 Release:
Cruz Del Sur Music
11.04.2025
Info:
The long-awaited return of the "Traveller" saga! Bay Area underground metal heroes THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG revive the classic "Traveller" storyline on the "Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades" EP — seven songs of pure weird metal glory!
Asteroids! Vegetable spores! Space pirates! Add ‘em up and what do you get? THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG’s sequel to their now-classic 2003 studio album, "Traveller". "Traveller Supplement 1: The Ephemeral Glades" arrives in the format of a 20-minute EP that delivers lean and mean heavy metal without all of the fluff. Just as important, it bears numerous similarities to its highly regarded predecessor, right down to being recorded at the same studio, with the same producer (Justin Weis), with the same microphones. The only difference is that 24 years have elapsed.
"The Ephemeral Glades" story picks up where the original "Traveller" left off: The exiled Professor Rickets, still transformed to a Vargr, living in exile on his secret asteroid ship, and Baltech Budapest hiding out on the icy planet Mithril. According to the members of THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG — guitarist/vocalist Mike Scalzi, second guitarist Angelo Tringali, bassist Adrian Meastas and new drummer Austen Krater— the EP was born from the idea of choosing the best ideas and leaving the rest on the cutting room floor. In true THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG form, "The Ephemeral Glades", gallops and surges with the band’s trademark twin guitar action. A lot of the vim and vigor behind "The Ephemeral Glades" is attributed to Krater, who is a prolific writer and contributed to many of the EP’s songs.
The passage of time has provided THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG with a moment of reflection back to the making of the first "Traveller". Scalzi cut his vocals on the day of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. The band also had a small budget since they were on a small underground label (two years later, THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG would join Cruz Del Sur Music for the release of "Atavism") and relied upon the blossoming production expertise of Weis to stretch their budget as far as it could go.
The rest is history. "Traveller" is now embedded in the firmament of true underground metal. (Let’s be clear: Few bands can match THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG’s uniqueness.) The revival of the "Traveller "storyline on "The Ephemeral Glades" proves one thing is for certain: The thirst for weird, uncanny and also true metal will never go away and an ice planet where ephemeral plant life blooms when the temperature goes above freezing is a great place for a hybrid dog man to hide…
"Knife World" - Official Track Stream: https://thelordweirdsloughfeg.bandcamp.com/track/knife-world
Tracklist:
1. Knife World
2. The Black Circle
3. Mission on Mithril
4. The Ephemeral Glades
5. Magnetic Fluctuations
6. Ice Shelf Stomp
7. Vargr Reprise
Line-up:
Mike Scalzi - Vocals / Guitars
Angelo Tringali - Guitar
Adrian Maestas - Bass
Austen Krater - Drums
Discography:
The Lord Weird Slough Feg
Twilight of The Idols (Dragonheart, 1998)
Down Among the Deadmen (Dragonheart, 2000)
Traveller (Dragonheart, 2003)
Atavism (Cruz Del Sur Music, 2005)
Hardworlder (Cruz Del Sur Music, 2007)
Ape Uprising! (Cruz Del Sur Music, 2009)
Animal Spirits (Cruz Del Sur Music, 2010)
Digital Resistance (Metal Blade, 2014)
New Organon (Cruz Del Sur Music, 2019)
Traveller Supplement I: The Ephemeral Glades (Cruz Del Sur Music, 2025)
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