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

 

 

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

Del-Toros
Sounds of New Soma
Acid Magus
Black Widows
Gluecifer
The Hellacopters
Greenleaf
Luke Elliot
Six Months Of Sun
Sivert Hoyem

Good morning! Hope y’all had a great weekend? It’s Monday again. And we’ve got two weeks of many interviews ahead of us. Lots of cool stuff! Some of it for Stoner HiVe as well. But this little post is a glance back at what we did last week. Did you read that weird screed about the new amazing Del-Toros album? Or the honorable Jon McGough’s write-up about that wonderful Kryptograf album?  Hope so, cause we only posted those write-ups, and both albums are worth every minute of your time. And since we love festivals, we posted the line-up news for both the magical Bear Stone Festival and the great Into The Void Festival. You going to one of them? Not sure if we can do a lot this week, but we always hope so! Have a great one! And check out the ten albums on the list above! They are good!

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Week 8

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

It’s Friday… The First Friday of the Month! Which means the new Doom Charts just went live! A great edition once again, covering the best of the heavy underground releases of January 2025. And then Stoner HiVe decides to do another Quick Fire Friday round as well! That’s a lot of heavy music to take in! But where the Doom Charts glance over their shoulder towards January, we go back to 2024 with this round of heavy releases! That’s right, all albums out since 2024! So, Here are some quick words about some great releases. We know, they deserve more, but there’s so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is… Another Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!

Kaputth – I

Kaputth hails from Nuremberg, Germany and explores all very dark and stormy doom landscapes on their first full-sized release called I. The quartet has been releasing music since 2021 and the I album feels like a culmination of all that came before. Highly atmospheric, the funeral touch and the scorched scenery will strike a chord in the heart of all the lost souls, blood suckers and black metal enthusiasts…

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Lowmad – Lost

The Lowmad four produced some highly addictive grungy and cosmic stoner rock! Their eight track album is called Lost and it is truly an amazing labyrinthian work to lose yourself in. Haunting, chased by the devil vocals, punk attitudes, sludge tones, and some whirling noise that will surely drive every minotaur crazy! Go get Lost!

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Sequester – Cosmic Considerations

Sequester is the musical project of Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Boc. He started his journey in 2005 and the new Cosmic Considerations album combines all that space, psych, prog and metal you can possibly need. This being the work of one man feels like pure insanity! Mind warp inducing, which is always a good thing!

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Fringe Sociology - Crucial Carbon Molecules

Remember when we went crazy for that first Fringe Sociology single Karma Carcass, Soul Queen? Well, the crazies are back with a second single, all leading up to that full sized release in 2025. This is called Crucial Carbon Molecules; which combines spacey vocals, insane drum work and floating guitar lines. A paradox of high energy and slow dreaming… Lucid or not, this will suck you in!

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Six Months of Sun – Creatures

Cold Smoke Records and Urgence Disk released the new Six Months of Sun album on December 6th. It’s called Creatures and brings more of the wildness we fell in love with on their earlier Below The Eternal Sky album. Which was preceded by the equally stunning And Water Flows from 2013. That’s right, Six Months of Sun have been together for more than twelve years. And the new Creatures is an instrumental stoner metal monster!

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Organmother – Pentagrammaton

Organmother features members from Bismarck and Green Sky Accident and hails from Bergen, Norway. Pentagrammaton is the debut single and it’s something to fall head over heals for! It will melt your heart with furious energy! Sludge metal, stoner, doom and noise and all brought with such intensity it will surely set your soul on fire!

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Doomsday Sun - A Slow, Agonising Rapture

Doomsday Sun is a four piece from Stoke-on-Trent in the UK. And on A Slow, Agonising Rapture they bring you classic metal, but with doom, goth, grind and death influences. A few instances when the groove is allowed to take hold and some eighties thrash moments, but all of it full of dank despair and tales of twisted dystopia. Be warned!

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Klatsche - Breitseite

Like a slap in the face! The Breitseite single by German duo Klatsche. No flies swatted here, this is like an ohrfeige! Freakishly eccentric, the duo combines elements of punk, metal, stoner and math to give you eleven minutes of guitar and drum madness. It hurts, but it balances you out and will keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

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

Stoner HiVe’s

Top 5 artists listened to last week…

Sam Hill

Fire Down Below

Kaiser

Khayman

Six Months Of Sun

Due to an interview with Ice-T on Fortarock Festival we listened to a lot of Body Count and some of his solo work. But I decided to skip that from the Top 5 Most Listened list of Last Week. Cause I’m pretty sure most of you freaks shall not be moving on to this highly influential artist. Which is ofcourse fine and one should always concentrate on listening what you really like. For there is so much great stuff out there. In every genre, niche or piss-ridden little musical hole nailed off by the building inspector long ago, but it is still deep enough for us winos to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage. Yes, we love our stinky little corners of the world. Sam Hill and their March To The Mountains album for instance. An amazing album that deserves all of our attention! Stoner rock, stoner metal, seventies inspired and touching all those bases we heavy underground addicts love! Still on heavy rotation is the new Fire Down Below album. Out on Ripple Music, the Hymn Of The Cosmic Man album continuously lets you discover more and more in their desert universe. Fuzz rulers Kaiser deliver their groovy ruckus on their new album 1st Sound. Heavy, rough, wild and high octane stoner, desert and sludge in brilliant biker fashion! Khayman releases The Gentle Art Of Self Destruction via Nooirax Records and on it they deliver a hefty mix of nineties alternative influences across a massive amount of metal and doom. Below The Eternal Sky came out on Cold Smoke/GPS/Urgence Disks/Domino Media Agency and this is Six Months Of Sun turning out the best instrumental stoner metal, sludge rock and desert groove one will hear this summer! So check it out! Check’m all out!

Six Months of Sun – Below The Eternal Sky

Six Months of Sun – Below The Eternal Sky

Cold Smoke/GPS/Urgence Disks/Domino Media Agency – 2018

Rock, Metal, Stoner, Sludge, Instrumental

Rated: *****

The instrumental three-piece outfit Six Months of Sun released their debut album back at the tail-end of 2013. And Water Flows, as it was called, was filled with blissful stoner grooves and steamy hot riffs. And now, finally, the three amigos are back with a follow-up called Below The Eternal Sky. It is definitely just as groovy and blistering as the first one; but this time the tracks become even more metallic and sludgy. Eight wonderful tracks that definitely still bring Karma To Burn to mind and every song is once again on par with the best that those grandmasters ever delivered. There are moments that bring to mind a few of those other stoner legends as well. The biggest difference with there earlier release is the level of heavy and the fact that you cannot find one thing, that sounds off, where you might think, that could have been done better. This is simple stoner metal, sludge rock and instrumental grooviness in its ultimate form. The Swiss power trio Six Months of Sun have without any doubt in my mind delivered the best album we will see in its niche. And it’s a niche you will want to keep curling up in. Cause it’s exactly what every freak and heavy music fiend needs! Every day!

(Written by JK)

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Six Months of Sun – And Water Flows

Six Months of Sun – And Water Flows

Domino Media Agency/GPS Prod/Urgence Disk/Self released – 2013

Rock, Stoner, Instrumental, Metal

Rated: ****

Released at the end of 2013 the debut effort And Water Flows by the Swiss formation Six Months Of Sun is an awesome instrumental stoner groove album that rivals anything put forth by the legendary Karma To Burn. Made up from members that polished their art in bands like Colossus Fall and Lilium Sova these cats know exactly how to rattle their snake and punch their roll. Cause when the bass starts rumbling and the drums start pounding, the riffs start to take a life of their own. They have you cruising through the desert at high velocity just to try and cool everything down. But once you see the paranoid coyote; you know it’s no use. The wind is warm and any moment now; the peyote will kick in. Only thing left to do is to park your car, take of your shirt and stroll up on those dunes over there and see the sun set and freak out; cause this heat will last for another six months…

(Written by JK)

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