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

 

 

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

Corrosion of Conformity
Desert Colossus
Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows
Witchfang
Earth Tongue
Borracho
Hallusinoid
Star Beast
Motorpsycho
Urlaub In Polen

It’s a weird Monday. It always is of course. But when you are still not nowhere near a 100 % (you never are of course) after a bout with the flu, it even feels weirder. Sorry for the lack of updates, but I got felled on Thursday night and could barely operate on Friday. And after that I got only worse. But here we are and the brain fog and fever has turned into a mist and a few degrees. So onwards and upwards. Well. Soon. We’ve got a few reviews almost done, so those will surely see the light of day this week. Unless the plague comes back… 

Luckily we had Steve De Rique aka Stevie Reek deliver a cool blurb for the Starf**K Electric Company release and we managed to promote the Doom Charts Peroration. Did any of you visit the Peroration? Did you find a new favorite album? Did you find the missing album art in the Peroration Header image? And a couple sentences about the new Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows appeared last week as well. But of course, our main attention went out to the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE we were honored to do for that amazing Bad Mothers Union album Sore Losers! Go visit all of those and the Top 10 Most Listened albums list and you will surely have a grand old time! And I’m sure that will be the case for me as well… Soon… Very soon! 

Urlaub in Polen – Objects, Beings & Parrots

 

 

Urlaub in Polen – Objects, Beings & Parrots
Tapete Records – 2026
Rock, Kraut, Noise, Jazz, Psych, Post
Rated:****

Our very own Doktor420 is relentless in his search for the best kraut rock albums released every month. And usually, his favorites are immediate favorites over here as well. Take Urlaub In Polen, we still count the duo as stemming from the Heavy Underground, but can we even say that after they’ve been releasing amazing music for more than twenty-five years? Not counting the break they took. I believe Objects, Beings & Parrots is their seventh official full release and still brings their very own take on the Can and Neu sound in full force. Still incorporating more noise and pop influences and burrowing deep into the heavier guitar work and hammering rhythms. Almost mechanical at times, that driving force, that forward motion, insistent and feverish. Although some of the tracks do widen out, broaden the scope and seem to implore post rock vistas… 

But when that hypnotic krautrock and motorik pulse takes over, you cannot help but move with them through the retro-futuristic soundscape they build. Tracks like opener “Abacus” and the following “Washing Machine” spin with mechanical momentum, evoking angular energy and propulsive grooves. Yet the duo balance this drive with moments of unexpected warmth, acoustic textures, melodic detours, and even brass flourishes, creating a dynamic, hypnotic album that constantly shifts between propulsion and atmosphere. And that ability stretches out, makes you constantly long to experience it all live, where the synths can howl through the sweaty venue, noise crashes in waves, bodies move whether they want to or not. And then, when your body starts to ache, the machine threatens to blow apart, they break down exactly long enough, euphoria in the form of a stray brass blast, a moment of strange calm… Then the engine roars back again. And you move…

(Written by JK)

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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! 

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

 

 

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

Capacopter
Motsus
Urlaub in Polen
Iron Head
Stereoseat
Swarm
New Mexican Doom Cult
Undulathund
Aeon Temple
Gavran

It’s a new week once again. And I hope everyone will have an amazing one. And especially Mel Lie from Sunday’s Heavy Tunes. She’s taking a break from delivering all those wild listening suggestions. Mostly due to the new work adventure she is starting. So, we can still have hopes that once settled in, she might return. But either way, she will be missed. Every Sunday again, she delivered a great list of listening suggestions. Usually twenty singles, straight out of the Heavy Underground and of the highest quality. If it was listed on Sunday’s Heavy Tunes, it was a track you needed to hear by a band that was worth every bit of your time and energy. So, here’s a huge hats off and salute to Mel. May the world around you conspire to bring you all you need and may it be filled love, happiness and Heavy Tunes. Much love! 

And all that Mel did, makes our Top 10 Most Listened to list a bit bland. We might need to spice this up? Perhaps soon. For now, our world is filled with rent paying assignments and little time to HiVe. But still, there’s a list of great albums to scour through and we did put up that Interview with Nikodém from Stoner.Blog.Hu. And besides that we mentioned those new singles by All Them Witches, Ruff Majik and wrote something about the new Hostal Handshake. But most important, we did that FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for Mount Palatine. So, if you haven’t heard any of that yet… Get to it now! Have a great week!