Doomed & Stoned Trips into the Highness

Tom Hano wrote “Trip into the ‘Highness’ with SpaceMetal” for Doomed & Stoned. Here is an excerpt:

“The only bad thing about Highness is that it is only four songs in length, totalling out at about twenty-two minutes. The good thing is that every last second is packed with awesomeness, making the listener (in this case me) want to hear more. I personally play this album two or three times in a row and it never gets old, leaving me to think this will be one of the best albums of 2021. I hope that you will like it as much as I do.”

Check out the full review on Doomed & Stoned!

Doomed & Stoned Gives Shroud a shout out!

Thanks to Billy Goat at Doomed and Stoned for featuring us:

#DoomedDiscoveries: Space Metal

If you want to a recommendation for a good, solid, hard rocking album with a downtuned doom edge, you need SPACE METAL in your life. The NOLA heavies have one foot in doomed, the other foot in stoned. This is the first time I've seen this music video (Shroud), so I was excited to discover it, even though I've been jamming their excelling album 'Shroud' (2018) since September. Here's the title track, which successfully mingled trad doom with Louisiana swampy for a concoction too fine to turn down. 

Give ear...

-BillyGoat-
Editor in Chief
DOOMED & STONED

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Billy also wrote this in a separate post on his personal page that was too good not to share:

I don't know about my fellow bloggers and album reviewers, but last year was SO packed with so MANY good releases, it really didn't give me time to soak in some of the lesser known entries. NOLA heavy rocking doomers Space Metal is not exactly new, but I suspect they aren't as widely known as they should be. 

If you're among those wondering, "Who??" give a listen to "New Blood" from their sophomore record 'Shroud' (2018). Imagine hearing a show where the opening band played THIS just as you were walking in (feeling, perhaps, that the opening band would be safe to miss). One, you'd be immediately and irresistibly banging your head and, two, you'd asking people on your left and right, "Who ARE these guys?"

La Planète du Stoner Rock Puts Shroud at #3

La Planète du Stoner Rock put out their Top 20 albums of 2018. We were psyched to see Shroud land at #3. Here is a google translate (so please excuse any awkward or incorrect translations) of the review:

"#3. Space Metal - Shroud: I will not do it, but their name does not do justice to the immense qualities of their Stoner-Metal. This quintet emerged from slime mud from Mississippi to New Orleans. They are the heavy fighters of this post-Katrina city. Their precise tone, their melodic rigor, the ferocity of the guitars, and the sarcastic tone of their singer make it one of the best bands of the moment. You have to have an ear on 'Forest Of Faith' to understand that these five know knead the soul with an electric guitar, but also the words. The text is beautiful”.

Thank you Julien Deleglise and La Planete du Stoner Rock for the love from France!

Shroud Makes Vegas Rock Revolution's Top 50 of 2018

Vegas Rock Revolution included “Shroud” as one of their Top 50 albums of 2018. In fact, we tied at #28 with our good friends in Forming the Void (if you have not checked out their album “Rift” yet, do it now).

From VRR:

“Space Metal is part of a tie both from down in Louisiana. Very different bands from each other . This band has something going on here. At times hard to pinpoint other than a vocals sounds like a cross a bastard child of Wino- Ozzy and some European vocalist. Songs are well done and creative with strong power riffs interplaying with the other guitar. Musically wanders some in a spacey way at times. SO good.”

You can check out some great music on VRR’s Spotify playlist of the Top 50 of 2018.

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