Daily Peaks
Daily Peaks · 01.09.2025
This song feels like a Scott Barrett or Richie MacCaw tackle. And as a rugby fan, I'm not exaggerating. A very powerful, forward-moving song, bellowed with all the facets of Matthew Hyde's voluminous voice, which feels like the All Blacks are celebrating a haka a meter in front of you. And us in Europe? We see Earth Tongue from New Zealand four times a year, but so far, no Beast Wars in sight. I'm praying to Matte from SOL that he brings this fantastic band to Europe for a few festivals.
Daily Peaks · 29.08.2025
As you can tell from the tags, the Lyon-based band is all about power, fun, and rock 'n' roll, combined with drinks, BBQs, and parties. The title track of the new album pushes relentlessly forward with a powerful production and a brilliant balance between grooving and rock, making you want to hear the full album. Their previous album, "Monster Truck," is a staple on our playlists, whether it's Stoner, Best of, or Road Trips, because the band knows how to roll down everything in their path with...
Daily Peaks · 20.08.2025
Just check the tags below and you see this EP was made for having fun, at least with a can of beer in one and a cigarette in the other hand; relaxed heaviness as its best, forward rocking songs, 3-4 minutes long, what more to need? Okay, a bit more punchy drums behind the wall of fuzz, just to get some orientation through all this stirred up dust on this 15 minutes ride through Saskatchewan´s highway. Yes, it´s a kind of simple music, it´s just rock - on the second track "Even Through" with...
Daily Peaks · 19.08.2025
I love Ann and Nancy Wilson since I first heard "Barracuda" as a teenager, and I love bands that come close to that band. Like Beast Eagle from Omaha, Nebraska. Stylistically, their back catalog and their latest release, "The Dead Follow," fits right into Heart's heyday. A bit of hard rock, a bit of Heavy Metal, a little NWOBH, and Kate Prokop's fantastic voice, which transports me back to 1977 and 1980. The biggest shame is the hear this band only on streaming services and not on Europe´s...
Daily Peaks · 08.08.2025
Howling Giant from Nashville, Tennessee, presents a somewhat different kind of music here. There are catchy vocal lines over pure heavy metal guitars, without fuzz and without them being tuned three to five semitones lower; there are dynamic tempo changes and various moods within one song. Wow, and then this complex song is also catchy. US metal bands managed something like this in the 80s, be it Savatage, Culprit, or Heir Apparent, and since then, things have been pretty quiet in this...
Daily Peaks · 11.07.2025
When I hear the name Matra, I immediately think of the French brand's former Formula 1 and sports cars, which already looked very avant-garde in the 1970s and were very successful with rather simple technology. This almost decodes the Italian band. The Milan-based band sounds simultaneously proto and retro; proto in terms of simplicity: we simplify the music to a few chords and anticipate punk, and retro in terms of style; we have a bag full of 1960s styles to wear and don't know how to get rid...
Daily Peaks · 10.07.2025
The 45-minute length alone made me wonder whether I should even listen to this song. Hey, I said to myself, you've already listened to Dopesmoker several times, just let yourself be taken on this trip through "Peace of Chaos." It's actually several songs played one after the other without a break; there's doom, stoner, psychedelic, basically everything you'd expect to play in a live jam. But that also requires a good understanding within the band to play something like that in one go. For me,...
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.
Daily Peaks · 10.06.2025
This band was suggested to me by my search settings on Bandcamp, and after just 20 seconds, it was clear to me that this band, and especially the song "Shipwrecker," was the daily peak. Everything is just right: the tempo, the groove, the riffing, the voice that conjures up an incredible vocal line. It's bad enough that we have to wait until September 5th for this gem to ship. Until then, I guess I'll have to listen to one of my new favorite songs every day. The heaviness combined with...
Daily Peaks · 06.05.2025
From the depths of the Los Angeles underground, Black Honey Cult emerges with their self-titled debut, a sonic journey that feels like stepping into a smoky, dimly lit club where time stands still. This isn't just music; it's a ritual, a hypnotic blend of psychedelic rock, post-punk, and krautrock that envelops you from the first note. The album kicks off with "Operation", a track that sets the tone with its driving rhythm and haunting melodies. It's followed by "Golden Dragon", a song that...