Rust Lords – Suffer Eternal 
Self-released – 2026 
Metal, Punk, Stoner, Hardcore, Thrash, Crossover
Rated: ****

You need to crash into every weekend listening to Rust Lords! That’s right, these good ol’ boys know the deal and know how to get you high! Somewhere on a filthy scrapyard a bunch of dudes got together to gather up some doom, hardcore and thrash. They then chose one wreck that still drove, threw all of it into it, put some weight on the gas pedal, set the damn thing on fire and watched it all explode as it hit some wall at the end of the stretch of pavement. Holy hell! Suffer Eternal is twenty minutes of grating riffs, wiry bass, throat ripping vocals and sudden left turns. A moment of psychedelic swagger turning into punk velocity, or a sludge influence mutating into thrash. And grunge dragged through the gutter! Filthy by default, funny by way of lyrics, vicious through the snarl and always entirely unpredictable. Even so, these Rust Lords never lose their sound in all that chaos. Those mutations are deliberate and aimed for. The explosion shows that genre boundaries are only there as suggestions, and the six scorched little horror stories left in its wake, the intense pleasure of watching it all burn!

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Earthlore – Within The Earth 
Self-released
Metal, Stoner, Doom, Prog, Psych
Rated: ****

Did you see those damn August Doom Charts? Did you get tuned into all those albums yet? Well, if not… Go to the website or start with Earthlore’s Within The Earth! This has odyssey written all over on it. This is what epic sounds like. Earthlore’s Within The Earth is a journey into the darker reaches of sound, where crushing doom and stoner riffs collide with the hazy colours of psych, sludge and prog. Fuzz-drenched guitars anchor the album in something earthy and weighty; immediately turning it into something legendary. While shimmering synths and drifting atmospheres open vast spaces above it, creating a whole universe for the legend to traverse. The raw, grunge-soaked vocals bring a weathered human presence to this otherwise cosmic landscape. There is space to breathe, progressive structures making each track come alive. The sound, allowed to shift and unfold, moving effortlessly and with a sense of destiny, between thunderous heaviness and moments of hypnotic calm. Within The Earth feels like a voyage through a strange and beautifully distorted universe, where the mystical and mythical drift between ancient earth and distant stars…

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Wizards Of Hazards – Point Of No Return
Inverse Records – 2026 
Metal, Classic, Doom
Rated: ***

Classic metal in the best sense of the word! Imploring doom influences and always opting to go big, huge or gigantic! It’s the new Point Of No Return album by Finnish foursome Wizards Of Hazards! As said, their dark, vintage heavy metal is steeped in doom and proto-metal, but it also has this organic analog warmth and a haunting, old-world atmosphere. There’s a strong sense of timelessness throughout the album, as the band combines crushing riffs, memorable melodies and a raw, natural production that feels wonderfully removed from modern metal conventions.

The new album weaves tales of mortality, fate and oblivion with supernatural folklore and bygone beliefs, and in doing so, the band creates a sound that is entirely timeless, slightly ominous and rooted in all those myriad shadows of the past… Point Of No Return feels like a record that could have emerged from some forgotten corner of the late ’70s or early ’80s, yet it never comes across as mere nostalgia. Instead, Wizards Of Hazards breathe their own dark, heavy spirit into these classic influences, resulting in an album that is both familiar and entirely otherworldly...

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Video Premiere 

The Home – Beyond It All

What a great start of the week! Their three track self-titled EP The Home, came out on August 11th. Yes, they are called The Home, hail from Eastbourne in the UK and produce some highly atmospheric and evocative noise. Cause they twist their sludge, metal, grunge and punk into something dark, swaggering and distinctly their own. Some Sabbath-soaked rumble, bodach wails and battering ram punk. But most of all this sounds raw, restless and with a promise of plenty more to come. And you will never be home until you know The Home. And right now, we’re honored to premiere for you all the video for the middle track Beyond It All, right here. Check out Beyond It All and follow the way to The Home… 

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Stoner HiVe’s 
Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

Vulture Neck
Grimestone
Dinosaur JR.
Bluto
Garden of Erden
Lunar Ruins
Phe
Rustlords
Earthlore
Graveyard

Morning! Besides the rent paying work, most of last week was dedicated to the new August edition of the Doom Charts! Did you find your new favorite album yet? And premieres! We did two last week and in a few minutes we have another one. For a video this time! This week, we’re finally putting a new interview online. We love psychedelic free rock adventures. So when Phantom Logic came out swinging together with Earthless's Isaiah Mitchell, we had to annoy them with some sill questions. So, stay tuned for that! Stoomfest Festival is happening in a few weeks, still a few tickets left and we hope you listened to the Full Album Premiere for Vulture Neck and the new Phe single which premiered last Thursday. We love heavy music! Go check’m out if you haven’t already. And the Top 10 featured above. There’s a reason those went on repeat last week… 

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