Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

Welcome to the first Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday of 2025! That definitely has a ring to it! And we’re happy to get the fire started quickly in January this year! Soon, there’s also the Doom Charts Peroration for December going live today. So, there’s a lot of music to contend with. But that’s what we love right?! You can never have enough of it! 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!

Icarus Burns – Minotaur

Here’s the first drop of scorching lava! This four-piece from Berlin released their new single Minotaur exactly a week ago! It’s Icarus Burns and they deliver their mythical psych and prog in instrumental metal style. It’s the first single to set the scene for their debut album to arrive on February 10th. Incredibly thick bass sounds, wild guitar tones, thrilling riffs and drums captured to perfection. And then those shifts in structure and composition, furious! See, it burn! It burns! Icarus Burns!

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Slumlord Radio – Snakebit

Another single released about a week ago, it’s Slumlord Radio and their Snakebit track. Starting off with a QOTSA vibe, thanks to the little opening background choir, it quickly turns more gritty, punk and into an action packed hard rocker. Although the background choir returns at the end, turning it back again, and turning you on again, and having you push the play button again. Perfect for getting your revved up to visit your local dive bar! Shirley is waiting! Again!

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Dakû - Endless

Their debut Post Apocalyptic Atmospheric Black Metal EP Endless was released yesterday! It’s the Polish two piece Dakû. With VladO doing the instruments and vocals and Mati on Drums, these five tracks are crushing, brain shattering, yet retain melodies that flow through the remnants of your grey matter like icy water. Nothing like their other band MüuT and their amazing Make Me Do It album, but still… Endless proves once again they are brilliant artists!

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Da Beumb Project – Fairly Consistent

Bass and drum duo Da Beumb Project hails from Montréal, Québec, Canada and are about to release a new album called: Closer, Warmer. First single, Heck Yes, out since December 16 is a righteous calling card. Fast paced punk, all sludged and grunged up, and not a huge time commitment, since it only lasts one minute and forty-five seconds. You want a video for this? Heck Yes!

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Sha-La-Lees – O, Oblivian!

Been following these cats ever since the best drummer from the Netherlands joined their ranks in 2021. New album Hex is coming out January 24th, this is the first single O,Oblivian! O, and they’re called the Sha-La-Lees. O, and the drummer is Ries Doms. Once from The Spades, Hooghwater, Vanderbuyst, Reaching Forward and more. O, and the rest of the band is made up out of Belgian rock royalties, from bands like The Sore Losers and El Guapo Stuntteam. Garage and proto punk! O, and very addictive!

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Kova – Firça

The Turkish four piece Kova is made up out of musicians from various stoner doom and heavy psych bands, residing in Ankara. They came together in a studio and recorded a four-hour, fully improvised session. The first single Firça was released a week ago and delivers some spicy instrumental doom noise. Savage and wild, the psychedelic paintbrush used does not paint happy little trees but serious deliriums…

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Stonerhenge – Solaris

Belarus is not an easy country to reside in at this moment in time. Perhaps it never was. But the three piece Stonerhenge have their music to escape into. Solaris takes you on a progressive stoner metal adventure. Based on the book by Polish author Stanisław Herman Lem, they translate the mystique and strangeness of the story perfectly, with their shifting colors and compositions. Stonerhenge’s Solaris deserves to be explored.

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Fish Basket - Cartboard Racer

The Cartboard Racer single was released in 2023 but will feature proudly on the new album coming out today through on Interstellar Smoke Records. It’s a new Fish Basket record and delivers their progressive instrumental madness in fine form! And look at that fun video!

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Slumlord Radio – Too Pretty For Tijuana

Slumlord Radio – Too Pretty For Tijuana

Honeyock/Sivler Maple Kill Records – 2016

Rock, Punk, Alternative, Grunge, Stoner

Rated: ****

There are many moments when the tendency to drift towards vulgarity and sink knee-deep into it is almost overpowering. It is something you know and love on many a level. A sure fire way to get the fun back in the house. Just like the boys from Slumlord Radio, they know their stuff. Loud, scummy and grimy. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. In fact, on their new release Too Pretty For Tijuana, they seem to do almost everything exactly right. Mixing up all styles of heavy rock with intense grooves and biker trucking. Punching the right tickets at the right moments and hitting the bells when needed. Yes, we have cowbells! And what sounds like an antique or bruised boxing bell. But by then you’re already completely tuned in into Slumlord Radio. So let’s move back for an instant, cause the album takes you by surprise. For the rattlesnake intro and the easy going Bullwhip track that follows, you reckon you’re in for and easy time, making easy money. Fast in. Fast out. Quick on the draw. Easiest buck you’ll make that night. But then comes the charming Debonair Dolomite track and absolutely sparkling Southpaw, and suddenly you’re not so sure anymore. This could get ugly and perhaps hurtful. You see, you’ve been there. You know the deal. These cats are packing and are looking to unload everything they have. And as the rowdy Tycoon blasts around your head you find yourself with only one option left. To sit back, relax and enjoy the ride. Go back to when you were still having fun yourself… And so smiled the old whore in a dirty run down room on Calle Coahuila, with a painful understanding and a working knowledge that sometimes things are only fun when they aren’t done for money…

(Written by JK)

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