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

 

 

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

Blunt Knife Castration
Kal-El
Hermano
Phantom Druid
Psychlona
OogWei
Grave Disgrace
Purple Lung
Riastrad
Big Oaf

Morning! Hope you had a great week? We did! For it was the week in which we saw Kardeathian for the first time live. A sound that maneuvered between moments of Acid King and Los Natas, but overal felt like a slow trek through the swamp. Muddy, morose and monotonous. The final song had them opening up more, the sound coming into its own, groove and flow rising to the top. Hope to see them live again and am extremely interested in what they will sound like on record. Which will be released later this year. And we saw an incredibly tight Psychlona on the first night of their European tour. Holy hell, the outfit has become a machine! And the vocals sat perfect in the mix, taking the audience on every adventure Psychlona had planned for the night. Go see them if you can! 

 It was also a Doom Charts week last week, which means we started listening to the entire list of forty albums again after it was published. Getting all the way to Grave Disgrace yesterday and continuing on with Fátima today. So many great release! And there were way more, cause the Contributors voted for 200 different ones. Wow. We managed to have a few posts up last week and we got a few almost done for this week. But before new ones go live, let’s look back at Ronny Dijksterhuis’s write up for Druid Stone! The Doom Charts post. Words on the new Urlaub in Polen, Prophets of Thwaites and Purple Lung. And to that single premiere we did for Morrison Graves. And we might just do another premiere this week as well… Better check regularly! Ho ho ho. But seriously, thank you all for the continued support. We are honored and humbled that you crazies out there check in from time to time and spend that valuable time reading our silly words. Much love! And please help spread that everything Heavy Underground related. It’s why we do this thing… 

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

 

 

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

Psychlona
Riastrad
Blunt Knife Castration
Sons of Gulliver
Gnarwhal
Oreyeon
Slomosa
Avon
Urlaub in Polen
American Sharks

Another week in the books and another in front of us. One where most of you few that will be reading these words can be thankful that you live where you live. For now. When will all the fighting stop? Everywhere. Why can’t there be a new wave of freedom, acceptance and love wash over the world? And never roll back… 

Did you escape in some way the past week? Did we help out a little? We hope so, cause we were honored to premiere a video for Bronco Forte and the amazing full album premiere for Sons Of Gulliver. We wrote a few words about the new Oreyeon album and mentioned a show this Saturday by Komatsu, Nevels and Patserbak in Eindhoven. And let’s not forget, this Wednesday starts the European tour for Psychlona! Who will be there in Merleyn, Nijmegen? We also jotted down a few words about Riastrad and on Friday, our resident poet Ronny Dijksterhuis did another wonderful and wild Quick Fire Friday round. Enough escapism if you need it! Let’s hope we can provide some this week as well… Stay strong, spread the word about the Heavy Underground. Spread the love! 

Riastrad – Riastrad

 

 

Riastrad – Riastrad
Self-released – 2026
Rock, Doom, Stoner, Metal, Grunge
Rated: ***

Of course… Riastrad has already been on the Rich And Turbo Show… Cause Rich never sleeps and ropes everyone into joining him on Rich And Turbo’s Heavy Half Hour. Which usually lasts well over a half hour, but that’s okay, cause time flies by as you listen and watch them talk music. Cause we all love to talk about music. This time though, the Riastrad interview only passes the time mark with some five minutes. Go watch it HERE… 

But luckily lasting forty-five minutes is the debut self-titled album Riastrad. Straight out of Portland, comes this four-piece that opt to go for the classic toned metal. Doom to the touch and with a definite motoring vibe. Ten furious metal tracks, topped by searing vocals delivered by Paige Parker. Vocals that can turn more honey toned and lure you deeper into the Riastrad sound on the drop of a dime. 

Traditional in tone and classic in its approach to doom metal, it is by no means just doom. The fat riffs are there, and so are the operatic vocals and the gothic grandeur. But not everything is slowed to a crawl, often in fact it speeds up and mirrors a more thrashy approach or the heavy metal of yore. But in atmosphere, the monumental melodies, approaching that medieval quality and seismic feel all at once, has Riastrad delivering nothing but class. 

Class, but the kind that owns plaid shirts and loves their grunge, for as the album continues, definite influences of the nineties and stonerrock do pop up. It’s what gives the album that touch or originality needed to make this a special debut. Why yes! This is the kind of ruckus every metal head will adore. Older heads because it will remind them of their youth. And the youth because it will wild them out or shoot them down a rabbit hole discovering how deep it all really goes… 

(Written by JK)

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