Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday
It’s Friday… And we’re doing another Quick Fire Friday round! We just can’t help ourselves, there’s so much great music floating around. So diverse, so wonderful, cause that seems to be the main thing binding everything in the heavy underground. Diversity, openness, acceptance. The entire world should be like our little niche. But before we fall into that abyss, let’s state the obvious once again. Here are some quick words about some great releases. We know, they deserve more, but there’s so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is… Another Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!
Creaturess – Creaturess
Cave doom from the wonderfully musical city of Portland, Oregon. Forlorn doom that experiments with field recordings and ambient sounds. Creaturess was started by the duo of guitarist composer Jesse Hamlin and singer, guitarist and visionary Joanna Sendejo in 2023 this is the perfect opener for the Quick Fire Friday of this week. For it is slow, slowcore, shoegaze, slow doom and recorded in a magma tub in Washington! That’s right, you can sense the reverb, hear the cave, touch the atmosphere and feel the underlying fiery force of it all.
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Weevil – Easy Way
Weevil! A five-piece from Athens that show definitely love for the stonerrock of yore and Fu Manchu in particular. A skater vibe, a punk attitude and that adoration for the good riff! That sandy sound! Heat incarnated! Incredibly entertaining, fuzzy and catchy! Makes you want to run out and take a ramp or two… Cowabunga dude!
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Fuzzing Nation – Into The Desert
More greatness from Greece! Fuzzing Nation! A stonerrock trio that knows how to capture that desert vibe, soaring fuzz and make it sound sun bleached and dusty! Build on a foundation of blues, always opting for the moving groove, this is the kind of music you can’t sit still with. Formed in 2022 this is their second EP and after hearing it you will be screaming for more!
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Waterboarding School – The Little Sports Mirror
The Little Sports Mirror is the third album by Swedish five-piece Waterboarding School! But listening to this sunny, fun-drenched record is no torture. Eight quick squirts of sunlight and flowery garage pop, make it undeniable friendly and enjoyable. A bit of surf, a bit of roots and a whole lot of high school prom atmospheres! Feeling a bit down? Listen to The Little Sports Mirror and a smile will surely cross your face…
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Eye of Aquila – Atavisms
There it was underneath the Christmas tree! The new Eye of Aquila EP Atavisms. That’s right, they released it on December 25th! And we loved their earlier Diviniis Requiem to bits, so we were sure that the four tracks filled with their take on grunge, alternative rock, metal and stoner would be going down smoothly once again. And it did! There was no room left for Christmas dinner cause Eye of Aquila filled me completely with wild riffs and intense atmosphere! Stunning!
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Death Wvrm – Reflections
How can we not fall in love with the wonderful sound of Death Wvrm? The UK three have released two singles before they put out their new one Reflections. A song that indeed seems to travel the energy current you might know from bands like Slift, Elder, King Buffalo and Full Earth. And on this wonderful almost seven minute long adventure, Nick DiSalvo from Elder and Delving delivers some extra instrumentation. Dragging back the echoes that were off with the current…
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Love Your Witch – Witches Burn Alive
The stoner thrash three from Tel Aviv, Israel delivered their new love child back in December. Love Your Witch put out their first release all the way back in 2018 and this new one called Witches Burn Alive celebrates their journey so far. For it is a live album, but with two new studio recordings bookending this wild and wonderful band. Stoner thrash indeed, seventies rocking garage and gritty metal. Punk by default and always Fucking Relentless! You should Love Your Witch! I know I do!
The Devil's Cabana Boiz - The Devil's Cabana Boiz
We only ever got around to mention that wild single these crazies did with that the wild Johni Holiday from Ruff Majik. But since then, they’ve put out a full EP featuring that single! Which means five more tracks of fuzzy garage and sixties blues, seventies psych and a whole lot of energy! This is that lightning in a bottle kind of stuff! Powerful and electrifying! Fuck this is good! The Devil's Cabana Boiz bring you everything you need...
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Voodoo Garden – Age Of Mist
We've romped through a truckload of amazing albums, eps and singles. And we end it with something absolutely magical. Yes, the new Voodoo Garden and their debut release Age Of Mist has something very special going on! Psychedelic doom with some definite magic. A touch of occult, seventies and sixties sprinkles and highly addictive. Recorded in a new studio in Prague called Deadzeus Sound owned and operated by Miki Hank who also plays in Miea. On Age Of Mist everything comes together in twenty five minutes of sheer perfect heaviness. And that voice! Once heard, you can’t escape Voodoo Garden…
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