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

 

 

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

Mandy Manala
AAWKS
Messa
Gaupa
The Janitors
Desert Colossus
Komatsu
Brain Police
Electric Citizen
Temple Fang

Mornin everyone! Final few days before we depart for the road trip through Italy. And that while we still need to get grounded after another wild and wonderful edition of Sonic Whip Festival. Absolutely one of the best indoor festivals around! Loved every minute and show I saw but the performances by Karkara, Khan, The Devil And The Almighty Blues, Elder playing Lore in its entirety and the tears that welled up during Temple Fang will forever be edged upon my heart. Many thanks to all the venue, the organizers, the bands and the fans once again. What pure bliss to have been a part of it again! We hope to do a few more Stoner HiVe posts before we leave devoting every spare second we have. But they are severely limited, so we cannot say how much we will be able to do. But you can always enter the 'wayback machine' and scroll through old Stoner HiVe posts from the last sixteen years if you are hungry for some freaky HiVe stuff or visit last week’s post by Stevie Reek about Pearl Handled Revolver or words about Mandy Manala! And get ready for that FULL ALBUM REVIEW for Mandy Manala happening THIS WEDNESDAY! Have a great week everyone! Much love!

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Gaupa - Ten Of Twelve

 

Gaupa - Ten Of Twelve

Gaupa is on the verge of releasing six track mini album entitled Fyr. And Ten Of Twelve is the lead single. Promising to deliver all that you love about Gaupa and a whole lot more. Ten Of Twelve is labyrinthian, a wonderous maze to get lost in, to whirl and spin until your head is about to explode... 

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GAUPA reveal new single 'Ten of Twelve' & details of forthcoming mini album "Fyr"
 
 

Swedish heavy stoner rockers GAUPA drop 'Ten of Twelve' as the first advance single from their forthcoming new mini album "Fyr", meaning either "four", "beacon" or "lighthouse". The release is scheduled for July 4, 2025. Available for pre-order HERE.

"The rooster is the tenth animal in the Chinese zodiac and that's also the meaning of the title", vocalist Emma Näslund reveals. "It's usually connected with perseverance, being on time and alert. The rooster often suggests prosperity and luck in different cultures. I read that somewhere back in the day people thought it was lucky to bring a rooster into the kitchen. I thought that it was a bit fun to play with the idea of a chaotic and unlucky rooster. Someone who just messes things up."

Erik Jerka Sävström adds: "Initially, I wanted a medieval sounding riff, being inspired by our compatriots Hällas", the bass player writes. "When the riff emerged, I truly tried to give it that dreamy Hällas sound, but then I started to play with the changing pattern and it turned out even more complex than originally intended."

Tracklist
1. Lion's Thorn
2. Heavy Lord
3. Ten of Twelve
4. Elastic Sleep
5. Sömnen / Febersvan (Live at Monkey Moon Studios, 2023)

GAUPA return with new mini album "Fyr" and a slimmed down line-up to serve up some of their heaviest material to date. A multi-layered play on words, in the Swedish language "Fyr" can mean 'four', which coincides with this being GAUPA's fourth release. Yet it can also mean 'lighthouse', 'beacon', and 'fire', which for various reasons fit the music and lyrical content as well.

GAUPA have utilized the departure of guitarist Daniel Nygren, who left the band in 2024, to manifest a "big turning point", according to remaining and now sole guitarist David Rosberg. With various changes to their writing process, they also worked in new studios, with a new recording crew, and new visual artists.

New engineer Karl Daniel Lidén has given the tracks on "Fyr" a grittier, more aggressive sound. At the same time, the core elements of the Swedes' musical approach are present: spellbinding intricacy, tripped-out, spacious verses guiding a steady stream of psychedelia, and waves of hard stoner riffs.

Inspired largely by Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning science fiction novel "The Word for World Is Forest", vocalist Emma Näslund's lyrics contemplate the concept of time as well as the essential question as to what is real, which seeps throughout the songs.

Since the release of their self-titled EP in 2018, GAUPA – which translates as 'lynx' in English – have paved new ground in the stoner and psychedelic scene, building a unique cosmos defined by enchanting lyrical surrealism and mind-altering sounds. In 2020, their debut album "Feberdröm" pushed them into the international spotlight with its outstanding blend of progressive metal, doom, stoner, and folk, steered by the entrancing vocals of Emma Näslund.

Following the arrival of 2022's full-length "Myriad", with the track 'Exoskeleton' reaching over a million streams on Spotify (the EP's 'Febersvan' now has over 4 million), GAUPA went on to deliver unforgettable performances at prestigious festivals including Wacken Open Air, Hellfest, Sweden Rock, Mystic, and Desertfest among many others, as well as on tours with underground heavyweights such as UNCLE ACID AND THE DEADBEATS, BLOOD CEREMONY, and GRAVEYARD.

Although GAUPA describe "Fyr" as a "patchwork of parts", with each member having an equal part to play, this mini album comes as a solid record that sets a high bar for their future works. For the present, lean back, listen closely, and enjoy this captivating waypoint on the GAUPA journey!

(Based on a text originally written by Liz Scarlett)

The physical release of "Fyr" comes with a bonus track that is not included in the digital version.

 
Band: Gaupa
Album title: Fyr
Style: Heavy Stoner Rock
Release date: July 4, 2025
Label: Magnetic Eye Records
Review impact date: June 2, 2025

Line-up
Emma Näslund – vocals
Jimmy Hurtig – drums
Erik Jerka Sävström – bass
David Zol Rosberg – guitars

Guest musician
Adrian Dal Cero – bagpipe on 'Lion's Thorn'

Drum recording by György Barocsai at Svenska Grammofonstudion, Göteborg (SE)
Bass recording by György Barocsai at Svenska Grammofonstudion, Göteborg (SE)
Vocals, guitars & bagpipes recorded by David Zol Rosberg, Emma Näslund & Erik Ståhlberg at Estethuset studios & Emma's shed, Falun (SE)
Mixed by Karl Daniel Lidén
Mastering by Karl Daniel Lidén

Cover artwork by Kutlayus
Layout by David Åhrström

Links
www.gaupaband.com
www.facebook.com/gaupaband
www.instagram.com/gaupaband

Live
16 MAY 2025 Falun (SE) Tio14, KlubbSlammer
05 JUL 2025 London (UK) Stoomfest
25 JUL 2025 Gangnef (SE) Krökbacken Festival
01 AUG 2025 Beelen (DE) Krach am Bach
17 AUG 2025 Carhaix-Plouguer (FR) Motocultor

Gaupa - Myriad

Number 10 on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2022

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Freak Valley Festival

 

 

Freak Valley Festival

And we’re off! Off to Freak Valley Festival in Germany! Never been there, but the Festival has always been high on my list to experience. And this time, the sun, moon and stars, hell, everything in the universe aligned so we could go! Hell, and with a line-up that sports King Buffalo, Besvärjelsen, Kamchatka, Slift, Gaupa, Seedy Jeezus, Astroqueen, Steak, Earth Ship, Earthless, Clutch, The Obsessed and many more!! There is no way we could say no to the universe… We had to go… Seeya’ll on the flipside!

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Number 10

 

 

Number 10

Thank you all, all you crazy followers that voted for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2022. We’ve already passed 10 spots and sixteen bands with their respective albums. Up next is Number 10, indeed, we’re already entering the Top 10. And I’m going to make some remarks that are perhaps a bit lame and will immediately make obvious what album we find on this Number 10 position. Here goes nothing… We loved her earlier work, her earlier albums: Debut, Post, Homogenic and even Vespertine. After that the only album that did something for me, was perhaps Volta. Her newest Fossora record, will be a listened once and that will be enough kind of deal for me. Probably. Lame right? You know we’re kidding and we’re not really talking about Björk. But the pitch, the color and the overall sound of the vocalist of this band has so many similarities its kind of frightening. But you can also just move past the voice and on to the compositions, onto the countless use of stonerrock influences, psychedelics and doom into their proggy rock. For even though the voice might take center stage at the beginning, you soon find out that there’s amazing guitar work and wonderful drums waiting to be discovered. On Number 10 we find!   

Gaupa – Myriad

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

 

 

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

Popa Chubby
Jerky Dirt
Mythosphere
The Otolith
Thal
Black Mirrors
Gaupa
Dune Sea
Odonata
Sammal

Ola amigos! A new week is upon us… Did you listen to all those albums from the November Doom Charts yet? If not, you still have some time till the December edition rolls around… You also still have some time to send your VOTES, YOUR list of Favorite albums of 2022 to be tallied for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2022. Deadline is December 13th!  As for the week that has passed, had a great interview with Popa Chubby, a true blues man if ever there was one. And the other nine on the list are all there, because they are all amazing! So, if you are done with the November Doom Charts, you’d better check the ones above… All of them! Have a great week!

The Doom Charts for November 2022

 

 

Doom Charts

“I see The Doom Charts…” “In your dreams? While you’re awake? How often do you see them?” “All the time. They’re everywhere…”

I see the Doom Charts… But luckily we see them only once a month. On the First Friday of every month, the new edition of the Doom Charts go up. It doesn’t feel like they’re everywhere and all the time, right? There is no Doom Charts overkill is there? Cause even though we do the Friday Freebie sessions and we do the Peroration Post, we try to limit the amount of Doom Charts posts. Cause we’re only here to try and guide you all to albums that comes straight out of the Heavy Underground and that we feel need to be heard by everyone… Sure, there are some big names among them, sometimes. Or big names to the Heavy Underground ears. But the Contributors all feel that the albums we vote for every month, should be heard by everyone. And there is so much. There really and truly is. This month, 221 different albums, all received votes. That’s another 181 albums that aren’t featured among the forty below. And soon, the year-end-lists will start appearing. All of them listing the top albums of 2022. And if you consider the fact that we all keep discovering new amazing albums from past months and past years as well… We can only conclude that we live in amazing times, musically speaking… If only we could get our act together on all the different fronts as well.. Than we all would truly be rocking! But hey, below, especially for you, the esteemed heads from the Heavy Underground, are the November 2022 Doom Charts, with 37 brand new entries to rock out to! Go rock! Go roll!

I see the brand new November Doom Charts...

And they're not scary at all! Hell no, they're awesome... Featuring 40 amazing albums straight out of the heavy underground... Personal votes that made it, went out to:

Elder, GAUPA, WARLUNG, Vitskär Süden, Witchfinder, Onségen Ensemble, Cowboys & Aliens, Desert Wave, High Noon Kahuna, Grandier, Thammuz, Astrosaur, The Otolith, Odonata, Dune Sea, Black Mirrors & The Grand Mal

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 November 2022  

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

 

 

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

Elder
Grandier
Samavayo
Planes Mistaken For Stars
Diggeth
Guara
Shamanic Ritual
Gaupa
Deseret
Edna

This should have gone up on Monday… Obviously. But, well, Helldorado happened and we’re swamped with other work. So, updates might be few and far between for a week… Should magic happen and we get all the work done quickly, we will be getting down to some Doom Charts and Stoner HiVe business tomorrow… Or perhaps surely… Cause we all know what day it is tomorrow… Grin!

Top 10 Most Listened To Albums Last Week…

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Top 10 Most Listened To Albums Last Week…

Witches of Doom

Puta Volcano

Phe

Slow Phase

Ritual King

Camel Driver

Gaupa

Haunted Summer

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Lucifungus

Something different… We decided to post the  Top 10 of last week. Because we listened to a lot of different albums, but had limited time to really dive into them. But the 10 listed here will definitely continue to get a lot of spins! So check’m out! Check’m all out!