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

 

 

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

Grey Czar
Kaiser
Torpedo Torpedo
Goya
Temple Fang
Deafheaven
The Pighounds
Miss Lava
Sloth
Kazea

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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Week 13 & 14

Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power

 

 

Deafheaven – Lonely People With Power
Warner/Roadrunner – 2025
Metal, Black, Post, Shoegaze
Rated: ****

I could have sworn we mentioned their lesser metal more shoegaze album Infinite Granite back when it was released in 2021. But apparently, we did not. And so we jot down these words about the new Deafheaven album Lonely People With Power as if it comes back to back with Ordinary Corrupt Human Love from 2018 and New Bermuda from 2015. And on some levels, it does. For Deafheaven moves decidedly back to that metal side and the black metal screams that turned the metal world into a black metal haven, a heaven, a Deafheaven. It’s blast beats galore and granite grinding vocals, surging across crashing guitar tsunamis. But they haven’t discarded all of those Infinite Granite movements, for the dynamic range has been amplified, the waves crash harder and the flow between all the different elements feels natural and almost super natural. Otherworldly storms of blissful power and torturous components, turn into heavenly flowing dark, pop sensible melodies. With Amethyst being all of that in its purest and harmony bringing form, binding all the different elements of Lonely People With Power into one shining piece of jewelry. It’s Deafheaven, and all of it…

(Written by JK)

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Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Anti – 2018

Metal, Black, Post

Rated: ***

I’m still a bit on the fence about this one. Deafheaven’s 2013 album Sunbather was absolutely majestic, but follow-up New Bermuda did not seem to work for me. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love works in waves. Especially whenever they go atmospheric and grandiose, it’s on those moments I go wandering around with them and get lost in the song. And it’s not that their combination of screech vocals and blast beats, their black metal and post rock, their ambient shoegaze and full on assault contorts the soul or wrings the skin. It’s just that I seem to miss something and I do not know what. But then comes Chelsea Wolfe’s guest vocals along on the much too short ballad Night People and I immediately want to hear more of this. Once again whisking George Clarke’s hellish scorching throat to the side like it’s not what we came here for. Weird. I guess my love for the band has been corrupted. But I’m sure every other metal aficionado looking for something complex, melodic, atmospheric and debilitating piece of metal will love it and appreciate it for what it is. A wild thorny flower among the concrete ruins…

(Written by JK)

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Deafheaven – New Bermuda

Deafheaven – New Bermuda

Epitaph/Anti – 2015

Rock, Metal

Rated: ***

Back in 2013 Sunbather was rightfully received as a damn fine and almost sensational metal record. Deafheaven was able to combine black metal elements, screeching vocals, machinegun drums, shoegaze guitars and atmospheric soundscapes into one blissful outing. On the new record New Bermuda they try to perfect that strange mixture of dreampop and occult noise. But the six colossal desperate, blackened music offerings that still bring something uplifting fall a bit short this time. The bubbling black cauldron soup and punishing rituals once again turn into something soft and melancholic. But instead of offering refuge and solace, they seem to add to the despair of loss this time around. It will be hard to find middle of the road thinkers on this album, cause it will annoy, irritate or infuriate most listeners and will exalt the rest. But even so, that’s exactly what it is. Middle of the road and with no definite goal on the horizon…

(Written by JK)

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