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

 

 

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

Ruby The Hatchet
Thammuz
Black Space Riders
Lazer Beam
Sahg
Acid Witch
The Chop (Ghostbeef)
Abrams
All Souls
Band of Spice

After returning for my little holiday in England, work got the upper hand and limited time was there to do any work for Stoner HiVe or Doom Charts… But once the Doom Charts hits, you can bet your ass, nothing will stop me from running through all those majestic albums once again! And now, as a new week lies before us, we hope we have a tiny bit more time to HiVe, but it might be difficult this week. Next week looks glorious, like a hopeful light at the end of the tunnel…

The Doom Charts for October 2022

 

 

Doom Charts

“Yo, when is the November Charts? I can’t live like this!”

~ Sifir Rakam

“I can’t get into doomcharts here in the UK!? The most recent entry is for 3 Wheeler Band, that Halloween posting. Has something got stuck or …?”

~ Paul Hennelly

The amount of emails and messages we received from all of you in distress about what was keeping the new Doom Charts were heartwarming. Even though we reckoned we made it abundantly clear that the publishing date for the Doom Charts had moved from the 1st of every month to the 1st Friday of every month. This would enable more Contributors to do more work for the Doom Charts and might give more credit to albums released on the final days of the month… And there are so many albums released monthly, during the whole month and on those final days that it still often feels unbearable to not be able to pay attention to them all… Below are 38 all NEW heavy rock albums! Thirthy-eight, but any shift in votes might have resulted in a different version. Cause I don’t know if you’ve seen some of the lists the Contributors posted on their own sites? Many have only a handful or perhaps a few more than a handful of votes for the same albums. And yes, you can safely bet that those other records on their respectives lists are stunning as well… Sometimes it feels wrong to not do even more for those albums, but I guess the Doom Charts are purely here to state clearly that the ones listed here, those Forty albums, of the 268 that received votes this month, are the absolute cream of the crop. The cherries on the doom pie, the pick of the heavy litter, the albums filled with every stoner bell and psychedelic whistle you can wish for… And when they arrive with such a loud bang as this months Number One… You can bet your furry little ass that it’s something special! It’s the First Friday of the Month and it’s the October Doom Charts! 

The October Doom Charts just went live! 

The first time we publish on the First Friday of the month... Which we will do henceforth... The Doom Charts, featuring forty heavy rock albums all ready to rock your world! Personal votes that made the list went out to:

All Souls, Black Space Riders, Elder, Liquid Earth, King Buffalo, Sahg, Black Math Horseman, Red Mess, Lágoon, Faith In Jane, Thammuz, Near Dusk, Psychonaut, Half Gramme Of Soma, Ruby The Hatchet and The Otolith...

And we shall spin all Forty of them in a row again! Starting with awesome Vampiric Visions Vol. I: Living Blood album by Lady Luna And The Devil! Go find your new favorite one or share the ones you feel should have been on the Charts!?!

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 October 2022 

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

 

 

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

White Hills
Wölfhead
Black Space Riders
Horsegirl
The Black Angels
Early Moods
Spellbook
Pariahlord
Paterikon
Psychlona

The September Doom Charts went live two days ago; and since then we’ve been listening to all forty of them in a row, any moment we have. We’ve just started our playthrough of Number 25, Path Of 1000 Suns by Umbilicus. “Well, in Greece we have a saying that roses spring from thorns, and the brilliant debut of Umbilicus is testament of that. Tasty 1970s-infused prog rock with an excellent sense of melody and a sweet sound that flows like warm whiskey down a weary traveller’s throat. The band’s influences range all the way from Hendrix and Kravitz, to early Deep Purple and some touches of Skid Row.” Ioannis Valiakos from Desert Vulture stated. So, we’re sure to start scoot boogying over here!  September was a great month for music once again; and looking at the releases for October and November; things are going to get hot and heavy once again! Enjoy your week! And keep listening to all that heavy stuff out there!

Black Space Riders – We Have Been Here Before

 

 

Black Space Riders – We Have Been Here Before
Cargo Records – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Garage, Alternative, Metal
Rated: ****

I’ve always been very partial to the 2010 Blood and Fire album by Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. And there are some moments on the new Black Space Riders album We Have Been Here Before that remind me of said album; or better yet, the vibe, the feel, and the electricity it contained. It is here! Again. It’s there in minute form when the album opens with one-minute-long Crawling, it’s there in bigger form when the second track Crawling (DownWithEverything) starts battering away like a perfect rock ‘n roll battering ram and it’s absolutely there when brilliant third track Trapped In An Endless Loop releases its madness. Those vocals, during the chorus, there’s something electrifying and psychotic about it, manic, savage, that building loop, in both riffs and vocals towards the end, ominous, booming, and grandiose. And then there’s the transition into that fourth track, Almost The Lost, so restrained and humble, showing us that the five-piece Black Space Riders from Münster, Germany have made considerable strides since their first self-titled release in 2010. The momentum that keeps on picking up, that swirling and dogged determination, has a minor dip when Almost The Lost arrives, but it serves a purpose and feels like you are right in the middle, right there in the eye of the storm. Following track This Flow has you expecting the storm has passed, Shine starts to build it up again and then it continues on with AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGH. A perfect kamikaze attack on all of your senses. The momentum reaches its pinnacle with title track We Have Been Here Before. After which gothic, noire, psychotic touches do reappear form time to time, but not as much as during those first tracks. Well, of course there’s almost eleven minutes long battleship closer Worlds Collide Dans Ma Tete. Which seems to contain every aspect of the entire album in one form or another. So, after fifteen frenzied tracks and one hour and twenty minutes of mesmerizing music you will be fiercely in love with the new idiosyncratic and infectious Black Space Riders album, you will feel entirely absorbed into their wild, unpredictable, and borderline insane loop. We Have Been Here Before is caustically thrilling, compelling credibility, and will just as easily put you into a mental institute as keep you out of it. AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGH!

(Written by JK)

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Black Space Riders - Trapped In An Endless Loop

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Wanna hear that wild and wonderful Trapped In An Endless Loop song by Black Space Riders? Now is your chance! It’s out, with video and all on youtube! It’s one of the fifteen highly addictive songs on their new We Have Been Here Before album to be released in October on Cargo Records. And guess what, we will publish a few words about it in a few minutes…

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

 

 

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

Fire Horse
Warlung
Clutch
Everest Queen
Scream Of The Butterfly
Beyonder
Ghozer
Vitskär Süden
Black Space Riders
Jasper

Well, the workload is shifting, which is good… But these flu like symptoms aren’t… The test came back negative, so, it’s not that thing from the past years… But it still makes everything feel pretty horrible… Hope to be ready for some serious HiVe work this Wednesday… My apologies to all for the lack of updates…

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

 

 

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

Besvärjelsen
The Cult
Agitation Free
Black Space Riders
Heilung
Weddings
Vitskär Süden
Mammoth Volume
Feather Mountain
Miscellen

Last week was filled with interviews, (Billy Duffy and Sean McVay were the two awesome ones) unexpected assignments, and a Facebook Page change. The changes are that large; but it still takes some getting used to. This week, we have two hectic starting days after which we finally and very surely will have some proper time to HiVe at the middle of the week. Hope to finish the King Buffalo interview then… Can’t wait for it to be Wednesday… O’ and did I ever tell ya I Don’t Like Mondays?

Black Space Riders – D:Rei

Black Space Riders – D:Rei
Self released/Cargo – 2014
Rock, Metal, Stoner, Grunge, Doom, Sludge, Space
Rated: ****

Ominous slow rising sounds of water and seemingly lost notes that bop along the waves towards a destination unknown. But then suddenly the shore looms up and it shows a rider, moving fast along the rocky cliff, on some sort of sacred mission, and he passes thousands of folk that are standing there, in the dark, staring at the black water… Holy crap, this is one hell of a start to the new album D:Rei by the German quintet Black Space Riders. An album that holds so much beauty in its grasp it sometimes almost becomes unbearable. It not only excels in fusing all the heavy elements we all hold dear into something unique and powerful. It also shines in delivering monstrous stoner grooves and grungy aggression. But there’s more! Weird little eighties sounding moments and tricky experimental nineties metal. Open chords and crazy almost moaning vocals at times battling the absolute booming sound. Highly diverse, adventurous and absolutely surging in intensity like the pounding waves upon the coccolithic cliffs. It tests the rocky heights on how much it can take. How much can you take?

 

(Written by JK)

 

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