The March 2024 Doom Charts – 40 to 26
Stoner Hype
Here we are again, collecting what we did on our little Facebook page right after the new regular edition of the Doom Charts goes online. We count down from 40 to 26 and try to type in a few words about that album or ep that makes sense to us. It’s not a review; but usually a miniscule blurb, a little sentence to entice, to hype. A Stoner Hype… Well, we collected them here to post for you in one nice little post on the blog… Because we like to keep things nice and tidy and it helps us spread the good word about them on Instagram as well…
"We wrote a full review about Full Earth's Cloud Sculptors a few weeks ago and you can read that one by going HERE! But in short, it's a gigantic prog rock adventure. Gigantic is the most colossoal understament every in this case... "
FRANK NEVER DIES – RED MOON RISING
"Out on Argonauta Records is Frank Never Dies's new album Red Moon Rising on which the Four Italians deliver some mighty fine psychedelic rock. Off kilter, off centre and off the wall! You might get as weird and delirius as they are thanks to that Red Moon Rising!"
"One man project Watchman delivered cauldron bubbling, sluggish sounding, abyssal and ominous sounding doom! Cursed is the stoner doom for the creatures that live in the deepest depths of the earth..."
SKULL SERVANT – SUMMON SORCERESS
"The first thing I thought when the new Skull Servant EP hit my ears, damn these cats are prolific! The four from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA deliver impressive quality doom rock. This time the tracks have this unholy earworm and catchy ability! Especially on that first track… So beware, once called, this Sorceress will stay with you forever… "
HIJSS – STUCK ON COMMON GROUND
"Alternative rock, grunge, postpunk space, psych, the Italian three named hijss deliver all of that and more on their debut album STUCK ON COMON GROUND, out on Argonauta Records. They call it cosmic grunge. Garage kraut could work. Shit, you can call it loads of things, but you will have to call it AWESOME!"
"We mentioned it a few weeks ago, the new three song EP by the Polish four called Hydra band. Doom metal, stonerrock, sludge and roll and with such a majestic groove that you will be headbanging as that very first break commences and that groove starts and after that, you are hooked and won’t stop banging along! And then the vocals kick in, immediately taking it into proto and classic heavy metal territory. Out on Piranha Music, the three tracks on Into The Night are pure glittering metal gold!"
THE NEPTUNE POWER FEDERATION – GOODNIGHT MY CHILDREN
"Goodnight My Children is the new album by Australian power rockers The Neptune Power Federation... By no means lullabies, the eight tracks deliver highly energetic hardrock, steeped in seventies and loving the eighties! Catchy by default, they lean into power pop and harmonies as if they were driving full speed on a motorcycle towards life's next vicious curveball... The sun's out! Wake up for The Neptune Power Federation!"
PER WIBERG – THE SERPENT’S HERE
"Per Wiberg Music's The Serpent's Here was my personal Number 1 album. Have had it on repeat for ages now. Was smitten with his early All Is Well In The Land Of The Living But For The Rest Of Us... Lights Out record from 2021 and this equals it. Prog, with loads of metal influences and an otherworldy atmosphere, cautionary, strange, mysterious and fantasy rich tales. And those eighties references through majestic key work make this one brilliant release. Epic, grandiose and with severly catchy melodies... Out on Despotz Records its another wild addition to the ever growining Per Wiberg discography!"
"Cancervo's III arrived at the end of March through Electric Valley Records and give you this scuzzy and foggy doom metal. With a carpetted sound, III is an occult offering as deliberate, meticulous and slow as they come..."
"We were honored to premiere the full Sons of Morpheus album a while ago. Fruits came out on the awesome Sixteentimes Music and give you all the freak blues you could possibly need this year! Amazing album! And you can read what we wrote about the album HERE! "
"Långfinger's PENDULUM is a classic in every sense of the word. Out on Welfare Sounds the Swedes rampage through all those heavy rock genres of yore; and with such playful yet determined attitudes that you cannot help but listened in complete awe and marvel at all the little things they do among all those big sounds!"
"Ten years after their first release the Bilbao Heavy Metal Warriors The Wizards are back with their fourth full-sized album called The Exit Garden. Their uncanny ability to merge NWOBHW with classic rock, proto metal and stoner are once again forged into eight wonderful tracks. Out on High Roller Records and filled with soulful guitar work and galloping riffs this is pure headbanging heaven!"
EMPTY FULL SPACE – FROM THE LIMBO
"Stoner HiVe wrote about Empty Full Space at beginning of March and could not stop listening to the krautrock and psych and space delivered on From The Limbo. Out on Spinda Records you can check out what we wrote HERE!"
"Sludge doom, droning and deliciously slow and brutish! It's Daytripper and their new Book I: The Trip album. And ofcourse Frazer Jones wrote something great about it on his Desert Psychlist, read that HERE!"
"And finally on Number 26 we find Oakfarm from Germany, and their seventies inspired self-titled album. The blues is there of course and you'll find some psychedelic touches, but for the most part we have another classic rock gem on our hands. Eight tracks that are lead by swaying melodies and a warm groove... Perfect for those leisurely summer afternoons soon to come..."
Tune in next month when we do this Stoner Hype again for the number 40 to 26 of the April Doom Charts... Live during the weekend on our little Facebook Page or afterwards when we collect them here... But for now... Go listen to all of the 40 of February if you haven't already!