Festivals · 02.04.2025
First we have to say thank you SOL and Mona for the invitation. It was SOL´s Champions League Festival and of course it was sold out with, I guess 2500 spectators. The two venues were big enough for a lot of Stoner- and Krautheads from all over Europe. The parking situation was a bit crucial, because there were only private parkings or forbidden parking around the Club Volta and the Victoriawerk. The large number of security personnel was surprising, as we have only a third of the staff at a...
Daily Peaks · 14.03.2025
Oops, they did it again. King Garcia have now released their second fantastic song, which sounds unmistakably like King Garcia, but is far more dynamic in terms of rhythm, volume, and mood. The song winds its way through a rather reserved mood at the beginning and builds to a real banger towards the end, still seasoned with the slight melancholy that the clarinet exudes as the lead instrument. And it does this more than any human mood, as it has a range of around four octaves, whereas the human...
Heavystoned Albums · 13.03.2025
We discovered RYR during the 2024 edition of Stoned from the Underground and in fact, the small tent stage was not the right stage for this broad and wide spread kind of music. Not in 2024. I have to quote my article: "Ryr's music is somewhere between doom, shoegaze, post-rock and ambient black metal, spiced up with a pinch of noise. The initially delicate structures of melodies and single notes were destroyed over the course of the songs by brutal riffs and volume, only to be carefully put...
Personal · 13.03.2025
Our tenant terminated his contract on September 30th, running until December 31st, 2024. The Heavystoned team then decided to move back to their headquarters. The tenant needed two months to move his belongings out of the house, partly because the moving companies missed deadlines. In mid-November 2024, we ordered a contract for our house for the fiber optic network that had already been installed in 2021. The tenant used DSL. After waiting for activation since November 2024, we know why the...
Unknown Pleasures · 10.03.2025
When I read in the promo email that Mika Häkki of Monolord, a band I don't really like, had released an album, it was reason enough to almost delete the email. Then I clicked on the link to the promo jukebox and heard the complete opposite of Monolord: fragile, acoustic songs that make the endless expanse of Sweden audible. There's nothing more to say about it. This record is at the intersection of bluegrass, Americana, and the epic expanse of Earth, performed on an acoustic guitar with...
Unknown Pleasures · 07.03.2025
The Italian sound and drone monsters Ufomammuth aren't my cup of tea at all. But what bassist Urlo delivers with his solo project The Mon in the form of the Gesamtkunstwerk "Major Arcana" is quite simply a masterpiece of visual and acoustic aesthetics. The diverse layers of frequencies and sounds, in their contradictions, form a tightly interwoven web of simultaneous lightness, transparency, and density, similar to the tent construction of Munich's Olympic Stadium. Whether this, according to...
Festivals · 05.03.2025
The day split looks like a relaxed and exciting festival; there'll be plenty of time for the audience to relax in the beautiful scenery while still watching and meeting interesting bands. After just three editions, Marin Lalic and his crew seem to have found the perfect blend of DunaJam, SonicBlast, and Stoned from the Underground. We're really thrilled for the fourth edition of this festival.
Daily Peaks · 27.02.2025
When a band manages to express great emotions with few chords, and when a band manages to switch from progressive and jazzy start to an epic song, and only two minutes have passed, then we know that a top-class album is coming our way in April. The seven-minute appetizer "The Third Sleep" is a compact mixtape whose vocals swing back and forth between Marko Saaresto from "Poets of the Fall" and Feargal Sharkey and which ends with a nearly three-minute instrumental part that would be just as...
Heavystoned Albums · 23.02.2025
This was my first experience with Motorpsycho. They played too long, so the following band Turbonegro couldn´t perform "Denim Demon". The last time I heard this kind of music on stage was Hawkwind in 1987 and since that, I´m fan of that band with no boundaries.
Daily Peaks · 21.02.2025
'In the Ashes' is the brilliant debut album from Swedish heavy rock and metal merchants TEMPLE OF DISCORD, led by Wytch guitarist Mattias Marklund. Dark and brooding, yet radiant with multifaceted appeal, 'In The Ashes' explores a wide range of genres including classic heavy metal, alternative rock and grunge, dark folk, and progressive rock. Marklund's vocals are intense and heartfelt, taking the instrumentation into uncharted emotional territories while constantly hovering on the brink of...