The February 2024 Doom Charts – 40 to 26

 

 

The February 2024 Doom Charts – 40 to 26

Stoner Hype

This is what we do and did on our little Facebook page during the weekend after the new regular edition of the Doom Charts goes online. We count down from 40 to 26 and try to type in a few words about that album or ep that makes sense to us. It’s not a review; but usually a miniscule blurb, a little sentence to entice, to hype. A Stoner Hype… Well, we collected them here to post for you in one nice little post on the blog… Because we like to keep things nice and tidy and it helps us spread the good word about them on Instagram as well…

SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM – OF THE LAST HUMAN BEING

"And yes, we immediately pressed play on of the Last Human Being by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum when we pushed publish on the February Doom Charts... But we had already been listening to it since Stevie Reek had been raving about it incessantly for quite some time... So here's his BC blurb: "The Greatest resurrection of All-Time! A dazzling, extraordinary melee of Invention which runs the gamut of genres through Avantgarde, RIO and beyond! Impeccable musicianship and cohesion throughout!"

 

SHADES OF DEEP WATER – COLD HEART

"Kippis! Shades of Deep Water bring that blackened, frostbitten doom from the Finland wastes. Death-doom, with funeral touches and melodic spikes... It will not warm the soul, but it will surely let your COLD HEART creak and groan with pleasure..."

 

THE BLACK FLAMINGO – AN NUR

"We wrote about that The Black Flamingo album back in January...Which you can read here: REVIEW. Or you just press play and let your thoughts drift away on their instrumental psychedelic current.." 

 

THEM MOOSE RUSH – ZEPAXIA

"The off-kilter, alternative rocking, progressive loving, jazz toting, math inspired Them Moose Rush is back! And Zepaxia turns all the quirky into catchy! Perfect pop-prog for bopping down the streets and feeling funky!"

VERMINTHRONE – THE CULL

"The Cull, will cull the metalheads... For Verminthrone hits you with some filthy sludgecore, groove, doom and eighties metal inspired violence and thrash! Yes, yes, yes! Deemed worthy you shall be slamming around with best of metalheads for almost forty minutes in total!"

MISLEADING – FACE THE PSYCH

"You will go absolutely beserk and destroy furniture dancing around to this highly distorted kraut rockin madness! Psychedelic, doom touches, stonerrocking and space trucking noise from a totally different sonic dimension! Misleading will really make your head explode! I need to see these cats live!"

NIŠTA – NIŠTA

"ništa hails from Utrecht, Netherlands and gives you almost forty minutes of ethereal postrock, doom toned, melancholic and sad. It's an album about love that deserves to be love. And what better way to conclude that fact than by watching the honorable Scott Spiers from Cleanandsoberstoner gush for almost ten minutes and profess his love about this amazing debut album... Follow the youtube link to Cleanandsoberstoner."

 

 

THE PALADIN – COCKROACH CRUSADE

"Another band from Finland! The Paladin and their Cockroach Crusade give you fifty minutes of stonerrocking, progressive, metal touching and psychedelic wizardry. Perhaps the vocals can be a tad out of control here and there, but on every other front this debut album will capture your heart and sou! And them cockroaches in the cellar..."

SONS OF ZÖKU – ËNDLËSS

"Do you need some sunshine in your life? Check out the experimental, psychedelic, folk and world music splattered platter by SONS OF ZÖKU. Ëndlëss is filled with hypnotic chanting and sun-dappled spirituallity... These almost forty minutes of music will surely turn that frown upside down!"

WEEDOW – WEEDOW 

"We wrote about Weedow just yesterday... And we love their album! And had hoped to see it higher up on the Doom Charts... Read on what we wrote here: REVIEW."

 

GLITCHCRAFT – GLITCHCRAFT

"Straight from Tasmania comes the six-piece GlitchCraft. That’s right, they reside in Hobart, and that’s about as Down Under as you can get. On their self-titled debut album they turn all that progressive rock upside down, stick it with some metal touches, jazz, psych and punk to turn it all into this big funky fusion fest! That’s right, they themselves like to call it Party Prog and they got that moniker down to an art! Out on Psychedelic Salad Records since February 2nd, we have been going absolutely wild with GLITCHCRAFT!"

PONDDIGGER – PONDDIGGER

"PondDigger hails from Brodhead, Kentucky and brings a hailstorm of hazy, fuzzy doom and stoner. Their self-titled debut sports all that ten ton heavy good stuff! No stress, no seeds, no stems, no sticks! Some of that real sticky-icky-icky stoner doom!"

MOTOROWL – THIS HOUSE HAS NO CENTER

"Motorowl was high on my list for these February Doom Charts... Their prog rock, adds a bit of doom and metal and brings that sound into darker and ominous territories. Simply put, you need to hear this and then you will believe it. This House Has No Center and you can run around through these tracks forever and ever..."

STYGIAN CROWN – FUNERAL FOR A KING

"We continue the rundown today with Stygian Crown... Out on Cruz Del Sur Music their Funeral For A King album gives you almost forty-five minutes of absolute thundering doom metal with a slaying sludge ton, that clearly evokes images of everything classic metal! A million ton heavy machinal record that makes massive and gigantic sound like understatements..."

NEBULAS GARDEN – NEBULAS GARDEN

"Nebulas Garden is a slow builder, a slow grower, but in the end when you have been overrun, overgrown by all their psychedelic rock you cannot help but return to their sprawling universe over and over and over..."

Tune in next month when we do this Stoner Hype again for the number 40 to 26 of the March Doom Charts... But for now... Go listen to all of the 40 of February if you haven't already!

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

 

 

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

Slift
The Black Flamingo
High Leaf
Vermillion Whisky
Warp
Deadpeach
Modern Witchcraft
Sonic Moon
Deer Lord
Tropic Santos

We’re back from Austria and will soon be ready for action again… Only have to sift through about 300 emails on the Stoner HiVe account and a similar amount for the Doom Charts… Had a great snowboarding trip and listened to loads of Doom Charts Top 100 albums of 2023 over there, what a year it was, what quality! Let’s hope 2024 will bring a few as tasty as 2023 did! The list above is actually from the week before… And you know what time it is this Friday right? The first Friday of the new month, the Regular January Edition of the Doom Charts… All of you ready for it?

The Black Flamingo - An-Nûr

 

 

The Black Flamingo - An-Nûr
Subsound Records – 2024
Rock, Psych, Stoner, Instrumental
Rated: ***

They hail from Rome, Italy and have named their first full-sized album after ‘the light of the heavens and earth, and His light clarifies and reveals, both physically and spiritually!’. An-Nûr, the Light that is Allah. Now, I’m not a religious man in any form of religion and have a believe that everything is way bigger than any of the religions can possibly understand. And the fact that there are so many ‘different’ belief systems could of course be seen as a finger point in that direction. But none of that truly matters in that connect the dots great scheme of things, for whatever you choose to believe, it’s yours. And you should keep it that way. Hold on to it if it gives you comfort, or meaning and most importantly, love. Now, I am uncertain if the three from The Black Flamingo are religious or have attained deeper mystical knowledge thanks to a few Ayahuasca ceremonies, but after a first three track EP called Mictlan that deep dived into the South American belief system, I choose to believe that these three cats are in search of that bigger thing. That thing that connects everything. The one thing they will never attain, but to strife for it, is the entire reason for doing so. Can we hear that journey in their new six track album An-Nûr? I believe there is definitely a journey here, one that everyone can partake in. Six instrumental psychedelic offerings, that always spill some stoner rocking blood after going through atmospheric and almost post-rock soundscape tapestries. The new almost fourteen minute long version of their Ayahuasca closing the album and being the perfect example of what The Black Flamingo does best. The lighter than air beginning, the slow building scene setting, the minute growth towards something denser, the noise inspired break, letting that linger until a new build up towards what you would expect is an explosive ending begins. But they do that twice, and only second time around the bend to they extend it all towards the pay-off, which feels like blessing. And after that you can easily return, like Ouroboros, to that opening Selk’nam track, which pays homage to the original inhabitants of Tierra Del Fuego. An-Nûr, in that way becomes this unending search, and that might have been what the three were aiming for. Or it might just be my take on it. And if so, I will hold on to it, cause it gives me comfort, meaning and an eternal love for everyone and everything on this planet…

(Written by JK)

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