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Eagles Of Death Metal – EOFDM Presents

Eagles Of Death Metal – EOFDM Presents:

(Boots Electric Performing The Best Songs We Never Wrote)

Universal – 2019

Rock

Rated: **

We never really mentioned any of the great albums that Eagles Of Death Metal have put out. Yes, great albums. All of them. Although I must confess that I still think that their first one was their very best. And I don’t think this one will rank highly among them. Not that it is bad. But it feels a bit, errr, silly? Cause many of the covers already came out earlier on EP’s and such and some versions are not that good or every memorable. And I loved Jesse Hughes version of The Distillers song The Hunger, when he did it back around 2014 (?), it was a righteous cover that always came up during a cover test session among friends, pretty unknown and now it’s out there, for the rest of the world to enjoy. The rest of the tracks are a bit too similar to each other and Jesse has recently gotten the urge to start wheezing and husking even more when singing… And he can do so much more… It is the same trick over and over, which does not add to the love for this record. And yes, sure it is fun to hear what the boys do with Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band or Family Affair by Mary J. Blige. But we already heard So Easy by Guns N Roses and High Voltage by ACDC. I don’t know…. Jesse, I hope you were there the past months when Billy Gibbons and Dave Grohl attended the new Desert Sessions hosted by your pal Josh Homme. Cause I feel you need some serious kick to get the creative juices flowing again. But hey, I love you all the time…

(Written by JK)

Stoner HiVe's Top 10 Most Listened To Last Month

Stoner HiVe's

Top 10 Most Listened To Last Month...

Eagles of Death Metal

A day late of course… But work and other crap has been relentless… So, just a quick Top 10 of the Most Listened to artists of the past month… And we all know that a new Doom Chart is just around the corner! Way more important than everything else…

woensdag 26 juni 2019

Ulysses – On Safari

Self-released – 2019

Psych, Glam, Retro, Pop

Rated: *****

Essence. It's what every Artist seeks - that inscrutable, unique presence that defines the sound, word or flavour of all we do. British band Ulysses have tapped into that rich well, bottled the contents and shipped it out by the crate-load! On Safari boasts myriad and manifold influences, all condensed to a sweet miasma of Pop Glory. Opener "Looking For A Guru" is pure Chinnychap heaven! Groove with bite...The Sweet spring to mind immediately, as do Slade. "Doctors And Nurses" is an innuendo - soaked morsel of 10cc/XTC tease with nods, winks and hooks a-plenty. "This Useless Love" melts like the dreamchild of The Beach Boys and The Apples In Stereo... Swooning, harmonic Psych. "She" is a full-on Rocker, punkish- paced and irresistible! Melodies drop nostalgia in every direction… Familiar, as if you've always known them from ...somewhere...(I swore I heard RACEY in there!). Each track pulses with beautful, lovingly - crafted musicianship of sheer brilliance and a bang-on production. Ulysses' ability to capture the feel, sound and true Joy of the Golden Age of Pop is breathtaking, refreshing and thoroughly engaging. I'll go out on a limb here - On Safari is possibly the best Pop-Rock album in a decade. Yes people, it's THAT good.

(Written by Reek of STOOM)

Big Business – The Beast You Are

Joyful Noise/Gold Metal – 2019

Rock, Noise, Sludge

Rated: ****

It has been out now for a couple of months and we already mentioned it a while ago when we stated what we had listened to the most in April. But when a record feels this good for the summer heat once revisited; I reckon we should do a bit more... With members that already earned their spurs in The Melvins, Murder City Devils and Karp, their own band Big Business has been one of those twisted amalgam of styles that originate from those mentioned bands and more. We can hear psychedelic heavy metal, noise, hard rock, sludge, punk and weird other tidbits. And on The Beast You Are it is all there in superb form. It is rock. Heavy rock. Heavy, loud and cumbersome and finally Big Business has managed to make all the pieces fall into the exact right place. On earlier records the band always had the tendency to become a bit too experimental. But on The Beast You Are there is finally room for something else, something more and something that immediately feels right to the beast inside. Thanks to a more uniform sound and great production there is a crispness to the compositions that make the tracks wash over you like warm waves of heavy bliss. And even though every track is heavy and huge, there is also something subtle about it all. Showing us, very carefully that there is beauty to be found in each and every earthquake…

(Written by JK)

zaterdag 22 juni 2019

Plague of Carcosa – Ocean is More Ancient Than The Mountains

Plague of Carcosa – Ocean is More Ancient Than The Mountains
Sludgelord Records – 2019
Doom, Horror, Occult Metal
Rated: *****

In the dank catacombs of Chicago, IL something is stirring... An ominous, eerie rumbling from the bowels of the earth that Men have called 'Plague Of Carcosa'. Lovecraftian and eldritch, Eric Zann and his cult of electric heathens invoke unholy rites of noise in Praise and Summoning of The Old Gods. 'Crawling Chaos' opens the ritual: Void becoming Form in waves of dark riffage, manifestly evil and gibbous, a morass of twisted sound at catatonic velocity. 'Madness at Sea' eschews ritual and plunges deep into the oceanic maw of R'lyeh: cavernous, infernal booms of sonic dread etch infernal glyphs on lightless walls, welcoming the Mariner to his demise… Plague of Carcosa open the portal to Ancient apparitions of Glory and Doom and we watch, recoiling, flinching but unable to turn away as the tentacles writhe through the rift...

(Written by Reek of STOOM)

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dinsdag 18 juni 2019

Hhoogg – Earthling, Go Home!

Crystal Space Bricks – 2019

Rock, Instrumental, Space, Psych, Jam

Rated: ****

We’ve been working on writing something about the new Hhoogg since it came out somewhere around February. Things get in the way, it happens, we all know it does. But when you return to the Earthling, Go Home! album after these many months and are immediately blow away again, you realize you dropped the ball and should have finished the mention back then. Cause people need to hear it! Psychedelic instrumental space rock! Jam-oriented heaviness that implores touches from all the genres we love so dearly, but focuses on getting you high and getting you to another planet. Like you are sucked through a warped vortex and are travelling at the speed of sound towards a destination unknown and laughing like a mad man, even though you know that is never about the destination, but about the journey itself. And this one is majestic! What an adventure!

(Written by JK)

maandag 17 juni 2019

Abyss – Red Moon

Self-Released – 2019

Stoner, Psych, Doom

Rated: ****

Abyss, a quartet from Odesa, Ukraine have released three leviathan discs of Heavy, expansive Psychedelic Stoner rock with Doom touches and Spatial atmospheres... RED MOON is my personal favourite of the three: seven mammoth tunes (with a total playing time over two and a half hours) that seek out dissonance in the void, alien forms in the vastness and introspective reflection in the darkness... As if MIR had been visited by aliens and overpowered by the crew, who then took their ship on a jolly around the galaxy! All three Abyss releases are well-executed, seriously trippy and come with a price-tag that is bargain of the year! Lose yourself in the Abyss... The Odesa Files? More like the X-Files!

(Written by Reek of STOOM)

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zondag 16 juni 2019

Baroness – Gold & Grey

Abraxan Hymns – 2019

Rock, Metal, Prog Stoner

Rated: ****

Once upon a time in the magical Kingdom of Heavy, there was a band called Baroness. After some EPs, the band released the “Blue” and “Red” albums and all the subjects of the kingdom celebrated with much joy and drinks and drugs because the two albums were declared masterpieces and the band were the best in the world. All was good in the Kingdom of Heavy. Then the band released “Yellow & Green” and “Purple” and a lot of the subjects cursed the band because these new albums were not the same as “Red” and “Blue” and in the Kingdom of Heavy the subjects became sad and cursed Baroness for changing and not staying the same for years and years. So all the subjects waited to see what the new album “Gold & Grey” would sound like. And up in the Dark Tower, the brave reviewers who listen to piles and piles of shit so you don’t have to, shouted down to the waiting subjects and declared “Some of you saps will hate it, some will love it. It is like none of the albums mentioned but a glorious mixture of all of them, showcasing the song writing skills of a band secure in their own abilities, still heavy, still displaying light and shade and still awesome”

How did the subjects of Kingdom of Heavy react to this news? Who gives a shit!

(Written by Tony Maim)

woensdag 12 juni 2019

Gin Lady – Tall Sun Crooked Moon

Kozmik Artifactz/Spinnup – 2019

Rock, Hard, Seventies, Sixties, Roots, Psych, Americana

Rated: *****

Making it all the way to the 12th spot of the May Doom Charts is Gin Lady and their new album Tall Sun Crooked Moon. On it they move every forward to the sound of yore. Their love for the good stuff, the stuff that originates from the sixties and the seventies is every present and o’ so obvious. But the level of musicianship is so extremely good that the sounds become pure shimmering gold. This perhaps the best soundtrack you will ever hear this year for a long drive towards a wide and sunny horizon. Cause it is the Roots, the Country and the Americana that make this album jump out from all the other heavy stuff we love so dearly. It has been said before, but honestly, these cats combine all the best from The Band, The Allman Brother, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and Neil Young in one tight package. This is the biography of a spring full of love and sweet country living. Amazing!

(Written by JK)