2024 Alternative Metal album. I use Drop-D guitar tuning on some songs and the rest are Drop-C. See individual songs for lyrics. I can't say enough how much Jerry Cantrell/AIC and Deftones influenced this album. Also Trent Reznor for the confidence to make this completely on my own.

The Desert Album

2 wild minutes of slap bass, power chords and palm mutes. This is my 7th new song of 2024.

Back From a Dark Place [FLAC]

Summer of '99

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

Back From a Dark Place

Pleasure Into Pain

This is the 11th new track from 2024 and just an instrumental improvised guitar solo with bass and percussion accompanying.

The Last Oasis

A Lone Walk In The Desert

This song features some deeply personal lyrics about the 18 years I spent not playing music.

Lyrics:

Never wanted to see you go
Never wanted to be alone
Thought that I made the right choice
Thought I'd get out of it alright

But you know it's the pain that comes back
Just like a panic attack
And you know you can never go home
Because this is all that you know

Dead cold and I'm alone
Dead silence and no control

Dead cold and I'm alone
Dead silence and no control

Never wanted to come along
Never wanted to meet you all
So many years just wastin' my time
So many weeks stayin' up all night

Dead cold and I'm alone
Dead silence and no control

Dead cold and I'm alone
Dead silence and no control

Won't you leave me alone
Won't you leave me alone
Leave me alone

Dead Cold

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

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

Remix of Ghost Sludge 13 (or rather a downmix removing the main guitar and intro).

Interlude

Andrew 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, Oasis, Stone Roses, RATM, Deftones, Primus, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Nine Inch Nails, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, John Carpenter and Ennio Morricone. 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.

Guitars I use:
Auburn Wood Finish Yamaha Pacifica
Black Ibanez GIO (Sold in late 2024 but was used on The Desert Album)
Sunburst Epiphone Les Paul Special II (Sold in 2025)
Red Epiphone SG Pro
Black Fender Squier 
White with Black pickguard Groove Brand Telecaster
Blue Peavey Milestone P-Bass
Fender Acoustic

Gear:
DOD GS30 Multi-effects
Dunlop Crybaby Wah
Behringer Chorus Space-D
Behringer Vintage Delay
Behringer 3-Mode Super Fuzz
BOSS GT-1 Multi-effects
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (Sold in 2025)
Fender Frontman 25R Amp w/Footswitch (Sold 2025)
Fender Mustang 25LT Modelling Amp