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

 

 

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

Wolf Alice
Yawning Man
Lacertilia
-II-
Ambra
Abanamat
Homegrown
Ritual Arcana
Black Magic Tree
An Abstract Illusion

Yes, we’re on another Monday trip! Busy as hell, still recovering from minor injuries after being hit by a car last week and also trying to come down from a wonderful Wolf Alice gig last night. Does the week before us look good? Well, as long as we won’t get hit by another car, it will be grand and we’ll try to post as much as we did last week. Cause we managed to do a Quick Fire Friday and we’re honored to have provided the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for the amazing Dune Aurora record for you all! But besides those we jotted down some words about Dead Otter, A Gram Trip and Abanamat! Oh and a full review for Dune Aurora as well! And last but not least our awol brother from Howl From The Hollows, Stevie Reek wrote some words about that amazing Silver Orbs release! Man, that opening track Manganagas, wowzah! Did you hear it yet? Better check’m out! Check’m all out! 

Abanamat – Abominat

 

 

Abanamat – Abominat
Interstellar Smoke Records – 2025
Rock, Stoner, Psych, Prog
Rated: ****

They surfaced with their second release exactly one month ago. Abominat is Berlin based foursome Abanamat’s next dive for Interstellar Smoke Records, the successor to their well received 2023 debut. And the psych-prog quartet open the record by sinking the listener straight into deep waters. Longest track Dream Of The Fisherman’s wife unfurls like a slow current, its guitars drifting in gentle arcs while the band quickly establishes a fully immersive, largely instrumental ecosystem. Vocals, appear only as brief flashes of bioluminescence throughout the album, present for a moment and then gone, just gently guiding the flow and never anchoring anything down. 

Descending down the track list, we continue with Blue Yonder and the opener’s tidal sway before breaking into a proggy quick-moving eddy. Vocals shooting like a ripple across the surface, vanishing as the song returns to a shimmering calm. A thicker tonal pressure and equally wider meditative drift spurs Carpet Denim on, with a solo that delivers the grandiose white water splash before plunging back into heavier reefs, hinting at a surge that my burst through at any moment. 

And that lure, that siren’s call, is always there. The idea that something dangerous and wild might be lurking underneath it all. Murky waters, with bubbling percussion or brightening waves that progress until a lively swell built on muscular groove and far reaching guitar patterns takes shape. Instrumental depths that shine with color or a forceful churning that builds until a last crash awaits before a grand finale…

And grand it is, the closing track, with Earthless’ Isaiah  Mitchell on guitar, and a solo that spirals like a majestic whirlpool at album’s end. Like the fabled world’s end, pushing the boundaries of what came before and of the album’s final plunge. For it feels like that one final push, shove and jump from the towering cliffs. It’s exhilarating! And after expanding their sonic ocean, exploring new trenches, new colors and pressure zones this Abominat record is the treasure of legend they delved. And only extremely wild currents or desperate earthquakes, can shake the foundation that Abanamat has built, with only two albums. Amazing!

(Written by JK)

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

 

 

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

Lacertilia
Jan Akkerman
The Waterboys
Yawning Man
Temple Fang
Modder
The Re-Stoned
Abanamat
Remaining Daze
Kadavar

The new week has started and the week past was filled with three interviews, a concert (actually on one day) and a festival. So, yeah, little time to HiVe, but a lot of time spent with music! And we still managed to mention a few releases… Like the amazing new Yawning Man album and that devastating Modder release! Who showed their maximalist prowess on Helldorado Festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands. What a wicked show once again! And we had to pay attention to our very own in house poet Ronny Dijksterhuis! He’s doing a poetry challenge this month and is a true sculptor with words. Will there be more time for Stoner HiVe this week, we can only hope! If not, you can always use the way back machine and check out any of the older posts. Who knows, you might have missed something somewhere… Grin! 

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

 

 

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

Verona Florrist
Lacertilia
The Re-Stoned
Remaining Daze
Abanamat
Rattlesnake Venom Trip
Sweatmaster
Psychonaut
Kadavar
Love Your Witch

In a week leading up to the publishing of the new Doom Charts edition, we still managed to get some HiVe stuff done! Good morning and welcome to another glance at the week passed. We started the week passed with some words on Maha Sohona, Sunbreather, Frayle and Lacertilia. Managed to also do a Quick Fire Friday and watched as the new October Doom Charts spread like wildfire! What a month it has been. So many great releases! And as that other post filled with loads of goodies went up on Friday, the Quick Fire Friday segment we marveled once again at the amount of music being released on a daily basis! And after all that we done head first into the new single by LáGoon! Feeling truly honored to be able to reveal You Tried (You Failed) to the world! Have you listened yet? To all of it? If not, get on that! Or at least try… Grin!

The Doom Charts for February 2023

 

 

Doom Charts

“Death is but a doorway, time is but a window, I’ll be back.”

~ Vigo

And we are back! Just like clockwork, every damn month again, the Doom Charts are back! The first Friday of the new month and here we are with the February list of forty albums that all those Contributors loved so dearly. A Friday that sees the release of many new albums as well, and since it’s Bandcamp Friday, well… Take your pick! Or buy them all! Three albums carried over from January. Which means there are 37 spanking new albums on the list below. And just so you know, a lot of the Contributors were struggling to whittle down their list of favorite albums to the 25 they are allowed to send in. And a lot of the Contributors stated they already have a massive list of amazing albums for March as well. Crazy. So much brilliant heavy rock, so many breathtaking albums. We love it. So, indeed, who ever said rock ‘n roll was dead, and never understood what Vigo knew all along…

The February Doom Charts are here!

It's Bandcamp Friday and it coincides with the February Doom Charts! Does this make things simpler or more complicated? Cause all those FORTY albums are absolute stunners!  Personal votes on this months' list went out to: Hail the Void, Cleõphüzz, Dead Shrine, Khan, Westing, WARP, Grandma's Ashes, Abanamat, POLYMOON, Rotor, Emperors Lair, Witch City Music / Old Mine Universe, Swell O, Wolves in Winter, Sandrider, Moodoom and CHILD! The only one we mentioned on the HiVe so far is WARP, but there surely will be more to follow soon... Check'm out! Check'm all out!!

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 February 2023

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

 

 

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

Dozer
Grande Royale
The Legendary
Madrugada
Iroh
Wallace Vanborn
Fvzz Populi
Padre Cuervo
Abanamat
Emperor's Lair