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Release Date: April 20th 2026. Record Label: Heavy Psych Sounds. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl.
Stoned Villains - Tracklisting
1. Shirley Temple Ball
2. Hangover The Top
3. Lost In Plantation
4. Intro (Cabin Fever)
5. The Big Bong Theory
6. Darth Vaper
7. Rollercoaster Diet Bombo
Members
Gingerzilla - Bass / Voice / Synth
Duncan McCrapper - Lead Guitar / Sampler
Stewart J Tanuki - Rhythm Guitar
Oreste Pennarelli - Drums
Review
Weedian Metallers TONS make a stunning return with their fourth album Stoned Villains which sees them elevate their sounds to greater heights than ever before. The record is a punishing and heavy melodic mix of Psych, Doom, Sludge, Stoner, Fuzz and no fucks given melodic attitude. TONS have really transformed into a more mature and trippy style of WEEDIAN flavour compared to their previous albums. However, their trademark style of black comedic humour is still reigning amok in the background that generates huge laughs along the way.
The music itself is once again powered through heavy down-tuned instrumental psychedelic and fuzzed up drugged inducing passages which sees slight influences such as Church Of Misery, WEEDEATER and BONGZILLA being heard from time to time.
The opening track of Shirley Temple Ball is a drug laced musical odyssey with harsh vocals and music that’s been filtered through the eye of a rusty and sludge induced needle with a frantic Hardcore Punk and Spaced Out attitude being the creative glue that holds everything together. The atmosphere and attitude can be quite vicious which allows the record to fully stand on its creative merits especially when TONS start using classic movie soundclips for the first time on the record.
You can expect soundclips from the likes of Big Trouble In Little China and Top Secret within the album with a few cool more being added along the way. TONS start moving between LOW & SLOW grooves to a more fast-paced Sludge Metal onslaught on the majority of the tracks. There’s some fantastic social satire being laid down within the excellent lyrics which TONS have been complete masters at especially on tracks on Hangover The Top, Lost In Plantation and The Bing Bong Theory.
You can see from the brilliantly titled song titles there’s some great word play which will only endear the band even more to the listener. The music always moves to the caustic style of Thrash, Sludge and NOLA based energy whilst TONS always manage to find a way to move themselves closer to the Space Rock and Psych Rock astral planes that comes within the most unexpected of places.
Stoned Villains is brilliantly outlandish and surreal the best times which TONS make no apologies for. This is their fourth album and the band have perfected their own great flavour of WEEDIAN METAL that you can easily be considered MASTERS of the actual scene now along with WEEDEATER and BONGZILLA.
TONS never take themselves too seriously and just have fun with their music where the message maybe completely lost under massive amounts of green smoke. The music has some classic Hardcore Punk influences and musical vices bursting from the seams which keeps everything grounded. TONS have a great storytelling narrative running throughout Stoned Villains which does allow the listener to shout angrily at the world in perfect unison which you’ll be doing along the way like I did.
The production is top-notch with this record being TONS strongest recorded effort to date especially within the final two tracks of Darth Vaper and Rollercoaster Diet Bombo. These two tracks perfectly capture TONS at their most outrageous, grounded and completely free with some of the heaviest, freakiest, dirtiest and heaviest sounds on the whole record. Though, Stoned Villains as a whole is a brilliant experience that takes you into some highly unexpected places that leave you wanting more and then some. Though, that could be the “MUSICAL MUNCHIES” kicking in!!!!
TONS have once again released another ALBUM OF THE YEAR contender with Stoned Villains and with this being released on Heavy Psych Sounds then you have one of the most complete and perfect “WEEDIAN” musical packages you’ll experience all year.
Words by Steve Howe
