Heath – Isaak’s Marble

 

 

Heath – Isaak’s Marble
Suburban Records – 2024
Rock, Seventies, Prog, Psych, Blues, Classic
Rated: ****

This five piece hails from The Hague, Netherlands. Or well, they reside there, for Heath has members from Sweden, Australia and the Netherlands. And on their debut album Isaak’s Marble they not only traverse the globe looking for the right kind of sonic inclusions for their sound, they also travel through space and time to take everything in that has been done before. This is that early prog, the psych of yore, the sixties and seventies approach to the right kind of Kool-Aid for you to guzzle and enjoy. The atmospheric parts are as colorful as a flowery meadow, the harmonica induces zealous energy and the guitar solos will have you dancing around like a flower power love child. And that’s just on the opening ten minute long title-track, which gives you everything you need to know about Heath and their debut album Isaak’s Marble. And because those ten minutes will ignite a spark at every one of your nerve endings, you will be sticking around for the following ten minute long Wondrous Wetlands. With a more Americana and pastoral scene beginning, a bit of jazz to turn it all into the classic rock, blues and psych you are expecting, it becomes this beautiful and blooming prog rock dalliance that flutters and feels like the perfect spring day. And because they profess themselves not to be limited by any boundaries, it ends with the Wondrous Wetlands snow globe being violently shaken and heated above a fragrant fireplace. With a few seconds short of seven minutes, the following Strawberry Girl is the shortest track on the album. Miniscule Eastern touches, some scoot boogie funkiness and a whole lot of catchiness, this is impossible to sit still to. The almost fourteen minute long Valley Of The Sun closes the album, once again with that Eastern touch, the warmth of candle lit summer nights and so many layers that the colors of the Persian rug will start to flow over into each other as the trip continues. With some highly dynamic twists and turns, even a few very intense and radical moves, Valley Of The Sun feels like the magnus opus of five hippies that just want to run wild together. And that’s something we love to hear! Heath has been together for only two years, released those three stand alone tracks you can find on their Bandcamp and has now unleashed their full-sized debut, which are some forty-one minutes of pure psychedelic bliss. Four tracks that are as good as they come, with nothing amiss. And judging from every meticulously placed note, sound and wisp, they’re not just playing for Isaak’s Marble…

(Written by JK)

The album comes out May 10th.
But you can listen to Atalantis and two earlier singles on their bandcamp... 

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Hawkwind – Stories From Time And Space

 

 

Hawkwind – Stories From Time And Space
Cherry Red Records / Suburban
Rock, Space, Psych, Prog
Rated: ***

I really had not expected that grand master Dave Brock would continue to churn out an album equal to the damn fine 2021 record Somnia. With his eighty-two and going on eight-three years on this planet; and for more than half of that time behind the Hawkwind steering wheel, the man has given us so much great space rock to travel with. Sure, the legendary Hawkwind albums all came out in the seventies, but these last few in the past couple of years have still been pretty impressive. Especially Somnia in my humble opinion. Well, Stories From Time And Space comes close to that album. Even though it opens fragile with Our Lives Can’t Last Forever, which fits the song. And of course, fits the man’s age and his recent stint at the hospital. Old hippy times will be there to take you away with its vapors once second track The Starship (One Love One Life) rolls around. Space rock that will evoke that nostalgia within you and the absolute lust to keep experiencing these wild musical cosmic adventures. As we can be sure Dave Brock also feels this, that it’s the reason he keeps soaring as much as he can. And Stories From Time And Space rocks, not as hard as they might have in the past and always with a leisurely groove, but that’s often exactly what you need to zone out to. That’s also the reason why the sparing vocal usage feels right for this album, it all sounds like the music is there to make you dream and that those dreams will tell you all the stories you need to hear. Relaxed yet very energizing. And as Hawkwind regales you with everything they learned through time and space, we cannot help but hope to hear more in the future…

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The Hazytones – Wild Fever

 

 

The Hazytones – Wild Fever
Black Throne Productions – 2024
Rock, Stoner, Psych, Doom, Metal, Seventies
Rated: *****

It will arrive on May 10th, through that cool Black Throne Productions label and we have been spinning it for quite some time now. We’re talking about that wild new feverish The Hazytones album Wild Fever. Yes, we used the words from the album title immediately there, cause that’s how we roll over here and simply because the album title fits every part of this release so perfectly. Cause even when you listen to the slower, doom touched fourth track Night Is Young, you will still feel those drops accumulate on your hairy back side. You will be breaking out in a sweat because of the fervor you hear throughout that track. The oppressive and humid atmosphere that pushes upon you and keeps pushing until it opens up in that middle part with space to breathe, a guitar solo to make you fall in love with and a keyboard flourish to make you gush over, eighties metal reminiscent vocals howling and screeching and reveling around in an empty moonshine jar, because yes, the Night Is Young. The now four from Montreal, have become more than the sum of their parts on their third full-sized album, showing growth and the lust to explore different avenues. With only founding member Mick Martel still present, it’s not weird that the bluesy psych, (that southern bayou touch on the Down track, so lovely and clammy!) and the seventies grooviness from their first album is still there, but infused with so much more metal it turns the overall listening experience from good to something epic. And yes, that proto and more psychedelic doom stuff from their second album is still there as well but offered up as an under current for certain songs or as a minor influence in others, which also leaves the perfect room for the songs to find their own identity. Mixed by the great Esben Willems and mastered by awesome Kent Stump, this albums sounds like you’ve always wanted The Hazytones to sound. Hazy, wild and with a wealth of musical decorum, kaleidoscopic in all its misty melodies and feverish in delivery. The Hazytones are here to infect your brain and make your temperature rise!

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Dool – The Shape of Fluidity

 

 

Dool – The Shape of Fluidity
Prophecy – 2024
Rock, Metal, Doom, Prog
Rated: *****

Today they will be playing Roadburn… But I believe it was 2006 when I had the pleasure of interviewing Raven van Dorst, who was then known under the name and fronting the punk band Elle Bandita. The band was one of the few guitar driven acts on an otherwise mostly dance and electro based line-up of that years STRP Festival in Eindhoven. The festival has since then changed into a totally different animal and so has Raven. And where there’s definitely a miniscule bit of sadness for the loss of the music performance side of the STRP Festival, we can only rejoice at everything Raven has become. Now fronting Dool, the band featuring Nick Polak on guitar, Omar Kleiss on guitar, JB van der Wal on bass and Micha Haring on drums, Raven seems exactly where she should be as they release their third full-sized album The Shape of Fluidity. This doesn’t mean that the overall theme of the album is lighthearted. Where debut album Here Now, There Then might have already been touching the subjects on this album it felt to diverse to completely come across in the way they must have meant it. Following Summerland told the lore of an afterlife tailored to each’s own desires and sense of beauty. The Shape of Fluidity is about one’s identity in this fast moving society. About personal growth and all the psychological strife, one might go through existing in this day and age. Musically, we hear an even opener and bigger sound than on the already huge Summerland record. Like a storm approaching in the distance, you can hear the sound pick up when the song demands for it or Raven’s vocals, which are like a tempest onto themselves. Or more subdued when needed like on the title track. And that’s perhaps the main theme on this album, that the band has found their own sound and that the album sounds more like team work in comparison to earlier albums. The way the guitars are intertwined to such a degree its hard to tell who is who or how the bass and drums weave themselves through it all and never over or under it. It sounds so perfectly balanced, like all of it, every note, every phrase and every beat was found and arranged together. There is still some of that dream like mist floating across these almost fifty minutes, which was so prevalent on Summerland, but all of it has become hookier and with so many layers, that The Shape of Fluidity will keep opening up new scenes for you. The Shape of Fluidity will undoubtedly change for you over time and grow with you, and there aren’t that many albums that have that ability…

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Worldwide Singles Premiere – Maragda

 

 

Worldwide Singles Premiere – Maragda

We’re honored to present to you the Worldwide Premiere for two singles by Spanish progrockers Maragda! We loved their The Reckless / Evil Seed single and we adored their self-titled album from 2021, so we could not be happier to present to you the two brand new singles! And not just those two singles; we also get to premiere a live session! That’s right, Maragda is on fire and is releasing two tracks called Skirmish and My Only Link. AND, a twenty minutes long live session, featuring those singles and the earlier released title track Tyrants. Besides those three tracks there will also be a five minute long interview at the end of the video. Out on May 8th through Spinda Records the Barcelona three have woven another brilliant tapestry of prog, psych, garage and kraut elements. It will once again enchant the listener and take them on a journey through the fantasy universe created by Maragda!

So, in conjunction with MoreFuzz, Outlaws Of The Sun, RockZoneMag and Doomed Nation we give you Skirmish and My Only Link and the Siete Barbas Studio LIVE session!

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From the PR Wire:

"SKIRMISH" + "MY ONLY LINK" IS THE NEW DOUBLE SINGLE BY PSYCH ROCKERS MARAGDA

The second album by the Barcelona-based band Maragda will be titled 'Tyrants' and will be released on May 8, 2024, via Spinda Records - pre-orders are now available. After teasing the title track last month, today they unveil a double single comprising the songs "Skirmish" and "My only link", presenting them in both studio and live versions, with the latter extracted from the live session they recently recorded at Siete Barbas Estudios. Melodies, atmospheres, compositions of great complexity, and a garage attitude are the main components of 'Tyrants'.

This way, Maragda continues to unveil this highly anticipated album, which serves as a follow-up to their successful self-titled debut album (2021, Spinda Records) and the live EP "The Reckless / Evil Seed" (2022, Spinda Records). In this new musical journey, the band immerses listeners in introspective themes ranging from self-imposed limitations to the fight for values, love, hope, and farewells. All of this unfolds in a hypothetical fantasy universe, where psychedelia and progressive rock continuously merge, adding nuances of other styles like garage.

For the creation of the album "Tyrants", Maragda embarked on a creative journey that took them to the Big Snuff Studios in Berlin, where they collaborated with studio engineer Richard Behrens, renowned for his work with bands like Kadavar and Elder. Subsequently, the mastering was handled by acclaimed engineer Peter Deimel (known for his work with bands like Motorpsycho) at the Black Box Studios in France, solidifying a successful collaboration that began with their debut album.

In the visual department, the band has once again partnered with Error! Design studio (known for works with Explosions In The Sky, Russian Circles, Mastodon) for the album's graphic design, ensuring a cohesive and captivating aesthetic experience for their followers.

TRACK-LIST
1. Tyrants
2. Skirmish
3. Endless
4. My only link
5. Sunset room
6. The singing mountain
7. Godspeed
8. Loose

PRE-ORDER:
22 march 2024

RELEASE DATE
8 May 2024

'Tyrants' will be available on May 8 through Spinda Records, although it can be pre-ordered in CD and vinyl formats. The vinyl edition will be part of the 'Trippy Series' from the Andalusian label, alongside acts such as Viaje a 800, Moura, The Silver Linings, Empty Full Space, or Moundrag. It will be limited to 400 copies on white vinyl with orange splatters and 100 copies on standard black vinyl.

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May 04 | Tenerife (ES) @ Volcano Fest
May 17 | Madrid (ES) @ Madrid Psych Sessions
June 8 | Barcelona (ES) @ Sala Upload (release party)
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New Video – We Kill Cowboys

 

 

Brand New Video – We Kill Cowboys

We’ve got two premieres for you all this morning! Well, sort of... The crazies that follow Stoner HiVe know we love We Kill Cowboys! And we’re thrilled to premiere the new single and video R.I.P. by the South African four. Hailing from Capetown they infuse elements of stoner, grunge and punk on this new track and with its highly atmospheric openings tones, opt for grand gestures and to immediately captivate the listener… Once heard, you will be dying to hear it again! R.I.P.!

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Cape Town’s We Kill Cowboys Unleash Raw Power With Their Video For Latest Single R.I.P

Cape Town based rock unit We Kill Cowboys release the video for their latest single R.I.P out now via Mongrel Records. Fronted by Alex Muller, whose sultry and gritty vocals lead the charge, We Kill Cowboys' sound is a blend of psychedelic rock, grunge, and stoner blues. Their music dives deep into anti-establishment themes, inviting listeners into a world of thought-provoking narratives.

The band's upcoming single, inspired by the pain of betrayal, is a personal yet universally relatable anthem. Muller comments, "The song is based on dealing with betrayal. It's a very personal song, one of those kinds that just pours out. They need to come out. You need to feel that shit and share it."

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

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

Robot God
Empty Frame
Tigers On Opium
Leather Lung
Thou
Yin Yin
Eat Your Own Head
The Vice
Driftless Witches
Skraeckoedlan

Another week in the books and another one that lead me away from doing Stoner HiVe work… Unfortunately… But we all know the deal. The rent has to be payed. Still, we managed to do some Stoner HiVe fun early on in the week. With a slightly bigger version of the Doom Charts blurb for Tigers On Opium and later on the same deal for Skraeckoedlan. We published the Stoner Hype post with blurbs for the Numbers 40 to 26 of the March Doom Charts. And we reviewed Empty Frame, Eat Your Own Head and Robot God. So, I guess not a completely wasted week in the Heavy Underground. We hope to do more this week! Enjoy yours and check out the ten great releases in the list on top!

Robot God – Portal Within

 

 

Robot God – Portal Within
Kozmik Artifactz – 2024
Rock, Psych, Space, Stoner, Prog, Fuzz
Rated: *****

Two years after the much acclaimed Worlds Collide album, the Sydney, Australia three called Robot God are back with a new release called Portal Within. Comprised out of four songs, lasting almost forty-two minutes, the album is here to take you on a journey. And even if the title suggests this will go inwards, the expansiveness of the compositions will surely make it extend outwards as well. For the four tracks are all like that free rock, long form, jam based, psychedelic and progressive rock we all adore and long for. But with a definite stonerrock and riff revering undercurrent, it also has that sweet and dusty desert vibe. Half way through that first song Long Way Round you are jogged awake out of your lovely cosmic slumber by vocals which take you down to earth and into the desert. They tell of a storm approaching, and it does, for that ending maelstrom turns the composition into a cosmic storm of gigantic proportions that seems to serve as a quick knockout punch ending. But before you get there, the seventies inspired guitar solo first, the motoring riffage that leads up to that eye of the storm, the quiet section, where the guitar solo goes bluesy and proggy all have you traversing this windswept and baking hot extremely wide landscape. Following track Illusion of Order, with six minutes on the clock, is the shortest track on the album. Strident, yet sliding vocal lines, pull you along in the song, where the majestic, low and dirty, bass work sets the scene for something atavistic stonerrock. So incredibly gritty, sandblasted and exhuming this dry heat, Illusion of Order is there for the perfect generator party. Since the title track is called Portal Within, we shall refrain from commenting where it took us. Cause we would not want to influence your journey in this case. And then there’s final track Nazare, which definitely takes me back to my time at that legendary beach in Portugal. The long straight of beach, the slow rolling waves. There were no monster waves during that time. And this nine minute track of Nazare seems to hint at those tranquil days, lounging in the sun, riding those perfect rollers. For yes, there seem to be those lovely sounds of ocean, before the guitar, with a minor Mediterranean touch, starts up. As soon as the guitar shifts in heaviness that Mediterranean also hints at a slower version of surf rock influences. And the once again the vocals, instilling their surfpoke message. Ride the wave. Take the ride. Or be sure to ride that massive one called your life. Well, and the new Robot God album Portal Within is definitely that, one hell of a ride!

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Eat Your Own Head – The Trawler

 

 

Eat Your Own Head – The Trawler
Drongo Records – 2024
Rock, Punk, Noise, Metal, Math, Grunge
Rated: ***

Holy mackerel! The four from Norwich, UK called Eat Your Own Head aren’t here to cut bait, they’re here to fish! And on their new four track EP The Trawler they’re shooting fish in a barrel, when it comes to laying down noisy riffs and math like compositions. Metal is the big fish in a small pond filled with grunge, punk and something severely alternative when it comes to all the other influences. Four tracks give you more than fifteen minutes of heaviness that does not flounder. Sludgy by default, the ever changing rhythms are like a red herring always shifting in pace and tempo when you don’t expect them. But that’s what Eat Your Own Head does best, using those math influences to build something intensely noisy, yet also melodic and sometimes even practically catchy. And of course, that’s why you go out on The Trawler, to be catchy, catch, catch some huge fish. And this is so massive, it will leave you stunned like a mullet!

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Empty Frame – Underdogs

 

 

Empty Frame – Underdogs
Coma Records – 2024
Rock, Alternative, Post, Prog, Stoner
Rated: *****

I love Greece, been to many of its beautiful islands, but have unfortunately not yet visited Athens. Seeing a live show by the great The Same River alone would be worth the trip. And now there’s an extra enticement. For the five-piece going by the name of Empty Frame is also from the ancient city of Athens, and they have delivered one hell of a new album! Formed in the year of our lord 2005 they are approaching their twentieth anniversary. And with their new record Underdogs, they are releasing their fourth full-sized album. Not counting the two soundtrack albums (Heroines 2015 and Hands 2017) which they also delivered. Underdogs can be viewed as an ode to “all those people who have suffered oppression, discrimination, violence and facing their dead ends, wake up/breathe and rebel.” Underdogs is the first Empty Frame album that does not use piano, but still implores cello and violin, which is what makes Empty Frame so different. Which gives the band their very own sound, the celestial soundscape touch, the grand arc that is always present. The way they use those classic instruments and classical elements to create the heavy music they most definitely do characterizes the band in a way that very few other bands have. Eleven tracks with almost fifty minutes whisks you away on their prog rock adventure. There are more seventies rocking, psych and post rock influences and more nineties alternative touches, but all of those comes second to that cello and violin touch. Even if they are sometimes minute, they are there to lift all of the compositions to a higher plain. And so do the duo male, female vocals, perfectly complimenting each other. And don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a clean cut classic rock album. No, there is riffage here, gritty tones, excellent riffs and wild guitar work. Just take third track High Plains for instance, exceptional guitar puncturing, building and splintering whenever the composition calls for it. Those vocals, both delivering this top down ominous view as well as something that feels like a warm embrace and a refrain that could go further during live shows. The cello and violin get to shine during the middle section, and then when it all comes together, it combusts in a contained way. It sounds like the most seminal Empty Frame track on Underdogs, the one that sets the scene after those already amazing two that came before. Opener Come Undone with its overture sensibility and Ghost Town with a hint of Queens of The Stone Age. Three songs in and it’s three perfect strikes! Empty Frame!

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Skraeckoedlan – Vermillion Sky

 

 

Skraeckoedlan – Vermillion Sky
Fuzzorama Records - 2024
Stonerrock, Progressive, Fuzz, Metal, Sludge
Rated: *****

I finally got to see Skraeckoedlan again this year, at the Into The Void Festival at the Effenaar in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Those first two tracks were a huge surprise, especially the vocals. Not because we had forgotten that the sing in Swedish, but simply because live they sounded completely different. It took some time for the crowd to warm up to them it seemed, as well as the guys to warm up their vocal chords. Cause soon they started to become more familiar and like the Skraeckoedlan we’d been in love with since Äppelträdet from 2011. (An album that made it to the Number 4 spot of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of that year, according to all the votes that came in.)  Songs from their entire discography passed by, but also their newest single: The Vermillion Sky from their then upcoming album Vermillion Sky. But before that majestic song, they premiered Mysteria, playing it for the very first time live, they said. Which was very noisy and sludgy as it washed over the crowd. Overloading all the senses and turning the entire venue into a whirling hurricane of sound. It still is on record, but it also seems to glide serenely through a Vermillion Sky as the vinyl spins. And that’s the magic of Skraeckoedlan, they can make noise and sludge sound like a thrash stampede just as easy as they can make it all feel like a soaring progressive masterpiece. And together with this album, they also released a video game and a book. They can do everything it seems. Well, they might not be as proficient in promo, otherwise it would surely have ended among the Top 3… And not just because I had them in my Top 3… Where Vermillion Sky will stay for a very long time...

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The March 2024 Doom Charts – 40 to 26

 

 

The March 2024 Doom Charts – 40 to 26

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Here we are again, collecting what we did on our little Facebook page right after the new regular edition of the Doom Charts goes online. We count down from 40 to 26 and try to type in a few words about that album or ep that makes sense to us. It’s not a review; but usually a miniscule blurb, a little sentence to entice, to hype. A Stoner Hype… Well, we collected them here to post for you in one nice little post on the blog… Because we like to keep things nice and tidy and it helps us spread the good word about them on Instagram as well…

FULL EARTH – CLOUD SCULPTORS

"We wrote a full review about Full Earth's Cloud Sculptors a few weeks ago and you can read that one by going HERE! But in short, it's a gigantic prog rock adventure. Gigantic is the most colossoal understament every in this case... "

FRANK NEVER DIES – RED MOON RISING

"Out on Argonauta Records is Frank Never Dies's new album Red Moon Rising on which the Four Italians deliver some mighty fine psychedelic rock. Off kilter, off centre and off the wall! You might get as weird and delirius as they are thanks to that Red Moon Rising!"

 

WATCHMAN – CURSED

"One man project Watchman delivered cauldron bubbling, sluggish sounding, abyssal and ominous sounding doom! Cursed is the stoner doom for the creatures that live in the deepest depths of the earth..."

 

 

SKULL SERVANT – SUMMON SORCERESS

"The first thing I thought when the new Skull Servant EP hit my ears, damn these cats are prolific! The four from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA deliver impressive quality doom rock. This time the tracks have this unholy earworm and catchy ability! Especially on that first track… So beware, once called, this Sorceress will stay with you forever… "

HIJSS – STUCK ON COMMON GROUND 

"Alternative rock, grunge, postpunk space, psych, the Italian three named hijss deliver all of that and more on their debut album STUCK ON COMON GROUND, out on Argonauta Records. They call it cosmic grunge. Garage kraut could work. Shit, you can call it loads of things, but you will have to call it AWESOME!"

HYDRA – INTO THE NIGHT  

"We mentioned it a few weeks ago, the new three song EP by the Polish four called Hydra band. Doom metal, stonerrock, sludge and roll and with such a majestic groove that you will be headbanging as that very first break commences and that groove starts and after that, you are hooked and won’t stop banging along! And then the vocals kick in, immediately taking it into proto and classic heavy metal territory. Out on Piranha Music, the three tracks on Into The Night are pure glittering metal gold!"

THE NEPTUNE POWER FEDERATION – GOODNIGHT MY CHILDREN

"Goodnight My Children is the new album by Australian power rockers The Neptune Power Federation... By no means lullabies, the eight tracks deliver highly energetic hardrock, steeped in seventies and loving the eighties! Catchy by default, they lean into power pop and harmonies as if they were driving full speed on a motorcycle towards life's next vicious curveball... The sun's out! Wake up for The Neptune Power Federation!"

PER WIBERG – THE SERPENT’S HERE 

"Per Wiberg Music's The Serpent's Here was my personal Number 1 album. Have had it on repeat for ages now. Was smitten with his early All Is Well In The Land Of The Living But For The Rest Of Us... Lights Out record from 2021 and this equals it. Prog, with loads of metal influences and an otherworldy atmosphere, cautionary, strange, mysterious and fantasy rich tales. And those eighties references through majestic key work make this one brilliant release. Epic, grandiose and with severly catchy melodies... Out on Despotz Records its another wild addition to the ever growining Per Wiberg discography!"

CANCERVO – III  

 "Cancervo's III arrived at the end of March through Electric Valley Records and give you this scuzzy and foggy doom metal. With a carpetted sound, III is an occult offering as deliberate, meticulous and slow as they come..."

SONS OF MORPHEUS – FRUITS

"We were honored to premiere the full Sons of Morpheus album a while ago. Fruits came out on the awesome Sixteentimes Music and give you all the freak blues you could possibly need this year! Amazing album! And you can read what we wrote about the album HERE! "

LÅNGFINGER – PENDULUM 

 "Långfinger's PENDULUM is a classic in every sense of the word. Out on Welfare Sounds the Swedes rampage through all those heavy rock genres of yore; and with such playful yet determined attitudes that you cannot help but listened in complete awe and marvel at all the little things they do among all those big sounds!"

THE WIZARDS – THE EXIT GARDEN 

 "Ten years after their first release the Bilbao Heavy Metal Warriors The Wizards are back with their fourth full-sized album called The Exit Garden. Their uncanny ability to merge NWOBHW with classic rock, proto metal and stoner are once again forged into eight wonderful tracks. Out on High Roller Records and filled with soulful guitar work and galloping riffs this is pure headbanging heaven!" 

EMPTY FULL SPACE – FROM THE LIMBO 

 "Stoner HiVe wrote about Empty Full Space at beginning of March and could not stop listening to the krautrock and psych and space delivered on From The Limbo. Out on Spinda Records you can check out what we wrote HERE!"

DAYTRIPPER – BOOK I: THE TRIP

"Sludge doom, droning and deliciously slow and brutish! It's Daytripper and their new Book I: The Trip album. And ofcourse Frazer Jones wrote something great about it on his Desert Psychlist, read that HERE!"

OAKFARM – OAKFARM 

 "And finally on Number 26 we find Oakfarm from Germany, and their seventies inspired self-titled album. The blues is there of course and you'll find some psychedelic touches, but for the most part we have another classic rock gem on our hands. Eight tracks that are lead by swaying melodies and a warm groove... Perfect for those leisurely summer afternoons soon to come..."

Tune in next month when we do this Stoner Hype again for the number 40 to 26 of the April Doom Charts... Live during the weekend on our little Facebook Page or afterwards when we collect them here... But for now... Go listen to all of the 40 of February if you haven't already!