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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Ruff Majik
The Black Furs
Tommy And The Teleboys
The Sinsemillian
1000Mods
High Noon Kahuna
Deville
Black Capricorn
Slift
Erronaut

Mornin! Yes, it’s Tuesday now. But you know what happened. The Doom Charts for September went live on Friday and then we scooted off to the North of the Netherlands for an Into The Void Festival that will go down in history as one of the best! And then when Monday morning came around we were still reeling from all those magnificent shows and trying to make sure other rent paying work got done. Just like we will have to make sure to get some HiVe work done this week! It will happen. Last week, we only put up those words about the new Ruff Majik, posted the wild single for Underdogs featuring Nick Oliveri and premiered that kick ass Ghost Frog video. This week will see a bit more action. If everything works out. And we always hope it does! Check out the Top 10 and just like last week, there’s a handy Spotify Playlist if you use that.. If not, Bandcamp links are just a click away!

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

 

 

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

Deville
Zeal & Ardor
Psychlona
Alunah
Blue Heron
The Anomalys
Orange Goblin
Dead At Sea
Black On High
Diskord

Morning… FB / Meta has been out of control recently. The Doom Charts has had issues, even though we changed nothing in our operation. And for those following Stoner HiVe, well, you know there’s been loads of annoying stuff happening there as well. And now the news came that the always good, always decent, nothing but good Mel Lie from Sunday’s Heavy Tunes has been completely banned from FB  for no reason whatsoever. You would hope that someone starts a new social platform soon. Incorporation that which was good from FB and keep it completely clean of the nonsense, algorithms and bots FB has been using lately. Wishful thinking? Well… It’s another week and we’re gonna try and post this thing. Shall we try with or without links? Let’s see what happens and fingers crossed it works as it has always done in the past… Cause with new members Jon McGough and Ronny Dijksterhuis we have more capabilities to spread the word on all that good and heavy stuff out there! And it is deserved for them and the bands they write about. Quine for instance or Yajaira! We mentioned clips by Luna Sol and Occult Witches and managed to post that Stoner Hype thing where we blurb about the Numbers 40 to 26 of the last Doom Charts. And let’s not forget, we were honored to premiere that full album by Kahfa, out now on Argonauta Records! Go check it out! Check’m  all out! 

 

Deville – 20 Years

 

 

Deville – 20 Years
Sixteentimes Music – 2024
Rock, Hardrock, Stoner, Metal
Rated: ****

What’s that you say? You are not really that familiar with the amazing Deville? Where have you been the past twenty years? That’s right! Swedish quartet Deville has been around for twenty years! And to celebrate that fact they’ve selected eight tracks from their seven albums to introduce themselves all over again to those few who have not been rocking out to their majestic music. Add to this a wild new single Dust and a cover version of Nine Inch Nails’s The Hand That Feeds and you know you are in for a freaking good time! Shying away from their first two releases you get treated to the awesome Lava from their 2013 Hydra record. Their second 2013 record Come Heavy Sleep is represented by Rise Above and Deserter. Two years later they released Make It Belong To Us and from that album we get to hear What Remains. In 2018 they released Pigs With Gods, the title track, God Sealed Tomb and Wrecked are featured. And that amazing album from 2022 called Heavy Lies The Crown gets attention by the rocking Serpent Days. As usual with a compilation, best of and a glance back through a bands discography, fans will be missing their favorites perhaps and some albums should have been featured more according to your taste. But perhaps, when any of those feelings arise, it means, this album wasn’t made for you. You know Deville. You love Deville. Just like me. And yes, I need to have it because of Dust and the righteous rendition of The Hand That Feeds, and so do you. But this tasty Deville taster is actually here to make the other cats, the ones that did not know. Twenty years is a long time to go without Deville and I hope those cats and the ones that did know have Deville for another twenty years at least. And judging from that extremely fuzzy and entirely scorching new single Dust, we should! And for everybody getting their first taste of Deville, get ready for a ten track ride of your lifetime! 20 Years worth of rock condensed into one hell of a ride!

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Deville – Dust

 

 

Deville – Dust

We dig Deville! And after that wild Heavy Lies The Crown album that came out on Sixteentimes Music back in 2022, we were giddy to receive this new single called Dust. Cause knowing Deville, it must mean a new record is on the horizon. And it is! It’s a collection of their work over the twenty years of existence. And it will include a cover version of the Nine Inch Nails song The Hand That Feeds. Check out Dust, it’s Deville at their finest!

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With two decades of heavy guitar riffs and thunderous drum beats, these rockers are ready to unleash a sonic storm like never before. Celebrating their 20 year anniversary, Deville put together 10 electrifying tracks that will take you on a journey through the bands work over time. With 8 handpicked gems from their albums and starting with the new single DUST, this record is a testament to their passion for pure, unadulterated heavy rock and metal. On this album, Deville is unleashing their first-ever cover song, a spine-tingling rendition of Nine Inch Nails „The Hand That Feeds“. Prepare to be blown away by their unique take on this legendary anthem. Join the celebration and crank up the volume as Deville invites you to experience 20 years of Rock n Roll relentlessness in one epic record. The jubilee album is simply called 20 YEARS and will be out as a limited tape release. 20 Years is out the 9th of August via Sixteentimes Music.

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Dust
The Hand That Feeds (Nine Inch Nail cover)
Lava
What Remains
Serpent Days
Deserter
Pigs With Gods
Gold Sealed Tomb
Wrecked
Rise Above

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Deville – Heavy Lies The Crown

 

 

Deville – Heavy Lies The Crown
Sixteentimes Music – 2022
Rock, Hard, Stoner, Southern, Metal
Rated: *****

Hitting the world in heavy and full swing next week is the new album by Swedish quartet Deville. It’s called Heavy Lies The Crown and is the follow-up to that mighty Pigs With Gods album from 2018. And just to mention all those records they released before that, to show their great body of work, let’s sum them all up: Make It Belong To Us from 2015, Hydra from 2013, Hail The Black Sky in 2009 and Come Heavy Sleep in 2007. Indeed, the Swedes got together in 2004 and are approaching their 20 years of making heavy rock together. There has been some changing of the guard of course, during those decades, but vocalist, guitarist, Andreas Bengtsson is still there and the obvious focus point with his gruff, gritty, and highly recognizable vocals. During those years the sound morphed, progressed, and tried all sort of different attitudes, but one thing was always there: ballsy, no holds barred, highly energetic heavy rock! And well, Heavy Lies The Crown brings that trusted Deville sound, but once again, with quite a few extra touches here and there. Opener No Sun bursts out of the gate with a definite agenda to fill your being with that stoner metal sound, the way it cuts away when the vocals start and then goes full volume after the first lines is of course expertly done. No Sun will take no prisoners, and will surely have you headbanging, drumming or air guitaring along. It will have you on the edge of your seat anxious to hear the rest of the album. Second track and single Killing Time brings even more metal and wild percussion, Hands Tied, gives you a more stonerrock 2002 era sound and Serpent Days, gives a wide-open sounding metal landscape that seems to pass by slower than the tracks that came before, giving you some air and some light, although the ending turns pretty intense and claustrophobic again. But it’s fifth track Embrace that will undoubtedly have you floored. The way they approach the King Buffalo sound from a stoner metal take, the way they implore the progressive touch, the early stonerrock sound in one track, the addition of Andeas Wulkan as vocalist is simply stunning. Heavy Lies The Crown is Deville’s pandemic album, the one they recorded when the world stopped turning and the band had to stop touring. It resulted in many of the tracks being fleshed out by the different members before they passed the bar and were allowed to be recorded, which makes me wonder who was responsible for the Embrace track the most and for that final track Pray For More. Cause even though the entire album is filled with amazing hooks, grooves, and riffs abundant, those two tracks stand out the most. Pray For More, chugs away relentlessly, on a different level, riding those tracks like a monstrous freight train, and with the soaring lead and less gruff vocal lines, ambitious and almost opts for grandiose and gloriously appealing. And such sweet surrender and temptation will surely make you Pray For More…

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

 

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

Samán
Circle Creek
Psychlona
King Buffalo
Deville
Abrams
Sisteria
Mythic Sunship
Monsters Flesh
Somnus Throne

 

As we said before, we're still swamped with work and other crap. At least for one more week. Hopefully, everything will turn to normal after that... So, we're not sure how many updates will follow during this week...  But all the albums in the list above deserve to be spun for infinity! So, you'd better get to it!

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

It’s Friday again! Tonight we have to work... Doing a review of the Red Hot Chili Peppers show... But right now, we just realize it's Friday! And we’ve got yet another one of those crazy Quick Fire Friday rounds for you to go insane to! Cause there’s still a lot to cover and everyone of those singles, EPs and demos mentioned below are worth your time. Shit, they are worth way more of our time! But you know how it is… There is so much out there, so much good an heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is. The Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!

 

Deville – Hanged, Drawn and Quartered

Starting off with a righteous bang! We reviewed the very cool Hydra and ofcourse their last awesome album Pigs With Gods on the HiVe and know Deville has let us know that they will be releasing a new album this year through that label we only recently discovered, and already truly adore: Sixteentimes Music! Before the album arrives they shall release some singles that did NOT make the album! Hanged, Drawn and Quartered is once again more metal and more of that great Deville sound! Packing an incredible punch! Can’t wait to hear that new album!

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Ogives Big Band – Harm Redux

Harm Redux is a reimagining of the 2019 Harm EP by Ogives Big Band. This because Ogives went from three to four members, now including a vocalist. And this addition makes the droning noise, the psych metal, the math prog and all the other experimental ruckus the Bristol band produces even more frantic and feverish, inducing a delirium and psychotic reactions with no quarter asked and none given…

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Diamond Skull – The Deal

Austrian trio Diamond Skull are back with a new single The Deal! And one hell of a single it is, a midtempo, eighties and seventies referencing hard rocking slow builder. The blues roots are never far away and so is the feeling that you are listening to something classic. Groovy, metallic and hypnotic indeed! And a sure fire way to get the blood pumping and your anxiety to hear a full album to a maximum level… Cause if they’ve made The Deal with the Devil…  

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Basalt Shrine – From Fiery Tongues

Have we mentioned how we love Electric Spark Records from the Netherlands? Have we mentioned it enough? Well, here we go mentioning it again: we love Electric Spark Records! And they are about to release a new album from a insane black doom, post metal, sludge noise outfit from the Philippines called Basalt Shrine on vinyl. The four produce forty minutes of overwhelming metal, doom, noise and turning it extremely bleak, black and dark with its snarling vocals. From Fiery Tongues indeed!

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Warcoe – The Giant’s Dream

We’ve been listening to Warcoe for a while now; but it was thanks to Brandon from Morbid And Miserable Records and Marc-Eric Gagnon tipping it on the Doom Charts Peroration post for March that we got back into The Giant’s Dream for more of that good and heavy proto action! The Italian three deliver ‘groovy doom from the abyss’; where the giants have definitely been spinning a lot of Black Sabbath and Iommi honoring heavy metal. It’s stunning and it’s so addictive; once they’ve gotten their hooks in you there is no escape possible…

So, if they haven’t managed to grapple you yet: here’s a bandcamp code to drag you into the abyss with them: h3c4-egkt

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Louisiana Drifter – After The Flood

Ending it once again with something spectacular! Louisiana Drifter. Great name! And so is the music on their sophomore EP, After The Flood. The first EP, Road To Nowhere sported some great music but a lo-fi almost open-source recording sound. The new four-track release sounds so much improved we might assume they’ve stood around on a crossroads somewhere looking to make a deal. Bluesy rock, steeped in the seventies, with those psychedelic edges and stoner curves that we all love so much. Damn bluesy bayou-tastic goodness!

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Stoner HiVe's Top 10 artists listened to last month...

Stoner HiVe's

Top 10 artists listened to last month...

Greenleaf

Deville

Arctic Monkeys

Red Dragon Cartel

dEUS

Craneium

Hank von Hell

Johnny Kidd & The Pirates

Henry Derek Elis

Wasted Theory

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

Stoner HiVe’s

Top 5 artists listened to last week…

Greenleaf

Deville

Castle

Red Dragon Cartel

Daily Tompson

Well hello there! I did not expect to see you here. But thanks for joining and thanks for listening to all the cool stuff that is out there. We sure as hell can’t get enough of it! And we hope you can’t either! The new Daily Thompson for instance, out on Juno Records and MIG Music, is called Thirsty and messes around with grunge, hardrock and stoner making it all fuzzy, warm and psychedelic. It has something enormously laidback and we shall call it indie-stoner henceforth. Don’t hit us over the head for that. Or do, whatever tickles your fancy. Red Dragon Cartel brings us pure hardrock on their new album Patina! Out on Frontier Records. It’s Jake E. Lee and friends and you know that it can’t be wrong in that case! Or very very very wrong; and that’s alright as well! Castle has been soaring high on the Doom Charts this month. Bucky stated: “‘Deal Thy Fate’ cements Castle as its own distinguished brand of stoner meets heavy metal, especially within the Ripple catalog. Reinforced with indestructible Slayer-esque guitar tones, the threepiece lower a bridge of fuzzy hooks crossing a diabolic moat of molten metal.” Which means we had to put it on repeat ofcourse! Deville released Pigs With Gods through Fuzzorama and we already mentioned this intense muddy metal masterpiece in which we wallow! And then there’s Hear The Rivers! The new Greenleaf! Out on Napalm is continues where the last album left off. And thus is gives us their very own groove and energy, it’s their bounce, it’s their stomp and you cannot help but bounce and stomp along. Riding that green water rapid makes everything alright! All the time! So, you know what to do. You need to check’m out! Check’m all out!

Deville – Pigs With Gods

Deville – Pigs With Gods

Fuzzorama – 2018

Rock, Stoner, Metal

Rated: ****

Back in 2013 we mentioned their almighty Hydra album. Two other great ones came before and one damn great one called Make It Belong To Us came out two years later. Why we never mentioned that record beats the hell out of me? I reckon we should be flogged for neglect and dragged down the streets naked. Tar and feathers may be applied. For forgetting to worship the four Swedes from Deville and their fourth release, is pure heresy. So, let’s try to make up for the negligence and mention their fifth one entitled: Pigs With Gods. No less than twelve tracks grace the album and all of them are gritty, grimy and aggressive. Moving distinctly into a more metal approach and fast paced dynamic the album soon becomes a stalwart testament to something we like to call: leaving all options open. Whether this is due to the new rhythm section or not; the tracks try different approaches to their stoner metal sound. Opting for bombast here, groove there or spacious post influences where ever they envision them. It seems Deville has thrown all the imaginary boundaries out the window and aimed to make the record they heard in their head. And that is the only way to go. Cause now we have a muddy masterpiece in which to wallow…

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Deville – Hydra

Deville – Hydra

Small Stone – 2013

Rock, Stoner, Metal, Sludge

Rated: *****

Ye gods, these five star albums are just hitting from every angle at the beginning of this New Year like someone hit a gigantic bee’s nest full of heavy greatness. This time around we are treated to the third full-sized album by the Swedish Deville. Hydra is filled with grandiose metal tracks that have that sludge feel but move towards stoner and alternative rock just as easy. Their songs are sleazy and groovy hard-hitting masterpieces that show their skin first and slowly divulge every bit of their true colors. Catchy soulful tracks that are warm to the touch and hot to the ear. Stirring every fiber in your soul with their ever rolling drums and the tasty melodies; expertly drawn out by massive riffs and razor-sharp solos. And let’s not forget to mention the great vocals of Andreas Bengtsson; that hauls you along on every one of them hottdamn musical mountains!

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