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

 

 

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

Acid Rooster
Your Highness
Sun Blood Stories
Phantom Hound
Waingro
Neànder
Kanaan & Aevestaden
1000Mods
Delving
Ruff Majik

Morning! Another week in the books, and we managed to jot down a few words left and right and so did Ronny! Did you read up on Texas Hippie Coalition of Hand? Spot on words for awesome releases! We wrote something about Bozoo and we’re honored to bring you the Full Album Premiere a day later. A mention also appeared for The Black Furs, Waingro, Acid Rooster and Your Highness, all of’m albums one can get entire lost in! And we can’t wait to get lot at Helldorado Festival, Eindhoven, November 16h… Yes, only a month away! Let’s see if we can get something posted this week as well. We always hope so! And below, as usual, the Spotify playlist for the Most Listened Album of past week. IF they are on Spotify. And if not, there are bandcamp links as well… Have a great one!

Stoner HiVe's Weekly Top 10 Most Listened

Week 42

Your Highness – Under The Weight

 

 

Your Highness – Under The Weight
Polderrecords – 2024
Metal, Sludge, Stoner
Rated: ****

These Belgian mothersludgers have been releasing albums since 2011 and their new, fourth one, is called Under The Weight. We’re talking about Your Highness and their sludge and stoner metal is this time colored with a huge variety of majestic touches. A bit of blues here, some Americana and roots there, a bit of oriental and only a bit of their older influences like punk and hardcore. Well, a bit, they’re always there of course. Ever since releasing Cults ‘n Cunts back in 2011. But they’ve grown so much since then, and the way they’re now able to stretch the tension, to build the arcs and tell their story is stunning. The way opening oriental, Hindustani intro track Agni, calling up the Hindu god of fire, transitions into that crushing second track and single Fire To The Storm. Crushing, but always with a second line of melody flowing underneath or on top, so beautifully done, offsetting the theme of destruction that runs through the album with sheer perfection. Absolute stomper Above The Odds, feels like a crackdown on your senses, setting fire to your nerve endings, clenching your every muscle, howling your doom. Celestial Burst sees Your Highness returning to the thing they did on Fire To The Storm. A miniscule timelapse towards the intro so it seems, relentless chugging ensues and enters that rootsy and bluesy americana sounding guitar. Intense and with more emotion the vocals remain harsh and gruff and somewhere a bit buried in the mix there seems to be a second voice screaming along. It adds to the atmosphere and it adds to the weight of this track, immediately turning it into the focal point of the album. The sound running deep and makes you feel Your Highness has no use for anything narrow, it’s incredibly wide and huge, and seems to be meant for the ages. Like granite. And when the whistling starts, you feel the devil standing behind you, urging you forward, towards the blaze. And blaze it does, the entire forty minutes of Under The Weight, feels like a fire that can fuel itself for a thousand years…

(Written by JK)

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Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

Hi my fellow heavy music fiends! It’s been awhile… A while since we did a Quick Fire Friday segment! And with the new Doom Charts Peroration post coming online later on, there will be tons of music for everyone to dig into! Can you handle the deluge? Well, we’ll keep the amount of words about the list below to a minimum. And we know… There is so much out there, so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. But here it is… Another Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!

Orme – No Serpents, No Saviours

And all those times I visited Hertfordshire, I never knew it was bristling with all this heavy underground talent! But Orme (not the Toulouse, France one) is yet another outfit from that area, and they bring you ten ton heaviness in glorious form! The form of a one track, almost twenty-five minute long, death-doom No Serpents, No Saviours. Coming out on August 23rd, this is one big droning extravaganza that will decimate and leave you weak and weary. The unholy whispers being the only respite keeping you from the absolute end of your tether…

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Aten – Aten

Australian experimental metal with a droning edge, sludge tones, grindcore and post-metal influences. That’s the Aten project that releases it’s  debut album through Lint Music. Which is only logical since the man behind this project is Brad Hayne the founder of Lint Music founder and Cell Temple. Not to be confused with the death metal outfit Aten from Iceland or the other death metal one from Albania. A lot of Aten, and this Aten is a lot! Not completely wasted by listening to Orme yet?  Well, dive into Aten and be totally obliterated…

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Vibravoid – On Empty Streets

Out. Just now! The new single and video On Emptry Streets by psychedelic stalwarts Vibravoid! Taken from their new We Cannot Awake album out August 23rd through Tonzonen Records. It’s their own tasty mixture of neo-kraut and psychedelic rock, urging beats with an eighties touch and signals coming in from a not too distant future or neighboring dimension, dystopian and estranging. But very captivating!

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Ghost Frog – Shadow Club

More dystopia for you all! This time coming in from the Portland four named Ghost Frog! The first single Shadow Club for their Galactic Mini Golf album coming out November 5, 2024. A bit of grunge and that lazy nineties alternative, some psych and high fidelity head nod that will surely make you buy multiple copies of this single.

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Volume – Joy of Navigation

Patrick Brink (Fu Manchu), Ed Mundell (Monster Magnet), Mike Amster (Nebula, Spoon Benders), Dave Catching, now there’s a list of names that will run a fever instantaneously! It’s Volume and their new single Joy of Navigation of the album with the same name. It comes out November 1st through Golden Robot Records and Kozmik Artifactz. Recorded at Rancho De La Luna it had that desert punk vibe as much as nods back to the sixties. Infectious and kicking out every kind of jam!

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In Ashes – Burned & Disposed

Guadalajara, Mexico seems to be a well of inspiration and a cesspool of gritty doom. In Ashes is a new four piece founded in 2023 and Burned & Disposed is their debut two-track release. A filthy atmosphere filled with despair, portrayed by traditional doom and always metal toned. And then they suddenly add this otherworld guitar part in Arson. And open up with all their abilities even more during the majestic Day One track. I need to call Rob Hammer to get him to nail this down!

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Your Highness - Fire To The Storm

Out for a month or two, it naturally escaped out attention cause we were on an off grid holiday! But luckily, Your Highness always finds a way to crawl back into your blood! And Fire To The Storm will not just set fire to the storm, but also your blood and soul! Stoner metal, hardcore elements, sludge toned and absolutely wonderful. It’s the first single to the new album Under The Weight, coming out October 11th on Polderrecords.

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

 

 

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

Sergeant Thunderhoof
CB3
Indian Handcrafts
The Cult
King Buffalo
Psychlona
Your Highness
King Tarkus
Supergrass
Blue Öyster Cult

Survived Nirwana Tuinfeest, which was brilliant! Superb weather, except for a spot of rain during Temple Fang. Superb bands, starting with Temple Fang. CORDS, First Blood, Kadavar, DeWolff, De Staat, Phil Campbell & The Bastards Sons all on day one! Nevermind day two in that case right?! But then we had crazy Mando Diao, Seasick Steve, Supergrass and Sloper delivering great gigs. And nobody can avoid Speedmobile! Loud, fast and fun! As was the entire festival! On to next year… This week is filled with interviews, so once again, updates might be slow… But as of next week, things should turn back to normal… 

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

Stoner HiVe’s

Top 5 artists listened to last week…

GoatHawkBuffalo

Your Highness

Legendry

Paralyzed

Orodruin

Just a quick Top 5, which ofcourse should have gone up yesterday. But we are late to every party recently so, it seems like poetic justice. Go check’m out if you haven’t. Cause they’re all freakin good!

Your Highness – Cults ’n Cunts

Your Highness – Cults ’n Cunts
Hammerheart – 2011
Metal, Stoner, Sludge
Waardering: ***

Floating on the cold autumn wind that moves through the streets of Antwerp, heavy and powerful desert tunes can be heard. Tunes that would normally be made by crazy American gentlemen of bands such as Kyuss, Mastodon or Baroness. But these guys are from the Belgian soil and the five of them listen to the name Your Highness. Their debutalbum Cult ’N Cunts is a full rush and a continuously driving, pounding and milling metal record that never gives a moment of peace. Bawler Ben Baert screams himself silly for thirty minutes with an awesome voice and even if this could be met with a bit more change in the future. And even if now all the songs are flattened a bit by his voice; except closing track Hoogheid which might be looked upon as the highlight. It’s still filled with shrieking solo’s, thundering drums and tight riffs. And maybe not everything on the record is extremely original; but every song does hit you over the head with a pikeperch, carp, plaice or other dead fish. Why they do this might not be completely clear; but it does drive you pretty good and wickedly insane!

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