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!

Rival Sons – Lightbringer

 

 

Rival Sons – Lightbringer
Atlantic / Warner – 2023
Rock, Hard, Seventies, Blues
Rated: ****

We all knew this one was coming, because they said so when they released their other album Darkfighter, the other side of this coin, back around June. Which meant a glorious return for Rival Sons. And this new, six songs strong, release called Lightbringer will only cement that return. Over thirty minutes of more tough and ballsy Rival Sons hardrock. The release starts paradoxically enough with the track called Darkfighter, which is heavenly and blissful all almost nine minutes long. A roller coaster that takes of slowly, goes through all these maddening curves, before coming to that explosive end section. Emotional and heartfelt vocals, unsteady and honest, take you towards some of the best singing you might hear this year. And you already heard those amazing eight tracks from that earlier album sporting the amazing talent of vocalist Jay Buchanan. This takes all that up a notch. The entire composition of that one track rivals all you heard from Rival Sons before. The acoustic and electric, with the seemingly chaotic dance, flamenco and seventies blues duking it out, the transition into something more sixties oriented, the Hammond punctuating that special evolution, that change is gonna come sentiment, and the absolute intense conclusion. One of the best songs to be released this year. It is also the song that sheds light on why Rival Sons decided to release two albums, for this one shines in a different way, immediately. It casts off the shadow and doubt prevalent on that other album, it dares to state that the positive surge that you could feel underneath the tracks on the Darkfighter album, will be here from now on. And that is true for the rest of the album. If you are not convinced, just listen to that final track Mosaic, unapologetic in what they aim to achieve with this song, you can just feel the surge of energy that is behind it all. That green light slowly drawing nearer, hopes and dreams alive and fulfillment within grasp. It is all encompassing and all that Lightbringer conveys… And all we can possibly need...

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The Doom Charts For June 2023

 

 

Doom Charts

“Heavy music will not be contained. Heavy music breaks free. Heavy music expands to new territories. It crashes through barriers. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But, err, there it is, heavy music finds a way…”

~ Ian Malcolm

Here we are with the brand-new June 2023 edition of the Doom Charts. Featuring no less than 40 fresh and minty albums. Quite a few self-released albums charted the Top 25 this edition, which always warms our heart. But to our regret and sorrow we must lament, quite a few albums that aren’t featured on Bandcamp are also high on the list. We don’t want to keep singing the praise of Bandcamp continuously, but it works like a charm and has become a definite cornerstone of the Heavy Underground. Right? So, we do wonder why those bands do not take advantage of said platform. It’s another and much-loved way to get the word out on your glorious new album. But hey, those albums which can be heard online, can be heard online here, just scroll down and press play on all those thirty-six amazing new albums. Cause they rose to the top of 272 albums that received votes this month. And those other four? Well, the cool Rob Hammer features one on his Youtube channel… Another one can be found on Headbanger Channel and for the others, well, the Heavy Underground will find a way… Cause heavy, errr, all good music always finds a way…

It's got a bite and it's got a bark! And no, it's not a dinosaur... It's the June 2023 Doom Charts!!

And featuring at least 13 albums I voted for... To wit: Saint Karloff, BLACK RAINBOWS, Snakemother, Lamassu, Queens of the Stone Age, Mammatus, ROYAL THUNDER, Yawning Man, mouth, The Dirty Seeds, RIVAL SONS, From The Ages & New Dawn Fades...

Gonna be listening to The Slow Voyage now and working my way all the way to Number One in the next few days...   

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 June 2023

Rival Sons – Darkfighter

 

Rival Sons – Darkfighter
Atlantic / Warner – 2023
Rock, Hard, Blues, Seventies
Rated: ****

The eight tracks on the new Rival Sons album Darkfighter will be followed up this year with another release called Lightbringer. The duo of records are the result of all the hard work the band put in during the pandemic. In fact, they’re the first albums they wrote outside of the studio, sending pieces back and forth and writing about all they experienced and saw while the world was spiraling through the lockdowns and twisting through all the cultural division in their home country. They’ve always been on our radar but some reason we only ever mentioned their 2016 album Hollow Bones. Al lot of atrabilious and melancholy songs about loss and darkness, wolves at the door and death calling. Only a couple of more hopeful songs are allowed to shine their light on Darkfighter. But really shining, are the compositions, the guitar work and of course, as always the case with vocalist Jay Buchanan, the vocals. Recorded by Dave Cobb in Nashville, Rival Sons manages to glow most whenever their hardrock is allowed to go off into whatever territory they want. The slower, still soulful, tracks lack a bit of urgency and sparkle. Bright Light for instance just sort of meanders on, perfect for a moment of rest but, when you know there are also tracks like closing track Darkside on the album, you will surely be listening to that side more. With acoustic parts, the beastly groove that offsets it, turning every dynamic rabbit out of every rocking magic hat, Darkside is one of the highlights on an amazing album. And even though there is darkness and melancholy here, you can feel the positive message that seems to be surging underneath and when that final Darkside tracks slowly dies away, it will leave you with a feeling of hope and gratitude. Thank you Rival Sons.

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Wonderlove – When The Vultures Die

 

Wonderlove – When The Vultures Die

An old band that disbanded and in part thanks to the pandemic got back together to work on a a new album. It is Wonderlove! Featuring members of Rival Sons and Perfect Beings the album will come out around October. When The Vultures Die is the lead single and video to their upcoming album All Of The Nightmares. Check it out!

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Rival Sons – Hollow Bones

Rival Sons – Hollow Bones

Earache – 2016

Rock, Hard, Blues, Seventies

Rated: ****

There’s no denying the fact that when it comes to traditional rock bands, Rival Sons are definitely performing their mixture of hardrock, blues and seventies inspired songs among the very best of the best. Their new album Hollow Bones is once a testament to that fact. Still referencing to the great Zeppelin and some Humble Pie here or Aerosmith there the new record is something definitely a brainchild of the Sons themselves. Highly dynamic rock that flows superbly into modest and subdued passages before exploding on occasion into wild sceneries of howling guitars and screaming vocals. And they don’t shy away from also paying homage to the rhythm and blues of old, just listen to Black Coffee. But we reckon opener Hollow Bones Pt1, Pretty Face or Fade Out will probably be more to the liking of all the wild ones out there, the ones who need to go berserk and screech along after one of those slower parts. I guess they might have a problem with quite a few of the slower songs, just as with the closing huge ballad All I Want. Which is definitely intensely emotional and pure musical gold. And well, we don’t have a problem with that at all! Not one bit…

(Written by JK)

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