Heavystoned Albums · 18.12.2025

These days I switched from Safari to Brave and get ad-free music on YouTube. And also such impressive music from Obsidian Sands from Edinburgh. A lot fits into my rather extreme patterns of music; In the doomy and heavier passages it sounds very much like Morne, only to fly over the ruins of the previous soundscape with an almost jazzy lightness in the next moment. The opener "Deep Hollow Country" feels more like a longer version of Karma to Burn compared to the following songs. However, it...

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...