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

 

 

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

Acid Rooster
Your Highness
Sun Blood Stories
Phantom Hound
Waingro
Neànder
Kanaan & Aevestaden
1000Mods
Delving
Ruff Majik

Morning! Another week in the books, and we managed to jot down a few words left and right and so did Ronny! Did you read up on Texas Hippie Coalition of Hand? Spot on words for awesome releases! We wrote something about Bozoo and we’re honored to bring you the Full Album Premiere a day later. A mention also appeared for The Black Furs, Waingro, Acid Rooster and Your Highness, all of’m albums one can get entire lost in! And we can’t wait to get lot at Helldorado Festival, Eindhoven, November 16h… Yes, only a month away! Let’s see if we can get something posted this week as well. We always hope so! And below, as usual, the Spotify playlist for the Most Listened Album of past week. IF they are on Spotify. And if not, there are bandcamp links as well… Have a great one!

Stoner HiVe's Weekly Top 10 Most Listened

Week 42

Full Earth – Cloud Sculpters

 

 

Full Earth – Cloud Sculpters
Stickman Records – 2024
Rock, Prog, Fusion, Kraut, Instrumental
Rated: ***

It was released a week ago digitally, the debut album by the new five-piece from Oslo called Full Earth. Formed by Kanaan-drummer Ingvald André Vassbø to see even more of his inspirations, ideas and conceptions come to live. He immediately implored the aid of his two Kanaan companions, guitarist Ask Vatn Strøm and bassist Eskild Myrvoll, who plays guitar, synth and samples for this album. To round out the quintet he got jazz bassist Simen Wie and for keys and organ Øystein Heide Aadland who you might know from the Drongo project. Well, together they formed a band whose names and deeds were to be retold throughout history and their first album would be called: Cloud Sculptures. A prog rock extravaganza lasting almost one and a half hours. Divided into six tracks, four of which lasting from almost fifteen minutes to over twenty minutes. And two shorter compositions. If that sounds big, you will feel dwarfed when you finally start listening. The first two compositions are an album in their own right, totaling forty-one minutes, and spending all those minutes in a whirling progressive adventure, which feels as imaginative as it feels powerful. Building segments, prolonged releases, expert instrumentation and with so much happening around you that you will feel the world spin out of control around you. And as you become overwhelmed by the entire experience, they manage to give you just the perfect handle to hold on to and to keep moving forward. And on some level you will never want Full Earth Pt1 – Emanation or the following title track Cloud Sculptures to end. And that is why third track Weltgeist, feels as the unwelcome interlude, a rude gaseous stopping point for the cosmic trip you were on. The bathroom break you did not need. On some level I can understand the need for this kind of extrapolation of vaporous keywork, but it seems out of tune with all that you had been experiencing on those first two tracks. Even though fourth track The Collective Unconscious starts by building on Weltgeist, but you immediately feel this is going places. It will not stay the intangible essence of what Weltgeist turns out to be. And by that fourth track you are already an hour deep into Cloud Sculptures and there is still so much more to come. And yes, I am all for more and more and just a bit more. But as Echo Tears bubbles over me, I cannot help but think, that like Weltgeist, it feels out of tune with the other tracks. Where everything on the album became more and more, more instrumentation, more segments, more minutes of wonderful prog rock, Echo Tears turned a minimalist corner. There is wonderment here, and there is a definite trance inducing capability about the entire organ driven arrangement as they dance around each other. But it’s almost as if it’s meant for an entirely different experience than those prog rock wonders of before. Even though, once again final track Full Earth Pt II – Disintegration does build upon the resonance left behind by Echo Tears. Slowly turning into a chaotic overture, destroying time signatures, melodicism and then turning back around and into this dynamic, but still extremely turbulent abstract, and expressionistic drip like prog. It is wild, awe-inspiring, shocking, and so is looking back on the almost one and half hours of Full Earth. There is so much and perhaps, and I hardly ever say this, there is a too much. It’s difficult to wrap your mind around all you heard and experienced. Full Earth is so full of everything, it might make your head explode. Perhaps that is the reason there is so much. Ingvald André Vassbø had to let everything out… Cause if you are so extremely full of ideas and inspiration, you’d better let it out… If not, you might explode...

(Written by JK)

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Doktor420’s – Personal Top 20 - 2023

 

Doktor420’s – Personal Top 20

of 2023!

It’s the good Doktor420’s Personal Top 20 of 2023. The Guru himself blesses us with his Top 50. And was struggling to keep it to that minimum. So, these are the good Doktor420’s Personal Top 50 albums of 2023, it’s what he prescribes. For a good time and for reflecting on what 2023 brought us all musically. Best be listening to them all then! Soon it will also appear on the Doom Charts; cause as you know these dudes all are involved with that gang as well. But, it’s here first… And yes, there's even MORE medicine below the Top 50 for you to discover! All albums that only barely missed out on a ranked position... Check’m all out!

1. Black Rainbows - Superskull

2. Shivalila - Meditations On The Kali Yuga

3. Emperors Lair - Dare Mighty Things

4. Giöbia - Acid Disorder

5. Speck - Eine Gute Reise

6. Kanaan - Downpour

7. Throw Down Bones - Three

8. Kosmodrom - Welcome to Reality

9. Fargo - Geli

10. Dozer - Drifting In The Endless Void

11. Outer Head - Delirium

12. Mammatus - Expanding Majesty

13. Ruff Majik - Elektrik Ram

14. Fire Down Below - Low Desert Surf Club

15. Domkraft - Sonic Moons

16. Rotor - Sieben

17. Apex Ten - Aashray

18. Loose Sutures - Sado Sex For Dummies

19. the Spacelords - Nectar of the Gods

20. ːnepaal - Protoaeolianism

21. Hazeshuttle - Hazeshuttle

22. Cyclist Conspiracy - Mashalla Plan

23. IAH - V

24. Tropic Santos - Caccia Grossa

25. Smoke The Light - The Great Never Ending

26. Signo Rojo - There Was A Hole Here

27. Moon Coven - Sun King

28. Colour - Colour

29. Acid Rooster - Flowers & Dead Souls

30. Aathma - Dust from a Dark Sun

31. Cyclist Conspiracy - Mashalla Plan

32. Oopsy Dazey - Oopsy Dazey

33. Moonstone - Growth

34. Garden of Ash - Garden of Ash

35. Machine - Wave Cannon

36. Phe - Nothing Else Is Real

37. Silver Linings - Pink Fish

38. Astronomie - Interstellar Nomad

39. Cleõphüzz - Mystic Vulture

40. TFNRSH - Tiefenrausch

41. SPURV - Brefjære

42. Ethyl Ether - Violent Entertainment

43. Gorilla Pulp - Mask Off!

44. Mushroom Giant - In a Forest

45. Peregrino - BongoBonzoo

46. Giant Lungs - Giant Lungs

47. Acid Magus - Hope Is Heavy

48. Green Lung - This Heathen Land

49. Warlocks - In Between Sad

50. Wet Cactus - Magma Tres

 

More medicine, but in alphabetical order...|

Abanamat - Abanamat

Acid King - Beyond Vision

AcidSitter - Make Acid Great Again

Alligator Wine - Bones and Teeth

Bahboon - Thunder Ape

Borracho - Blurring the Lines of Reality

Cavaran - Nights At Josan

Damage Therapy - Panacea

Dead Shrine - The Eightfold Path

Dryad - Y

Dune Pilot - Magnetic

Formation Ritual - Doors to the Dead

Fuzz Evil - New Blood

Fuzz Sagrado - Luz e Sombra

Gozu - Remedy

Grandma's Ashes - This Too Shall Pass

Graveyard - 6

Gray Goo - Circus Nightmare

Green Yeti - Necropolitan

Honeygiant - Honeygiant

Howlin' Rats - Should Have Smelt A Rat

Howling Giant - Glass Future

Iglesia Atomica - Los Demonios Andan Sueltos

Illusions Of An Orange - Into The Orangeverse

Jukebox Monkey - Smiles Becoming Teeth

Kal-El - Moon People

Kanaan - Diversions Vol. 2 Enter the Astral Plane

King Potenaz - Goat Rider

King Solomon - Heights

Kombynat Robotron & DUNDDW - split

Kombynat Robotron - Frohe Zukunft

Levitating Snakes - Zodiac

L'Ira Del Baccano - Cosmic Evoked Potentials

Margarita Witch Cult - Margarita Witch Cult

Mountain Of Misery - In Roundness

Mouth - Getaway

Mud Spencer - Kliwon

Musing - Somewhen

Narbo Dacal - Elysium Now

Oddplay - Inherited

Orsak:Oslo - In Irons

Pilot the Dune - Pilot The Dune

Plainride - Plainride

REZN & Vinnum Sabbathi - Silent Future

Saint Karloff - Paleolithic War Crimes

Santo Rostro - Después No Habrá Nada

Sativa Root - Kings of the Weed Age

School Disco - Denton Rock

Shem - III

Snakemother - Snakemother

Spidergawd - VII

Spotlights - Alchemy For The Dead

Sun Dial - Messages From The Mothership

Swan Valley Heights - Terminal Forest

Tidal Wave - The Lord Knows

Titane - Hyperspace

Travo - Astromorph God

the W Likes - II

Zeup - Mammals

And check out the two reviews/blurbs he wrote last year here:

Crabe – Visite du Temple Inné

Mountain Of Misery – In Roundness

Doktor420’s – Personal Top 20

 

 

Doktor420’s – Personal Top 20

It’s the good Doktor420’s Personal Top 20. The Guru himself blesses us with his Top 25. And was struggling to keep it to that minimum. So, these are the good Doktor420’s Personal Top 25 albums of 2022, it’s what he prescribes. For a good time and for reflecting on what 2022 brought us all musically. Best be listening to them all then! Soon it might also appear on the Doom Charts; cause as you know we all are involved with that gang. But, it’s here first… Check’m all out!

1. King Buffalo - Regenerator

2. Desert Wave - Deafening Silence

3. Psychlona - Palo Verde

4. Elder - Innate Passage

5. Korb - III

6. Electric Yawn - YTINASNiNSIGHT

7. Sweet Cobra - Threes

8. Papir - 7

9. Naxatras - IV

10. Kombynat Robotron - Dickfehler Studio Treffen II

11. Red Sun Atacama - D A R W I N

12. Odonata - Gravitational Perturbation

13. The Swell Fellas - Novaturia

14. Thammuz - Sons Of The Occult

15. Samavayo - Payan

16. Dead Meadow - Force Form Free

17. Sergeant Thunderhoof - The Screpted Veil

18. Wo Fat - The Singularity

19. Somali Yacht Club - The Space

20. Half Gramme of Soma - Slip Through the Cracks

21. Charley No Face - Eleven Thousand Volts

22. High Noon Kahuna - Killing Spree

23. Pariahlord - Vultures

24. Liquid Earth - Teufelskreis

25. Kanaan - Diversions Vol. 1 Softly Through Sunshine

Alunah - Strange Machine
Astrosaur - Portals
Band Of Spice - How We Play The Game
Beak˃ - Kosmik Musik
Besvärjelsen - Atlas
Black Angels - Wilderness of Mirrors
Black Capricorn - Cult of Blood
Brutus - Unison Life
CB3 - Exploration
Chivo - Ouroboros
Church of The Cosmic Skull - There Is No Time
Demonauta - Low Melodies About Chaos
Desert Queen - Inner Desert
Dhidalah - Sensoria 認識
Ealdor Bealu - Psychic Forms
Edena Gardens - Edena Gardens
El Peyote - El Peyote
Electric Moon & Kungens Män & ElonMusk & Kanaan - International Space Station vol.1
Gaupa - Myriad
Geezer - Stoned Blues Machine
God Is An Astronaut - Somnia
Godzilla In The Kitchen - Exodus
Gondhawa - Mäanthagorī EP
Grand Mal - The Grand Mal II
Gray Goo - 1943
Greenbeard - Variant
Hebi Katana - Impermanence-無常
Hellacopters - Eyes Of Oblivion
HWDU - Better You Than Me
Killing Joke - Lord of Chaos EP
Klaus Schulze - Deus Arrakis
Kryptograf - The Eldorado Spell
Les Lekin - Limbus
Long Distance Calling - Eraser
Mecanicos - Nomade
Messa - Close
Minami Deutsch - Fortune Goodies
Miscellen - Black Mandala I
Motorpsycho - Ancient Astronauts
Mud Spencer - In Mud We Trust
My Sleeping Karma - Atma
Onségen Ensemble - Realms
Russian Circles - Gnosis
Sasquatch - Fever Fantasy
Sisteria - Dark Matter
Son Cesano - Emerge
Soonago - Fathom
Stoned Karma - A Maze In The Clouds EP
Stoned Karma - Age Of Oblivion
Stonerhenge - Eternal Explorer
Strangers With Guns - All Pleasure Is Just Relief
Surfsquatch - Planet Neptune
Swörn - Keshan
Tangerine Dream - Raum
Temple Fang - Jerusalem ̸ The Bridge EP
Tigers On Opium - 503.420.6669.vol two EP
Torpedo Torpedo - The Kuiper Belt Mantras EP
Torrents - Dual Fates
Toundra - Hex
Valley of the Sun - The Chariot
Vitskär Süden - The Faceless King
Void Cruiser - Call of the Void
White Hills - The Revenge Of Heads On Fire
ZOAHR - Apraxia

The Doom Charts For December 2021

 

 

Doom Charts

 "It’s a new dawn… It’s a new day… It’s a new life, for me… And I’m feeling good…"
        ~ Cy Grant / Nina Simone

This is not a year-end post. This is not a glance back at what the year brought. This is the regular December 2021 edition of the Doom Charts. Posted; as usual, on the first of the month. In the near future a lot of our contributors will be sending their Personal Top XX lists and they will all go up on the site. Followed by a Top 100 of all the albums that got voted on. And then we close the book on 2021. We won’t stop listening to those albums though, cause they will forever be with us. There have been so many great releases once again; that we cannot do much more but keep promoting all that heavy stuff we love, tip our hats, applaud and give them all the universal nod. But for now; here’s December. 254 albums got voted for this month and that resulted in 22 spanking new albums that got blurbed! Let it blurb, let it blurb… Let it doom, let it doom!

On January 1, 2022, the December Doom Charts of that month went live. That’s only 8 days ago. But since then we’ve been posting all the personal lists of favorite albums, and now it feels like a lifetime. We wanted to do a straight run of Top 20 Countdown and then all the Personal Favorites, hence we never promoted the December Doom Charts of 2021. So, we do that now! Did you visit the site? Did you get wild with all them bands? We hope you did! And hey, the good Doktor420 wrote a blurb again. That Speck one. Nice huh!? Anyway, personal votes went out to: Kanaan, Nekromant, Low Orbit, Spidergawd, Stargo & King Buffalo… And next month, we surely will vote for Speck! What an album! Check it out! Check’m all out!

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and 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 Charts For December 2021

Kanaan - Odense Sessions

Kanaan - Odense Sessions

El Paraiso Records – 2020

Stoner, Psychedelic, Space Rock

Rated: ****

Kanaan's 2018 offering, "Windborne" showcased the Norwegian band's firm grasp on the handle of Psychedelic Space Rock, traversing the astral dimensions of Mythic Sunship and Øresund Space Collective. Two years on and their latest treat, Odense Sessions, follows on in similar fashion: 4 extended tracks of stellar exploration with a fluid, organic feel throughout. Indeed there's a looseness here; the drawn-out cosmic cartography of 'Seemingly Changeless Stars" flows with an elastic symbiosis of improvised groove born from the freedom of the jam. The comparisons with the Danish outfits are still recognizable, but Kanaan have created a distinguishing, aerated sound that explores as much of empty space as it does the brimming cosmos and a mellower, less frenetic cadence than their counterparts. Second track 'Of Raging Billows Breaking on the Ground' is a perfect example of invention with restraint - slowly building tones and rhythms into a tour-de-force that brings Elder's later works to mind. 'Vacant Spaces' follows a more languid topography, subdued shimmers of guitar picking through soma - induced vibrations and almost telepathic interplay between the instruments. Finishing the cosmic tour, 'Urgent Excursions to the Tundrasphere' has a quiet, echo-fueled beginning, transforming through pace and pulsing bass runs into a full-blown rocket-burn of soaring guitars and heavy percussion. Kanaan have delivered their own inimitable brand of Space Rock, one that bears all the hallmarks of quality in quantum entanglement...one to lose yourself in time and again.

(Written by Reek of STOOM)

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