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

Grande Royale – Grime Town

 

 

Grande Royale – Grime Town
The Sign Records – 2023
Rock, Hardrock, Garage
Rated: ****

Swedish powerhouse Grande Royale is back with their sixth album. And you can rest assured that Grime Town is once again one hell of an action packed record! In fact it’s so infectious, high energy rock ‘n roll, the promo has been on heavy and constant rotation since early February when it arrived and it got its hooks in us with opening track Tell Me. Just short of three minutes, was all Grande Royale needed to drag us along into Grime Town. And by the time second track Status Doom and third song Run Officer Run had graced our ears, we were smitten with yet another Grande Royale album. For there is no limit to the level of catchiness the boys can infuse with their garage and punky, hardrock. It’s something highly Swedish, and also typical Grande Royale. Typical Grande Royale but also very new, for the quartet now sports a line-up with a new guitar player and all four this time add vocals to almost every track you will hear. And those extra lead vocals on Run Officer Run by Helen Vilsson feel so perfect and give the album this tipping point track, for after that third track, you speed through the next two until you end up at sixth track Utopia, one of the singles, which gives you exactly thirty seconds of rest with its acoustic lead up, and then you just bop and bounce and dance along again. After which you can go berserk to Freak Parade! By the time you are moving around to Move Around Time, you might on some level start to feel that this straightforward, explosive rock ‘n roll, is just that, straightforward. But when it’s done with this level of proficiency and when it all sounds so contagious, you have to bow deep, take of your hat, throw it in the air and appreciate their brand of savage yet clean cut rock! Action rock it is, highly spirited and with only a minute level of danger… So yes, it’s safe to dance and safe to go bonkers in Grime Town!   

(Written by JK)

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Stoner HiVe’s Top 5 Artists listened to last week…

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Top 5 Artists listened to last week…

Grande Royal
Addicthead
The Brunswick
Honeymoon Disease
El Camino

Just a quick update of the most listened to artists last week. Grande Royal is high energy rock ’n roll from Sweden; and we all know, if it’s from Sweden, it is good! Some psychedelic spacey goodness from Switserland in the form of Addicthead. And The Brunswick we ofcourse already tipped last Friday in the Quick Fire Friday of that day. More Sweden in the form of Honeymoon Disease, a female fronted hardrock oriented band with a definite love for everything late sixties, early seventies. O’ and should we state the obvious, of course (this) El Camino also hails from that chosen country. Sweden, the place to be for all us heavy rock lovers. Their new album Cursed Congregation is doom metal to a very sinister degree. Another good week filled with awesome music! Check’m out! Check’m all out!