Number 5

 

 

Number 5

The first big jump. We jump almost hundred sixty points from Clutch on Number 6 to reach Number 5. An album we never got around to mentioning on the HiVe but an earlier album was featured on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2018. The new album reigned supreme on the Doom Charts when it was released in March. And rightfully so, for this Italian foursome delivers ten tracks of wild craftmanship that meanders through the doom landscape as much as it does through black metal terrain; but only using those influences to color their worldly and otherworldly compositions that also include minute and kaleidoscopic takes on blues, jazz, folk, Mediterranean or / and Middle-Eastern sounds. Indeed, we already passed The Otolith which can be qualified as avant-garde and art, and this album can borrow from those same qualifications as well. Did we expect to see so many of you vote for this album? Perhaps not, for it is not the easiest of doom rock albums. On the other hand, you, out there, the fans of everything in the Heavy Underground don’t necessarily want things easy. You want the total experience! And this album give you all that… On Number 5 we find!

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On to Number 4!

Green Lung – Black Harvest

 

 

Green Lung – Black Harvest
Svart Records – 2021
Rock, Classic, Doom, Stoner, Psych, Metal, Occult
Rated: *****

We often get our promo releases earlier then the release date. Sometimes even way before the release date. Like for instance the awesome Odyssey album by Vokonis. And some of the Doom Chart Contributors already had the new Green Lung album and a handful of those forgot that the release date wasn’t till October, so again, some voted for the album already. And there it is, glorious on Number 10 spot of the August Doom Charts. But you can bet your ass that everybody else will be voting for it next month, when the release date is closer and everybody has been grooving like crazy to the new Black Harvest album… Cause, when their highly intoxicating Woodland Rites album rose to the top of the ranks two years ago, I was still fairly new to Green Lung. Not everyone had been so lucky as to hear the earlier Free The Witch EP or their demo you see. The growth already displayed there held so much promise for the future. And that future, is here now. Black Harvest is darker, heavier, doomier and even more accomplished. There doesn’t seem to be one note, one sound or one idea out of place and that makes Black Harvest the best follow-up they could have made. And hell, one of the best albums of 2021 for certain…

(Written by JK)

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Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

Friday! It used to have such a wonderful connotation to it. Party time! Excellent! But in the world of today it just means: another day. Another day of waiting around for this pandemic to die down. Another day of idle hoping humanity will come to its senses. So many places around the world are destroyed by a handful of people. All of them extremists of some kind. Extreme capitalist, extreme religious or extremely political. All of which is not necessary. The world was never meant to be treated this way. The earth was never meant to be depleted by a human swarm of locusts. Fuck man. This is getting ugly. These few words and the world around us. While there is so much beauty! Beautiful nature, beautiful people and beautiful music. So, lets hold on to that. And slowly but surely make those extremists die out. Cause there is more of us then there is of them! And let’s start with listening to some good and heavy music! And there is so much of that good and heavy, sweet and sour music out there. And we want to hear it all. In which case, we will have to make due with some fast action. Some Quick Fire Friday action! So here we are! 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!

Sinoptik - Black Soul Man

Ukraine. A country that is going through so much strife and troubles. Trio Sinoptik seems to be translating all of that through their new single and video Black Soul Man. As well as all the bad energy floating around the world. Proggy heaviness mixed up overtones of metal, hardrock and alternative. It feels like the beginning of  a new chapter for Sinoptik, it’s got heart, it’s got groove and it’s got soul! The perfect single to start a weekend with! And the perfect way to start breaking this awful spell that is keeping the world hostage!

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Qilin – Sun Strokes The Wall

In about two weeks the full-sized debut Petrichor by French outfit Qilin will be released. Lead single and video Sun Strokes The Wall is out for everyone to enjoy. The instrumental stoner and doom that these four crazies from Paris deliver is just simply put: excellent! This will blow out all that negative energy that’s been stuck in your head! This is a proper way to start the good life with! (And thanks to this amazing band, we now also know what a Qilin is... Do you?)

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Love Gang – Dead Man’s Game

The new video was premiered on The Obelisk and delivers everything you already loved about Love Gang and more. Cause we’ve been loving the Love Gang since The Dead Man’s Game album was released. But now it seems to hit you even more. Much more. For the single Dead Man’s Game brings you heavy speedy psych and seventies rock and combined with that new video it just makes sense and gives you once again that righteous feeling. It’s all happening man! 

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District 13 – First Impressions

Heavy metal, punk, grunge and all there on their debut album Soma which came out in the summer of 2019. But since all the bands have time on their hands, UK trio District 13 decided to make a new video for First Impressions as well. High energy rock that will have you ponding your fist and jumping around in your house in no time! If First Impression serves your first impression of District 13 it will impress the shit out of you!

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Onségen Ensemble - Non-Returner

Onségen Ensemble has always been a favorite around here so when Svart Records pops its head around the corner to announce the new album Fear and lead single Non-Returner we immediately dive head first into the muddy psych pool that Onségen Ensemble always delivers.  Or as they state themselves: Onségen Ensemble takes you to a mystical trip with excursions into wonderfully cinematic and flamboyant landscapes. Exactly! Don’t try to take pictures, just undergo the experience and come out on the other side healed and ready for more. Or, errrr, stay there like a Non-Returner…

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ZOE – Voices

We might have mentioned this video before, but hey, we’ve been coming back to Back Into The Light ever since ZOE released it a month ago. The sound is big, the songs are bad ass, mean and the four are on top of their game. Hardrock is their trade, stonerrock their profession and speedy fun their adagio. The Voices single has al of that and gives you the right amount of energy to go out and find your own way on that mystical road we all travel on…

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