New Zealand stoner/sludge project Dionize unveils details for »Lighthouse« album; new single »Mesa Black« out now!
New Zealand stoner/sludge solo project Dionize drops new single »Mesa Black« taken from second full-length album, »Lighthouse«, set to release on 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. Today, Dionize is excited to reveal the album details and share the new single, »Mesa Black«, which is now available for streaming here!
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.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well