Daily Peaks · 19-11-2024
When I was a child, we went to Italy to eat delicious ice cream, pasta and pizza. You can still do that today, but we the Heavystoned-Team goes to Italy to see really good stoner bands live. The next ones will be Haze to Burn from Pistoia. The first two tracks with titles like "Soul Shaker" and "Brain Blast" clean your head, as the titles say. The band really puts their foot on the gas and rocks straight forward, before falling into more groovy heavy psychedelic rock with "Black Widow". A...
Heavystoned Albums · 18-11-2024
The album kicks off with "In," a brief yet striking solo saxophone piece that sets the tone perfectly. It's swiftly followed by "Hallucination," where Red Scalp dives into a groove that quotes a bit of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" while also channeling the energy of a club track. Riff lovers, don’t despair—this track rocks, and it rocks even harder when the guitars drop in heavier, backing vocals that ooze with sneezing attitude. There’s an impressive amount happening in this song, and...
Daily Peaks · 14-11-2024
"Aaaaah no, it´s only Stoner Rock, but ai like it" Stoner Rock with a humble attitude and not the big posing thang like Monster Magnet and others. Three grey-bearded guys who know how to rock heavily with a quite relaxed and laid-back attitude. The bass crunches properly, the guitar fuzzes and the song conveys a 100% feeling of cruising in a muscle car. It's fun, of course it's not particularly new, but it rocks and the band would do quite well as a warm-up act at a festival. The whole album...
Daily Peaks · 26-10-2024
A thank you to bandcamp, which offers the platform for countless interesting bands from all over the world to publish their songs or albums. Apparently Ohio is a source of interesting bands like Megaton Communion, who also provide a travel tip to the seven sacred pools in Arizona. For the trip to there, the band delivers a song that apparently never ends, or rather, that is so perfect for cruising that you can listen to it the whole trip and probably will. Very groovy, very heavy and at the...
Festivals · 19-10-2024
And again: alternative culture in Germany takes place thanks to clubs and cultural associations. Thanks to the non-profit status and some financial compensation, numerous festivals in Germany come about in the first place. This is also the case in Karlsruhe, where PsyKa not only organizes festivals and concerts, but also acts as a label for numerous underground bands. This year's PsyKa Festival offers an interesting cross-section of the underground of the underground, mixed with established...
Festivals · 29-09-2024
What seemed like a coincidence turned out to be one of the best festivals of the year over the course of the day. Starting with the location on a hiking trail through the rocks and maquis at Le fare Les Oliviers, the quality of the bands, the quality of the sound and the light in the venue and the acquaintances we made during the festival. Click on the button for the report.
Daily Peaks · 21-09-2024
Ze Germans chose a fitting band name in my opinion, consisting of part Silvermachine and part Jefferson Starship or even Ship of Fools by The Doors. And you can find these influences in their music. The opener *Kingdom Of Decay* starts softly, with Jan Gehrmann's hypnotic bass and Tim Schröter's groove leading into Nils Kock's melodic guitar and velvety vocals. The song grows heavier after the second chorus, with fuzz guitars adding weight and a stoner rock outro. *Beast* follows, blending...
Festivals · 16-09-2024
The second edition of Praise the Fuzz is first of all the smallest festivals compared to the other SOL-festivals. Well, it should slowly but surely establish itself in this place. The relatively central location will be accommodated in the long term of the establishment. Likewise the time on September 28, 2024. There is a lot of new music to discover before Naxatras and Color Haze will deliver their stuff as usual. Electric Jugs is one of the countless duos in the actual scene. These guys will...
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...
Heavystoned Albums · 22-07-2024
The best way to understand what Orange Goblin aims to achieve with ‘Science, Not Fiction’ is by looking back at their 2018 album, ‘The Wolf Bites Back’. While the two records aren't particularly alike, that ninth album marked a shift towards more focused songcraft and a broader range of styles, although it didn't fully capture the classic Orange Goblin vibe. In exploring their capabilities, they rediscovered some of their older sounds, like their adrenaline-fueled rock and...