Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

It’s been a few weeks since we did the last Quick Fire Friday round! But we’re here again and we dare to say it’s another one that will singe and sizzle! Another selection of beautiful singles, videos and EP’s to check out over the weekend. That’s right, we’ve got another one of those Quick Fire Friday segments for ya! For there is so much great music out there, we cannot ever do it all justice. So we came up with a way to shoot out a quick blurb and hope it will entice you to listen to the single or the entire discography! So here it is… Another Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!

Grin – Unshut

Remembering that damn fine show at Into The Void Festival, Leeuwarden last year gave me a huge smile. Listening to the new single Unshut by two piece behemoth Grin made it even bigger! It’s the third single to the Acid Gods album which will be released May 30th on The Lasting Dose Records. Sludge tones, psychedelic doom and distorted by so much fuzzed out noise it will leave you breathless. Just like that live gig did…

 

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Blackfire – Billions

You looking for something soulful? Warm classic rock? But with a ‘critical eye to the illusion of wealth and the cost of chasing fortune’. Check out the many headed Australian Blackfire band and their new single Billions. Out on Golden Robot Records its has the good groove, the right view and a whole lot of easy rocking vibes…

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All India Radio - Catch The Breeze feat. Lisa Gibbs (SLOWDIVE cover)

Giving you all the right kind of shivers! Mixing all that shoegaze, ambient, slowcore and post rock into a snow globe of fluttering tones. It’s the Tasmanian duo All India Radio featuring Lisa Gibbs (Useraus), turning the Slowdive song Catch The Breeze into an even dreamier and mysterious waltzing flurry…

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Stone Clones – Numb Me Out

We just mentioned a band from Australia and a duo from Tasmania. Best be mentioned New Zealand as well in that case! And we’re lucky that Hamilton, New Zealand fourpiece Stone Clones just released a new track called Numb Me Out. A slow, desert strolling, stoner rocking song that has infectious pop sensible blow outs and a gumshoe storytelling vibe. Love it!

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Alien Sun – You

The last releases by Fabio Epifani and his London, UK born Alien Sun project stem from 2008. But now he’s sending a harrowing new tune into the world called You. Accompanied by an even more disturbing video. Fully made with AI it’s a ‘story about detachment and indifference in modern times. A story about all of us.’  Frightening and distressing, also because some of the images produced hit hard and show the capabilities of the AI thing is growing with every second that passes. And every bomb dropped…  

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Poste 942 - Zootiehead (Mindfunk Cover)

A new single by French crazies Poste 942! And as always, damn interesting! This one is part of a tribute album for Mindfunk. Its called Dropped From The Sky - A Tribute To MINDFUNK, comes out on Bitume Productions and featuring fifteen underground bands. Love me some underground, love some Mindfunk and love me some Zootiehead!

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Replica Jesus – Bonegrinder

Replica Jesus already enticed you all with that February single The Rope. And now, before a new full album, surely to arrive in the future, will be out, they slay with a second track called Bonegrinder. The Derby, UK four have their own style of punked up stoner and grunge. Bonegrinder is Replica Jesus at his best! You’d best believe!

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The Devil's Cabana Boiz – Retox

London's finest weekend warriors bringing you some groove and fuzz! It’s party time! The Devil’s Cabana Boiz got some more gold for you all. It’s called Retox, sporting kick ass lyrics, vocals and a flurry of great riffage. Accompanied by even greater key work! Hear that walk, that pretty little ditty on the keys. Makes me crack a smile! And if I would have had botox, crack my face…  

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Elefant Talk – Elefant Talk

 

 

Elefant Talk – Elefant Talk
M & O Music – 2021 / 2023
Rock, Stoner, Alternative
Rated: ***

Sure, on some level the album hasn’t completely sunk in yet, and perhaps we are too fast with this little write-up. But whenever a French band hits us up, we sort of feel we need to beat our fellow Doom Charts Contributors Thierry ‘Pumpkin-T’ Francois to the punch and be the first to strike. Just like the two-piece from Chambéry, France does. Indeed, the Elefant Talk duo strikes hard, strikes fast, and do this with a lot catchy bass riffs and pop sensible melodies. Stonerrock, alternative rock and a lot of attitude. The eleven tracks on their debut album move towards Royal Blood as much as it is marrying that Palm Desert sound to something very European. But there’s also something that makes you think of Muse and nineties rock. Combining more progressive almost jazzy drum work with powerful statements and pounding, it’s the driving force behind all the high energy tracks. But there are also those where the duo slow down in tempo like on Leave Me Alone and there they use both drums and bass to just leisurely flow underneath the carrying vocals. And although it’s not completely clear on all of the songs, but it seems most are told from the perspective of animals. On Mass Murder for instance an ant witness the destruction of its home. The second to last song is called The Hunting and features a guitar solo by Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, from Guns ‘N Roses and Sons Of Apollo fame. Final track Time To Go has you rocking back and forth with your eyes closed, before it picks up speed an vigor, slowly building in what surely be a euphoric release. Fascinating to see them close the album with perhaps their most impressive track and leaving you without that enormous release you feel the tracks is promising, leaving you wanting more…

(Written by JK)

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