08/30/12 – Thursday – 3:14PM – Madison, CT In about four hours, the twelfth edition of the Stoner Hands of Doom festival will kickoff at the El ‘n’ Gee club in New London, Connecticut. SHoD XII finds the fest moved north from its established home the last several years at Krug’s Place in Frederick, Maryland, and […]
Underrated Long Island dirt rockers John Wilkes Booth are the latest addition to this year’s Stoner Hands of Doom fest, set to take place next Thursday-Sunday at the El ‘n’ Gee in New London, CT. It’s been a while since the last time I saw the Booth boys, and apparently they’ve been working on a […]
[mp3player width=470 height=150 config=fmp_jw_widget_config.xml playlist=aot28-the-shodcast.xml] Aside from Two-Face from the animated Batman series — which, make no mistake, there is an entire generation of males that swears by — contained in the banner for this month’s podcast is a pedal designed specifically in honor of this year’s Stoner Hands of Doom fest. This is the […]
What I like best about the lineup for this year’s installment of the Stoner Hands of Doom fest (or SHoD, as it’s affectionately known), is that it blends the festival’s Maryland doom lineage with its newfound New England surroundings, so you get Earthride, Iron Man, Admiral Browning and Lord playing alongside Roadsaw, Elder, When the […]
Athens-based five-piece Under the Sun are set to issue their debut LP, The Bell of Doom, on April 5 through the e’er-reliable Sound Effect Records. And man, some albums just manage to sound loud no matter at what volume you’re actually playing them. Starting with a hearty “Oh yeah!” and diving almost immediately into a […]
I shudder to think of the poor bastard who, when this weekend is over, will have to mop up all the melted eardrums from the floor of the Cafe 611. With the expansion this year to four days — because again, the pre-fest yesterday was essentially a full night of the festival; 2020 pre-party on […]
One could go on at some length about the legacy of the Stoner Hands of Doom Festival, which, like much of the pre-social-media universe, feels like part of some bygone era, when in fact the last edition was held in 2013. The Maryland Doom Fest 2019 pre-fest party — which I’ll only argue with because, […]
Maryland Doom Fest hosts the offshoot festival Doom Hawg Day on Feb. 2 at Cafe 611 in Frederick, MD, with Pale Divine, Kingsnake, The Age of Truth, Faith in Jane and more on the bill. Not to be confused with Groundhog Day of Doom, which is happening the same day in Nyack, New York, the […]
