Off to ride a mountain…

 

Off to ride a mountain…

It's time for a break... We're off to Austria to find a mountain or two to snowboard down from. Let's hope for some decent snow. The weather predictions are good. But the quality of snow might be limited. Even so, it will be grand... Cause we're also celebrating the fact that my princess and me will be married ten years. Ten years. How time flies... Still can't believe she said yes... 

No updates for a week... But hey... There's still that Doom Charts Top 100 to scour through, the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown and all those massive Personal lists from the Stoner HiVe Team. And otherwise I  am sure you will get your fix for all those new releases popping up from all those other blogs and sites! 

And as we make our way over to Austria, we will surely be listening to the live Hermano album, the new Weedpecker, Stargo, Capacopter, Gran Moreno, Oreyeon, New Mexican Doom Cult, Beelzebong, Stonus, Hypnotic Pattern, Mount Palatine and Astral Voyager Vol.2... You know... The follow-up to last years Doom Charts Number 1 album by Kal-El... Hope to review them all when I return... 

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Thanks for following along..  

 Seeya’ll in a week! 

 

Hermano – Clisson, France (Live album)

 

 

Hermano – Clisson, France (Live album)
Ripple Music – 2026 
Rock, Stoner, Desert 
Rated: ****

Legendary Hermano. Back on the road. I always counted myself lucky to have been there for their first incarnation. The W2 gig that was recorded and later on when they returned to my hometown Eindhoven, where they had the very cool but short-lived Repomen (which thankfully gave us Komatsu) open up for them. And this year… I’m gonna be freaking lucky once again. I will definitely see them twice once more. And can’t wait for May to arrive. I wasn’t there in France though. Not last year. And not back in 2016 when they recorded the live album that has been spinning a lot over here. Hellfest, they sure got something special going on. And so does Hermano…

They obviously need no introduction. And to be perfectly frank, the live album needs no review. This stands as a testament for those who were there at Hellfest, for those who’ve seen them live somewhere and for those who desperately want to see them live. And will be able to at any of the nine dates currently lined-up in Europe. Quality wise the sound is there, visceral, engaging and seducing. It will make you lust for more Hermano… 

And if When The Moon Was High mini album had not been released back in 2024, this new live album would have been so much more. Remember that one? With Breathe? And Never Boulevard? But three of the tracks were also used for that release. One of them being Love. That one ‘new’ track. Which hold such a savory groove and tempo you can have it on repeat for the entire afternoon. But that would probably dismiss a bit too much of the rest of the live album, for the setlist was pristine and the band on fire. 

No Sugarhill Gang at all, this is the Hermano you hope to hear. Always. So… If you were there. At this Hermano live gig, some other one or desperately want to be there, this is for you. This is a release for you. They’ve played that gig and recorded it, just for you. 

(Written by JK)

Out February 6th on Ripple Music 



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Hermano European 2026 Live Dates

May 7 - Paris (FR) La Maroquinerie
May 8 - Utrecht (NL) Tivoli Vredenburg
May 9 - Cologne (DE) Luxor
May 11 - Vienna (AT) Arena
May 12 - Munich (DE) Backstage Halle
May 14 - Berlin (DE) Desertfest Berlin
May 15 - London (UK) Desertfest London
May 16 - Nijmegen (NL) Sonic Whip
May 17 - Brussels (BE) Obsidian Dust

Accabadora – Mazzolu

 

 

Accabadora – Mazzolu
Self-released – 2026
Metal, Doom, Black
Rated: ***

After a quiet knock heard at dusk in an old and dusty village, one will know the end has come. A new three-piece dragged from the depths of a twisted night and the brink of demise. They’re called Accabadora and hail from the Netherlands. Fronted by Maurice de Jong, the man behind the experimental project Gnaw Their Tongues. Their first EP Mazzolu will be out on February 1st and will undoubtedly move all Conan and Amenra heads. This is doom metal not played but administered. As if summoned from a shadowed dimension where time slows and every breath is heavy.

As are the vocals, suffocating benediction that crushes the ear and leaves silences trembling in its wake. There is a ritual here, pitiless and steady like a funeral march. Those riffs, rough and jagged one moment and then almost calming, for an instance, as if mercy briefly flickers like moonlight across a blade. Doom is here the last sacrament, and the drums hit with the weight of finality, each blow echoing that final heartbeat heard in that ancient house in that old and dusty village… 

(Written by JK)

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HUFR FEST - Mile High Riffs

 

 

HUFR FEST - Mile High Riffs

April 24–26, 2026 - Bar 404, Denver, CO

He's our man on the beat. No, he's the man lurking in the weeds! Ready to pounch of every riff that comes floating by! It's S. Patrick Brooks from the one and only Heavy Underground Farm Report! And guess what... He's organizing, hosting and doing the magnificent thing of hosting his very own festival! Downtown Dencer, Bar 404, from April 24th  to April 26st! It's HUFR FEST - Mile High Riffs! A three day celebration of Colorado's premier rock outfits! Straight out of the heavy underground to bring you the dirtiest sound... And awaiting you at that Denver door... It's S. Patrick Brooks, the guy to get you high! On Riffs, Life and more... 

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Friday, April 24

Vashon Seed
Hibernaut
Violet Rising
Lord Velvet
Sonolith
Lost Relics

Saturday, April 25

Psalm
Momovudu
Godzillionaire
Luna Sol
Blue Heron
Cobranoid

Sunday, April 26

Nomestomper
Black Sunrise
Messiahvore
Shadow of Jupiter
Peach Street Revival

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HUFR FEST – Mile High Riffs

Denver, Colorado is about to get heavier. Created by Sean Brooks, Andrea Thomas-Brooks, and Zeth Pedulla, HUFR FEST – Mile High Riffs is a three-day celebration of stoner, doom, and riff-driven rock, happening April 24–26, 2026 at Bar 404 in the heart of Denver.

With 17 bands across the weekend, HUFR FEST brings the crushing weight of doom, the fuzzed-out haze of stoner rock, and the psychedelic grooves of heavy underground music to the Mile High City. More than just a festival, it’s a gathering for the heavy music community—fans, bands, artists, and riff worshippers alike.

Prepare for walls of sound, swirling smoke, and the kind of communal energy that only heavy music can create. Welcome to HUFR FEST – Mile High Riffs.

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Don’t miss your chance to experience three days of pure, riff-driven energy in the heart of Denver’s underground scene.

Venue: Bar 404, Denver, CO
Dates: April 24–26, 2026

Tickets: Available now through official HUFR FEST channels

Stoner.Blog.Hu interviews Stoner HiVe

 

 

Stoner.Blog.Hu interviews Stoner HiVe

Well… The title explains it all… We were absolutely honored to be asked to answer some questions for the awesome Stoner.Blog.Hu. This Hungarian blog has been around since 2008 and has provided Hungary with every bit of heavy news and reviews since they started. And since the interview went a bit long, Nikodém István, the man behind it, decided to run it in two parts. Which means I get to clog up his site with my nonesense even longer! Humbled and honored amigo! 

But of course, we could not help ourselves to also ask him some questions about his blogging experience and the Heavy Underground in Hungary… And found out he also does the Fémforgács site and Stonerforgács vlog. Seriously cool! So, soon, we shall also post an interview with the man behind Stoner.Blog.Hu! Thank you again Nikodém, for bestowing these honors upon little old me! 

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Planet Desert Rock Weekend - VI

 

Planet Desert Rock Weekend  - VI

January 29th - February 1st

We’re a bit late perhaps, cause all you hip freaks out there already know about this and probably are already aiming to attend. But hey, you crazies out there, who are looking to hit Las Vegas, be sure to do that for this magical weekend! In fact… Four freaking full nights of heaviness! From January 29th to February 1st it’s time for the sixth edition of Planet Desert Rock Weekend! Organized by the one and only John Gist from Vegas Rock Revolution, every edition seems to best the one that came before. Just look at the full line-up below. Pure heavy rock bliss! Planet Desert Rock Weekend, it’s out of this world!

Night 1

The Quill
The Well
Isaak
Saturna
Phantom Hound

Night 2

The Devil & The Almighty Blues
Freedom Hawk
Wolftooth
Kaiser
Paralyzed

Night 3

The Atomic Bitchwax
Black Water Rising
Throttlerod
The Heavy Eyes
Dirty Streets
Kind

Night 4

Spaceslug
Westing
Bask
High Desert Queen
Familiars

 

PR Wire: 

 Vegas Rock Revolution's Planet Desert Rock Weekend has revealed the full lineup for its 2026 edition, with twenty-one heavy rock bands from across the globe converging in Sin City over the January 29th-February 1st weekend!

Curated by Vegas Rock Revolution founder John Gist, Planet Desert Rock Weekend has become a major event for all heavy rock fans nationwide and beyond. More than just a festival, it's an experience: its strong worldwide curation in an intimate indoor and evening-only setting drives the yearly increase in popularity for this Sin City event — a party atmosphere with top-notch sound provided by The Usual Place!

Planet Desert Rock VI will be presenting a wide range of hard rock and stoner rock acts featuring not only legacy bands such as The Atomic Bitchwax, Black Water Rising, Throttlerod and The Quill, but also scene stalwarts like Spaceslug (Poland), Freedom Hawk, The Devil & the Almighty Blues (Norway), The Heavy Eyes, The Well, Bask, Westing, Saturna (Spain), Paralyzed (Germany) and High Desert Queen. Once again, the festival has invited Californian label Ripple Music to host a special showcase night featuring some of their roster's finest live acts! 

Ripple Music founder Todd Severin comments, "John Gist has created and nurtured one of the best festivals in the USA for heavy rock. Not limited by genre, but by quality, each day of the Planet Desert Rock Weekend delivers. Ripple is once again thrilled to support PDRW, and can't wait to show off to the world Ripple night, when Ripple bands storm the stage en masse!" Check out the festival's official Spotify playlist!

 

And there might still be a handful of tickets available!

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Mount Palatine – Wormholy World

 

 

Mount Palatine – Wormholy World
Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records – 2026
Metal, Doom, Psych, Prog, Sludge 
Rated: ****

A crusading force rises out of the wasteland like a sworn knight emerging from a blinding sandstorm. The dust cloud is dense, thick but through it you can see the outlines of a band called Mount Palatine emerging with an album called Wormholy World, here to stabilize the particles into one focused sphere. Once traversing that globe under the name The Paladin, the new name feels like a much better fit. For this heavy psychedelic doom sounds mountainous, concentrated yet hallucinatory and very strangely philosophical. As if they survived an apocalyptic event and learnt what’s truly important… 

Seismic riffs and molten grooves, colliding with melodic after shocks as the horizon cracks and breaks. There’s a new sense of confidence here, as the band leans into longer forms, deeper atmospheres and a definite willingness to let things breathe and exhale before finally detonating. And even though there is still ground to gain when it comes to the vocals, the scorched-earth rasp has its moments and sometimes even seems to ground all the chaos with human pain and grit. 

But as the record  unfolds, meditative passages blur and weave into sludgy gravity wells. And as those fragments float in and out of focus, songs almost seem to rebuild themselves mid-collapse. Nothing stays still for very long. Themes, eastern or abstract, yet always intimate and enticing. Luring you deeper into their world. A Wormholy World that feels like a half-remembered future or past, from a gone away world. A time where meaning still matters or mattered or will once have mattered.

And as you traverse their landscape, you hold on as the final stretch, embraces its cinematic scope with even more feverous energy and daring. Ever heavier, searing and stranger, with grooves that hit like collapsing structures and melodies that refuse to die down. They return over and over. Just like Mount Palatine themselves. For, Mount Palatine stand not as resurrected ghosts, but as warriors who have laid their former selves to rest. Having buried The Paladin, they rise without hesitation, declaring their true form, victorious among the fallen, unashamed, and crowned not by ego, but by conviction. Wormholy World is here to make you swim with the wind and peek behind the curtain… 

And we are honored to host the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Wormholy World on February 5th ! So check out the first two Mount Palatine singles today and return to Stoner HiVe on February 5th for the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE!  

(Written by JK)

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

 

 

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

Black Helium
Bask
Textures
Capacopter
Slumbering Sun
Kadavermarch
Giant Haze
Hermano
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows
Hällas

It’s Monday! Start of the new week and of the normal Stoner HiVe broadcasting service. Last week we ended the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown, with seven Personal Top 20 lists and the Doom Charts Top 100. This means we are ready to close the book on 2025. Don’t think we will stop listening to all those amazing albums though! Or mentioning new discoveries from last year. We love them too hard! But it’s time to also look forward. And we will probably run the first review later tonight. One that we will feature for a FULL ALBUM PREMIERE in a few weeks. Hope that peaks your interest! Grin... Cause it’s amazing! For now, go check out the ten listed above. They are there for a reason. They were listened to the most during the past week… 

 

Doom Charts Top 100 Albums of 2025

It has arrived!

The Doom Charts Top 100, expertly tallied by Remi VL and voted for throughout the year by all those crazy Contributors! Follow them on their own sites to learn more about all those magical albums and amazing bands...

100 amazing albums from the Heavy Underground, (out of a total list of 2107  albums) and I can honestly say, once again, that I love'm all... Great to see many of my Top 20 on that list! So many great albums released yearly, insane! 


They're all freaking stunning pieces of art!  🤘

Congratulations to Kal-El for leading the charge with their Astral Voyager Vol.I album... 

You can read our thoughts on Astral Voyager Vol.I HERE!

And it came in on the 2nd place on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025 thanks to all of your votes! 

Just started the Top 100 rundown with Wyatt E. – Zamāru Ultu Qereb Ziqquratu, Part 1... 

You doing that as well?  

Either way... Fire up some heavy rock from the... 

Doom Charts Top 100 Albums of 2025

On with the show...

 

On with the show…

Now that we are finished with the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025 and all those Personal lists from the Team Members we can start to look forward into the new year. Soon, very soon, we shall continue on with the normal Stoner HiVe broadcasting service... Trying to get the word out on as many of those great releases we hear on a daily basis. And we will continue to do this in our own silly way. Often a bit too late. Sometimes a bit too early. Perhaps even about albums released in 2025 or before. But always, yes always, about an album we love in some way, some shape or some fashion. It's why we do this thing!

If you dig it, keep following along. We love it and are humbled by the fact to have seen the HiVe slowly grow and spread since 2009. You can't believe how much we appreciate that. But rest assured, we keep doing it anyway. It's our addiction. We love music so hard, we can't stop talking about it, writing about it and sharing our love for it with everyone we meet... 

And I guess, that most of you crazies out there that discovered the HiVe might just be as addicted as we are... Well, welcome to the HiVe! It's warm and cozy in here and yes, we're oozing with love for every sort of heavy rock!  

 

Joop Konraad – Personal Top 20 of 2025

 

Joop Konraad – Personal Top 20 of 2025

Happy New Year once more! I can still say that right? May 2026 bring you all you need and let’s hope it might bring as much goodness as possible for everyone on planet Earth. Keep hope, do good for everyone around you and things have to slowly become better. But before we drift off into something unrelated to our loving embrace of the heavy rock niche, I thank all the bands again for delivering all those amazing albums and offering momentary relax, respite and way of escape. If only for a few songs, a few riffs and melodies. It is sorely needed. I need it. And I think a lot of you do as well… Below you can feast your ears on my Personal Top 20 albums of 2025!

As with everyone else I guess, my Personal Top 20 for 2025 keeps changing. It evolves, it morphs, it grows. Cause every day I discover another amazing album released in 2025. Every day! Ever since Stoner HiVe started in 2009 the amount of great releases in our little Heavy Underground niche is mind boggling. And every year the amount seems to be growing. So, I present to you my current Top 20. O' and all the albums I also thoroughly loved this year in a massive list of some 150 albums in alphabetical order. They all deserve to be heard in my opinion... And yes, I am sure, dead sure, I'm forgetting to mention a few! As well as that I'm sure of the fact I will be discovering more amazing albums from 2025 in the weeks to come... Hey, and make sure you visit all those other Personal Lists in the Heavy Underground. You will be treated to some grade A record suggestions! And let’s hope we are treated to as many great albums in 2026 as well… Here's to all us! 

1.     Temple Fang – Lifted From The Wind

2.      Khan – That Fair and Warlike Form // Return to Dust

3.      Bask – The Turning

4.      Birds of Nazca – Pangaea

5.      Florence + The Machine – Everybody Scream

6.      Florist – Adrift

7.      Lacertilia – Transcend

8.      Aceves – Magnum Dopus

9.      Komatsu – A Breakfast For Champions

10.  Lorquin’s Admiral – Lorquin’sAdmiral

11.  The Elven – Solstice

12.  Muffasonic – Brotheranza

13.  You Guitarprayer – I Am The Light / The Light I Am

14.  The Dukes of Hades - Oracle of theDead

15.  Howling Giant – Crucible & Ruin

16.  Kal-El – Astral Voyager Vol.1

17.  Kryptograf – Kryptonomicon

18.  Dunes – Land of The Blind

19.  Stoned Jesus – Songs to Sun

20.  Goya – In The Dawn of November

 

In alphabetical order... All worthy of your time and energy... 

 

1968 – Royal Bastards

Aawks – On Through The Sky Maze

Abanamat – Abominat

Acid Magus – Scatterling Empire

Acidsitter - Escape From Egoland 

Afghan Haze – Sermons Of Filth And Disgust

Ambra – Remnant

Anna Von Hausswolf – Iconoclasts

An Evening With Knives – End Of Time

Apex Ten - Atom

Appalooza – The Emperor Of Loss

Årabrot - Rite Of Dionysus

Astralplane – Out Of The Void

Bank Myna – Eimuria

Beach Cruiser – Thunderbird

Beastwars – The Ship / The Sea

Beaten By Hippies – Sidetracked In El Paso

Bentrees – Silver Veins

Black Charger – Small Town

Black Magic Tree - Terra

Black Moon Cult – Ophidian Future (The Children Of Yig)

Black Tongue Reverend – Upstate Of Mind 

Bloodwood - Dark Simulator 

Blue Heron - Emulations 

Bob Mould - Here We Go Crazy 

Bone Church - Deliverance 

Borracho – Ouroboros

Brimstone Coven – The Light Shines Not For Thee 

Bush - I Beat Loneliness 

Carbon Decoy - Crush The Sun 

Carson - When Gods Know Why

Castle Rat – The Bestiary

Cleaning Women - Washer

Clouds Taste Satanic – Birmingham 2024

Codex Serafini - Mother, Give Your Children Sanity

Coltaine – Brandung

Conan – Violence Dimension

Cozmic George - Cozmic George

Crystal Spiders – Metanoia

Da Beumb Project – Closer, Warmer

Daevar – Sub Rosa

Daytripper – The Alchemist

Dead Otter – The Sentinel

Dead Shrine – Cydonia Mensa

Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power

Del-Toros – Stainless

Ditch – The Traveler

Doomherre – Plaguelords

Dozer - Rewind to Return 

Drink The Sea - Drink The Sea I 

Dune Aurora – Ice Age Desert

Duskhead - The Messenger 

Earthbong – Bring Your Lungs

Elder – Liminality / Dream State Return

Electric Citizen – Ec4

Elepharmers – Western Wilderness

Ethel Cain – Perverts

Faetooth- Labyrinthine 

Farseer - Portals To Cosmic Womb

Fusskalt – Faceless Man

Fvzz Popvli – Melting Pop

Gain - High Peak, Low Life 

Gaupa – Fyr

Gentle Beast – Vampire Witch Reptilian Super Soldier From Outer Space

Giac Taylor - The Last Sicilian Standing 

Giöbia – X-Aeon

Godzillionaire – Diminishing Returns

Good Spirits – The Green Seer

Grey Czar – Euarthropodia

Grin - Acid Gods

Håndgemeng - Satanic Panic Attack

Heath - Murmurations 

Hebi Katana – Imperfection

Hedonist - Eat Thus

Hibernaut – Obsidian Eye

Hög – Blackhole

Icarus Burns – Icarus Burns

Ikitan – Shaping The Chaos

Insomniac – Om Moksha Ritam

Iron Rat – Beneath It All

Kadavar – Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin

Kaiser – 2^nd Sound

King Potenaz - Arcane Desert Rituals Vol.1

Kombynat Robotron – Aank

Lo-Pan – Get Well Soon

Maha Sohona – A Dark Place

Malkasian – Heavy Blues

Mandy Manala - Mandy Manala

Margarita Witch Cult – Strung Out In Hell

Masters Of Reality - The Archer

Matt Berry - Heard Noises 

Messa – The Spin

Minerall – Strömung

Miss Lava – Under A Black Sun

Modder - Destroying Ourselves For A Place In The Sun

Mooch – Kin

Motorhome - Odisea

Motorpsycho – Motorpsycho

Mountain Dust - Mountain Dust 

Mountain Of Misery – Shades Of The Ashes

Museum Of Light - Diviner

Naxatras – V

Nepal Death - Pilgrims And Psychonauts 

Neptunian Maximalism - Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu

Ningen Isu - Mahoroba 

NON - Vipassana

One Dimensional Creatures – Tolerance Paradox

Palm Desert – Rays Of The Gold And Greys

Paralyzed – Rumble & Roar

Peacebone – Blame The Bird Ep

Pelican – Flickering Resonance

Phantom Druid – The Edge Of Oblivion

Phantom Spell – Heather & Hearth

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Death Hilarious

Pink Fuzz – Resolution

Plasticdrop – Life, Death And Miracles

Ponddigger - Nocturnal Hymnal

Pothamus – Abur

Psychonaut – World Maker

Rainbows Are Free – Silver And Gold 

Red Eye - III 

Red Fang – Deep Cuts

Red Mess – Hi-Tech Starvation

Rise Of The Wood – Discharge

Seedy Jeezus – Damned To The Depths

Sheev - Ate's Alchemist

Shit The Cow – Killing It

Silver Orbs - Silver Orbs

Skogskult - Skogskult

Slomatics – Atomicult

Spidergawd – From Eight To Infinity

Steinsopp – Goloka Sessions

Stiff Buscemi - Jet-Black Highdooks

Space Witch - Mountians Of Neptune

Sunbreather – Sunbreather

Suncraft – Welcome To The Coven

Supernaughty – Apocalypso

Superseed – Tremor

Technicolor Blood – Evolution Now

TFNRSH - Book Of Circles

Thammuz – III

The Big Rip – Olympus Mons

The Birch – Vicious Mind

The Lunar Effect - Fortune’s Always Hiding

Tier – Backwood Blues

Torpedo Torpedo – Arrows Of Time

Torso - Annihilation Day

Trainer – Oh, Mandy

Triptonus – Terra

Turtle Skull – Being Here

Uranus Space Club - Space Pleasures

Vinnum Sabbathi - Intersatelital EP

Void King - The Hidden Hymnal : Chapter 2

Vvarp – Power Held In Stone

Warcoe – Upon Tall Thrones 

Warlung - The Poison Touch 

Wąż - Monolith

We Kill Cowboys – Back From The Dead

Winds Of Neptune – Winds Of Neptune

Yawning Man – Pavement Ends

Year Of The Cobra – Year Of The Cobra

 

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