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~By Svempa Alveving~

Photo credit: NASA

During this week long retrospective on the best albums of 2020, Doomed & Stoned contributors are sharing 25 of their personal favs from a year that was full of surprises, some dreadful and others delightful.  Svempa Alveving (IG: @doomsdayjesus) is the curator of our beloved compilation Doomed & Stoned in Sweden and a periodic guest on the Into The Void podcast.

Electric Hydra - Electric Hydra

Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle - May Our Chambers Be Full

Novarupta - Marine Snow

Elder - Omens

Hällas - Conundrum

Steve Von Till - No Wilderness Deep Enoug

Lowrider - Refractions

Covenspell - Circle of 13

Dopelord - Sign Of The Devil

Kvll - Death/Sacrifice

Ockultist - Festering Wounds

Occlith - Gates, Doorways, and Endings

Sleepwulf - Sleepwulf

Bonehawk - Iron Mountain

End - Splinters From an Ever-Changing Face

Huanastone - Third Stone From The Sun

Malsten - The Haunting of Silvåkra Mill

Hymn - Breach Us

Bongtower - Oscillator

Pallbearer - Forgotten Days

Slift - Ummon

Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough

Weed Demon - Crater Maker

Convocation - Ashes Coalesce

Serving as an ongoing showcase for some of the best and heaviest bands emerging from the underground, each installment of Second Coming of Heavy shines a light on bands worthy of your attention. Consisting of one 12” slab of gorgeous coloured vinyl with beautiful artwork by Ghost Town Graphics, the series is designed to be saved and treasured, much like a fine anthology of books. When the albums are filed next to each other, the aligned spines form a stunning image direct from the underground.

Bands already featured in the series include Geezer, Borracho, Supervoid, Red Desert, Kingnomad, Bonehawk, Red Mesa, Blue Sanggletooth, Fuzz Evil, Switchblade Jesus plus a whole host of others. For this latest installment, it’s the turn of Massachusetts’ sonic explorers Palace In Thunderland and Scandinavian stoners The W Likes.

The Second Coming Of Heavy; Chapter X – the final chapter in the project – sees its official release on 13th September 2019 and is limited to 300 copies in three alternative versions (100 of each, as did all previous chapters before it) – The Resurrection Edition, The Risen OBI and The Ascension Edition - with no repressings, ever.

BONEHAWK - Los Vientos

RED MESA - Low & Slow

KAYLETH - Magnetar

THE W LIKES - Ghost

THE SECOND COMING OF HEAVY: Chapter 1 - Geezer / Borracho (2015) Chapter 2 - Supervoid / Red Desert (2016) Chapter 3 - Kingnomad / Bonehawk (2016) Chapter 4 - Red Mesa / Blue Snaggletooth (2016) Chapter 5 - Desert Suns / Chiefs (2017) Chapter 6 - Kayleth / Favequaid (2017) Chapter 7 - Switchblade Jesus / Fuzz Evil (2017) Chapter 8 - Ride The Sun / The Trikes (2018) Chapter 9 - Cortez / Wasted Theory (2018) Chapter 10 - The W Likes / Palace In Thunderland (2019)

Ripple Music

It took 4 years to collect, but it was totally worth it! 20 awesome bands, 75 tracks... only ever to be released on gorgeous vinyl for this special one time only Ripple Music compilation!

Doomed & Stoned Presents: BONEHAWK!

When you can't get to the live, we bring the live to you! Here's the legendary four-piece from Kalamazoo bringing us a never before seen live performance featuring songs from their Doom Charts-topping records, and a few surprises besides. Happy New Year from Bonehawk & Doomed & Stoned!

Follow The Band

~Words & Images by Randy J Byrd~

These are the bands in 2020 that helped me forget about work while I was at work. I was lucky enough to stay employed during the pandemic. That's not to say I didnt suffer more anxiety and stress because of it. My day job is much like my night job. It is fun. It is hard work, but it is fun. It's not photographing bands and seeing live shows by any means, but I work in a motorcycle shop.

Thurday is my Music Day at the shop, so when it is Thursday I blast these for the guys and when I spend an hour two in my office these bands keep my peace. When I'm on deliveries throughout all of Virginia and North Carolina, I blast these guys. Some of them are Doomed and Stoned Fest alumni and all of them hold dear to my heart and consider part of my consulate via RiverCity Doom Consulate (my Instagram "brand").

As time goes on, more and more get added to my database of tunes I love. My mind is open and my ears are open. I'm always Hunting for more tunes.

As follows, in zero order, are 20 MD 20/20 bands who had rad releases in 2020:

Thunderchief

Elder Druid

Gypsy Byrd

Low Rider

Sleepwulf

Yatra

Frayle

High Priestess

Thou

Valkyrie

Crystal Spiders

Cruthu

All Them Witches

Switchblade Jesus

Sons of Otis

Sun of Grey

Geezer

Bonehawk

Temple of the Fuzz Witch

Windhand

Yeah 2020 may have been the worst year beyond our imaginations, but here's 40 reasons we can all fondly look back on the year that really wasn't.

Burnout is the word I have been searching for with everydraft of this introduction I have attempted to pour myself into, a word which has come to symbolise my 2020. Though I consider myself incredibly lucky to have (so far) dodged Covid’s sadistic turbulence, its social effects on my “everyday” became a little too much. Too much in fact that every time I went to sit down to review either album or…