Daily Peaks · 15.01.2025
The Dutch band Ditch actually came about out of embarrassment and while jamming, and it's precisely this randomness that gives rise to great songs like the previously released, hard-hitting rocker "Everxyone I Know." It casually references Fu Manchu while still creating its own style. The music reflects a lot of '90s spirit and style, be it grunge, stoner, and a bit of neo-punk, but also, as their previous albums demonstrate, plenty of '70s psychedelic and experimental rock. The song definitely...
Daily Peaks · 06.09.2024
The cover looks like the usual Post Rock covers and if you tune in the song, it´s more like the wolf in sheep´s clothing. Pure forward rocking Stoner Rock, performed by Scott Reeder, Tony Reed, Tony Adolescent and Bob Balch. When you listen for the first time, this track rocks and apparently it is the usual chords or power chords that let the track roll really fat. However, if you hear Bob Balch how this song was achieved, it is more complex than you thought when you hear it for the first...
Heavystoned Albums · 04.09.2024
In 2023 we missed the band at the Desertfest in Berlin. That should not happen to us again in 2024 at the Stoned From The Underground, because if the band slowly and unstoppably gets rolling at their concerts like a freight train, then nothing stops. "Jasmine" opens the album, so actually Status quo play with deeper guitars over a monster magnet stack, and so 5 minutes with a brick 70s Boogie with an unequal fat sound. Phil's voice somehow sings something that pulls you into this song with...
Daily Peaks · 03.07.2024
What do you expect, when a band is clever enough to blend Kyuss and Fu Manchu with the hypnotic riffin´ from Hawkwind? Yes, Psychlona and "Let´s go" could be a benchmark for their upcoming releases. Hailing from Bradford in the middle of Yorkshire, where you usually won´t expect some desert vibes, Psychlona found out the perfect balance between not being Heavy Metal and not being Blues and not being Rock. This is art and just in case why I put the tag "Driving Rock", there is the song put...
Daily Peaks · 04.06.2024
There was a San Francisco based band in 1982 who first get the NWoBHM to US by playing their riffs and songs faster. The press called it Thrash Metal and the band called Metallica. Nowadys, a LA based band browsed in some NWoBHM bands like Blitzkrieg - for their song "Brainded Warrior", or overtake Hawkwind´s "Master of the Universe" opening riff for the opener "Scavenger" or Amon Amarth´s "Pursuit of Vikings" for the song "Voices of the Paranoid". The Zig Zags put a lot of dirt and fuzz into...
Daily Peaks · 25.01.2024
Yes! This rocks! Right sound, right voice, right power, pedal to the metal, music that I missed for quite a long time. So I checked the rest of their promo material and this song is the exception of an almost more Doom and Sludge oriented album. What a pity. This song combines the drive and the power of "Green Machine" and Fu Manchu´s "King of the Road", which made me bang through the whole song.
Concerts & Tours · 17.01.2024
Brant Björk Trio, featuring Ryan Güt and Mario Lalli, will hit some European roads in late spring. And no tour without an album, so the three legends are working hard to publish their common record.
Daily Peaks · 17.01.2024
Released on Jan. 14th 2024 and becoming a daily peak on Heavystoned on Jan 17th; that´s what I call a career. How did that work? Quite easy: this band knows when to start a song (around 15 seconds), no matter if they sound close to Kyuss or Me and that Man or if they rock the roof off in the title track "Waving". This album sounds like a unpredictable mixtape and it´s pure fun and Rock´n Roll what you can hear. Hope to see them soon on Italian stages in spring and on the rooster of Go Down...
Daily Peaks · 26.12.2023
It is a shame to see the line-ups for the upcoming festivals in 2024 in Germany; the spectators have to follow the big American names and also they have to pay a lot of money for seeing them. It is a shame not to find this band on any bill for the upcoming summer. I guess Eleanore are able to write four or five high class songs as "Dunkirk", an emotional heading for dynamic peaks within the song, played by a heavy distorted bas and mighty guitars. I wait now impatiently for the upcoming next...
Daily Peaks · 30.11.2023
Professor Electric is the heavy fuzzed and distorted bastard of Kyuss, Slo Burn and Hermano. A lot of psychedelic and sludge vibes in their music, quite aggressive and groovy.