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THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW

~Season 7, Episode 25~

Behold, the lost episode! We taped this just before Ripplefest Texas, but never had a chance to share it with you. So with that as context, it's all about new music this week, with plenty to discover as we mine the secrets of the heavy underground rock & metal scene, the world 'round.

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🔥 PLAYLIST 🔥

INTRO (00:00)   1. Josiah - "Head On" (00:31)

HOST SEGMENT I (05:02)   2. Borracho - "Holy Roller" (17:43)   3. The Age of Truth - "Palace of Rain" (23:19)   4. Fostermother - "Hedonist" (30:17)   5. High Desert Queen - "Roll The Dice" (35:07)

HOST SEGMENT II (39:20)   6. Lucifer - "Wild Hearses" (56:14)   7. As De Oros - "Sueño Conscientes" (1:01:15)   8. Ramblin' Roze - "Dazed & Confused" (Led Zeppelin cover) (1:05:2)   9. Phiasco - "Lucky Loop" (1:12:34)

HOST SEGMENT III (1:20:04) 10. Craneium - "Secret Garden" (1:32:03) 11. Doctor Smoke - "Been Here Forever" (1:36:37) 12. Sons of Arrakis - "The Black Mirror" (1:40:24) 13. Thadeus Gonzalez - "Ripe" (1:44:09)

HOST SEGMENT IV (1:48:20) 14. Iron Butterfly - "You Can't Win" (live) (2:00:47) 15. Kesem - "When The Stars Cave In" (2:03:44) 16. Green Lung - "Reaper's Scythe" (2:07:46) 17. Suncraft - "Bridges to Nowhere" (2:12:09)

OUTRO (2:22:52) 18. Kadabra - "Settle Me" (bonus track) (2:23:44)

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CREDITS 📝

Theme: Dylan Tucker

Thumbnail: High Desert Queen

Incidental Music: Böse

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Today we celebrate our Venerable Mother Ita the Hermitess of Killeedy. Saint Ita was of illustrious descent and was born into Irish nobility. As a child, all marvelled at her purity and virtue, especially her generosity and gentleness in both word and deed. She excelled in the “six gifts” of Irish womanhood – wisdom, purity, beauty, music, sweet speech, and embroidery. Refusing to marry and spurning the worldly life of riches and comfort, she left the world and with her great inheritance, founded a school and convent at Killeedy, a county which still bears her name to this day. At her convent, she accepted children whom she raised into piety, many of them becoming great beacons of Christianity in Ireland, and thus, Saint Ita became known as the “Foster Mother of the Irish Saints”. One of the saints whom she raised from only a year old was Saint Brendan the Navigator, whom she instilled great Christian piety upon. She often counselled him about the three things most displeasing to God: a face that hates mankind, a will that clings to the love of evil, and placing one’s entire trust in riches. She also taught him the three things which are most pleasing to God: the firm belief of a pure heart in God, the simple religious life, and liberality with charity. Many, including Saint Brendan, would often come to her for spiritual counsel throughout their lives, and many received healing from her as she knew much about both physical and spiritual medicine. The Hermitess Ita reposed peacefully in the Lord at an old age. Her feast day remains a local holiday in her district and many Irish girls are named after the the Saint, being second in line to Saint Brigid of Kildare. May she intercede for us always + #saint #ita #ireland #hermit #hermitess #convent #monastery #nun #virtue #killeedy #irish #christian #spiritual #holy #mother #abbess #brendan #stbrendan #brigid #bridget #stbrigid #stbridget #kildare #fostermother #foster #irish #orthodox #sophia

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FOSTERMOTHER Return with 3rd Full Length ‘Echo Manor’

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

As of today, there are 30 days remaining until Autumn, and you can feel a certain wistfulness that mirrors the changing moods of the season in new album, 'Echo Manor' (2024) by FOSTERMOTHER. Though it was undoubtedly composed and recorded over a more extended period of time by the Houston trio, it fits the mood of right now. This is melancholy music for melancholy times. We find ourselves in this strange, mad world and it's comforting to find a sound like this that literally echoes our despair.

That's not to say this is angsty or angry music, just that it expresses a certain kind of longing for something better, a nagging emptiness, with elements of stoic acceptance in the singing. There's a haunting surrealness to a song like "In The Garden of Lies," for example. It's as atmospheric as walking into an abandoned building that has been overtaken by nature once again. In fact, the album begins with a reference to ghosts in "Wraith." Lyrics are fittingly vague, yet touch on something authentically felt: "Everyone is nothing, lonelier than we thought."

Keyboards have always added something special to the Fostermother sound, doubling down on the emotive punch of their sound, as on "Empty One." Both vocalist/guitarist Travis Weatherred and bassist/guitarist Stephen Griffin are credited with keyboards on this album, so I imagine a lot of thought was given to creating these misty, transient sonic environments.

The sweet spot of the album for me is right at "All We Know," one of my favorite tracks of the album for its those poignant bittersweet guitar harmonies. It's pure doom on the order of those moving riffs in Trouble's "The Tempter," but disguised in the vein of heavy rock. Deep and engaging, the vibe pierces right through you and tugs on those emotional heartstrings.

It keeps getting better too, with the infectious rhythmic groove of title track "Echo Manor" which feels like a dreamstate in which we're are sedately growing apart from ourselves. "This ghostly intrusion, a haunted illusion."

"Rituals Unknown" continues the lyrical emphasis on shadows and the immaterial realm. "I feel reversed," Travis sings. "I am reversed." The twin guitar harmonies are once again quite compelling. In the days following the pandemic, we have awakened to new realities about being human and in many ways perhaps we also feel like a ghost tossed about in the ether, with nothing really real to anchor ourselves to. Fostermother seem to suggest that everything is changing, constantly changing.

"King To A Dead Tree" is like a magic blend of dark rock, gothic rock, and doom metal, and features a guitar solo from fellow Houston musician Rusty Miller of High Desert Queen.

"Carry Me" is another standout, not for anything bombastic, but for its sense of melancholy. Fostermother has a knack for finding those moments to elevate to the forefront of our consciousness, with effective writing -- sometimes just the way one word is sung (here the song builds up to a release in the chorus "nowhere to go, feeling blue.").

"Watchers" brings us back to the grungy doom glory of vintage Fostermother with a brooding, stormy feel and some explosive guitar work. Some of the harmonies produced by the guitar and bass are so deeply moving that you can feel the psychic pain so keenly, as in "Lighthouse."

Fostermother's Echo Manor is an enigma in contemporary heavy music and for that reason alone it deserves hearing. Eerie, nostalgic, and deeply felt, with appealing vocal moments and warm, blanketing harmonies that really stay you. It comes out on Ripple Music on Friday, August 23rd on vinyl, compact disc, and digital formats (get it here). Stick it on a playlist with Pallbearer, Foot, Young Hunter, and Pinky Floyd.

Give ear...

Ripple Music · Fostermother - Echo Manor

SOME BUZZ

Fostermother are back! Long acclaimed by international critics for their catchy take on doom metal, the Texan trio takes a substantial turn in their career by revealing a more multi-faceted, atmosphere-driven facet of their music on "Echo Manor."

The band made an impression within the stoner and doom scene with their massive-sounding 2020 self-titled debut, "hitting both soft and hard in all the right places, leaving oddly-comforting destruction in its wake" according to Everything Is Noise. Signed to Ripple Music in 2021, the pair released their sophomore album "The Ocean" which reached #20 on the Doom Charts Top 100 albums of 2022.

Echo Manor by Fostermother

With drummer Jason Motamedi officially rounding out the lineup, Fostermother recorded their third album "Echo Manor", pushing their sound into heavy psych territory with hints of post-rock and progressive rock. It was produced, mixed and mastered by Travis Weatherred, with artwork by Kimberly Weatherred.

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Fostermother - The Ocean (Ripple Music, 2022)

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The Ocean

by Fostermother

1.Sunday 04:27 2.Seasons 05:12 3.Hedonist 04:50 4.Dark Desires 03:27 5.Unholiest of Days 04:08 6.The Ocean 05:39 7.Arrival 04:34 8.Redeemer 05:14 9.Solitude 06:37

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Fostermother - "Hedonist" (Official Music Video) | Ripple Music - 2022