We final checked in with Columbus stoner doom quartet Weed Demon in 2018, once they have been selling their debut album, Astrological Passages. Quick ahead just a few years and Weed Demon have grown as musicians, fleshing their core Sleep-influenced sound out with death-thrash and dungeon synth tendencies.
Enter their new, third album, The Doom Scroll, which you’ll stream under. The album begins with the aptly-titled “Acid Dungeon,” a trippy dungeon synth intro that transitions properly into the hazy, doomy “Tower of Smoke.” Issues choose up in depth on “Coma Dose,” which exhibits off Weed Demon’s loss of life steel facet on the second half.
The second half of the album begins off with “Roasting the Sacred Bones,” a track which may virtually be a misplaced Excessive on Hearth track. Issues wrap up with “Useless Planet Blues,” an area rock instrumental that ends the album in the identical otherworldly trend it started. The vinyl model of The Doom Scroll comes with a bonus cowl of Frank Zappa’s “Willy the Pimp,” which Weed Demon translate to their stoner model.
With The Doom Scroll, it’s apparent that Weed Demon have taken a number of steps ahead as a band.
“A decade is a very long time for a band to remain collectively,” Weed Demon inform Decibel. “By fashionable requirements, it’s an eternity. After a decade of checking all the sonic containers related to the bastardized household tree that’s stoner / doom / sludge, we thought it was excessive time to simply do regardless of the hell we needed. The Doom Scroll has loads of sludgy chugs and spaced out groovy riffs that people have come to anticipate from us, however we additionally incorporate some bizarre shit only for us. Some dungeon synth, some stripped-down blues rock. Some haunting feminine visitor vocals courtesy of Shy from Horehound and Fvnerals. Fuck it. Toss it in. Makes for some tasty stoner doom riff stew. So, take a break out of your every day doom scroll and take a look at The Doom Scroll. Hope y’all take pleasure in! Keep hazy.”
The Doom Scroll is out formally on January 31 by way of Electrical Valley Information however you’ll be able to hear it now by way of Decibel.
