Various Artists - Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares

As the hippie movement hurdled towards its emanate demise, bad vibes infiltrated the rock world. Tainted LSD, loud motorcycles, and a series of brutal deaths spawned inspiration for guitar-wielding teenagers across the globe. Implementing deafening fuzz and satanic screams to create their proto-metal monstrosities, short-lived stoner bands pressed their lysergic experiments in microscopic quantities before blacking out entirely. Lifted from the ashes of the acid rock hell fire are 18 distorted tales of dope fiends, pill poppers, and the baddest of trips.

Deluxe 2xLP comes housed in a blacklight poster-style jacket illustrated by Benjamin Marra, replete with flocking and lysergic neon. 24 pages documenting the creeping existential dread of the hard rock underground are tucked into the gatefold pocket alongside two dead dinosaur-heavy LPs. 

Side A

1. Xarhanga - Acid Nightmare
2. Novaks Kapelle - Hypodermic Needle
3. Whistler's Mother - Dark Dawn
4. Brass Alley - Pink Pills
5. Gift - Drugs

Side B

1. Supa Chief - Red Brained Woman
2. TNS - Times Up
3. Acid - Acid
4. Sardonicus - Evaporated Brain
5. Mass Temper - Grave Digger

Side C

1. Goliath - Dead Drunk Screamin'
2. Bulbous Creation - Hooked
3. The Ritual - Speed Freak
4. Gollum - Prayer of Dispair

Side D

1. The Crossblood Experiment - Orange Sunshine
2. The Purple Sun - Dooms Day
3. The Shy Guys - Black Lightning Light
4. Sunn Cycle - Acid Raga