Malkasian – Heavy Blues
Self-released / Desert Bloom PR – 2025
Rock, Blues, Psych, Stoner, Alternative 
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They’ve got style! But we already knew that. Cause we loved their The Macabre album and were truly honored to premiere the Hedonic single from their new album Heavy Blues. Dark, dirty, dripping with blood kind of blues. Yes, Malkasian is back! They’re back with a fist through the floorboards. If you remember and love The Macabre, you know the drill… Twisted, deranged, stoner-blues noir. But now with sharpened claws and a cigarette that burned down to ash and fell to the floor with nobody noticing and a band that continues to play. Drunk on blues, rumbling, feverish and filthy. You remember Hedonic right? And that harmonica? Howling like a junkie at the end of the night… 

Have you been there? Those dubious watering holes where even biker gangs show up fully armed. Well, this is their soundtrack. Riffs drag like the hungover bodies strewn about, the guitar sweats hundred percent alcohol, bass shudder and the drums stomp on the terra like a beast that knows there might never be another time. But it’s still the blues. The Heavy Blues, thick with dust and bourbon fumes. And those vocals, exactly hauntingly enough, close enough to follow you around like a shadow. And wild enough, so they might never quite let you go… It all just creeps under your skin and cut straight to the marrow. It rattles the bones and lingers like slow swirling smoke in a dim room. It’s Malkasian at their rawest. And Malkasian at their finest. Remember when All Them Witches started out as a blues band? Indeed… Well, Heavy Blues drags the old blues through alley grime, mixing bruised hearts, loud sorrow, and worn-out rage into something intense and bloody raw.

(Written by JK)

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Kadavar – Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin
Clouds Hill – 2025
Rock, Stoner, Psych
Rated: ****

The I Just Want To Be A Sound album arrived only months ago, but Kadavar storm back like fuzz crazed time travelers kicking down the doors of heavy rock’s ancient granaries. Their new album, Kids Abandoning Destiny Among Vanity And Ruin, is an intense mix of stoner grit, doom thunder and classic rock swagger. Their earlier album flirted with pop and self-reinvention, but this one?! This is the sound of a band truly becoming it and being possessed by it. It is the most chaotic and most Kadavar record they ever released. With every member throwing riffs, ideas and groove into the cauldron. The result isn’t just hard rock, retro or whatever, it’s a highly familiar yet definite mutant echo of heavy rock’s past. But most of all, the record seems to be bursting with raw rock and unfiltered joy. And that’s a sound we all want to become…  

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Winds Of Neptune – Winds Of Neptune
Small Stone Records – 2025 
Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock 
Rated: ****

Skidding across a Detroit parking lot, is Michigan’s Winds Of Neptune and their chrome-plated UFO as they crash land into the heavy underground landscape. Muscular, loud, unpolished and undeniable. Born during the pandemic by three veterans who played in bands like Flogging Molly, The Meatman and 500 Ft. of Pipe, their debut is a fuzz soaked love letter to the seventies! Freeway burning, bell bottom swagger, cosmic power and enough guitar heroics to make you go nuts! And smeared across that veneer, is a lysergic shimmer that makes every track feel like its leaking some weird color radiation fluid! Gravitational and centripetal all at the same time!

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DOOM CHARTS

NOVEMBER 2025

“One good thing about music on the Doom Charts, when it hits you, you feel no pain…”
~ Bob Marley

The saying “one good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain” means music can have a powerfully distracting and healing effect, allowing a person to momentarily escape their physical or emotional pain. It highlights music’s ability to provide comfort, uplift the mood, and create a sense of peace. And it can do so much more for so many of us. And with the amount of great music constantly growing larger, it could possibly become the universal healer. And when it becomes too much, there is always that off switch. If only for a few minutes, hours or even a week. And then you come back to your favorite albums all fresh and in a desperate need to hear them once again… Below, there are 40 listed that might just become one of those albums! The Number One from October carried over and the Contributors voted for a total of 224 different albums this month, 24 different albums received a Number One vote from at least one Contributor and on Number 41 we find THE HYENA KILL with their Collapse album… And all of them have the ability to offer you escape… 

 Already featured on Stoner HiVe: 

SUNCRAFT – WELCOME TO THE COVEN

HOWLING GIANT – CRUCIBLE & RUIN

SILVER ORBS – SILVER ORBS

YAWNING MAN – PAVEMENT ENDS

MAHA SOHONA – A DARK PLACE 

Welcome to Doom Charts, representing some of the finest bloggers, journalists, radio, podcasters and reviewers from the heavy underground around the globe.  Each month, our critics submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge, metal, stoner, psychedelic and heavy rock albums.  The results are compiled and tabulated into the chart below.  This is a one-stop shop for the best new albums in the world…

The Doom Charts for November 2025 

Suncraft – Welcome To The Coven
All Good Clean Records – 2025
Rock, Metal, Punk, Hardcore, Stoner, Speed
Rated: ****

Welcome to… Welcome To The Coven! Suncraft’s back alley ritual where punk, stoner and black metal all showed up drunk and ready to hustle and fight! The Oslo five-piece have bottled their mania into a forty minute blast of pure ruckus that should make little sense. But it does anyway, it’s Suncraft’s way to destroy all expectations. Their name might whisper stoner, but this is not it, this is a demolition of all genres, and they do so with a malicious grin! 

Battering ram Ragebait kick things off like a lit fuse, pick slides, blast beats and enough TNT to blow up the entire neighborhood. But just as you are bracing for the explosion, Suncraft’s shifts gear and seamlessly into a majestic groove. Immediately revealing their biggest forte, showing their chaos with open hands and then squeezing it into needle point precision…

Their three guitar madness is a high-wire act! Riffs spiraling, tumbling and swapping with an incredible aloof kind of swagger. It all feels improvised, but well, it clearly isn’t! The only thing that seem to keep this on the ground is bass player and vocalist Rasmus Skage Jensen and drummer Tobias Paulsen’s manic drum work. Well, until they detonate too! Dynamite stuff! Addictive, unruly and the kind of pandemonium you love to wake up after being knocked unconscious… 

(Written by JK)

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