Volume - Joy Of Navigation (a trip through the eternal unknown)

 

 

Volume - Joy Of Navigation (a trip through the eternal unknown)
Kozmik Artifactz / Golden Robot – 2024
Rock, Stoner, Desert, Space
Rated: *****

Almost instantly, the illusions will start. Shifting gear on you like some quicksilver mind-altering odyssey. There’s something absolutely freeing about listening to the new Volume album. It will pilot you into the unknown and once you get locked into that state you know you will have to take it all the way. For that is the pure and beautiful Joy Of Navigation. And that by sheer coincidence, cough cough, is the title of the album. Recorded in the legendary Rancho De La Luna studio under guidance of the maestro himself: Dave Catching. Who of course had to also deliver a few synth and Moog touches, because when the energy flows the right way, you can’t help yourself. And that makes the Volume outfit even more star-studded, founded by Patrick Brink, for a small moment in time member of Fu Manchu taking guitar and vocals. Ed Mundell from Monster Magnet on lead guitar. Mike Amster from Mondo Generator, Nebula and Blaak Heat Shujaa on Drums. Abraham William Parker on bass and loads of other instruments. Star-studded and the lift off of opener Mercury Pull will have you zooming around the stars in no time. Over nine minutes filled to the brim with freak out psychedelic rock, punked up acid and something entirely proto. Sixties love, seventies blend, mantric and liberating. Throw out your arms, go wild! You’re gonna wanna take this trip all the way. Title tack Joy Of Navigation grounds you, goes wilder still and offers up more of a garage and punk take on the freak rock they are delivering throughout. But there’s still that stoner trucking, desert rocking that keeps you zooming. Heavy Sunshine opens entirely like a radical lift off, aiming for something explosive and a different planet all together, but then they just keep it going and keep you coming. That slow rising anticipation almost become unbearable. A cover version of The Golden Age by Swedish Union Carbide Productions goes into the laidback flow of the desert even more, the rootsy energy it contains and their version sounds like it could be added to the Orquesta Del Desierto live set without any problem. Spacebaby has a definite Monster Magnet touch, subdued monolithic and with so much of raw freedom coursing through all those guitar lines it will drive you crazy. It’s entirely liberating listening to Joy Of Navigation, its full Volume, it’s planet Volume and the living is good!

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Ramkot – Rosa

 

 

Ramkot – Rosa
V2 – 2024
Rock, Alternative, Desert, Stoner, Noise
Rated: *****

These Belgian crazies started back in 2017, delivered their first four track self-titled ep RAMKOT in 2019, followed that up with What Exactly Are You Looking For in 2021 and delivered their In Between Borderlines album last year. And now, Ramkot is back! And not just back, they went to the desert and came back with a genuine jewel called Rosa! And they did not just go to any desert, hell no! They went to Joshua Tree and recorded at the fabled Rancho De La Luna, together with producer Alain Johannes. Both his touch and the magnetic Rancho are audible on the new Ramkot album and adds the exact amount of cherries to put this album on top. As most touring bands know, it’s incredibly expensive to get your own instruments into the states. Omega Sun know how to do it right and so does Ramkot. Don’t bring any! They used all the magical instruments available to make their own very danceable noise and sexy dance moves inspiring ruckus. Highly dynamic and beautifully diverse, the album features stonerrock songs, alternative rock, noise inspired, extremely atmospheric slow rock and even a piano ballad. And when the press release states that the amazing Zeppelin single was recorded in one take, one feels nothing by awe and admiration. The same goes for Alain Johannes, Rancho De La Luna and the rest of the Rosa album…

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Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

Hi my fellow heavy music fiends! It’s been awhile… A while since we did a Quick Fire Friday segment! And with the new Doom Charts Peroration post coming online later on, there will be tons of music for everyone to dig into! Can you handle the deluge? Well, we’ll keep the amount of words about the list below to a minimum. And we know… There is so much out there, so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. But here it is… Another Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!

Orme – No Serpents, No Saviours

And all those times I visited Hertfordshire, I never knew it was bristling with all this heavy underground talent! But Orme (not the Toulouse, France one) is yet another outfit from that area, and they bring you ten ton heaviness in glorious form! The form of a one track, almost twenty-five minute long, death-doom No Serpents, No Saviours. Coming out on August 23rd, this is one big droning extravaganza that will decimate and leave you weak and weary. The unholy whispers being the only respite keeping you from the absolute end of your tether…

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Aten – Aten

Australian experimental metal with a droning edge, sludge tones, grindcore and post-metal influences. That’s the Aten project that releases it’s  debut album through Lint Music. Which is only logical since the man behind this project is Brad Hayne the founder of Lint Music founder and Cell Temple. Not to be confused with the death metal outfit Aten from Iceland or the other death metal one from Albania. A lot of Aten, and this Aten is a lot! Not completely wasted by listening to Orme yet?  Well, dive into Aten and be totally obliterated…

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Vibravoid – On Empty Streets

Out. Just now! The new single and video On Emptry Streets by psychedelic stalwarts Vibravoid! Taken from their new We Cannot Awake album out August 23rd through Tonzonen Records. It’s their own tasty mixture of neo-kraut and psychedelic rock, urging beats with an eighties touch and signals coming in from a not too distant future or neighboring dimension, dystopian and estranging. But very captivating!

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Ghost Frog – Shadow Club

More dystopia for you all! This time coming in from the Portland four named Ghost Frog! The first single Shadow Club for their Galactic Mini Golf album coming out November 5, 2024. A bit of grunge and that lazy nineties alternative, some psych and high fidelity head nod that will surely make you buy multiple copies of this single.

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Volume – Joy of Navigation

Patrick Brink (Fu Manchu), Ed Mundell (Monster Magnet), Mike Amster (Nebula, Spoon Benders), Dave Catching, now there’s a list of names that will run a fever instantaneously! It’s Volume and their new single Joy of Navigation of the album with the same name. It comes out November 1st through Golden Robot Records and Kozmik Artifactz. Recorded at Rancho De La Luna it had that desert punk vibe as much as nods back to the sixties. Infectious and kicking out every kind of jam!

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In Ashes – Burned & Disposed

Guadalajara, Mexico seems to be a well of inspiration and a cesspool of gritty doom. In Ashes is a new four piece founded in 2023 and Burned & Disposed is their debut two-track release. A filthy atmosphere filled with despair, portrayed by traditional doom and always metal toned. And then they suddenly add this otherworld guitar part in Arson. And open up with all their abilities even more during the majestic Day One track. I need to call Rob Hammer to get him to nail this down!

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Your Highness - Fire To The Storm

Out for a month or two, it naturally escaped out attention cause we were on an off grid holiday! But luckily, Your Highness always finds a way to crawl back into your blood! And Fire To The Storm will not just set fire to the storm, but also your blood and soul! Stoner metal, hardcore elements, sludge toned and absolutely wonderful. It’s the first single to the new album Under The Weight, coming out October 11th on Polderrecords.

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Full Tone Generator – Refuge of Sinners

 

 

Full Tone Generator – Refuge of Sinners
Golden Robot Records / Iron Head Records / Hurricane Music – 2024
Rock, Stoner, Desert, Sludge, Hard, Punk
Rated: *****

As you few crazies that follow the HiVe probably know, we have a gigantic obsession with everything Rancho De La Luna. We even did a Rancho De La Luna Month early on in our little existence. And even though the main man behind Full Tone Generator hails from Melbourne, Australia, the band has close ties to everything Rancho. The first album Valley Of The Universe featured none other than Brant Bjork on drums, their Never To Return live-album had Nick Oliveri on bass and their new one, out since a week, is called Refuge of Sinners and was recorded in the fabled desert hideaway recording studio. Yes sir, a studio in the desert and a true Refuge of Sinners. Produced by the band and master chef Dave Catching, Refuge of Sinners sports nine tracks that all exhume that magical Rancho vibe, the desert punk attitude and that stoner rocking sound of yore. Indeed, the Kyuss low hanging groove here, Mondo Generator speediness there and a whole lotta love for the good and heavy stuff. This is what happens when you put four good ol’ boys from Australia with a penchant for the Palm Desert sound into their most longed for environment and studio. And we should leave them there, so they can produce more of this wild and wonderful ruckus. Kenny, starting the show with that dark and uncanny tone, languidly traversing through a noisy and overdriven landscape, the coyote like guitar howling. Take Me, pushing the needle down, that wild beginning, the rumbling drums, producing a smash and grab attitude, before the guitars kick in and those vocals bring it all home. With a spirit and attitude that hangs somewhere between Garcia and Oliveri, those vocals make this two-minutes-and-twenty-seconds-long rocker, that perfect ripper, that banging almost road rage inducing driving song. Single Juan Carlos has been your go to atavistic stonerrock tune since June 2023 right? It has been for me! For it gives you, out of this world pure and unadulterated generator party heaviness. Fourth track The Snake Charmer can perhaps best be seen as a one minute interlude with those atmospheric Rancho sounds. It does set the scene nicely for middle track and longest cut, Find Out. A mighty flow, that slowly builds through as much of the stoner and desert rock you experience before this track arrived; but also incorporating that seventies touch. Bluesy by default, this track will not bring you down, but will make you fly, soar through endless starry sky. Following Don’t Even Know You continues in that vein, Yeah Hey delivers fight music for the fight after which we come to Dark Eyes. A thoughtful song that sports more emotional singing, almost going off the rails even and a second line of female vocals. Would love to know who the guest vocalist on this track is, but for now, that’s still a mystery. They finish the album by reprising it for one and half minute, painting a deep and reflective atmosphere, which turns into a fitting ending for this beautiful little refuge of an album..

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Duster – Remote Echoes

 

 

Duster – Remote Echoes
Konkurrent / Numero – 2023
Rock, Lo-fi, Indie, Mumblecore
Rated: ***

I’ve never been a huge listener of Duster. I do have all their albums. And definitely appreciate their version of slowcore. But I simply need to have everything Duster, Helvetia and Built To Spill because of the obsession thing. My obsession with Rancho De La Luna grew to encompass every member of every band that ever recorded in Rancho. Or actually just set foot in that magical studio in the desert. And of course, since Jason Albertini was a part of Queens Of The Stone Age in the very beginning, we need to keep track of everything Mr. Albertini does. Another reason Duster never got much playtime over here, is simply because they were largely unknown over in Europe at the moment they were truly active, back in the nineties. But after re-releasing their debut album Stratosphere for its 25th Anniversary two months ago, they obviously went through the back catalogue of home recordings and found more sketches from that time still lying about. This resulted in the fourteen pieces of music on Remote Echoes, old demo’s, obscure pieces of tracks once released on cassette, all like snapshots from a long forgotten past. The dusty atmosphere ever present, the fourteen tracks, lasting less than thirty minutes give you a glance into the messy bedroom all this was recorded in. Fragmentary, lo-fi, like a collage of incomplete memories the tracks give off that post-rocking, slow-coring, slacker, lethargic spirit with as little effort as possible. The insights given do take you back to that bedroom just mentioned, that filthy room everyone once had. Messy, and dubious stains everywhere… Or as they state themselves: cigarette bums, weed crumbs and stained coffee-cups…

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Fatso Jetson / Dali’s Llama – Legends Of The Desert Vol.3

 

 

Fatso Jetson / Dali’s Llama – Legends Of The Desert Vol.3
Desert Records – 2023
Rock, Stoner, Desert
Rated: *****

I have this weird relationship with split albums and have not reviewed many for Stoner HiVe. I do follow certain split record series, cause on some level they are excellent. Think Ripple Music’s Turned To Stone or The Second Coming Of Heavy chapters. And Desert Records is doing an equally stunning job with its Legends Of The Desert series. Which started off with Palehorse/Palerider & Lord Buffalo. The second installment featured The Penitent Man and Cortége. And now they’ve managed to get two honest to god, bonafide, Legends Of The Desert for the third episode. We’re talking Fatso Jetson and Dali’s Llama here! And both bring their own desert rocking flavor to the split album.

First up is Fatso Jetson with four tracks that meander from desert to blues, to stoner, to punk, to garage and back. A lot of meandering and slow moving rock, that feels orchestral or even orquesta, especially on the two instrumentals. Second track Angels Flight sees punk troubadour, desert pirate and sand poet Sean Wheeler adding his vocals as an extra magical touch.  Opener Night Of The Living Amends, is a slow sailing instrumental rocker that feels warm to the touch and gives off this classic desert rocking feel. With added keywork by Mathias Schneeberger, it also gives off an eighties television series vibe. And then you get hit by Angels Flight, which tells its story as the sun seems to go down on a warm and shimmering city and even though the red glow of the setting sun makes it all seem beautiful, there is woe here, luck running out and a darkness looming. That double voice when the second part of the tale comes in, will tear a rupture through your soul and leave a scar on your heart. Following instrumental rocking Todas Petrol Blues will blow away the emotions from Angels Flight and give you a more Palm Desert and Rancho De La Luna vibe, staccato riffs, robotic drums, all very elusive and yet in your face. One of Seven, the Final Fatso, as languid as the rock might be, the hammer still comes down, or better yet, swings. Even though in this case the meaning of the lyrics might be elusive, the instruments do this very stand fast thing, which makes you think the lyrics might be about facing the music and standing your ground.

Dali’s Llama are always on fire and always provide you with something different than what they did before. We only ever mentioned their Desert Lung EP on the HiVe, which was hundred percent desert punk. This time they get a bit heavier, turning up the blues, the proto touch and even the doom. And like Fatso Jetson they also give us four tracks. Four tracks that immediately show their darker, storm cloud colors with the two openers: Coyotes In The Graveyard and Lizards. Both definitely desert animals that strike hard like a hammer from the gods. And then comes Rarified, a more stoner trucking monster, with delicious bass work and a dead certain destination to get to. That is, until there’s a break in the song, and a bluesy banjo, thanks to Mikael Jacobson, articulates what feels like a summer drizzle that might turn into a full-on down poor any second. Side B and the album ends with Hypnotic Wind, which returns to the more thundering doom approach from the first two Dali’s Llama tracks. And the lyrics of all those Dali’s Llama tracks, brilliant and enchanting.

So as you might have gather from the text and abundance of adjectives above, this is a truly magical desert rock album. Insanely beautiful and overwhelming you with the highly different takes on what desert rock is all about. In short, there will never be a better desert rock split album. The legends turned out something legendary for Legends Of The Desert Vol.3.

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The Devils - Time Is Gonna Kill Me

The Devils - Time Is Gonna Kill Me

Their third album Beast Must Regret Nothing (2021) was produced by Alain Johannes (Eleven, QOTSA, Them Crooked Vultures, Chris Cornell, PJ Harvey) and includes a featuring with Mark Lanegan. And the fifth track on that wild The Devils album is Time Is Gonna Kill Me. Wild, just like their entire performance at Maximum Festival 2022 near Venice, Italy. Which was recorded as their live album Live at Maximum Festival. The duo from Naples embodies the ultimate sound of chaos; their style is primitive, loaded with sex, sin and Rock’n’Roll!

The band on "Time Is Gonna Kill Me": "There is no poetic content in our music. Actually this song says that we don’t kill time, but time is gonna kill us. The music is inspired by Otis Rush blues, who clearly explained that ‘Someone promises you the world and then gives you nothing: that’s the blues.'".

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Billy F Gibbons – Hardware

 

 

Billy F Gibbons – Hardware
Universal / Concord Records – 2021
Rock, Blues, Surf, Desert
Rated: ****

Wow. Been fortunate enough to see ZZ Top quite a few times live and they’ve always managed to make it all look so damn easy. Looking cool and rocking hard. They’ve got their sound and they’ve got their style and it will never disappoint. But does it surprise? Perhaps not that often. But that’s where Billy Fucking Gibbons comes in! Sure, the first few tracks on the new Hardware album are all good or better yet, the best he ever recorded solo. And then there are even tracks that are better than those from the best ZZ Top period. Just check out More-More-More for instance. West Coast Junkie is the first track he wrote after Austin Hanks and Matt Sorum kidnapped him and took him out into the desert. No, not in the mafia kind of way! And West Coast Junkie has turned into this wild mixture of surf and desert, perfect for a Tarantino soundtrack and for every hot and steamy night out there, where the danger lurks. And where the dirt is just around the corner, as we can hear in his dirty ode to Spanish Fly. And sure, he’s been there before, in the desert you know, with Josh Homme at Rancho De La Luna. But this was a different studio, Escape Studio and a whole new ballgame. But his love for the desert, the mysteries and the danger are obvious and get that extra supernatural delightful treatment with this album and final track Desert High in particular. Since he was unsure of how to sing the lyrics, Matt suggested he’d read them out loud first to see how it would sound. If it really is the first take, as the man suggested, we hear on the record is best left a mystery, but somehow the desert, has made Billy Fucking Gibbons sound like Leonard Cohen, out there near Joshua Tree. The desert knows and the desert does wonders, just listen to the new Hardware album by 71-year old Billy Fucking Gibbons. Wow.

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The Hawk Messengers – Scifi-Wifi

 

 

The Hawk Messengers – Scifi-Wifi
Self released – 2021
Rock, Desert, Kraut, Alternative, Psych
Rated: ****

Okay, so perhaps, not everyone was hooked on that self-titled Drug album back when it came out in 2017. But I found that alternative and experimental high desert sound pretty intoxicating! They worked with Brant Bjork's wife and artist Zaina Alwan and recorded a Jam In The Van segment at Brant’s Jalamanta Studio before slowly settling into that Drug sound. Or did they? Cause, well, they now stared a new outfit named The Hawk Messengers. And on their first release Scifi-Wifi they sound less experimental and even more addictive. Championed by Dave Catching and everything Rancho De La Luna, The Hawk Messengers now sound like pure alchemic gold. Taped loops as a fourth member and entirely spaced out rhythms create an enormous vista for you to get lost in. Inspired by a kraut rock approach and a psychedelic universe it will trip you up and send you tumbling down the hole, waiting for the (gram) rabbit to follow you down. There is something very special lurking in these six tracks, something hard to define, something electric and something triumphant. It’s that desert thing, and it seems to epitomize the air that seems to flow like water over there… Let’s swim… Are you ready to take the dive?

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Yawning Sons – Sky Island

 

 

Yawning Sons – Sky Island
Ripple Music / Purple Sage PR – 2021
Rock, Desert, Stoner, Prog
Rated: *****

We’ve been floating along the majestic tunes of Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Yawning Man and everything Gary Arce ever produced for quite some time now. So when the new Sky Island album by that most wonderful of collaboration projects called Yawning Sons emerged we could not stop spinning it. Even more so since this time around they invited quite a few other desert magicians along for the ride. Maestro Dandy Brown, Mario Lalli, Scott Reeder and Wendy Rae Fowler all joined the Yawning Sons line-up to help produce an album that will definitely blow every languid prog, laidback desert and dreamy stoner loving fiend’s mind. Imploring mastering aid from John McBain this is once again a stunning release by Yawning Sons. Evoking subtle and little echoes from David Bowie and Chris Goss during a few instances, being lyrical pronunciation or alchemic melody, the eight tracks will transport you to a different plane of existence altogether. And we must confess that those tracks (Low In The Valley, Gravity Underwater) that feature that sweet and blessed voice of Dandy Brown simply take the breath away. The same can be said for Cigarette Footsteps, featuring Mario Lalli. All of them not only excel in vocal delivery, the compositions seem to mirror the sky, with ringing guitar work, pulsating bass and controlled slow moving drums. And it feels extremely unfair to single those out, cause the rest of ‘m, are just as good. Cosmic and yet very earthy, astral and o' so tangible... What an amazing album!

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Dali’s Llama – Dune Lung EP

 

 

Dali’s Llama – Dune Lung EP
Dali’s Llama Records – 2021
Rock, Stoner, Desert
Rated: ****

Part of the SoCal, Palm Desert scene, the Rancho de la Luna family and the entire magic boom that came from the desert: it’s Zach Huskey, his wife Erica and their outfit Dali’s Llama. DIY from the get-go, they’ve been around in one form or another for almost thirty years and their new EP Dune Lung is their fifteenth release. And whatever direction they’re heading on with each of their releases there is always a connection with the desert. This one however seems to be four tracks of unadulterated desert rock and stoner punk; giving us fuzzy grooves, sundried guitar tones and everything warm, windswept and dusty. Indeed, if you are in need of something truly desert then look no further than Dali’s Llama’s new EP. It’s only four tracks; but those four tracks will give you the perfect amount of that heavy goodness you all went out into the desert for in the first place. No exaggeration. None at all. Dune Lung EP is everything you love about the desert. It is the desert. And you know the desert. And there are spiders out there and they know us.

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Big Scenic Nowhere - Lavender Blues

Big Scenic Nowhere - Lavender Blues
Heavy Psych Sounds – 2020
Psych, Desert, Stoner, Free
Rated: ****

Sporting an 18th place entry on the October Doom Charts and a little blurb by yours trule, the new Big Scenic Nowhere. Out on Heavy Psych Sounds the new Lavender Blues EP by Big Scenic Nowhere is once again parading a majestic line-up. We’re ofcourse treated to the wonderful sounds of Gary Arce, Bob Balch, Bill Stinson and Tony Reed. But this time there are more legends in the equation. How about a Danial Mongrain? Or a Per Wiberg? And last but not least, the godfather himself Chris Goss. Indeed, Lavender Blues is sporting all the goods and selling us a progressive rock adventure that incorporates all that, once in a distant past, came together in the desert. With more than enough space, stoner and psych it is Big Scenic Nowhere at it’s best: incredibly wide vistas and total freedom. It produces that righteously coveted prize of rock… Free rock for the open mind!  

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Mooch – Hounds

Mooch – Hounds

Self released – 2020

Rock, Stoner, Desert, Blues

Rated: *****

Hounds is the debut full-sized album by Mooch, a heavy rock outfit from Montreal. It was recorded in their hometown Segpop Studios and at the Jalamanta Studio with productional aid from Brant Bjork. And it’s audible; there is this intense sun dried vibe going on and the guitar crackles with shimmering heat. It’s a powerful desert fueled, blues inspired sound. Add to this all the Jim Morrison colored voice of guitarist Ben Cornel and you’ve got something classic on your hands. A record that might even go on to become something very mythical in the near future. There is so much to enjoy here, a fantastic groove, impressive compositions and a closing track that will leave you longing for so much more. Cause the build-up, the different tracks you hear on this album while you approach that title-track closer of Hounds is already damn amazing. As we already mentioned, fuzzy stoner, gritty desert, lo end grunge, seventies love and diesel blues. It’s all there! And then to close it all off with what might be the best track of the record is just a pristine and wild idea! The Hounds are loose!

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Most worn band shirts of 2019

Most worn 'band shirts' of 2019 

Upon my return from the mountains the honorable Reek of STOOM showed me a picture of his battle jacket! Yes, the one shown above here. Well, of him and his jacket getting his party on with awesome bands like The Red Widows. Parson City, Cower, Hounds and Gevaudan! All studded and patched with his favorite band colors. Soon to be patched even more with those bands just mentioned! Which made me wonder why my battle jacket ever retired and what colors I usually wear... 

Well, here’s the Top 5 of most worn band shirt of 2019! 

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An Evening With Knives

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Doktor420's Most Worn Shirts

Doktor420's Most Worn Shirts

Doktor420 immediately jumped at the opportunity to show off his favorite shirts. “I guess my all time favorite shirt is that Mans Ruin one by Frank Kozik. I am used to buy a shirt after every gig I enjoyed. I do find that too many of the bands we love use skulls or something along those lines. Usually, those come out a bit too childish for my taste. The past year I wore the Elder and Karma To Burn shirt the most. A few of my beloved old shirts are unfortunately worn out, but i cannot throw ‘em away. I love them too much. Like my Neurosis and Baby Woodrose longsleeves. I guess they need to play in my vicinity soon again!”   

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Big Scenic Nowhere – Vision Beyond Horizon

Big Scenic Nowhere – Vision Beyond Horizon

Heavy Psych Sounds – 2020

Rock, Stoner, Desert, Punk

Rated: ****

It just entered the Top 10 of the January Doom Charts of 2020 and we were honored to write those few dubious lines about Vision Beyond Horizon, the new Big Scenic Nowhere record. We know the project and we know what kind of music we can get ready for. The only think to know is what kind of guests are involved and how good on the scale of great, to awesome, to legendary, to universe shattering it will be… “Oh yes! A new record by the Gary Arce (Yawning Man) and Bob Balch (Fu Manchu) duo and their ever revolving array of helping hands. Mario Lalli,. Nick Oliveri, Per Wiberg, Tony Reed, Bill Stinson, Alain Johannes and a few heroes more. Perhaps a little less drawn out, jammy or wide in comparison to their earlier release but still very desert and very stoner. Which is logical when you think of all that great stuff Arce and Balch have been a part of. Indeed, killer riffs and desert psychedelics a plenty! Oh, and yes, one weird fast punk track?!”  Only a few quick lines indeed, enough to entice and not give away too much. Perhaps a fitting description for that Vision Beyond Horizon…

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Chelsea Wolfe – Birth Of Violence

Chelsea Wolfe – Birth Of Violence

Sargent House – 2019

Rock, Folk, Dark

Rated: *****

We never got around to truly mentioning that amazing album from 2017 called Hiss Spun. But now that Chelsea Wolfe returns with follow-up Birth Of Violence we can remedy our fault! Sure, Hiss Spun was much heavier and louder and used a mixture of sludge and doom to add grime and texture to her dark folk and wonderful voice. This time around there are still heavy moments and intense layers but she decided to remain more in her dark folk territory; moving towards that ghostly atmosphere and that hits just as hard. Which goes to show how powerful her voice and persona is. Strong, commanding and clear but also ethereal and unnerving. Which adds to the already eerie and sparingly used percussion. The entire record quickly become this almost blood curdling experience and is without a doubt as scary as a lone night in a haunted forest. Enchanting and intoxicating are other words that come to mind when trying to describe this record. But all of them fall short of really explaining all those feelings one experiences when listening to Chelsea Wolfe. What a record…

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

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Desert Sessions Vol 11  / 12

Ancient Cities

Jangar

Dead Sun Rising

Kadavar

Just a quick Top 5, cause we are in a very annoying hurry… And hey, the new edition of the Doom Charts is around the corner… So, we shall be getting some righteous kicks in a few days!

Big Scenic Nowhere – Dying on the Mountain

Big Scenic Nowhere – Dying on the Mountain

Blues Funeral Recordings – 2019

Stoner, Psych, Prog

Rated: ****

Just when you thought the days of the Supergroup were over, along comes one with a veritable Honor Roll of legend and influence - indeed, the musicians at work here not only shaped the Stoner movement and all that followed, they also inspired a generation to think outside the confines of the Metal genre and re-discover that 70's spirit of experimentation. Dying On The Mountain follows a similar vein of exploration that Elder tapped into... An excursion without any preconceived thought to the members' past outings. Weighing in at just over the 20 minute mark,  the title track flows with the easy energy of a band who are both familiar and comfortable with each other's styles: That instantly - recognizable Nick Oliveri bassline rumbling and tumbling through mescaline-like distortions of Bob Balch & Gary Arce's guitars, puncturing the drifting backdrops of Per Wiberg and Tony Reed's keyboard wizardry. Dying On The Mountain's three parts move from slo-burn Psychedelia, through lush choral sections into an ultimate Heavy assault at the finale. Second track, "Towards The Sun" heralds back to the members' Glories of Old - Heavy, trippy, slightly dark in places, it thunders along with a relentless doomed rhythm that captures the soul. Big Scenic Nowhere have done what few 'Supergroups' have done before - created a work that is intelligent, exciting and as full of the same Stoner spirit from its practitioners as they had at the beginning. It's good to have you back folks... It's been a long, strange trip...

(Written by Reek of STOOM)

(Also featuring Mario Lalli, Bill Stinson, Jim Monroe, Thomas Jäger, Lisa Alley and Ian Graham. During those sessions Alain Johannes also joined in and on January 31st a new album shall be released through Heavy Psych Sounds entitled: Vision Beyond Horizon. Go hear the first single 'The Glim'.)

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