Heavystoned Albums · 30-11-2024
My friend Tomas, tour manager and Swiss Army knife of "Villagers of Ioannina City" sent me a Spotify link of his brother's band. He told me to take a listen. Then I go to Spotify and listen to this three-person symphony orchestra and am speechless at the countless layers of synthesizers and harmonies. The band name is the effect of how this effect is used to get a broad and dense sound with just a few instruments. The whole album seems like a concept album to me from the titles, as if you were...
Festivals · 24-11-2024
These two screenshots from November 24th, 2024 show the views of the official Hellfest aftermovie. Hellfest is the largest, best decorated festival in Europe, where we spent a month of our lives. We visited Hellfest 8 times and were thrilled every time. But now you can also see that there is a small, fine festival in Croatia, in the middle of a stunningly beautiful landscape, located on a river, has way more views than the Hellfest. So what could be the reason for this? I guess, 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",...
Heavystoned Albums · 22-11-2024
Let’s set the stage: Sergeant Thunderhoof’s latest masterpiece dives headfirst into the mists of history, weaving myth and legend into a tapestry of heavy riffs and haunting melodies. For those who've skipped their British history classes, Badon Hill was the site of a legendary battle between native Britons (Celts) and invading Saxons. Fittingly, this album is steeped in the spirit of struggle, honor, and the echoes of ancient Somerset, the band’s home turf. The opener, "Badon", eases us...
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...
Festivals · 17-11-2024
We as fans should say thank you Matte for founding SOL, for supplying us with interesting music, concerts and festivals, for upgrading our musical family, for creating a new community of fans and bands and for carrying the torch of the idea of an international brotherhood of fans, magazines - like Heavystoned among others - and bands. The Heavystoned-Team is grateful for your work, your visions and kindness. Actually it´s a must to visit this festival as a symbolic act.
Festivals · 15-11-2024
This line-up is like the spectral colors of the white light named Rock´n Roll; a wide range of the actual underground music scene, located in the best location and venue you can imagine. It will be a united Turbojugend festival, it will be a festival to discover new bands, meet old bands and friends. My personal favorites are - up to now -: Daufødt, Khan, The Devil and the almighty blues (for the first time), of course The Hellacopters and Elder, Castle Rat looks promising and I guess the...
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...