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

 

 

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Valley Of The Sun
The Beard Cult
Sergeant Thunderhoof
Motorpsycho
1000 Mods
Luna sol
The Mothercrow
Holy Tears
Massive Hassle
Orange Goblin

It’s Tuesday already. It’s been a hectic week and will continue to be like this for a while, we fear. Little time to HiVe, but we will try to make the best of it. Although, the new edition of the Doom Charts will go live this Friday, which means, most of that free time will be used to get that in proper order. The above list is good though, we listened to nothing but amazing stuff it seems! And we thank Ronny for delivering that one and damn fine write-up for Buzz' Ayaz. Top shelf Anatolian psych rock! Love it! Go check out all them albums and if you use Spotify. There’s a handy list featuring all of those above if they are available there. Cause yes, the new and stunning Sergeant Thunderhoof won't come out till November and the new 1000 Mods will be released that month as well. Seeya all soon we hope! Have a great week!

Stoner HiVe's Weekly Top 10 Most Listened

Week 40

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

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s
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Fostermother
Mammoth Volume
Free Ride
Erronaut
Leprous
Supersonic Dragon Wagon
Valley Of The Sun
Solemn Ceremony
Emu
Zeal & Ardor

It’s Tuesday already! Well, as usual, Life got and is getting in the way of the good stuff. So, this is the Top 10 Most Listened Artists list we usually give you on the Monday, but now a day late. We had a cool review last week by Ronny for the Kevin und die tätowierte Vollzeitmutter album. We mentioned the hot Adjustable Mustard record and did two premieres. One for the Forgotten King album and one for the Sonolith single. And then it was Doom Charts time! Doubt we can do a lot this week. But we promise to find the time to finally finish a few posts that ARE almost done! Have a great week! 

Oh no... Is that a Spotify Playlist of all 10 albums?! 

Weekly Top 10 Most Listened - Week 37

Number 18

 

 

Number 18

 

Those final lists that came in showed without any doubt that there are so many albums that are loved so much and so close together in the amount of love. Cause we found two bands on Number 20, three bands on Number 19 and well… There are FOUR bands with their FOUR albums on Number 18!!! And all of them, without any doubt, deserve to be there or even higher. Naturally… Well, we jump 23 points from Conan, Somali Yacht Club and Samavayo to reach the four on Number 18. Three of which we mentioned on the HiVe and one of them I managed to see live this year. On Krach Am Bach festival in Germany the blew me and my might hangover clear away. They slowly drifted away from the grunge they always seemed to implore to more influences from stoner, hardrock and blues. With an even warmer and steamier sound and those riffs and grooves, oh my lord! Just like that amazing new drummer! Of the two other albums we already mentioned, one was mentioned only a few weeks ago and the other all the way back in May. That new one, is from a new formation that came with a surprise and an avant-garde approach to doom and metal. The five opt for gigantic gestures, a massive amount of layers and the fierce ability to turn it all down to a mere trickle of sounds. And then they let the roar swell, with enough gravitas to bring the world around you to a halt. The other album delivers some true desert punk, stoner and garage and with such feverous energy the desert sand will melt away under your feet and into a shimmering mirror of glass. It is explosive, wild, stunning, and extremely addictive! That fourth album we unfortunately never got around to mentioning, but the Doom Charts did that for us. They came in 1^st back in July and our very own Crypt Guard wrote back then: “Many music outfits have taken on aspects of Herbert’s epos and processed them through their music and one would lie if he didn’t admit the spice-laced sands have inspired heavy riffers and reefers around the globe, be it Sandrider, Sleep or Dvne. On their new album the four-piece goes through the themes of the first couple of books with a riff-heavy yet playful demeanor, successfully painting their own vision of Herbert’s mysteriously archaic sci-fi monument with a fitting desert rock aesthetic.” Four bands on Number 18!

 

 

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Sons Of Arrakis - Volume I

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Red Sun Atacama - Darwin

 

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On To Number 17

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

 

 

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Valley of The Sun
Bort
Arthur Brown
Museum of Light
The Gray Goo
Achzeit
El Perro
Aptera
Freebase Hyperspace
Gramma Vedetta

Valley Of The Sun – The Chariot

 

 

Valley Of The Sun – The Chariot
Ripple Music / Fuzzorama Records – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Grunge, Hardrock, Blues
Rated: *****

We’ve been listening to The Chariot for a few months now and shall continue to do so. (Why do I keep referring to myself as ‘We’? I’m certainly not royalty! I should try and remedy that… Anyway…) We shall continue to keep listening to The Chariot for years to come, definitely and for sure. Cause Older Gods and Volume Rock still spin here regularly as well. We simply dig the sound, the tones and the atmospheres that the Valley Of The Sun quartet creates. It references everything we love about grunge and does so in a way that it never becomes too grungy. It does that same thing with hardrock and stoner; leaving everything in a fine balance on a tightrope somewhere, out there, in the shimmering distance, dangling fantastically high and indeed pretty low above a desert precipice. This time around the sound has become even warmer and steamier. If this is due to the new drummer or because the band, with solo surviving founding member Ryan Ferrier, at the helm, is simply that ever evolving entity, those heavy fiends that thirst to explore every avenue available, one can only guess. Opening with a bluesy, sixties guitar on Sweet Sands that instantly goes off into a riff and hook that keeps on circling, complemented by that awesome chorus and background vocals, it makes the opening track immediately that introduction you would love when you start a new album. It also promptly shows off what Mr. Ferrier is capable and most versed in, when it comes to vocal lines, and carrying a certain gritty energy to its logical conclusion. Freedom, escape, a yearning for wide open spaces and for travelling at the right kind of speed… The speed you want. That’s what you might take away from The Chariot and that is, for me, the ultimate example of what a band of desert pirates should wish to accomplish. And signing off your record with a strong composition like, Colosseum, the way the guitars seem to shimmer like a fata morgana across your stereo, that emotional charge in the vocals and the overall sound that creates this grandiose open plain, gives the album an extra bit of shine. The Chariot… It shines and gleams under the hot desert sun…

(Written by JK)

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week…

Dapunksportif
AAWKS
Indus Valley Kings
Valley of The Sun
Museum of Light
Moura
Birdstone
Phiasco
The Swell Fellas
Birth

(ps. Due to other assignments and work for the Doom Charts, we could not get the Sunday post for the Quick Fire Weekend finished... So, I guess we got another Friday version coming up this Friday...)

The Atomic Bitchwax, Valley of the Sun, and Borracho - Live at Hill Country Barbecue, Washington DC

 

 

The Atomic Bitchwax, Valley of the Sun, and Borracho - Live at Hill Country Barbecue, Washington DC – March 20th, 2022

What better way to close out a weekend than with loads of live fuzz. Local DC venue Hill Country Barbecue put on a show for the ages with the rock-solid lineup of hometown heroes Borracho, Ohio riff slingers Valley of the Sun, and the garden state's own legendary The Atomic Bitchwax.

Borracho kicked the doors open with their trademark rolling, gargantuan grooves, treating the audience to a sneaky preview from their upcoming album before time traveling backwards through their discography. Cuts from last year's "Pound of Flesh" lead the way, with "Holy Roller" and "It Came From the Sky" inducing head-nodding trances that would last through the set's end. Deeper cut "Empty" showed 2013's "Oculus" some righteous love, and throwback high speed ripper "Concentric Circles" helped close things out with a kick in the ass.

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In the unenviable position of following Borracho and opening for a certain TAB, Ohio's Valley of the Sun took the stage with years of well-earned confidence and proceeded to throw an absolute banger of a party. Frontman Ryan Ferrier's soaring vocals and gruff growls ushered in the Valley's grungy, desert-tinged stoner and slapped on the crowd's dancing shoes. Highlights like hit track "Hearts Aflame" from "The Sayings of the Seers" brought the Monster Magnet vibes with walls of fuzz, and the welcome toe-tapping QOTSA riffage of "Land of Fools" was a homerun.

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Finally, enter headliners The Atomic Bitchwax. Being a longtime fan and first-time show-goer, it's an understatement to say anticipation was through the roof, and the sentiment was shared. Band members in the crowd from both the opening acts and local groups spoke in awe of the sight we were about to behold, and hot damn we were not disappointed. Chris Kosnik and crew greeted the crowd with easygoing cheer and big grins, and promptly went to work melting faces clean off.  Cut after cut of auditory adrenaline shots were hammered out at breakneck speed, opening with the bawdy screams of "Hope You Die" and classics like "Houndstooth" and "Liv A Little". Not to mention the audience was blessed with not one, but two songs about kung fu. The high point of the night, however, was without question the display of top musicianship that is "War Claw". Every bassist in attendance craned for a look at the blur of fingers that was Chris Kosnik's right hand, and no one said it better than Borracho's own Mario Trubiano: they shouldn't be allowed to be that good. Mind blown.

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