Listen to Weedian’s »Trip To Texas« feat. Wo Fat, Las Cruces, Duel, The Well, The Sword, Mothership & many more!

One of the Weedian‘s latest compilations is »Trip To Texas« with artists such as Wo Fat, Las Cruces, Duel, The Well, The Sword, Mothership, High Desert Queen, Thunder Horse, Ancient VVisdom, Warlung, Crypt Trip, Fostermother, Green Ripper, Temptress, Witchcryer, Burn Ritual, Slumbering Sun, War Cloud, Doomstress, Ghost Ship Ritual, Direlands, Peth, Bridge Farmers, Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol and many more.

Tracklist:
01. Mothership – Cosmic Rain
02. Duel – Tyrant on the Throne
03. Deserts Of Mars – Black Leather
04. The Sword – Tres Brujas
05. High Desert Queen – Heads Will Roll
06. Wo Fat – Overworlder
07. The Well – Mortal Bones
08. Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol – Gravedigger
09. Fostermother – Hedonist
10. Thunder Horse – Let Them Bleed
11. Lord Buffalo – Tohu Wa Bohu
12. Warlung – Return of the Warlords
13. Witchcryer – I Rise!
14. Doomstress – Dreaming Spider
15. Burn Ritual – Mark Of The Witch
16. War Cloud – Divide And Conquer
17. Crypt Trip – Death After Life
18. Clyde Von Klaus – Ale Of Extractions
19. Switchblade Jesus – Red Plains
20. Liquid Sound Company – And To Your Left…Neptune
21. Greenbeard – Diamond In The Devil’s Grinder
22. Green Ripper – Hypnotic Hipshaker
23. Land Mammal – Psychedelic Hand
24. Eagle Claw – Godmaker
25. Cactus Flowers – Razor Blade
26. Novakain – The Oh No! Unknown
27. Temptress – Serpentine
28. Crimson Devils – Feels Like The Last Time
29. Arsis Thesis – Snow
30. Ancient VVisdom – Deathlike
31. Ghost Ship Ritual – Dead Man’s Soul
32. End Of Age – Shoved Through The Window Of Consumption
33. Slumbering Sun – Liminal Bridges
34. Red Beard Wall – Liberate
35. Direlands – Beyond The Horizon
36. Las Cruces – The Wraith
37. Peth – Karmic Debt
38. Arbiter – Snakes
39. Bridge Farmers – Wicked Sun
40. Forebode – Metal Slug
41. Ethereal – Enter The Womb
42. The Angelus – Ode To None
43. Wooden Earth – Carnal Spell
44. Destroyer of Light – Darkshimmer
45. Voidstrider – Hunters Moon
46. Stone Nomads – Fields Of Doom
47. Emperor Guillotine – The Sorceress
48. Cosmic Funeral – Servant Of Sorrow
49. Venus Blue – Living Dead
50. Power Fortress – Goddamn This Enemy! And The Machines That They Ride Into War!
51. Scorpion Child – Outliers
52. The Infamists – Spectral Mistress
53. Fuzz Lightyear – Blasting Off
54. Lungrot – Dweller In The Abyss
55. Beholder – Grackles
56. Orthodox Fuzz – Village Of The Widows
57. Project Armageddon – Vortex To Oblivion
58. Voidslime – Futility
59. Lotus Sutra – Deep Goat
60. Hollow Skulls – Disincarnation
61. Endgazer – Nothing Left
62. Burdener – Fragments
63. Gorslava – Thulian
64. Of Deities and Dust – Where Sorrow Never Sails

Texas. Everything can kill you in Texas. The dusty unforgiving landscape says it all about the Lone Star State. A seemingly never ending wasteland of horns, barbs, fangs, and stingers. The ground is a six inch layer of infertile sand and dirt covered with rattle snakes, venomous spiders, and other belly crawlers. Just below in the hard and rocky soil lives a sea of fire ants that have been know to take down and devour a 1500 pound steer. Every Texan knows the sting of those little fuckers. Armadillos, horned toads what the fuck is that? The very few plants and cactus have thorns and needles as sharp as swords. A foot below the surface is solid limestone. Below that an ocean of black oil. Long, long ago Texas was the bottom of the ancient Permian Sea never intended to host life on its surface. At night, as they say, the stars are bright. You can hear yipping coyotes and the sonar chirping of the millions of bats in the sky. The days are be unbelievably hot. Truly a reptile paradise.

From this comes a unique style of heavy music. Heavy is king in Texas. Psych, Metal, Stoner, Doom bands are everywhere. Texas is HUGE in size with some giant cities as well Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, El Paso, and a lot of smaller towns as well that all have their own heavy music scene. Giving us a really cool mix of sounds and bands keeping the sound of heavy Texas music ever changing and growing. Live music is everywhere and with tons of music venues you can go see something heavy and killer every night in towns like Austin. Always great new bands carrying the torch playing the same bill with heavy bands that have been around Texas 20 years or more. Home to a ton of killer musicians makes it a great place to be.

Words by Tom Frank (Duel)

Artwork by Gilang Amar Dani.

All tracks procured by permission of the bands and/or their record labels.

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