
ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENTS
VOLUME II is fast approaching! In case you missed it, we’ve moved the venue location of VOLUME II to the RCAF Airfield & Museum in Dunnville, Ontario. We have the next four artists to announce to join our headliners Dopethrone, Sons of Arrakis, and Indian Handcrafts.
Check out the current schedule:
Thursday, June 26 –
Stage 1 – 10:35pm – Indian Handcrafts
Friday, June 27 –
Stage 2 – 8:30pm – Sons of Otis
Stage 2 – 10:15pm – The Death Wheelers
Stage 1 – 11:10pm – Dopethrone
Saturday, June 28 –
Stage 1 – 9:30pm – Ecstatic Vision
Stage 2 – 10:20pm – Acid Mammoth
Stage 1 – 11:15pm – Sons of Arrakis
The next batch of artists will be announced on February 14 – check the link below for the festival Event Page so you can stay up to date!
Purchase tickets here: https://fannatickets.com/event/june-26-28-rhune-mountain-fest-stoney-creek-ontario-370/register
Official Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1259252111933129
Acid Mammoth is a doom metal band from Athens, Greece. The band was formed in 2015 by Chris Babalis Jr. (Vocals & Guitars) and Dimosthenis Varikos (Bass), good friends since high school, with a deep love for Sabbath and other heavy music. They were quickly joined by their very good friend Marios Louvaris (Drums) and Chris Babalis Sr. (Guitars), Jr.’s father. Acid Mammoth is more than just a band of friends. They are a family. In late 2016, the band recorded its self-titled, debut full-length album, which they self-released digitally in autumn of 2017. The album was well received, and it wasn’t long before the band was in the studio again to record its second full-length album “Under Acid Hoof,” this time darker, heavier and fuzzier.
In September 2019, the band signed with Heavy Psych Sounds Records, which welcomed the Greek Doomers to their roster after the first listening of the new album. “Under Acid Hoof” was released January 24th 2020 and was very well received by fans and critics alike. In September 2020 the band participated in a series of split releases by Heavy Psych Sounds Records called the “Doom Sessions.” “Doom Sessions Vol. 2” featured Acid Mammoth alongside the Sardinian Doomers 1782, in an ultra Heavy release that featured three brand new tracks from each band.
In late 2020 the band entered the studio to record their third full-length album called “Caravan,” which was released March 2021 by Heavy Psych Sounds records, alongside the first ever physical press of the 2017 self-titled debut as well as two represses of “Under Acid Hoof”.
Following the release of “Caravan,” the band started touring and playing shows all around Europe, as the world returned to a new state of normalcy after the Covid-19 pandemic. The band did two European tours in 2022 and 2023, as well as lots of shows at festivals such as Desertfest London, Desertfest Antwerp and SonicBlast Fest. In 2024 the band released their fourth full-length album called “Supersonic Megafauna Collision.”
Ecstatic Vision introduced their brand of Heavy primal Psych influenced by groups like Hawkwind, Aphrodites Child, Olatunji, Can and early Amon Duul ll in late 2013. Formed in Philadelphia to primarily “play what they wanted to hear,” the band quickly rose to those in the know as a force to be reckoned with.
Ecstatic Vision signed to Relapse Records on the power of a demo and their Psychedelic freak out, primal live concerts. Their debut LP, Sonic Praise saw a release by Relapse in June 2015 and during this time the band toured the US with prestigious acts such as Enslaved, YOB and Uncle Acid & The Dead Beats in addition to numerous shows with the likes of Earthless, Red Fang, Acid King and many others.
This was followed by a European run that saw them perform at the legendary Roadburn Festival in addition to dates with Bang, Pentagram and more. In April 2017, Ecstatic Vision returned with their 2nd LP “Raw Rock Fury,” an even more tripped out showcasing of the band’s raucous mix of troglodyte Detroit rock grooves, soothing Krautian motoric sounds, filthy Beefheartian Blues and Hawkwindian primal world Heavy Psych!
The addition of multi-instrumentalist Kevin Nickles (Saxophone/Flute/Guitar) has helped theband reach beyond the void and further create a sense of auditory hallucination with “Raw Rock Fury.” Prepare for one of the dirtiest sounding recordings since MC5’s Kick Out the Jams. Headlining tours of the USA and Europe followed and saw the band share the stage with John Garcia, Dead Meadow, Bongzilla and the Cosmic Dead and also included a blistering headlining slot on one of Desertfest Berlin‘s stages.
In 2018 the band returned with “Under The Influence” on the Italian label Heavy Psych Sounds. “Under The Influence” is Ecstatic Vision’s take on some of their favorite songs by some of their biggest influences ranging from Zam Rock to the kings of early Psychedelia and Detroit Rock.
In 2019 fall the band released For The Masses on Heavy Psych Sounds and supported Brant Bjork on a USA tour. They then immediately headed to Europe for a packed-out club tour. After the “For The Masses” tour was cut short due to the pandemic the EV boys took a much needed break. They re-grouped a year later and started jamming to create their latest studio album “Elusive Mojo.” This album was supported by a 7 week tour playing to anywhere from thousands of people at Hellfest to 50 die-hards in some sweaty club. Their approach to pillaging the stage on this tour can be heard on their first live album, “Live At DunaJam,” released in Spring 2023.
The post-pandemic EV came back heavier and angrier than ever with their strongest LP entitled Elusive Mojo issued on the Heavy Psych Sounds label in 2022. “Elusive Mojo” found the band firing on all cylinders with this unhinged, raw and dangerous album.
The band continued down their unique warpath mixing Heavy Psych Rock, Detroit-Rock, Proto-Punk and World Music. The album contained caveman grooves that would rattle the remaining teeth out of the Asheton brother’s skulls, scorching saxophones that would make Nik Turner feel high on a potent mix of speed and Viagra and basslines hot enough to melt down the Lemmy statue.
“Elusive Mojo” was recorded live to 2” tape in their beloved hometown of Philadelphia by Joe Boldizar (Sonic Praise) with Bob Pantella (Monster Magnet) and mastered by their old drinking buddy Tim Green (Melvins).
What emerged was a burly, timeless and unique sounding record that is hard to tell if it was recorded in 1971 or 2022. the band followed the album with an epic 6 week tour through Europe playing prestigious festivals such as Hellfest and underground parties like the enigmatic DunaJam.
The band cut a live record and film at DunaJam and released it in May 2023. Some release shows in the USA followed seeing EV team up with USA cult band Danava. The band embarked on another 6 week tour of Europe devastating audiences at Desertfest London, Sonic Whip Festival in Netherlands, Desertfest Berlin and more Shows in the USA followed including Levitation in Austin and Desertfest NYC.
Cursed to ride forever on this mortal plane after partaking in a satanic drug ritual, the Death Wheelers pledge allegiance to the god of hell and fire. However, in order to prove themselves to their newly anointed leader and for the spell to take effect, the club will need to engage in a series of lewd acts of sex and violence across the country.
The beating heart of The Death Wheelers is a rumbling engine. Since their self-titled debut in 2015 and in 2020’s cinematic-storytelling breakout, Divine Filth, the Canadian outfit have tapped into wind-through-hair freedom and careened down open roads of groove, not a cop in sight.
Their third record, Chaos and the Art of Motorcycle Madness, more than lives up to its name on all fronts. With songs like “Morbid Bails” and “Lucifer’s Bend,” the in-the-know references abound, and The Death Wheelers draw from classic underground metal, scummer heavy rock and cast themselves into a cauldron of cultish biker devil worship, reveling in any and all post-apocalyptic dystopias with genuine glee at having just seen the world eat itself. You might hear some surf guitar.
Crazy things can happen. A sample in “Triple D (Dead, Drunk and Depraved)” underscores the message: “We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man. And we want to get loaded.” That line, from Roger Corman’s 1966 film “The Wild Angels,” serves as a mission statement, and as “Lucifer’s Bend” starts by laughing about how you can’t get away from Satan, they might as well carve it into their forearms to be ready when the blast of distortion hits, as much Entombed as Motörhead, galloping and sinister, coated in road dust and blood.
While forging songs adherent more to ideology than style, The Death Wheelers cast their biker cult in their own image, and on Chaos and the Art of Motorcycle Madness, they challenge death head-on as only those with no fear of it could hope to do.
Sons Of Otis are a Stoner Doom Metal band, hailing from Toronto, Canada. They formed in 1992 as Otis, which they took from a character in the movie “Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer.”
After their debut EP called “Paid To Suffer” in 1994, they changed their name to Sons Of Otis. They were signed to The Music Cartel, which ceased its activities in 2005. They are known for their trance-like neuron-firing live performances which included spinning lights and smoke machines.
After a lengthy hiatus, in April 2007 Sons of Otis released a split with Queen Elephantine on Concrete Lo-Fi Records. After a long hold-up, their new album “Exiled” saw light in February 2009 via Small Stone Recordings.
It features the two songs previously released on the “Queen Elephantine Split,” as well as four brand new tracks, and continues the tradition of their “Heavy psychedelic doom blues” . Three years later, they finished “Seismic,” again released on Small Stone.