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maandag 4 maart 2019

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


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


Morning everyone. Just a quick note on that monthly Top 10. We just post that quickly and never edit it. On the weekly list we take the liberty to edit out those artists that don’t need that little bit of  extra encouragement to listen to. Artists that are already huge enough like Queens of The Stone Age or artists; (that even though they have some merit for the HiVe) that we listened to for interview purposes like Melissa Etheridge. So here’s the Top 5 Most Listened to Last Week and then we should really get down to perusing the February 2019 edition of the Doom Charts! Cause that is an insane one! Silver Devil’s new album Paralyzed, released by Ozium Records, is quickly becoming a household favorite. 5th on the Doom Charts this month and 1st in my head at the moment! What an album! Stomping stoner and high energy grooves! Also on the weekly list like last week: LáGoon and their The Unwelcome album; garage doom and fuzzed out rock, skater vibe stoner and punky metal. Out on Forbidden Place Records and another absolute must have! And so is the glorious Pfund album! It’s on constant rotation over here! New on the list is the December 2018 through I-Hate released album Pray For Doom by German fourpiece Dawn Of Winter. Doom in every sense of the word! But with an almost opera like stance the compositions take on this grandiose atmosphere. Lovely! And then there’s Gone Cosmic with their Sideways In Time album, released through Kozmik Artifactz. Set for an early April release this is some grade A, female fronted psych rock, it whirls and it winds and it wails like a hard rocking banshee on the prowl! Simply stunning! But I guess they all are! So check’m out! Check’m all out!

dinsdag 26 februari 2019

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


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


Another week has passed and yes, once again a day late with the Top 5 Most Listened to list. But that’s just how it goes and we all know the deal. Work and no fun! But luckily we did have fun listening to those albums these Five artists delivered. First off, we won’t list Queens Of The Stone Age, cause that’s another band we listened to a lot, it has a sort of mantra to it that makes it easy getting a lot of work done. But when new stuff comes on, you just have to focus, pay attention and let yourself be mesmerized by those albums. Like LáGoon and their The Unwelcome album; garage doom and fuzzed out rock, skater vibe stoner and punky metal. Out on Forbidden Place Records and an absolute must have! But so is Silver Devil and their through Ozium Records released new album Paralyzed. Sweden turns out to be the stomping ground for massive stoner gold once again. High energy grooves that move and stun! Can’t get enough of it! Just like Pfund’s album! Pfund is exciting, crazy and simply glorious! As we already mentioned last week. The Akashic Record by Professor Electric came out a few months ago; a hideous one-man band preaching hellfire and brimstone across the desert sand as he states himself. Or as the honorable Frazer Jones from Desert Psychlist states: “Take some early Captain Beefheart quirky bluesiness sprinkle with a smattering of funk and a pinch of stuttering fuzziness and voila…” Indeed, let’s take some Beefheart! Stone Golem from the Netherlands pushes their space oriented rock opera In The Shadow Of A Titan towards a stonerrock horizon and sun dried riffs. But then enter the atmospheric elements; and enchant you like a lost soul in the desert, dying of thirst and suddenly staring at a mirage oasis… Absolutely brilliant album! But I guess they all are! So check’m out! Check’m all out!

dinsdag 19 februari 2019

Pfund – Pfund


Pfund – Pfund
Pink Tank Records – 2018
Rock, Psych, Stoner, Sludge, Prog
Rated: *****

Released at the end of 2018 this fourpiece from the Kiel, Germany sure knows how to keep your attention with their jazzy progressive take on stoner, sludge and psychedelic rock. Well, at least that’s how their self-titled release starts off. Pfund is the name and heavy rock of all sorts is their masterful game! A game that started back around 2009 as a straight up blues rock band; but quickly morphed into more. So much more. There’s so much choppiness going on that it might remind you of Tool or Therapy? for a moment. But it’s the almost laconically sounding bass work and inhumane good drum work that takes the cake here, they propel the songs to amazing heights. And there, on the very tip of those waves the guitar just surfs and wails and riffs and will have you out there on those waves with them. You know what; there is no decent formula that can help you out with Pfund. There is so much different here and so much the same, these cats certainly know there are no rules when it comes to freaking great music. Their degree of contrariness goes hand in hand with the guts and courage the band displays whenever they decide to take a certain route. Exciting, crazy, inaccessible and easy on every heavy rock loving ear! Simply glorious!

(Written by JK)