Number 20

 

Number 20

There were only a few moments in the past weeks that two albums occupied the same spot. During the final hours, this happened again. And yes, on Number 20 we find two albums! Both of them released during the first months of 2025. Both of them got reviewed on Stoner HiVe and we wrote something that hopefully enticed you to listen to these albums. To this ferocious fuzz-soaked journey. Bursting with Kyuss-worthy stoner grit, metallic muscle, and stunning musicianship, this addictive album only grows deeper with repeat listens. Loud, dynamic, and irresistibly heavy! For the other album we jotted down some thoughts that could guide you along this brutal descent into doom, sludge, and pure sonic warfare. Burning riffs, pulverizing drums, and desperate fury collide across eight devastating tracks. From crushing epics to punked-out assaults, this is a band at their most colossal and merciless! With some forty points above the Number 21 we find two bands… 

 

According to all the votes that came in… 

On Number 20 we find: 

KAISER - 2ND SOUND  

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CONAN - VIOLENCE DIMENSION 

 

 

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Grey Czar
Kaiser
Torpedo Torpedo
Goya
Temple Fang
Deafheaven
The Pighounds
Miss Lava
Sloth
Kazea

Morning! Hope everyone will have a great week. This is the Monday that starts a new week at home after that wonderful small vacation in the Austrian mountains. So this glance back and Most Listened Albums List is actually glancing back at last week and the week before. Cause, last Monday we were shooting down the slopes in grand fashion. Two weeks of posts takes us back to the Badlands Festival announcement, the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Drunken Crocodiles, a Jesse Stilettö write-up, words for Torpedo Torpedo, the mention of that wild live session on KEXP by Travo and the new Deafheaven. But Ronny Dijksterhuis graced us with two beauties about Dead Groove and Stiff Buscemi… If you haven’t go back and read through those, check out the list of Most Listened Albums above or on Spotify and get ready for a SINGLE PREMIERE, which we will do very soon…

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Week 13 & 14

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

AAWKS
10 Slip
Dead Wall
Kaiser
Brown Spirits
Ikitan
Sivert Hoyem
Hirax
Sleeping Mountain
A Monkey Shine

Morning! Hope everyone had a great week and hopefully an even better upcoming one! I’m cheating with the above list. Cause I’ve had a powerful lust for David Bowie and been going through quite a few of his records again. So, he actually was topping that list. But you all know Bowie and this post is meant to pay homage to all those albums listened last week as well as listed, that perhaps aren't household names. And we also glance back at the posts we managed to put up. A few words on the new Clouds Taste Satanic, Ikitan and Sonic Deaf Squad. New singles by The Elven and Kadavar. And it was the first week of the new month, which meant the February Doom Charts went live. What a list! And to mention another Top 10, one of the Top 10 albums of 2025 came out: Kaiser. We wrote a few lines about that one and realized the same day also saw light to another Top 10 album of 2025: Kryptograf. An album reviewed by Jon a few weeks earlier. All that great music! And we still need to grab back to great music from earlier times. Simply because we can and there is so much. Check’m out. Check’m all out!

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Week 11

Kaiser – 2nd Sound

 

 

Kaiser – 2nd Sound
Majestic Mountain Records – 2025
Rock, Stoner, Metal
Rated: *****

Helsinki, Finland is home to the trio known as Kaiser. And that city will surely have the pleasure of seeing them perform their new album 2nd Sound soon enough! For the album will be out tomorrow on Majestic Mountain Records and it is one hell of a wild adventure! A truly addictive ride that starts with opening track Brotha and ends with eight and final song Aftershock. There are moments when the boys go full Kyuss. That beautiful atavistic stoner rocking. And it’s celebrating a lot of the more metal side of the heavy underground. But all of those avenues are transversed with power and sheer force. And as you wallow comfortably in that knowledge and accept there is no escape from Kaiser’s 2nd Sound they manage to up the dynamics, freak out with guitars or have the bass do something even wilder.  You’ve heard Brotha, you’ve been having it on repeat. If not, go listen immediately. But that’s just the magnificent opener. 1,5 Dozen follows and ups the ante with fierce energy and a furious noisy assault. Soon opening up, exchanging the screams for more melodic vocal work, harmonizing even and thundering ever forward as the guitar gets to lift off and soar. The way they then make Meteorhead sound so effortless and riddled with boogie, how it revolves around itself, spinning towards something inevitable. Feral vocals dragging you along towards the shouted ‘Meteorhead’ middle part, anxious for participation from the crowd. And that drum work on this third track, stunning is an understatement! Beautiful guitar, with the solo stretching exactly far enough to give you even more awareness of the magnificent bass you’ve been hearing. The musicianship of the entire album only becomes apparent after you’ve been shocked and awed into listening to the record on repeat. For at first it might seem hidden among all that gritty and grimy fuzz work, that deliberate steamrolling aspect of this album. But as your head wraps itself around it, you will realize you are listening to one hell of a luxuriously crafted tonal beauty. It’s simple, we’re just entering March, but Kaiser’s 2nd Sound is one of the best albums to be released this year…

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Lorquin’s Admiral
Kryptograf
Kaiser
Kintsugi Empire
Vessel
Ocultum
Grey Mountain
Lucifer
MaidaVale
The Clamps

Good morning everyone! This is that first Top 10 Most Listened Last Week list for 2025. We shall continue do inform you through a few quick lines what has been on our ears the most. We will refrain from posting links to the bands on FB for a while; you know the reason. But of course with links on the  little old blog. And I’m sure you can find those awesome bands and albums on your own anyway. The Spotify Playlist will continue, featuring all albums or songs available there at this time. Cause some aren’t out yet. The new supergroup Lorquin’s Admiral and their debut for instance. Wow! Or the new Kryptograf, so hot! And Kaiser, ai ai ai! 2025 is starting off with a bang! Get ready for those. And check out the others on the list. They all deserve your attention! Have a great week!

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Week 3

Otu – Fuzzy Tunes

 

 

Otu – Fuzzy Tunes
Self released – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Metal
Rated: ***

This guy has done what has always been lingering fantasy somewhere in those dark recesses of my mind. Sure; my thoughts would be to either form the Desert Monkeys and just do stonerrock versions of Arctic Monkeys songs. Or form a stonerrock cover band to stonerize other songs that have nothing to do with heavy rock. Well, the guy behind Moonic Productions, has named his project Otu and has delivered an excellently produced stonerrock album with 13 stoner songs called Fuzzy Tunes. You might also know him from the vocals he provided for Headless Monarch or his other band Kaiser. But Otu and Fuzzy Tunes is just the man himself. We must confess though that some of the tracks feel a little unnecessary or a bit too much like the original. But the album is already worth it because of the White Stripes cover Fell In Love With A Girl. A great version; all Kyuss’d up! The same can be said about Nirvana’s You Know You’re Right and a High On Fire take of Iron Maiden’s Gangland. Amazing how he can do it all; those different styles of vocals; the different styles of metal and stoner. Damn freakin cool! Here’s to Otu! Kippis!

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

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Top 5 artists listened to last week…

Sam Hill

Fire Down Below

Kaiser

Khayman

Six Months Of Sun

Due to an interview with Ice-T on Fortarock Festival we listened to a lot of Body Count and some of his solo work. But I decided to skip that from the Top 5 Most Listened list of Last Week. Cause I’m pretty sure most of you freaks shall not be moving on to this highly influential artist. Which is ofcourse fine and one should always concentrate on listening what you really like. For there is so much great stuff out there. In every genre, niche or piss-ridden little musical hole nailed off by the building inspector long ago, but it is still deep enough for us winos to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage. Yes, we love our stinky little corners of the world. Sam Hill and their March To The Mountains album for instance. An amazing album that deserves all of our attention! Stoner rock, stoner metal, seventies inspired and touching all those bases we heavy underground addicts love! Still on heavy rotation is the new Fire Down Below album. Out on Ripple Music, the Hymn Of The Cosmic Man album continuously lets you discover more and more in their desert universe. Fuzz rulers Kaiser deliver their groovy ruckus on their new album 1st Sound. Heavy, rough, wild and high octane stoner, desert and sludge in brilliant biker fashion! Khayman releases The Gentle Art Of Self Destruction via Nooirax Records and on it they deliver a hefty mix of nineties alternative influences across a massive amount of metal and doom. Below The Eternal Sky came out on Cold Smoke/GPS/Urgence Disks/Domino Media Agency and this is Six Months Of Sun turning out the best instrumental stoner metal, sludge rock and desert groove one will hear this summer! So check it out! Check’m all out!