‘Brujo’ by Hemplifier | New Album, ‘The Stoner Side of the Doom’

Uncategorized March 21, 2023

‘Brujo’ by Hemplifier | New Album, ‘The Stoner Side of the Doom’

Exclusive video premiere of ‘Brujo’ by Hemplifier, taken from the upcoming album, ‘The Stoner Side of the Doom,’ out June 2nd via Electric Valley Records.


‘The Stoner Side of the Doom’ is the debut album by the Maltese stoner/doom group Hemplifier. Other than the standard digital release on all major platforms, the album will be available on three editions of vinyl.

“‘Brujo’ is the soundtrack to an experimental voodoo ritual all went wrong by a clumsy, too stoned Witch Doctor who tries to portray himself all scary, doom & gloom!”

Hemplifier came into existence 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, weed, and a bit of alien and sci-fi. The fifth number, ‘Gort,’ embodies the fictional humanoid robot from the iconic 1951 movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still.


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