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

 

 

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

Desert Colossus
Stargo
Bismut
Misty Route
Black Toaster
Oven
New Dawn Fades
Okay You Win
Purple Lung
Sons of Node

Been running around like a headless chicken, seen days turn to nights and Monday suddenly thrust upon us! Well, let’s have a quick glance back at what happened on the HiVe and hope to do more this week. You check out Gjenferd yet? Great seventies rock! Got tickets for RippleFest Texas? Or HufrFest, happening almost next week? Hope so! If not, get inspired by the instrumental beauty that is Bismut! Get electrified by Devil Electric and mystified by Misty Route! And if all that isn’t enough, make sure to revisit that Quick Fire Friday segment done by Ronny Dijksterhuis, eight gloriously heavy bands there! So, check’m out! All of’m! Have a great week! 

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

 

 

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

Blunt Knife Castration
Kal-El
Hermano
Phantom Druid
Psychlona
OogWei
Grave Disgrace
Purple Lung
Riastrad
Big Oaf

Morning! Hope you had a great week? We did! For it was the week in which we saw Kardeathian for the first time live. A sound that maneuvered between moments of Acid King and Los Natas, but overal felt like a slow trek through the swamp. Muddy, morose and monotonous. The final song had them opening up more, the sound coming into its own, groove and flow rising to the top. Hope to see them live again and am extremely interested in what they will sound like on record. Which will be released later this year. And we saw an incredibly tight Psychlona on the first night of their European tour. Holy hell, the outfit has become a machine! And the vocals sat perfect in the mix, taking the audience on every adventure Psychlona had planned for the night. Go see them if you can! 

 It was also a Doom Charts week last week, which means we started listening to the entire list of forty albums again after it was published. Getting all the way to Grave Disgrace yesterday and continuing on with Fátima today. So many great release! And there were way more, cause the Contributors voted for 200 different ones. Wow. We managed to have a few posts up last week and we got a few almost done for this week. But before new ones go live, let’s look back at Ronny Dijksterhuis’s write up for Druid Stone! The Doom Charts post. Words on the new Urlaub in Polen, Prophets of Thwaites and Purple Lung. And to that single premiere we did for Morrison Graves. And we might just do another premiere this week as well… Better check regularly! Ho ho ho. But seriously, thank you all for the continued support. We are honored and humbled that you crazies out there check in from time to time and spend that valuable time reading our silly words. Much love! And please help spread that everything Heavy Underground related. It’s why we do this thing… 

Purple Lung – Mystic Vision

 

 

Purple Lung – Mystic Vision
Self released – 2026
Metal, Doom, Stoner, Fantasy
Rated: ****

Steel gets sharpened. And then, from the first strike of Blademaster to the fading echoes of Dreamwalker’s Lament, the Mystic Vision album unfolds like a proscribed chronicle etched in smoke and fire. Delivered by Pennsylvanian foursome Purple Lung, they charge forward with blade sharp riffs and pounding doom rhythms, turning your world into mythical fable, before bending time itself in Annihilation of Time, before descending into shadowed rituals of Digging Up Snakes. The album prowls through swamp born Witcher curses in Beware The Bog Witch and ominous paranoia beneath The Watchful Eye, weaving occult storytelling into waves of psychedelic metal. 

At it’s core, Mystic Vision balances their metal, with crushing stoner grooves, gothic atmosphere, doom tones and flashes of thrash fueled urgency. And above it float the gritty, soulful voice of Toni Pennello who guides the listener like a battle-worn prophet. Always evoking a feeling of danger and you will never feel safe in her custody. The hypnotic pulse of Hum Of The Ancients and the engulfing weight of Swallowed By The Sea deepen the descent, culmination in the onslaught, and monstrous hunger of Desethos, The Starved. And after the 2022 Demo, that featured two of the songs in infant form, and a few two-tracks, this debut feels like they’ve arrived at the edge of the labyrinth. And now, with Mystic Vision, they call out to everyone who dares, to join them on a dark and epic journey… Sharpen your blades! 

(Written by JK)

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