US stoner metal trio Hot Ram unveils new lyric video for »Ironbound«; »Near Fall« EP out now via Second Down Records!

Atlanta, Georgia based stoner metal trio Hot Ram has unveiled a lyric video for »Ironbound« taken from their new EP, »Near Fall«, which was just released on January 30th, 2026 via Second Down Records.

Tracklist:
01. Vimana Swamp
02. Black Weed
03. Ironbound

Courtesy of Desert Bloom PR:

Atlanta’s stoner metal trio Hot Ram return with a long awaited EP »Near Fall« out everywhere now!

Click HERE for full album premiere on The Obelisk!

“Hot Ram, to their credit, aren’t taking riffs straight out of Jus Oborn’s playbook – as many do – but they find a midtempo fluidity that’s reminiscent of Dorset doom without lapsing into mimicry.” — The Obelisk

Watch the brand new lyric video for final single »Ironbound« HERE.

Hot Ram is an Atlanta based stoner metal band formed in 2016. It was during this time that Billy Konkel, Hot Ram founder, while working as a sound man in local Atlanta’s clubs, realized that he needed to be on the other side of the microphones and that he had a lot of music to write. Konkel enlisted Gordon White (Tetsu Nakasaka a local bassist/guitar player to play drums. Gordon brought along Dee Flores on bass and together they recorded 2017’s EP »Leave A Beautiful Corpse«, 2018’s »Where Light Goes To Die«, and 2021’s »Electric Medicine«.

Order »Near Fall« EP here: hotram.bandcamp.com

»Near Fall« credits:
Drums recorded by Matt Washburn at Leadbelly Studio.
Guitars/bass/vocals/mixed by Billy Konkel at Dark Overlord Studio.
Mastered by Jonathan Nunez (Torche) at Sound Artillery Studio.

Line-up:
Billy Konkel – Guitar/Vocals
Brian Ricks – Drums
Jerimy McNeil – Bass (»Black Weed«, »Ironbound«)
Dan Giampietro – Bass (»Vimana Swamp«)

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