Peacebone – Blame The Bird EP

 

 

Peacebone – Blame The Bird EP
Sixteentimes Music – 2025
Rock, Hard, Stoner, Psych, Blues
Rated: ****

There are so many great record companies and labels that populate our lovely heavy underground niche. Perhaps we should one day devote a post on all of them or just single them out one by one. What do you think? Good idea? Well, one of my favorites is definitely Sixteentimes Music. They only deliver quality releases. Their roster grows slowly and they seem to choose all their bands very carefully. So whenever a promo arrives with a new Sixteentimes Music band, I know its going to be a great one!

And such is the case once again with the new five track, sixteen minutes long Blame The Bird EP by Swiss quintet Peacebone. Its short, its sweet and it comes out tomorrow! Guitar sounds that seem to drift along with the dream like vocals one minute and then shift gear to turn the composition into something much wilder the next. But Peacebone seem experts in staying within a psychedelic, blues based reverie. Even when those guitars channel that wilder sound from the desert those vocal harmonies and the spacious drumming leave so much room for sway and wonder, the dream will stay alive. Which also seems to live within the lyrics of the songs and its titles. Middle instrumental guitar ditty is not named Whisper Of Hope for nothing. Hope, even though they deal with issues like anxiety and the feeling of being shattered, there is always that touch of light and of that green light at the end of the pier. Even through the rougher parts. Peacebone, tender and embracing, like a warm water stream slowly cascading over you…

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Deville – 20 Years

 

 

Deville – 20 Years
Sixteentimes Music – 2024
Rock, Hardrock, Stoner, Metal
Rated: ****

What’s that you say? You are not really that familiar with the amazing Deville? Where have you been the past twenty years? That’s right! Swedish quartet Deville has been around for twenty years! And to celebrate that fact they’ve selected eight tracks from their seven albums to introduce themselves all over again to those few who have not been rocking out to their majestic music. Add to this a wild new single Dust and a cover version of Nine Inch Nails’s The Hand That Feeds and you know you are in for a freaking good time! Shying away from their first two releases you get treated to the awesome Lava from their 2013 Hydra record. Their second 2013 record Come Heavy Sleep is represented by Rise Above and Deserter. Two years later they released Make It Belong To Us and from that album we get to hear What Remains. In 2018 they released Pigs With Gods, the title track, God Sealed Tomb and Wrecked are featured. And that amazing album from 2022 called Heavy Lies The Crown gets attention by the rocking Serpent Days. As usual with a compilation, best of and a glance back through a bands discography, fans will be missing their favorites perhaps and some albums should have been featured more according to your taste. But perhaps, when any of those feelings arise, it means, this album wasn’t made for you. You know Deville. You love Deville. Just like me. And yes, I need to have it because of Dust and the righteous rendition of The Hand That Feeds, and so do you. But this tasty Deville taster is actually here to make the other cats, the ones that did not know. Twenty years is a long time to go without Deville and I hope those cats and the ones that did know have Deville for another twenty years at least. And judging from that extremely fuzzy and entirely scorching new single Dust, we should! And for everybody getting their first taste of Deville, get ready for a ten track ride of your lifetime! 20 Years worth of rock condensed into one hell of a ride!

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Deville – Dust

 

 

Deville – Dust

We dig Deville! And after that wild Heavy Lies The Crown album that came out on Sixteentimes Music back in 2022, we were giddy to receive this new single called Dust. Cause knowing Deville, it must mean a new record is on the horizon. And it is! It’s a collection of their work over the twenty years of existence. And it will include a cover version of the Nine Inch Nails song The Hand That Feeds. Check out Dust, it’s Deville at their finest!

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With two decades of heavy guitar riffs and thunderous drum beats, these rockers are ready to unleash a sonic storm like never before. Celebrating their 20 year anniversary, Deville put together 10 electrifying tracks that will take you on a journey through the bands work over time. With 8 handpicked gems from their albums and starting with the new single DUST, this record is a testament to their passion for pure, unadulterated heavy rock and metal. On this album, Deville is unleashing their first-ever cover song, a spine-tingling rendition of Nine Inch Nails „The Hand That Feeds“. Prepare to be blown away by their unique take on this legendary anthem. Join the celebration and crank up the volume as Deville invites you to experience 20 years of Rock n Roll relentlessness in one epic record. The jubilee album is simply called 20 YEARS and will be out as a limited tape release. 20 Years is out the 9th of August via Sixteentimes Music.

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Dust
The Hand That Feeds (Nine Inch Nail cover)
Lava
What Remains
Serpent Days
Deserter
Pigs With Gods
Gold Sealed Tomb
Wrecked
Rise Above

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Full Album Premiere – Sons Of Morpheus – Fruits

 

 

Full Album Premiere – Sons Of Morpheus – Fruits

As we already mentioned yesterday, we’re honored to bring to you the full album premiere for Fruits, by the three amigos from Switzerland called Sons Of Morpheus. Out on that damn cool Sixteentimes Music label, this album arrives on the year of their tenth anniversary as a band. A full screed of praise was published yesterday, which you can read HERE. But for all you heavy music crazies out there who cannot control themselves and want to press play, go do so below, and get ready for an album filled with prog induced freak blues. Diesel blues, incorporating a bit of stoner and psych, an album that has that soulful ability coming out of every tone, every riff and every solo… Press play on the new Sons Of Morpheus, take a bite out of Fruits!  

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Sons of Morpheus – Fruits

 

 

Sons of Morpheus – Fruits
Sixteentimes Music – 2024
Rock, Prog, Blues, Free, Stoner, Psych
Rated: ****

Sons Of Morpheus is here to wake you from your slumber of indolence and at the same time the three from Basel / Winterthur, Switzerland are here to make you dream, to fill your sould with reverie. After that wild psychedelic blues and stoner album called Nemesis from 2017, which was filled with masterful grooves and turned all that grungy o’ so soulful, they are now back with a new album. Fruits as it is called will give you almost a full hour of heaviness. This time around the three go back to their blues roots and use it to dive more into prog rock territory. Although there are definite moments that will remind you of their approach to stonerrock, their love for seventies free rock, freak out blues, psychedelic touches and a bit of garage. In fact, there are a lot of those moments, but because the more prog based influences are bigger than before, it felt right to mention them outright. Indeed, on Fruits, the Sons Of Morpheus come bearing gifts. Even though it’s us that should be sending them presents, cause 2024 marks their ten year anniversary. And on this festive Fruits album they use that more prog approach to travel back to their blues roots, cause it all began as a blues rock project called Rozbub. Third track Soothe My Soul is perhaps the most obvious blues rocking masterpiece. You know the kind, the diesel blues kind. Seventies guitar work, warm blooded riffs, a masterful bouncy groove, bopping bass, punctuating drums, sometimes funky, sometimes choppy and a bit jazzy, it’s all there and it will surely soothe your soul! And after your soul is all at ease and preparing to surf the magnetic currents of blues based bliss, it gets jogged violently awake by fourth track, punky rocker Braindead. Stomping its message home, with that fierce refrain and vocals that will mill around your head for the rest of the week. Running, is that free rock kind of music, propellent and reverie inducing. Or what the Kamchatka three would call: Freak Blues. Invoking the spirit of both Vaughan and Hendrix, these three minutes of motoring blues are like the one unlucky drink that shoves a wavering alcoholic off the wagon. If you weren’t completely enamored with Sons Of Morpheus before Running, this one will surely get you. But you were probably already feeling goosebumps from that first tracks. Cause those were the seminal prog based tracks, the influence stretches out over all of them in some way or form, but single Hello Stranger and opener Capstan both combine that prog with stoner and psych and make it all as grandiose as possible. And did we mention Smoke & Trash yet? That second track of the album, sporting splendid multiple vocals, a very contemplative opening, soon turning into this thunderstorm, that whirls and builds and finally comes to that most blissful of breaks. You will be ready. And you will soar once they kick back in. Expertly done and a moment of pure euphoria. And that’s what this entire album seems to be kicking around a lot, euphoric prog moments and blissful blues, balanced and intriguing. This is quite the celebratory album for Sons Of Morpheus! Congratulations!

And hey! You can already listen to two singles on the Sixteentimes Music bandcamp right now! Or come back to Stoner HiVe tomorrow… Indeed, tomorrow on Thursday the 14th of March, we will have the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for this wild Sons Of Morpheus album… Come back on Thursday for the gift that is: Fruits!

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Deville – Heavy Lies The Crown

 

 

Deville – Heavy Lies The Crown
Sixteentimes Music – 2022
Rock, Hard, Stoner, Southern, Metal
Rated: *****

Hitting the world in heavy and full swing next week is the new album by Swedish quartet Deville. It’s called Heavy Lies The Crown and is the follow-up to that mighty Pigs With Gods album from 2018. And just to mention all those records they released before that, to show their great body of work, let’s sum them all up: Make It Belong To Us from 2015, Hydra from 2013, Hail The Black Sky in 2009 and Come Heavy Sleep in 2007. Indeed, the Swedes got together in 2004 and are approaching their 20 years of making heavy rock together. There has been some changing of the guard of course, during those decades, but vocalist, guitarist, Andreas Bengtsson is still there and the obvious focus point with his gruff, gritty, and highly recognizable vocals. During those years the sound morphed, progressed, and tried all sort of different attitudes, but one thing was always there: ballsy, no holds barred, highly energetic heavy rock! And well, Heavy Lies The Crown brings that trusted Deville sound, but once again, with quite a few extra touches here and there. Opener No Sun bursts out of the gate with a definite agenda to fill your being with that stoner metal sound, the way it cuts away when the vocals start and then goes full volume after the first lines is of course expertly done. No Sun will take no prisoners, and will surely have you headbanging, drumming or air guitaring along. It will have you on the edge of your seat anxious to hear the rest of the album. Second track and single Killing Time brings even more metal and wild percussion, Hands Tied, gives you a more stonerrock 2002 era sound and Serpent Days, gives a wide-open sounding metal landscape that seems to pass by slower than the tracks that came before, giving you some air and some light, although the ending turns pretty intense and claustrophobic again. But it’s fifth track Embrace that will undoubtedly have you floored. The way they approach the King Buffalo sound from a stoner metal take, the way they implore the progressive touch, the early stonerrock sound in one track, the addition of Andeas Wulkan as vocalist is simply stunning. Heavy Lies The Crown is Deville’s pandemic album, the one they recorded when the world stopped turning and the band had to stop touring. It resulted in many of the tracks being fleshed out by the different members before they passed the bar and were allowed to be recorded, which makes me wonder who was responsible for the Embrace track the most and for that final track Pray For More. Cause even though the entire album is filled with amazing hooks, grooves, and riffs abundant, those two tracks stand out the most. Pray For More, chugs away relentlessly, on a different level, riding those tracks like a monstrous freight train, and with the soaring lead and less gruff vocal lines, ambitious and almost opts for grandiose and gloriously appealing. And such sweet surrender and temptation will surely make you Pray For More…

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Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

It’s Friday again! Tonight we have to work... Doing a review of the Red Hot Chili Peppers show... But right now, we just realize it's Friday! And we’ve got yet another one of those crazy Quick Fire Friday rounds for you to go insane to! Cause there’s still a lot to cover and everyone of those singles, EPs and demos mentioned below are worth your time. Shit, they are worth way more of our time! But you know how it is… There is so much out there, so much good an heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is. The Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!

 

Deville – Hanged, Drawn and Quartered

Starting off with a righteous bang! We reviewed the very cool Hydra and ofcourse their last awesome album Pigs With Gods on the HiVe and know Deville has let us know that they will be releasing a new album this year through that label we only recently discovered, and already truly adore: Sixteentimes Music! Before the album arrives they shall release some singles that did NOT make the album! Hanged, Drawn and Quartered is once again more metal and more of that great Deville sound! Packing an incredible punch! Can’t wait to hear that new album!

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Ogives Big Band – Harm Redux

Harm Redux is a reimagining of the 2019 Harm EP by Ogives Big Band. This because Ogives went from three to four members, now including a vocalist. And this addition makes the droning noise, the psych metal, the math prog and all the other experimental ruckus the Bristol band produces even more frantic and feverish, inducing a delirium and psychotic reactions with no quarter asked and none given…

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Diamond Skull – The Deal

Austrian trio Diamond Skull are back with a new single The Deal! And one hell of a single it is, a midtempo, eighties and seventies referencing hard rocking slow builder. The blues roots are never far away and so is the feeling that you are listening to something classic. Groovy, metallic and hypnotic indeed! And a sure fire way to get the blood pumping and your anxiety to hear a full album to a maximum level… Cause if they’ve made The Deal with the Devil…  

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Basalt Shrine – From Fiery Tongues

Have we mentioned how we love Electric Spark Records from the Netherlands? Have we mentioned it enough? Well, here we go mentioning it again: we love Electric Spark Records! And they are about to release a new album from a insane black doom, post metal, sludge noise outfit from the Philippines called Basalt Shrine on vinyl. The four produce forty minutes of overwhelming metal, doom, noise and turning it extremely bleak, black and dark with its snarling vocals. From Fiery Tongues indeed!

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Warcoe – The Giant’s Dream

We’ve been listening to Warcoe for a while now; but it was thanks to Brandon from Morbid And Miserable Records and Marc-Eric Gagnon tipping it on the Doom Charts Peroration post for March that we got back into The Giant’s Dream for more of that good and heavy proto action! The Italian three deliver ‘groovy doom from the abyss’; where the giants have definitely been spinning a lot of Black Sabbath and Iommi honoring heavy metal. It’s stunning and it’s so addictive; once they’ve gotten their hooks in you there is no escape possible…

So, if they haven’t managed to grapple you yet: here’s a bandcamp code to drag you into the abyss with them: h3c4-egkt

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Louisiana Drifter – After The Flood

Ending it once again with something spectacular! Louisiana Drifter. Great name! And so is the music on their sophomore EP, After The Flood. The first EP, Road To Nowhere sported some great music but a lo-fi almost open-source recording sound. The new four-track release sounds so much improved we might assume they’ve stood around on a crossroads somewhere looking to make a deal. Bluesy rock, steeped in the seventies, with those psychedelic edges and stoner curves that we all love so much. Damn bluesy bayou-tastic goodness!

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Rodeo – Moira

 

 

Rodeo – Moira
Sixteentimes Music – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Desert
Rated: ****

We thank that awesome Carson album for discovering Moira by Rodeo. Cause it is out on the same Swiss Sixteentimes Music label. Which as it turns out has been releasing some damn fine music for quite a few years. No Mute, Midnight Deadbeats, Slap Guru, Walross, Bronco and many more. But we’re here now, to talk about Moira by Rodeo. Rodeo will probably be the only stonerrock band that in the whole wide world that sings in Euskara, the language from the Basque part of Spain. On their third full-sized album the four give us fast paced stoner rock and high energy, intensely gritty desert rock. Not every track moves into stoner or desert rock territory; but all of it has that sundried edge, that sandy feeling and that rough and dirty atmosphere. Full on riffs and a maximum amount of groove! It’s time for a Rodeo!

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Carson – The Wilful Pursuit Of Ignorance

 

 

Carson – The Wilful Pursuit Of Ignorance
Sixteentimes Music – 2022
Rock, Stoner, Sludge, Grunge
Rated: *****

There were so many great expected releases that arrived in April. Such an unbelievable amount of awesome heavy rock. Stöner, Ufomammut, Greenbeard, Steak, Alunah, Somali Yacht Club, Helms Alee, Ealdor Bealu, Geezer and we could actually keep this list going for quite some time. Insanity! But Carson came out of nowhere for me; even though somewhere in those dark recesses of the mind their 2017 release Drown The Witness still lingered. But what a grand surprise this new album is! And logically it entered high on the April Doom Charts! Just check out opener Dirty Dream Maker; and its massive mother sludge approach to stoner rock and you will know what we mean. It was also an eye opener to all that great music that their label Sixteentimes Music release and al lot of other Swiss bands doing great things. But for now, we will stick to trying to come to grips with The Wilful Pursuit Of Ignorance. For the trio that hails from both New Zealand and Switzerland have delivered eight wild tracks that beg to be devoured over and over again. Whether it’s the vocals that draw you in, the pop sensible melodies or that hefty sludgy edge, Carson brings it all in absolute golden form! Indeed, we’ve got a new very favorite band!

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Slap Guru - Umashi's Odyssey

Slap Guru - Umashi's Odyssey

Sixteentimes Music - June 2020

Psych, blues, stoner, prog

Rated: ****

Madrid-based four piece Slap Guru release their third full-length Umashi's Odyssey this June, and it's more than worth the wait. Mixing 70's hard rock, stoner crunch, and proggy eastern melodies, the band's latest is a far-reaching concept album based on the novel of the same name and covers a wide array of sounds. The diversity of influences at play is made immediately apparent in the first two tracks, as the strings and pastoral vibes of opener "Meeting the Mermaids" are followed up by the retro stop-start shuffle of "Acid One". A piercing lick serves as the track's cornerstone, and each of its quick bursts leaves you eagerly waiting for the next. The rest of the LP continues the pattern of alternating speed and style, such as the excellent contrast between the mid-tempo southern swagger of "The Night With Its Spells" and the high energy rush of "Erkil", whose psyched out solo is an album highlight. The best is saved for last, however, with closer "The Plastic Island". Warm bass pulses along with sunny, bouncing guitar before the track launches into a show-stopping riff, hammering out a warbling eastern melody in a sharp attack that demands repeat listens. Umashi's Odyssey is an epic effort by Slap Guru, loaded with memorable hooks, talent to spare, and a style that traverses influences with ease, making for an adventure not to be missed.

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