fused with grunge weight, metal snarl and a Husker Du kind of laissez-faire that turns everything into a volatile, gritty whole…

Like a reflection pulled from a fractured world, a cracked surface where grunge shadows, metal teeth and progressive punky unrest collide. Built from derelict riffs, serrated rhythms and raw lo-fi tension, the album captures the electricity of musicians creating something larger than its parts. Moments of eerie psychedelic drift meander through, but the tempest of weight and vulnerability keeps moving on like a hungry beast. Beneath all that distortion resides a deeply human pulse, exploring broken connections, social unease and the search for meaning. 

The songs refuse comfort or predictability, and burn, singe, sear, until fracture. Nothing is polished up, it’s all raw and brutally laid bare. Mirrors delivers a reflection, but though its shattered surface it all cuts back. Mirrors, feels like a visceral document of conflict and transformation, of survival and of a band pushing their sound ever deeper into their veins. Blood spilled out together with all these riffs. And you can feel it… 

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Ancestro – En Ruinas

 

Ancestro – En Ruinas
Self-eleased – 2026
Rock, Metal, Doom, Stoner, Instrumental
Rated: ****

Following up on their self-titled album after some seven years… Ancestro returns from the volcanic depths of Trujillo, Peru with En Ruinas, a monumental instrumental voyage through towering riffs, shifting landscapes, volatile shapes and echoes of a world in transformation. Their fourth full sized offering since 2016, it rises like a forgotten monument, a pillar of ancestral melodies, reclaimed by time, carrying all that weight of the past, while searching for new horizons… 

With the relentless force of a slow moving storm, En Ruinas builds on foundations of stoner, doom and heavy psychedelic traditions. Crushing guitar lines, hypnotic rhythms and vast atmospheric passages whirl around each other to create a shrine of sound that feels ancient and otherworldly. From the persistent pulse of the title track to the immersive journeys of Status Quo, 13001, Wachuma, Andante and that final beautiful send off called Mar Desierto, Ancestro cherish where they come from and reveal to be a band that is expanding its sonic universe. 

And En Ruinas captures that spirit of a band, a landscape and an idea that is forever changing, turning the expedition through all this into a dusty cinematic expedition. Heavy yet hopeful, mysterious and inviting, it stands tall, and proud as  Ancestro’s most powerful and adventurious chapters. And not just for the band itself, En Ruinas feels like a testament to the enduring force of all those instrumental voyages. En Ruinas shows you the passing of time and hands you all the clues to have your imagination fill in the memories that still linger… 

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King Buffalo – Bootleg Series

 

 

King Buffalo – Bootleg Series

I wasn’t there! For any of these shows, for they all happened in the USA. But I love King Buffalo and I wish I had been. But now I can listen to them all anyway! And luckily I have all those memories of all those European shows I managed to attend to cherish and cling to and of course the Live At Freak Valley vinyl. But maybe we just should have stated, there are a 120 shows for you to listen to for free or even download. It’s only 17 GB. Or maybe we should have stated there will be new King Buffalo music coming this Halloween! 

 

 

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Longing To Be The Mountains, Number 5 on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

Hawkwind
Shadow Of Jupiter
Terra Black
Nephila
Daily Tompson
Stoned Jesus
Travo
Vordermann
Ancestro
Ealdor Bealu

Morning everyone! What a week! Had hoped and expected to have more time to HiVe. But rush interviews with Iron Jinn and Hawkwind’s Dave Brock popped up. And with the deadlines for today, most HiVe work had to take a backseat. But luckily we did have a smidge of time and energy to upload a few reviews we’ve been working on. Kardeathian released their first single, Solace grabbed everyone with their new Faiding Failing Ruin album and Vordermann is about to release their new Feeding On Fireworks. Last one that went live is for the stunning Shadow of Jupiter album. Those four write-ups and the Top Ten Listened To The Most could keep you busy for quite some time if you haven’t heard them. And if you have, let us know what your favorite is! Have a great week! 

Shadow of Jupiter – Bones

  

Shadow of Jupiter – Bones
Ripple Music – 2026
Rock, Stoner, Doom, Metal
Rated: ****

Out since July 10 and on heavy rotation since the promo came in a month before, the brand new  Shadow Of Jupiter album. It’s out on Ripple Music and is called: Bones. And it truly is bone rattling, that almost two minute long run up, that almost two minute long beginning of what’s about to happen. There is, for all intents and purposes, a definite generator vibe going as the title track Bones commences. Vocals seem to drift and almost carried away on the wind of swirling riffs. The guitars pulsate and make the air around you vibrate on an entirely different pitch…

It’s like a molten transmission from the edge of the desert, a thunderous pilgrimage through smoke, dust and endless sonic horizons, where everything is possible. Built on foundations of stoner and doom, it also implores psychedelia, blues, hardrock and classic heavy metal. It’s like a sun bleached bible of heavy rock, found beneath a burning sun and still smelling of the generator fuel that once leaked on it…
 
This is music with sand in its gears, blood on its fingers and fire in its veins. Bones does not simply move from song to song… Hell no. It drifts. It crawls. It runs. It explodes. It stretches massive riffs across wide open landscapes where crushing weight, meets mighty grooves and at certain times a cosmic atmosphere. Colin Peterson’s guitars carve out towering walls of sound, Scott Brakebill’s bass rolls like distant thunder, Adam Kazragys’ drums lock into deep, primal grooves, and John Piotrowski’s vocals rise like a weathered storyteller yelling from a high and weathered peak.

Weathered in a righteous way, from the psychedelic pull of the title track and Echo Chamber to the swaggering menace of Riot Dogs and Rumblestrip, the band take heavy music out past the city limits and into the badlands where the road disappears and the amps have a life of their own. Bones is a fever dream of desert heat, monstrous grooves, and psychedelic wreckage. It is a wild ride through the ghosts of heavy music’s past, steering straight into the unknown with a full tank of fuel, a blown speaker, and no intention of slowing down. Shadow Of Jupiter got places to be and we need to be there to take part of their exalted delivery of good and heavy music! 

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Vordermann – Feeding on Fireworks

 

 

Vordermann – Feeding on Fireworks
Self released – 2026
Rock, Metal, Post, Prog, Sludge
Rated: ***

After that fine, atmospheric and eclectic three track called Feeding On Flowers, the five piece from Stoke on Trent, UK named Vordermann returns with a follow up called Feeding on Fireworks! It follows the same strain of composition, sound color and feels like Feeding on Fireworks is the explosive celebration of everything that seems to make Vordermann a compelling force for the future of modern heavy music… They continue to blend sludge, doom, post rock, shoegaze, alternative rock and even pop influences with such effortless confidence, that the three tracks demand to be repeated with no end. They create a vibrant tapestry, where crushing moments of riffs bloom into shimmering atmospheres and bittersweet sour-laced vocal harmonies cut through it all with striking clarity. 

Rich in texture and endlessly rewarding to explore, the EP balances raw power with genuine emotional resonance, proving that melody and heaviness can burn brighter together than apart. And on this second EP, the Vordermann five, naturally embrace what they have already set as the boundaries of their sound. And deliver that sound and those color with fearless creativity. It’s a release that once again thrives on contrast, this time the contrast being intimate and immense. Feeding on Fireworks, feels like a dazzling statement of intent… Especially when one listens to Something Sacred, Something Terrible, a true celebration of transformation, intensity and limitless possibilities if one goes beyond convention.. And Vordermann continues to do so! 

Feeding on Fireworks comes out on August 7th, but you can check out their earlier EP Feeding On Flowers right now and get ready for the explosive continuation.. 



Or watch the video for the first single from Feeding On Fireworks released on July 15th, called Ego Gland! 

(Written by JK)

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