Weedian – Trip To Illinois (2023) [Compilation]

Tracklist:
00:00:00 – High Priest – Blessed Rain
00:04:57 – Twin Wizard – Cult Of Yeti
00:12:26 – Earth Witch – Riff Rider
00:16:56 – Canyyn – Bring Me Down
00:24:08 – Lair Of The Minotaur – Let’s Kill These Motherfuckers
00:26:50 – Hypnochron – Eradication Of Light
00:35:06 – Dead Feathers – Horse And Sands
00:40:43 – Cokegoat – Buried In The City
00:45:13 – Minsk – Invoke/Revive
00:59:32 – Plague Of Carcosa – Hastur
01:06:08 – Beware Of Gods – Nightmare In The Dreaming House
01:13:03 – The Waterfall King – Filth
01:19:37 – Huntsmen – Colossus
01:26:04 – Mutha Trucka – Wizards & Gods
01:30:24 – Ladies Of Leisure – Farce Of The Moon Landing
01:34:34 – Wizzo – Sacrificial Lamp
01:39:22 – Scientist – Barbelith
01:45:32 – Gamma Goat – Sea Of Flies
01:52:03 – Bloody Gulch – All My Friends
01:56:35 – Snakebite Delight – Sorcerer’s Scroll
01:59:41 – Dead Sacraments – Men, Now Lords
02:09:47 – Dragon Feeder – Bad Motherfucker
02:15:06 – Blake – Unfathomable Darkness
02:23:54 – Long Live The Goat – The Dealer
02:26:52 – Sun King Ba – Writhing Mass
02:30:56 – Farseer – Burial
02:35:31 – Witchbanger – Kraken Rising
02:42:18 – Tombstone Eyes – Hungry Ghosts
02:49:15 – Dead Sun Rising – Dead Stars Lit Our Path
02:54:53 – Stondar – Hibernation Sickness
03:01:29 – Fuzznukl – Dark Days Of Doom
03:06:10 – Minos – The Lamb Will Kill The Lion
03:10:22 – Our Earth Is A Tomb – Found
03:18:25 – Blunt – Shrooms
03:27:51 – The Electric Lettuce – Stoned
03:34:58 – White Shape – A Cave, A Candle, And Your Pupils
03:41:48 – Huntress Of Stars – Sentries Of A Dead Earth
03:47:56 – Starless – This Hallowed Eve
03:56:00 – Scum Giant – Flame Will Tell
03:59:55 – Plastic Crimewave Syndicate – Son Of None
04:06:37 – Mushroom Forager – Restoration – Lust Of Ruin And Death
04:17:03 – Night Mother – The Void
04:28:39 – Grim Reefer – Beyond The Void
04:33:11 – Heavy Down – Captive
04:35:38 – Blue Dream – Iz What It Iz
04:39:18 – Plague Of Carcosa – Sacred Vapor-Orbit

Notes:
“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)

Credits:
Artwork by: www.instagram.com/_.answerr
All tracks procured by permission of the bands and/or their record labels.

Bandcamp: https://weedian420.bandcamp.com/album/trip-to-illinois
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Enjoy my fellow stoners,
Morphy. /by request/

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