Vinyl HiVe - Grey Czar – Euarthropodia
We were absolutely honored to premiere this amazing album on April 9th...
And we are extremely grateful to receive this wonderful gift from the guys... Much love!
Out on Argonauta Records and Octopus Rising since April 11th, this is :
GREY CZAR - EUARTHROPODIA!!
If you can read it, you can claim the bandcamp code..
FULL ALBUM PREMIERE : Grey Czar – Euarthropodia
Grey Czar – Euarthropodia Review
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Good morning! Hope you all had a great week and may you all have a lovely new one. Remember, there is always good and great music to find refuge in, to provide aid and succor. And we are here, the embracing family of the heavy underground. Had a great chat with Dawn and Dandy Brown last night about Lorquin’s Admiral, an interview that will be online on Stoner HiVe soon. And managed to provide some new posts last week. We jotted down a few words on the new Minerall album, the new Duskhead EP, amazing new The Elven record and Technicolor Blood’s new release. A video for Döusk and Temple Fang and talked at length about how great that new Grey Czar album Euarthropodia. Which we were honored to do a FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for a few days later. No live music for me this weekend unfortunately, but I hope loads managed to see Acid Mammoth do their one-off, extra-long, amazing set at De Tanker in Amsterdamn yesterday. Let us know if you did and how good it was?! Here’s hoping we can do some stuff for the HiVe this week as well! Enjoy and check out the list of amazing albums we listened to last week. Either by visiting their bandcamp sites or clicking on that Spotify link below. Keep rockin everyone!
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Grey Czar – Euarthropodia
Euarthropodia is that most wondrous of albums. One of those that has the ability to make your imagination run rampant and whisk you away to another world. The Austrian four named Grey Czar have outdone themselves and Euarthropodia will surely strike a chord in every progressive rock enthusiast’s heart. We jotted down many words on what this album has made us see and feel, which you can read HERE, but perhaps you should not take our word for it. Perhaps you should just press play. Right now!
Cause we are honored to present to you the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Euarthropodia by Grey Czar. Out on Argonauta Records and Octopus Rising this is an album filled with fragile butterfly riffs and robust bee like solo’s, industrious organ trooping it out for every HiVe creature, turning the album into a testament to the beauty and despair of evolution…
Review of Grey Czar – Euarthropodia
We thank Grey Czar, Argonauta Records, Octopus Rising and Grand Sounds PR for the opportunity to premiere this album.
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Grey Czar – Euarthropodia
Argonauta Records / Octopus Rising – 2025
Rock, Metal, Prog, Stoner
Rated: *****
Shimmering memories of bronze lamps in alcoves, burning sesame oils, sending up coils of smoke and flickering shadows across palace walls that are meant to last for eternity. But every civilization is forever in decline and even though the spirit rebels against it and moves to build ever larger structures to repel the coming of the end, this decline is inevitable and crucial. Cause it will also mean rebirth. Decline and rebirth is the concept around which the brand new album Euarthropodia by Austrian quartet Grey Czar has been built. The imagery they evoke will be entirely up to the listener, but lost civilizations, ancient lore, majestic many legged beasts, winged creatures and giant insects will surely be a part of them. The compositions are purposeful and pristine, ensuring all prog rock and prog metal enthusiasts will feel a flutter in their hearts, as riffs stand firm or stomp ever forward, ready to trample whatever opposition they come across. Which is what Grey Czar seems to have been growing towards, ever since that first self-titled release from 2012. Still the four same comrades, trooping it out for their destiny. Euarthropodia is full of copper air and breathes antique love. Whether you hear it in that extra punctuated organ push of Insects Took Over or the way the vocals wash over the compositions, minorly touched by a second or third set of voices. And as the story continues throughout the album, you can feel decades glide by, as some tracks lean more towards sixties production or seventies rock, classic metal and towards the end even more eighties toned. It’s a wonderful extra touch that makes it even easy for the listener to get lost inside the world of Euarthropodia.
Opening with Eschaton, a short build that quickly enfolds its grand plan towards a sharp and salty push, with something akin to audio illusion, for there seems to be so much more breathing room between the different instruments and notes, it’s almost impossible to still sound so forceful and determined. Strained vocals give that extra air of classic prog rock and when the track has seamlessly transitioned into the second track Withered World, the main vocals get a bigger podium before Grey Czar thunders on. Thunder that becomes grainy and thick, even grittier than in that opening track. Insects Took Over follows with a minor jazz touch, this thick veiny bass, lovely key work opening the ball and that organ than pushing the track ever forwards. And by then you start to hear that minor touch of Ian Astbury color in the main vocalist’s voice. Another smooth transition already leads you to center piece Trooping For Euarthropodia, lead by a forceful wind, determined to drench the listener in all its prog rock glory. And where you can feel the propelling energy of Trooping For Euarthropodia deliver that rotational noise, the next track is actually called Ballad Of Propellerheads and gives more of a glide and layered descent, almost like a mercurial cascade down a river canyon. Which transitions with propeller sounds into Queens Of The New World, grand overture opening, pulling away the curtain, while the memories of all that was lost may not have been washed away, yet the sounds of a new day have arrived. Even more spring time sounds open following Nutritional Protocol, which soon turns a darker corner. Steadily building towards a passionate ending, not explosive, but heartfelt and gripping. Arthrobotic Liberty, explodes out of the gate, is touched by another retro organ push and a rising and falling sensation that almost feels like an arcane ritual. Feelings of chronic remorse riddled throughout the track and so classic in all its elements. Final track Aeon has that most eighties of effects, key work and production, almost Victorian in its execution, profoundly impressing and absorbing as it moves through its different scenes.
In all Euarthropodia feels like a dazzling feat of storytelling, using tried and true prog rock, metal and even minor stoner rock methods in such a way that everything feels brand new and vibrant. Even those vintage touches from the different eras, turning it all ageless and reverberating across space and time. Grey Czar manages to evoke atmospheres, images and emotions with seemingly carefree melodic gestures and riff hungry rhythms. There is no shortage of push or pull and the overall unfiltered texture turns the Euarthropodia into something coarse and grained. And it is this story, this one lost musical poem about decline and rebirth that got stuck in the shell and through all the lost civilizations, all the eras gone, slowly turned into a pearl…
And you can hear that pearl in all its glory on Stoner HiVe this upcoming Wednesday! That’s right, tune in, this Wednesday, the 9th of April for the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE of Grey Czar’s Euarthropodia !!
(Written by JK)
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Another Monday morning coming down… It was high living with concerts in abundance and a first dance with the High Desert Queen. That’s right! The Texas four finally came to my hometown to level the Effenaar venue together with Gnome and Greenleaf. They opened the ball with an amazing set, shocked and awed the audience, still managed to feel like a warm embrace and left many floating off into the night later on. Si senor, it was a good night! And a good week all round, except for the part where Google decided to flag something they probably did themselves as suspicious behavior and locked my accounts. Hence, no chance to update the little old blog for 48 hours. This meant we only premiered that devious Slow Draw single, published that wild Uranus Space Club review by Ronny Dijksterhuis and put up the post about the March Doom Charts. I’m pretty sure we can do more this week! And get ready for Wednesday, when we have the honor to premiere the full Euarthropodia album by Austrian Grey Czar! What a release that is!
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Morning! Hope everyone will have a great week. This is the Monday that starts a new week at home after that wonderful small vacation in the Austrian mountains. So this glance back and Most Listened Albums List is actually glancing back at last week and the week before. Cause, last Monday we were shooting down the slopes in grand fashion. Two weeks of posts takes us back to the Badlands Festival announcement, the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Drunken Crocodiles, a Jesse Stilettö write-up, words for Torpedo Torpedo, the mention of that wild live session on KEXP by Travo and the new Deafheaven. But Ronny Dijksterhuis graced us with two beauties about Dead Groove and Stiff Buscemi… If you haven’t go back and read through those, check out the list of Most Listened Albums above or on Spotify and get ready for a SINGLE PREMIERE, which we will do very soon…
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