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

 

 

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

That’s All Folks!
Da Beumb Project
Ditch
Mountain Dust
Rigor Samsa
Droner
Icarus Burns
The Pighounds
Lucifer
Bunsenburner

Another week in the books! A decent week when it comes to quantity. I’ll leave remarks about quality up to the few that follow the little old blog. But hey, either way, it’s always exposure for something good and heavy music! We did a Quick Fire Friday session, the new Doom Charts went up and gave news about two new singles. One by the legendary Lo-Pan and one by all new but already amazing The Elven. We jotted down some words about the new Bunsenburner, Ditch, Da Beumb Project and Icarus Burns. All albums you should definitely check out! As well as the others that list on top here. Check’m all out! And as usual, we hope to do at least as much this week as well… Hope you have a great one!

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Week 7

Icarus Burns – Icarus Burns

 

 

Icarus Burns – Icarus Burns
Self-released / Feather & Wax Records – 2025
Rock, Metal, Prog, Post, Sludge, Psych, Stoner, Instrumental
Rated: ****

Berlin, Germany based four-piece Icarus Burns are about to release their debut album with the same name and which already made the January Doom Charts. And rightfully so, for the follow-up to the 2021 titleless EP comes fully formed and with grand ideas about what Icarus Burns should always be about. Their metal is rife with atmosphere and grand gestures. Fitting for a band and album inspired by myth. Fitting for a band who self-releases their album under a label named Feather & Wax Records, keeping perfectly in synch with their chosen band name. But where the myth spells doom for Icarus, the band never flies too close to the sun. They know exactly how far they can take their compositions, and how to perfectly blend the different genres. Expect their diverse and intense sound to house parts of post rock and metal as well as sludge and stoner. Progressive by default, the pulse and beat of what you hear in opening track Minotaur continues in following track Die Werft. Both riddled with rays of lights as well as menacing bursts of dirty thunder. The soothing ebb and flow beginning of following Melancholia is soon distorted by an even filthier rumble. A Distant Light / In The Darkness has minor echoes of bands you already adore, but because they keep their tones more metallic and the scope wider, those never soak the composition to much. Trännen der Sonne gives rise to moments of a more Floydian interpretation of metal, using doom touches and sludge tones to make you feel those tears fall down, before they become a heavy curtain.100 Days ends the fifty minute long instrumental metal mythos, offering an even more atmospheric and cinematic closer to all that already came before. With almost twelve minutes that one track houses everything Icarus Burns is about at this moment in time. Pandora’s Box has been opened and within it was no evil torment, but a love affair with legendary metal, transforming ancient inspiration into something dazzling and completely for our modern age. Where Icarus Burns will go from here seems entirely of their making, for they already seem to know how high they can fly…

(Written by JK)

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Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

Welcome to the first Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday of 2025! That definitely has a ring to it! And we’re happy to get the fire started quickly in January this year! Soon, there’s also the Doom Charts Peroration for December going live today. So, there’s a lot of music to contend with. But that’s what we love right?! You can never have enough of it! So, here are some quick words about some great releases. We know, they deserve more, but there’s so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is… Another Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!

Icarus Burns – Minotaur

Here’s the first drop of scorching lava! This four-piece from Berlin released their new single Minotaur exactly a week ago! It’s Icarus Burns and they deliver their mythical psych and prog in instrumental metal style. It’s the first single to set the scene for their debut album to arrive on February 10th. Incredibly thick bass sounds, wild guitar tones, thrilling riffs and drums captured to perfection. And then those shifts in structure and composition, furious! See, it burn! It burns! Icarus Burns!

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Slumlord Radio – Snakebit

Another single released about a week ago, it’s Slumlord Radio and their Snakebit track. Starting off with a QOTSA vibe, thanks to the little opening background choir, it quickly turns more gritty, punk and into an action packed hard rocker. Although the background choir returns at the end, turning it back again, and turning you on again, and having you push the play button again. Perfect for getting your revved up to visit your local dive bar! Shirley is waiting! Again!

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Dakû - Endless

Their debut Post Apocalyptic Atmospheric Black Metal EP Endless was released yesterday! It’s the Polish two piece Dakû. With VladO doing the instruments and vocals and Mati on Drums, these five tracks are crushing, brain shattering, yet retain melodies that flow through the remnants of your grey matter like icy water. Nothing like their other band MüuT and their amazing Make Me Do It album, but still… Endless proves once again they are brilliant artists!

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Da Beumb Project – Fairly Consistent

Bass and drum duo Da Beumb Project hails from Montréal, Québec, Canada and are about to release a new album called: Closer, Warmer. First single, Heck Yes, out since December 16 is a righteous calling card. Fast paced punk, all sludged and grunged up, and not a huge time commitment, since it only lasts one minute and forty-five seconds. You want a video for this? Heck Yes!

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Sha-La-Lees – O, Oblivian!

Been following these cats ever since the best drummer from the Netherlands joined their ranks in 2021. New album Hex is coming out January 24th, this is the first single O,Oblivian! O, and they’re called the Sha-La-Lees. O, and the drummer is Ries Doms. Once from The Spades, Hooghwater, Vanderbuyst, Reaching Forward and more. O, and the rest of the band is made up out of Belgian rock royalties, from bands like The Sore Losers and El Guapo Stuntteam. Garage and proto punk! O, and very addictive!

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Kova – Firça

The Turkish four piece Kova is made up out of musicians from various stoner doom and heavy psych bands, residing in Ankara. They came together in a studio and recorded a four-hour, fully improvised session. The first single Firça was released a week ago and delivers some spicy instrumental doom noise. Savage and wild, the psychedelic paintbrush used does not paint happy little trees but serious deliriums…

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Stonerhenge – Solaris

Belarus is not an easy country to reside in at this moment in time. Perhaps it never was. But the three piece Stonerhenge have their music to escape into. Solaris takes you on a progressive stoner metal adventure. Based on the book by Polish author Stanisław Herman Lem, they translate the mystique and strangeness of the story perfectly, with their shifting colors and compositions. Stonerhenge’s Solaris deserves to be explored.

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Fish Basket - Cartboard Racer

The Cartboard Racer single was released in 2023 but will feature proudly on the new album coming out today through on Interstellar Smoke Records. It’s a new Fish Basket record and delivers their progressive instrumental madness in fine form! And look at that fun video!

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