Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday
It’s Friday… Well, it’s still Friday somewhere right?! Bandcamp Friday perhaps? Or at least Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday, right?! Yes sir! Or madam! But today we’re doing things slightly different. The Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday has always been a collection of the weird, the strange, the different and the older stuff. Well, today, we’re going to namedrop a lot of other stuff as well… Our love some of those magical people out there that do that label thing! Most of it was sent to us somewhere in 2021, and we can only get to it now… And we know, we know, the albums, bands, artists and labels deserve more than the few words we will jot down here. More attention and more of our time! But there is so much out there and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is. The Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!
Electric Relics Audio Artifacts
We’re starting with Electric Relics Audio Artifacts. Tanner Olson from Across Tundras very own label. And most of everything he offers on his bandcamp page is, Name Your Price! There are over 80 releases on his bandcamp page. And for a Friday, there is so much to listen to and so much to choose from! So, you’d best get yer furry little ass over to Electric Relics Audio Artifacts and get crackin!
Detieti — Serious IV
Progressive funk, krautish punk and total experimental freedom! That’s what Moscow five-piece Detieti is all about. And they get incredibly serious about it on their newest release Serious IV. Already out there since December 2021, released through that freaky Addicted Label, it’s over thirty five minutes of freaky prog abandon and bizarre outbursts for a sci-fi soundtrack that all each of the five members envision going into totally different directions… Serious about wild music? Get some Serious IV!
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But WAIT! We just mentioned that awesome Detieti release Serious IV from the Addicted Label; but Addicted has been bringing out some much wild, wonderful and weird stuff; turning us into a definite label junkie! And in that messed up year of 2021 we’ve not gotten around to mentioning so much of that drug that got us hooked… Well; to sort of get clean… Here’s a rundown of a few!
Thy Grave – Filth
Thy Grave gives us ‘death-doom catharsis’ by way of sludge, metal and so much filthy noise… Thy Grave was spawned in 2012 as a project of several people scattered across the vast expanse of Russia. Initially, the band got inspiration from such monsters as Loinen and Khanate and didn’t use guitars in their records at all, just bass and a shitload of distortion. And that's where Addicted Label came in... And it evolved into much much much more... Just dig into that Filth...
Megalith Levitation — Void Psalms
Megalith Levitation materialized from the eternal void and acid vapors of Chelyabinsk, Russia in April 2016 to bare their psalms into this world. And Madman Tony Maim loved their earlier Acid Doom Rites release! Can you already hear that perfect Addicted Label fit? On Void Psalms they give us all they have and whip us into a frenzy with their psychedelic doom, acid metal, sludge and so much unhallowed rumbling low-end!
Crust — Stoic
Stoicism turned crust and Crust gives us Stoic. Black, death, sludge, metal, doom turned into maelstrom of noise, core and hell depth gutter! Typical Addicted Label insanity! It will fill you entire being, all of your thoughts, all of your emotions, all of your actions and all of your extremities with their form of extreme metal meditiation.
Stonebourne – Squirrels On A Plane
We move away from Addicted to bring you something old and something new… And something else to get Addicted to... No label for these cats. Yet? They sent it to us at the end of the summer of 2021; but they had already released it a year earlier! Indeed, it’s 2022 and we are mentioning the Squirrels On A Plane record by German quartet Stonebourne. Grunge with hardrock, alternative and stoner influences and a whole lot of ear pleasing melodies. So, 2022, 2021, 2020 or the nineties, whatever year you hear… It’s good and tasty rock!
Kentucky Green – Galactic Acid
And we finish this Quick Fire Friday sesson with an absolute banger! They came in at the 100th spot (in points) of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2021 and we never got around to mentioning them even though we had been grooving to their stoner doom blues ever since it got to us somewhere around the summer of 2021. The Brisbane three called Kentucky Green delivered nine damn fine tracks on an album called Galactic Acid. With some sweet and sexy soulful attitude straight out of the seventies this is the galactic kool-aid everyone should be guzzling!