Planet Desert Rock Weekend - VI

 

Planet Desert Rock Weekend  - VI

January 29th - February 1st

We’re a bit late perhaps, cause all you hip freaks out there already know about this and probably are already aiming to attend. But hey, you crazies out there, who are looking to hit Las Vegas, be sure to do that for this magical weekend! In fact… Four freaking full nights of heaviness! From January 29th to February 1st it’s time for the sixth edition of Planet Desert Rock Weekend! Organized by the one and only John Gist from Vegas Rock Revolution, every edition seems to best the one that came before. Just look at the full line-up below. Pure heavy rock bliss! Planet Desert Rock Weekend, it’s out of this world!

Night 1

The Quill
The Well
Isaak
Saturna
Phantom Hound

Night 2

The Devil & The Almighty Blues
Freedom Hawk
Wolftooth
Kaiser
Paralyzed

Night 3

The Atomic Bitchwax
Black Water Rising
Throttlerod
The Heavy Eyes
Dirty Streets
Kind

Night 4

Spaceslug
Westing
Bask
High Desert Queen
Familiars

 

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 Vegas Rock Revolution's Planet Desert Rock Weekend has revealed the full lineup for its 2026 edition, with twenty-one heavy rock bands from across the globe converging in Sin City over the January 29th-February 1st weekend!

Curated by Vegas Rock Revolution founder John Gist, Planet Desert Rock Weekend has become a major event for all heavy rock fans nationwide and beyond. More than just a festival, it's an experience: its strong worldwide curation in an intimate indoor and evening-only setting drives the yearly increase in popularity for this Sin City event — a party atmosphere with top-notch sound provided by The Usual Place!

Planet Desert Rock VI will be presenting a wide range of hard rock and stoner rock acts featuring not only legacy bands such as The Atomic Bitchwax, Black Water Rising, Throttlerod and The Quill, but also scene stalwarts like Spaceslug (Poland), Freedom Hawk, The Devil & the Almighty Blues (Norway), The Heavy Eyes, The Well, Bask, Westing, Saturna (Spain), Paralyzed (Germany) and High Desert Queen. Once again, the festival has invited Californian label Ripple Music to host a special showcase night featuring some of their roster's finest live acts! 

Ripple Music founder Todd Severin comments, "John Gist has created and nurtured one of the best festivals in the USA for heavy rock. Not limited by genre, but by quality, each day of the Planet Desert Rock Weekend delivers. Ripple is once again thrilled to support PDRW, and can't wait to show off to the world Ripple night, when Ripple bands storm the stage en masse!" Check out the festival's official Spotify playlist!

 

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Planet Desert Rock Weekend

 

Planet Desert Rock Weekend

January 30 - February 2, 2025

Las Vegas. Sin City. And soon, for four nights straight you can experience all those rock ‘n roll vices and virtues in one fell swoop! From January 30th to February 2nd, it’s Planet Desert Rock Weekend with its majestic line-up! Organized by the honorable John Gist from Vegas Rock Revolution, this edition has it all! Look at all that rock ‘n roll gold! If getting groovy with all these bands is bad, I don’t wanna be good! Planet Desert Rock Weekend, it’s out of this world!

Thursday January 30th
Unida
Mr Bison
Sons Of Arrakis
Samavayo

Friday January 31st
Fireball Ministry
JIRM
Valley Of The Sun
Fire Down Below
Godzillionaire

Saturday February 1st
Mos Generator
Sergeant Thunderhoof
The Watchers
Solace
Omega Sun
Green Desert Water

February 2nd
Duel
Bonehawk
Luna Sol
Iota, slc
Jason Walker’s Badmotorfinger- A tribute to the classic Soundgarden to kick off the show.


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Planet Desert Rock Weekend

 

 

Planet Desert Rock Weekend

January 30 - February 2, 2025

It’s one of those reasons to actually head on over to Las Vegas. It might in fact be the only good reason! We’re talking about Planet Desert Rock Weekend! Organized by the honorable John Gist from Vegas Rock Revolution. And not sure if he did it before, but the one hosted early 2025 will be four day event!! FOUR! Cause there’s a LAST CALL day on Sunday February 2nd, 2025! Featuring Bonehawk, Iota and Luna Sol. That’s one hell of closing night!

And that’s after a Thursday January 30, Friday 31st and Saturday 1st of February elongated very cool Planet Desert Rock Weekend! And all you European bands looking to head on over and play there as well. Contact Omega Sun, they know exactly how to work their magic in the USA! In fact, they should write a book about how to tour America. They know all the right moves… Ho ho ho!

Wanna know what bands are playing, check the sites to see the updates! But for now… It’s already one hell of line-up!

Fireball Ministry / USA
Unida / USA
Mos Generator / USA
Sergeant Thunderhoof/ U.K.
JIRM / Sweden
Solace / USA
Samavayo/ Germany
Valley of the Sun/ USA
Mr. Bison / Italy
Omega Sun / Slovenia
Fire Down Below/ Belgium
Sons of Arrakis/ Montreal
Godzillionaire /USA
Green Desert Water / Spain


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The Doomies 2021

 

 

The Doomies 2021

It was a covid-proof celebration of all that amazing heavy stuff that came out in 2020, the first edition of the Doomed & Stoned Awards, The Doomies 2021. Nearly 30K unique votes were cast… And the stream was very nicely hosted by John Gist of Vegas Rock Revolution, Blasko of Ripple Music & Volume Forever and Billy Goate, the man behind Doomed & Stoned and initiator of this award ceremony…

And incase you missed it, that live 4/20 stream, it can still be viewed HERE… Congratulations to all that got nominated and ofcourse and extra universal nod and ‘hell yeah’ for the ones who took away the award. Here are the winners!

Best Album – Lowrider - Refractions

 

Best Song - Dopelord  - World Beneath Us

 

Best Band - All Them Witches

 

Best Cover Song – Clutch - Fortunate Son

 

Best New Band – Slomosa

 

Best Debut Album - Hail the Void - Hail The Void 

 

 Best Record Label - Heavy Psych Sounds

 

Best Album Art - Ryan T Hancock 

for King Buffalo - Dead Star

 

 

Let’s hope it becomes a yearly event and every year better still! Well done to one and all!

The Doomies 2021

Valkyrie – Fear

Valkyrie – Fear

Relapse Records – 2020

Rock, Hard, Metal, Proto, Prog

Rated: ****

I only briefly listened to the new Valkyrie album Fear before the July Doom Charts rolled around. The honorable John Gist then stated that the Number One spot was well deserved and the only possible one for this month; and that sealed the deal. We had to dive deep into the sound of the new Valkyrie. Hugo Hulleman of course already did the deed for the Doom Charts mentioning the Baroness link, the mix of proto-metal, stoner and classic rock and paying homage to their riffage. So, we continue on and begin to hear all of those comparisons made. The Thin Lizzy, the Blue Oyster Cult, the Pentagram, the Uncle Acid and of course the Sabbath love. But then we start hearing those more eighties influences, some Killing Joke or post gothic edge; giving an eerie feeling of loss during the chorus and then going all seventies hardrock afterwards, pulling on the emotional thread. Cause there is depth here. Melancholy and sadness taking center stage for the most part. Offset by wild guitar playing, absolutely stunning bass and riveting drum-work. We had little time to listen before the July Doom Charts rolled around; it then took some time to grab hold; but now it just keeps on spinning!

(Written by JK)

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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!