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

 

 

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

Sheev
King Buffalo
Years After
Redscale
Maragda
Blackwater Holylight
The Ossuary
Trip Hill
Electric Orange
Orphan Gears

Blackwater Holylight – Silence/Motion

 

 

Blackwater Holylight – Silence/Motion
Riding Easy Records – 2021
Rock, Psych
Rated: ****

Bang! There they were, back in 2018, shooting to the Number 3 position of the April Doom Charts, we are of course referring to the all-female all-rocking, bewitching and psychedelic Blackwater Holylight! It was their debut release and it was damn good, or as we said back then: “Resounding riffs, enchanting vocals and a rhythmic approach that melt over in each other and galvanizes your moment in time. A wild, heavy, fuzzy, psychedelic record that will make you dream of witches and will make your dreams bewitched. Rootsy and folky at moments it also moves over to a more sludgy or noisy approach when needed. In fact, they manage to make their heaviness burn with something that sounds sacred and ancient. Dramatic and macabre! ” The Veils of Winter record followed in 2019 and did all that while slowly slithering through a bit more doom and tad more prog approach. And now they’re back for a third album and do what they did on their debut, but better! Better, calmer, serene and uniform. It’s called Silence/Motion, and gives you eight tracks or desolate psychedelic landscapes that will often freeze you with their distance and coldness. Filled with appetizing melodies that borrow as much from shoegaze and stoner as it does from blackened doom and metal. Especially on opener Delusional with Bryan Funck from Thou making the track a wonderful yet harsh duet. And even though those heavy influences are slowly exchanged for more folk and natural wave inspirations, the vistas created are never warm, never harmless and never safe. And those few instances of beauty, tenderness and protection feel like a rarefied glimpse through a butterfly’s wing…

(Written by JK)

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Blackwater Holylight – Blackwater Holylight

Blackwater Holylight – Blackwater Holylight

RidingEasy Records – 2018

Rock, Psych,

Rated: ****

Bang! A new entry on Number 3 of the Doom Charts this month. It’s the all-female outfit Blackwater Holylight. The crazies release their first effort through RidingEasy Records. Resounding riffs, enchanting vocals and a rhythmic approach that melt over in each other and galvanizes your moment in time. A wild, heavy, fuzzy, psychedelic record that will make you dream of witches and will make your dreams bewitched. Rootsy and folky at moments it also moves over to a more sludgy or noisy approach when needed. In fact, they manage to make their heaviness burn with something that sounds sacred and ancient. Dramatic and macabre! And it’s underneath all the ruckus and fieriness where the subtle mysterious atmosphere resides. This has everything to become a household classic. And it’s an impressive debut for sure!

(Written by JK)

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Stoner HiVe's Top 10 artists listened to last month...

Stoner HiVe's
Top 10 artists listened to last month...

Dandy Brown
The Good Hand
Birth Of Joy
Blackwater Holylight
Shields
Drive By Wire
Desert Storm
Black Rainbows
The Sword
Earthless

(I know, a few days late again. But we were ill and on route once again. We've are back now, but still ill... Damn flu!)

Stoner HiVe’s Top 5 artists listened to last week…

Stoner HiVe’s

Top 5 artists listened to last week…

Dandy Brown

The Good Hand

Desert Storm

Drive By Wire

Blackwater Holylight

It’s evening already over here. But we still wanted to quickly put up the Top 5 Most Listened to albums of the past week. Two are still there, so let’s name them first!  Most of our time still went out to Dandy Brown and his majestic new album Scattered Days. Out soon on Taxi Driver Records the maestro we know from Hermano and the awesome Orquesta Del Desierto, (the last, of which Dos was remastered and re-released last year via Spin On Black), gives us nine tracks that meander through many heavy scenes and all have a marvelous lingering aftertaste. It will put you in a righteous mood! As we already stated last week, we love The Good Hand… And perhaps a bit too much! Their super deluxe limited diehard fan release of their earlier album Atman via Minstrel Music is majestic and definitely one of my favorite vinyl treasures. And we can’t wait to get our hands on the new ‘blue velvet’ edition vinyl coming our way! The new record is called Blissful Yearning, once again impressive and bordering on perfection. The new Desert Storm album Sentinels, out on APF Records, is one hell of a sludge and stoner metal homerun. And will not only ring on through the heavy underground, every metal fan will dig it! What a ride! As is Spellbound, the new album by Drive By Wire. On a completely different playing field the bluesy, psychedelic and sunny sound of Spellbound, out on Argonauta Records, brings forth all the goodness one needs from everything stonerrock with a dusty feel. Put on Spellbound and winter will definitely run away! And finally, Blackwater Holylight, the all-female outfit, releases their first effort through Riding Easy Records. A wild, heavy, fuzzy, psychedelic record that will make you dream of witches and will make your dreams bewitched. Impressive debut for sure! So… You should check it out! Check’m  all out!