Daily Peaks
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...
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...