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

 

 

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

Wolf Alice
Yawning Man
Lacertilia
-II-
Ambra
Abanamat
Homegrown
Ritual Arcana
Black Magic Tree
An Abstract Illusion

Yes, we’re on another Monday trip! Busy as hell, still recovering from minor injuries after being hit by a car last week and also trying to come down from a wonderful Wolf Alice gig last night. Does the week before us look good? Well, as long as we won’t get hit by another car, it will be grand and we’ll try to post as much as we did last week. Cause we managed to do a Quick Fire Friday and we’re honored to have provided the FULL ALBUM PREMIERE for the amazing Dune Aurora record for you all! But besides those we jotted down some words about Dead Otter, A Gram Trip and Abanamat! Oh and a full review for Dune Aurora as well! And last but not least our awol brother from Howl From The Hollows, Stevie Reek wrote some words about that amazing Silver Orbs release! Man, that opening track Manganagas, wowzah! Did you hear it yet? Better check’m out! Check’m all out! 

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

 

 

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

Lacertilia
Jan Akkerman
The Waterboys
Yawning Man
Temple Fang
Modder
The Re-Stoned
Abanamat
Remaining Daze
Kadavar

The new week has started and the week past was filled with three interviews, a concert (actually on one day) and a festival. So, yeah, little time to HiVe, but a lot of time spent with music! And we still managed to mention a few releases… Like the amazing new Yawning Man album and that devastating Modder release! Who showed their maximalist prowess on Helldorado Festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands. What a wicked show once again! And we had to pay attention to our very own in house poet Ronny Dijksterhuis! He’s doing a poetry challenge this month and is a true sculptor with words. Will there be more time for Stoner HiVe this week, we can only hope! If not, you can always use the way back machine and check out any of the older posts. Who knows, you might have missed something somewhere… Grin! 

Yawning Man – Pavement Ends

 

Yawning Man – Pavement Ends
Heavy Psych Sounds Records – 2025
Rock, Stoner, Desert, Psych
Rated: *****

Back when I fell in love with everything that originated from their desert, there were only some dubious quality demo’s and loose songs to be found about this legendary band. And then, almost ten years later, there it was… The first studio album by Yawning Man called Rock Formations. And then another ten years later they toured Europe with the Fatso Jetson & Yawning Man line-ups combined. And for the Deventer show, they had something special, cause earlier that year they had recorded a new Ten East album called Skyline Pressure with Erik Harbers & Pieter Holkenborg from the now defunct Automatic Sam on guitar and bass. A legendary night and something I could never have imagined happening as I listened to those early demo’s and actually thinking back then that I was born in the wrong place and time… 

And as we skip another ten years we have now arrived at their seventh studio release, Yawning Man’s Pavement Ends. And even though the pavement might end, and the asphalt might melt into dust and with the right kind of ears you can hear the ghost of those generator parties still hum in the sand, this could surely not be the end for Yawning Man. The sound has aged, matured, slowed down on some levels, but it is still the kind of music that will continue to play when your phone signal dies, and the sun burns your eyes and the mirage winks at you. This is Yawning Man, this is Pavement Ends, music coming through from the far edge of consciousness…

Older, dustier and perhaps not as punky as before, they are still doing their very own thing. The thing that became a scene before anyone ever knew that it could become a scene. Gary Arce and Mario Lalli are the ones that actually played on those sand dunes with those generators and cheap beer, summoning sound out of heat, making those starlight nights truly come alive and shadows become their own entity. They’ve never lost that touch…

Just listen to opening track Burrito Power. You will swear the horizon starts to tilt, guitars moaning across rusted hoods, a bass that crawls forward like a mirage that refuses to stay still. Deliberately slow, heavy and o’ so beautiful. But beautiful in a way that feels like it might just become dangerous, with the wrong choice made. And as you watch the sunset it will be up to you, chuck the half empty bottle to the ground, or guzzle it up and ride those bad intentions… 

Gestapo Pop rides the dip in light, the sunset drip, and in fact it just drifts deeper into the haze. Shimmering guitar work depicting Van Gogh like stars becoming a halo of light, looping and bending until you completely lose track of time. And by the time third track Bomba Negra hits, I’ve forgotten what planet I’m  on. No longer listening to a simple rock album, but a cinematic and aural adventure drawn by tones eroding themselves into soundscapes. 

And as you feel enveloped in the warm embrace of all those constantly degrading tones, you feel its comfort and know the masters of groove are also experts in dream sequences extraordinaire. To bring some of that groove back there’s Dust Suppression, leisurely moving around with cosmic swagger, this shortest track still feels like grand architecture. Gradual and precise, yet o’ so flowing and fluid. 

Nine minute title track will take you to the limits and beyond. Desert hypnosis personified, endless in its feel and atmosphere, like a drive towards nowhere, and with a reverb that stretches out like a memory of something that might never actually have happened. And if Pavement Ends does not shut you up, makes you lie down to listen to the desert, than surely closing track Bad Time To Be Alive will. There’s no way to not feel saddened by what this song says with just the title and the forlorn attitude. This is not a protest, but an acknowledgement of everything we collectively have let happen to humanity and the planet. Lie down. Listen. And repeat, it might help. It surely did for me. 

And that restorative energy, is part of what makes Pavement Ends so damn good. It never tries to hard, there’s no showmanship, but pure craft. No trickery, just three musicians locked tightly into each other’s pulse that they might as well use the same heart. Maybe they already do. And if you long for the sun and know that everything starts with that golden orb and that as long as the sun rises there can still be hope, this album will certainly strike a chord with you. Exhale, let the horizon do the talking, just like Yawning Man. You can leave your despair and expectations on the road behind your, exactly… There, where the Pavement Ends… 

(Written by JK)

Pavement Ends comes out November 14th, but you can listen to Yawning Man’s first single Bomba Negra right now over on the Heavy Psych Sounds bandcamp page… 



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

 

 

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

Beastwars
Rise Of The Wood
Doro
Psychonaut
Major
Bask
Softsun
Yawning Man
Farseer
Zhaat

Monday can be a good day! Not often, but sometimes it is… Like today! An interview with the Metal Queen in a few hours and we’re honored to premiere a new single for the amazing Black Charger! The Small Town album (review here) will be released through Clostridium Records / Broken Music on October 31st. But you can hear the new Walk With Me single on Stoner HiVe later today! But before that goes live, you can check out all those albums above, cause they did not make the Top 10 Most Listened Last Week for nothing. Or check out that Quick Fire Friday segment our very own Ronny Dijksterhuis delivered. He also came out swinging last week with two amazing reviews, for The Dukes Of Hades and Cozmic George! And let’s not forget the Festival announcements for Helldorado and the Lay Bare Fest or the write-ups for Rise Of The Wood and Black Tongue Reverend! Seems like it was a decent week in the HiVe! Let’s hope for another fire cracker this week! 

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The Doom Charts For June 2023

 

 

Doom Charts

“Heavy music will not be contained. Heavy music breaks free. Heavy music expands to new territories. It crashes through barriers. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But, err, there it is, heavy music finds a way…”

~ Ian Malcolm

Here we are with the brand-new June 2023 edition of the Doom Charts. Featuring no less than 40 fresh and minty albums. Quite a few self-released albums charted the Top 25 this edition, which always warms our heart. But to our regret and sorrow we must lament, quite a few albums that aren’t featured on Bandcamp are also high on the list. We don’t want to keep singing the praise of Bandcamp continuously, but it works like a charm and has become a definite cornerstone of the Heavy Underground. Right? So, we do wonder why those bands do not take advantage of said platform. It’s another and much-loved way to get the word out on your glorious new album. But hey, those albums which can be heard online, can be heard online here, just scroll down and press play on all those thirty-six amazing new albums. Cause they rose to the top of 272 albums that received votes this month. And those other four? Well, the cool Rob Hammer features one on his Youtube channel… Another one can be found on Headbanger Channel and for the others, well, the Heavy Underground will find a way… Cause heavy, errr, all good music always finds a way…

It's got a bite and it's got a bark! And no, it's not a dinosaur... It's the June 2023 Doom Charts!!

And featuring at least 13 albums I voted for... To wit: Saint Karloff, BLACK RAINBOWS, Snakemother, Lamassu, Queens of the Stone Age, Mammatus, ROYAL THUNDER, Yawning Man, mouth, The Dirty Seeds, RIVAL SONS, From The Ages & New Dawn Fades...

Gonna be listening to The Slow Voyage now and working my way all the way to Number One in the next few days...   

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and reviewers from the heavy underground around the globe.  Each month, our critics submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge, metal, stoner, psychedelic and heavy rock albums.  The results are compiled and tabulated into the chart below.  This is a one-stop shop for the best new albums in the world…

The Doom Charts For June 2023

Yawning Sons – Sky Island

 

 

Yawning Sons – Sky Island
Ripple Music / Purple Sage PR – 2021
Rock, Desert, Stoner, Prog
Rated: *****

We’ve been floating along the majestic tunes of Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Yawning Man and everything Gary Arce ever produced for quite some time now. So when the new Sky Island album by that most wonderful of collaboration projects called Yawning Sons emerged we could not stop spinning it. Even more so since this time around they invited quite a few other desert magicians along for the ride. Maestro Dandy Brown, Mario Lalli, Scott Reeder and Wendy Rae Fowler all joined the Yawning Sons line-up to help produce an album that will definitely blow every languid prog, laidback desert and dreamy stoner loving fiend’s mind. Imploring mastering aid from John McBain this is once again a stunning release by Yawning Sons. Evoking subtle and little echoes from David Bowie and Chris Goss during a few instances, being lyrical pronunciation or alchemic melody, the eight tracks will transport you to a different plane of existence altogether. And we must confess that those tracks (Low In The Valley, Gravity Underwater) that feature that sweet and blessed voice of Dandy Brown simply take the breath away. The same can be said for Cigarette Footsteps, featuring Mario Lalli. All of them not only excel in vocal delivery, the compositions seem to mirror the sky, with ringing guitar work, pulsating bass and controlled slow moving drums. And it feels extremely unfair to single those out, cause the rest of ‘m, are just as good. Cosmic and yet very earthy, astral and o' so tangible... What an amazing album!

(Written by JK)

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Onwards and Upwards in 2021 !

 

Onwards and Upwards in 2021 !

As usual every year we give you the numbers 21 to 100 as voted by you guys and girls that found the time and energy to send in their list of favorite albums of 2020. No lists came in to late this year and the total list of albums featured no less than 670 albums. Below we feature the Number 21 to 100. With Fear by Valkyrie missing 14 points to make it into the Top 20 and Yawning Man’s Live At Giant Rock album missing 516 points to do the same thing. To be fair, below are the albums listed at Number 21 to 100 but a lot of those album gathered the same amount of votes. If we would really move to the 100th position down the list according to points we would end up with an extra list of  20 albums. Which would make Shaman Elephant and their amazing Wide Awake But Still Asleep album the 100th spot of the list. But we’re sticking with the list below. And marvel at the amount of amazing freaking heavy music release this year! Hell yeah!

Valkyrie – Fear
Turtle Skull – Monoliths
Hail The Void – Hail The Void
Causa Sui – Szabodelico
Familiars – All In Good Time
Lord Buffalo – Tohu Wa Bohu
IAH – III
Stargo – Parasight
Black Elephant – Seven Swords
Sleepwulf – Sleepwulf
Curse The Son – Excruciation
Vitskär Süden – Vitskär Süden
Kitchen Witch – Earth & Ether
Sun Of Grey – Outerworld
1000 Mods – Youth Of Dissent
Thammuz – Into The Great Unknown
Baardvader – Baardvader
Kadavar – The Isolation Tapes
Karkara – Nowhere Land
The Kings Of Frog Island – VI
Vinnum Sabbathi – Of Dimensions & Theories
Molassess – Through The Hollow
Bill Fisher – Mass Hypnosis And The Dark Triad
Hammada – Atmos
Laser Dracul – Hagridden
Temple Of The Fuzz Witch – Red Tide
Desert Colossus – Eyes And Tongues
Big Scenic Nowhere – Vision Beyond Horizon
Pale Divine – Consequence Of Timed
Scorched Oak – Withering Earth
Dixie Goat – There's No Light Without Darkness
Rosy Finch – Scarlet
Acid Mess – Sangre De Otros Mundos
The Spacelords – Spaceflowers
Cobra Thief – Animal Oxygen
Ritual Earth – Ritual Earth
Buffalo Fuzz – Volume II
Twin Wizard – Glacial Gods
The Sonic Dawn – Enter The Mirage
Geezer – Groovy
Kayleth – 2020 Back To Earth
Mountain Witch – Extinct Cults
Lykantropi – Tales To Be Told
Orgöne – Mos/Fet
Humulus – The Deep
Frozen Planet 1969 – Cold Hand Of A Gambling Man
Dead Lord – Surrender
Blues Pills – Holy Moly!
Cortez – Sell The Future
Slomosa – Slomosa
Hällas – Conundrum
Slow Phase – Slow Phase
Bone Church – Acid Communion
Gomer Pyle – Before I Die I
The Absurd – Sun Still Rises
Troll Teeth – Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing
Dungeon Weed – Mind Palace Of The Mushroom God
Horizon – The White Planet Patrol
Earthdiver – Lord Of The Cosmos
Mindcrawler – Lost Orbiter
High Priestess – Casting The Circle
Elden – Nostromo
Ruff Majik – The Devil's Cattle
Ethereal Sea – Forgotten Memories Of Tomorrow
Colour Haze – We Are
Starmonger – Revelations
Stonebirds – Collapse And Fail
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin Kynsi
Phe – Glooming Dawn
The Hypnagogics – Endless Nights
Stonus – Aphasia
The Heavy Eyes - Love Like Machines
Desert Storm – Omens
Brimstone Coven – The Woes Of A Mortal Earth
Electric Hydra – Electric Hydra
Howling Giant/Sergeant Thunderhoof – Turned To Stone Chapter 2
Wolftooth – Valhalla
Rider Negro – The Echo Of The Desert
Lágoon – Father Of Death
Yawning Man – Live At Giant Rock

Big Scenic Nowhere – Vision Beyond Horizon

Big Scenic Nowhere – Vision Beyond Horizon

Heavy Psych Sounds – 2020

Rock, Stoner, Desert, Punk

Rated: ****

It just entered the Top 10 of the January Doom Charts of 2020 and we were honored to write those few dubious lines about Vision Beyond Horizon, the new Big Scenic Nowhere record. We know the project and we know what kind of music we can get ready for. The only think to know is what kind of guests are involved and how good on the scale of great, to awesome, to legendary, to universe shattering it will be… “Oh yes! A new record by the Gary Arce (Yawning Man) and Bob Balch (Fu Manchu) duo and their ever revolving array of helping hands. Mario Lalli,. Nick Oliveri, Per Wiberg, Tony Reed, Bill Stinson, Alain Johannes and a few heroes more. Perhaps a little less drawn out, jammy or wide in comparison to their earlier release but still very desert and very stoner. Which is logical when you think of all that great stuff Arce and Balch have been a part of. Indeed, killer riffs and desert psychedelics a plenty! Oh, and yes, one weird fast punk track?!”  Only a few quick lines indeed, enough to entice and not give away too much. Perhaps a fitting description for that Vision Beyond Horizon…

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The Doom Chart For June 2018

   

Doom Chart

“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”

    ― Jim Morrison

The year is halfway over already and the intensity continues to build each month here at the Doom Charts. We are growing our roster, our team, our family, reaching into deeper waters and harvesting a larger cross section of the heavy underground. This month marks the end of the beginning of the year and the beginning of the end. Nearly 300 individual unique albums were voted for this month of which 25 made the final cut, based on frequency and ranking, presented below. Another month splitting the tally between newcomers and repeat acts vowing towards the throne of Doom at #1. Turn out the lights folks.

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and album reviewers from the doom-stoner-heavy underground around the globe.  Each month, our critics submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge metal, stoner-psychedelic and heavy rock albums.  The results are compiled and tabulated into the chart below.  This is a one-stop shop for the best new albums in the world…

And as Bucky already stated, almost 300 stunning albums got voted for this month. Of the 25 I submitted, 6 made the final cut. And in the 25 below that are another 5 and in the 25 below that are another 6. And that's how it goes on. There's so much great stuff out there. We listen to what we can and we love all we love. And those make the final 25! But I'm sure the new Astrosoniq album just needs to be heard some more by my fellow Doom Chart cats. Or the new Yawning Man for that matter!  They'll make the cut next time around! Right?! Who knows. For now, check out that that damn fine Doom Chart June 2018 edition and get freaky!

The Doom Chart For June 2018 

Stoner HiVe's Top 5 Artists listened to last week

 

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Top 5 Artists listened to last week:

Soundgarden

Chris Cornell

Yawning Man

Rage Against the Machine

Fatso Jetson

This should have gone up yesterday. But we all know how it works and what the deal is. Another week. Another list of artists listened which we listened to the most in those seven days. It has been a disastrous one; carrying the demise of a hero with it. I was looking for the right words, trying to compose a fitting epitaph, something original. But everything has been said and on many levels there is nothing right to say about what happened. He was a true voice and I loved all of his projects and all of his records, except the one with Timbaland ofcourse, which for some reason does not get mentioned a lot the past week. For me it started with Superunknown, when it was released, which stayed on repeat for months. After which I went back to the Badmotorfinger album, Louder Than Love and Ultramega OK. And then on to Temple of The Dog. I never got to see Soundgarden live. Seen him solo a couple of times and with Audioslave and with the reforming of Soundgarden and the King Animal album I had good hopes to be able to catch them live one day. Their albums will stay with me forever and that time when I first got to know them even more. It is without a doubt the soundtrack to a certain time and place and one that carved out a destination. He was his own character an amazing songwriter and an even better vocalist. And for all that he will be truly missed. But his family and friends will miss him even more. Our thoughts go out to them and to all who had the pleasure of knowing him. Thanks for all your music Mr. Cornell and may you rest in peace or rock hard with all the others up there, wherever that may be…   

Zun – Burial Sunrise

Zun – Burial Sunrise

Small Stone – 2016

Rock, Stoner, Desert

Rated: ****

And once again we are treated to a magnificent new project from the surroundings of the all mighty Palm Desert, La Quinta and Indio near Los Angeles in the United States of America. Gary Arce, string magician of Yawning Man, and the man who stood at the beginning of all that goodness that has been coming from the desert, implored help for his new project Zun from the likes of John Garcia (Kyuss), the lovely Sera Timms (Ides of Gemini, Black Math Horseman), Bill Stinson (Yawning Man), Harper Hug (Vista Chino), Mario Lalli (Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson) and last but not least Doors guitar player Robbie Krieger. This collection of artists give us a veritable musical adventure. Floating, peaceful, almost ambient desert rock that leaves you in awe of nature, the earth and the universe. Tightly wrapped in all the righteous musical colors. Burial Sunrise, from the new project Zun, is a definite Gary Arce album, a hero who leaves the talking to his guitar and always lets the guitar speak wonderful tales of exploration...

(Written by JK)

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Back from the mountains... Without a car...

Back from the mountains...

We have returned from flying from the top of mountains and jumping of barstools. And we have ended with a mighty ordeal and lost our car. Who knows. It might never even turn up again. And we might never know for certain what was actually wrong with the beast; for it is hard to communicate with hands and feet. But all in all; it was an awesome ride… And one we would do again, when the moment arises!

And tomorrow… I’m gonna light myself on fire and fly around the room!

You must not forget... Fatso Jetson & Yawning Man on tour through Europe! And tomorrow in Deventer with the new incarnation of Ten East! Featuring members of Automatic Sam!

So be there... At the Hip!

Fatso Jetson & Yawning Man hitting Europe!

Fatso Jetson & Yawning Man hitting Europe!

O’ yes, my furry little freaks. The grandmasters are coming to Europe once again! Apart from all the wonderful things that are in the works for the guys, they are also heading out for a stiff tour. Psst. And for the people who can hit the Dutch dates; they will likely be joined by Automatic Sam. Who already jammed the big jam with the uncles. And henceforth turned and twisted into the new Ten East line-up. Which now entails: Gary Arce & Bill Stinson of Yawning Man and Erik Harbers & Pieter Holkenborg of Automatic Sam. So keep an eye out, cause their might be a new album coming out this year! But first… Feast your eyes and ears on the magical Fatso Jetson & Yawning Man!

Yawning Man "Dark Meet" (from Fatso Jetson/Yawning Man Split)



Fatso Jetson "Long Deep Breath" (from Fatso Jetson/Herba Mate Split)

Feb 5 ~ Dortmund, Germany ~ The Piano

Feb 6 ~ London, UK ~ The Purple Turtle

Feb 7 ~ Leuven, Beligium ~ Orange Factory

Feb 8 ~ Drachten, Netherlands ~ Iduna

Feb 9 ~ Hamburg, Germany ~ Hafenklang

Feb 10 ~ Bielefeld, Germany ~ Forum

Feb 11 ~ Berlin, Germany ~ Cassiopeia

Feb 12 ~ Jena, Germany ~ Kulturbanhof

Feb 13 ~ Deventer, Netherlands ~ De Hip

Feb 14 ~ Mons-en-Baroeul, France ~ Le Trait d’Union

Feb 15 ~ Paris, France ~ Glazart

Feb 16 ~ Karlsruhe, Germany ~ Alte Hackerei

Feb 17 ~ München, Germany ~ Feierwerk

Feb 18 ~ Linz, Austria ~ Stadtwerkstatt

Feb 19 ~ Wien, Austria ~ Arena

Feb 20 ~ Innsbruck, Austria ~ PMK

Feb 21 ~ Bozen, Italy ~ Pippo Stage

Feb 22 ~ Brescia, Italy ~ Latteria Molloy

Feb 23 ~ Roma, Italy ~ Sinister Noise

Feb 24 ~ Ravenna, Italy ~ Bronson

Feb 25 ~ Padova (Go Down Festival), Italy ~ Circolo Mame

Feb 26 ~ TBA

Feb 27 ~ Lucerne, Switzerland ~ Sedel

Feb 28 ~ Frankfurt, Germany ~ das Bett

Yawning Man & Automatic Sam

Yawning Man & Automatic Sam

A new project is in the works. And whether they will call it Yawning Sam or Automatic Man is unclear. If you are interested in seeing these cats live? Check out the Deventer date of the upcoming Fatso Jetson & Yawning Man European tour!

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