Daily Peaks
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...
Daily Peaks · 11.12.2024
Ultimately, it doesn't matter which song you listen to on this album, because every song kicks up a lot of dust with a roaring and pounding big block engine fitted bulldozer-like vehicle, with three guys sitting at the wheel, two with one arm out the window, with their middle fingers extended and a foad-attitude. This is such a dirty hard rock that doesn't give a damn about innovations, it just rocks. It doesn't matter whether it's stoner, hard or psychedelic rock, because every song has the...
Daily Peaks · 22.11.2024
If the band only needs one tag, then you can see a certain consistency in their musical style. If there is no In Flames, Dark Tranquility or Soilwork next to Melodic Death Metal, then a band has managed to create its own sound and style without cheap copying. This is what happened with the Italian band "Disarmonia Mundi", who wrote a blasting, melodic piece without keyboards and ABBA sing-along choruses that is perfectly balanced between brutality and melodiousness. The band was previously...
Daily Peaks · 22.11.2024
With the majority of stoner bands, you have to be happy that a reasonably experienced singer is singing. The English band Dunes has the luxury of having two excellent voices, which alone stand out from the grey mush of "only" lower-pitched music. They have also packed their musical roots such as alternative rock and grunge into a fluffy, booming sound corset, which is very direct, straight and hits the mark. So far, only two songs are available on bandcamp, namely "Voodoo" and "Riding the Low",...
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...
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 · 08.11.2024
Nothing unusual really: Tony Iommi plays one amazing riff, hook and solo after another in and outside a castle with a band. If Ronnie James Dio sang along, it could easily pass as "Heaven and Hell" 2.0. Up until that point, everything is normal. It's the normal Toni Iommi riff god song. For the post, I needed a picture and googled "Tony Iommi Xerjoff" and ended up with a perfume range from the company "Xerjoff", which was founded by Sergio Momo in 2007. Sergio Momo also plays guitar in the...
Daily Peaks · 07.11.2024
Ich habe so ein paar Auslöser, einer davon ist der Umgang mit Sprache und auch der Devokalisierung von Slogans, die einseitig von einer Richtung in die andere gerichtet sind. Bei Tiefenrausch kann ich es zum Teil nachvollziehen, da es einige Bands mit diesem Namen gibt und TFNRSH visuell recht einprägsam ausschaut. Nun habe ich einen sehr interessanten Song der Tübinger Band Tiefenrausch vor mir, der spannende 11 Minuten lang wie zwei Minuten vergehen lässt. Sowohl vom Aufbau als auch vom...
Daily Peaks · 06.11.2024
In my opinion, the Swiss band Six Months of Sun is, alongside the French band "The Necromancers", one of the most talented bands in terms of songwriting, technical skills and artwork. But somehow both bands seem to be happy with their status as semi-professional weekend bands. I don't understand why a band like Six Months of Sun puts more ideas into a 3 minute song than they do playing concerts. The previously released single "Ningen" also shows their ability on the instruments as well as in...
Daily Peaks · 02.11.2024
The opening track “Alphaholics” kicks off with that chaotic sound of a radio channel-surfing through stations, like it can’t quite make up its mind. Then, out of nowhere, a muffled groove breaks through, and suddenly – BANG! Coma Hole jumps in with a bassline thick as a brick, Anderson's drums pounding tightly behind. Fir’s vocals hit with a blend of angst and melody that’s as raw as it is catchy. It’s a bold opener, and frankly, it could stand alongside the best...