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

 

 

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

Valley of The Sun
Bort
Arthur Brown
Museum of Light
The Gray Goo
Achzeit
El Perro
Aptera
Freebase Hyperspace
Gramma Vedetta

Museum of Light – Horizon

 

 

Museum of Light – Horizon
Spartan Records – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Doom, Grunge, Post, Prog
Rated: *****

We’ve been digging this debut album by Seattle trio Museum of Light a whole fucking lot! In fact, Horizon, together with a handful of others, were jotted down immediately as my personal top favorites for the June Doom Charts. So, I was extremely happy to see it reach the Number 17 position of the June 2022 edition of the Doom Charts. Opener Organelle, immediately induces this deep state hypnotic trance, filled with warm orange light, giving you a feeling of peace and safety… Until the pounding starts! Jogging you awake, into this totally different realm, marooned somewhere, deserted, castaway, where Waves of heaviness wash over you. Never completely drowning you, but always on the verge of. That two-track opening section is so meticulously crafted, you feel honored and grateful to be listening to it. And as the crashing Waves slowly dissipates into a lovely swell of light and air, the highly atmospheric Cal seems to move ever more into a prog and sludgy territory. Where the repeated vocal lines add an extra layer of breathtaking mystery and those keys at the end opens up the entire composition, giving you another moment of relieve, before Soft Openings comes on. Where the shivering of glee and ecstasy continues, for it seems Museum of Light have found an amazing recipe for making a surging, swelling and crashing album that not only gives you light where needed but also manages to make the dark something you want to embrace. Theres a wonderful balance here. Everything seems to interlock on a natural almost obvious way and with all the sparkling instrumentation, the ability to let it all ride, you feel the boundless love the three have for their Horizon album. And it will surely make your heart grow as well, till it almost bursts…

(Written by JK)

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The Doom Charts for June 2022

 

 

The Doom Charts for June 2022

“I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.”

~ Kim Thayil

We’ll add to that thought bass, drums, vocals, keys, gongs, etc. Heavy music often requires volume cranked to 11, and we live in an age where we’re spoiled for bands ready to blow out our speakers. Beyond the waves of fuzz, gnarly low end, and brain-bashing bass drums, there’s even more modes of heavy to explore, from atmospheric crush to heavy as simply a mood. Below are 40 of this month’s top purveyors of loud noises and weighted spirit, with far more that can’t be fit into just one post. Dig in and check out the new monthly playlist! And while you’re at it, please give a warm, long overdue welcome to Rich Piva and Silvi Pearl whose impeccable taste now blesses the DC crew!

Did you see the Doom Charts of June 2022? Hope so, cause it went up some five days ago! And what a wild edition once again. This edition was published by our very own Kyle SB / Shasta Beast. Thank you for stepping in and hitting it out of the park! But of course we need to say thank you to all those Contributors, the two new ones Silvi Pearl and Rich Piva; but also all the long standing members! Cause without their votes, their energy and their love for the heavy stuff we could not publish this little thing every month again… Much love to one and all! 

Gonna be listening to all them albums in the next week in a row… Cause before we left for that little one week holiday we were sure to send our own list of favorite albums of the past month and we were happy to see many of those choices making it: Mexicoma, The Swell Fellas, Crobot, Museum Of Light, Indus Valley Kings, Phiasco, Mystery Dudes, Oreyeon, Sasquatch, Valley Of The Sun, Red Sun Atacama, AAWKS & Sergeant Thunderhoof… 

But we’ve already noticed quite a few that we haven’t even had the chance to hear yet! So, next up is Demise by Solemn Ceremony! And then, all the other June Doom Charts entries… It’s gonna get loud and heavy over here!

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 JUNE 2022

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

 

 

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

Dapunksportif
AAWKS
Indus Valley Kings
Valley of The Sun
Museum of Light
Moura
Birdstone
Phiasco
The Swell Fellas
Birth

(ps. Due to other assignments and work for the Doom Charts, we could not get the Sunday post for the Quick Fire Weekend finished... So, I guess we got another Friday version coming up this Friday...)