The Marigold – Apostate

 

 

The Marigold – Apostate
Sound Effect Records/Forbidden Place Records/Trepanation Records/Coffin & Bolt Records/Golden Robot Records – 2021
Sludge, Hardcore, Post, Metal, Grunge, Alternative, Stoner, Doom
Rated: ****

Founded in 1998 by Marco Campitelli, the Italian (now) three-piece The Marigold have returned with a new album entitled Apostate. And just like the one that came before it is produced by and featuring Toshi Kasai from the Melvins and mastered by Amaury Cambuzat from Faust and Ulan Bator. We’re served eight alternative, grunge and sludge rockers. Still highly alternative, it is without any doubt their most accessible piece of metal; with even catchy stoner and captivating doom moments interspersed throughout the record. The sound often moving more into Mike Patton or Tool territory. Aiding them on guitars is also Adam Harding (Dumb Numbers, Kidbug and Thor of the Swans), delivering those extra layers of string texture. The entire album is, simply put, so pleasing to the heavy rock loving ear that this will immediately become your favorite The Marigold album and puts that former wild Kanaval album from 2014 to pasture. Apostate seems to renounce much of that noise and experimental juice they produced on their earlier records, and moves distinctly into high point territory; seeing the waves of noise crash just before their feet. Highly inspirational; and a luscious take on the alternative metal sound!  

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Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

It’s time for another Quick Fire Friday round! As mentioned before; we continue to glance backwards during January as well as moving forward. Cause there was still so much released last year we never got around to mentioning. Well, we’re gonna try and get some of that done today! And we know, we know, the albums and bands deserve more than the few words we will jot down here. More attention and more of our time! But there is so much out there and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is. The Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday! And its burns hot like molten lava!

 

Lenin – FUCK IT Part 1 - Times Have Been Worse...

It is done. He is gone. We are finally looking towards a future where there is once again a small glimmer of hope. And just as that happens, we get thrown into the insanity that is Lenin and their Fuck It, Part 1 – Times Have Been Worse release. “This is your postscript roadmap to the (first four?) years of the Trump-branded zeitgeist of late-capitalism.” And that it indeed is! How fitting! Grimy punk poetry and sludgy madness with industrial and core influences. Yes, this is the lunacy of the past four years translated into garage prose! And when Smoked Cheese Records is involved one knows the punk will be hectic, weird and strangely addictive!  

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 Druida – Druida

We can be fairly short about this one man intensely atmospheric ambient doom drone project from Barcelos, Portugal. It’s good and it’s meditative! It's Druida! Check it out and check out for a big half hour…

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Inferous – Somos La Noche

Inferous is a three-piece stoner doom formation from Argentina. On their debut full-sized release Somos La Noche, the ten tracks majestically weave heavy psychedelic influences through all the darkness and the haze. And the album is a continues play; which in gives the record an extra trippy effect. A wild ride into the night!

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Lost Relics – Unrealistic Cause

The four hail from Denver, Colorado and deliver some incredibly heavy stoner and sludge with some doom infused. On their new single and video Unrealistic Cause they look at the world through Reduce Viewer and turn the binoculars on the indifference and capitalist system. And we could not applaud the four from Lost Relics more. Let’s just hope that one day we can do away with all the bullshit, world wide and live in harmony. Which in turn might be unrealistic hope…

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Mather – This Is The Underground

Out through the Violence In The Veins label is the debut album by Greek four-piece Mather. It’s called This Is The Underground and it is heavy prog and heavy atmospheric goodness. It soon becomes a sort of healing affair, bristling with invention the compositions switch between heavy riffs and a delirious cacophony of groove and crazed keyboards. These guys know how to thrill!

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 Seum / Fátima split 7'

In need for something even more grimy, gritty or grungy? Check out the new Seum / Fátima seven inch split record. Seum, the doom and bass trio from Montreal deliver the pure screamo, twisted and dark take on heavy doom. It’s certainly a racket and there’s little color in their world of shades; but sometimes we all need the darkness to swallow us whole. Fátima delivers the grunge, the garage, the thrashy guitars and the curiously addictive Nirvana-esque melodies. And guess what, they’re both covering each others tracks! What a wild and wonderful idea! Hey guys, how about a bigger EP or album of this?

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Stone Deaf - Killers

Stone Deaf - Killers

Coffin & Bolt Records - August 2020

Stoner, desert, punk

Rated: ****

Colorado's Stone Deaf return with their potent mix of stoner and punk on third full length Killers, due out August 14. Wearing their early QOTSA influences on their sleeves, the trio amp up the energy of their desert vibes with a sneering swagger and a healthy dose of weird. Opener "Cloven Hoof" comes out swinging with the group's secret weapon - crisp, driving drums a la "You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar...". A snappy, dizzying riff combines with venomous vocals, before morphing into a maddeningly catchy chorus. "Death Ray" is a particular highlight, starting off with tongue-in-cheek haunted house effects, that somehow fit perfectly with the swinging drums and vocals to make for a stylish groove. A surfy solo with Eastern melodies is even thrown into the mix, and it  feels just right. A sneak peek is then given into the slightly snotty vocals' inspiration, with an excellent cover of Violent Femme's "Gone Daddy Gone". Beefed up with thick distortion and harsh dual vocals, it's a winning take on a classic. More twists and turns are found throughout the rest of Killers, particularly the metallic, doomed stomp of slow burn epic "Snake Oil". A well-placed departure from the toe-tapping grooves of the rest of the record, it proves Stone Deaf to be a skilled chameleon of heavy. As essential as QOTSA is to the sound of Killers, the trio's varied and mischievous sound more than shines through, making for an album of infectious energy and surprises around every corner.

(Written by Shasta Beast)

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