Heavystoned Albums · 20.04.2026

And then there are days when I receive music that goes far beyond my usual musical horizons. The Finnish band Marianas Rest achieved this with their release this year, "The Bereaved." Normally, an opener like "Thank You for the Dance" closes an album, a song that begins calmly, subtly, and culminates in an epic monument, practically a soundtrack. "Rat in the Wall," however, is as melodic as an Amorphis song, sung with growling death metal vocals and clean backing vocals. The following song...

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...

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 · 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 · 05.10.2024

The song "Magna Mater" made me cry because of its beauty and perfect composition. I was absolutely overwhelmed by the multi-layered instrumental tracks, the fantastic voices - be it the choirs or the lead vocals - and the images that appeared before my eyes as I listened. That's why I set "Primordial" as the tag, because their song "Stolen Years" with its pure beauty and epic melancholy brought tears of joy to my eyes at the beauty of the music, both then and now. I added Paradise Lost due...

Daily Peaks · 13.05.2024

This record was created by AI (www.suno.com) and the artwork was created by www.openai.com. First I asked ChatGPT about its meaning about AI-created music. That´s the answer by ChatGPT: Sure, here are the translations of my previous answers: 1. Innovative: Music generated by artificial intelligence (AI) can often produce unconventional sounds and melodies that may not be achievable through traditional human composition techniques. (That doesn't apply to this album. It sounds quite traditional;...

Daily Peaks · 25.01.2024

The cover artwork represents the opposite of the music; Poland´s answer to Neurosis put out "Saviour´s Raft", a massive appetizer for their upcoming album. This band added a bit more atmospheric parts and their focus is more to combine contradictory musical styles instead of destroying musical and harmonic structures as Neurosis celebrate since almost 40 years. Sunnata are an obvious candidate for the upcoming Roadburn Festival 2024.

Daily Peaks · 23.01.2024

"Lilith´s Lullaby" is the first single from the upcoming album "Amber Eyes", which will be released on march, 22rd 2024. This band managed it to put a lot of 20% of the music together, which I don´t like that much and created a song which I like for 100%. The first 20% is the gothic-inspired guitar tone, the second 20% is the hypnotic, slow and mesmerizing beat, the third 20% is the epic space what the song create, the fourth 20% is the actually heavy fuzzed sound and the last 20% this...

Daily Peaks · 10.01.2024

This band unites the power of Doom with epic and melodic vocals on their recently released track "Begin again". This song could be a new and fresh version of "Heaven and Hell", grooving heavily with a mighty wall of differently sounding guitars. A fantastic track and appetizer for their upcoming album

Daily Peaks · 01.12.2023

I checked the daily news on my personal bandcamp algoritm and found the album. The song "Los Altares" started to soak me into a mesmerizing track between Sólstafir and My Sleeping Karma and a huge, semi-desert landscape with a mountain range in the back built up in front of my inner eyes. Then I read the band information and the band wrote "Patagonian band, Patagonian sound". Another example for that you can put a person out of the country, but you can´t put out the country out of a person....