Bear Bones – Ridin’ Out

 

 

Bear Bones – Ridin’ Out

So yeah, I guess we’ve not been paying enough attention recently. Cause Bear Bones has apparently already been around for a year. A new project made up out of Rob Hoey on Vocals, Alex Clarke on Guitar, Peter Holland on Bass and Marco Ninni on Drums. That’s right, an outfit featuring members from Elephant Tree, Limb, Swedish Death Candy, Black Moth and Morag Tong. And for this new track Ridin’ Out, they’ve gotten Scott Black from Green Lung to go crazy on guitar. And now that they’ve gotten my attention, I will not slacken the reins… 

With a definite Western or vile cowboy vibe, Ridin’ Out lumbers in on laid-back heavy blues, the groove following along in the dust cloud. Before kicking it all open, to a big windswept chorus, born out of a shadowy pulse of something doomier and dustier, a looming presence. This track seems built for the long haul, a long ride, down a dark desert with a band pushing forward through a dark and endless landscape. And now that we have Ridin’ Out, we can’t wait to hear more Bear Bones! 

And all you lucky folks that can make it over to Helgi’s, Hackney, London on March 30th, they will play there with Scott Black on guitar. And with Sky Valley Mistress on the bill as well! 

Listen to Ridin’ Out right now and keep your eyes peeled for the album, set for release through New Heavy Sounds later this year! 

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Bear Bones, who feature members of Elephant Tree, Limb, Swedish Death Candy, Black Moth and Morag Tong, return with “Ridin’ Out”, a brand new original track that marks the next step forward for the blues/doom outfit. Built around a driving groove and uncompromising riffs, the single captures the band at their most direct and focused to date.

“Ridin’ Out” keeps one foot in the blues while leaning fully into the weight and scale of doom. It’s a track designed for volume and for the stage — tight, deliberate and built to land hard. There’s no excess, no overthinking — just a band locked in and pushing their sound further.
The single features a guest appearance from Scott Black of Green Lung, adding another dimension to the track. That collaboration will carry over to the live setting, with Scott joining Bear Bones on stage at this year’s Masters Of The Riff at Oslo, Hackney.

“Ridin’ Out” also introduces the band’s forthcoming album, set for release through New Heavy Sounds later this year. The partnership with New Heavy Sounds (Cwfen, Blacklab, Shooting Daggers, Death Pill, Sky Valley Mistress) signals a significant moment for Bear Bones, placing them alongside some of the strongest names in the UK heavy scene and setting the stage for their most complete statement yet.
With a growing live reputation and a clear sense of direction, Bear Bones are building momentum. “Ridin’ Out” is the first taste of what’s coming next.

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30th March, Helgi’s, Hackney, London w/ Sky Valley Mistress (tickets)

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Number 4

 

 

Number 4

Psychlona at Number 6, Sundrifter at Number 5, they are all extremely close in points with today’s Number 4. For today we only move another ten points to reach Number 4. Where we find two bands! No, not two albums though. It’s a split album. One of the two splits you might have assumed would make the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2024. As the votes rolled in though, there were a few lists that had the remark written beside it: “I actually vote mostly because of one of the sides of this split album.” And one even stated that one side was the sole reason he voted for the split record. But both bands have been releasing magical albums for quite some time now. Both side feature amazing compositions and yes, that one side might be easier to come to grips with and the might be spilling over in emotional gravity because of the story behind it all. But yes, both sides are stunning, even though we must conclude, for us personally, that the song they collaborate together on is perhaps the key track on this record. Euphoria inducing, languid early morning grooves, with guitar tones delivered by the one band and the vocals by the other. It takes on this entirely hazy and almost dreamy attitude, with colors that shift like the sands of time. A night sky filled with falling stars and a moon that winks. And as it winks out, you feel the wish burning in your heart… Why couldn’t it last forever…

According to all of your votes, on Number 4 we find:

Elephant Tree / Lowrider - The Long Forever

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Lowrider / Elephant Tree - The Long Forever

 

 

Lowrider / Elephant Tree - The Long Forever
Stonerrock, Progressive, Doom
Blues Funeral Recordings
Rated: *****

Let us suck honey from the flowers, from the clusters in our hands… I am not necessarily a big fan of split albums, but there are always a few that defy expectations and are so perfect they become this holy grail of demonstration. Of showing off the most beautiful sides of the bands involved. Both Lowrider and Elephant Tree have done this on The Long Forever. Sprouting into different territories, wildly blossoming and turning it into one of the most gorgeous releases both bands have ever done. And that’s saying something when you realize the magical albums already released by both bands. There are seven songs on The Long Forever. Elephant Tree delivers three songs and has Lowrider add magic on final, title track, The Long Forever. Lowrider delivers four songs and has Elephant Tree pitch in on their fourth track, which sits there, in the middle of the split, as the perfect collaborative piece. It’s called Through The Rift, the Lowrider guitar tones, euphoria inducing, languid early morning grooves and vocals delivered by Elephant Tree. It takes on this entirely hazy and almost dreamy attitude, with colors that shift like the sands of time. A night sky filled with falling stars and a moon that winks. And as it winks out, you feel the wish burning in your heart… Why couldn’t it last forever…

(Written by JK)

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

 

 

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

Luna Sol
Orange Goblin
Psychlona
Rendezvous Point
Elephant Tree
Doomboyz
Jegulja
The Cold Stares
Occult Witches
Alunah

Another week in the books! Returning from yet another festival to see a wonderful July Doom Charts edition. Will be spreading the good word about it soon as well as doing that Stoner Hype thing! You know, where we try to write a sentence or two about the Numbers 40 to 26… We did not manage to do much last week, too busy and had to leave to early. But even so, we hope you glanced at the words about that damn fine prog metal record by Rendezvous Point, the damn cool and damn heavy Espectro De La Conciencia, Jon McGough’s sweet as hell write-up about The Blacktones and of course that way too long screed about one of the albums of the year, Science, Not Fiction, delivered by Orange Goblin. We hope to do more this week! And know that in a few hours we will be diving head first into the fine words delivered by Ronny Dijksterhuis about that awesome Occult Witches album! So, stay tuned, stay with us, stay heavy!

Number 3

 

 

Number 3

We can’t believe we are already at the Number 3 position of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020. The Bronze Medal! And shit, we can’t believe this fucked up year is almost done as well! And that we can look forward into 2021 with some hope that the fucked up thing of 2020 will finally be done with. But before we get into that state of mind, you know, that state, we put on King Buffalo we found on Number 4 yesterday one last time (for now); so we can try and come to grips of jumping another big hundred and sixty points to reach Number 3. Yes, another hundred and sixty points higher than that amazing King Buffalo album… And here we find a band that reached the Number 14 position of the 2016 Top 20 Countdown with their previous album and obviously reached the first spot of the Doom Charts back in April with their new one. This English psychedelic stoner rock formation delivers their take on earthy and folky inspiration with a high dose of fuzz and equal amount of enchanting atmosphere. Some doomy energy here and a lot of progressive touches turns this album into a must-have classic with no effort at all. For the unbelievable amount of earth shaking riffs and thundering grooves seem to continue on like a tsunami of heaviness. You can’t remain the occasional user listening to this one; it will enlarge any form of habit or addiction you have to this kind of music; it will balloon and it will be majestic! So, once more, into the breach for the Bronze Medal. On Number 3 in 2020 we find!

 

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

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Top 10 Most Listened To Albums Last Week…

1000Mods

Elephant Tree

Familiars

Hair Of The Dog

The Steepwater Band

Spell

Wolfhand

Hodag

The Wizar’d

Alien Lizard

As you might have noticed... Due to work we took on during the pandemic, listening time and HiVe time has unfortunately been very limited. Hence, we’ll keep posting the Top 10 of last week. Because once again we listened to a lot of different albums, but had limited time to really dive into them.  We also listened to some more podcasts than usual. Like the Doomed & Stoned one… Season 6, Episode 9 featuring Todd Severin from Ripple Music, John Gist of Vegas Rock Revolution and ofcourse Billy Goate himself. And you know our very own Reek of STOOM has been going podcast crazy on his own Podomatic site! Go check it out… And check out all them bands above! Yes! All of it and all of them!

The Doom Chart for April 2020

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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

The Doom Charts is all about consensus from a wide variety of individuals, each with their own personal tastes and proclivities. Whichever genre suits your tastes, we aim to bring you our opinions about what is hot right now. But they are only our opinions. Music is the great unexplored country and the beauty of all new discoveries is in the exploration. We each find our own paths: sometimes they converge finding kinship and accord, most times they are about self-exploration: both are equal and valid.

That sharp little intro this month is courteousy of our very own Reek of STOOM. Sharp, to the point and exactly right. Cause there is so much more out there and we continue to amaze each other with what we find and what we think is the best album out there that month. Rarely do we all agree; but since we started publishing the amount of points they got by voting you can see for yourself. Elephant Tree’s new album Habits really did something special for most of the Doom Chart Contributors. But you should really check out all of the 30 published albums, cause you will probably dig most of them and one of them might just be the new soundtrack to your life! 

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and album 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 Chart for April 2020

Number 14

Number 14

We jumped a few points here and there the past positions to reach Number 15 featuring Gojira and Black Rainbows. But now we jump another ten points to reach place Number 14 which is, once again, occupied by two bands. Swedes and Brits. One of them delivering their debut (full-sized) album this year while the other one came out swinging with their fifth. Everyone loves those Swedes and seeing them live will only make you love them more. Their stage antics and wild shows are always highly entertaining. You can count on them to show you a good time. With their fifth album they even managed to outdo their former album that reached Number 8 back in 2014. And they managed to outdo themselves, turning their wild no nonsense stoner rock into something much more adventurous. Which took quite a few fans to take slowly to their new album. But once the coin dropped, they were ofcourse once again victorious! The Brits rode high on the Doom Charts for four months straight. And rightfully so, their debut album is so chuck full of swing and groove, so densely packed with melodies and songwriting skill, you almost forget about the high intensity desert rock and blues roots that fuels it all. Riff upon riff and hymn upon hymn…

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