THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW
Recorded during the weekend of RippleFest Texas, this week’s show focuses on new music from Hippie Death Cult, Mammoth Volume, Planet of the 8s, Conan, and more!
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PLAYLIST:
INTRO (00:00)
1. Planet of the 8s - “Raised By Night” (00:31)
HOST SEGMENT I (07:42)
2. Mezzoa - “Where’d You Go” (23:32)
3. Hippie Death Cult - “Nice to Know You” (26:23)
4. Deadly Vipers - “Big Empty” (32:18)
5. Psychlona - “ 1975” (37:48)
HOST SEGMENT II (43:52)
6. Lamassu - “Chokehold Companion” (52:52)
7. Mammoth Volume - “Diablo IV” (59:26)
8. High Tone Son of a Bitch - “John the Baptist” (1:04:50)
9. Mantar - “Grim Reaping” (1:13:09)
HOST SEGMENT III (1:17:15)
10. Obiat - “Acid Wake” (1:31:32)
11. Formation Ritual - “It Summons You” (1:38:14)
12. Birth - “Long Way Down” (1:43:47)
13. All Souls - “I Dream” (1:51:04)
OUTRO (1:54:18)
14. Tons - “A Hash Day’s Night” (BONUS) (1:55:27)
15. Conan - “Righteous Alliance” (BONUS) (2:01:34)
CREDITS
- Theme Song: Dylan Tucker
- Thumbnail Art: Conan
- Incidental Music: Hellvetika
The Doomies Preview Show!
This week on Doomed & Stoned Choice Cuts we go inside the first annual Doomed & Stoned Awards (aka the Doomies), with an emphasis on both the Best Song and Best Cover Song nominations.
See the complete list for all 8 award categories in The Official Guide to the Doomies and cast a vote for your favs at Doomies.net.
NOTE: voting closes at day’s end on Friday, April 9th!
Winners will be announced in a special stream on 4/20.
PLAYLIST
INTRO (00:00)
1. Acid Mammoth - “Jack the Riffer” (00:07)
HOST SEGMENT I: Best Song Nominations (07:38)
2. Dopelord - “World Beneath Us” (08:13)
3. Elephant Tree - “Bird” (13:36)
4. Lowrider - “Bird” (13:36)
5. Psychlona - “Blast Off” (25:42)
6. Witchskull - “Baphomet’s Child” (33:19)
HOST SEGMENT II: Best Cover Song Nominations (36:26)
7. Clutch - “Fortunate Son” (CCR cover) (37:01)
8. Mos Generator - “Son And Daughter” (Queen) (39:24)
9. Hippie Death Cult - “Fairies Wear Boots” (Black Sabbath Cover) (44:31)
10. Howling Giant - “Rooster” (Alice in Chains) (51:11)
11. Khemmis - “Rainbow In The Dark” (Dio) (57:12)
OUTRO (1:01:14)
Originally aired Thursday, April 8, 2021 on Trendkill Radio.
THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW
Join us as we welcome a New Year and celebrate 7 years a podcast! In this riff-packed episode, Billy Goate (Editor, Doomed & Stoned) and John Gist (CEO, Vegas Rock Revolution) winnow down their top tracks from the best stoner rock, heavy psych, and doom metal albums of 2020! Listen for stellar songs by Brant Bjork, Lowrider, Witchskull, Elephant Tree, Bonehawk, Pallbearer, Dopelord, Sorcerer, and plenty more!
🔥 PLAYLIST 🔥
INTRO (00:00)
1. Foot - “Despair On Hope Street” (00:31)
HOST SEGMENT I (05:19)
2. Bonehawk - “Strange Magic” (15:41)
3. Acid Mammoth - “Sleepless Malice” (20:32)
4. Ritual KIng - “Dead Roads” (27:37)
5. REZN - “Inner Architecture” (34:57)
HOST SEGMENT II (41:44)
6. Sorcerer - “The Hammer of Witches” (49:45)
7. Tidal Wave - “Other Side” (55:02)
8. Stonebirds - “Stay Clean” (1:00:31)
9. Sun Crow - “Hypersonic” (1:07:33)
HOST SEGMENT III (1:16:38)
10. Psychlona - “Blast Off” (1:25:08)
11. Sky Pig - “Gimp” (1:32:38)
12. Elephant Tree - “Bird” (1:37:06)
13. Pallbearer - “The Quicksand of Existing” (1:43:43)
HOST SEGMENT IV (1:47:43)
14. Ruff Majik - “All You Need Is Speed” (1:59:06)
15. Mr. Bison - “From The Abyss” (2:01:10)
16. Lord Loud - “The River” (2:05:42)
17. Brant Bjork - “Jesus Was A Bluesman” (2:08:50)
HOST SEGMENT V (2:13:49)
18. Lowrider - “Sernanders Krog” (2:35:05)
19. Dopelord - “Doom Bastards” (2:43:20)
20. Witchskull - “Nero Order” (2:55:18)
21. Howling Giant - “Rooster” (Alice in Chains) (2:58:40)
OUTRO (3:04:22)
22. Green Druid - “Desert of Fury/Ocean of Despair” (Bonus Track)
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THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW
It’s high time we revisited the Doom Charts, as the August tally has come in. Here is a selection of the Top 25 underground doom metal and stoner rock records as determined by a consensus of picks at DoomCharts.com.
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Check out our latest scene compilation, ‘Doomed & Stoned in the Netherlands (Part 2)’ – you read correct, it’s the sequel to our very popular first installment of this survey of the Dutch heavy underground, featuring 32 more bands! Get your copy (on us) at Bandcamp!
PLAYLIST
INTRO (00:00)
1. Black Moon Mistress - “Chemical Imbalance” (00:31)
HOST SEGMENT I (06:38)
2. King Gorm - “Four Heroes” (25:56)
3. Ball - “Debauched” (32:24)
4. The Atomic Bitchwax - “You Got It” (37:05)
HOST SEGMENT II (40:33)
5. PREDAWN - “Elusive Dreams” (51:36)
6. Slomosa - “There is Nothing New Under the Sun” (56:26)
7. Purification - “On The Wings Of Pestilence, Darkness Takes
Flight” (1:00:24)
HOST SEGMENT III (1:05:50)
Doom Charts: August Countdown
8. Dungeon Weed (no. 10) - “Beholder Gonna Fuck You Up” (1:17:54)
9. Howling Giant (no. 9) - “The Forge/Kami Communion” (1:24:10)
10. Blues Pills (no. 8) - “Low Road” (1:34:16)
HOST SEGMENT IV (1:37:34)
11. Black Elephant (no. 7) - “Yayoi Kusama” (1:51:34)
12. HYDRA (no. 6) - “Secrets Of The Undead” (1:55:18)
13. Motorpsycho (no. 5)- “The All Is One” (2:01:47)
HOST SEGMENT V (2:10:37)
14. Turtle Skull (no. 4) - “Leaves” (2:36:07)
15. Brimstone Coven (no. 3) - “When the World is Gone” (2:43:06)
16. Bill Fisher (no. 2) - “All Through The Night” (2:49:15)
17. Psychlona (no. 1) - “10,000 Volts” (2:52:37)
OUTRO (3:00:37)
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Psychlona Share Head Spinning New Rocker ‘Venus Skytrip’
The opening song to ‘Venus Skytrip’ (2020) really does “Blast Off.” English psychedelics PSYCHLONA really know how to take a note and ride with it. Strange as it may seem, that single note motif piqued memories of an early Herschell Gordon Lewis film, 'Monster a Go-Go’ (1965), and more specifically the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode in which Crow (one of the robots stranded in space with Joel on the Satellite of Love and forced to watch B-movies) hears a repeated note in the film similar in modulation to “Blast Off.” No longer able to take it, Crow breaks down in cries of: “Stop it. Stop it. STOP IT!” The difference, of course, is that Psychlona know how to take a simple, unremarkable note and turn it into something real groovy. Chances are, you will remember this album for how smoothly that solitary guitar note is cajoled – and you probably won’t want it to stop.
While the first track stirs up a bluesy dust storm, its companion “10,000 Volts” is a nice juicy slow burn that’s tailor made for the dive bar. You know, one of those unsavory places where the bands come to play for each other. It’s a sturdy, well-put together beast, with a staunch, bluesy heart, the lumbering feet of doom, and a stinging bite.
“Blow” may just well be a song about cocaine. At least they picked the perfect swagger for it, if that is indeed the case. It’s not a celebratory tale of drug abuse, though, and there’s a dark note adjoining the rocking rhythm to remind us that addiction is no joke. One of the groovier songs on the album, which I’m sure will make its way into my personal playlist.
“Star” is a straight up Fu-Manchu/Truckfighters-style rocker, while “Edge of the Universe” features buzzing riffs that dance impishly on the borderline of rock, blues, and heavy metal, daring you to put it in a box. Vocals are on par with King Buffalo, Age of Taurus, and Noctum.
Night falls on record’s flip side, with “Resin” slowing down the pace (though holding back none of the power). The vibraphone towards the song’s end was a very nice touch atmospherically.
“Tijuana” may be my favorite all around song from Venus Skytrip, coming off like an undiscovered gem that was unearthed in the same stylistic neighborhood as Nirvana and the Melvins.
Closing out the album: “The Owl.” A solitary and dankly downtuned theme greets us, joined in short order by clean vocals, and finally by the rhythm section, which pounds out a determined doom jam. Being the longest song of the lot, I halfway expected this to turn Jekyll and Hyde on us, switching gears into one of those Black Sabbath second-section romps or going for a jazzy improvisation. Much respect to Psychlona for letting the song breathe, develop, build, then unravel. A well-spent 9-minute trip.
Venus Skytrip by Psychlona reveals itself on Friday, August 21st via Ripple Music (pre-order here), with vinyled issued by Cursed Tongue Records (pre-order here). And now, Doomed & Stoned is pleased to bring you the album’s world premiere!
Give ear…
Some Buzz
It was in the summer of 2015 when the embryo of Psychlona first started to develop in Yorkshire in the north of England. Same old sketch - rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, gig, gig, gig. Jump forward a couple of years (and 6 drummers later!!) to late summer 2018 and the now fully formed eight legged groove machine was releasing its debut album ‘Mojo Rising’ on Ripple Music and Cursed Tongue Records. The album was well received (sold out and went to re-press) and live performances at events such as Desertfest London, Fuzztival Denmark and HRH Doom v. Stoner Festival along with a European tour saw the band taking their sound to a wider audience. The audience approved.
Never a band to sit back and take things easy, writing for what would become the next album began in the late autumn of 2019. So the four disappeared into The Cave for the winter armed with beers, kebabs and a fistful of ideas for new music and didn’t emerge until the job was done in the early months of 2020. Bleary eyed in the early morning sun and with a desire to unleash the last few months efforts onto the unsuspecting public, 2020 was starting to shape up pretty good. Performances at various Euro fests including Freak Valley Festival plus a UK tour and two European tours were in the diary. Immediately prior to that, the recording of the new album was scheduled for February/March. Recording started and then along came the virus which threw a spanner in everyone’s works.
The band pushed as hard as possible to complete the album which eventually happened towards the end of April. Life in general was postponed until 2021 including all live performances (the festivals and tours will still be going ahead albeit a year later). The record however refused to wait and the eight track album ‘Venus Skytrip’ will be unleashed in August, again via Ripple Music and Cursed Tongue Records.
We’re beyond proud of this album. Comments we hear regularly at live shows mention the power of the sound and the energy in the performance. We believe we’ve captured that power and energy in this record. So we’re proud of the album but more importantly we’re also proud to be members of the Ripple Music and Cursed Tongues Records families. There’s nowhere we’d rather be, so get your trip on and head for Venus…
Oh yeah – we’re still space truckin’ desert rockin’ kebab eating mofos so no change there.
THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW
John Gist from Vegas Rock Revolution returns and lays some heavy news on us. Then he and Doomed & Stoned editor Billy Goate jump start the program with some old favs and new finds.
Witness earth-shattering psychedelic vibes and sonic riff rockets by Goatsnake, Kind, The Heavy Minds, Psychlona, Mountain Tamer, Warlung, Brimstone Coven, Lord Loud, Wretch, Old Blood, and more.
If it’s a good time you’re after, you’ve come to the right place. So get blasted and let’s blast off together!
A big thank you to patrons for making the show possible. 🤘🏻
PLAYLIST
INTRO (00:00)
1. Kind - “German for Lucy” (00:25)
HOST SEGMENT I (07:42)
2. Magic Circle - “Departed Souls” (41:45)
3. Goatsnake - “Breakfast with the King” (47:38)
4. Kanawha - “Back-N-Forth” (52:35)
5. Mountain Tamer - “Warlock” (56:08)
HOST SEGMENT II (1:00:11)
6. Wretch - “Rest in Peace” (1:26:50)
7. Psychlona - “Blast Off” (1:32:39)
8. The Heavy Minds - “Second Mind” (1:40:16)
9. Old Blood - “Veinscraper” (1:45:34)
HOST SEGMENT III (1:51:40)
10. Warlung - “1970” (2:06:41)
11. BANG - “Questions” (2:12:15)
12. The Cold Stares -= “The Wicked and he Curse” (2:16:02)
13. Brimstone Coven - “The Inferno” (2:20:03)
HOST SEGMENT IV (2:24:33)
14. Lord Loud - “Timid Beast” (2:46:49)
15. Goatriders - “Hound of The Gods” (2:50:12)
16. Turn Me On Dead Man - “Fantasia” (2:55:36)
17. The Stone Eye - “At Sixes and Sevens” (2:59:13)
OUTRO (3:02:49)
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