Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday
Friday! It used to have such a wonderful connotation to it. Party time! Excellent! But in the world of today it just means: another day. Another day of waiting around for this pandemic to die down. Another day of idle hoping humanity will come to its senses. So many places around the world are destroyed by a handful of people. All of them extremists of some kind. Extreme capitalist, extreme religious or extremely political. All of which is not necessary. The world was never meant to be treated this way. The earth was never meant to be depleted by a human swarm of locusts. Fuck man. This is getting ugly. These few words and the world around us. While there is so much beauty! Beautiful nature, beautiful people and beautiful music. So, lets hold on to that. And slowly but surely make those extremists die out. Cause there is more of us then there is of them! And let’s start with listening to some good and heavy music! And there is so much of that good and heavy, sweet and sour music out there. And we want to hear it all. In which case, we will have to make due with some fast action. Some Quick Fire Friday action! So here we are! And we know, we know, the albums and bands deserve more than the few words we will jot down here. More attention and more of our time! But there is so much out there and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. So here it is. The Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday. And its burns hot like molten lava!
Sinoptik - Black Soul Man
Ukraine. A country that is going through so much strife and troubles. Trio Sinoptik seems to be translating all of that through their new single and video Black Soul Man. As well as all the bad energy floating around the world. Proggy heaviness mixed up overtones of metal, hardrock and alternative. It feels like the beginning of a new chapter for Sinoptik, it’s got heart, it’s got groove and it’s got soul! The perfect single to start a weekend with! And the perfect way to start breaking this awful spell that is keeping the world hostage!
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Qilin – Sun Strokes The Wall
In about two weeks the full-sized debut Petrichor by French outfit Qilin will be released. Lead single and video Sun Strokes The Wall is out for everyone to enjoy. The instrumental stoner and doom that these four crazies from Paris deliver is just simply put: excellent! This will blow out all that negative energy that’s been stuck in your head! This is a proper way to start the good life with! (And thanks to this amazing band, we now also know what a Qilin is... Do you?)
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Love Gang – Dead Man’s Game
The new video was premiered on The Obelisk and delivers everything you already loved about Love Gang and more. Cause we’ve been loving the Love Gang since The Dead Man’s Game album was released. But now it seems to hit you even more. Much more. For the single Dead Man’s Game brings you heavy speedy psych and seventies rock and combined with that new video it just makes sense and gives you once again that righteous feeling. It’s all happening man!
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District 13 – First Impressions
Heavy metal, punk, grunge and all there on their debut album Soma which came out in the summer of 2019. But since all the bands have time on their hands, UK trio District 13 decided to make a new video for First Impressions as well. High energy rock that will have you ponding your fist and jumping around in your house in no time! If First Impression serves your first impression of District 13 it will impress the shit out of you!
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Onségen Ensemble - Non-Returner
Onségen Ensemble has always been a favorite around here so when Svart Records pops its head around the corner to announce the new album Fear and lead single Non-Returner we immediately dive head first into the muddy psych pool that Onségen Ensemble always delivers. Or as they state themselves: Onségen Ensemble takes you to a mystical trip with excursions into wonderfully cinematic and flamboyant landscapes. Exactly! Don’t try to take pictures, just undergo the experience and come out on the other side healed and ready for more. Or, errrr, stay there like a Non-Returner…
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ZOE – Voices
We might have mentioned this video before, but hey, we’ve been coming back to Back Into The Light ever since ZOE released it a month ago. The sound is big, the songs are bad ass, mean and the four are on top of their game. Hardrock is their trade, stonerrock their profession and speedy fun their adagio. The Voices single has al of that and gives you the right amount of energy to go out and find your own way on that mystical road we all travel on…
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