Our email box was shaken recently by the words of beings from the 7th dimension and beyond. These visitors were the cosmic duo Doublgeddon and here are their texts we translated for you!

TheNwothm: Hello there! Could you please share with our readers the name of your band, the members, and where you all hail from? 

Greetings! We are Ricky Geddon and Randy Geddon from the band Doublegeddon. We hail from Antarctica and the Moon and sometimes journey to the 7th dimension.

TheNwothm: Could you share with us the story behind how your band came together?

DG: We were born in the cosmic ether after an elder god blew a snot rocket on a passing comet which would later slam into the planet Earth. After many millions of years existing as radioactive ooze, we emerged in prehistoric times where the ancient humans called us Demigods and decided to worship us for some reason. 

As for Ricky and Randy, those fools spent many years together playing an old Nintendo and writing heavy metal songs mostly played into a haze of woodsmoke and beer belches. By taking control of their minds, we have imparted knowledge of cassette tape technology, providing them a tool to remember some of those songs-allowing for their use at a later time.

TheNwothm: How did your group decide on its name?

Randy: We are beings that can traverse time and multiple dimensions. In the earth year two thousand and eighteen, we awoke from a 5000 year slumber and found two fool brothers named Randy and Ricky Geddon who were drinking whisky and shooting each other in the eyes with rubber bands. We thought they would be easy to control, and we were correct. We replaced their consciousness with our own, and the band name came about naturally from there. 

Ricky: A single armageddon? HA. Boring, trite, survivable. Also, there are two of us. 

TheNwothm: So for first time listener’s how would you describe your music

Randy: We make heavy metal in the spirit of some of our favourite bands from the nineteen hundred and eighties but that is distilled down to our favourite elements of the music. The goal is to make it heavy, impactful, and to the point-trying to avoid things we think are unnecessary-just leaving heavy riffs with epic choruses and lots of harmonies. Things that make you want to head bang and sing along to.

Ricky: There is much galloping, a good amount of double-kick, harmonies and layered vocals abound, some epic falsetto “WAAAH”s, a sprinkle of vulgarity, all tossed in a thick chunky sauce flavoured with the fear and helplessness of mortal creatures.

TheNwothm: Speaking about your background can you tell us more about where you are from and how your culture has influenced your music?

Randy: Universally, the culture of the 7th dimension is one of brutality and chaos. Things randomly catch fire and explode for no discernible reason. Flames rain down upon most of the planets in the cosmos. An unfortunate human who ended up there would be crushed into jelly immediately and devoured by spider-slugs. It’s metal as hell there actually. We can mostly just write about what we see there and what the future brings here.

Ricky: We are from a time and place of myths and legends, and let us tell you, they’re all true. We have seen the rise and fall of kingdoms, heroes, wizards, warriors, warlocks, warriorlocks, warwolves, werewolves, weresnakes, regular snakes, snakepits, skeletons, snakepit skeletons, and laser beams. These have inspired us to write only about shit that is epic and goddamn awesome.

TheNwothm: Back in 2018 you put out the two track demo “Two Geddons!” What are those songs about?

Randy: Those two masterpieces are about a giant who dwells in icy seas and a demon hunter who ends up trapped in a pit of snakes. The fire breathing giant of the icy seas is the first track and was written from the perspective of voyagers on an ancient ship who encounter a terrifying giant during their ocean journey. The second song on “Two Geddons” is snakepit skeleton and follows the journey of a demon hunter who is thrown into a massive pit of snakes by a demon. He tries to fight off the snakes with his magic knife but the magic blade unintentionally brings the skeletons in the pit back to life, which also try to kill and eat him.

Ricky: One song is about a fire breathing giant who lives in the icy seas, and the other song is an anthem to the reason why you shouldn’t get cocky just because you’re decent at demon slaying.

TheNwothm: So what does heavy metal mean to you? The spirit and the culture?

Randy: We have beheld all of the musics of this world and of the worlds of other dimensions and heavy metal is truly the best there is.

Ricky: Heavy metal is the best form of communication that you humans can hope to achieve and our best means of infecting your minds with visions of awesomeness and ultimate destruction. We respect heavy metal’s ability to spur the screaming, gnashing, clawing, biting defiance of spirit, even as you stare down the obvious reality that you are mere transient specks of meat in an endless and ultimately indifferent cosmos, inching ever closer to the hungry maw of oblivion.

TheNwothm: And if you were heavy metal action figures what would they be and why?

Randy: We would be a 15-foot-tall cyclops with two vulture heads named VULTURECLOPS. One head would have a singular eye on it for locating unfortunate victims and the other head would have no eyes but would have a mouth and razor-sharp beak for purposes of eating and yelling. One arm would be a rusty serrated sword and the other arm would just shoot acid-laser-beams that completely melt shit. We’d have a special attack called the murder-kick where you’d push a button on our back and we would kick the absolute living shit out of stuff. It would, of course, do extra damage to shitty action figures like Gobots and to people for that matter. They would just fucking explode. Vultureclops would put up with zero bullshit and take no prisoners.

Ricky: One of us would be a golden satyr that pesters you to pick it up, only to spontaneously combust, getting molten gold all over your couch. The other would be a dragon claw that is gleefully giving you the finger while giving off a slightly putrid odor. This one would serve the purpose of proving your love for us by proudly displaying it next to your favourite family photographs and prized possessions, enduring both the unpleasant gesture and smell for the sake of our favour.

TheNwothm: And where did you learn how to play your instrument and sing? Are you self taught?

Randy: No vocal lessons to speak of but music has been an interest for a very long time. We’ve both been in many other bands that shall not be named. They’re all from dimension 7 as well. You’ve never heard of them, knaves!

Ricky: We play what we want, when we want.  Our human hosts may have received some basic education in their beginning (those fools!), but the majority of our choppage comes to us the dumb way: sheer mimicry and repetition. We would rather suck for a million years than subjugate ourselves before some “guitar teacher” like little nerds!

TheNwothm: In 2019 you decided to do a Demon cover and the track you went with was “Night of the Demon.” What made you decide to cover Demon? Were there other tracks you were considering?

Randy: The original version by the band Demon is so good. We love classic metal. I’m a big Dio fan as well and we were tossing around the idea of doing a Dio cover-something from the Holy Diver or Last in Line albums. We discovered Night of the demon online; I’d never heard it before and of course loved it. There’d been some covers of it already but we had an idea to approach it a little differently. Ultimately we went with it. There’s tons of Dio covers out on the interwebs already.

TheNwothm: Are you guys influenced by anyone in particular of say the likes of fantasy or the occult etc?

Randy: We serve no god. We know them all, and they are all dicks. Sometimes our insolence and lack of reverence results in banishment or mighty combat and we do not always win because we are not all-powerful. Still there are a few deities worthy of partying with, most from times many millennia ago when thousands worshiped them. They are gods of inebriation, unpredictably violent and often hilarious, though they have grown weak because they’ve been mostly forgotten.

Ricky: In no particular order– Thulsa Doom, King Ghidora, Ralph Bakshi, Death Adder, Buer, Zemus the Lunarian, Vlad Tepes, Baphomet, Ganon, Lo Pan, Unicron, Frank Frazetta, Mother Brain, and Saaaaaaaataaaaaan.

TheNwothm: What guitars do you have in your collection? Do you have a good brand and model?

DG:We found and acquired a guitar whose name we assume to be short for “Epic Phonograph,” which is what we aim to create. We were surprised to learn that the model deemed to be “Special” also required the least amount of gold to purchase, and even found a “Special II” which we assume means that it is even more special, perhaps even imbued with enchantments, which frightens humans and may have to do with its price. We do not shy away from wielding such an axe.

TheNwothm: So back in 2022 you unleashed a killer album on the world under the banner of “Geddon Dangerous.” What can you tell us about the tracks, the production and how the album was received?

Randy: We knew a few years before Geddon Dangerous came out what most of the songs on the record were going to be and had the album name figured out already. We wanted it to be varied thematically, not just a bunch of songs about something destroying the world or universe over and over but have songs that are their own complete story. We felt like The human experiment was a good opener because it deals with the idea of being trapped inside a nefarious simulation and of being watched and controlled and reborn inside it endlessly. When you listen to the album, you’re kind of venturing into our world as you progress through the record. 

Reception of the album has been awesome. When it first came out we had some very superb individuals spreading the word, recommending it online, pushing it out to people. We did a few things to promote it ourselves when it came out. We made some announcements on twitter and bandcamp, made a couple of short YouTube videos to preview two of the songs, sent the Mp3 files a few places and did a couple of interviews but that was essentially it. Reviewers have been really cool to recommend it over the past two years and all of their efforts have been very much appreciated by us. We are just now beginning to promote the album more ourselves as we realise it’s an important part of the process. The algorithms on streaming platforms don’t always get the music in front of people that would enjoy it.

Ricky: Our audio sorcerer used microphones to inscribe our songs inside of a specialised acoustical chamber he calls his “home studio.” His computational box was capable of many modern auditory illusion magicks, like adding samples on top of the drums or tuning the vocals, but these methods offend us and we find them to be lame. “TREAT IT LIKE TAPE,” we commanded him, and he was compelled to forsake those false parlor tricks.

TheNwothm: How did you decide on the albums artwork?

Randy: I thought it would be cool to have a picture of a planet being devoured by a matter-annihilating portal or black-hole while some other doomsday event was occurring simultaneously, like a deadly curse or plague. Essentially having two world-ending events going on at the same time. A double apocalypse. Ricky came up with the awesome idea of putting it on an Atari 2600 cartridge which happens to be a technological marvel as well as the greatest video game console in the history of time… a paragon of old-school simplicity.

TheNwothm: Any favourite songs?

Randy: There were several songs that didn’t make the cut for Geddon Dangerous for one reason or another, and we didn’t feel the need to include any tracks that we weren’t completely stoked about. So, it’s really a case where we love all of the songs on the record. They all had their time when they were our favorite as they were being written and recorded.

Ricky: We love all our songs equally, but don’t tell that to NecroRomancer. He gets jealous.

TheNwothm: Moving on to the live side of the band do you have any memorable shows or are there any bands you have loved sharing a stage with?

Randy: We do not play shows in this dimension as it would cause immeasurable chaos and destruction. 

TheNwothm: And are you planning any shows for the remainder of 2024?

Ricky: Alas, nothing planned for this dimension. 

TheNwothm: Musically what is next for the band? Are you working on any new material?

Ricky: More geddons await! We do not know when they will arrive, due to the different passage of time in the 7th dimension and also having to juggle the daily life bullshit of our human hosts, but be assured that we are crafting more metal sludge in our cosmic crock pot to pour into your ears.

TheNwothm: Where can fans buy your music and merch?

Randy: You can exchange currencies for our music on Bandcamp and for some physical merch on TeePublic, for we are far too busy to deal with that ourselves.

Bandcamp: https://doublegeddon.bandcamp.com/

TheNwothm: Anything else you would like to mention?

Randy: Hail to our awesome fans, the Geddonites: The Knights of Geddon!

Ricky: And many thanks to thee, Mr. TheNwothm. Deep hails.