Daily Peaks · 22.06.2025
The next surprise from Italy: not only are the two biggest and best labels, Go Down Records and Heavy Psych Sounds Records, based in Italy, but interesting new records are released on Bandcamp almost daily. Ride Over Mars hailing from Rome and manages to release this killer record without any filler. I love songs with short, crisp timing; the songs start after 15 seconds, then get straight to the point and rock so hard you can let your hair blow. In short: machine guns in action.
Heavystoned Albums · 20.06.2025
You can listen to both albums in one sitting without skipping a single song. I don't know how most Swedish bands manage to find just the right balance between brutal rock, a dirty, distorted fuzz sound, the right timing, and catchy melodies. It's a joy to welcome this band back to the international stage and hopefully see them again. The package with Greeleaf and 10,000 Years would be absolutely amazing.
Daily Peaks · 04.05.2025
France knows how to do wine, cheese – and apparently, full-throttle stoner punk, too. With Bronca, the band from La Fare Les Oliviers delivers a tight, ten-track album that sounds like a wild road trip through fuzz, fire, and pure DIY spirit. If you’ve seen them live – like at the Rising Dead Boys Festival in September 2024 – you know: these guys don’t play shows, they throw musical punches with a smile. The album kicks off with "Broken Nose", setting a gritty tone that persists...
Daily Peaks · 15.01.2025
The Dutch band Ditch actually came about out of embarrassment and while jamming, and it's precisely this randomness that gives rise to great songs like the previously released, hard-hitting rocker "Everxyone I Know." It casually references Fu Manchu while still creating its own style. The music reflects a lot of '90s spirit and style, be it grunge, stoner, and a bit of neo-punk, but also, as their previous albums demonstrate, plenty of '70s psychedelic and experimental rock. The song definitely...
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 · 06.09.2024
The cover looks like the usual Post Rock covers and if you tune in the song, it´s more like the wolf in sheep´s clothing. Pure forward rocking Stoner Rock, performed by Scott Reeder, Tony Reed, Tony Adolescent and Bob Balch. When you listen for the first time, this track rocks and apparently it is the usual chords or power chords that let the track roll really fat. However, if you hear Bob Balch how this song was achieved, it is more complex than you thought when you hear it for the first...
Heavystoned Albums · 04.09.2024
In 2023 we missed the band at the Desertfest in Berlin. That should not happen to us again in 2024 at the Stoned From The Underground, because if the band slowly and unstoppably gets rolling at their concerts like a freight train, then nothing stops. "Jasmine" opens the album, so actually Status quo play with deeper guitars over a monster magnet stack, and so 5 minutes with a brick 70s Boogie with an unequal fat sound. Phil's voice somehow sings something that pulls you into this song with...
Daily Peaks · 09.08.2024
With their third album, "One Way Trip," Boston's psychedelic rockers WORSHIPPER have perfected their blend of classic hard rock and old-school heavy metal, enhanced by a strong dose of psychedelia. The album title and some tracks might suggest a connection to drug culture, but WORSHIPPER takes a more kaleidoscopic view of the human condition through a psychedelic lens. During the album's creation, three band members experienced personal losses, influencing tracks like the opener "Heroic Dose,"...
Daily Peaks · 04.06.2024
There was a San Francisco based band in 1982 who first get the NWoBHM to US by playing their riffs and songs faster. The press called it Thrash Metal and the band called Metallica. Nowadys, a LA based band browsed in some NWoBHM bands like Blitzkrieg - for their song "Brainded Warrior", or overtake Hawkwind´s "Master of the Universe" opening riff for the opener "Scavenger" or Amon Amarth´s "Pursuit of Vikings" for the song "Voices of the Paranoid". The Zig Zags put a lot of dirt and fuzz into...