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

 

 

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

Madrugada
Blues Pills
Adjustable Mustard
Phe
Axamenta
Kant
Stöner
Mammoth Volume
Sleepless
Cobranoid

Morning everyone! No use dwelling in the past right? We’ll deal with the bastards soon enough! Even though we shall continue to do these weekly glances into the week past. It helps us focus and pay attention to what we did and what we are about to do. Only the Erronaut, Blues Pills and Fringe Sociology posts went up. But they were all good and makes us giddy to do more this week. We hope so! Even though the new edition for the Doom Charts also needs to be cooked up. But I suspect a review or two to appear today and tomorrow… And that great interview we did with Phil Hey from Psychlona to pop up soon enough as well! Have a great week everyone and keep listening to everything heavy!

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

 

 

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

Svartanatt
Narbo Dacal
Voodoo Idol
Purification
Ruff Majik
Madrugada
Super American Eagle
The Heavy Minds
Buffalo Crows
Prong

The weeks seem to fly by! Time seems to be in a hurry, even though I just want to sit down and listen to some good and heavy music! As we did manage to do, for at least a bit, as you can see in the above list. We also did a Quick Fire Friday round and two posts for a Quick Fire Weekend! Wrote a few words for the Christmas EP from Clouds Taste Satanic, posted videos by We Kill Cowboys and Acid Magus. And re-posted, slightly edited version of the November Doom Charts blurbs for Phantom High and Mountain of Misery. And the news for today: we are extending the Deadline for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2023! By two days! So, you have till December 15th to get your lists of however many favorite albums of 2023 in. Send them to stonerhive@hotmail.com and we’ll do the rest!

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week…

Dozer
Grande Royale
The Legendary
Madrugada
Iroh
Wallace Vanborn
Fvzz Populi
Padre Cuervo
Abanamat
Emperor's Lair

Messerschmitt – Oh Death

 

 

Messerschmitt – Oh Death
Siste Reis Records – 2021
Rock, Stoner, Sludge, Doom, Metal
Rated: *****

Norwegian outfit Messerschmitt, not to be confused with the German speed metal band with the same name or the Mayhem-side-project, any of three or four other bands from Croatia, Italy and what not with the same name or of course those planes during World War II, are about to release a new six-track album called Oh Death. It was recorded live with two drummers, has guest appearances by Kjetil Nernes from Årabrot who plays noise guitar on Oh Death and Thomas Eriksen from Mork who did the vocal duties on Ave Satani. The mix was done by Adam Kasper, who worked with Soundgarden, Queens of The Stone Age, Foo Fighters and many more. And guess what, this Norwegian outfit called Messerschmitt is the best Messerschmitt yet! Atavistic stoner, seminal sludge and a colossal sound! There’s doom here, despair and dismay, especially when majestic fifth track No Tomorrow rolls around, with extra special guest spot on Hammond, the one and only: Jon Terje Rovedal! Who you might know from many a band or album; but we know him from his work with one of the best bands in the world: Madrugada. And then we hear that Kai Andersen, who also produced Madrugada also aided with the production and that sealed the deal. We dived even deeper into Oh Death and the tracks they offer, and will now profess our love for that opening track: Gummo Ain’t For Nothing. Only two minutes and forty seven seconds long, the track start out with these four pounds that immediately let you know you’re in for some heavy stomping. And the drums do take the center stage on this track; but the way the guitar then moves through all that trudging sludge punk, seems to create an echo chamber and make every inch of sound whirlpool around you and is simply put: perfection! And well, you know we go overboard with accolades a lot, but we could continue on like this about the following five tracks as well. Highly diverse, yet ever gigantically heavy, Messerschmitt is addictive, ballsy and compelling. Oh Death is the ABC of heaviness!

 

(Written by JK)

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Ledfoot – White Crow

Ledfoot – White Crow
TBC – 2020
Rock, Blues
Rated: *****

We knew about this cat before that album. But thanks to the Damned album from 2010, which featured Madrugada’s Sivert Hoyem on the track Wicked State Of Mind, we really got to know Tim Scott McConnell. His stagename, Ledfoot. His craft, blues. On his newest release White Crow the man hypnotizes and mesmerizes with his twelve string plunking. His dark bariton is smokey and weathered. Wasted and worn memories of Wovenhand, Mark Lanegan, Blind Lemon Jefferson and John Fahey pass through your mind like shifting sands, cause the entire album seems to transcend everything and all. And that’s because his roots music continues to fascinate and enthrall, even if the fundamental keynote never changes. In fact, his open approach whips around the same chords, which just seems to add to heartbreaking beauty that is White Crow. One foot on the stompbox, one foot in the grave, Ledfoot brings you his own version of Gothic Blues, and it is the only blues that will save…

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

Stoner HiVe’s 

Top 5 Artists listened to last week…

Madrugada

My Midnight Creeps

Universal Hippies

Orotoro

Temple of Lies

It has been a hectic week. Due to the weeks away from the screen and thus getting behind on the rent-paying-work as well everything HiVe worthy, it has been feeling like playing ketchup to every rock ‘n roll tomato out there. And with the staggering amount of missed albums that have entered the HiVe inbox, it is simply impossible. There is too much music out there and most of it deserves way more attention than I can give. Unfortunately. And then there was the remembrance date. It has already been 10 years since guitar magician Robert S Buras passed away. He is still missed every day. A genuine original and one note God. So, of course we listened a lot to Madrugada and his own project My Midnight Creeps during the week. But we also had time for some new stuff. Bluesy, soulful rock from the Universal Hippies which definitely sooths the spirit with their instrumental grooves. The combination release of EP 1 and 2 by French quartet Orotoro definitely demands attention. Progressive metal, stoner grooves, robotic trucking and a grungy feel. Orotoro has it all! Temple of Lies has more aggression in it and bring their grungy rock with some swamp and sludge influences. Heavy, heavy and heavy… And damn fine!

Robert S Buras

It has been exactly ten years to the day that the news came that one of the best quitarplayers that ever walked the earth passed away...

Today we only spin My Midnight Creeps & Madrugada albums in honor of the great Robert S Buras....

A true original...

We once wrote a little ode about him on the Black Insect Laughter blog owned by Madman Tony Maim. . .

Stoner HiVe's Top 5 Artists listened to last week

Stoner HiVe's

Top 5 Artists listened to last week:

Madrugada (61)

Spaceslug (24)

Clouds Taste Satanic (23)

Stavast (22)

The Souldiggers Band (22)

A week has passsed since the return from the mountains. A week filled with mucus, sweat and fever. But this kinghell of a flu has passed and we are getting back to work. Which we already did while listening to the best band ever: Madrugada. We still return to them, cause we cannot get enough of their brooding atmosphere. And well, every one of their five albums is simply beautiful and stunning.  Spaceslug have a new album out! Lemanis from last year was damn good, Time Travel Dilemma is even better! And Dawn Of The Satanic Age by Clouds Taste Satanic was on heavy rotation as well. Still forming vaporous thoughts on that one. Stavast is the new band of Dutch pet punk Marco Roelofs, formerly of Heideroosjes. And when the Russian The Souldiggers Band release something new, we sit up, take notice and spin the crap out of it!

All in all, good music for good people!

Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O – Are You Land Or Water

Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O – Are You Land Or Water

House of Mythology – 2016

Rock

Rated: ***

Two years after the amazing fivestar self-titled debut by the Norwegian band Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O, which harbored members of Madrugada, My Midnight Creeps and Ricochets, released in 2011, they promised us a follow-up album. But unfortunately, nothing happened. Even though they did release a single (Europa, which now closes the album) in 2014 we heard eerily nothing of KKKMO. But apparently their studio was demolished and the record label went bankrupt. And all those troubles and worries combined made frontman Alex Kloster-Jensen choose to rather head off into nature on his self-built bike then to have anything to do with the music business. (Which also sounds like an awesome drummer we all know…) He did this until Anders Moller (Ulver) pulled him back into the dark and damp rehearsal space once again. Just to jam, without any plans or obligations, and just to experience that lovely journey, from A to wherever you may end up, once again. Just like on his bike. And that is exactly how the new record Are You Land Or Water sounds. Quiet and subdued constantly progressing music with still some influences here and there of Mali- and voodoo blues, like a Dr. John we love. The journey is lovely, the landscape utterly beautiful and the vistas on occasion breathtaking. But even then it never becomes really thrilling or spectacular. For that, we unfortunately have to conclude, they are simply not hitting the peddle hard enough…

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The Cover That Could – III

The Cover That Could – III

Cato Salsa Experience – Planet Heart

And finally 2005 was deemed fit to release a tribute album in honor of the mighty Guitar Wolf. This notorious Japanese garage, rock and punk trio has so many great albums to their name that it was high time to celebrate all their qualities. And not just because they still have the Guinness Book of Records record for loudest recorded album ever, their record Jet Generation released in 1999. Ain’t that a kick!? But on the tribute album named I Love Guitar Wolf… Very Much, we find thirteen songs performed by bands such as Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Porch Ghouls and Jim O’Rourke. And then there is that highly noteworthy version done by the Cato Salsa Experience. The band founded and named by magician Cato Salsa Thomassen, who produced numerous albums and played righteous parts on even more. He later also went on tour with Madrugada and joined Sivert Hoyem’s band. These Norwegians do a righteous cover of the song Planet Heart from the album Planet Of The Wolves and give it that bit of air and breathing room that the original version from 1997 kind of missed. And therefore perhaps make it even better than the original?!

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Smoke Mohawk – Viva El Heavy Man

Smoke Mohawk – Viva El Heavy Man

Noisolution / Oh Yeah! – 2012

Rock, Seventies, Sixties, Psychedelica, Garage

Rated: ****

The debut album The Dogs Are Turning Red by Norwegian supergroup Smoke Mohawk released in 2010 did not really impress and was a bit of a disappointment. But that might also have been due to the high expectations on my part. For, ever since I learned Smoke Mohawk was releasing an album; I turned all giddy inside. How can anyone not be aroused hearing that members from Gluecifer and My Midnight Creeps are teaming up. Quickly after the release, news arrived that a new one was in the works and that the boys weren’t completely happy with the TDATR result. Hope, lust and anticipation battled for weeks until it slowly faded. And now; after so many months not having a clue we stumble upon their sophomore release and learn it was already out since October 2012. Full of humor the boys give us that righteous throwback magic and easily succeed where the former record failed. Yes, Viva El Heavy Man celebrates all that goodness from the sixties and seventies without becoming sappy about it. They dive deep and headfirst into the very essence of rock and give you their colorful take on heaviness… Light as a feather but weighing a ton!

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Smoke Mohawk - Crazy Horses

Smoke Mohawk - Crazy Horses

Crazy Horses is taken from their second  album Viva El Heavy Man. This is a cover of the 1972 hitsong as perfomed by The Osmonds. For everybody who digs Turbonegro, WE, Smut Peddlers, Gluecifer, Bela B, The Lust-O-Rama, Astroburger, The Highrollers, Stone-O-Saurus, Asbury Park, My Midnight Creeps, Vidar Vang and LoveOctopus... Yes; the guys also played in those magnificent bands!

Smoke Mohawk - Inspector Holmes

Smoke Mohawk - Inspector Holmes 

The first single Inspecter Holmes taken from their second album Viva El Heavy Man! For everybody who digs Turbonegro, WE, Smut Peddlers, Gluecifer, Bela B, The Lust-O-Rama, Astroburger, The Highrollers, Stone-O-Saurus, Asbury Park, My Midnight Creeps, Vidar Vang and LoveOctopus... Yes; the guys also played in those magnificent bands!

Albums That Burnt Your Soul

Albums That Burnt Your Soul

Black Insect Laughter’s project ‘Albums That Burnt Your Soul.’

Tony from the amazing Black Insect Laughter asked me to deliver a piece for his ‘Albums That Burnt Your Soul’ project. And I gladly participated. Cause that’s the reason we do this thing right? Talk about the music we love? Spread the tunes we cherish? Making new discoveries? And paying homage to all those heroes we love and perhaps lost… Ofcourse I went a bit overboard with my way too long article about my personal soundtrack: Histamin by My Midnight Creeps. Check it out here:  Black Insect Laughter…

Smoke Mohawk – The Dogs Are Turning Red

Smoke Mohawk – The Dogs Are Turning Red
Impeller Recordings – 2010
Rock, Psychedelica, Sixties, Garage
Waardering: ***

The Norwegian Smoke Mohawk could be categorized as a supergroup; although most of their former bands will not immediately ring a bell amongst all listeners. Though Gluecifer surely will, We perhaps and let’s hope that one of the best bands ever does too: My Midnight Creeps. They also played in a grand list of other projects; namely: Turbonegro, Smut Peddlers, Vidar Vang, The Lust-O-Rama, Astroburger, The Highrollers, Stone-O-Saurus, Asbury Park, LoveOctopus and Bela B. After only a few jam-sessions the guys decided to start playing a truckload of different styles and conquer the charts and eventually the world with their sound. The last goal will probably never come to fruition; but enchanting the listener with their stroll through musical history surely will. The Dogs Are Turning Red is a wonderful debut album which mostly just shows the enormous potential this formation possesses. And with the promise of a new album in 2011; we wait patiently in our basket like a good little doggy…

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Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O – Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O

Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O – Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O
EMI – 2011
Rock/Garage/Psychedelic
Waardering: *****

It has little to nothing to do with anything resembling stoner; but this has to be heard by each and everyone. So bare with me... And just maybe you too will be awed... When the best Norwegian band of all time had to call it quits the remaining members both went their separate ways. Guitarist Robert Buras left this world sadly much too soon and left his friends from Madrugada to fend for their own. His own project My Midnight Creeps also had to stop. So singer Sivert Hoyem from Madrugada went solo and took with him multi-instrumentalist-magician and substitute during the Madrugada farewell tour Cato Salsa Thomassen with him. Bassplayer Frode Jacobsen took guitarist Alex Kloster Jensen who played with Ricochets and also during the final Madrugada tour with him to start a new band. That band is what has become Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O. It also features saxophone player Dag Stiberg who played with My Midnight Creeps and drummer Behzad Farazollahi who played with all bands already named at one point in time. After a few messy and dubious shows in back alley bars they released a first tour EP. This already announced what direction the band would be taking. Their self-titled full sized album has become a true ode to the sound of My Midnight Creeps and especially the direction Buras wanted to take his band. Hence the name Kitchie; which also had special meaning to the magical guitarman. So let’s quickly now get the one lesser point of the album out of the way; Alex takes on the vocal parts and does not always have a masterful approach; but somehow it luckily and often suits the complex musical events well. But that’s the only little speck of dust on the record. It is dark, brooding and sinister. It is grinding soul and hypnotic jams forged together with hot intense blues. It’s floating on ominous rhythms and being abducted by a whirlwind of pure ecstasy. There is no escape; judgment day cometh and Kitchie will be the soundtrack!

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