Right on, second edition of Rhüne Mountain Festival. The Ontario-based festival — a mere six and a half hours by car from my home; yes, I looked — has made its second or third or 14th lineup announcement what are numbers anyway who knows how they work?, and brought with it affirmation of a good and heavy time. Ian Blurton’s Future Now, Gozu, WyndRider and Biblical feature in the new round of adds, but they’re already joined by Dopethrone, Sons of Arrakis, Greece’s Acid Mammoth, Sons of Otis, Ecstatic Vision and others, making the whole so-far lineup for the three-day event something of a monster with more apparently to come. Anytime Sons of Otis do just about anything, anywhere, it’s worth hoping someone gets video. Canadia’s ultrastoner pioneers remain undersung in my mind, and the more humans they flatten in-person the better to rectify that.

That’s not to dicsount Indian Handcrafts, Doomboyz or R.I.P. and The Death Wheelers — labelmates who, if they’re touring together, would make for the most attitude-soaked one-two punch of your show-going year — as there’s certainly more than one angle in terms of appeal. I’ll do my best to keep an eye for the next round of ads, but I’d been seeing the poster around and that’s a logo that’s gonna catch your eye, so when it came down the PR wire, well, you know the rest.

Poster rules, by the way:

Rhüne Mountain Festival Announces Next Wave Of Bands

With only a few short months to go until launch, Rhüne Mountain Festival has today unveiled the next wave of bands confirmed to play the festival. In addition to the already-announced artists, today the festival confirms that R.I.P., DOOMBOYZ, GOZU, IAN BLURTON’S FUTURE NOW, BIBLICAL AND WYNDRIDER will all perform.

Set to take place on June 26-28th in Dunnville Ontario, Rhüne Mountain Festival is set to become the premiere destination for the doom/stoner rock scene in North America.

The line-up so far is:
DOPETHRONE
SONS OF ARRAKIS
INDIAN HANDCRAFTS
ECSTATIC VISION
ACID MAMMOTH
THE DEATH WHEELERS
SONS OF OTIS
R.I.P.
DOOMBOYZ
GOZU
IAN BLURTON’S FUTURE NOW
BIBLICAL
WYNDRIDER.

Buy Tickets HERE: https://fannatickets.com/event/june-26-28-rhune-mountain-fest-dunnville-ontario-370/register

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Ian Blurton’s Future Now, Crimes of the City

Here comes the full lineup for Rocky Mountain Riff Fest 2025, fresh off the social media hellscape and set to take place April 19 in Kalispell, Montana, as per tradition. This is the sixth edition of the all-dayer fest (plus a pre-party the night before), which brings Kadabra and Sorcia to town as headliners with support from local spearheads Wizzerd, as well as Mother Root, Doomboyz, Cruel Velvet, Scavenger, Swamp Ritual, Surfbat, Loin Hammer and Superplex. No word on if Superplex sound anything like Suplecs, only, you know, more. I’ll keep you posted on that.

Of the confirmations, at least Sorcia, Loin Hammer, Swamp Ritual, Wizzerd and Surfbat have featured on past Rocky Mountain Riff Fest editions, which tells you there’s a family developing. The only band on this bill I’ve ever seen is Kadabra, and I’ll gladly confirm that they’re something you want to check out when the opportunity presents itself, and certainly other names ring familiar, whether it’s Mother Root or Wizzerd (who had two records out last year) or Sorcia, who also have their own affiliated festival in Washington. Must be nice.

I don’t for one second imagine I’ll be there to see it, but Rocky Mountain Riff Fest has grown over the last few years into its own thing. It’s never struck me as wanting to be huge or some mega-event. It’s an all-dayer with good bands, likely good friends and good times. I like fests with 100,000 people as much as the next guy — so long as the next guy’s also crippled by anxiety in that kind of crowd — but this is more of a hometown showcase for locals and others coming in. Maybe one of these years I’ll get there too. If this is your year, right on.

Here’s info:

FULL LINEUP IS HERE

SEE YOU IN APRIL!

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Doomboyz
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Swamp Ritual
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Loin Hammer
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The Lucitones
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Kadabra, Umbra (2023)

Sorcia, Lost Season (2023)