Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Weekend
It wouldn’t be a Quick Fire Weekend if we did not do a Sunday roast as well! So, for your smokey tastebuds, we continue on with more meaty heaviness today! So, this here, is the Sunday post of the second Quick Fire Weekend of 2023! Meant to spread the word on all that good stuff out there! And we know… There is so much out there, so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. But here it is… Another Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Weekend! And it burns hot like molten lava!
Wasteland Haze – Welcome to Wasteland Haze
And we start this Sunday off with a proper bang! An instrumental, doom enriched stoner rocking bang that is! Straight out of Düsseldorf, Germany comes the Wasteland Haze trio and their debut full-sized effort Welcome to Wasteland Haze. Seven crazy good tracks that expertly now when to push or pull, to open up the throttle and give it all some speed or to use snippets, ambient touches and a doom trod to give it all more gravitas. This Wasteland Haze sounds like paradise!
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Chapel Floods – Chapel Floods
Coming through the landline at four o’ clock in the morning with a great Ponzi scheme, the trio from Rotherham, UK called Chapel Floods! Unearthly snarling on the other side of the line blasts open your eyes together with a grinding relentless doom march. But by the time the frog in his throat dies, and the clean vocals make opening track Grief Mason finally ascend to the heavens, you will be ready to sign over your money and forgo any chance of a return. Stick around, cause Chapel Floods got some more money-making surprises up their sleeves…
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Yojimbo - Doomsday Clock
Yojimbo hails from Strassbourg, France. The four-piece delivered their debut five-track self-titled EP back in March of 2022. But 2023 saw them charting a new course, with a new line-up and Doomsday Clock is the first single and video for the new crew. And the new Doomsday Clock song hold so much promise for the future, paradoxically, that we cannot wait for it to arrive. ‘Intergalactic Stoner’ they state, and does indeed feel like you are with them, right there, on this endless cosmic journey. And for me, Doomsday Clock keeps spinning and spinning, until the hands become dizzy and start dancing their whirling dance with me…
Warcoe – A Place For Demons
We absolutely dug
Warcoe’s
The Giant’s Dream release back from 2022. Since then, the Italian three released their
Pyramid Of Despair single and follow that one up with their newest outing:
A Place For Demons. It’s the second single for the new album to arrive later this year on
Regain Records. Classic metal, traditional doom! Sabbath sure and Pentagram power,
A Place For Demons is your happy place!
AlphaWhores – Same Team
Stonerized, Alternative rock from Panama City, Panama, signed to Editoris Records, it’s the AlphaWhores duo and they will soon release their debut album. Same Team is the first video and single to that album. As said, we’ve got some stonerized alternative rock on our hands that implores some doom touches and whole lot of metal strokes. Indeed, it strokes, and fondles, and pats all those place you love to have fondled… That’s why they’re called AlphaWhores!
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HighSanity – Half
Why isn’t everyone already falling over themselves gushing over HighSanity! Their eight-track debut album, out on Interstellar Smoke Records, is full of mostly slow reverie for the desert, stoner and psychedelic genres. There’s nothing half-baked about Half, bursting with amazing guitar work, and jam-packed with awesome riffs. Fuzzed out where needed, and grunge tinted, but always superbly inspirational!
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Garden of Ash – Garden of Ash
Faerie like, fair female vocals floating over the grungy rock that moves towards a more nineties metal take as well as that gothic touched rock that came from bands like The Gathering. We’re talking about the, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada three callled Garden of Ash and their debut eight track album. When she holds back on her power, the vocalist even sounds a bit like Anneke van Giersbergen, impressive.
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Blood Lightning – Blankets
Formed in December 2020, Blood Lightning brings together the talents of vocalist Jim Healey (We’re All Gonna Die), guitarist Doug Sherman (GOZU), bassist Bob Maloney (Worshipper) and drummer J.R. Roach (Sam Black Church). What began as a 2019 Halloween show playing the entire Black Sabbath "Born Again" album just for fun has culminated in the release of original material by four veterans of the Boston metal/hardcore community. But there’s little hardcore influence on the Blankets track, this is good and wholesome classic metal, nineties era most but overall just slow grooving but intensely pounding! Can’t wait to hear the full album…
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Hauch – Lehmasche
Should we have mentioned Hauch together with Hauer yesterday? To confuse you all out there? Ho ho! But, with their Lehmasche EP, we come to the end of the Quick Fire Weekend! But what an end! The five tracks on their debut EP are absolutely homeruns! Smashing, pounding, rough and raw! The four-piece from Waltrop, Germany bring you German language stoner rock, stoner metal and soaring lead guitar work, that gives the compositions breathing room whenever they get to let loose. The production perfect! Ich hörte atemlos zu... This is so good in fact, it leaves me breathless…
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