Heavystoned

30/09/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QDLOYrmS9g

2nd edition of the Metal Fest in Mollerusa, Lleida with WhiteDemon, Saüc, Sirol!, Bellako

22/09/2025

Actually, I can't play a guitar; I tuned it to grab power chords or open chords with a finger. I can play bass rather, more like Lemmy, so rather a deep rhythm guitar. So far I have made all the music that I could make alone or with a band; Hardcore Punk, Stoner, Café del Mar or 70's rock. For musi...

22/09/2025

21/09/2025

https://www.heavystoned.eu/2025/09/19/spin-the-skull-por-spin-the-skull/

Every day, my Bandcamp algorithm sends me interesting new bands from all over the world that I probably won't see at festivals or concerts in the next 25 years. They're either from Canada, New Zealand, or Chile, or they're one-man projects, or they come from a country with a relatively small music s...

21/09/2025

https://www.heavystoned.eu/2025/09/17/fauxx-fra-anteroom/

You don´t need Rammstein´s fireworks or Trent Reznor´s depression to create an intense and danceable music with dark and heavy vibes and rhythms. The French duo Joachim Blanchet on keys, programming and voice and my friend Job Trunel (Tagada Jones, Le Bal des Enragés) on drums manage to create a...

21/09/2025

https://www.heavystoned.eu/2025/09/16/review-bridge-to-hell-festival-2025/

Thanks to an invitation from the non-profit association "La Boite en Métal," we spent two days in the beautiful town of Crest, located in the heart of the Dròme department, where the fifth edition of the "Bridge to Hell" festival took place. In 2024, this festival also served as a warm-up for Hell...

21/09/2025

https://www.heavystoned.eu/2025/09/01/beastwars-nez-the-ship-the-sea/

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 Eur...

05/09/2025

https://www.heavystoned.eu/2025/08/08/howling-giant-usa-crucible-ruin/

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....

05/09/2025

https://www.heavystoned.eu/2025/08/19/beast-eagle-usa-dead-follow/

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...

05/09/2025

https://www.heavystoned.eu/2025/08/29/goatfather-fra-stoner-dream/

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 t...

06/04/2025

https://www.heavystoned.eu/live-report/sol-sonic-ride-2025-cologne/

First we have to say thank you SOL and Mona for the invitation. It was SOL´s Champions League Festival and of course it was sold out with, I guess, 2500 spectators. The two venues were big enough for a lot of Stoner- and Krautheads from all over Europe. The parking situation was a bit crucial, beca...

13/03/2025

https://www.heavystoned.eu/2025/02/04/naxatras-gre-numenia/

If you look at a map, you can see that Greece is closer to the Orient in terms of music and culture than to Europe. The Greek band "Naxatras" manages, like no other band, to effortlessly bridge the gap between western, progressive music of the 70s and oriental music, in this case Turkish music. "Num...