Stoned Jesus Show How They Reached New High on “Low”
Posted on September 10, 2025
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While they’ve blazed through folk, prog, pop and alternative rock following their first sip of doom metal, after 15 years, Stoned Jesus are still reaching new creative peaks. On the latest single from the band’s mind-melting new album Songs to Sun, the heavy progressive rockers rose above personal lows by doing something they’ve never done before: blast beats and harsh vocals.
Today, frontman Igor Sydorenko is releasing a new video that shows how to play and how he wrote “Low”. Thanks to a simple riff and instant chemistry shared between Sydorenko and his new rhythm section, the band stopped worrying about pleasing people and blasted out the heaviest song in Stoned Jesus’ wide-ranging discography.
“This is probably the happiest I’ve been creatively in Stoned Jesus”, Sydorenko says. “With both Andrew and Yuri now in the band, we can experiment as deep as we can.
“Even though, we are currently working on the darker follow-up to Songs to Sun“, he continues, “the three of us are constantly laughing all the time”.
Watch Igor Sydorenko explain how to play and how he wrote “Low” on the Stoned Jesus YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/GFND8EgNv44?si=Tb6MMBdqB6i1lj6Q
Songs to Sun comes out September 19, 2025 on Season of Mist.
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Can’t wait to hear Stoned Jesus’ mind-melting new album? Hear all of Songs to Sun before it comes out during the band’s upcoming listening party on Bandcamp.
Songs to Sun Bandcamp Listening Party
Tuesday, September 16 @ 1:30 pm CEST / 7:30 pm CEST
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https://stonedjesus.bandcamp.com/live/songs-to-sun-listening-party
Songs to Sun is the first album in a forthcoming trilogy that once complete, will stand as the pinnacle of what’s been a decades-long trip for Stoned Jesus. While picking up where the band’s last album Father Light left off, Sydorenko and his new mates still nod to their early classics Seven Thunders Roar and The Harvest. But by merging metal’s fiery intensity with mind-melting grooves, vintage prog and their catchiest choruses yet, they bring the many distinct phases of Stoned Jesus to a bright, burning head.
The video for “Shadowland: how to play it & how I wrote it” was written and filmed by Igor Sydorenko. It was edited by Radion Yakumenko.
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