The Fading Sun [Single]

This new single represents a shift in style for me, It is heavily influenced by British hard rock and indie rock.

Were There Then [EP]

2002. Although no drums present on this acoustic version, Jeff has writing credit for the electric version's drums.

Lyrics:
sinking back into this distraction
holding onto these deep reactions
bury me down with all your demons
until the day you decide to see them

your touch freezes my soul,
it makes my cold, I'm bleeding your disease
you take all that I am, and want me to pretend
to love your evil dreams

complicating every new design
mirroring my shattered mind
make a place for it all to die
and tie me down 'till the ends of time

your touch freezes my soul,
it makes my cold, I'm bleeding your disease
you take all that I am, and want me to pretend
to love your evil deeds
you're freezing me inside, I can't take what I find,
I want to be set free
you take all that I am, and want me to pretend
to love your every whim and need

Pyaar (Acoustic)

Thalmalis (The New New Song)

My first new track in 8 years. This is just a simple ambient piece performed on electric guitar. Picture credit Roger Dean.

Shadows

Instrumental version of a song I originally recorded in 2002 and re-recorded in 2005.

Illuminatus (Instrumental)

Acoustic Pink Floyd cover I recorded in 2001. Music and lyrics by Roger Waters.

demo

Pigs on the Wing Part 1 (Pink Floyd Cover)

This song is so messed up it's not even funny but it was our tribute to Syd Barrett. Jeff on drums. It's horrible, but I love it.

Lyrics:
Sarcasm spewing from his lips
Iodine dripping from his fingertips
Caffeine found at the scene of the crime
Drongo met his worst yet after nine

Furious phonecalls that he made
Sitting in the cosmic shade
Mixing gin with lemonade
Waiting for his dieing days

Derelict Syd his friend did call
Outside the door at the plastic mall
Give me a hand with this band that I knew
Riding a bike to the side of the moon

Poppies swaying in the breeze
Weeds growing with the greatest of ease
The market is closed so give me a hose
Drongos moving in with the lonely host

Flaming Mad Drongo

Here's me doing an acoustic cover of Soundgarden's "Burden in my Hand" Music and lyrics by Chris Cornell R.I.P.

Burden In My Hand (Acoustic Soundgarden Cover)

My second new track from 2024. Music by Andrew aka Toxodon.

Back From a Dark Place

Another new 2024 track with vocals. Dunno wtf "The Lotus" is but sounded cool to me. Maybe some kind of Chakra thing?

The Lotus

Latest version of my first new track of 2024.

Back From a Dark Place [FLAC]

Reckoning

8th track of 2024. New guitar track added May 2024. Lyrics are about Hunter S. Thompson and Layne Staley.

Lyrics:
Hey there's someone to see you
He don't care if you bleed too
Hey yeah he wanna meet ya
He look like a teacher

He's got some funky pills on the right side
We're gonna have to give him a long ride

Yeah
He's a Ghost Ride
Yeah
He don't look right

Maybe take him down to Las Vegas
Cuz you know how his day was
Maybe take him down to Las Vegas
Cuz you know how his day was

Ghost Ride

Pleasure Into Pain

The Desert Album

A Lone Walk In The Desert

Aldaraia

This is my cover of Jerry Cantrell's song Bargain Basement Howard Hughes from his epic double album Degradation Trip. This album and also classic AIC influenced me a lot.

Bargain Basement Howard Hughes [Jerry Cantrell Cover]

Dead Cold [Acoustic]

Very Deftones inspired alternative metal tune.

Lyrics:
Feeling like a slave to the system
That feeds my greatest need
Just another pig left in the dark
Starving for something free

Well I can't get away from this place
I need the company
Those little white lies that you tell me
Are all the fun I need

Sacrifice is on the way
Sacrifice, seems like it's here to stay

You know it's all in the head
It's all in the fingers and feels
Digital sacrifice just makes us dead
But you know we can heal

Sacrifice is on the way
Sacrifice, seems like it's here to stay

Digital Sacrifice

Full vocal version of song with lyrics which the album art relates to.

Lyrics:
Float by the sacred eye
Need light to see the sky
Felt waves of falling sound
Souls meet their final ground

Here lies the face of yesterday
Here comes the end we've put away
Destroy, deny, denote, decay
You know they wanted it anyway

Code for apocalpyse
Look out, its 6-6-6
It might seem so absolute
But I'll never bow to you

Throw up the noble canvas
Forget the bitter masses
Until they take away your life
Theres still a chance to fight

Broken Universe

Illuminatus

13th new original track of 2024.

Lyrics:
Is this...what it means to be human?
Or what it means to be silent
You can hide here forever
Take your mind undercover
Is this...what you really wanted?
Or is it something you bargained
Help yourself to recover
Or lie in comfort forever


Is it...something you worked for
Or is it something you'd kill for
You can speculate justice
Put it all in discussions
You know...I really couldn't care less
Cuz I think you're all nonsense
Dictatorial violence
What it means to be silent

Chorus:

You can trust them all
While you watch them fall

The System

15th new original track of 2024.

Lyrics:

Hey you know I got somethin' for you
They just want to hide you
Hey you know I just want to help you
They just want to hurt you

They are locked inside now they are part of you
Dreams inside of you
They are locked inside now they are part of you
Dreams inside of you

What's it gonna take
Are you gonna fake
What's it gonna take
Are you gonna fake

It took my whole life just to realize
What it was that I was gonna try
It took my whole life just to realize
What it was that I was gonna try

They are locked inside now they are part of you
Dreams inside of you
They are locked inside now they are part of you
Dreams inside of you

Substance

The Sludge is strong with this one...sludge and stone!!

Up From Under the Creeps

Dedicated to Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, Chris Cornell, Kurt Cobain, Scott Weiland and all the others who died young from the 90s Grunge scene.

Grungehead

The Fading Sun

Was going to cover "Them Bones" but this song stuck out to me as the most intense on the album. The lyrics are simply brutal. What can I say, it's not great but I did my best. R.I.P Layne Staley & Mike Starr.

Dirt [Alice in Chains Cover]

Most of the credit goes to my BOSS GT-1 for this new track lol I just fiddled with the strings. It's tuned half a step down then dropped Cb if anyone is interested.

Transmission

With this song I tried to break out of my super serious cycle of songwriting and instead try something more influenced by TAD and the Melvins. Vincent Price clip is from a short story called "The Smoker" from an old obscure out-of-print Halloween record. This may sound strange, but I was making this song at about 4:30am and Star Trek original series was on the TV and so that's where the title "Bones" came from and I just kind of went with it from there lol

Bones

This is an odd kind of almost hip hop-ish remix of the new song Bones.

Breakin' Bones (Bones Remix)

Oasis/Sex Pistols inspired Hard Rock experiment

Were There Then

Super Sunshine Blues

4th vocal take on this Oasis cover. I will be doing more Oasis covers in the near future.

Were There Then [Single]

Columbia [Oasis Cover]

The Swamp Song [Oasis Cover]

My 3rd Oasis cover of 2024 to celebrate the RETURN OF OASIS!

Live Forever [Oasis Cover]

aka Toxodon. Lonely Host began when I joined a band named Nemesis circa late 1999. I began as vocalist/guitarist with Jordan on bass and Jeff on guitar. We mostly played songs by Rage Against the Machine at first. We all went to a local Moneen show one night and immediately began writing new songs influenced by them. We decided the new band's name would be Lonely Host (credit goes to Jeff for the name). By this time we had acquired a drum set and Jeff began his tenure as a successful drummer while Jordan took up DJ'ing under the moniker of LocoMotive. I remained lone guitarist, vocalist and lyricist. Starting in 2001 began experimenting with home recording and FL Studio. Eventually I was programming rudimentary drums, synth and overdubbing bass. This transformation was not reflective of any disdain for my bandmates but rather a product of my isolation at home. Jeff and Jordan have many different influences, some overlapping with mine (especially RATM, Tool and Floyd) while my main influences include Tool, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, RATM, Deftones, Primus, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, John Carpenter and Ennio Morricone. Background wallpaper credit Stein Egil liland. Shortly after my 40th birthday in 2024, I decided to open a new chapter for Lonely Host continuing on very much as I was back in 2006. I can't recommend Audacity and FL Studio enough. And I still use the multi-effects pedal, wah-wah pedal and guitars and bass that I used back then. UPDATE: I have acquired a BOSS GT-1 effects board and am now using  that for my recordings going forward of both guitar and bass. I am still trying to find a working solution for recording vocals because using a webcam's mic is just wrong lol.

Lonely Host

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