When
Where
Chicago Doomed and Stoned Festival:
COVEN, BLOOD CEREMONY, DEMON LUNG, BASK, WITCH RIPPER, WOLF BLOOD, WIZZERD, SOMNURI, SNOW BURIAL
chicago doomed and stoned festival
COVEN
Coven is an American rock band with occult lyrics formed in the late 1960s.
BLOOD CEREMONY
Since the release of their highly acclaimed sophomore 2011 album, Living With the Ancients, Blood Ceremony has been recognised as an internationally regarded live act. Having played main support toGhost on the majorly successful ‘13 Dates of Doom’ US tour, they concluded their debut headline European tour with a sell-out show in London.
After these live performances, Blood Ceremony enclosed themselves within a dank, tomb-like chamber to begin preparations for their third album. After a mind-numbing spell in the analogue womb of Toronto’s ProGold Studios, the band is now ready to unveil their newest, and most accomplished, musical offering:The Eldritch Dark.
Recorded and mixed by producer Ian Blurton (Cauldron, Cursed) and mastered by Canadian recording legend Nick Blagona (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Crazy World of Arthur Brown), The Eldritch Dark is a full-length paean to the darker corners of folklore and legend. Containing eight tracks of black magic rock ‘n’ roll, the album crackles… [read more]
DEMON LUNG
BASK
Progressive; heavy; psychedelic; americana, have all been used to describe Bask. The truth, we are four musicians based in Asheville North Carolina who love making music. We want rhythm heard for miles, melodies remembered for weeks and an honesty and sincerity felt to your bones. Most of all we want you to listen without concern for what you are hearing. To listen only for the sake of hearing.
Esse Quam Videri,
Bask
WITCH RIPPER
“Witch Ripper take those Mastodon moments where the band is both heavy AND proggy and extrapolate them into full songs, and the results are positively excellent.” – VN of MetalSucks
“The vocals to me sound like if Scott Kelly and Brent Hinds had a homosexual love baby that learned only how to be awesome” – Miasma
“Witch Ripper channels the power of the riff at high-megawatt levels of addictive hookiness, but the music also delivers layers of memorable melodic complexity that make it stand out from the stoner crowd. You’ll be swallowed up in hard-rocking, hard-rolling jams one minute, stomped-on hard the next, and swimming off on astral streams the next. Also, it’s thick as a brick and heavy as fuck.” – I.S.Lander of NO CLEAN SINGING
WOLF BLOOD
“Wolf Blood is indeed that brutal–’brutal’ as in smack-your-face loud rock-n-roll, amps on fire, packed house, broken glass, cops-breaking-up-the-party brutal.” –Homegrown Music Festival Field Guide, 2014
Formed in a dank basement during one of the coldest winters on record in Duluth, Minnesota, guitarist Mike Messina and drummer Jake Paulsrud (Dirty Horse/Dad’s Acid) started writing psycho-sludge experiments that sounded too stoned to be metal, and too baneful to be indie-rock. They recruited renown hard-core guitar sorceress Mindy Johnson (The Keep Aways) and magi-roots bassist Brian Wells (Dirty Horse) to flesh-out the menacing sound, and Wolf Blood came to life.
Their seven-song recording debut opens with the haunting single Witch. From there…you’re on your own for the next 35 feral, blood stained minutes.
WIZZERD
Doom Metal from the Mountains of Montana.
Recording is done at Black Magick Studios in Kalispell, Montana
Wizzerd is:
Guitar/Vocals – Jhalen Salazar
Guitar – James Ryan
Drums – Sam Moore
Bass – Layne Matkovich
Synth/Audio Wizardry – Wayne Randall
SOMNURI
Drawn out of a unique creative vision and driven by a deep passion for the underground, Somnuri aren’t your typical sludge metal band. Fusing swooping melodies with a crushing bottom end, the group transcends boundaries and connects listeners from a breadth of heavy music scenes. While fans of High On Fire, Mastodon and Queens of the Stone Age might fall in love, Somnuri bring so much more to the
table than the mere sum of their parts. Shying away from tropes and committing instead to a determined iconoclastic approach, Somnuri are heavy music for a hated generation.
Old friends and scene veterans united in the creation of this power trio and it shows. The band has an undeniable chemistry, and apparent connections to every band in Brooklyn. Their DIY attitude sees them recording and producing their own records and embracing any venue. This has helped cement them as mainstays in the turbulent Brooklyn heavy music scene. They have found that by removing boundaries has led to an… [read more]
SNOW BURIAL
Snow Burial is a hard hitting post-metal trio from Chicago. Their music is melodic, rhythmic, and brutal.
Formed after a Shiner reunion show, Snow Burial established themselves in the midwest scene and released twin EPs: Oxblood : Siren, and Oxblood : Tides. Through promoting the EPs, and extensive midwest touring, the band earned a reputation for their crushing sound and performances.
Following positive reviews, tours, and airplay, the band released their inaugural LP, Victory In Ruin, in January 2016. Snow Burial continued touring the U.S. and the U.K. in 2017, featuring an opening slot for Scott Kelly and Sanford Parker’s project Mirrors for Psychic Warfare, with coverage from Metal Hammer magazine, and multiple blogs. In spring 2017, they proudly released a new song “Burn Down the Crown”, on the Unpresidented: DIY vs. Donald Trump benefit compilation.
In early 2018 they recorded at the famed Electrical Audio, crafting a split with Iowa City’s doom maestros Aseethe. The tapes
$50 Two Day Passes
includes admission for May 31 + June 1.