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

 

 

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

Ruff Majik
Omega Sun
Queen Marsa
Acid Magus
Solar Sons
I Am Low
Garden of Ash
Malterra
Mother Tongues
Thunder Horse

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

 

 

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

Earth Altar / Sun Below
Anuseye
Danko Jones
Mondo Generator
Demons My Friends
Saint Karloff
Acid Magus
Viral Tyrant
Black Drop
Malterra

Malterra - Hydrosphere

 

Malterra - Hydrosphere
Self-Released – 2023
Rock, Psych, Alternative, Metal, Stoner, Prog
Rated: ****

The Malterra three hail from Santa Rosa, California in the USA and landed their debut album Hydrosphere on the twentieth spot of the July Doom Charts of 2023. We quickly jumped at the opportunity to write a short blurb for this one, cause we love the dynamics this album brings to the table. There’s so much push and pull, that its feels like there’s a full moon and spring tide is upon us. The natural flow of their progressive rock feels entirely wholesome executed and meticulously crafted. Imaginative, sometimes turbulent metal that waits for the expressive coloring of the expansive blue. It does not always arrive, those vast and atmospheric sequences, they often opt to stay longer in the alternative sequence. But when it does, it feels so liberating. Alternative metal is one of those genres that encapsulate everything. And seems highly fitting for the four track Hydrosphere release. For the album moves expertly through all sorts of metal genres, by way of prog and psych. A highly interesting, complex, and wayward album that manages to still be accessible thanks to the melodic elements. And that bass work in Tsunami, mouth-watering!

(Written by JK)

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The Doom Charts For July 2023

 

 

Doom Charts

“This? This can’t be the Doom Charts. I’m heavier than this…”

~ Misheard quote from Stephen

We hear all sorts of stuff from all sorts of angles and sources, but what we should really lend our ear to is all those stories of hope, love and wonder. And of course, those fine and mighty Heavy Underground albums. Sorry, been feeling a bit emotional and philosophical of late, Sunil Singh, posted a great story at the exact right moment for me. Leading me down a rabbit hole of books about ‘knowing’, ‘humanism’ and ‘synchronicity’. Conclusion: we know very little, but can feel all that more. And letting that feeling ride the almighty wave of the Great Magnet, can transfer the right kind of energy to you and all around you… And that, can lead to ‘connectedness, wholeness, and timelessness’… The way a song can circle back towards that main riff is amazing, the way a song can circle back to the one that started the story is truly miraculous. And that’s what music is, a fucking miracle… And the sheer amount of great music we can listen to makes it all even more wonderous and huge. It’s magical… And to serve you all again, with 39 new albums on this month’s edition, out of a voted list of 241 heavy albums, is a blessing… Sorry, I’m feeling a different kind of heavy, the heavier side of emotions… And I know, I should be heavier than this… So, let’s press play and let that energy be transformed into the other kind of heavy! 

The first Friday of the new month means a new edition of the Doom Charts! July brought the heavy and the weird and since we all like heavy and weird, July has been good! 241 albums got voted for by the Contributors... Go, check out the 39 brand new albums! 

Personal votes of the ones that made it went out to: Agusa, Dismyth, Jukebox Monkey, The Fire Mystical, Dead Gallery, TIEFENRAUSCH, Yawning Balch, REZN & Vinnum Sabbathi, Malterra, Ursular, Cavern Deep, Auralayer & Mutoid Man !

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and reviewers from the heavy underground around the globe.  Each month, our critics submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge, metal, stoner, psychedelic and heavy rock albums.  The results are compiled and tabulated into the chart below.  This is a one-stop shop for the best new albums in the world…

 

The Doom Charts For July 2023