Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

Friday is always special! And we aim to make it even more special today! To give you another selection of beautiful singles, EP’s and album to check out over the weekend. That’s right, we’ve got another one of those Quick Fire Friday segments for ya! Fo there is so much great music out there, we cannot ever do it all justice. So we came up with a way for shoot out a quick blurb and hope it will entice you to listen to the single or entire discography! So here it is… Another Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!

 

Torpedo Torpedo – False Gods And Lurid Skies

It’s only a week away! The release of the new wild and wonderful album Arrows Of Time by Austrian three Torpedo Torpedo! We loved their The Kuiper Belt Mantras album from 2022 and we think the new album is the cats pajamas! Just listen to second single False Gods And Lurid Skies and hear that doom toned stonerrock! Fring on all cylinders! Let’s get ready to rumble!

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Thus Live Humans - Art Déco I

Remember when the duo from Toulon, France released their This Light Of Ancient Times, Vol.2? Well, Thus Live Humans is back with Art Déco I. It moved from their bluesy hardrock towards a more experimental and art rock sound. Progressive moments, metal flashes and jazzy influences. It’s a different side of Thus Live Humans, but that was the idea all along. Art Déco I is full of ideas!

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Bleak Transcendence - Mortuanima

The title track for their debut album Mortuanima was released in December and soon the full record will follow. Bleak Transcendence hails from Brasil and blackened death metal, doom toned and with funeral moments. Thanks to the synth and violin the atmosphere turns gothic and melancholic. Mortuanima might just burrow into your soul like the malevolent entity Bleak Transcendence sounds like…

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Need Her Liver – Bonobo

We’re off to Italy in a few months. And the Bonobo album by Need Her Liver will definitely be playing in the van. Born in 1999 they’ve started more punk oriented and have since then drifted into more hardrock and psychedelic territories. It’s that seventies sound translated to the modern age. The eight tracks deserve way more attention, with still a bit of grunge and stoner, they manage to make it all highly pop sensible and powerful. This will surely make the roads traveled even better!

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Praetorian – Pylon Cult

Well, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. Been to Stevenage many times. But it’s hard for me to imagine hitting the town or the Squirrel with as much drugs as the Good Doctor could gather. Even so, when a band called Praetorian opens their intense new album Pylon Cult with a track called Fear And Loathing In Stevenage, you can bet your ass I’m interested. Blackened, bleak, death, sludge, hardcore and thrash working like a concrete mixer to churn out that filthy metal foundation over which the vocals screech like iron on a grinding wheel! Grinding!

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Kristian Montgomery and The Winterkill Band – Leaving Texas

Lead single for Prophets of the Apocalypse, the new five track EP, out next week, by Kristian Montgomery and The Winterkill Band. Filled with hardrock, grunge, country and southern styled rock. All of which highly pop sensible and longing to be sung along with.

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Earl of Hell – Calling Is The Crow

Out… Today! The new single and video for Calling Is The Crow, taken from the Earl of Hell self-titled debut album to be issued on April 25th through Copper Feast Records. Mixed and Mastered by Alain Johannes this is grungy stoner and alternative rock, top shelf stuff! Get ready for the full thing and watch the video below…

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Foot – You Are Weightless

 

 

Foot – You Are Weightless
Copper Feast Records – 2022
Rock, Alternative, Grunge, Stoner
Rated: ****

The prog rock influences have been omnipresent throughout the heavy underground of late. But there’s another genre that has been rising to the surface more and more of all that heaviness we all love so dearly. And that’s grunge. I’ve heard talk about a post-grunge genre, I’ve heard of a predicted complete reemergence of the old grunge sound. But the way Foot uses grunge on their new album You Are Weightless is the way I love to hear it! Imploring that nineties alternative and even that nineties alternative weirdly poppy approach. You know, the way the Dandy Warhols for instance did back then. Or even some of that sound, the wave of British bands of the nineties, brought with them. But don’t get me wrong, there’s also more heavy stuff here, more stonerrock and more grittiness as well. There are moments when the good boys of Alice In Chains seems to be playing along for instance. And then there’s that Yeah Yeah Yeahs’s cover, Gold Lion. Kind of taking all that we just mentioned, that British take, that weird poppy alternative nineties sound, that good old grunge, to new heights. Melbourne four-piece Foot, is spearheaded by Paul Holden, who’s responsible for all the music and lyrics. Seems to have set his goal to bring us the best grunge album possible. Drawing inspiration from Mark Lanegan for opener Bitter, Holden with his overt drawling vocals, the guitar riff, the hook, it all, once again, immediately shows the You Are Weightless colors, the ones we already mentioned. Third track Fire Dance is perhaps the heaviest of songs on the album. Groovy, dreamy, yet also incredibly choppy and edgy. And then there’s the keyboards that are used expertly where possible throughout the album. All leads us to keep re-stating what we said continuously throughout this little write-up, it’s the grunge done right, it’s the grunge done poppy and it’s the grunge done stonerized. And it’s all done so incredibly well!

(Written by JK)

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