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!

Narbo Dacal - Elysium Now

 

 

Narbo Dacal - Elysium Now
Piranha Music – 2023
Doom, Metal, Stoner, Sludge, Post, Prog
Rated: ****

I think I mentioned before how much I love Krakow. Spent some cool days wondering around the city, doing stories about the jazz scene, annoying Janusz Muniak, ending up on Unsound Festival, talking to the two death-drone-noise-jazz terrorists named BNNT and standing completely alone in front of Lady with An Ermine by Leonardo DaVinci for half an hour before a next visitor or even security guard enter the museum hall. Suck on that Mona Lisa! But if I had known about Narbo Dacal back then, I would have definitely wanted to talk to this wonderful trio. Back in 2022 we mentioned their self-titled album and that had definite folk touches as well as something black, that black metal touch is still there on their new album Elysium Now, although in miniscule form. The tiny folk element has dissipated completely, but all that sludge and progressive metal that therefor grew, is now so all encompassing, that it becomes this majestic swell of almost overwhelming and noisy earthquakes. Those seven minutes of fourth track The Vase, which incomprehensively fades out at the end though, sports so much beautiful guitar work, that danceable drumming, that luscious bumping bass work and wild and changing vocals. Seductive one minute, enchanting the next and absolutely feral and biting the next. And then there are those high-pitched wraith-like shrieks, puncturing your entire being. Just like those drums towards the end, relentless and penetrating. I just can’t fathom why they decided to do a fade out on that track, unless they want to leave that grand finale that one hopes for, feels coming, for their live shows. I bet that’s it. Damn. Now I definitely NEED to go back to Krakow again, seeing the city, but most of all seeing Narbo Dacal live!

(Written by JK)

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Narbo Dacal – Narbo Dacal

 

 

Narbo Dacal – Narbo Dacal
Self released / Piranha Music – 2022
Metal, Doom, Prog, Sludge
Rated: ****

There’s definitely a touch of black here, a frosty finger of evil. Offset or better yet, complemented by some natural folk elements and a female voice that can bewitch your soul, enchant your heart and freeze your balls off. We’re talking about the four-track self-titled release Narbo Dacal from the three that hail from wonderful Krakow. Out through Piranha Music, the four tracks do all this on a foundation of progressive metal and sludge thundering. There’s considerable ambition at play here, with the sprawling third track DCCXXXVII, scored by passages of massive guitarwork and savage drums, the vocals once again see-saws brilliantly between tender and shattering. There is a new star in the firmament of all those that seek to bring us folk-inflected prog-infused sludge and doom metal. And this star shines brightly dark and shimmering cold and is named Narbo Dacal. And that’s only the start of it…

(Written by JK)

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