Giant Haze – Cosmic Mother

by Mark 'Yeti' Richard · Published September 29, 2025 · Updated September 29, 2025

Giant Haze is a fairly new band, formed in 2024, from Kiel, Germany. The quartet features Christian “Andi” Andersen on bass, Peter “Pete” Stoeckicht on guitars, Timo Ahlers on drums, and Christoph Wollmann on vocals. They play a fuzzed out blend of stoner rock, grunge, hardcore, and doom. The band just released their debut full length entitled Cosmic Mother on August 22nd 2025 on Tonzonen Records. It contains twelve tracks at forty four minutes long.

“Geographic Gardens Suck” kicks off Cosmic Mother with a fury of fuzz rocking grooves. Raging guitar distortion and uptempo drumming are met with good vocals, mostly clean with some moments of aggression mixed in. The pile driving riffs continue with “King Of Tomorrow”, a hard hitting track with a catchy chorus too. The stoner metal rhythms carry on with “Yard Of Oblivion” and the funky heavy psych grooves of “Sunrise”, a short instrumental prelude to “Sundance”.

The vocals of Christoph Wollmann reminds me of the late great Jim Starace (RIP) from the awesome Puny Human band. I also hear a little Danzig on several tracks also. I really like the aggressive vocals mixed in too, as it works really well with their music. Giant Haze flex their heavy metal muscles with “From Another World”. The song blends in excellent guitar leads with the rocking rhythms pushing ahead. The seventh track, “Panic To Ride” has an infectious desert rocking groove that keeps the head bobbing throughout. “Crank In Public” is a rager, starting with vocals and then pushing on with the high octane metal and riff rocking rhythms. The band is mostly full throttle stoner rock except for the mellow beginning of “1000 Tons Of Stone”. The song does amplify into a heavy but a little slower metallic number. Giant Haze has a nostalgic sound akin to nineties to early two thousands desert rock, but crafted with their unique charm.

“Shrink Age” starts with the bass and drums commanding the charge as the rest of the band joins soon after. The powerful music is enhanced with the vocals mixing in all styles of clean and angry. The final track on Cosmic Mother is called “A Smile For The Dead “. The bluesy guitar riff at the start is very cool and gets everything moving along in a heavy but controllable manner. It’s a great closer for an excellent recording. I am really digging Giant Haze and can’t help but wonder what is in the water (or beer) in Germany. They are yet another strong and engaging band from that side of the planet, that has the chops to satisfy any stoner rocker.