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

Stoner HiVe’s

Top 5 artists listened to last week…

The Grand East

Colour Out Of Space

Davenport Cabinet

Skirt

King Cig

Good Monday. Or errr, I mean morning. Finally someone righteous winning a Grammy. Congratulations to Matt Pike and High On Fire ofcourse. But as he already stated: “We don’t need an award for doing something we love.” Right on maestro! Right on! We shall refrain from mentioning that we listened to David Bowie a lot; because we need to! And shredder Ygnwie Malmsteen, cause we need to prepare for an interview with the man. No, we shall list the other five we listened to the most… The Grand East for instance and their What A Man release. Soulful rock that just mainlines the groove directly into your heart. The self-titled release Colour Out Of Space was instant love! We don’t know much about these cats, except that we immediately understood that this is stoner metal from out of this world! Davenport Cabinet is a side-project Coheed and Cambria's lead guitarist Travis Stever. We had their 2013 album Our Machine on a lot, mainly because we were tracking projects maestro Pete Stahl had been a part of. But it’s damn good and the Stahl track hauntingly majestic! American trio Skirt released their new record Reinstate The Guillotine a few weeks ago and we it’s still on heavy rotation. Spacey heaviness with overtones of fast paced psychedelic goodness and a garage sounding take on hardrock. Grimy and druggy! And if you’re looking for something messy, check this out: King Cig! Stoner punk straight from the Melbourne gutters.! And their new EP Cult 45 is an intense and wild ride through those sewers filled with lovely filth and energetic nastiness! You just gotta love it! So check it out! Check’m all out!

Stoner HiVe's Top 5 Artists listened to last week

Stoner HiVe's 

Top 5 Artists listened to last week:

Automatic Sam (103)

Earthlings? (29)

Ringo Jets (28)

Sons of Morpheus (27)

Colour Haze (26)

We shall publish a mention about the magnificent new Automatic Sam album in a moment or two. These Dutch freaks have been releasing amazing albums one after another, topping the one that came before. And with the new record Arcs, they did it again! Psychedelic garage and steamy blues, raw, tantalizing and catchy. It is all there on the Assorted album by The Ringo Jets. Which is only logical as the album has collected some of the great Ringo loudness of all their previous releases and added two unreleased tracks. Check’m out! Seeing Dave Catching and Pete Stahl live in Amsterdam definitely made my week. Hope the rest of Europe came out to catch them live as well. For whether the Earthlings? fill the stage with eight or only two, they always rock! The new Nemesis album by the Swiss Sons of Morpheus is filled to the brim with more psychedelic blues, stoner and masterful grooves. Grungy and gritty yet all so soulful! Which is always the case when a new Colour Haze arrives. In Her Garden as the album is titled gives you almost 75 minutes of pure unadulterated bliss. So… Headphones on and stroll through Her Garden…

Goatsnake – Black Age Blues

Goatsnake – Black Age Blues

Southern Lord – 2015

Rock, Doom, Metal, Stoner

Rated: *****

After fifteen years we finally see the return of the holy Goatsnake with their third album Black Age Blues. Ofcourse, the fans were present at their first reunion gig on Roadburn 2010 in Tilburg, which may have spawned the true resurrection of the band. Cause after the show all of us started praying for a follow-up to the amazing Goatsnake I from 1999 and Flower Of Disease released in 2000. With Sourvein-bassist Scott Renner as new blood in the formation and with original drummer Greg Rogers (The Obsessed) back on the force we are finally there. Guitar fiend Greg Anderson (Sunn0)))) punches out the most magical riffs and rattles, churns and flutters as he delivers his wizardry without every pushing himself into too much of a leading role. It seems that this part was reserved for vocalist Pete Stahl (Scream, Earthlings?) who expertly surfs across all that we hear. And everything that was intended with this record seems to come to a head on the Grandpa Jones track, just as catchy as the rest of the album, with perfect vocals and stomping drums, it delivers exactly what they wanted and what we needed: blues for the dark dark days…

(Written by JK)

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