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

 

 

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

Corrosion of Conformity
Desert Colossus
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows
Witchfang
Earth Tongue
Borracho
Hallusinoid
Star Beast
Motorpsycho
Urlaub In Polen

It’s a weird Monday. It always is of course. But when you are still not nowhere near a 100 % (you never are of course) after a bout with the flu, it even feels weirder. Sorry for the lack of updates, but I got felled on Thursday night and could barely operate on Friday. And after that I got only worse. But here we are and the brain fog and fever has turned into a mist and a few degrees. So onwards and upwards. Well. Soon. We’ve got a few reviews almost done, so those will surely see the light of day this week. Unless the plague comes back… 

Luckily we had Steve De Rique aka Stevie Reek deliver a cool blurb for the Starf**K Electric Company release and we managed to promote the Doom Charts Peroration. Did any of you visit the Peroration? Did you find a new favorite album? Did you find the missing album art in the Peroration Header image? And a couple sentences about the new Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows appeared last week as well. But of course, our main attention went out to the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE we were honored to do for that amazing Bad Mothers Union album Sore Losers! Go visit all of those and the Top 10 Most Listened albums list and you will surely have a grand old time! And I’m sure that will be the case for me as well… Soon… Very soon! 

Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows - Inexorable Opposites

 

 

Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows - Inexorable Opposites
Magnetic Eye Records – 2026 
Rock, Psych, Stoner, Blues
Rated: *****

As usual, we’re late to the party. I’m pretty sure Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows invited us before, and I hope we RSVP’d. But even though I am sure we were at one of their shindigs and The Magnetic Ridge album even made it to the Number 6 spot of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2021, we can’t remember being this enamored and blown away by their music. The new Inexorable Opposites album, officially released through Magnetic Eye Records on February 6, sounds like the work of a couple of boys who’ve been searching for the fabled crossroads on every dreary midnight and finally found it… 

And as they rode away, twenty-one grams lighter, lightning flashing in the distance, that electric edge of a world half made, half imagined on Inexorable Opposites, blurs the line between mythic outlaw and the man behind the gun even more. Eight tracks surging like that desert storm, where opener Moss immediately roars like a horizon split by fire and the final To Die drifts like sun-bleached bones beneath a vast and indifferent sky. 

The devil does not care. He also does not forget. But with new drummer Brayden Becher driving the gallop, they might just stay ahead of him. They sound larger, heavier and alive with the chaos of creation itself. The drums and the scars, it’s what holds this record up to the light where the guitars can shine and burst alight with holy fire. For even though the songwriting feels like a reckoning and a map, stitched together from personal trauma, there is always the spectral weight of the imagined Jack. No sympathy for the devil, keep that in mind…

It’s a journey away from the crossroads, through all the wreckage and the ruin, and ultimately beauty, where every riff becomes a brush with violence and transcendence, with dark fire and glimmering light. And as those contrasts envelope you, the atmosphere ever more grandiose, you will find out the relentless motion of the album has brought you back to those dark bottomless eyes, they see you, they see your soul. And as you stare into that sun-scorched void, you suddenly feel  yourself surrounded by a serene form of tranquility, escape remains possible, everything remains possible… 

(Written by JK)

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Number 6 on The Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2021

Magnetic Eye Records

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

 

 

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

Black Helium
Bask
Textures
Capacopter
Slumbering Sun
Kadavermarch
Giant Haze
Hermano
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows
Hällas

It’s Monday! Start of the new week and of the normal Stoner HiVe broadcasting service. Last week we ended the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown, with seven Personal Top 20 lists and the Doom Charts Top 100. This means we are ready to close the book on 2025. Don’t think we will stop listening to all those amazing albums though! Or mentioning new discoveries from last year. We love them too hard! But it’s time to also look forward. And we will probably run the first review later tonight. One that we will feature for a FULL ALBUM PREMIERE in a few weeks. Hope that peaks your interest! Grin... Cause it’s amazing! For now, go check out the ten listed above. They are there for a reason. They were listened to the most during the past week… 

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

 

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

Sergeant Thunderhoof
Grande Royale
Child
Replica Jesus
Beastly
Eta Lux
Leroy T. Brown
Signo Rojo
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows
Witchrat

Number 6

 

 

Number 6

Only ten points! Once again we only need an exact ten points to jump from Acid Mammoth on Number 7 to reach the album that is featured on Number 6 today… Moving towards the opposite side of the heavy spectrum this album starts so compelling with the atmospheric, Americana bended, bluesy stroked, folky mountain guitar; one cannot help but fall in love with these modest beginnings. The fuzz, the blues, the grunge, the stoner and the doom that is present on this psychedelic rock album comes in waves and both that intro and outro serve as two devious bookends between which the album can rock out, noise out or trickle like saddened blue moonlight dripping from above… Or as Tony van Dorston stated on his amazing Fast ‘N Bulbous year end rundown: “They maintain an element of slow and low desert psych, but the menacing guns, peyote and decomposing bodies lurch now leans toward sludge metal and stoner doom, something there’s no shortage of.” No shortage indeed; and like the lodestone north is will always draw you home… On Number 6 we find:

Jack Harlon & Dead Crows - The Magnetic Ridge

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

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s 

Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week…

Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows
Venus Flycatchers
Hermit’s Weedsom
Shun
Moon Coven
Book of Wyrms
Billy F Gibbons
Year Of No Light
Melissa
Octohawk

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

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s 

Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week…

Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows
LáGoon
Abel Blood
Lowrider
Liar Thief Bandit
Wood Witch
Amammoth
Filthy Hippies
Heavy Feather
Lazer Beam