Weedian starts this year with a new compilation »Trip To Illinois«!
Weedian starts this year with a new compilation »Trip To Illinois« featuring Minsk, Lair Of The Minotaur, Tummler, Black Road, Huntsmen, Dead Feathers, High Priest, Wizzo, Huntress Of Stars and many more.
Tracklist:
01. High Priest – Blessed Rain
02. Tummler – Lost Sense Of The Cosmic
03. Earth Witch – Riff Rider
04. Canyyn – Bring Me Down
05. Lair Of The Minotaur – Let’s Kill These Motherfuckers
06. Black Road – Hash King
07. Deepspacepilots – Light Of The Sun
08. Spillage – Erased
09. Hypnochron – Eradication Of Light
10. Dead Feathers – Horse And Sands
11. Cokegoat – Buried In The City
12. Faces Of The Bog – Drifter In The Abyss
13. Minsk – Invoke/Revive
14. Plague Of Carcosa – Hastur
15. Dirt Wizard – Devil’s Velvet
16. Beware Of Gods – Nightmare In The Dreaming House
17. The Waterfall King – Filth
18. Huntsmen – Colossus
19. Mutha Trucka – Wizards & Gods
20. Ladies Of Leisure – Farce Of The Moon Landing
21. Wizzo – Sacrificial Lamp
22. Scientist – Barbelith
23. Gamma Goat – Sea Of Flies
24. Bloody Gulch – All My Friends
25. Snakebite Delight – Sorcerer’s Scroll
26. Dead Sacraments – Men, Now Lords
27. Dragon Feeder – Bad Motherfucker
28. Blake – Unfathomable Darkness
29. Unto The Earth – It Is A Good Day To Die
30. Long Live The Goat – The Dealer
31. Sun King Ba – Writhing Mass
32. Farseer – Burial
33. Witchbanger – Kraken Rising
34. Tombstone Eyes – Hungry Ghosts
35. Dead Sun Rising – Dead Stars Lit Our Path
36. Stondar – Hibernation Sickness
37. Fuzznukl – Dark Days Of Doom
38. Minos – The Lamb Will Kill The Lion
39. Our Earth Is A Tomb – Found
40. Hypervolume – Wicked
41. Blunt – Shrooms
42. The Electric Lettuce – Stoned
43. White Shape – A Cave, A Candle, And Your Pupils
44. Huntress Of Stars – Sentries Of A Dead Earth
45. Starless – This Hallowed Eve
46. The Hÿss – Disco Frankenstein
47. Scum Giant – Flame Will Tell
48. Plastic Crimewave Syndicate – Son Of None
49. Mushroom Forager – Restoration – Lust Of Ruin And Death
50. Night Mother – The Void
51. Grim Reefer – Beyond The Void
52. Heavy Down – Captive
53. Blue Dream – Iz What It Iz
54. Plague Of Carcosa – Sacred Vapor-Orbit
Illinois has long been a land of variety. Urban, suburban, and rural areas all come together to make up the state – Chicago to the north, Springfield to the south, farms in between. Our long history of agriculture, industry, and innovation has attracted people from all over the world. From the particle accelerator at Fermilabs near Batavia, to the Worlds Fair in 1933, to the first Farm Aid concert outside Champaign, Illinoisians have a strong, storied history to be proud of. Like all states though, we are not without our darker side.
The ghosts of HH Holmes, John Wayne Gacey, and Richard Speck still haunt the land. Legends of the sea serpent of Lake Michigan, the Enfield Horror, and the Wolf Man of Chestnut Mountain lurk in the recesses of our minds. As we graze on our Italian beefs, we can take a moment to reflect upon the natural sense of dread, mystery, and horror that soak our fields, hills, and forests. It is through this, that our locals channel our state’s brand of doom.
That is not to say Illinois only does one kind or style of doom – much like the makeup of our population, ideas and sounds from all over compose our scene. Every artist is shaped by the state. History aside, an Illinois winter is enough to make the most hardened writer feel compelled to make some truly miserable doom metal to cope with the long, grey days. But much like the immigrants and people of various stripes that compose our populace, variety is the key to our scene.
Heavy hitters come from all parts of the state – we have Minsk capturing the desolation of the exurbs through their crushing, post-metal tinged doom. Lair of the Minotaur capture the raw fury often experienced living in a major city with “Let’s Kill These Motherfuckers.” Hypervolume swaggers their way through their track »Wicked« with the effortlessness of a trip on Highway 57 at 3AM. Gamma Goat pair doom and grunge like Chicago pairs giardinara and pizza. Cokegoat offer thick harmonies and searing keyboard leads, a combination more warm and friendly than a Chicago Handshake. Huntsmen, Ladies Of Leisure, annd Dead Sun Rising showcase our state’s diversity of sound, blending prog, post, stoner, and doom. Something if offered for heavy fans of all stripes on this compilation, and proves we are much more as a state than just Chicago.
Our next crop is ready for the harvest – come see our bounty with Weedian’s »Trip To Illinois«.
Words by Eric Zann (Plague Of Carcosa)
Artwork by DeathWar.
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