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

 

 

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

Electric Jaguar Baby
Paradise Lost
The Vintage Caravan
Saüc
The Spells
The Great Machine
Stone Machine Electric
Afghan Haze
Cosmic Reaper
Pale Horse Ritual

Winter is here! Or well, Autumn is in full swing. Damn it’s suddenly cold over here. Not necessarily in temperature, but it’s the kind that sticks to yer bones. Or maybe I’m just not quite ready for Summer to be over? Or the week for that matter… Damn that went fast! Again! But we did manage to write a thing or two about Helldorado Festival, Mojave Experience Festial, the amazing new Shit The Cow record, that scorching 1968 album and thundering Triptonus release. And after that the new September edition of the Doom Charts went live! You found your new favorite record yet? We hope to do something this week, but we are kind of booked up by rent paying work… So not sure if the time will be available… But we will definitely try! 

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

 

 

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

Birds of Nazca
1968
I Saw The Deep
Mos Generator
The Lunar Effect
Psychonaut
Stone Machine Electric
The Spells
Afghan Haze
Elder

Winter is coming! Days are getting shorter and therefore seem to rush by even faster. Cause it is Monday already and again! But hey, that also means Friday is only a few days away. Did you manage to catch the Doom Charts Freebie bonanza last Friday? Hope you managed to grab a code or two… Last week we had the honor of premiering the video for the Temptation’s Wings track AquaTusk and the full Stormforged EP was released a day later. Which you can read about here. We also jotted down some words about Appalooza, Birds of Nazca and Spin The Skull. Go check’m out! Check’m all out.. 

Ps. We are refraining from making a Spotify Playlist. Unless you reckon we should make one anyway? 

 

Single Premiere – Slow Draw – Trying To Land

 

 

Single Premiere – Slow Draw – Trying To Land

Slow Draw is Stone Machine Electric’s Mark Kitchens. And has been since his 2017 release The Hum Demo. The new Slow Draw EP The People's Department of Governmental Checks & Balances is filled with experimental drone, shoegazing noise and atmospheric wave disturbances. And we are honored to be able to premiere it’s first single Trying To Land. Perhaps the most accessible, with its ominous rhythm and song like composition. Anxiety seeping through all the cracks, it seems to be a fitting ending to the entire EP which seems to be rife with frustration, anger and despair. Trying To Land seems to be that final approach to make sense of it all and descent in proper fashion. Check out Trying To Land and get ready for The People's Department of Governmental Checks & Balances releasing on April 29th!

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Slow Draw - single "Trying to Land"

Ambient soundscapes, lightly steeped in exploratory psych and the meditative drawn-out cadence of drone

Single “Trying to Land” out April 1st, 2025
Album “The People’s Department of Governmental Checks & Balances” out April 29th
Genres: Drone, experimental, atmospheric

Since 2017, Mark Kitchens (one third of Stone Machine Electric) has been steadily releasing a series of singles and albums through his solo project Slow Draw. Informed by drone, ambient, psychedelia, and more, Slow Draw creates patient, exploratory soundscapes. At times unsettling, at others peaceful, Kitchens navigates his way through space and noise with unwavering intent.


The next Slow Draw work arrives April 29th with the new album “The People’s Department of Governmental Checks & Balances”, led by the first of three singles, “Trying to Land”, out April 1st.    

IN THE BAND'S OWN WORDS:

“This album is a continuation of the frustration with current times and events as expressed in the recent release ‘Living in a Land of Scarecrows’. Things seem to be going in reverse, and nothing is logical, so, this mess of songs reflects that kind of chaos and frustration. The first single, ‘Trying to Land’, is about trying to reign it all in. Can you bring it in nice and smooth, or will it be rough and unpredictable? In this environment, you’ll never know until you are on the ground. Will it be rubble or business as usual?”

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Stone Machine Electric – Stone Machine Electric

Stone Machine Electric – Stone Machine Electric

Self released / Dewar PR – 2020

Rock, Doom, Sludge, Stoner, Jazz

Rated: ****

Are you still spinning the shit out of Darkness Dimensions Disillusion that came out on Sludgelord Records last year? Well, to commemorate their first ever live gig which happened on March 26 2010 opening up for Wo Fat the Stone Machine Electric duo will now release a seven inch featuring two early recordings. Walking Among The Blind and Mushroom Cloud bring forth their very own style of heaviness to a very sludgy degree. Both tracks are powerful and pack a mighty punch, but opening track Mushroom Cloud does seem to blossom more into its own in regards to that second track. It’s dirty and explosive, it’s machinal and harsh! And it’s exactly what we like about Stone Machine Electric. Now let’s hope they get to perform live again soon and let’s hope we can celebrate more decades of Stone Machine Electric!

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Stone Machine Electric – Darkness Dimensions Disillusion

Stone Machine Electric – Darkness Dimensions Disillusion

Sludgelord Records – 2019

Rock, Metal, Doom, Psych, Stoner, Jazz, Space

Rated: ****

It never stops to amaze me how freaking good a duo can sound. And the two of Stone Machine Electric and their very own style of Doom Jazz deliver the goods every time again. On their new release Darkness Dimensions Disillusion they bring forth their Doom Jazz in a highly funky way. It’s brings light and air to the spacious darkness and depth to their metallic rock sound. It also keeps you on the edge of your seat and biting your nails; scared that their weird approach to doom will turn into some freak out craziness that will only serve the experimenters themselves. But it never does, it just becomes this audio orgasm on the verge of blowing its load. But stamina and control brings out the effortless delay until that very final track. For it is in Purgatory that we find release; aided by extra guitar work of Wo Fat’s Kent Stump the track begins with slow control and a lovely keyboard ditty and then seems set on delivering the goods fast and easy; after which it turns into a majestic maelstrom of weirdness before really and actually going berserk and exploding… Leaving us once again with a highly atmospheric keyboard jangle as a soft smoking cigarette… Aaaah, satisfaction guaranteed…

(Written by JK)

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