Rain City Doom Fest 2024 will be held at El Corazon/Funhouse in Seattle on December 14. This is the 4th year of this annual festival that showcases Heavy music of the PNW and beyond. This year’s lineup will include some of the Seattle areas most esteemed active doom bands including Bell Witch and Year of the Cobra who will be making this show their album release party. The festival is also pleased to welcome The Well as special guests from Austin, TX.
For more than a decade, Bell Witch have sent tides surging over the seawalls of the song form, unraveling conventional expectations about the ways music stations itself in time to absorb a listener’s attention.
Dynamic duo Amy and Jon Barrysmith make up the Doom-y twosome that is Year of the Cobra, a Seattle-based Sludge Metal band. Moaning vocals accent what reeks of Black Sabbath coming back through a long, dark tunnel. The rippling hums of Amy’s ever-expanding bassy tones are complimented by the dynamics in Jon’s drumming, shifting effortless from laid back grooves to pushing, driving climaxes. Amy’s easy voice over Jon’s steady splashing lulls you in, only to hit you with the surprise, brutal left-hook!
A Heavy Psych Rock/proto-Metal power trio based out of Austin, Texas, the Well‘s lethal blend of knotty Prog, Punk and Bluesy Doom Rock invokes names like Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard, Sleep and Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats. Citing a desire “to blend different musical styles as diversified as Joy Division to Blue Cheer,” the band, which consists of Ian Graham, Lisa Alley and Jason Sullivan, came together in 2012 out of a shared love for extreme music, cult horror films, and dark mysticism.
Completing this incredible lineup are some of Pacific North West’s finest Doom bands. Each bringing their unique twist on the genre:
Witch Ripper
Washington’s Witch Ripper have seamlessly welded together the contemporary heaviness of such hard-hitting acts as Mastodon, Gojira and iBaroness with the anthemic bombast of classic artists in the vein of Queen and David Bowie from the start.
Slow Goat
Gamy riffs cut from the flank of the Pacific Northwest
Ape Machine
The name Ape Machine is a nod to the days of reel-to-reel magnetic tape audio recording; a fitting moniker for the Heavy-hitting quartet as the band plays through vintage tube amplifiers and lays down its songs using exclusively throwback quality studio equipment.
Sorcia
Sorcia hails from the Snoqualmie Valley in the backwoods of Seattle, Washington. Combining blues-laden Groovy riffs, Heavy Doom and raw Grunge with the added dynamic of dual vocals, they deliver their own method of Pacific Northwest Stoner Sludge Metal.
Sun Crow
Rain-soaked Doom Blues, moss-covered Stoner Rock, grey sky Heavy Psych, whatever they call it, Sun Crow summons the old spirits of high volume Heavy Rock into close quarters and paints the ceiling and walls with magnets, wood, and glass.
Melancholia
True to its name, Melancholia explores dread and anguish in all of its malformed glory through the lenses of crushing doom/sludge, ferocious Black Metal/Death Metal and raw, primitive Crust Punk.
Mother Root
Two brothers making noise in the backwoods of the Snoqualmie Valley.
Purchase tickets here: https://wl.seetickets.us/event/bell-witch/616791
