Vinyl HiVe - Grey Czar – Euarthropodia

 

 

 

Vinyl HiVe - Grey Czar – Euarthropodia

 
We were absolutely honored to premiere this amazing album on April 9th...

And we are extremely grateful to receive this wonderful gift from the guys... Much love!

Out on Argonauta Records and Octopus Rising since April 11th, this is :

GREY CZAR - EUARTHROPODIA!!

If you can read it, you can claim the bandcamp code..

 

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Van Groover - Both Shop EP's

 

Van Groover - Both Shop EP's

 

I heard the loud hum from a far… The screeching tires… The backfire as it drove off… Yes! Look what the good old boys from Van Groover decided to drop in my lap! It’s the brand new double edged Back From The Shop and Back To The Shop vinyl edition! Both EP’s on one slab of holy vinyl… It’s groovy and it’s about van life! Cause the boys know, there’s always something that needs fixing when you own a van… But not Van Groover’s sound! 

 

 

Stoner HiVe already knew that listening to Back From The Shop: 

 

“… It’s called Back From The Shop and implores some Clutch influences, (how fitting) to get their trucking stoner rock going. Less metallic perhaps than their earlier Honk If Parts Fall Off, this five-track EP seems to serve as the perfect reminder that there’s this German trio out there that knows how to give you the right kind of energy. A sludgy tone setting gives it all this highly greasy atmosphere. And the intro skit sets the launch up for a definite afterburning start. Cause that’s what opener Double Wide gives you. The vocalist starts the engine, orates all the checks and lights and the guitars begin to wail, you hear the engine roar, then the three put the peddle to the metal and they’re off, cruising hardcore….”

 

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Or as Stoner HiVe wrote about Back To The Shop:

 

“…. Potmodel shows a different side of Van Groover, still with a smile, they deliver most of the song almost like a death acoustic version of their rock. But once they burst through, they let a bluesy harmonica lead the way. Big Dog is huge in its delivery, biting in its metal edge and growling in vocals and on its low end riffs. Power driven and burning up the engine….”

 

Read the full review for Back To The Shop HERE! 

 

Thank you guys! Love it!

Go check out the wild an fun Van Groover three!  

 

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Sergeant Thunderhoof - This Sceptered Veil

 

 

Sergeant Thunderhoof - This Sceptered Veil

Spinning that awesome Sergeant Thunderhoof album... Which we reviewed a few weeks ago... Check it out HERE... And this Green /White, Avalon Edition by Pale Wizard Records looks damn good while spinning!

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Gringo Bandido - Chief Police

 

 

Gringo Bandido - Chief Police

This little garage rocking diamond arrived a while back as a gift from one of the Messerschmitt guys... Damn fine 2021 release by Siste Reis Records... Halden, Norway kicks serious ass!!!

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Ritual Earth - MMXX

Ritual Earth - MMXX
 

Absolutely honored to receive this slab of vinyl gold... And humbled to read those Stoner HiVe words of praise on the front... Ritual Earth 's MMXX is out on Iodine Recordings and still stands tall as that : "... perfect amalgam of doom, rock, metal, space and prog..." 

 

Thank you George, will be spinning the shit out of this one for ages to come...

 

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Forming The Void - Reverie

 

 

Forming The Void - Reverie

One of my personal favorites of last year and it reached the Number 6 spot of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2020...

Out on Ripple Music this remains one hell of an album by the Louisiana quartet!

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Don't forget; the Countdown of 2021 will start on December 13!

So your votes will have to be in by December 12!

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Sonolith - Voidscapes

 

 

Sonolith - Voidscapes

As we already mentioned on thursday: If you listen it will doom... And if you listen to it on clear vinyl it will doom a whole freaking lot...

Just like The General Eric Varasifsky already posted yesterday, Sonolith rules! It reached position 24 on the September Doom Charts... So, go check it out and doom along with the majestic Voidscapes groove!

 

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Off The Record – Store

Off The Record – Store

A few weeks, which turned into months, turned into half a year… But yes, some time ago I had the pleasure to meet up with Tjeerd De Jong. The man behind the Off The Record label, Off The Record Store, Stone In Egypt, Phantom Druid and many more projects still to come. Oh, and his very own Off The Record Festival! Which is now because of obvious reasons postponed… Yes, the man exhumes music through all his pores. If he is not working to promote the bands of his label, he is busy promoting the bands and their records in his store or working on new music. Sure, he also takes the time to listen to new music as well. Cause he won’t sell stuff he doesn’t like himself. Only a small section of the store is reserved for the better pop records and different sorts of more mainstream rock. Everything else is metal, doom, stoner and all round heaviness! “I’ve had people wander in asking about a certain popular artist. But if they would have just taken a look at the shirts and all the different kind of metal labels; they could have guessed it themselves.” And by sheer coincidence, only a little while later, (Coincidence? Right, this is how the Great Magnet works.), a Dutch middle aged man enters the store and yells: “Do you have Jannes?” “Do I know Jannes? Who is Jannes?” “Yes, do you have music by Jannes?” “Oooh, you mean that horrible Dutch singer, nope, ofcourse not. Try the store down the road.” 

 

There are ‘secret’ projects in the works and there is already a new Phantom Druid record underway. And how about a project with Monolith Deathcult called Demon Lodge who released a seven inch called Breaking The Sound of Death on October 1st. Cause every free moment the man can spare he is working on music for himself. Sometimes they end up becoming Stone In Egypt tracks. But more often than not, they sit on his shelf somewhere, slowly aging and slowly getting that extra twisted bite they need. Until the moment the universe calls out and points out that there is enough ominous energy present now for this record to be released… People who enter the shop with the intend to buy; usually end up going there monthly. Whenever pay-day rolls around, much of it is spent in his shop. And of course a few hours or so of high fidelity talk about what the best records or songs of a band actually are. Best sellers back then were the new Black Rainbows record, the reissues of Dozer, Paradise Lost’s Obsidian, My Dying Bride - The Ghost Of Orion, Katatonia - City Burials, Goden - Beyond Darkness and of course his own Phantom Druid and Stone In Egypt records. Who have their own, highly deserved, honorary shelf. Off The Record is Tjeerd and Tjeerd is always on record about his favorite records. If you are ever in the neighborhood, be sure to visit Off The Record, have a coffee with the Phantom Druid and drink in all that is good and heavy!

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We are unbelievably stoked, proud and honored to be featured on Phantom Druid's Death & Destiny album! Thanks to Shasta Beast's review! Thank you Phantom Druid! Thank you Tjeerd!

Trail – Spaces

Trail – Spaces

We’ve been raving about the record, it’s art and the band since Spaces was released in February of this year. Shit man, already half a year has passed since the first time we heard Trail’s official full-sized debut. And now, with this righteous vinyl treatment we can continue to spin it until the end of time. A gorgeous ‘die hard edition’ package is available through their webshop. Featuring a poster with incredible art by Michaela Malcomess, a shirt and vinyl bag featuring the same art, some stickers, the album on cd and on vinyl. White splattered in league with the artwork, the entire package is a work of art and shows the love these guys have for their music and the stuff they do! This five-track debut record has all the dynamics and tension arcs one desires from a mostly instrumental psychedelic rock adventure. It is grounded in stoner and flies high in all its heaviness. The German fourpiece has a knack for making something highly natural out of progressive and trippy music. This adventure takes you places. And while most of these records seem to take you to outer space or into a realm beyond imagination. This one burrows deep into your fantasy and describes a fictional reality that feels so real you extend your arms as if to touch it. Sure, this is just a fancy way or describing something awesome that we love. But that is what we do at the HiVe. We profess our undying love to the music we adore and do not pretend any form of objectivity. And, so do the guys themselves, as you can see by the way they look into every little detail of the presentation! Absolutely amazing! 

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Mother Mooch – Nocturnes

Mother Mooch – Nocturnes

Some more good news this Halloween! The awesome Nocturnes album by the righteous HiVe Mind freaks Mother Mooch has been released on vinyl! We’ve been playing the digital version religiously, you can bet your ass the vinyl will spin until the grooves are as huge as the grand canyon.

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