HEMPLIFIER

New album “The Stoner Side of the Doom” out now!

Santa Venera trio Hemplifier has unleashed their album via Electric Valley Records. Although it is their first album, the members of Hemplifier are no strangers to the Maltese heavy music scene, having been part of bands such as Thy Legion, Victims of Creation, Pilgrimage, Animamortua, Lady Lizard, and R.A.S. Additionally, the band members are organizers of Reeferfest, the only stoner rock/metal festival in their country.
Of the album, the band says: “‘The Stoner Side of the Doom’ is a trip to the moon and back, traveling on one’s imaginary space-craft, created by the inhalation of fumes, traveling through time, the dark (matter), the supernatural and occult but especially traveling through one’s own mind trip where robots from the ‘50s come over to your own world to ‘settle it’ and hopefully make everyone live in peace… perhaps on each one’s own cloud respectively!”
Hemplifier was born in 2019 when amps and vintage gear worshippers Emanuel Portelli (Thy Legion, Victims of Creation, Pilgrimage, Animamortua), Bażaż (Lady Lizard, R.A.S.) and Dino Mifsud Lepre (Victims of Creation, Pilgrimage) joined up for blazing some joints. These Santa Venera stoners formed Hemplifier having common goals of jamming, getting high, enjoying good times, composing the heaviest riffs possible, and sending seismic waves to the planet while spending aboard their spacecraft.
Hemplifier dropped their first offering, Frequencies From Another Dimension – Live From Our Rehearsal Spacecraft!, in November 2021. This live rehearsal, containing three songs (recorded and filmed live in the trio’s own garage), gave the audiences a strong impression of Hemplifier’s warped, antediluvian sound before their live debut at 2021’s edition of Reeferfest, which is organized by the Hemplifier members themselves and currently the only stoner rock/metal fest on the island of Malta.
Recorded live at the local Cornerhouse Studio, The Stoner Side of the Doom, Hemplifier’s debut full-length, staggers and stumbles through weirdness, wildness, and wonderment. Each of the six distorted tracks (including an intro and an outro) carries amped-up thrills and menaces while disclosing a different set of tales from the crypt. While the openers, “Headless Chicken (intro)” and “Brujo,” are voodoo-themed, “Invocation” and “Weedcraft” touch on the occult, the supernatural, and marijuana, with a hint of science fiction and aliens. The fifth number, “Gort,” embodies the humanoid robot character from the classic 1951 film, The Day the Earth Stood Still.

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