Number 6

 

 

Number 6

We mentioned it before the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025 started and mentioned it again when we talked about Number 7. But today, we jump more than 700 points to reach Number 6! 700 points! That’s a lot! A personal favorite of mine that will surely end up in the Top 3 of my personal list. A band that also made the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown  of 2023 with their album from that year. Released through Full Contact Safari Records in October we jotted down some words about this album at the moment of release. The Melbourne, Australia three outdid themselves delivering a string with which to pull the curtain away and have all onlookers be amazing by the world being revealed. Across two vast, immersive pieces, the trio bend time, letting guitars swell like tides, synths haunt the horizon, and rhythms pulse with ancient weight. This is heavy music that breathes, meditative, cinematic, and deeply physical, moving from sparse, desolate calm to towering eruptions of post-metal force. Solemn, guiding vocals cut through the expanse, leading the listener with purpose rather than excess. Nothing here rushes or unravels; every layer is deliberate. Cosmic yet grounded, ferocious yet serene, the album feels unearthed rather than written, a landscape to inhabit, to return to… and slowly absorb… until everything around you has returned to dust… 

On Number 6 we find: 

KHAN - THAT FAIR AND WARLIKE FORM // RETURN TO DUST

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Shit The Cow
Cardiacs
War
Cosmic Reaper
Anna von Hausswolff
Khan
Pink Fuzz
Dozer
Triptonus
Danakil Heat

Monday again! And another week where we only had a limited amount of time to HiVe! But those few posts were goddamn special, in my humble opinion! That wild Quick Fire Fridday segment by our very own Ronny Dijksterhuis. We wrote about that damn doomed and delightful Danakill Heat release. And di no less than two Full Album Premieres! I hope you dug into the scorching War album VeniVidiWar and that beautiful album Bentrees called Silver Veins!? We wrote a few words about it a week before and we read some gorgeous words about the album by Stephanie ‘Doomcakes’ Zalta at Screaming From The Heavy Underground as well! Go check’m out and all of the albums listed above! You might just dig’m?! I know I do! 

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Anna von Hausswolff
P+A+G+E+S
Khan
Dërro
Shit The Cow
10 Slip
Triptonus
Ball
Red Fang
Stone From The Sky

Holy shitballs! Another week gone and dusted! Before too long we’ll be entering December and we will be knee-deep in the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025! And we hope you all will vote for that once the time comes. We’ll announce the two week deadline, somewhere end November. Deadlines! Been struggling with a few for the rent-paying-work. But we’re getting there! Luckily we have all that grandiose music playing while we work. That makes everything alright! And we even managed to write a few words about the dark and doomy P+A+G+E+S released and the stunning Khan album. And let’s not forget Bentrees! And we are honored to premiere their new full sized album Silver Veins, this Wednesday on Stoner HiVe! So, we hope you will check in then and that you will check out the Top 10 Most Listened above. They’re all worth it! 

Khan - That Fair and Warlike Form // Return to Dust

 

Khan - That Fair and Warlike Form // Return to Dust
Full Contact Safari Records – 2025
Rock, Psych, Stoner
Rated: *****

They’re blowing up! Or already did so? Either way, seeing Khan at Sonic Whip this past year was again magical. And after hearing their new two track, 45 minute long That Fair and Warlike Form // Return to Dust album, I can’t wait to see them again! Magic… 

It’s what these Melbourne three do. Magic. There’s this moment, deep into the first track of That Fair and Warlike Form // Return to Dust, where time starts to flow at a different speed and seems to fold in on itself. Guitars swell like the rising tide, a pulse like the heart of something ancient underneath and a haunting synth has you surfing across the edges. No longer a sound, but a presence. And you can feel your heart start to grow and this is where Khan now thrives, in the space between all the surging energies, between the fury and the stillness, the chaos and the clarity. 

That moment, out of time, shows that the Melbourne three, Josh Bills (vocals, guitar, keys), Will Homan (bass), and Beau Heffernan (drums) are no longer writing songs. They are building landscapes. Inventing worlds. And each of the two over twenty minute long pieces are a journey, through a magical and vast terrain. From desolate plains of clean guitar and ambient textures, to volcanic eruptions of sludge and post-metal force of nature. Heavy is as heavy comes, but this is not just heavy, it’s deeply meditative, out of body experience music, cinematic and so otherworldly beautiful. 

On opener That Fair and Warlike Form you can drift endlessly and still feel the bands resistance to go into a freak out jam. Instead they build deliberately, layering each emotion, texture and riff with purpose and intent. The vocals, clean, solemn and commanding. Guiding you like a shaman through the desert, showing you the way like a dreaming track storyteller, bringing forth understanding and acceptance. 

Return to Dust follows and with equal weight it evokes all of the above, below and beyond. Cosmic and earthy, as synths shimmer and riffs collapse like crumbling stars at the end of eternity. Echoing not just the ancient or the future, but all the magic that has every been around. There’s so much gravitas surrounding this record that one might assume this record wasn’t made at all, it was unearthed, conjured into existence. And now that it is here, it has become a world unto itself, one to live in, revisit and slowly absorb. One passage at a time, for all eternity… 

(Written by JK)

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Number 19

 

 

Number 19

The Lord Knows we love that Tidal Wave album that made the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2023 on Number 20. No less than 768 albums received votes and many of them received multiple votes. Which I guess means that all of them were loved by many. And on Number 19 we find many! No less than three albums made by four bands had the exact same amount of points; only a mere 10 points more than Tidal Wave. Psychedelic and alternative, bluesy and classic, expansive and cinematic. Three albums moving in very different directions but all heavy in their own way…

That one heavy psychedelic album felt as much as living entity as the title hinted at, atmospheric by default and with such soaring leads and floating vocals, you would surely and immediately sail away with those dynamic and laidback dirge sounds to a state of blissful being.

That other album proved to be yet another great blues and classic hardrock record from the boys that have been at it for quite some time. Slowly but decisively moving into that classic rock territory with every album they release. Soulful and retro, the album opts for more ease and slow tunes and less boogie and groove. They boys wanted everything more mellow and open, and they achieved that without any doubt.

The expansive and cinematic album is a collaboration between two bands that both deliver their absolute forte on every of the seven tracks. But these seven need to be digested in one sitting; for this is one grand spacious and wild adventure. Controlled, powerful chaos, like a perfect swirling Taoistic ritual. The two bands manage to weave an intricate and extremely detailed psychedelic tapestry that feels like you are on a majestic journey into the outer reaches of everything. Art in every sense of the word.

On Number 19 we find…

Khan – Creatures

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Graveyard – 6

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REZN & Vinnum Sabbathi – Silent Future

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The Doom Charts for February 2023

 

 

Doom Charts

“Death is but a doorway, time is but a window, I’ll be back.”

~ Vigo

And we are back! Just like clockwork, every damn month again, the Doom Charts are back! The first Friday of the new month and here we are with the February list of forty albums that all those Contributors loved so dearly. A Friday that sees the release of many new albums as well, and since it’s Bandcamp Friday, well… Take your pick! Or buy them all! Three albums carried over from January. Which means there are 37 spanking new albums on the list below. And just so you know, a lot of the Contributors were struggling to whittle down their list of favorite albums to the 25 they are allowed to send in. And a lot of the Contributors stated they already have a massive list of amazing albums for March as well. Crazy. So much brilliant heavy rock, so many breathtaking albums. We love it. So, indeed, who ever said rock ‘n roll was dead, and never understood what Vigo knew all along…

The February Doom Charts are here!

It's Bandcamp Friday and it coincides with the February Doom Charts! Does this make things simpler or more complicated? Cause all those FORTY albums are absolute stunners!  Personal votes on this months' list went out to: Hail the Void, Cleõphüzz, Dead Shrine, Khan, Westing, WARP, Grandma's Ashes, Abanamat, POLYMOON, Rotor, Emperors Lair, Witch City Music / Old Mine Universe, Swell O, Wolves in Winter, Sandrider, Moodoom and CHILD! The only one we mentioned on the HiVe so far is WARP, but there surely will be more to follow soon... Check'm 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 February 2023

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

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Top 10 artists listened to last month...

DeWolff

Arctic Monkeys

Depiedra

Fire Down Below

Gozu

Khan

Sierra

Kayamata

Green Desert Water

Lords of Acid

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

Stoner HiVe’s

Top 5 artists listened to last week…

DeWolff

Khan

Depiedra

Kayamata

VRSA

So yeah, Sonic Whip happened! What a fine festival that is. Good beers, good people and great music! Let’s hope there will be more editions of this fine little festival. And with the hangover in great form we did not do much then listen to the records we had already been listening to for the better part of the week. That awesome new record by DeWolff! Thrust is a classic in every sense of the word. Khan and their Vale album; cause when Doktor420 says it’s his favorite album of the month, we’d better listen up and put it on repeat! Cause the Doktor is always right! Main man Steve Howe and Outlaws Of The Sun put us on to Depiedra and their Desertico album. Steamy Chilean stoner that will put you in the right mood for a wild night! The Dutch fourpiece Kayamata is back with a release called Below, stoner metal, space rock, nineties alternative and so much more. Damn fine album! And VRSA have released a new three-track EP called Cvlt of Machina. Phantom Of An Era from 2015 was already damn good; this new release ups the ante in fine form. Wilder, grittier and on a different plain of heaviness altogether! Check it out! Check’m all  out!

Doktor420’s album tip of the month! Khan – Vale

Doktor420’s album tip of the month! 

Khan – Vale 

 

 Khan – Vale

Heavy psychedelic rock, mixed with some progressive tasters and a massive amount of fuzz! The Vale album by Khan is fingerlicking good! You will know when you hear it, this is beyond explanation! So good!

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