Earthbong – Proceed As One

 

 

Earthbong – Proceed As One
Self released – 2023
Metal, Doom
Rated: ****

We mentioned their One Earth, One Bong EP back in 2019. And we are saddened to our deepest core that we have to admit that we never got around to mentioning Bong Rites back when it was released in 2020. Especially since we are not the only ones that dig the German trio that go by the name of Earthbong! No, no, no, the one and only Mike Scheidt, who you might know from a little band called Yob has been shouting from every rooftop he can find how much he loves Earthbong. A “They’re like a Bongzilla, Sleep milkshake!” he exclaims with great relish! And he isn’t wrong. Especially when you dive headfirst into the new two song EP Proceed As One! Fourteen minute opening track Fathead starts off with a radio broadcast about drugs and the hallucinations they might induce. Before, the feedback starts howling and the riff begins its slow and heady march towards the swing and groove we know Earthbong can and will deliver. A rolling thundering landscape of riffs and thunderclap drums enfold. And it’s at the 4:20 mark when the bitter and bleak, black and burned vocals come in. Taking you on a circling dance, much like a giant beast, inspecting its prey, waiting for the perfect moment to pounce. This section will return after that wild, electrifying guitar freakout and so will the radio broadcaster with its expose about all sorts of drugs. In the end they try and take the entire groove apart and it all becomes more like a death rattle, destroying a vicious song with a brutal and abrupt ending. The second track Wax, ups the ante when it comes to monstrous sound. Like a doom pile driving trio hitting the core of the earth, unknowingly opening a gateway to a demonic netherworld filled with deathly chants and filthy tones. Earthbong gives us two tracks, but those two tracks give you everything you need to get your fix and to dance around in an harrowing phantasmagoria…

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¡Pendejo! - No Te Vayas

 

 

¡Pendejo! - No Te Vayas

¡Pendejo! That wild and absolutely amazing live act from the Netherlands are about to unleash their new studio album, Volcán. The record will be out on March 17th and this is the first single and video from that album. "Don't go. Stay here, with me. With you next to me, I seem bigger, better, and stronger," says singer El Pastuso about the new track No Te Vayas.

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

 

 

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

Santo Rostro
Slog
Red Spektor
Müut
Duvcon
Lord Mountain
Earthbong
Elephant Groove
Kyuss
Seum

 

We were honored to receive a full (unfinished) chapter of the soon to be finished book by Sunil Singh called Sonic Seducer, an infectious read that immediately had me grabbing for my Monster Magnet albums as well as Kyuss. If his Math books are this riveting and cool, I think I might need to get me those, a calculator and run some numbers! As for the week that's just started, we hope to publish a review or two, before Friday. But we're kinda under the weather and have other assingments as well... So, no promise there. But as said, I think we can do one or two... We have to, it's what makes us tick...

Seum – Double Double

 

 

Seum – Double Double
Self released – 2023
Sludge, Punk, Doom
Rated: ***

It’s the doom ‘n bass trio from Montréal, Canada, coming at you with an entirely new release called Double Double! Where, Seum, the three we are talking about here, doubles up on the grime, the sludge and the blackened screeches. The eight tracks on Double Double deliver thirty-two minutes of hardcore, punk inspired bass work and very choppy metal drums. Best track on the album might be Dog Days though, which might make you do a double take due to the double vocals, the way Noureddine El Ouarite, (who you might know from Mlah! The band he shared with Seum’s bassplayer Piotr), adds his colors to this track and the hardcore breakdown groove it encapsulates, is damn double tasty! It must have been intense and sizzling while recording Dog Days! And damn good to hear the two connect again! The best difference between Winterized and Double Double might be the way the instruments seem to breathe, the air in between them, the fact you can easily focus on the bass or the drums, or the hellish screams. And because of that, there is more groove to detect, and way more sludge dancing to do! Double the amount, if not more!

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International Premiere - Santo Rostro – Telarañas

 

International Premiere - Santo Rostro – Telarañas

 

We’re honored to bring you the Premiere of the new Santo Rostro single Telarañas! The full album will be arriving through Discos Macarras, LaRubiaProducciones & Spinda Records on March 10^th and is called ‘Después no habrá nada’! And trust us! If you dig this single, you will be absolutely smitten with the album! This is psychedelic doom of the highest order and the lowest tones! Sludgy when needed and progressive when wanted! This is the good shit!

“Andalusian power trio returns with a dark-psych rock album, with long tracks including complex instrumental developments, processed atmospheres and a dirty sound plenty of echoes, different modulations and occasional synths.

Many things have changed in Santo Rostro since they put out 'The Healer' in 2017, and this is obviously reflected in this new album. 'Después no habrá nada' is the result of a more mature band, with thousands of kilometers touring both Spain and EU on their back, several TV appearances and a couple of stand-alone video-singles - and everything 100% DIY.

This way, we find ourselves with a more balanced and determined sound, with a tremendous solid and seamless rhythmic base, powerful and organic at the same time, with a dance of tempos that accelerate and slow down at the right time - there's no clapperboard in here.

In 'Después no habrá nada' you'll find from doom to sludge, with high doses of progressive metal and even Andalusian heavy psych. It could be understood as a great mix of bands such as Viaje a 800, Adrift, Oransi Pazuzu, Mastadon or Russian Circles, but with an imprint that only Santo Rostro has. This new album is a kind of a personal delirium and hangover; with some rehearsal room taste and accumulated fatigue.

The album was produced by the band itself; then recorded and mixed by Raúl Pérez at La Mina (Spain); and mastered by Mario G. Alberni at Kadifornia Mastering (Spain). Behind the artwork is The Braves Church, based on photographies by Manu Rosaleny.”

 

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'Después no habrá nada' comes out on 10th March 2023 through Discos Macarras, LaRubiaProducciones and Spinda Records in the following editions:

    Digital
    300x CD Digipack
    150x Black Vinyl
    150x Orange Translucent Vinyl

TRACK-LIST: 1. Telarañas / 2. Carcasa Digital / 3. Aire / 4. Matriz / 5. Después no habrá nada

 

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MüuT – Make Me Do It

 

 

MüuT – Make Me Do It
Self released – 2023
Rock, Stoner, Punk, Metal, Thrash
Rated: *****

When you have a song called Fight the Müutonegro, you will immediately evoke memories partying like hell with the Turbonegro crazies. And you will immediately show your colors and have the people waiting for that death punk, Turbo ‘n roll kind of music. And the Polish foursome MüuT does not disappoint! Founded on the eve of 2020, the quartet gives you a debut album called ... Made Me Do It and that gives you ten tracks that always carry that punk flag high above whatever the song underneath spells out. Second track Graso has some metal, thrash, and speedrock influences and vocals tearing you a new hole somewhere. And that’s after opener Another Bill To Pay charged the field with some riveting speedy stoner and roll. And if you think, what the hell, this Polish band is singing in Spanish?! That’s correct, the main vocalist and bassplayer Vlad Guzmán is from Mexico. Not every track is in Spanish though and those shared vocal lines with the rest of the band just add extra flavour to an already damn fierce adrenaline kicker. That second guitar doing stonerrock lines underneath, man, what a second track! And then we already come to Fight the Müutonegro! More bombastic, fantastic punk ‘n roll! And you can just hear the entire venue screaming along. This can’t get any better you think… And then there’s Braindead, with once again that passionate punk adagio, but also some hardcore, metal and thrash. A majestic build up, leading up to that un, dos, tres explosion! And then doubling that explosion up with an speed atombomb attack and then bringing in that damn funky chorus and bringing it back to the build up, and going around in circles, circling in the circle pit. We’re not even half way through the album, but these four bring only good stuff and show us once again, that punk can come in many forms. And MüuT can do them all!

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The Devils - Time Is Gonna Kill Me

The Devils - Time Is Gonna Kill Me

Their third album Beast Must Regret Nothing (2021) was produced by Alain Johannes (Eleven, QOTSA, Them Crooked Vultures, Chris Cornell, PJ Harvey) and includes a featuring with Mark Lanegan. And the fifth track on that wild The Devils album is Time Is Gonna Kill Me. Wild, just like their entire performance at Maximum Festival 2022 near Venice, Italy. Which was recorded as their live album Live at Maximum Festival. The duo from Naples embodies the ultimate sound of chaos; their style is primitive, loaded with sex, sin and Rock’n’Roll!

The band on "Time Is Gonna Kill Me": "There is no poetic content in our music. Actually this song says that we don’t kill time, but time is gonna kill us. The music is inspired by Otis Rush blues, who clearly explained that ‘Someone promises you the world and then gives you nothing: that’s the blues.'".

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Slog – Divination

 

Slog – Divination
Morbid and Miserable Records – 2023
Metal, Death, Black, Doom
Rated: ***

That slow ohm beginning will turn into a forceful gale and by the time those malevolent vocalized grunts hit, the sound will crush like a gigantic invisible hand waiting for the moment to put that final squeeze on you. Heavier than ever, it’s the new eight track album Divination by two piece blackened death doom metal outfit Slog. Straight out of Toledo, Ohio these two know how to cast that boiling black cloud that smothers and suffocates. Soon, the atmosphere will turn as darker than the blackest treacle and you feel it all hanging directly above you like some baleful portent. And that dreadful feeling of impending disaster will not let you go. Angry and grimy like a skeletal hand protruding from the earth, dragging you down. The due consisting of Jared Moran (drums and vocals) and Nicholas Turner (guitars and bass) who you might know from outfits like Yzordderrex, Filtheater, and 54R while Turner is known for his work in Nothing Is Real, Moldering Vibration, and Schizochristo. Or their earlier team projects, Psionic Madness, Acausal Intrusion, Feral Lord, and others. Blacker, bleaker, and bleaching, it will wipe everything off the board…

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Seer Of The Void – Mantra Monolith

 

 

Seer Of The Void – Mantra Monolith
Venerate Industries – 27th January 2023
Doom, Stoner
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Spawned after the demise of fellow Greek Glam-Stoners DR. AWKWARD AND THE SCREWS, Bassist and Frontman Grigoris Konstantaras leads a new, epic Doom collective into the world! Their previous album, "Revenant" bristled with a gloomy, almost funeral feel to it and now "Mantra Monolith" goes even deeper into Heavy Doom territory. Opener "Astride" is full-on Iommi worship - crushing riffs and that rumbling bass so very reminiscent. Vocally, Grigoris has slowed the pace from his earlier projects, this time opting for menacing growls and emphasis on the subject matter of each track. "Electric Father" blasts in like a slow-pounding Howitzer barrage with a delicious, evil riff rotting all over it. "Death Is My Name" is a mid-paced slugger whilst "Seventh Son" starts with fury and thrash - pummeling drums propelling an Old School riff progression with tight percussion. Eponymous track "Seer Of The Void" maintains the relentless, high-octane attack - once again, musically very tight and assured. "Demon's Hand" rumbles in on throbbing basslines and vicious riffs before dropping into the dark abyss of crepuscular Doom before finishing with an explosive climax of percussion and riff! "Hex" keeps the upbeat Sabbath motif alive and twitching through a multitude of stop-start crunching passages. Final track "Necromancer" rounds off the platter in fine style: again utilizing the powerful riffs and menacing growls to superb effect. "Mantra Monolith" is a very successful sophomore effort and  as their sound develops, SEER OF THE VOID will become a go-to band!

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

 

 

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

WARP
Ethyl Ether
REZN
The Fire Mystical
Urns
Mama Youth
Slog
Tex
Atsuko Chiba
Daevar

Mornin y'all! We're moving full force into 2023 now! After doing the January 2023 Doom Charts edition, the normal program will finally come into effect. Beside the rent paying stuff, we will also have time to HiVe and start listening to all that good and heavy stuff that's already been released in 2023! And it's a lot! Already! As you might have seen on the Doom Charts... So, get ready to rock and get ready to roll! Cause we love doing this Sisyphus thing! How about you?

The Doom Charts for January 2023

 

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“After all, the wool from the black sheep is just as warm.”

~ Sister Margaretta

Before we get to the nitty gritty so to speak, one more heartfelt thank you to all you followers out there. It is humbling to see your reactions and it warms our entire being. That also goes for all the bands. Seeing your response to all those Personal Lists and that final Top 100, well, is once again humbling and overwhelming. We do it all for those amazing albums and getting the good word out about them to all you followers. So, when we see we reach both… Well… Thank you! Thank you!

It’s 2023, and has been for a month. So… Welcome to the first regular, January edition of the Doom Charts of the new year. We’ve got Thirty-Nine spanking new albums listed below and one album that was released in November, made the Doom Charts back then and is now present once again. Should we consider that one the ‘black sheep’ of the list? Or should we consider all of them as black sheeps? Cause this is the Heavy Underground we’re talking about and we shall not hear many of those albums or songs out shopping, standing in an elevator or listening to a big radio station. And even though our warm little niche is growing every day, it will forever be our cozy, dark, heavy and rocking little hole to curl up into and shelter us from the cold, and the harsh realities outside… No less than 292 albums received votes this month… And below you can see which of those made the published list… 

The brand new, first, January edition of 2023 of the Doom Charts went up on Friday the 3rd, as planned... Once again, a great selection of heavy rock from the dephts of the underground! Damn fine releases one and all! Voted for by the many Contributors and tallied by the one and only Remi VL!

Personal votes of the ones that made it, went out to: Tidal Wave, WARP, Dread Witch, Godsground , Shivalila, Buddha Sentenza, Signo Rojo, Solar Trip, Giant Sleep, I Am The Mansion, Draken, Strider, Zeup, & Lord Mountain .... Will start spinning them from 40 to 1 today... Stating with that damn fine trio from Dunkirk, France called Mama Youth! How about you?! What are you listening to?

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 January 2023

Acid Magus – Demon Behemoth

 

 

Acid Magus – Demon Behemoth

Heavy psych experimentalists Acid Magus unveil cathartic new single Demon Behemoth! It’s the first single of the their upcoming new album Hope Is Heavy which will be released on Mongrel Records. And yes, it’s now a five-piece rock titan with a new vocalist and a second guitarist.

“Demon Behemoth is the crushing first single from the forthcoming album. Guitarist and chief songwriter Keenan Kinnear explains, “Demon Behemoth is not only the first single but also the first track off our upcoming sophomore album, Hope is Heavy. The entire album is a concept dealing with me realizing how I am slowly becoming more cynical with age. Every song on the album, including Demon Behemoth, is a cross-section of my psyche, self-analyzed for the sake of solving the “great cynicism” I am experiencing at the moment and searching for the silver lining in what constantly seems to be an increasingly grim outlook.”

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Warp – Bound by Gravity

 

 

Warp – Bound by Gravity
Nasoni Records – 2023
Rock, Stoner, Proto, Metal, Punk
Rated: *****

I never owned a fascist pig. If I had, I probably would have bought some kind of combine harvester or huge baler vehicle and backed over it. I never owned any other pig neither btw. But we of course realize that third track Your Fascist Pigs Are Back is not about those cute pink animals, but about those fascist motherfuckers that pollute the world with their horrible thinking and worse energy. And that song is an example of the way the WARP three have delved more into what their sound entails and what the message is they want to convey. For the three dive deeper into their daily existence and how it translates to what they see, hear, and feel. They then manage to convert that to lyrics and sound. And that as it turns out is this gritty and raw and harsh take on stoner, doom and psychedelic rock, which seems logical when you realize the three are from Tel Aviv, Israel where life is never easy, even though it might be the most liberal city of Israel. The Hunger is perhaps another example of the way WARP transforms their views into more substance driven rock. But there are no qualms about moving away from the message and the content and just going off into a guitar driven spacey freak out. Which they do just as often as just riffing it all towards a homerun. The WARP three share vocal duties and by doing so give their sophomore Bound By Gravity so much depth and identity, it feels at certain moments that you are listening to a completely different record. But then there’s always some punk energy, psychedelic touch or proto metal take to bring it all together again. For that is perhaps the most alluring aspect of it all, that even though there is a lot of harshness, punk energy, there is also an intense groove going on or a cosmic escape towards the void. Bound By Gravity, it seems WARP has found a work around and used the heavy bogged down sounds to propel themselves skywards!

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