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

 

 

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

Demons My Friends
Earth Altar / Sun Below
Queen Marsa
Kadabra
Domkraft
Greenstone
Karambolage
Omega Sun
Weird Tales
Viral Tyrant

Weird Tales – Hell Services Cost A Lot

Weird Tales – Hell Services Cost A Lot

Self Released – 2019

Doom, Metal, Psych, Sludge

Rated: ****

With a new bass-player, the old one may or may not have been turned to jelly due to the effects of acid, the Polish trio Weird Tales continue on with their wild journey through the psychedelic doom landscape. We already loved The Fall, the collection of EP’s, the band released last year. But the new release Hell Services Cost A Lot takes things to a different maddening level. There is doom there, there definitely is. And sometimes it even resembles, for a moment, something archetypal doom. But for the most part it all goes to pieces, like your sanity, thanks to the demented sounding vocals, the complicated rhythm changes, guitars that quickly shift in color and drums that pound and pound and pound on the walls of the adjacent formaldehyde smelling room. Breaks that push the dynamics into ever more delirious realms and bass-work that rumbles and rolls like crazy Edgar and his tractor tire. He loves his tire. And we love this bass! The Weird Tales three have cooked up quite a lovely and deranged new story for themselves and we can only sit, mouth agape, saliva dripping and listen to how it all unfolds!

(Written by JK)

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Stoner HiVe's Top 10 artists listened to last month...

Stoner HiVe's

Top 10 artists listened to last month...

Zeke

Abby Travis

Public Image Ltd

Sleep

Weird Tales

Psychedelic Witchcraft

Phe

Trevor’s Head

Monsternaut

Twingiant

Weird Tales – The Fall

Weird Tales – The Fall

Self released – 2018

Doom, Psych, Rock, Metal, Sludge

Rated: ****

The first physical release The Fall by the Polish three-piece Weird Tales is actually a combination of their two earlier released EP’s Shiny Void and Weird Tales. Both up for ‘name your price’ on bandcamp and so if the digital version of the new release called The Fall. But for the physical version they went all out and made an awesome looking cd-box containing stickers of the cover art of the earlier EP’s and two cd’s with the six tracks. The album art is mystical and suits the music perfectly. Psychedelic doom that meanders and drags you along towards the abyss, sometimes turning over into a bit more sludge or more metallic. But the doom is prevalent and heavy my friends. The doom rides high and mighty, dronish in nature and minimal in its approach and recalls bleak vistas described in weird tales told by the likes of Samuel Taylor Coleridge or Edgar Allen Poe. Especially on those first three tracks. The second cd contains a slightly more psychedelic approach with a little bit of dustier air and foggy light. But that might just as easily be only a mirage; for there is still little hope on the horizon. And darkness and decay and death held illimitable dominion over all…

(Written by JK)

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

Stoner HiVe’s

Top 5 artists listened to last week…

Public Image LTD

Quest For Fire

Sergeant Thunderhoof

Sleep

Weird Tales

Sorry my friends, we post this normally on the Monday, but there was even less time to write, thanks to a lot of bullshit stuff. But there is a small glimmer of green light on the horizon. So, go check out those bands listed above! Cause a new release of Sergeant Thunderhoof or Sleep (holy hell?! Sleep?) is always something to honor! We still spin Zigurat and Ride Of The Hoof religiously! And we finally found the right moment in time to post about the awesome Weird Tales. Check out the following mention above… And check’m out! Check’m all out!

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

Stoner HiVe’s

Top 5 artists listened to last week…

Phe

Zeke

Weird Tales

The Blackwater Fever

Lord Ellis

We hope to return with some fine HiVe action on Thursday. Till then we are still swamped with work. Loads of uninteresting stuff and one squeaky fun assignment which we are preparing for right now. And as we switch our listening program, in preparation for an interview, to everything Johnny Rotten ever produced, we look back to what we listened to last week. The awesome Phe is back on rotation, since the boys are gearing up for some shows in the Netherlands. Zeke’s damn fine new Hellbender album out on Relapse Records was on heavy rotation as is Weird Tales and their The Fall album. Which we shall write something more about soon. The Blackwater Fever record Delusions got spun and I guess we all need to order the vinyl through Diggers Factory and Lord Ellis and their Mouth of The Mad record. Which you should read about on Desert Psychlist! And ofcourse, you should listen to them as well. And the other ones as well! You need to check’m out! Check’m all out!

Been swamped with work... But will return to action soon!

Been swamped with work... But will return to action soon!

And while working; the Top 5 we listened to...

Weird Tales

Southfork

Cosmic Fall

The Eels

Fungus Hill