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

 

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

Void King
Thammuz
Mandy Manala
Red Eye
Billy Rudin
Ghost
Ball
Miss Lava
Tier
Brathair

Good morning! A new week is once again upon us, a week that will see the April Doom Charts go live. Did you manage to be a part of the Doom Charts Friday Freebie madness? Free codes were strewn like confetti last Friday. Hope you caught something. There were definitely some posts last week. Jon McGough came out swinging with a brilliant write-up about a brilliant album called Lifted From The Wind by Temple Fang. We wrote about Thammuz, Motorpsycho, Ghost, Tier, Void King and put up songs or videos by Museums, Lorquin’s Admiral, Sour Blood and Dozer. We were honored to bring you the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Void Kings’ The Hidden Hymnal: Chapter 2 and extremely grateful to receive a gift from the Grey Czar guys. Euarthropodia on Orange vinyl, and I have thing for Orange vinyl.. Marvelous! A week that in review looks busy enough. Well, let’s hope for a similar one this week. We’ll see, cause we still have some big stuff to finish up as well…

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Thammuz – III

 

 

Thammuz – III
Argonauta Records
Rock, Metal, Stoner, Sludge
Rated: *****

After the debut album Into The Great Unknown from 2020 and Sons Of The Occult from 2022, Thammuz is back with their third full-sized album, and they aptly titled it: III. And with this new album the Dutch foursome become fearsome and solidify the Thammuz sound with blood and fuzz. Nine tracks oozing atmosphere and thunderous grooves. Songs like Ishtar, final track Devil’s Gallow or the interlude Risen, give III so much color and scenery that it widens the arc of every other track as well. Something you might not immediately expect when that quaking fuzz drenched When Darkness Comes opens the ball. A midtempo groove drags the listener along cobblestone bass work and nasal vocals before the guitar lifts it all towards a higher plain. Cutting to a meandering solo that slowly but surely turns the set up for the final rampaging stretch of darkness. Thammuz has entered the building! Following Old Man starts out anxious and luring you into the expectation of another blow-out but turns on its head and into a more dynamic and slow burning groove. Almost contemplative as the guitar rolls away from the sparing vocal lines that give you the perfect amount of thoughts to take with you, as the roll out becomes a rising tide and a final splash. Which you can imagine going higher, rising more and going on much longer when performed live. The earlier mentioned Ishtar sees Thammuz waltz with another Mesopotamian god, slowly dissolving the gloom and showing nothing but gauzy silhouettes of the magical beings they are. Transfixed you listen to the dance and the movie snippets that cut through the haze. It is beautifully done and the transition into Bloodlust, turns the songs into a two-headed beast that shimmers with beauty and fierceness. Together they seem to become the centerpiece to this wonderful new album, showing much growth for the Thammuz four. Cause their fuzzy and gritty stoner sound was already written cuneiform on a tablet, but this opens up their view point, widens the vista, both showing a different form of restraint and force. Like death and rising, like destroying and bringing to life, Thammuz is all about those ancient rites. Till all that faint air is troubled with song… All record and all night long…  

(Written by JK)

You can listen to first single When Darkness Comes right now! 

The full III album by Thammuz comes out on Argonauta Records on the 9th of May

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Doktor420’s – Personal Top 20

 

 

Doktor420’s – Personal Top 20

It’s the good Doktor420’s Personal Top 20. The Guru himself blesses us with his Top 25. And was struggling to keep it to that minimum. So, these are the good Doktor420’s Personal Top 25 albums of 2022, it’s what he prescribes. For a good time and for reflecting on what 2022 brought us all musically. Best be listening to them all then! Soon it might also appear on the Doom Charts; cause as you know we all are involved with that gang. But, it’s here first… Check’m all out!

1. King Buffalo - Regenerator

2. Desert Wave - Deafening Silence

3. Psychlona - Palo Verde

4. Elder - Innate Passage

5. Korb - III

6. Electric Yawn - YTINASNiNSIGHT

7. Sweet Cobra - Threes

8. Papir - 7

9. Naxatras - IV

10. Kombynat Robotron - Dickfehler Studio Treffen II

11. Red Sun Atacama - D A R W I N

12. Odonata - Gravitational Perturbation

13. The Swell Fellas - Novaturia

14. Thammuz - Sons Of The Occult

15. Samavayo - Payan

16. Dead Meadow - Force Form Free

17. Sergeant Thunderhoof - The Screpted Veil

18. Wo Fat - The Singularity

19. Somali Yacht Club - The Space

20. Half Gramme of Soma - Slip Through the Cracks

21. Charley No Face - Eleven Thousand Volts

22. High Noon Kahuna - Killing Spree

23. Pariahlord - Vultures

24. Liquid Earth - Teufelskreis

25. Kanaan - Diversions Vol. 1 Softly Through Sunshine

Alunah - Strange Machine
Astrosaur - Portals
Band Of Spice - How We Play The Game
Beak˃ - Kosmik Musik
Besvärjelsen - Atlas
Black Angels - Wilderness of Mirrors
Black Capricorn - Cult of Blood
Brutus - Unison Life
CB3 - Exploration
Chivo - Ouroboros
Church of The Cosmic Skull - There Is No Time
Demonauta - Low Melodies About Chaos
Desert Queen - Inner Desert
Dhidalah - Sensoria 認識
Ealdor Bealu - Psychic Forms
Edena Gardens - Edena Gardens
El Peyote - El Peyote
Electric Moon & Kungens Män & ElonMusk & Kanaan - International Space Station vol.1
Gaupa - Myriad
Geezer - Stoned Blues Machine
God Is An Astronaut - Somnia
Godzilla In The Kitchen - Exodus
Gondhawa - Mäanthagorī EP
Grand Mal - The Grand Mal II
Gray Goo - 1943
Greenbeard - Variant
Hebi Katana - Impermanence-無常
Hellacopters - Eyes Of Oblivion
HWDU - Better You Than Me
Killing Joke - Lord of Chaos EP
Klaus Schulze - Deus Arrakis
Kryptograf - The Eldorado Spell
Les Lekin - Limbus
Long Distance Calling - Eraser
Mecanicos - Nomade
Messa - Close
Minami Deutsch - Fortune Goodies
Miscellen - Black Mandala I
Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts
Mud Spencer - In Mud We Trust
My Sleeping Karma - Atma
Onségen Ensemble - Realms
Russian Circles - Gnosis
Sasquatch - Fever Fantasy
Sisteria - Dark Matter
Son Cesano - Emerge
Soonago - Fathom
Stoned Karma - A Maze In The Clouds EP
Stoned Karma - Age Of Oblivion
Stonerhenge - Eternal Explorer
Strangers With Guns - All Pleasure Is Just Relief
Surfsquatch - Planet Neptune
Swörn - Keshan
Tangerine Dream - Raum
Temple Fang - Jerusalem ̸ The Bridge EP
Tigers On Opium - 503.420.6669.vol two EP
Torpedo Torpedo - The Kuiper Belt Mantras EP
Torrents - Dual Fates
Toundra - Hex
Valley of the Sun - The Chariot
Vitskär Süden - The Faceless King
Void Cruiser - Call of the Void
White Hills - The Revenge Of Heads On Fire
ZOAHR - Apraxia

The Doom Charts for November 2022

 

 

Doom Charts

“I see The Doom Charts…” “In your dreams? While you’re awake? How often do you see them?” “All the time. They’re everywhere…”

I see the Doom Charts… But luckily we see them only once a month. On the First Friday of every month, the new edition of the Doom Charts go up. It doesn’t feel like they’re everywhere and all the time, right? There is no Doom Charts overkill is there? Cause even though we do the Friday Freebie sessions and we do the Peroration Post, we try to limit the amount of Doom Charts posts. Cause we’re only here to try and guide you all to albums that comes straight out of the Heavy Underground and that we feel need to be heard by everyone… Sure, there are some big names among them, sometimes. Or big names to the Heavy Underground ears. But the Contributors all feel that the albums we vote for every month, should be heard by everyone. And there is so much. There really and truly is. This month, 221 different albums, all received votes. That’s another 181 albums that aren’t featured among the forty below. And soon, the year-end-lists will start appearing. All of them listing the top albums of 2022. And if you consider the fact that we all keep discovering new amazing albums from past months and past years as well… We can only conclude that we live in amazing times, musically speaking… If only we could get our act together on all the different fronts as well.. Than we all would truly be rocking! But hey, below, especially for you, the esteemed heads from the Heavy Underground, are the November 2022 Doom Charts, with 37 brand new entries to rock out to! Go rock! Go roll!

I see the brand new November Doom Charts...

And they're not scary at all! Hell no, they're awesome... Featuring 40 amazing albums straight out of the heavy underground... Personal votes that made it, went out to:

Elder, GAUPA, WARLUNG, Vitskär Süden, Witchfinder, Onségen Ensemble, Cowboys & Aliens, Desert Wave, High Noon Kahuna, Grandier, Thammuz, Astrosaur, The Otolith, Odonata, Dune Sea, Black Mirrors & The Grand Mal

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 November 2022  

Thammuz – Sons Of The Occult

 

 

Thammuz – Sons Of The Occult
Argonauta Records – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Metal, Hardrock, Psych
Rated: *****

Storming out of the gates with the thrilling, fuzz ridden, stoner trucking, opener Electric Sheep, we get ready for the wild ride that is the new album Sons Of The Occult by Dutch foursome Thammuz. We set our course for the desert, that landscape accustomed to the relentless golden rays. And with sublime touches of doom and a stoner metal much of the album will rock every heavy rock loving fiend to their very core; but perhaps it’s the standout tracks of Guayota and Self-Taught Man that sets this album apart from the rest. Far apart in fact… Guayota, starts off with guitars painting a sundried, windswept landscape, slowly building towards a more smoke ridden mountainous sound. You suspect a majestic eruption, an intense explosion, but the controlled ride turns out to be the master stroke that Thammuz pulls out of its bag. Which they do on more tracks along the way, always having the listener on the edge of their seat, kicking it in overdrive when you least expect it or pulling back as soon as you start hoping for that blow out satisfaction. Self-Taught Man, quirky in subject, starts with that languid bop and stroll rhythm that you expect a grand track about a night on the town to have; but this is a different kind of night on the town. The fuzzed out, muddy middle section serves as a set up for the fulfillment that comes once the body has been dispensed. Not a killer by default, it sounds like the vocalist went out of his way to learn how to murder. Can you hear his nonchalant and casual killer demeanor? Can you hear that slithering sleaze? Are you lusting for a nice Chianti as well now? Sons Of The Occult is more eclectic than debut effort Into The Great Unknown, building on all that stoner groove they already possessed and leisurely dancing into all these different colorful cul-de-sac’s to see what they can find there. And you know the thing about cul-de-sac’s, danger lurks, knives get pulled and you might end up with more money than you had with you in the first place. Thammuz have delivered an amazing follow-up to their debut! All hail their far out fuzzy growth! All hail Thammuz! Especially since we’re also able to share a few bandcamp codes with you all… Just scroll down and thank Thammuz!

(Written by JK)

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

 

 

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

Ruby The Hatchet
Thammuz
Black Space Riders
Lazer Beam
Sahg
Acid Witch
The Chop (Ghostbeef)
Abrams
All Souls
Band of Spice

After returning for my little holiday in England, work got the upper hand and limited time was there to do any work for Stoner HiVe or Doom Charts… But once the Doom Charts hits, you can bet your ass, nothing will stop me from running through all those majestic albums once again! And now, as a new week lies before us, we hope we have a tiny bit more time to HiVe, but it might be difficult this week. Next week looks glorious, like a hopeful light at the end of the tunnel…

The Doom Charts for October 2022

 

 

Doom Charts

“Yo, when is the November Charts? I can’t live like this!”

~ Sifir Rakam

“I can’t get into doomcharts here in the UK!? The most recent entry is for 3 Wheeler Band, that Halloween posting. Has something got stuck or …?”

~ Paul Hennelly

The amount of emails and messages we received from all of you in distress about what was keeping the new Doom Charts were heartwarming. Even though we reckoned we made it abundantly clear that the publishing date for the Doom Charts had moved from the 1st of every month to the 1st Friday of every month. This would enable more Contributors to do more work for the Doom Charts and might give more credit to albums released on the final days of the month… And there are so many albums released monthly, during the whole month and on those final days that it still often feels unbearable to not be able to pay attention to them all… Below are 38 all NEW heavy rock albums! Thirthy-eight, but any shift in votes might have resulted in a different version. Cause I don’t know if you’ve seen some of the lists the Contributors posted on their own sites? Many have only a handful or perhaps a few more than a handful of votes for the same albums. And yes, you can safely bet that those other records on their respectives lists are stunning as well… Sometimes it feels wrong to not do even more for those albums, but I guess the Doom Charts are purely here to state clearly that the ones listed here, those Forty albums, of the 268 that received votes this month, are the absolute cream of the crop. The cherries on the doom pie, the pick of the heavy litter, the albums filled with every stoner bell and psychedelic whistle you can wish for… And when they arrive with such a loud bang as this months Number One… You can bet your furry little ass that it’s something special! It’s the First Friday of the Month and it’s the October Doom Charts! 

The October Doom Charts just went live! 

The first time we publish on the First Friday of the month... Which we will do henceforth... The Doom Charts, featuring forty heavy rock albums all ready to rock your world! Personal votes that made the list went out to:

All Souls, Black Space Riders, Elder, Liquid Earth, King Buffalo, Sahg, Black Math Horseman, Red Mess, Lágoon, Faith In Jane, Thammuz, Near Dusk, Psychonaut, Half Gramme Of Soma, Ruby The Hatchet and The Otolith...

And we shall spin all Forty of them in a row again! Starting with awesome Vampiric Visions Vol. I: Living Blood album by Lady Luna And The Devil! Go find your new favorite one or share the ones you feel should have been on the Charts!?!

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 2022 

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

 

 

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

Elder
Speedmobile
Near Dusk
Thammuz
Red Mess
LáGoon
Psychonaut
The Grand Mal
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The Otolith

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

Another week has passed and we have time for another Quick Fire Friday round. Biggest news of the week? King Buffalo is set to release three new full-sized albums! Now here’s a band that really made the most of the pandemic year! Well done! Three hooray’s! And I really can’t wait to hear all three! But until that time and for now we just have to move on with this thing called Quick Fire Friday. Cause we just want to get the word out on as much of it as possible and we do not have the time to do things in better way. Cause we know, we know, the albums and bands deserve more than the few words we will jot down here. More attention and more of our time! But there is so much out there and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is. The Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday! And its burns hot like molten lava!

Yo No Se – Black Door

In a week or two the new title track single and video will land for the Terraform album by Bristol grunge trio Yo No Se. And trust us, that single is just as awesome as the Black Door single released two weeks ago. And trust us, so is the rest of the album! Which was mastered by Jack Endino.

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The Dev – Shameless Life

I’ll bite! And I hope Nikollaj Leshi does as well! Hottdamn! The new The Dev single Shameless Life sports a shameless glamorous video and some wild drum work! Female fronted metal from dead center Florida, which has an LA edge and something extremely poppy vocals floating over some intense riffage. Sweet and sour all mixed into one perfect cocktail!

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Barbason – Demo

Wanna hear something extremely cool? Go check out the two track demo by new Dutch stoner metal outfit Barbason. Comprised out of members from Thammuz, Black Valley, Stone In Egypt and Black Burned Blimp there something highly atavistic yet cosmic to the two track available on the Bandcamp site and even more so to that studio jam on the youtube video. Dang! Can’t wait to hear more!

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LMI / Vulturepeak – Split album

We still spin the shit out of the Excess Subconscious album, that L.M.I album released through Handstand Records and Maniyax Records back around June 2020. But the crazies just released a new split album with another insanely heavy outfit called Vulturepeak. Punk, hardcore, stoner, sludge, noise and screamo all nicely rolled into one package. One package that will pummel you senseless!

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Cross This Bridge – In Between

Cross This Bridge is a band based in Bratislava, Slovakia, but is a truly international cooperation with members from Slovakia, Italy and Switzerland. In Between is the first single for their first five track EP. Metal with a measured amount of epic, very open and very dynamic. Very charming indeed!

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Thammuz – Into The Great Unknown

 

 

Thammuz – Into The Great Unknown
Self released – 2020
Rock, Stoner, Metal, Psych
Rated: ****

Comprised out of members from Dreckneck and Fuzzboar, this newest Dutch incarnation of the heavy stuff is called Thammuz and their debut album Into The Great Unknown. The album was released in November 2020, jumped to the Number 2 position of the Doom Charts that month and has been spinning ever since. Grainy, stoney and dusty grooves all propelled by intense hardrock or metal riffs; psychedelic touches and the expert use of effects and snippets make this one hell of a ride into the unknown. We’ve got fast paced stompers, heavy trucking propellers and electric Kool-Aid burners like Slow. They all bring something different to the table; but they’re all done expertly well. All of it is very powerful stuff, nods to Kyuss or Monster Magnet are as satisfyingly unsettling as their modern take on all that goodness that came from the desert. Wild riffs, intense bass work and explosive drums all detonate with incandescent fuzzy splendor. Heavier, moodier and better. I guess, sometimes a new outfit might truly be more than the sum of their parts.

(Written by JK)

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

 

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

Causa Sui
Starmonger
Witchwood
Wytch Hazel
Electric Hydra
Thammuz
Big Oaf
Creston Spiers
Gone Is Gone
Sun Crow

As we approach the start of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020, we will be gone for a few days. Just a day or two... No trek to the mountain or anything far; just a few days at the North Sea to try and blow away most of that annoying 2020 stuff. You know what we mean! But only that, and not one note of all those amazing albums released throughout the year. Those will stay with us forever! The November Doom Charts went live last week which colors our Most Listened Albums Last Week list. And Steve Howe and his Outlaws Of The Sun pointed us in the direction of Creston Spiers new release Brown Dwarf and he also reminded us to listen to the new Gone Is Gone album If Everything Happens for a Reason... Then Nothing Really Matters at All... A twisted release befitting the title… And all of them are equally stunning! Go check’m out, check’m all out!

The Doom Chart for November 2020

 

Doom Charts

“You’ll never lose you’re mind as long as you’re heart always reminds you where you left it...” ~ Mike Cooley (Drive-By Truckers)

I don’t know about you, but 2020 has made it hard to remember where we left our minds. Luckily, as evidenced by our monthly chart, the heavy underground music scene has a huge heart and maintained its focus on releasing more killer music than ever before. November finds us with 20 Doom Charts debuts and 5 repeats from month’s prior. Dig in and let us know what you love and what we missed.

The November edition of the Doom Charts went live a couple of hours ago! A few of my personal votes went out to Thammuz, KARKARA, Ruff Majik, Starmonger, Murcielago, BIG OAF, 10 Code and The Absurd! But all the others are equally amazing, gonna start playing the Doom Charts at the Number One position for a change... Sun Crow's Quest For Oblivion starts now! Just read the blurb by Patrick: "Wielding a molten take on blackened blues, high upon wings of  existential doom and proto metal, this album oozes molasses-like  sweltering groove. These contents are heady, lysergically laced and  outright otherworldly at times but with morphing elements of aggressive  density giving way to gloomy, dismal virtuosity." How can you not immediately start listening?!

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and album 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 Chart for November 2020