Stoner Hive’s Quick Fire Friday

 

Stoner Hive’s Quick Fire Friday 

Put on some groove resistant gear, flex your muscles, get your laptop, your computer, your phone (whatever), open a can of lager (or another preferred beverage), add some chips and get the party started by checking out a brand new Quick Fire Friday. Lots of doom and stoner coming your way, as well as a dash of punk and even an admirable cover of one of Mark Lanegan's songs. So, don't wait any longer and dive into this pit of darkness served to you on a beat-up plate we unearthed somewhere in the heavy underground...

 

Desértica - MobyDick

Desértica is an instrumental psychedelic stoner/doom outfit from La Plata, Argentina that takes you on a 50 minute interstellar trip through time and space on what appears to be their debut album 'MobyDick'. Only three tracks with each one clocking in at way over ten minutes, with closer 'Desértica' almost touching the twenty minute mark, yet there isn't a dull moment in sight. Indeed a stellar album.

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American Heat - Too Much Heat

American Heat isn't here to reinvent the wheel on their debut ep. Hell no, they come at you with scorching heavy rock that will have fans of Clutch, Mississippi Bones and Gay Paris salivating with joy. Raw as sandpaper and catchy as fuck. Combine those two and you're in for some kinky kind of lovemaking, courtesy of two guys from the state of Ohio.

 

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 HooR - Delicate Tonen

Ries and Mies from Leiderdorp, The Netherlands, have been operating as Helleveeg and Krush, but have decided to change their name to HooR, in honour of Orange Goblin's Joe Hoare. 'Delicate Tonen' (Delicate Tones) is a title not to be taken too seriously, as this is a ferocious, no holds barred mix of stoner and punk with Dutch lyrics that have a unique take on more or less serious social themes, brought to you with a healthy (over)dose of humour.

 

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Mientras Las Abejas Duermen - Los hijos perdidos de Umrica / Cruz del Tajo

Mientras Las Abejas Duermen is a band form Cadiz spain that recently released a two-track ep through underground label Estudio Mazmorra. 'Los hijos perdidos de Umrica' starts the proceedings and is a thumping amalgamation of stoner and doom that comes storming at you in a dust cloud of desert sand. A fantastic song that demands to be heard. Second track 'Cruz de Tajo' is a short, quiet instrumental that swirls and swerves around an axis of percussion and engulfs you with a perfect atmosphere for coming down and lets you realise what the hell just happened. One of the coolest singles released in quite a while.

 

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Void & The Nothingness - Ride Out / Witching Hour

After releasing a surprisingly good debut album a year ago, Germany's Void & The Nothingness are back with a two track ep of traditional doom. A deep, dragging sound lures you into their world, while the hypnotising clean singing functions as the icing on the cake. 'Ride Out / Witching Hour' is an enjoyable second stop and could lead them to underground stardom sooner than one might expect.

 

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Arabbia - Trimurti

This EP was released back in October, but deserves to be mentioned here. Arabbia is a stoner rock power trio from Brazil that knows how to lay down the grooves and spit them in the collective face of mankind. Nice detail: the three band members share vocal duties, with all three being capable singers. That'll leave a lot of bands envious, ready to chase Arabbia's tale like a horde of revved-up boogie vans.

 

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Bärlin - Resurrection Song

If there ever was a band capable of covering a Mark Lanegan song the right way, it would be French alternative rockers Bärlin. They recorded a beautiful version of 'Resurrection Song' - one of the bonus tracks that comes with buying 'Mook Lanegan', an Exit Musik fanzine special dedicated entirely to the legendary singer and songwriter. You can order the magazine HERE (in French).

 

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David Kent - Fairweather Friend

And to close this episode of Quick Fire Friday on a more energetic note, we present you the new single by David Kent, released through Glory or Death Records. It's a weird, slightly chaotic mix of stoner, sludge, heavy psych and glam rock that's got a presence all its own. Dive in and experience is the way to go. Once you've done that, you'll probably find exactly what you need.

 

 

 

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This Quick Fire Friday segment was brought to you entirely by our very own poet: Ronny Dijksterhuis.

 

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Mark Lanegan
One Dimensional Creatures
Ambra
Drink The Sea
Elepharmers
Kadavar
You Guitarprayer
Cleaning Women
Baba Pen
Slift

It’s the first Monday after the first announcement for the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2025 has appeared online! So, good morning and I hope many of you will send your list before the deadline of 20:00 CET, December 14th of 2025. Still two weeks away and we hope to write down some words on other wonderful albums this week. Last week we only had time for the amazing Ambra album, the stunning call to arms that is One Dimensional Creatures and finally posted some words about the landmark that is Mark Lanegan’s Bubblegum XX. Let’s aim for one more this week! Either way, we hope you will slowly start jotting down your favorites of the year, so you can send that list our way! Much love, have a great one! 

Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum XX

 

 

Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum XX
Beggars Arkive – 2024 
Rock, Alternative
Rated: *****

It was a landmark album. Still is. And when the twentieth anniversary of Bubblegum rolled around in 2024, the box set that followed in August felt like a long-lost telegram from a former life. Every bit as arresting as the first time I heard it back in 2004, maybe even sharper, like a blade that’s grown hungrier with time. But listening to it that summer was hard. The world had shifted underfoot. As the date crept closer marking three years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that other ghost-date rose behind it… 

So let me start by saying: I’m sorry, Mr. Lanegan, for not putting these words down sooner, for letting years drift by before honoring this beautiful resurrection, the demos, the b-sides, the unreleased fragments that gathered themselves into Bubblegum XX. I had the privilege of speaking with Lanegan a couple of times, and with many of the conspirators who helped build this strange and majestic cathedral of an album. Those conversations remain small, burning lanterns in my memory....

I remember asking him, back in 2013, why “Josephine” never made it beyond the mythic, cigarette-stained Methamphetamine Blues Sessions that leaked around the original release. It was one of my favorite orphaned songs. His answer was brief but chivalrous: “Josh wrote it. It wasn’t one of mine.” And yet, there it stands now, rightfully reclaimed on the twentieth-anniversary edition. The sixth solo album, the one that somehow manages to be his most personal and his most successful, his rawest and most heavy since the Screaming Trees days. An album that bleeds openly, like a man holding out his wrists for the world to read...

Even the short, spectral duet “Bombed” recorded in a single take with Wendy Rae Fowler as their marriage was collapsing into dust, feels like a confession left smoldering on the floorboards. And “Wedding Dress” sounds, in hindsight, like a farewell note to anyone who ever hoped he might stay home, even for love, the traveler’s curse he carried deep in his bones...

But beyond the exposed nerves and scorched-heart honesty, there’s the constant presence of comrades, great musicians stepping out of the shadows like saints and outlaws offering their hands and wrists in a same way. We could name them all, of course, but we stick to the vocal parts: the purgatory-lit duets with PJ Harvey on “Hit The City” and “Come To Me,” songs that leave burn marks on the ears; Chris Goss, lifting “One Hundred Days” into a kind of storm-lit prayer; Alain Johannes, whose soft, sorrow-stitched backing on “Morning Glory Wine” feels like a hand resting gently on the shoulder. You can almost hear the electricity crackle through those sessions, streetlights popping, dry storms rolling over the horizon, lightning looking for a place to strike...

The box set gives us the remastered fifteen tracks, but it also opens the door to the motel rooms and dim corners where Lanegan recorded sketches with Troy Van Leeuwen, captures from nights thick with smoke and wandering thoughts. We get the full Methamphetamine Blues Sessions, the Here Comes That Weird Chill EP, and demos abandoned only because Lanegan heard some other ghost-part calling to him. Like the fully realized “Union Tombstone,” with Beck drifting in on vocals, harmonica, and guitar, turning it into a desert crossroad hymn that feels like a mirage finally made real...

An album like this doesn’t age. It ferments, darkens, deepens. Tonight, we spin it again, front to back, the way it deserves, thinking of Lanegan, of the roads he walked and the shadows he made beautiful. He left us so much, the words, the music, the voice that sounded like it had already lived nine lifetimes. These are the kind of gifts that never fade. They just cut deeper...

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The Devils - Time Is Gonna Kill Me

The Devils - Time Is Gonna Kill Me

Their third album Beast Must Regret Nothing (2021) was produced by Alain Johannes (Eleven, QOTSA, Them Crooked Vultures, Chris Cornell, PJ Harvey) and includes a featuring with Mark Lanegan. And the fifth track on that wild The Devils album is Time Is Gonna Kill Me. Wild, just like their entire performance at Maximum Festival 2022 near Venice, Italy. Which was recorded as their live album Live at Maximum Festival. The duo from Naples embodies the ultimate sound of chaos; their style is primitive, loaded with sex, sin and Rock’n’Roll!

The band on "Time Is Gonna Kill Me": "There is no poetic content in our music. Actually this song says that we don’t kill time, but time is gonna kill us. The music is inspired by Otis Rush blues, who clearly explained that ‘Someone promises you the world and then gives you nothing: that’s the blues.'".

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The Doom Chart For February 2022

 

 

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“When the willow bends towards the end of day
And twilight falls again
To the funny sound that a blackbird makes
Twilight falls again
As no good reason remains, I’ll do the same
Thinking of you…”

~ Mark Lanegan

We’ve lost another legend. One of the most beautiful growling voices has left us. The dark poet, the bard of the gutter, the troubadour of despair and he who was able to give all that is gray and all that is black that the perfect puncture of light. Mr. Lanegan has given us so much great music and personally I’ve been lucky enough to interview him a couple of times. He was one of my heroes; and his departure has left my nerves barren and raw. And then, when not even barely recovered from that heavy blow… War in the Western world…

I have always been very conscience of the fact that I’m from the Western world and that my world view has been shaped by Western eyes. But even so, even if my news and my media are framed a certain way. It is not state controlled and does not send out pure propaganda. The Doom Charts are not political. As we have stated before. But once again the world is in turmoil. And once again there is no other way around this, then to offer up the obvious: Russia’s leader is quickly descending into dangerous madness. Invading a sovereign country, that wants to go a different route than he prefers. And then, when the world sanctions him for his deplorable actions; threatening the world with nuclear weapons. He has been alone for most of the pandemic and that has not done much good for his sanity it seems… It spells doom for the entire globe, and we cannot let that happen… Even if you are still on the fence about what is happening, even if you believe some of what Russian media has stated; there is no denying the fact that when a world leader threatens the rest of world with nuclear weapons; things have gone too far… We’re almost over the edge…

A wise man and a scribe once stated: “The Edge…There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” Well, I don’t know about you… But this is an edge I do not want to cross… Let’s all come together now; for it has always been us. The good ones, the ones that want to do good and the ones that know that every extreme view on any subject is pure fear and a way to hope for some for of control… I’m sounding like an old hippie again; but I don’t care. They have always been right… Make Love, Not War…

And now on to business, cause even though there is doom lurking around the corner. We are here to offer up the good form of doom for you all. The heavy rock, heavy metal form of doom. And yes, loads of stonerrock, hardrock, seventies blues inspired rock, psychedelic rock and everything that you can think of that might fit between those genres. Cause the Doom Charts have always been about the heavy; in whatever shape or form. And there is so much of that heavy good stuff being released every month! Cause from the 30 that are mentioned this February edition; there are 28 new ones! So, thank you for all that heavy music, for giving it to us. The energy and the spirit that lies within those notes! And the way it offers up escape for those of us lucky enough to be able to escape…

And escape we shall! Starting with SMED’s self-titled record today and slowly working our way to Kryptograf on Number One. Personal votes went out to: Kryptograf, Fostermother, Obsidian Sea, Hydra, Holy Witch, Sönus, Kurokuma, Mount Desert, Firebreather, Titanosaur, Volcanova & Wovenhand! But we could have voted for all the others as well! So 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 Chart For February 2022

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

 

 

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Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Week…

Mark Lanegan
Screaming Trees
The Twilight Singers
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Star One
Janis Ian
Cult of Luna
Styx
The Delines
Giant Jellyfish

Rest In Peace – Mark Lanegan

 

 

Rest In Peace – Mark Lanegan

Today, tonight and tomorrow we play nothing but Mark Lanegan. Had been revisiting the Blues Funeral album the past days because it turned ten. Will have to revisit everything now… Had the honor of seeing him perform with Queens Of The Stone Age multiple times and many of his live shows… Had the honor to ask him some silly questions a few times… And was honored to talk art with him… Even more honored that he gave the advice to read the Robert Lowell book Imitations… Will cherish that forever…

Let’s have some Whiskey… And some holy ghost... Here's to you Mr. Lanegan…

Mark Lanegan Band – The Gravedigger’s Song

Mark Lanegan Band – The Gravedigger’s Song

Excellent new song by Mark Lanegan and his compadres. The Gravedigger's Song is the first song to be released of the upcomming album Blues Funeral. Featuring help among other from the likes of Josh Homme, Alain Johannes, Greg Dulli and Jack Irons. Judging by this song; and titles like Bleeding Muddy Water, Phantasmagoria Blues and Deep Black Vanishing Train; we are in for a real treat! Can't wait to hear the album and see the man live in action next year...

Screaming Trees – Last Words: The Final Recordings

Screaming Trees – Last Words: The Final Recordings
Sunyata – 2011
Rock, Grunge
Waardering: ***

Last Words: The Final Recordings is a collection of previous unreleased material through proper channels of alternative rock formation Screaming Trees. Most of this was ofcourse already in the possession of fans via the Old Growth album from 1999 and other b-sides collections floating around the Internet. The added value of this release is ofcourse the wonderful sound produced by Jack Endino and Barrett Martin. Most of the songs were recorded in Stone Gossard’s studio in the years of 98/99 and therefor also carry the guitarsound of Josh Homme and Peter Buck on certain songs. Though not very expressive, striking or convincing; like most of the songs on the album. They meander slowly and seem to be the perfect all telling epitaph for a band whose creative juices had just stopped flowing. Ofcourse we hear once again a brilliant Lanegan and on occasion smashing sounds; but to put three different ‘Dying Days’ on one record seems a bit much and redundant. Lovely record; but in the end the band leaves us once again without a fitting blast off. And we all know they were so much better than this…

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