Heavystoned Albums · 29.01.2025
Hailing from Pirmasens, the German capital of shoe manufacturing, ZOAHR offering us a time and style capsule of early 70´s Prog Rock, jittery Detroit Blues drenched in a bit of Garage Rock, crowned by a clear and weightless voice. The opener "Endurance Race" is carried by a distorted leading bass. Not in the style of Lemmy's bass, but more like Chris Squire or Geddy Lee. The song lets you feel the tension of a long-distance race, the song never calms down and constantly pushes forward. A great...
Festivals · 28.12.2024
Heavy Psych Sounds presents a perfect mix of international and national bands on both festivals. Both venues are worth to visit and both towns deserve a visit too. So grab your things together, get your tickets and take a multi sounding trip through their band rooster.
Daily Peaks · 27.12.2024
In the late 70´s and early 80´s we were flooded with records of Budgie, Triumph, April Wine or Y&T, which put a lot of melodic rock into hard riffin´ music. Nice to hear, but not heavy or loud or fast enough. That´s why bands like Motörhead, Maiden, Priest, Saxon, Accept etc. gained a lot of success and sold out tours. Musically more interested were those nerdy bands which I mentioned above. Now, 40 years later, Warlung dug out this kind of music, added an authentic production to their...
Daily Peaks · 18.12.2024
One of the most cited quotes in the early 80´s about Motörhead or Rush were: How can a three-piece create such a sound? Same could be said in 2024 about ze Germans Kombynat Robotron, hailing from Kiel. We saw them at the Desertfest in Berlin 2023 and at the Stoned from the Underground 2024 and both gigs just passed like two minutes although the songs actually started after two minutes. This band creates a fascinating minimalism and you as a listener are free to build your own pictures or...
Daily Peaks · 16.12.2024
One out of ten Postrock songs manages to stay in my mind, like "After you comes the Flood" performed by Mono. The rest is like a kind of elevator music with some edgy parts within a fairly regulated sound corset. Daxma manage to break through the usual twanging sound with a well balanced sound between distorted and clean, heavy and dreamy and an atmosphere between sadness and aggression. And due this well balanced cocktail of sound, skills and sensations, this nine-minute-monster never gets...
Daily Peaks · 12.12.2024
The Swedish band Gaupa was one of the best discoveries of the Berlin Desertfest 2023. For the band, musical boundaries only exist to be torn down, no musical style contradicts the other, but rather complements it. This energetic and anarchistic attitude can be heard in the underlying punk attitude in this song. The lyrics also seem to me to be more of a quite personal sound alphabet filled with existential feelings and expressions, a barely unknown combination in this genre. This compact...
Unknown Pleasures · 12.12.2024
Obviously two friends decided to do some music which is only understood by those two friends. This song is like a four minutes browsing through early 90´s Americana, which switches to a melancholic, gothic influenced acoustic tune and later into a kind of Neurosis-noise. So there is no need for a 90´s mixtape which turns out into a funny kind of campaign for music destruction. Check their records and despite all the noise they´re doing, it´s full of fun making noise and music.