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

Stoner HiVe's

Top 10 artists listened to last month...

Orange Sunshine

Black Orchid Empire

Arctic Monkeys

Twisted Sister

Church Of The Cosmic Skull

Dee Snider

Lowen

Ghost

The Rolling Stones

Great Rift

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

Stoner HiVe’s

Top 5 artists listened to last week…

Orange Sunshine

Black Orchid Empire

Arctic Monkeys

Lowen

Jollymon

Festival season is upon us. Wild times and a whole lot of great music! Next up is Graspop; which starts this Thursday. With big names like Guns ‘N Roses, Iron Maiden, Volbeat and Megadeth. But also, Baroness, Dool, Ghost, Kadavar, Planet of Zeus, Vintage Caravan and a whole lot of metal from every genre. Yihaw!  But we still found some time to listen to great stuff at home as well! Like Black Orchid Empire and their Yugen album. Smashing stuff! Or Lowen and their A Crypt In The Stars release. Magical from front to back! Both absolutely excellent and both of which we mentioned earlier on the HiVe. And then there was the new Jollymon album Void Walker, that suddenly appeared on the radar! Yes, Jollymon releases new stuff after eighteen years! A perfect combination of stoner metal and space rock. Less grungy than their earlier work this is one hell of a release. One that ticks all my personal boxes and I am pretty sure it shall tick everyone’s boxes! So, get on board the Jollymon spaceship and ride the endless groove through the void! The latest Arctic Monkeys is still on rotation and we wonder how it will translate on the Werchter stage where we will catch’m in a few weeks’ time. And because of the sad news of Arthur van Berkel’s passing, we played Orange Sunshine for two days straight. Remembering all the times we watched him do his magic on stage. We hope he is swirling around in psychedelic goodness and peace wherever he might be. And we implore you, if you haven’t already, to put on that Orange Sunshine magic and swirl around with him. And feel the love for his comrades from the band, all his friends and family! So, ride those waves! Ride them all!

Rest In Peace... Arthur...

 Rest In Peace... Arthur...

Yesterday and today we spin Orange Sunshine only, in honor of magician Arthur! Every gig we ever had the pleasure to experience was wild and magnificent! Righteous Orange thunder! May he rest in peace...

Orange Sunshine

Santa Cruz – Down On My Knees

Santa Cruz – Down On My Knees

Motorwolf – 2011

Rock, Sludge, Doom, Drone, Seventies, Stoner

Rated: *****

Our very own hero and savior Guy Tavares from Orange Sunshine and a truckload of other musical endeavors has released a second album with his other band Santa Cruz. Where it’s first one was a gigantic and already legendary one-track trip called What Is Love? The second one will ring on even longer and further down into mythical history and is called Down On My Knees, features a slightly improved version of What Is Love? and is a hyperactive doombuggy breed of heroin fueled boner boogie. The sinister atmosphere produced by their dangling droning tunes and acidic riffs is only rivaled in brilliance by the languid tired and wavering demon chased vocals and absolutely swinging drums. Insanely amazing rock violence triggering waves of psychotic and psychedelic adventures. Their imposing sound charms you into opium dreams filled with sweet longings full of ancient lust. An absolutely mandatory album for every music head and vinyl freak…

Godspill