Suncraft – Welcome To The Coven

 

 

Suncraft – Welcome To The Coven
All Good Clean Records – 2025
Rock, Metal, Punk, Hardcore, Stoner, Speed
Rated: ****

Welcome to… Welcome To The Coven! Suncraft’s back alley ritual where punk, stoner and black metal all showed up drunk and ready to hustle and fight! The Oslo five-piece have bottled their mania into a forty minute blast of pure ruckus that should make little sense. But it does anyway, it’s Suncraft’s way to destroy all expectations. Their name might whisper stoner, but this is not it, this is a demolition of all genres, and they do so with a malicious grin! 

Battering ram Ragebait kick things off like a lit fuse, pick slides, blast beats and enough TNT to blow up the entire neighborhood. But just as you are bracing for the explosion, Suncraft’s shifts gear and seamlessly into a majestic groove. Immediately revealing their biggest forte, showing their chaos with open hands and then squeezing it into needle point precision…

Their three guitar madness is a high-wire act! Riffs spiraling, tumbling and swapping with an incredible aloof kind of swagger. It all feels improvised, but well, it clearly isn’t! The only thing that seem to keep this on the ground is bass player and vocalist Rasmus Skage Jensen and drummer Tobias Paulsen’s manic drum work. Well, until they detonate too! Dynamite stuff! Addictive, unruly and the kind of pandemonium you love to wake up after being knocked unconscious… 

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Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

We love Friday’s! As we mentioned before. And now we even get to continue the run-down of the November Doom Charts! We love spinning all of them in a row once again. But, it will have to wait another hour or so. Cause well, it is Friday… And you know what that means!? It’s Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday time! A few lines about some stuff we got sent and dug! Dug a lot or felt we had to share with you all! For there is so much good and heavy music being released every day! And 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 it burns hot like molten lava!

 

Domo – Aldorassa

We’ve been honored to host a few premieres for Spinda Records. The last one was Santo Rostro from that awesome many singled project about the Spanish underground Spinda Records was releasing. Well, they just put up the new Domo single Aldorassa. And we all love Domo! Their heavy progressive psychedelic sound is exactly what one needs… On a daily basis!

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The Ghost Of Fu Kang Walker – Where Wolves and Wiccans Roam

'Introducing The Ghost of Fu Kang Walker; a not-so-straight-forward vintage rock/fantasy metal band from Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. With an official Birthday of Halloween Weekend, 2021, and a shelf life that is sure to span eternity, The Ghost of Fu Kang Walker invites you to listen to their first song - Where Wolves and Wiccans Roam.' We stole those lines from their Soundcloud page. And assume; that we are allowed to share the track with everybody out there. It makes me think of many things, but mostly Kung Foo, Chuck Norris and a multifunctional baby walker… Because well that's just me...

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Blue Heron – Black Blood Of The Earth

We had been listening to the awesome two-track Black Blood Of The Earth release by Blue Heron for a while before the Red Lead PR guy, and member of the band, sent over a PR-mail. “Blue Heron is a four-piece band from New Mexico creating our own mix of authentic desert rock blended with elements of doom, stoner metal, and heavy psych.” It is. But the two track starts out very sludgy, intense and swampy before the vocalist’s second voice hits. Which immediately goes into Alain Johannes territory; opening up all the senses. Which are quickly mashed into a pulp again by all that doom, all that sludge and all that metal! And all that’s good! It fits. Thow two voices; but personally I dig the clean version more…

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Waste A Saint – The Healer

I am intrigued. Recently signed to the All Good Clean Records label from Norway, is fourpiece Waste A Saint. Waste A Saint plays fuzzed out hardrock, balancing aggression and sunburnt feelgood in an intense dance between influences from the 60s and 70s music and the heavy footprint of the stoner era. Well, the new single The Healer delivers all that on all fronts. But it’s the other influences that really draw you in; those drums, that voice and that guitar… That voice... Trondheim… I am intrigued!

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Slog – Graves

Death Doom from Toledo, Ohio. Out on Morbid And Miserable Records, it’s the new album Graves by two piece Slog. A new project by the Nothing Is Real dude. Morose, slow, slog, bog and dark. There is nothing here for anyone looking for a moment of light, hope or peace. This just gets blacker, bleaker and will turn every mind into one that is at the end of its tether…

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Baron Crâne – Les Beaux Jours

We’ve always been a fan of those three crazy Parisians! Indeed, we mean Baron Crâne! And they released their seven track Les Beaux Jours album already back in October through Mrs. Red Sound. Even more jazzy, even more fusion, even more progressive than all those releases they did before this will demand a bit of extra will to get high to. Well, until that African hypnotism starts!

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White Tundra – Honningfella

 

White Tundra – Honningfella
All Good Clean Records – 2021
Rock, Stoner, Metal, Sludge
Rated: ****

We opened the press kit before we could download the two track of this 7inch single, thinking the EPK would deliver all the tracks, info and pr-pictures. We therefor could not help but read the following sentence: “For fans of Monster Magnet, Red Fang and Skraeckoedlan.” Sold! So, we immediately then found our way into the two tracks by Norwegian quartet White Tundra. They’re called Honningfella and One More Place and both deliver some tight stoner metal, rock and sludgy textures. Clearly inspired by classic riffs, they manage to make it all sound raw and rough, yet also retain something very catchy. With the multiple vocals it has a very rowdy and loud feeling to it. A bit manic even, but that’s exactly the way we like it! White Tundra, music to party to every night!

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Red Mountains – Slow Wander

Red Mountains – Slow Wander

All Good Clean Records – 2017

Rock, Stoner, Psych, Doom

Rated: ****

The honorable Charlie Tooth wrote about their debut album Down With The Sun back in 2015. And now, two years later, when September rolls around, the Norwegian Red Mountains are back with a new release called Slow Wander. And it is a majestic slow, yet urgent, trek across the highlands. Across a mountainous terrain that moves the soul and inspires the spirit at every turn. Produced by Spidergawd’s Per Borton, who also delivers guest vocals on the Acid Wedding track, the album definitely shines in all its psychedelic goodness and moves into a slightly darker realm without ever becoming oppressive. It actually sounds extremely wide in its vistas and with so much room for all the instruments and voice to excel. And that is really what they do best, that wonderful translation sensation an open expanse into heavy psychedelic rock and making it weave through your head and heart. Man, I want to go back to Norway again and cruise the Atlantic Road with this album at exactly the right volume…

(Written by JK)

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