Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday
We’re approaching the end of the year fast! And that Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2023 will also commence in about a week. Yes, y’all! There is still time to send in your lists! To our email: stonerhive@Hotmail.com Deadline is December 13th. So, that means, next Wednesday! Get cracking on making that list, checking it twice or not, and sending it over. Making the yearly Top 20 Countdown more valid with every year we do this! It also means that gigantic folder of albums, EP’s and singles we would have loved to have mentioned throughout the year, will remain that way. There simply is too much, and we simply do not have the time to do more. The small thing we can do of course, is another Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday round! A small amount of words to get the good word out! The good word about something heavy and something cool! Check it out below… 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 Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!
Venus Volcanism – Tissue
Out on Submersion Records, the debut album of Crete musician Venus Volcanism aka Rena Rasouli titled “Tissue”. Written and recorded, only 40KM from the Artic Circle, in Iceland's northernmost town, Siglufjörður, for over 2 years. The avant-garde, ambient, electronic album is filled with ethereal vocals, synthesisers and slow arpeggios, with natural soundscapes; the crescendo of an active volcano in Fagradalsfjall, bubbling mud pools in the geothermal area of Seltún, the ebb and flow of Dýrafjörður's ocean and haunting echoes of frozen lakes and migrating birds. A perfect album for the cold December month to get lost in and almost disappear completely…
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Beyond This Earth – Portraits Of The Absurd
More Greece for ya! We mentioned the first single The Overseer back in August, and now Portraits Of The Absurd by Greek five piece Beyond This Earth is out. Almost fifty-five minutes of metal! Stoner metal, sludge tones, a whole lot of attitude and these sudden bursts of progressive and symphonic magic. We called them sludge motherfuzzers last time we mentioned them, and that moniker sticks. But that extra level of guitar work is something else and makes Beyond This Earth, stand out, beyond and above!
Autogramm - Music That Humans Can Play
Something else, something eighties, something new wave, indie, powerpop and Canadian. The Vancouver four called Autogramm delivered their ten track Music That Humans Can Play album back in November on Stomp Records and Beluga Records. Influence hints splayed all over their record, it’s a feelgood flashback without ever becoming pastiche. And that’s saying something when they obviously also make fun becoming just that… Good for December, and yes, another album that can save you from Whamageddon!
Poste 942 – La Danse De Fous
A single, a video, by those French punk, stoner and speed rocking outlaws called Poste 942. This time however they turn up their theatrical side, their symphonic and opera side. They’ve been changing, everything is always changing, but since the arrival of vocalist Virginie D, changing, eclectic and grandiose have become words we can associate with Poste 942. And that is something we definitely had not envisioned when we first heard Extended Play back in 2014. La Danse De Fous is a must see and must hear video!
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Ash Eater – Any Port In A Storm
Trashy, psychedelic, skate, punk, it’s all applicable to the Ash Eater sound. The new Any Port In A Storm track’s main riff brings to mind their Bad Trip song and video from 2019. But it is definitely not a rehash of what came before, cause the sound has grown to become even foggier, wilder and bordering on the maniacal and metal. Something about this track makes it sound classic and dangerous at the same time. And even though we can see the captain smoke, we’re uncertain we will reach port…
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Solothurn – Servitude
Released in November, the debut EP Servitude by Belfast, Ireland five-piece Solothurn. Nineties alternative metal, with grunge influences as well as some stonerrock touches. Started in 2022, it’s immediately obvious that this band is comprised out of members that earned their heavy rock spurs elsewhere. And they did! With bands like Involution, Electric Red, Annapurna, Toska and Mondo Generator. Mondo Generator? Isn’t that Nick Oliveri’s band? Si, senor, cause on second guitar in Solothurn, we can hear Simon Beggs, who played in Mondo around 2006-2007 and mastered the Dead Planet album. And these here three tracks, have the ability to make you entirely anxious to hear where they will take a certain, riff, lead or vocal line. As well as anxious to hear more Solothurn!
Eight Foot Manchild - We're Goin' Out On A High Note
We only mentioned their Shrine Of The Orange Sunn EP from July. But Eight Foot Manchild has been around since 2022 and making serious waves as the one and only doombrass band! We're Goin' Out On A High Note is a new and fine four track EP to cement that surging energy! And for some reason, the manner of vocals in that amazing title track remind of Clutch’s Neil Fallon. In fact that entire track does! Or perhaps a lot does in some weird way. But then, funkier and completely doom brassed! Eight Foot Manchild strikes again!
Flamebearer – Taste Hell
The London, UK quartet Flamebearer hits you hard with their Taste Hell single. Their hardrock and metal, has that eighties, almost hair metal touch, but delights in barreling down the line with a doom thunder. It’s the first single for upcoming album Brazen, produced by Wayne Adams (producer of Green Lung's recent 'This Heathen Land'), which is set for release early next year. And if the riffs are as big as on Taste Hell, or the choruses as huge, Brazen will be gigantic!
