Number 20

 

Number 20

There were only a few moments in the past weeks that two albums occupied the same spot. During the final hours, this happened again. And yes, on Number 20 we find two albums! Both of them released during the first months of 2025. Both of them got reviewed on Stoner HiVe and we wrote something that hopefully enticed you to listen to these albums. To this ferocious fuzz-soaked journey. Bursting with Kyuss-worthy stoner grit, metallic muscle, and stunning musicianship, this addictive album only grows deeper with repeat listens. Loud, dynamic, and irresistibly heavy! For the other album we jotted down some thoughts that could guide you along this brutal descent into doom, sludge, and pure sonic warfare. Burning riffs, pulverizing drums, and desperate fury collide across eight devastating tracks. From crushing epics to punked-out assaults, this is a band at their most colossal and merciless! With some forty points above the Number 21 we find two bands… 

 

According to all the votes that came in… 

On Number 20 we find: 

KAISER - 2ND SOUND  

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CONAN - VIOLENCE DIMENSION 

 

 

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Greenleaf
Dozer
Electric Citizen
Conan
Mandy Manala
Sheev
Hexvessel
Primal Scream
Vaka
Magic Pie

Morning! We’ve got some time off approaching fast. And working hard to get all that rent paying stuff done as well as some promises we made for Stoner HiVe. So, besides those updates, not that many might appear this week. Cause on Thursday we leave for Sonic Whip Festival in Nijmegen! Can’t wait! Have you seen the line-up? Wowzah! The week past was filled with work as well but we still managed to do some HiVe stuff, I mean that Quick Fire Friday alone had eight good songs or more in it! But then we also managed to mention that wild new Gaupa single and the one by Kadavar. We put up a some words about the new Mountain of Misery, Paralyzed, Conan and Magic Pie. We were honored to receive that wonderful gift from Argonauta Records and we were also honored to be part of the Breakfast with Komatsu. And we finally put up a few words about that croissant filled morning… So, here’s to the new week! May it be good and merry for you all and for those attending Sonic Whip! Hope to see you all there!

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Week 20

Conan – Violence Dimension

 

Conan – Violence  Dimension
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Metal, Doom, Sludge
Rated: ****

At Stoner HiVe we try to go out of our way to mention those smaller bands, the ones starting out and the ones that are still doing all that ground work. And even though we do write about the big names often enough, we do realize we should write about them some more. Cause whenever the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of that year rolls around and all of your votes start to roll in, those are the ones that are always on the list. Take Conan. Number 19 on the Countdown of 2022 and Number 12 back in 2018. The three other albums probably should have made it as well and I’m suspecting the new Violence Dimension will make it this year. So, why not write a few words about it right now? Cause well, there’s enough violence in our dimension, right now. And that is the idea behind the new Conan album. The three from Liverpool, UK are traveling through the various landscapes filled with aggression, brutality and carnage. Delivering their own takes on all the different themes with furious riffs and bass work that burns it all down to a cinder. Demolishing drums pound away at the ashes as the piercing cries from vocalist, guitarist and founder Jon Davis enflames it all even more. The three are still founder Jon Davis, drummer Johnny King, present since 2017 and on bass since 2023 David Ryley formerly of Ungraven and Fudge Tunnel. And Ryley’s first release makes him sound even more colossal then on his other work and makes the Conan sound have this desperate edge. Turning the violence and aggression into something forlorn and twisted. And there’s a lot of the Conan sound present, doom, sludge, all metal and all the time. Although there is that forty five second long thrashy and punk battering ram called Warpsword. It not only batters down the door, but it also destroys all the furniture inside. And your own insides will get destroyed by that eight track Vortexxion. After having been beaten into submission by the wonderful ten minute long doom trod Ocean Of Boiling Skin, Vortexxion closes the album off with Conan drone. A barbaric take on drone, taking the feedback loop into a noisy reality filled with bleeding ears and melting innards. It’s a violent ending to a wonderful album…

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Duel
Bikini Beach
Volume
Ditch
Conan
Kryptograf
The New Bardots
Yawning Balch
Kwoon
Zement

Morning! It’s Monday over here and another dubious week ahead of us. Or perhaps yours look glorious? I hope so! For me the list below is glorious, and I guess that’s enough! We had a thoroughly busy week last week. But still managed to put up a few posts. And hope to do the same this week. We announced the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE of Plasticdrop’s new album Life, Death and Miracles, that will happen this Wednesday! And mentioned two singles, the new Katana and the new Kadavar. We also talked about two albums from 2024 that we thoroughly love and never got around to during that year. Which felt like something that had to be remedied! So, head over to the Volume and Duel reviews to see why! Glorious albums! Check’m out, check’m all out!

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Week 4

Number 19

 

Number 19

 

We listened to Sleepwulf and Sasquatch on Number 20, but now we move on to Number 19! Where we find no less than three albums. We do jump 27 points from Number 20 to reach Number 19, but we do this to get groovy with three albums all at once. Those final lists that came in on that final day, pushed them all into the same spot. We only mentioned one of these albums this year, although the other two bands did already make the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown during past editions. Both of them with their 2018 release. (Number 10 and Number 12.) This time around, that one release will undoubtedly serve as perfect evidence for their craftmanship as doom metal alchemists. Their skill in combining heavy metal, with sludge and doom will live on forever. Crushing you with their mighty riffs and severing your head with those bludgeoning rhythms, for it seems, there can be only one. The other album shoots among the stars at the opposite spectrum of the heavy universe. Their heavy psychedelic rock goes the way of post rock, atmospheric stoner and infuses tiny elements of metal and doom, but aims forever into the vast emptiness of space, filling it all with mighty guitar work and controlled drums. It will surely help them escape, if only for a moment, all the ugliness going on in their home country. Another band that will point the listener into the direction of a nation at war, of people struggling, is that third band, with their newest album, which we mentioned earlier in the year. On which they bring you two tracks in Farsi, the language of Iran. Two stand out tracks, that will show you that this German based band can do much more than what you might expect from them listening to the more Palm Desert stonerrock inspired opening of their album. I’m sure those one sentence write-ups you just read already made it perfectly obvious which three albums we find on Number 19… But if not, scroll down and see who is who and then go listen to all the great rock once again… On Number 19 we find:

 

 

Conan – Evidence Of Immortality

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Somali Yacht Club – The Space

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Samavayo – Payan

 

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