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

 

 

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

Phe
Constance Tomb
Gods & Punks
Hijss
Moon Destroys
Witchthroat Serpent
Firebreather
Graveyard
Godzilla In The Kitchen
Hot Ram

Morning! We left right after we premiered the full album Closer To The Sun by Phe and returned late last night from the stormy wastelands… Its been a wild few days and nights and we will be looking forward to settling in for hibernation settings over at Stoner HiVe… Which doesn’t mean we go sleep in a cave… Hell no, it means a little bit more HiVe time and less out of town time. At least, that’s what normally happens around this time… But life has a way of throwing curveballs of late… So… Let’s see… And listen… To all those great albums out there! 

As mentioned we were honored to premiere the full album for Phe! Did you listen yet? But that wasn’t the only premiere… Also that wild doom psych folk album by Masion Dieu went live over on the HiVe! Which we reviewed a day early. Just like that awesome Moon Destroys album! Let’s see which albums we can mention this week… But I’m sure there will be one or two! And I am looking forward to Friday… For all the right reasons… How about you?

Below is the playlist for Week 44, featuring a selection of albums and tracks from my Bandcamp collection that are currently available to listen to...

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FULL ALBUM PREMIERE - Phe - Closer To The Sun

 

FULL ALBUM PREMIERE 

Phe - Closer To The Sun

 

As we stepped out the door, autumn struck our faces with its cold, unyielding hands, and suddenly, we remembered… Every day, we are Closer To The Sun. Perhaps, in reality, the Earth is drifting farther from where we began, but in our minds, in our hearts, and somewhere deep within our souls, we are forever moving towards the light… Especially when we are listening to the wild new album by Dutch psychedelic blues outfit Phe! And this right here, today, right now... Is the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for their Closer To The Sun album! 

 

The album drops tomorrow and the live date for the release show is next week, 31st of October, in Popei, Eindhoven. But you can hear the album a day early on Stoner HiVe! 

Forged in the heart of the Dutch underground, Phe returns with Closer To The Sun, a sonic voyage where their very own take on heavy blues, fuzz-drenched riffs and psychedelic atmospheres collide. Born from the raw spirit of stoner rock, diesel blues and propelled by progressive twists, their sound shifts between hypnotic grooves and soaring intensity. Following the singles we premiered earlier, Adrift and Psychonaut, Phe invites listeners into a world where darkness burns bright and the endless horizon always beckons... 

 Press play on the new Phe album Closer To The Sun below and feel its intense heat grow ever bigger... 

 

On their early releases, darkness is something Phe created through weight. Distorted guitars, gritty vocals, slow-burning riffs and a sense of impending, almost ominous, heaviness. By Nothing Else Is Real, the atmosphere itself became a place to explore. The music could be heavy without being relentlessly oppressive, and spacious without losing its power. The band's prevalent brooding mood turned into something the listener could inhabit rather than simply endure... 

With Closer To The Sun, the same darkness is now accompanied by a greater sense of motion, of flight, of melodic clarity and lift. Phe have grown from a raw, groove-driven heavy-rock trio into a more patient and expressive psychedelic rock band. The riffs remain their backbone, but the spaces between them have become just as important. Phe seems increasingly interested not only in how heavy a song can feel, but in how far it can carry you... Their evolution is not about becoming lighter. It is about discovering how to make their heaviness breathe. And Closer To The Sun is the perfect vehicle for that adventure... 

 

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Phe - The Lion & The Snake

Phe – Phe

Phe - Adrift

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

 

 

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

The Grok
Queens of The Stone Age
Domkraft
LáGoon
Black Space Riders
Dozer
Phe
Steak
Bobbie Dazzle
Stinking Lizaveta

Good mornin! Rent paying work keeps interfering, but I guess you all know the deal. Some of it is fun though, and this week will have another cool assignment, hanging out with the guys from DeWolff in their studio. It does mean, less time to HiVe… So, last week we only had time to post about the wild new Stinking Lizaveta and Argentinian doom masters En La Niebla. Besides editing and reposting about that awe inspiring Golem album and scuzzy skater crazies of LáGoon. Hopefully we can post some more this week. Cause listening to the new Phe, Domkraft, Dozer, Steak, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Grok and Black Space Riders damn well get the creative juices flowing! Have a great week y’all! 

Below is the playlist for Week 42, featuring a selection of albums and tracks from my Bandcamp collection that are currently available to listen to...

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

 

 

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

Gods & Punks
Hifiklub
Mondo Generator 
Queens Of The Stone Age
Phe
Bobbie Dazzle
Black Royal
Dead Sea Apes
Steel Beans
Firebreather

Yes, we know… It’s Tuesday already. But thing got weird and hectic yesterday. And will remain so for the foreseeable future. But don’t worry, we’ve got another Premiere for you this week! And I’m looking forward to one hell of an interview on Thursday. With one of the members of one of the bands in the Top 10 above… It’s gonna be a Perfecth Thursday! 

And maybe you can still check out the stuff we mentioned last week? Or did you already listen to that wild Dead Sea Apes album? Or the five star brilliance that is Iron Jinn? We reposted about the cool Rust Lords, Wizards of Hazards and Earthlore. And premiered a video for The Home and single for Rapidly Aging. And on top of all that came out swinging, our very own poet Ronny Dijksterhuis with a kick ass Quick Fire Friday session. That’s a lot of music for one week! And if you weren’t tired of reading about all that, we also put up a long form interview with the amazing Phantom Logic. Perhaps a fifteen to twenty minute read about everything surround the band and of course, Earthless… Check it out. Check it all out… And let’s go Week 38! 

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

 

 

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

Vulture Neck
Grimestone
Dinosaur JR.
Bluto
Garden of Erden
Lunar Ruins
Phe
Rustlords
Earthlore
Graveyard

Morning! Besides the rent paying work, most of last week was dedicated to the new August edition of the Doom Charts! Did you find your new favorite album yet? And premieres! We did two last week and in a few minutes we have another one. For a video this time! This week, we’re finally putting a new interview online. We love psychedelic free rock adventures. So when Phantom Logic came out swinging together with Earthless's Isaiah Mitchell, we had to annoy them with some sill questions. So, stay tuned for that! Stoomfest Festival is happening in a few weeks, still a few tickets left and we hope you listened to the Full Album Premiere for Vulture Neck and the new Phe single which premiered last Thursday. We love heavy music! Go check’m out if you haven’t already. And the Top 10 featured above. There’s a reason those went on repeat last week… 

And if you like our new artwork... Visit Monuments In Ruin for more of his art... There's even a very cool section called Sketchy Thoughts! 

 

SINGLE PREMIERE - Phe - Psychonaut

 

SINGLE PREMIERE 

Phe - Psychonaut

 

As announced on Monday... That Single Premiere! The three from Helmond, Netherlands called Phe are on the verge of releasing their new album Closer To The Sun. And we were honored to Premiere their first single called Adrift for that new album back in May. And guess what... We're now feeling extremely privileged to present to you the second single of that album... It's called Psychonaut! And it's freaking me out... How good and incredibly catchy this little ditty is! 

Here's what our very own Kyle, the one that fights the good fight over on Good Boy PR, has to say about the single: "We've got the new single "Psychonaut" from Dutch veterans Phe, and it's a beast of a track. Retaining the trio's signature penchant for atmosphere and melody, "Psychonaut" ups the ante on the heavy and groovy end of things. The central riff pulses and sears, bouncing atop a blues-built spine as the crooning vocals pull you along for the ride. Add flashes of psychedelia and a barn burner of a solo to send it all into the stratosphere, and you've got a banger. Phe have outdone themselves with a track that easily feels like a modern day classic."

Yes! As they have from the start… Phe carves their own path through dark, heavy soundscapes: thunderous grooves, smoky blues, and waves of fuzz dissolve into psychedelic drift and progressive turns. This ups the groove, the catchiness, the bop and the bounce. But it remains raw, yet spacious… Like a midnight journey… Restless, hypnotic and always pulling you deeper into the unknown or the furthest recesses of you mind… Psychonaut! 

 Press play on Psychonaut, the new Phe single and get ready for the full album Closer To The Sun to drop very soon! 

 

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Phe - Saviour

Phe - Glooming Dawn

Phe - The Lion & The Snake

Phe – Phe

Phe - Adrift

 

 

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

 

 

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

Hypnosaur
Phe
Temple Fang
Maliciouz
Robot God
Phantom Logic
Babylon Tree
Go Mahhh
Solace
Iguana Death Cult

The weeks are flying by! And soon we will depart on our three weeks off grid holiday adventure, hugging the border between France and Germany as we go south to Italy, towards the Turin region, and the mountains in the vicinity. But we still have a few days to do a few HiVe posts… Although probably not as many as we did last week! First up: A FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for the Hypnosaur album Afterlife! Coming at you in a few hours! 

Last week we posted quite a few words by our inhouse poet: Ronny Dijksterhuis. Did you manage to look at  Stump Grinder? Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell? Gnod? Or his faster than shadow work for the Quick Fire Friday? Which we continued on with a Quick Fire Weekend! (Saturday  & Sunday) Those three Quick Fire posts along will give you twenty-four albums, ep’s and singles to check out! And we upped words on the amazing new Iguana Death Cult and stunning Robot God. And then there were those two Premieres! The monastic doom album by Maliciouz went live on our little blog. And the beautiful new single Adrift by Phe! I hope you listened to those on the blog or on their own pages the day after. Wonderful stuff! O’ and me mentioned the Doom Charts Peroration, cause we were at Sonic Whip Festival went that one went live. Last but not least; we put the words online about the new Hypnosaur album Afterlife… And that beautiful album will see its FULL ALBUM PREMIERE on our little HiVe in only a few hours… You ready for that? And have you been checking all of it out? Hope so… And we are truly honored if you did! 

Single Premiere – Phe – Adrift

 

Single Premiere 

Phe – Adrift

If the honorable Bucky Brown says that 'Phe is short for Phenomenal' on their very first EP release, you know this is a band that has something special going on. Well, that little trio from the south of the Netherlands will be releasing a new album called Closer To The Sun somewhere after the summer has ended. And tracking the growth from that first EP to Glooming Dawn in 2020 and Nothing Else Is Real in 2023 was stunning. But hearing the first single: Adrift will blow each and everyone away. The growth is Phe. Phe stands for Phenomenal! We're honored to present to you the Single Premiere for the brand new Phe track: Adrift! 

For some the new single Adrift might scratch that King Buffalo itch or quench the Kal-El urge... But for all Adrift will feel like the right word, for this how Phe pulls the listener in. You are not dropped into a song, but it is slowly untethering from gravity. The new single moves slowly through the cosmos as it mirrors the psychonaut on board's half remembered journey through a heat-hazed desert night. Riffs arrive in slow waves rather than clean edges and support the collapsing dreamscapes. Hypnotic repetition beomes the kind of spell that pulls everything inward as time seems to stretch outwards... 

Guitars blur into shimmering spacey haze, sometimes crushing down like tectonic plates, sometimes dissolving into distant echoing lights. The rhythm section steadies it all, not driving, but drifting through the currents like the vessel we are all bound in. Vocals cut through like transmissions from another time, human, pained, but slightly removed, effects leaving you no choice but to trust the guide as you transverse along....  

Adrift is heavy, but weightless at the very same time... A slow orbit, through dust, distortion and an endless open expanse. Surrender is the only way forward... 

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Phe – Phe 

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!

The Doom Charts for October 2023

 

DOOM CHARTS

OCTOBER 2023

“Don’t take away the music
It’s the only thing I’ve got
It’s my piece of the rock…”

~ Tavares

Nobody can listen to more than a fraction of all the music ever released, during their lifetime. And even the amount of music being released on a daily basis in what we have started calling the Heavy Underground is already so immense, it remains forever completely and totally awe-inspiring. It was the main reason Lucas started the Doom Charts back in 2015. To somehow try and get many of the ones that dive into that massive ocean of heaviness on a daily basis, and who write, blurb or podcast about what they discover somewhere on the internet, all grouped together. So, that together, they could possibly make some sort of list of the most important ones. Ofcourse, music is totally subjective and the Heavy Underground is of course another tribe, which inspires tribalism. It is one part of why there are so many glowing reviews about the albums we listen to. Cause even us outsiders, who finally found an every growing niche the feel at home in, do want to belong to this lovely tribe of heavy rock fiends. Or at least I do. Another, perhaps even more important reason is what we started the intro with. There is so much music! So, why bother listening to the albums you don’t love so much and why write about those, when you can profess your love for the ones you do. Well, below, those amazing girls and boys that make up the Doom Charts cabal do just that. They selected the albums they loved from the past month, sent in their lists and wrote a few words of praise… A Top 40 of amazing records, all of which deserve every bit of your attention… Go check’m out! Check’m all out!

There she is! In all it's blazing glory! Spreading like dragon fire! What a wild and wonderful month October was... Once again! All forty on this list are stunning...

Of the ones that made it, personal votes went out to: Howling Giant, Bahboon, MOOCH, Occult Hand Order, Phe, The Heavy Minds, Morag Tong, Vanishing Kids, Aiwass, wolf prayer, The Silver Linings, The Sound of Origin, Bismut, Lucid Sins, Giant Lungs, Ego Planet , DUSK, Purple Kong & Death Chant

And we already wrote something about the new: Bismut, Occult Hand Order, Phe, Morag Tong, The Silver Linings & The Sound of Origin !

But I could have voted for all of them, and should have! Will be checking my list first to see listen to the ones I voted for that unfortunately did not make it...

Before starting the rundown with Number 40: SPECK!

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 October 2023

 

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

 

 

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

Doomherre
Occult Hand Order
Jesus Chrüsler Supercar
Vokonis
Bismut
Phe
White Tundra
Ghorot
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Passenger

And another week gone. Had to travel myself so had limited time to HiVe, but soon thing will pick up again! You bet your ass! But still, we listened to some awesome stuff and we can’t wait to start work again on the all-new October edition of the Doom Charts! Only a few days away! What was your favorite October release?

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

 

 

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

Jacket Thief
Bismut
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Acid Throne
Dirty Sound Magnet
Dead Feathers
Saturna
Phe
The Rolling Stones
Rival Sons

Another week in the books. One filled with hectic scrambling to get certain articles done in time. And one filled with a sadness in our bones that we couldn’t attend DesertFest Antwerp this year. But luckily we had so much great music to listen to again! To get us through it all… And hey, Helldorado festival is just around the corner! Plus, whenever Kyle, Reek and even Doktor420 deliver something for the HiVe we always love that week! Did you listen to Bigstrut yet? Or Phe? Or Tumanduumband’s Throne of Grief release? And Doktor420 wrote about his experiences listening to Visite du Temple Inné by Crabe. And since Doktor420 writes something once every two years, this must be something you need to listen to as well! Enjoy the new week! And all that new and heavy music!

Phe - Nothing Else Is Real

 

 

Phe - Nothing Else Is Real
Self-released - October 2023
Stoner rock, blues, grunge
Rated: ****

The Netherlands' well-kept secret that is Phe should be well-kept no longer, if their newest album "Nothing Else Is Real" has anything to say about it. This is an immaculate, patient record, one that unfolds with dark grooves and spacious soundscapes that gently reel the listener in, and before you know it you're immersed til the end. Opener and hook-heavy track "Mirror The Ghost" kicks things off with crunching, deliciously desert-rock riffs, driving forward beneath the band's iconic, full-throated vocal delivery. Following cut "Saviour" brings in some stoner stomp with a touch of boogie, but in hindsight these first two tracks are almost red herrings,  the epic centerpiece that is "The Age Of The Misunderstood" hits. Over the course of 12 minutes, Phe craft a beautiful, longform stoner opus. Each note is given its due time, perfectly placed to build into a slight chug under soaring licks, while the drums are tight as can be, laying down a steady bedrock as the tune expands outwards and upwards into increasingly psychedelic territory. It'd be easy enough to write a whole review of just those 12 minutes, but Phe continue to deliver the goods with moody, muscular numbers "Broken Thoughts" and "We Are" to close out the album with added heft. "Nothing Else Is Real" is an accomplished, nuanced record that's made with a painstaking attention to detail, delivering a dark and magnificent vision of stoner rock. Bravo, Phe.

(Written by Kyle SB / Shastabeast)

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

 

 

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

DeWolff
The Silver Linings
Phe
Kadabra
Kambodsja
Morag Tong
Baroness
Ritual King
Robots of the Ancient World
Spider Kitten

G’morn! We used to do this little tom-tom write up at the bottom of the weekly list. And we shall try to start that up again. A sort of glance back on the week that has passed. So, as we are still recovering from the Phe album release party from Saturday, that was a good party! We’ll try to keep it short and sweet… September had a gazillion great releases; and October is shaping up to be the same. And we hope to write a few words about a handful of them. Last week we mentioned those two Umbra albums, by Gévaudan and Kadabra. We wrote something about Spider Kitten, The Silver Linings and Morag Tong. And we were extremely happy to see Reek of STOOM write something cool about Tumanduumband and Kyle SB about 10% Reptile. If you haven’t had the chance yet, scroll down or visit the blog to read up on those. Later on today, we’ll have another one by Kyle SB going live! But for now, we’re gonna try and get a bit of sunlight and see if we can get that head straight after that wild Phe party!

Phe - Album Release Party

 

 

Phe - Album Release Party

Phe - Nothing Else Is Real

Tonight at Nirwana, Lierop, Netherlands… The album release party for the new Phe album! You probably been spinning it all week since Nothing Else Is Real came out on bandcamp, or perhaps even since Outlaws Of The Sun premiered it a few days earlier? Well, tonight you can see these cats live! ‘Get that urge again, and feel your good eye get shot…’  

Doors open at 20.00, two pre-shows by Sons of Dew and Humans Screaming Like Goats.

Get your tickets HERE

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Phe – Nothing Else Is Real

 

 

Phe – Nothing Else Is Real

We were honored to host the premiere for the new EP’s first single Saviour! And we were extremely excited to read that first review, coming in hot of the press on Outlaws Of The Sun just yesterday. But now, today, Outlaws Of The Sun is hosting the world wide premiere for Nothing Else Is Real by Phe! Go check out those five tracks and almost forty minutes of groove and heavy riffs!

Phe – Nothing Else Is Real

Out on October 7th...

Now premiering over on your friendly neighborhood blog:

Outlaws Of The Sun !

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

 

 

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

Phe
Rrrags
Travo
Fire Down Below
Domkraft
Sonic Moon
Haurun
TFNRSH
Demons My Friends
Van Groover

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

 

 

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

My Sleeping Karma
Seedy Jeezus
Besvärjelsen
Foo Fighters
Extreme
Mothman and The Thunderbirds
Phe
The Ocean
Vinnum Sabbathi
Alain Johannes

This list should have gone up on Monday ofcourse, but we were too busy getting the Pinkpop report written. And since we also forgot to publish this list the week before, the above ten artists are in fact the list we listened to the most the past two weeks. But we reckon, proper HiVe work and updates will be on the agenda again soon!