The latest pickup for collaboration between Fuzzed and Buzzed Records in Canada and DHU Records in Europe is Häxan, a Toronto-based four-piece whose debut album, Aradia, is set to come out on April 11 with preorders going live, oh, how’s tomorrow sometime in the afternoon sound? That work for you? Good. We’ll roll with that. I haven’t heard the full release, but the track “Baba Yaga” is streaming below and is right on in its balance between raw classic doom and cultish-style melody. The album was produced by Alia O’Brien of Blood Ceremony, and of course Häxan complete the trilogy of artists whose releases will have been backed by Fuzzed and Buzzed after appearing on the label’s ambitious 7″ compilation The Altar Box — the other two being Astral Witch and Rough Spells. Clearly working on a theme.

Three different versions of the record being pressed. Dare you to collect ’em all:

Fuzzed and Buzzed & DHU present Aradia the debut album by hex groovers Häxan

Heavy groove hexers Häxan release their debut album Aradia on Fuzzed and Buzzed Records in North America and DHU in Europe.

Produced by the high goddess of heavy enchantment Alia O’Brien from Blood Ceremony, Aradia is the grooviest hipshakinest story of a Tuscan witch ever committed to wax.

That wax comes in three different colorways including the Band edition, the DHU edition and the Fuzzed and Buzzed edition.

Pre-orders will be on Mar 14 at Noon EST and 5pm CEST from fuzzedandbuzzed.com in North America and darkhedonisticunionrecords.bigcartel.com in Europe or straight from the band haxanto.bandcamp.com/ who will release Aradia digitally that same day.

Aradia will officially drop on wax on April 11 with a celebratory party that includes special guests epic dume metallers Smoulder (https://smoulder.bandcamp.com/) celebrating the release of their latest EP Dream Quest Ends and beats & riffs party doomers NLP (https://nlpmusic.bandcamp.com/).

Party details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/monarch-tavern/aradia-record-release-h%C3%A4xan-smoulder-nlp/622294925225623/

Häxan are:
Kayley Bomben – Vocals
Paul Colosimo – Lead guitar
Eric Brauer – Bass
Paul Ciuk – Drums

https://www.facebook.com/Haxantoronto/
https://www.instagram.com/haxanto/
https://haxanto.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Fuzzedandbuzzed-631019733954614/
https://www.instagram.com/fuzzedandbuzzed/
https://www.fuzzedandbuzzed.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DHURecords/
https://www.instagram.com/dhu_records/
https://darkhedonisticunionrecords.bandcamp.com/
darkhedonisticunionrecords.bigcartel.com/

Häxan, “Baba Yaga”