Stoner HiVe’s Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week...

Black Hatch
Lords Of The Opium Church
Demon Head
Grande Fox
Melvins
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Alice Cooper
Holy Monitor
Jumping Jack
Soothsayer Orchestra

Holy Monitor – Southern Lights

 

 

Holy Monitor – Southern Lights
Blackspin / Primitive Music – 2021
Rock, Psych, Kraut, Prog, Space, Ambient
Rated: *****

Greek five-piece Holy Monitor have been around since 2015 and delivers yet another brightly colored psychedelic nugget! It’s called Southern Lights and it shines like every crazy diamond you ever loved before. They make it sound like it’s all happening once again; that perfect era in music history; that lovely sixties and seventies vibe. The restrained virtuosity gleams with every casual ripple of sound. And only when listened more and often does the subtle brilliance open itself complete to your ears and to your heart. The worldwide influences breeze through every song like a warm draught. Turning a shiver in your bones into a reassuring warmth. Stunningly crafted compositions all turn into this mystical and magical journey that every time again seems to become this pure miracle of sunrise. Cause without the right amount of attention you might not notice how special this all is. Indeed, this makes me entirely and completely happy.

(Written by JK)

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Number 7 on the February Doom Charts!

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

Another week has passed and we have time for another Quick Fire Friday round. Biggest news of the week? King Buffalo is set to release three new full-sized albums! Now here’s a band that really made the most of the pandemic year! Well done! Three hooray’s! And I really can’t wait to hear all three! But until that time and for now we just have to move on with this thing called Quick Fire Friday. Cause we just want to get the word out on as much of it as possible and we do not have the time to do things in better way. Cause we know, we know, the albums and bands deserve more than the few words we will jot down here. More attention and more of our time! But there is so much out there and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is. The Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday! And its burns hot like molten lava!

Yo No Se – Black Door

In a week or two the new title track single and video will land for the Terraform album by Bristol grunge trio Yo No Se. And trust us, that single is just as awesome as the Black Door single released two weeks ago. And trust us, so is the rest of the album! Which was mastered by Jack Endino.

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The Dev – Shameless Life

I’ll bite! And I hope Nikollaj Leshi does as well! Hottdamn! The new The Dev single Shameless Life sports a shameless glamorous video and some wild drum work! Female fronted metal from dead center Florida, which has an LA edge and something extremely poppy vocals floating over some intense riffage. Sweet and sour all mixed into one perfect cocktail!

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Barbason – Demo

Wanna hear something extremely cool? Go check out the two track demo by new Dutch stoner metal outfit Barbason. Comprised out of members from Thammuz, Black Valley, Stone In Egypt and Black Burned Blimp there something highly atavistic yet cosmic to the two track available on the Bandcamp site and even more so to that studio jam on the youtube video. Dang! Can’t wait to hear more!

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LMI / Vulturepeak – Split album

We still spin the shit out of the Excess Subconscious album, that L.M.I album released through Handstand Records and Maniyax Records back around June 2020. But the crazies just released a new split album with another insanely heavy outfit called Vulturepeak. Punk, hardcore, stoner, sludge, noise and screamo all nicely rolled into one package. One package that will pummel you senseless!

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Cross This Bridge – In Between

Cross This Bridge is a band based in Bratislava, Slovakia, but is a truly international cooperation with members from Slovakia, Italy and Switzerland. In Between is the first single for their first five track EP. Metal with a measured amount of epic, very open and very dynamic. Very charming indeed!

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Black Hatch – One More Bite

 

 

Black Hatch – One More Bite
King Pizza Records – 2021
Rock, Punk, Garage, Stoner
Rated: ****

Scuzzy, fuzzy, crunchy and you’ve got the munchies, I guess you need One More Bite! It’s the fast paced, high energy, extreme voltage, 11-track record by New Hampshire quartet Black Hatch. It’s a frenzied punk assault on your senses, a feverish garage raid on your soul and a furious stoner invasion into your heart. Cause these cats whirl you around with insane speed and make it all go off like a frag grenade. Fractured but whole you will scramble around looking for your arse and your elbow and jump and dance and windmill around like an insaniac! Some will have a psychotic reaction listening to these 27 minutes of rattling noise; and those that don’t will be freaking jealous! Ravenously enthusiastic and ferociously fine! One More Bite is all it takes to make you doing Black Hatch main line!

(Written by JK)

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The Doom Chart for February 2021

 

 

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For most of us this time last year we were getting our first taste of the COVID blues. Fast forward to 2021, and it appears there is some light at the end of the tunnel. In many areas live music is making its way back on track, cases seem to be trailing off and we’re beginning to ease into a sense of normalcy. That said, the music continues to blow our minds and has remained a staple while everything else around us seemed more like pandamonium. 

February features a tight race at the top with many albums clearly influencing the listeners. Several records from January hang on for another round this month seeing 21 new entries dominating the charts as per usual, with a total of 279 unique albums voted upon.

No quote this month. Nobody knows why. But we don’t need quotes, we need music! And there she goes! The wait is over... The all new February edition of the Doom Charts went live on March 1! Featuring no less than 21 new enties and a new Number One! Will be running through all of those amazing albums once again today. There are even a few I haven't had the chance to listen to yet! Incredible! Zålomon Grass for instance! Can't wait to hear that one!  Personal votes went out to From The Ages, Kabbalah, Mos Generator, VOKONIS, Demon Head, Electric Mother, Komatsu, Rostro Del Sol, Holy Monitor, Indica Blues, Void Commander & Spelljammer… 

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and album 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 Chart for February 2021

Stoner HiVe’s Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Month

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s 

Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Month

Soothsayer Orchestra
Lizzard
Holy Monitor
Dog Chasing Sun
Little Hole Filled
Electric Mother
Black Pistol Fire
Black Spell
DevElephant
Hortzak

Battle Jacket - Cowboy Killers

 

 

Battle Jacket - Cowboy Killers
Acid Wash Records - February 2021
Doom, Stoner, Southern, Psych
Rated: *****

Idaho's newly minted Battle Jacket has landed their bluesy doom debut "Cowboy Killers", and it's been much anticipated personally since their EP as Denim Dan & The Blue Jean Band. The opening and title track busts out with immediate momentum, the insistent kraut-rockish drums of Zach D'Amico driving forward the chugging guitar, with more than a little Southern style. Then frontman Kyle DeHart's vocals come in, and immediately become apparent as one of Battle Jacket's (many)  strengths. High and echoing, DeHart's voice almost drawls in its laid-back delivery, droning out while adding heaps of wry Southern attitude. Beneath the soaring vocals, the crunchy guitar ploughs forward until breaking down into a doomy stomp, and the second secret weapon is revealed. Jef Keruma's lead guitar oozes out a screaming, moseying solo that feels just right, fiery but taking its sweet time. The title track serves as a telling taster for things to come, and every cut on "Cowboy Killers" is a winner. "Wicked Witches Brew" is beefed up since its initial EP appearance, plodding forward with nodding doom in a sardonic tale of murder, the clever earworm lyrics ringing out forever. Never far behind, a fiery, wah-crazed solo erupts with some Van Halen DNA peeking through, a recurring and welcome theme across the album. The following "Red Wooden Barn" brings sprawling stoner riffs that flow effortlessly, in contrast to the downright evil, winding riff of "Dark Lagoon" that lumbers forward menacingly. The second half of "Cowboy Killers" is a joyous dive further into Battle Jacket's greasy, grainy, southern-fried sound, and it's a wonder behold. Stop what you're doing and dig in.

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Little Hole Filled – And The Ants Still March On

 

 

Little Hole Filled – And The Ants Still March On
Konkord – 2021
Rock, Stoner, Metal, Sludge, Doom
Rated: ****

Like a flash of lightning in the clouds, we live in the flicker; And The Ants Still March On. The little creatures will soon have you and me spirited and it will seem like they’re trying to tell you a dream. Or not? And is this all some wicked trick of the mind? Well, the Austrian quartet Little Hole Filled started playing together in 1996 and did that until they all moved to different sides of the country. They stop playing live but never stopped rehearsing and hashing out ideas. Which resulted in the Far Behind The Horizon Of The Sun demo back in 2015 and more fleshed out singles afterwards which are featured on their newest forty minute long output And The Ants Still March On which they released digitally back in October of last year and now sees a proper release through the Austrian label Konkord. Seven tracks that meander through the heavy landscape and all of them have this extra little touch of madness to them. It might be minute on most tracks; but with each little waft you slowly penetrate deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness. It’s that vibe and edge that certain nineties alternative rock and metal bands had; the emotive edge and the adventurous spirit. The uncanny ability to translate every bit of inspiration into something heavy and wild. What stands tall, towering over all those intricate little burrows of insanity are the mountainous riffs; the monumental drum work and massive bass!

(Written by JK)

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Rostro Del Sol – Rostro Del Sol

 

 

Rostro Del Sol – Rostro Del Sol
LSDR Records – 2021
Rock, Seventies, Prog, Psych, Jazz, Instrumental
Rated: ****

The Four-piece Rostro Del Sol from Mexico delivered their self-titled debut album in January and featured prominently on the Doom Charts of that month. And rightfully so; and hopefully they will be making the list this month as well. I sure as hell will vote for ‘em! Channeling those jazzy prog rock legends from the seventies, invoking the jam band spirit of every era; this is exactly the kind of luscious classic progressive sound every freak used to freak out to! Indeed, turn on, tune in and drop out; it’s time to start worshipping the good stuff in a huge way. A bit of vintage sounding funk here, some bluesy notes there and a whole lot of jazzy eb and flow. And the top that all off with the exact the right amount of psychedelic insanity and pure love for the virtuous notes that need to fly freely through the atmosphere. This is the music those notes make, music for music’s sake. It’s saying things that can’t be put into the tongue. This is good music.

(Written by JK)

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Monstroid – Set 2: Burnt Sky

 

 

Monstroid – Set 2: Burnt Sky
Self released – 2021
Rock, Stoner, Alternative
Rated: ****

Been listening to the new Monstroid for a while now and accidentally took the final words of the press release to heart. I try to not read anything about an album before hearing it, cause it might color the experience. And whether the bandmembers themselves are responsible for it or Warren Gibson from Plug Music Agency; the final words on the page were: “All music written and played to be enjoyed from the driver’s seat.” And the first umpteenth times listening toMonstroid’s Set 2: Burnt Sky album were all done behind the wheel. Nine tracks that will immediately evoke fuzzy feelings and stoner sentiments. With overtones of alternative nineties influences and spacey elements the South African foursome have delivered a damn fine and highly soulful album. One that indeed comes even more into its own when on the road; short sharp rock tracks trade places with cosmic rockers that have a knack for dynamics and atmosphere. And that is forgoing the monstrous drive and groove the quartet’s got going throughout the album. And all of the above is served with this intense catchy and pop sensible attitude. So yes, Monstroid will continue to burst out of the car stereo for many months to come!

(Written by JK)

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From The Ages – I

 

 

From The Ages – I
Self released – 2021
Rock, Instrumental, Metal, Stoner, Doom
Rated: ****

Comprised out of former members of Mammoth Salmon and Alltar, three-piece From The Ages delivers their first EP entitled I without much hoopla. But they should hoop the shit out of it, cause the four instrumental stoner metal and psychedelic doom tracks are carefully constructed and beautifully played. Totally uncompromising the choppy drums will initially throw you off balance before devouring you whole; and the axe slinger’s talents are beyond dispute. There’s heavy gloom here, mournful, but very darkly melodic as well. The absolutely brilliant title Denouement seems to indeed book end the entire EP; going into almost jazzy territories and throwing around ideas like dynamite, almost getting themselves into the dangerous terrain of avant garde doom. Without any reservation the first three tracks are ones you can easily get yourself lost in. But that final track will make you realize you’re not in Kansas anymore. Nothing left to do but follow the yellow brick road… And the applause at the end is well deserved!  

(Written by JK)

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Cargo Lift – Then

 

 

Cargo Lift – Then
Self released – 2021
Rock, Alternative, Metal
Rated: ***

The list their influences on their bandcamp site: “Faith No More, Tool, Deftones, Royal Blood, Foo Fighters, QOTSA and a bunch of other huge names…” And all of them and a bunch of other huge names can all be heard on the debut full-sized album Then by Greek quartet Cargo Lift. Paying homage in a big way to the nineties alternative rock sound and the metal of that era.  There are some progressive touches and there’s a whole lot of power! Power in every instrument, vocal line and everything they do. Which also shines through in the excellent production of the nine tracks present on Then. It’s heavy and it’s moody; dense, thrilling and literate rock from a four piece that seems to know exactly where their strength lies. Cargo Lift and their Then record; an elegant and powerful storm!

(Written by JK)

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Stoner HiVe’s Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week

 

Stoner HiVe’s 

Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week

Lizzard
Soothsayer Orchestra
Electric Mother
Dog Chasing Sun
Black Pistol Fire
Egor Lappo
OJM
DevElephant
Filthy Hippies
Appalooza