Last Band - The Sacrament In Accidents

 

 

Last Band - The Sacrament In Accidents
Dancing Sasquatch / Self-released – 2024
Rock, Metal, Alternative, Grunge, Stoner
Rated: ***

As we enter the Final 24 Hours before the deadline for YOUR lists for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2024. Namely, before Saturday December 14th, 8.00 CET. We decided to keep diving into that folder full of albums we desperately had wanted to mention this year. We wrote about something like 250 albums and EP’s this year. But in that folder, there are still some 400 more that we had wanted to bring into your peripheral vision. And we are saddened that we will never get to that… But well, besides trying to keep up with all the new ones coming out, we’re now trying to bring into the spotlight one from every month passed that we unfortunately did not mention during the month they were released.

For November we have to visit the Last Band. A great name for a band right? But it is something you will need to live up to. And even if they might not be there yet, they will of course get my attention when they open their email and promo with the sentence: “Hey Stoner HiVe! Your site rules!” Thanks guys, but I’m sure you say that to all the boys and girls! But you can still you’re your ass their new The Sacrament In Accidents album was on repeat for some time after that. To come to grips with their alternative rock sound. Their classic metal nods and their grunge take on melodies and harmonies. It’s raw, extremely gritty and almost lo-fi, turning the thirteen tracks into a very dense and dusty experience. It sounds volatile and on the verge of combustion but leaves the listener hanging there. That might be the wildest thing about The Sacrament In Accidents, the ability to keep that level of danger constant. But constant is what they do, since the main two behind this project started back in the mid-2000’s, with bands like Durgo Temple and Admiral Browning. Go listen to Last Band before the Countdown starts, The Sacrament In Accidents album, if it’s the last thing you do before you send your list of favorite albums of 2024…

(Written by JK)

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Admiral Browning – Battle Stations

Admiral Browning – Battle Stations
Self released – 2011
Rock, Stoner, Metal, Instrumental
Waardering: ****

The good Doktor420 asked for some instrumental ruckus recently; and so we comply. Hailing from Maryland in the US the instrumental threesome Admiral Browning has just released their fourth album. Battle Stations is a logical continuation of their earlier three records and takes the listener on yet another wondrous adventure across an incredible amount of intelligent and progressive soundscape arrangements. Without breaking a sweat they seamlessly weave a huge collection of styles to make one complex whole. Moments of sludge, stoner and punk are woven into space, doom and metal to become one huge seventies trip. As a sort of hungover wildebeest version of Rush and King Crimson. These are growling, guttural, jumpy journeys filled with sublime experience and not without danger. As if behind every rock or tree a hyena with razor-sharp teeth is waiting to sink its teeth in. Tasty treat!

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