Ripple Effect Unleashes 5 Year Anniversary Free Download Compilation

What started out five years ago as a forum for two music lovers to share their obsession with obscure/little-heard rock music, has grown and evolved into a Record Label, a top-rated Radio Show, and one of the world's premiere sites for discovering new and lost classic music: The Ripple Effect. To celebrate 5 years of collective Ripple Madness, Todd Severin (Racer X) and John Rancik (Pope JTE) are unleashing a massive download compilation album, featuring some of the best of the new wave of modern heavy rock bands. And it's all entirely free!

Best of all, the compilation features many brand new, previously unheard, unreleased tracks by some of the bands leading this charge of the Heavy. In addition, you'll find tracks from several albums buzzing across the websites and music blogs, and several new and waiting-to-be discovered bands.

To be released on July 22, through bandcamp, The Ripple Effect unveils, The Ripple Effect presents: Volume 1- Head Music. In it's depths you'll find such notable bands as Stubb, Ape Machine, Devil to Pay, Miss Lava, Voodoo Johnson, Borracho, and more. 23 tracks in all. All free. Some of the absolute best heavy rock the world has to offer.

To download your free copy, go to the Ripple Effect bandcamp page and get yours today!

And continue to check out The Ripple Effect each day for the latest music discoveries, and the Ripple Music record label for the latest releases from bands like Stone Axe, Mos Generator, Grifter, Trucker Diablo, Poobah, Fen, JPT Scare Band and more.

Here's the track listing:

• Devil to Pay "High Horse" - from the album Heavily Ever After
• White Light Cemetary "The Wieser" - previously unreleased
• Torso "One" - from the EP Inside
• Cody Foster Army "Built Up Knocked Down" - previously unreleased
• Stubb "Under a Spell" - previously unreleased
• Space Probe Taurus "Ridin' the Mud" - previously unreleased
• Concrete Sun "Silver Tear" - previously unreleased
• Hong Faux "Bad City Blues" - from The Crown that Wears the Head
• Hosoi Bros "Wine Witch" - from 7" single Wine Witch/Yellow Fever
• Ape Machine "Everybody Bleeds" - previously unreleased
• Deadweight "Cosmic Lunch" - previously unreleased
• SuperGiant "Rosey Posey" - from Pistol Star
• Voodoo Johnson "Swear it to the Sun" from ep Black Powder Mother Loader
• Banda de la Muerte "Espiritu en Paz" -from Pulso de una Mente Maldita
• Venomin James "Seven Years" - previously unreleased from upcoming album Unholy Mountain
• Miss Lava "Ride" - from upcoming album Red Supergiant
• Steak "Machine" - from ep Disastronaut
• The Heavy Company "Groove a Mile Wide" previously unreleased from upcoming album Midwest Electric
• Dark Earth "Dark Earth" - previously unreleased
• The Enders "Self Deluded" - New Previously unreleased from upcoming album "The Ruins of Ambition."
• Borracho "All in Play" - Live version, previously unreleased. Album version from Splitting Sky
• Arise Within "Black Pearl" - from album Volume 2
• Knall "Dark Amber" - previously unreleased

DEVIL TO PAY Sign With RIPPLE MUSIC; Enter Studio to Record New Album For Vinyl and CD

RIPPLE MUSIC is proud to announce the signing of acclaimed, hard-hitting American Doom rockers, DEVIL TO PAY to their ever-expanding roster!

The band’s fourth, as of yet untitled, album is set for worldwide release on RIPPLE MUSIC in the coming months and the band will subsequently tour to knock the crowds out of their skulls, including appearances in all the major heavy rock/doom festivals.

DEVIL TO PAY commented yesterday upon the new alliance; “We are stoked to be a part of the Ripple family and to work with one of the most genuine heavy rock labels in the world! Having released our first three albums independently, it’s clear that these guys don't compromise in terms of putting out creative music and are the true believers of heavy rock. The variety of bands and the sheer quality of music they’ve released speaks for itself. We are very much honored that our music earned its place among their ranks!"

DEVIL TO PAY was formed in the beginning of the millennia as a doom rock band with metal/stoner and rock tangents, effortlessly crushing skulls while simultaneously coaxing them to sing along. The band hails the almighty riff, but unlike many of their contemporaries, the song is still king.  That is what separates the great bands from the shoulda & coulda bands.   Now celebrating their 10th year anniversary, DEVIL TO PAY has aged like Kentucky bourbon, distilling a culmination of years of sweat, highway miles, cigarette smoke and hangovers into crushing compositions and bone-jarring, heavy musical moments.

With a catalog of underground releases, DEVIL TO PAY gained accolades, awards and a hard earned cult-like status. They have established themselves as the go-to band for those searching out more than just a few killer riffs; a foundation of heavy that will flourish under the Ripple banner.

For more information on the band, please visit:

www.deviltopay.net

The Single Life - 7" of Fun - Featuring Devil to Pay, Mantis, Hosoi Bros, and Miss Lava

Devil to Pay/Mantis  - Split

My God!  Why aren't more people talking about Devil to Pay?  The boys have been around long enough to create some serious waves in the doom metal scene, having released three full-lengths and scattered others, yet I don't hear near enough about them.  And then I get this split with Mantis and it's just screaming at me that these boys need to be heard.  Not content to be a straight doom band, or stoner, or sludge, Devil to Pay do it all, and even toss a little grunge, classic rock, and straight ahead groove metal into their mix.  "Tractor Fuckin Trailer" rides a beefy stoned out doom riff through the downtempo verses, soaring to a massive sludgy rock fest for the chorus.  Guitars are huge.  Bass is subsonic.  Drums are bruised.  Toss in some clean, yet thickened vocals  a real, honest-to-goodness guitar solo, and a groove that winds itself tighter than a coiled rattler, and we got a slice from the doomer/stoner bliss pie.   Mantis bring it as well with their bass stumbling, wahed out blitz, "Chocking on Forbidden Fruit."  Big and loud, Mantis add a touch bebop and a galloping drum beat to their side, making for a nice balance to the Devil to Pay side.  Both are strong, groove riddled and weighty.  Released in 2003 by Lax Wax Records, it can still be tracked down and is worth the trouble.   A killer split.

Hosoi Bros - Wine Witch b/w Yellow Fever

Every time I hear this, I like it a little bit more.  Looking at the guys, you wouldn't know what to expect.   Check out the photos on the back, you'd think the local trailer park got overturned by a tornado and resurrected the muck hiding under the local rocks in Memphis.  And that muck formed a band.  On top of that, lead-singer/guitarist Severin Allgood (yes . . .I love his name) has the appearance of a lost Hanson Brother; the one who never made the hockey team.  But then they start playing and, holy fuck, all notions go out the window. Forget appearances.  These guys flat out rock!  "Wine Witch" is full on Motorhead fueled, punk-snot nosed, Angelwitch sputum NWOBHM.  Guitars flare and wind and undulate and it's all so . . . .fucking good.   There's a stoner vibe to the guitar tone, but all amped up as if the bong got filled with meth not water.  And best of all, the band just don't take themselves seriously.  I mean, come on.  Wine Witch?  666?   It's that tongue in cheek humor that just makes the damn thing so special.  "Yellow Fever" rocks with just as much abandon.

The heavy scene needs a band like this.  One that doesn't get lost up their own tattooed ass.  No pictures of wax dripping down skulls and burning embers. Just pure, unadulterated metallic haze.   I heard these guys are one of the most raucous acts in Memphis.  I don't doubt that for a second.

Hanson Brothers of metal.  Who'd a thunk it?  

--Racer

Miss Lava - Ride

Ever been to Lisbon, Portugal? You haven't? Lemme fill you in.

Climate? You might want to avoid the summer months. It was uncomfortably HOT.

The cuisine? What I tried was really HOT.

The women? To my eyes, a lot of them were pretty HOT.

See where I'm going with this? A lot of damn heat is generated in that city.

Never listened to any local heavy bands while I was there, but right now, the hard-rocking Miss Lava has to be some of the hottest around. Forecasts indicate they're ready to erupt with a new record in a few months.

Relax. You don't have to go there to hear the first single off the upcoming Red Supergiant, to be released in September. The band is offering a scorching, "Ride", free for download, management said. Miss Lava even put out a nifty music video, directed by Joerg Steineck (Lo Sound Desert, Truckfighters). Shot in Las Vegas and Red Rock Canyon, it's a pretty cool vid and fits the fuzz.

Check it. If you want the song for your portable music player or pc, click the Bandcamp or Soundcloud links.

--Heddbuzz



Devil to Pay - Tractor Fuckin' Trailer



Hosoi Bros - Wine Witch




Miss Lava - Ride