Torpedo Torpedo – Arrows of Time

 

Torpedo Torpedo – Arrows of Time
Electric Fire Records – 2025
Rock, Stoner, Psych
Rated: ****

I’m off to Austria tomorrow. Hitting the slopes in some way too hip ski resort. Why do those places (almost) never have rock bars? Live venues for rock music? I would assume there would definitely be a market for this. Or a heavy rock festival in the snow? Snowboarding by day, rocking at night. I see opportunities! A man can dream! And dream I will as well when cruising on the new Arrows of Time album by Vienna, Austria trio Torpedo Torpedo. We mentioned their debut album The Kuiper Belt Mantras back in 2022 and now they’re back with the follow-up, which seems to be hazier and swirling like a nebula. Working its luminescent gravity to pull riffs into the cloud and charge the drums like an electric storm. A few tracks have some more doom tones, but for the most part it seems to glide perfectly through the heavy psychedelic universe and stoner galaxy. The three are experts in the slow building tracks, the languid groove and the mesmerizing gradual delights. The continuously building final track Solstice for instance, unhurried and only minutely getting wilder and electrifying. Finally coming to a grandiose close, without taking the logical explosive route, but by controlling the wildness and the ever expanding soundwaves. Torpedo Torpedo are back with another great release and just like golden record on board of Voyager, this album will continue to move through existence, until the end of time…

(Written by JK)

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Torpedo Torpedo – The Kuiper Belt Mantras

 

Torpedo Torpedo – The Kuiper Belt Mantras
Electric Fire Records – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Space, Psych, Doom
Rated: ****

A handful of moments after speeding past Pluto we enter The Kuiper Belt Mantras. Invoking a poetic journey into the human psyche and seducing us with their excellent glory of divine riffs and colorful guitar work. The Vienna three from Torpedo Torpedo will lead us from the dark into the light and from death to immortality. Four tracks and twenty-six minutes is all we get from Torpedo Torpedo and that will surely leave you thirsting for more. Hail to the jewel that is third track Caspian Dust, with it’s fuzz, it’s space, it’s eastern motif and the way the serpent eats its own tail. Fourth track Cycling Lines shows Torpedo Torpedo is capable of removing all obstacles and give light, air and freedom to every note and every tone. Letting it all rain down and assail your senses when the ache you feel becomes the treasure you seek, turning it all into your own private little solar system. Indeed, you will be surfing the cosmic waves and sailing through the void on all four tracks even though Verge, is darker, more malicious and where the devil might eat your soul. If he can stomach it. Impressive from start to finish, Torpedo Torpedo, is a direct hit…  

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Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

It’s Friday again! Tonight we have to work... Doing a review of the Red Hot Chili Peppers show... But right now, we just realize it's Friday! And we’ve got yet another one of those crazy Quick Fire Friday rounds for you to go insane to! Cause there’s still a lot to cover and everyone of those singles, EPs and demos mentioned below are worth your time. Shit, they are worth way more of our time! But you know how it is… There is so much out there, so much good an heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is. The Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!

 

Deville – Hanged, Drawn and Quartered

Starting off with a righteous bang! We reviewed the very cool Hydra and ofcourse their last awesome album Pigs With Gods on the HiVe and know Deville has let us know that they will be releasing a new album this year through that label we only recently discovered, and already truly adore: Sixteentimes Music! Before the album arrives they shall release some singles that did NOT make the album! Hanged, Drawn and Quartered is once again more metal and more of that great Deville sound! Packing an incredible punch! Can’t wait to hear that new album!

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Ogives Big Band – Harm Redux

Harm Redux is a reimagining of the 2019 Harm EP by Ogives Big Band. This because Ogives went from three to four members, now including a vocalist. And this addition makes the droning noise, the psych metal, the math prog and all the other experimental ruckus the Bristol band produces even more frantic and feverish, inducing a delirium and psychotic reactions with no quarter asked and none given…

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Diamond Skull – The Deal

Austrian trio Diamond Skull are back with a new single The Deal! And one hell of a single it is, a midtempo, eighties and seventies referencing hard rocking slow builder. The blues roots are never far away and so is the feeling that you are listening to something classic. Groovy, metallic and hypnotic indeed! And a sure fire way to get the blood pumping and your anxiety to hear a full album to a maximum level… Cause if they’ve made The Deal with the Devil…  

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Basalt Shrine – From Fiery Tongues

Have we mentioned how we love Electric Spark Records from the Netherlands? Have we mentioned it enough? Well, here we go mentioning it again: we love Electric Spark Records! And they are about to release a new album from a insane black doom, post metal, sludge noise outfit from the Philippines called Basalt Shrine on vinyl. The four produce forty minutes of overwhelming metal, doom, noise and turning it extremely bleak, black and dark with its snarling vocals. From Fiery Tongues indeed!

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Warcoe – The Giant’s Dream

We’ve been listening to Warcoe for a while now; but it was thanks to Brandon from Morbid And Miserable Records and Marc-Eric Gagnon tipping it on the Doom Charts Peroration post for March that we got back into The Giant’s Dream for more of that good and heavy proto action! The Italian three deliver ‘groovy doom from the abyss’; where the giants have definitely been spinning a lot of Black Sabbath and Iommi honoring heavy metal. It’s stunning and it’s so addictive; once they’ve gotten their hooks in you there is no escape possible…

So, if they haven’t managed to grapple you yet: here’s a bandcamp code to drag you into the abyss with them: h3c4-egkt

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Louisiana Drifter – After The Flood

Ending it once again with something spectacular! Louisiana Drifter. Great name! And so is the music on their sophomore EP, After The Flood. The first EP, Road To Nowhere sported some great music but a lo-fi almost open-source recording sound. The new four-track release sounds so much improved we might assume they’ve stood around on a crossroads somewhere looking to make a deal. Bluesy rock, steeped in the seventies, with those psychedelic edges and stoner curves that we all love so much. Damn bluesy bayou-tastic goodness!

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