To go with the unveiling of preorders for their upcoming debut album, The Return, Brazilian double-guitar five-piece Weedevil are streaming the opening song “Underwater,” which you’ll find at the bottom of this post. For the band, this first full-length answers the 2021 two-song EP, The Death is Coming (review here), and it marks the arrival in the band of vocalist Lo Scar and guitarist/backing vocalists Bodão, Paulo Ueno, the band having been essentially remade around drummer/backing vocalist Flávio Cavichioli and bassist/keyboardist Dani Plothow.

Abraxas and DHU Records have the release, and you’ll find the PR wire background below. It’s an April 8 release, so coming up:

WEEDEVIL – The Return

We are pleased to announce the opening of the digital pre-sale and the release of the cover of the first full of the stoner/doom band Weedevil.

Revamped, re-energized and denser than ever. The new formation of the Brazilian stoner/doom metal band Weedevil presents us in 2022 their most solid and powerful version, a five piece that bases their immersive and captivating sonority in lacerating riffs, hypnotic vocals and a refined and vibrant rhythm section. And it’s just the beginning.

“The Return” will bring out on April 8 a Weedevil never seen before, reaching the prime shape and taking a significant flight in the national scene of the segment. The quintet formed by Lo Scar (vocals), Paulo Ueno (guitar), Bodão (guitar), Dani Plothow (bass) and Flávio Cavichioli (drums) arrives in their first full album with a select tracklist, built by five exuberant tracks that keeps winding between the melancholic, dark and electrifying, packed by deep and existential themes narrating a kind of “opera” that promises to draw the listeners into a private, unique universe. “The Return” is the band’s masterpiece so far, a masterful work resulting from dedicated work.

With a digital release scheduled for April 8th and a physical LP version already confirmed by the Dutch label DHU Records the album “The Return” promises to reintroduce in the most impressive form a band that was already standing out on the scene, now ready to take the most demanding listeners in a unavoidable way.

Pre order em: https://weedevil.bandcamp.com/album/the-return

Tracklisting:
1. Underwater
2. The Void
3. The Return
4. Isn’t a Love Song
5. Genocidal

Weedevil
Lorraine Scar – Vocals
Flávio Cavichioli – Drums/ Backing Vocals
Dani Plothow – Bass/Keyboards
Paulo Ueno – Guitar/FX /Backing Vocals
Bodão – Guitar/Backing Vocals

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Weedevil, The Return (2022)

Weedevil, The Death is Coming (2021)

Now a five-piece, Brazilian riffers Weedevil will debut their new lineup on their first full-length, The Return. Set to release later this year on vinyl through DHU Records, the release will be the follow-up to last year’s two-songer The Death is Coming (review here) and will be preceded by a first single “Underwater” — which also happens to be the opening track of the LP — to see release this Friday. If you do the Spotify/DSP thing, then you can pre-save the track now. I will not pretend to know how that works. The digital release of the album is in April through Abraxas, and the DHU LP follows when it follows. Because it’s 2022 and that’s the world we live in. If I could change any number of things about it, I’d line up release dates across formats, but I don’t think that’s what I’d change first.

First I’d make a three-day work week, universal basic income, and $35 an hour minimum wage. Then healthcare. Then maybe the release date thing. It’s on the list.

Info came down the PR wire:

Weedevil new single “Underwater” out in February, 4; pre-save available!

Pre-save “Underwater”:
https://onerpm.link/Weedevil_Underwater

Marking a new and even more promising moment of the band ( in course of release their first full album titled “The Return”, debuting the new lineup) the single Underwater will be released on digital platforms on February 4th through Abraxas Records. Dense, dark and with a touch of tragedy the track got in its essence a charge of twist, guided by the Stoner and Doom Metal strands.

Underwater sing about the turbulent story of a woman through mysterious and dangerous waters surrounded by menacing sea creatures that want to drag her to the bottom of the sea. The song inspires agony and danger, but also presents in its climax a positive twist with the woman finally revealing her power and becoming an entity that vanquishes her abusers before finding the void.

According to vocalist Lo Scar, author of the lyrics, the song helps to compose a panel that developed in a time physically and emotionally troubled with the first rehearsal of the new lineup having taken place while she was injured, as well as what has developed since so until your recovery.

Underwater is the first chapter of The Return, highly emotionally charged conceptual material based on Stoner/Doom Metal sonority and scheduled for release on streaming in April and with a Vinyl version already confirmed together with the Dutch label DHU RECORDS.

Weedevil
lo scar – vocal
Paulo Ueno – guitar, theremin, fx
Bodão – guitar
Dani Plothow – bass
Flavio Cavichioli – drums

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Weedevil, The Death is Coming (2021)