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Bog Wizard & Dust Lord Team Up For Four Tales of the Strange Split

Bog Wizard and Dust Lord both made their debuts last year, the former with From the Mire and the latter with Machine Cult. Both records — because it’s the future — can be streamed below. Now, under normal circumstances, it’d be easy to imagine that two bands with first albums out from vaguely the same part of the country (that is, the Middle part) teaming for a split probably met playing a show together somewhere as they each supported their album. Well, obviously that’s not the case here, so how exactly Bog Wizard met Dust Lord — like When Harry Met Sally, but with riffs — I have no idea.

It is a formidable pairing though, and the two bands complement each other well on the four-tracker split, suitably enough dubbed Four Tales of the Strange. Dust Lord are nastier in terms screaming and general sludgy harshness, and Bog Wizard are a little more doomed but rawer in production value, so they hit with a sludge vibe as well that way. One way or the other it’s 36 minutes of mess-up-your-afternoon distortion and downward vibes, united by legitimate disaffection.

No audio yet, but it’s out March 5 and the PR wire brings forth the following:

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Dust Lord & Bog Wizard – Four Tales of the Strange

Four Tales of the Strange was created with publishing help from The Swamp Records and The Cosmic Peddler. Put together out of love and appreciation for both bands successful 2020 full length album debuts. The album weaves a blend of sludge, doom, and psychedelic material including some of the heaviest, sludgiest, fuzzed-out riffs created by either band.

The split will be released on CD, cassette, and vinyl pressing in transparent blue with light blue splatter, and transparent red with gold splatter. Releasing with help from The Swamp Records and The Cosmic Peddler.

Album art by Marinko Milosevski, most well known for his work on the cover art for the game Red Dead Redemption 2, among many other widely known games, shows, and movies.

Bog Wizard is a three-piece West Michigan based doom/ sludge/ stoner metal band, inspired by Dungeons & Dragons and fantasy literature. Dust Lord hails from Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is a heavy stoner rock band in the vein of Bongzilla, Weedeater, Eyehategod, Buzzoven.

Bog Wizard is Ben Lombard (guitar/vox), Harlen Linke (percussion, synth, vox), and Colby Lowman (bass)

Dust Lord is Spike Whirley (guitar/ vox), Peter Low Frequency (bass), Rob Deadraiser (percussion)

Bog Wizard vs Dust Lord
Four Tales of the Strange
Out March 5th 2021
Published with help from The Swamp Records & The Cosmic Peddler
Bog Wizard: West Michigan, US
Dust Lord: Colorado Springs, Colorado

Track Listing:
1. Dust Lord – Not Men, Not Women, Not Beasts (6:38)
2. Dust Lord – Career Opportunities (9:37)
3. Bog Wizard – Paladin of Death (9:12)
4. Bog Wizard – Gelatinous Cube (10:26)
Run time: 35:53

Album art by Marinko Milosevski https://marinkoillustration.com/

https://bogwizard.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/bogwizardband/
https://www.facebook.com/BogWizardBand/
https://www.instagram.com/bogwizardband/
https://www.youtube.com/bogwizard
https://bogwizard.bigcartel.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0mooueq4AqCcD9cZ6yfV2B

https://dustlordpartydoom.bandcamp.com/
https://facebook.com/dustlordpartydoom/
https://www.instagram.com/dustlord_official/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1AcNF4c7i4GuekqeTZadQ1

Dust Lord, Machine Cult (2020)

Bog Wizard, From the Mire (2020)

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