Exclusive premiere: New Zealand stoner/sludge act Dionize stream new album »Lighthouse« in its entirety; out this Friday on Argonauta Records!

New Zealand stoner/sludge solo project Dionize premiere second studio album »Lighthouse« in full ahead of its release this Friday, August 30th, 2024 via Argonauta Records.

Tracklist:
01. God Damn
02. Wolf At The Dog Park
03. Lighthouse
04. Mesa Black
05. Shaman’s Vine
06. Drunken Hunting
07. Draconian
08. If An Axe Is An Arm

Courtesy of Grand Sounds PR:

Dionize, the solo New Zealand-based stoner/sludge project, is set to release its highly anticipated second full-length album, »Lighthouse«, on August 30th through Argonauta Records on CD and digital.
Pre-order here: argonautarecords.com/shop

Dionize’s »Lighthouse« is a collection of heavy and melodic stoner/sludge metal, or “Loner Metal” as Dionize likes to call it. And with all instruments and vocals performed by the one man, loner metal is a fitting name for the style of music.

Writing & recording began in 2020 during a time of harsh covid restrictions in New Zealand, and the album has been meticulously crafted over four years to showcase a musically diverse & progressive spin on classic stoner metal.

This album contains coffin banging riffage, skeleton-dancing desert sludge, mental illness, alien polyrhythms, psychedelic escapes, skullduggery & malfeasance, conspiracy theories, reptilian burial hymns, time travel and groove-doom.

Dionize – (Pronounced dye-a-nyze; Rhymes with Dying Eyes):
Adam Farr, better known by his stage name Dionize, is a New Zealand singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. As a solo artist, Dionize makes stoner/sludge metal with influences of groove metal, prog and psychedelia; Which he dubs “Loner Metal”.

In the studio, Dionize writes, records, and performs all instruments on the majority of his work. As a live act, Dionize is a four piece band consisting of some of Auckland’s finest metal musicians, with Dionize himself fronting the band on guitar and lead vocals.

Dionize is an established musician in New Zealand and Australia from being the lead singer & guitarist of Black Alpine for almost a decade. He has also played bass in a thrash metal and hard rock bands, and drums for a glam metal band.

Dionize is a shortened version of the name Dionysus – The Greek God of wine, partying and general debauchery.

All music and lyrics written by A. Farr except track 8, written by Peter & Graeme Jefferies; »If An Axe Is An Arm« originally recorded by This Kind Of Punishment, 1984.
Recorded & mixed by Adam Farr at Coffin Castle.
Mastered by Aidan Courtnell at Scallywag Records.
Artwork by Gabby Bissett, A. Farr & Sascha Schneider.
Guitar solo on »Mesa Black« performed by A. Courtnell.
Additional backing vocals by B. lon, G. Bissett & L. Martin.
All other vocals and instruments performed by A. Farr.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well