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

 

 

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

Santo Rostro
Slog
Red Spektor
Müut
Duvcon
Lord Mountain
Earthbong
Elephant Groove
Kyuss
Seum

 

We were honored to receive a full (unfinished) chapter of the soon to be finished book by Sunil Singh called Sonic Seducer, an infectious read that immediately had me grabbing for my Monster Magnet albums as well as Kyuss. If his Math books are this riveting and cool, I think I might need to get me those, a calculator and run some numbers! As for the week that's just started, we hope to publish a review or two, before Friday. But we're kinda under the weather and have other assingments as well... So, no promise there. But as said, I think we can do one or two... We have to, it's what makes us tick...

Seum – Double Double

 

 

Seum – Double Double
Self released – 2023
Sludge, Punk, Doom
Rated: ***

It’s the doom ‘n bass trio from Montréal, Canada, coming at you with an entirely new release called Double Double! Where, Seum, the three we are talking about here, doubles up on the grime, the sludge and the blackened screeches. The eight tracks on Double Double deliver thirty-two minutes of hardcore, punk inspired bass work and very choppy metal drums. Best track on the album might be Dog Days though, which might make you do a double take due to the double vocals, the way Noureddine El Ouarite, (who you might know from Mlah! The band he shared with Seum’s bassplayer Piotr), adds his colors to this track and the hardcore breakdown groove it encapsulates, is damn double tasty! It must have been intense and sizzling while recording Dog Days! And damn good to hear the two connect again! The best difference between Winterized and Double Double might be the way the instruments seem to breathe, the air in between them, the fact you can easily focus on the bass or the drums, or the hellish screams. And because of that, there is more groove to detect, and way more sludge dancing to do! Double the amount, if not more!

(Written by JK)

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World Wide Premiere – Seum – John Flag

 

 

World Wide Premiere – Seum – John Flag

Today is the day! The World Wide Premiere of the first single of the Blueberry Cash EP that comes out on April 20th. 4:20 it is! We’re talking about John Flag by Seum! One of the three songs that will feature on the Blueberry Cash EP. Two of which were written for Seum’s Winterized album but which didn’t seem to fit with the rest of the tracks and one song is from vocalist Gaspard’s former band Lord Humungus (Hairy Muff). It was mixed and mastered by Greg Dawson (BWC Studios - Sons of Otis, Panzerfaust) and illustrated by Burmese Grindcore artist Fadzee Tussock.

Lord Flag will pounce and pound and stamp and stomp you into submission with its gritty grind, severe sludge and uncompromisingly heavy two and half minute ruckus doom ‘n bass noise. Waving a tattered and torn death head flag there John?!

 

 

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Seum – John Flag

 

 

Seum – John Flag

Hear ye, hear ye! We’re honored to announce that on April 2nd we shall be premiering the new single by Montreal's very own "doom 'n' bass trio" Seum! It’s called John Flag and it’s the lead single for a certain and very particular smoke break they took while preparing for a new full-sized album. And well, that certain and very particular smoke break turned into a three track EP called Blueberry Cash; which will be unveiled on the appropriate time of the year. Indeed, best get ready for 4:20! But first; let us prepare to welcome John Flag! April 2nd!

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

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s 

Top 10 Most Listened Albums Last Month…

DeWolff
Electric Valley
Stonekind
Van Groover
Gods & Punks
Kvasir
The Blind Pilots
Seum
ZZ Top
Solar Haze

We don’t normally do those monthly lists anymore. Only the weekly ones… But this one, felt right to share, for some reason, only a day or so before the new Doom Charts will appear. And also because we have been swamped with work and have had little time to do some proper HiVe stuff and because we were keen to see how many of those will link up with the July Doom Charts…

Seum - Winterized

 

 

Seum - Winterized
Self released - June 2021
Sludge, doom
Rated: ****

From the filthy, sludge-caked opening bass riff, Montreal's "doom 'n' bass trio" Seum make their mission known: stomp, pummel, and generally lay waste, a goal their first LP Winterized very much accomplishes. Sporting only a bass, drums, and paint-peeling vocals, Seum do more with less and deliver one of the nastiest, heaviest slabs of sludge out this year.  Opener "Sea Sick Six" blasts out of the gate with earthquake-level low end, the gnarly bass tone threatening to rumble the lower-than-low tuned strings right off the neck. Heavy handed drumming keeps pace with high impact, rolling grooves, of which there is an abundance across the record, and the first screams are appropriately blood curdling. Beneath the sludge assault is an underlying doomy vibe, however, that brings weighted nod to the abrasive aggro. "Broken Bones", another standout cut, shows off deft drumming with a bouncing, start-stop rhythm paired with barked vocals that sounds like a nastier Pod People. Doom rears its head once again with long, booming notes that don't ring out as much as drag themselves through the sonic muck. The track's conclusion is an explosion of noise, with throat destroying screams that hold their own against the instrumental chaos. Whether leaning into slower nod in "Black Snail Volcano" or smashing out an unexpectedly earworm chorus in "Red Sematary", Seum have a deathgrip hold on their particularly rotten flavor of sludge, and masterfully deliver the uncompromisingly heavy experience that is Winterized.

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The Doom Chart for June 2021

 

 

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“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.” ~ Jim Morrison

Amen Mr. Morrison, can you come back and join our hard rock revolution? Time to put down the act, societal roles are overrated, we must stand up and fight for our right to party. Or is this the end my friend? I imagine Jim would be quite unhappy about the way the media has contorted reality lately, but what he would be blown away with is this months Doom Charts!! What a month. The year is halfway over and like the weather in the northern hemisphere, the global output of heavy underground music is heating up. Without further ado, let’s dive into the June Doom Charts.

Let’s indeed do that! Let’s deep dive that stuff! Cause we weren’t around for this month’s edition. We were travelling hard through the French vistas and slow up those mountains. But upon our return we are giddy with anticipation of checking all those June Edition albums that made the Doom Charts. Cause there are quite a few we did not hear yet and we are glad to see many of the albums we voted for before or would have voted for this month made the final list. Vokonis, Yo No Se, Spacemetal, Pale Keeper, Dunbarrow, Seum, Savanah, Tarlung, 10,000 Years, Shun, Boss Keloid, Heavy Temple and ofcourse the Number One: King Buffalo! Which we wrote a little thing about back in May... Man, and then there are about 20 others we need to check out! Which will dive into immediately! Let’s check’m out! Check’m all out!

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and album 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 June 2021

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

It’s time for another Quick Fire Friday round! As mentioned before; we continue to glance backwards during January as well as moving forward. Cause there was still so much released last year we never got around to mentioning. Well, we’re gonna try and get some of that done today! And we know, we know, the albums and bands deserve more than the few words we will jot down here. More attention and more of our time! But there is so much out there and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is. The Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday! And its burns hot like molten lava!

 

Lenin – FUCK IT Part 1 - Times Have Been Worse...

It is done. He is gone. We are finally looking towards a future where there is once again a small glimmer of hope. And just as that happens, we get thrown into the insanity that is Lenin and their Fuck It, Part 1 – Times Have Been Worse release. “This is your postscript roadmap to the (first four?) years of the Trump-branded zeitgeist of late-capitalism.” And that it indeed is! How fitting! Grimy punk poetry and sludgy madness with industrial and core influences. Yes, this is the lunacy of the past four years translated into garage prose! And when Smoked Cheese Records is involved one knows the punk will be hectic, weird and strangely addictive!  

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 Druida – Druida

We can be fairly short about this one man intensely atmospheric ambient doom drone project from Barcelos, Portugal. It’s good and it’s meditative! It's Druida! Check it out and check out for a big half hour…

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Inferous – Somos La Noche

Inferous is a three-piece stoner doom formation from Argentina. On their debut full-sized release Somos La Noche, the ten tracks majestically weave heavy psychedelic influences through all the darkness and the haze. And the album is a continues play; which in gives the record an extra trippy effect. A wild ride into the night!

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Lost Relics – Unrealistic Cause

The four hail from Denver, Colorado and deliver some incredibly heavy stoner and sludge with some doom infused. On their new single and video Unrealistic Cause they look at the world through Reduce Viewer and turn the binoculars on the indifference and capitalist system. And we could not applaud the four from Lost Relics more. Let’s just hope that one day we can do away with all the bullshit, world wide and live in harmony. Which in turn might be unrealistic hope…

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Mather – This Is The Underground

Out through the Violence In The Veins label is the debut album by Greek four-piece Mather. It’s called This Is The Underground and it is heavy prog and heavy atmospheric goodness. It soon becomes a sort of healing affair, bristling with invention the compositions switch between heavy riffs and a delirious cacophony of groove and crazed keyboards. These guys know how to thrill!

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 Seum / Fátima split 7'

In need for something even more grimy, gritty or grungy? Check out the new Seum / Fátima seven inch split record. Seum, the doom and bass trio from Montreal deliver the pure screamo, twisted and dark take on heavy doom. It’s certainly a racket and there’s little color in their world of shades; but sometimes we all need the darkness to swallow us whole. Fátima delivers the grunge, the garage, the thrashy guitars and the curiously addictive Nirvana-esque melodies. And guess what, they’re both covering each others tracks! What a wild and wonderful idea! Hey guys, how about a bigger EP or album of this?

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