#San Francisco’s Doomed

[gotankgo]

Crime “Feel The Beat”

• San Francisco's Doomed (1978/9)

[bloodsuckerproxy]

The Horrific Web of Doom!!

Finally finished this :D !!!!

Im glad to finish at least one more big piece before the year ends. This game has always held a place in my heart <3

[spiritsglade]

was thinking about how titans tower wasn't even a murder attempt canonically and tim was conscious and aware and able to stand up in the direct aftermath so even though jason was all 'let me show you what the joker did to me' he straight up didn't. lol.

but then it's like. this is the guy who was maximizing his capability for murder over the course of like a year max, if you're pushing the timeline. that's not a lot of time to grasp control over the various techniques. he's three years out from bruce's nonlethal training at this point. so far he's mostly been fighting (1) random goons (2) competent people he wants to kill and (3) batman. who's to say he remembers how to hold back and pull his punches. who's to say he doesn't accidentally kill tim because he wasn't careful enough controlling his strength.

[trans-goddesss]

I love San Francisco. So many things converging in one shot.

[faetoothofficial]

WE’RE GOING ON OUR FIRST TOUR! We’ll be ripping through the West Coast this September! Tickets are on sale now!

(9/15) San Francisco, CA @ Neck of the Woods

(9/17) Portland, OR @ Mano Oculta (21+)

(9/18) Seattle, WA @ The Funhouse at El Corazon

[doomedandstoned]

DISASTROID Reveal Striking 4th Full-Length, ‘Garden Creatures’

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

Get ready for full-on galactic riffing, energetic rhythms, with moments of interstellar insanity. This is DISASTROID and their latest record, 'Garden Creatures' (2024) -- a swirling blend of colors drawn from a dynamic palette of psychedelic, grunge, desert, noise, and math rock influences.

This fourth full-length outing from the SFO band begins with the title track and is presented with rumbling force and jagged rhythms juxtaposed with clean, earnest singing and smooth melodic lines from frontman/guitarist Enver Koneya. At times the vocals soar like the pleas of some jerky cosmonaut thrust into the unknown vastness of outer space. Braden McGraw's drums thunder and churn like the roaring ocean. Travis Williams' bass is warm and pulsating.

Enver's guitar and Travis' bass trade barbs on "Stucco Nowhere," an ode to being stuck in a life of sameness and misery ("burning out within your head"). The singing builds to a crescendo, perhaps summoning sheer force of will to shake off the spell of mediocrity. There are some dreamy vocal harmonies that haunt overslept dreams, and finally a cry of frustration and despair to be set free from the shackles of it all.

"Mama says I need some help," laments Enver in "Figurative Object." The guitars chug with rocketing force, but often enter the realm of disorienting dissonance. This tendency towards the strange and uncanny continues in "Backwards Sleeping" and feels like a night of tossing and turning ("losing sleep for all that we have done"), complete with trippy guitar effects, rhythmic jolts, and ghostly droning.

"24" is fuzzy as all get-out, with screeching guitar hooks, unconventional rhythmic structure, and a misty hue of sadness in the vocals. Then "Hold Me Wrong" is like a fever dream, with a persistent bass groove, strumming and picking on the guitar, and exhausted pleas to "hold me tight, hold me right."

The penultimate song, "Light 'Em Up" is like a hallucination straight out of Blade Runner, with sounds and samples flying about us like fugitive visions. This is another where the bass is so integral to giving us a feeling of movement and cohesiveness in this shapeshifting world. The drumming here, as throughout the record, is stalwart and determined, whilst the riffmaking ranges from raucous to delirious. The record ends on a short banger, a riotous number "Jack Londonin'" with punk, noise, and math overtones.

Disastroid's Garden Creatures was recorded and produced by Billy Anderson and is releasing on Heavy Psych Sounds this weekend, February 23rd, on a spectacular variety of vinyl variants (get it here). Stick it on a playlist with The Melvins, Red Fang, Fatso Jetson, Kook, and Soundgarden.

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SOME BUZZ

San Francisco veterans Disastroid have been serving up sludgy, grunge-infused stoner rock for the better part of a decade now, refining a sound that weaves heavy riffs together with angular guitar lines, odd time signatures, and hazy walls of fuzz. As influenced by 90's noise rock as they are by modern psych, doom, and post-metal, Disastroid delivers thick, satisfying stoner rock stomp while also embracing layers of noise, tripped-out feedback, and unpredictable song structures.

The current lineup of singer/guitarist Enver Koneya, bassist Travis Williams, and drummer Braden McGraw coalesced in 2011. They’re united by a desire to make heavy music that's loose instead of mechanical, a motivation to explore methods that make them sound bigger and more varied than a traditional rock trio, and a shared affection for the Amphetamine Reptile back-catalog. Thematically, their songs steer clear of genre cliches, touching instead on scattered aspects of modern life: technology fatigue, immigration, nuclear deterrence, the monotony of work, the existential dread of aging. Despite the subject matter, Disastroid never take themselves too seriously, injecting their live shows with an infectious sense of humor and their songwriting with math-rock quirks.

Disastroid’s latest outing, Garden Creatures, is a record about the darkness in the hidden corners of suburban landscapes — sinister overgrown gardens, secret collections kept in basements, the crime just beneath the surface, the pervasive loneliness under a veneer of normalcy. Accordingly, it’s a dark and atmospheric record, trading the stripped-down approach of 2020’s Mortal Fools for a thicker, heavier, and more layered sound. Legendary producer Billy Anderson (Sleep, Melvins, Neurosis) builds mixes that range from dark and dreamy to a thick, sludgy crunch, slowly pulling the listener through a range of sounds and textures, making sure things stay interesting. Singer/guitarist Enver Koneya's vocals are soulful and sometimes haunting, drifting above Disastroid’s characteristically off-kilter, grunge-influenced riffs.

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[kratomqueen]

wish I was a skinny normie rich housewife living in a nice city with an all female friend group who meets up for matcha lattes and back at my lovely clean home I have 4 beautiful children (boy/girl twins and girl/girl twins) whom I dress in matching vintage style clothes. this bitch on instagram is STEALING my life

[classic8media]

2024 Political Assessment - A Year of Manufactured Doom and Gloom Polarized by the Ruling Class

Introduction – How the Assessment was Made Much of my research is inspired by a collective of revolutionaries I meet with several times a month. The League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA) supports every struggle that holds the government accountable. They host political education classes and have several chapters across the country, which have different fronts of struggle committees…

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE ‘90s DOOM/SLUDGE UNDERGROUND – STRAIGHT OUTTA THE SOUTH BAY.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on behind-the-scenes shots of American sludge/DOOM metal band NOOTHGRUSH (Gary, Chiyo, & Russ), photographed at KFJC 89.7 FM volunteer-run non-commercial college radio station, Los Altos Hills, California, c. mid to late '90s (I think).

BONUS: Chiyo Nukaga ran her show titled “The Dark Side with Leia Organa,” and featured underground acts such as: FORK, DYSTOPIA, APEFACE, PARAGON OF INFAMY, SEIZED, NOOTHGRUSH, among others.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3456396754424451703 (Picuki 2x).

[bandcampsnoop]

5/24/24.

I've been spending some time on the Perpetual Doom website of late. I purchased the two first Richard Tripps albums on my own recommendation. Earlier this year we also posted about the excellent music of Lee Baggett.

In the same vein comes "High On The Glade" by Little Wings (San Francisco-ish, California). Really, Little Wings is the vehicle for the music of Kyle Field who has played music with Rodriguez, Grandaddy, and the aforementioned Lee Baggett. He has been making music as Little Wings since the 1990s.

I can't help but think of the music of fellow Bay Area band Dick Stusso. Perpetual Doom refers to Little Wings new LP as "the Golden State’s mercurial troubadour, is back with a vengeance—songs of vaudeville and villainy, renewal and rebirth."

[california-slow-take]

The story of San Francisco is a tale not of two cities, but a constellation of physical and cultural landscapes that overlap yet feel distinct.

Now more than ever.

The media narrative in recent months has focused so intently on the crises in areas like the Tenderloin and Union Square that outsiders might think all 49 square miles had spun downward into a cesspool of crime-plagued streets and drug bazaars.

But for most of the city, the nooks and crannies and neighborhood scenes, the story is more complex. Even the smallest crossroad has its own identity, shaped by historic and social forces that leave clues in the built terrain around you.

Think of San Francisco, then, as a mosaic of realities that reveal their connections the more closely you look. Here are six vignettes that hint at the facets of this nuanced place — and how even in a city of neighborhoods, the whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

[biglisbonnews]

How to save San Francisco The ‘doom loop’ devastating San Francisco is a warning for every American city. Here’s how we can fix it — before it’s too late. https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-doom-loop-fix-american-city-housing-transit-2023-7

[dsmith62]

"The Doom Loop "- Walking Through Downtown San Francisco

Downtown San Francisco, we are told, is in a “doom loop”. You probably have heard. Everyday, the San Francisco Chronicle, publishes the latest report on employers leaving downtown, retailers closing their doors, wasted public money on poorly managed programs (2 million dollar toilets!), the latest staggering statistics on homelessness, and so on. And if you didn’t hear it there, the national…

[tyrnn]

QuaquaVisitation

I was working for a higher class rideshare company (paid hourly, not per ride), and would sometimes be stationed in downtown San Francisco at the Coit Tower, so I had to take some pictures of the view... wait... he wasn't there before...

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[doomedandstoned]

THE WATCHERS Return with Triumphant 2nd Record, ‘Nyctophillia’

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

From the eastern edge of the San Francisco Bay Area, come THE WATCHERS with a brand new full-length, 'Nyctophillia' (2024), their second LP since 2018. If nyctophobia is fear of the dark, then nyctophillia is being right at home in the absence of light. Us night owls can relate to the peacefulness of the dead of night. Here before us are eight songs for the shadows.

The dual track "Twilight/I Am The Dark" begins with acoustic strings in duet, beautifully captured with clarity and spaciousness by longtime British record producer and recording engineer Max Norman, whose career stretches back to the '70s and has worked with Ozzy Osbourne, Bad Company, and Megadeth, among others. He collabed with The Wacthers on their debut Black Abyss and definitely lives up to his rep here.

Of course, the real stars of the show are Tim Narducci (vox, guitar), Jeremy Von Epp (guitar), Chris Lombardo (bass), and Nick Benigno (drums), three of which have been consistent members of the band since their fantastic EP Sabbath Highway premiered in 2016.

Thirty seconds into the "Twilight," the guitars go electric with vintage metal aura. Drums and bass resound with might, then a transition into "I Am The Dark," which was released as a single back in 2022 in anticipation of this very album.

Narducci's vocals have a metallic sheen that is clean and melodic, but deadly when they need to be. Guitars are again beautifully recorded and the tone has real luster. It reminds me of the metal I first fell in love with as a kid, hearing bands like Van Halen, Def Leppard, Cinderella, Ratt, and later Metallica and Guns 'n' Roses. You can't ask for a better vibe, and this really ups the ante.

"They Have No God" has one of the best choruses of the lot, emotive and haunting, while resonating with truth. "They stick a needle in, and let the fun begin," hinting perhaps at how hard drugs steal away a person's soul so that the next fix is all that matters. "Where is your God?" The dire, cloudy tone of the band and hard-driving rhythms underline the point with shades of dark blue, moss green, and purple.

Things rumble and tumble on "Garden Tomb," which features another crystalline acoustic section and leads into pounding drums and a killer solo from Jeremy Von Epp. "Zodiak" brightens the mood as a '70s style ballad with irresistibly bluesy guitar and singing that reminds me at times of John Fogerty, Pepper Keenan, but especially Damien McPherson.

"I will haunt you when I'm dead," whispers Narducci on the ominous track that follows, and cascading acoustic arpeggios follow, then another blistering solo that certainly recalls Dave Mustaine. "And I can see it in your eyes, my sweet vengeance will arise," as the band promises in "Haunt You When I'm Dead.

The vocal harmonies are a standout on "Fightin And Bleedin," every bit as rambunctious as the name implies, replete with grinding shreds and rapid fire rhythms.

"Taker" is the penultimate track and brings us welcome dissonance to start, then effectively swampy, southern sludge guitars. Riff-lovers will rejoice in this one, especially fans of Down and Corrosion of Conformity. The mid-section is full of heart, as Narducci sings: "Won't see me die, look the other way...I live my life on the run."

The record closes strong on the title track, "Nyctophillia" with drum and bass team Chris Lombardo and Nick Benigno pulling out all the stops at an unrelenting pace. The chorus is melting: "Does it ever make you wonder, something bigger than this live?"

The Watchers Nyctophillia emerges this Friday, May 3rd, on vinyl, compact disc, and digital formats via Ripple Music (get it here). Stick it on a playlist with Megadeth, Shadows Fall, Blackwülf, Foghound, and Beastmaker

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SOME BUZZ

Formed in 2016 in the Bay Area, The Watchers is a conglomerate of members from Spiral Arms, White Witch Canyon, Black Gates, Systematic, and Vicious Rumors. The band signed to California powerhouse Ripple Music in the early days and released their long-sold out debut EP "Sabbath Highway" the same year, which led to an invitation to play US major heavy event Maryland Doom Fest.

During the recording of their debut full-length record 'Black Abyss,' The Watchers met legendary producer and engineer Max Norman (Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, Death Angel, Y&T), who agreed to work on the album and make it a turning point record in the band's fast-rising career. The band consecutively embarked on a full US tour, then performed at Desertfest London, SXSW and Maryland Doom Fest in 2018, leading them to become a staple band among the heavy rock and metal underground.

To cope with the absence of shows caused by the global pandemic, The Watchers released their 'High and Alive' EP in 2020 via Ripple Music. They are now ready to set the metal and rock'n'roll world ablaze again with their sophomore album "Nyctophilia", coming in the spring of 2024 via Ripple Music.

Produced and engineered by Max Norman (Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth), the follow-up to their 2018 debut album, 'Nyctophilia' (2024), captures the foursome's towering musicianship and anthemic songwriting by melding the raucous spirit of classic heavy metal with sizzling riffs, deafening grooves and Tim Narducci's powerhouse vocals. Aptly described as "a band who incorporate the best bits of High On Fire and Rainbow" by UK press, the Californian rifflords are back sounding louder and sharper than ever, ready to annihilate everything in their roaring path!

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