On and on and on again
Falling bombs like shelling drums
A refrain that only comes
From the hands of lesser men
Who tell themselves that their
Ugly choices make them hard
But there’s nothing easier
Than sending death from leather chairs

Watch out, there’s devils in the dust
And their eyes are watching with a terrible lust saying
“All is mine to take and grind and burn as I want”
Watch out, there’s devils in the dust
With a fucked up smile and a hunger for blood saying
“Wave goodbye and say goodnight ‘cause I want you gone”

Tell me why, tell me why they get away
With destruction as the coin they pay
Tell me why, tell my why we let them stay and justify
Tell me why, tell me why they get a say
In the question of who dies today
Tell me why, tell me why we let them play with other lives

Soft lullabies ring through the night
Hear their reply fall from the sky

They’ll pave over your home
To put up rows of condos
Empty as the wind speaks
“…were never here, you were never here…”
They’ll steamroll your bones
And build a palace of gold
Then use it for one week, two times a year

On and on and on again
It’s a tuneless melody
Infinite cacophony
That may never reach its end
The only thing I know
Is there’s more of us than them
A harmonious dissent
Carried on the radio

Pretend, pretend, it’s all
Built for the status quo
The border lines we scrawl
As if they were always known
Try tearing down the walls
Start small and take it slow
Our aid is mutual
Right here in our common home

Hold it close
Breathe it in
Let your love be spoken

Ascend, ascend the squall
Warm in the open glow
Where waves begin to crawl
Soft in the undertow
So let the levee fall
Sure as the river flows
Into the sea, we all
Send hope on the radio

Hold it close
Breathe it in
Let your love be spoken
Call it out
Breathe it in
Let your love be spoken

(Just call out, will you call out
The sound is all around you)

Dust Devils

Drifting through open window panes
At the peak of summer’s sigh
Motes of ash draping silently
On the windowsill at night
I let it sit till the autumn comes
And the forest fires die
Days of smoke feel familiar now
Even ruin dulls with time

Is there any way, what will it take
To connect this death to our own fate?
Hazy image of someone that you love
Screaming hopelessly in endless flame?

Burn your body to the bone
Spread the ash on the stone
As a ritual, intoned
Clear the ash from your home

Days of Smoke

Open up my eyes, the sun does shine
The birds are singing in the morning light
And everything is fine
Rolling out of bed I watch the sky
Then I remember the world is dying
And then I close the blinds
It’s hard to shake
The ringing that haunts the days
Even though the sound is often small
I don’t think it’s nothing at all

The end of time
It’s on my mind

I can hear it now
And I fear the sound that never
Leaves me be
There’s no peace for me
I can feel it now
As the weight surrounds me
Never leaves me be
There’s no peace for me

Open up my phone to kill some time
I scroll around and check in on my friends,
See if they’re doing fine
Every now and then they clear the dread
And then I stumble into violent death
And then I go to bed
It’s hard to fight
The ringing that fills the night
Even when I finally get some rest
The pressure still lives in my chest

The end of time
Is on my mind
I can’t describe
The noise inside

Sometimes when I dream
The resonance shatters me
It begins to seep and scream
As it undoes reality
That dread frequency
Takes the life out of me
Oh dread frequency
Leave me be

I can hear it now
And I fear the sound that never
Leaves me be
There’s no peace for me
I can feel it now
As the weight surrounds me
Never leaves me be
There’s no peace for me

Ringing all my life
Ringing all the time
Ringing all my life
It is still ringing all the time

Always Ringing

Slow falling rain
In blinding sunlight
Illuminating
Fleeting and bright
Present then forever gone
Worlds like rain are always shining
Billions gleam like something holy
Possibilities always in reach
If you’d only 
Lift your head and see

I want to live life horribly
I want to fuck off and lose everybody
I want to break from society
I want to be lost in irrelevancy
When I’m sick I get sick I get sick
I want to give in to the scream
I want to abandon love given to me
I want to walk off into the trees
I want to be left alone eternally
When I’m sick I get sick I get sick

What does it really mean
To live without fear, actually
Is it only ever closing your eyes
(No lies)
Not your fault, can’t repair
Just cosmic misfortune to bear
Safety in the loss of reality
(No lies)
Don’t blame it on the stars
It’s never been more than our own hearts

So lift the rope over your shoulder
We’ll carry that weight together or not at all

Short is the path that’s been paved
With terror and blindness and hate
Don’t be fooled again
Just look despair right in the eye
And let it pass into the light
Golden sky, burn the dread away

No more needless scarcity
We have all we need
No more needless cruelty
We are all we need

Live well, die old
One billion better worlds

Planet Death: Worlds Like Rain

Captives of the moment
With confidence unmatched
Historically transparent
And empty as a glass
A spiral of unknowing
These cycles of violence
I want the leap beyond them
And break the present tense

Another tome is lifted 
And burnt down to the last
To join the wisdom lost in
The ash of pyres past

Heat Death: Pyres Past

I felt my heart collapse
Day long panic attack
Two months to walk it back
A pill to loose the slack

I get sick

Geographic disorder in the contours of my brain
Tectonic shifts that start in fits
And make me feel like I’ve gone insane

Every time I look outside
Apathy is on the rise
Only worried for the self
While we all slide into hell

Nothing holds the weight above, my god
You and I are fated to be lost

There will never be release
From this planetary grief
Stars explode and cells decay
Doom is in our DNA

Nothing holds the weight above, my god
You and I are fated to be lost
No one pulls the weight away, my god
You and I are fated to be lost

It’s just so easy
To cover my eyes and fall asleep
I don’t want to feed the fire
I don’t want to burn it all to ash

But I get so doom sick
The rift in my head tells me to quit
I don’t want to feed the fire
I don’t want to burn it all to ash

Is there no way back
From whatever makes a heart contract
I don’t want to feed the fire
I don’t want to burn it all to ash

But I get so doom sick
The rift in my head tells me to quit
I don’t want to feed the fire
I don’t want to burn it all to ash

Heat Death: All to Ash

Psychic Shiv is Jadzia Guzmán and Mike Vichich

Psychic Shiv - Primordial

All music written and performed by Jadzia Guzmán and Mike Vichich

Psychic Shiv - Old Gods

Psychic Shiv - Wearing Black

Slow, hypnotic doom, distorted guitar with a strong rhythm section.

Burnt Strings part one

Track 8 on Stone Oracle, Hostal Handshake’s long-awaited sophomore album, is “The Lizard Sleeps in Oil”—a fast, groovy stoner rock journey laced with whammy-drenched guitar and hallucinatory sludge. The track conjures a dreamlike descent into molten riffs and cryptic imagery, exploring themes of decay, transformation, and mythic stillness.

Nearly two decades after Hellish (2007), this song marks a bold evolution for Hostal Handshake—leaning into hypnotic grooves, lyrical abstraction, and sonic experimentation. Expect layered guitars, trance-inducing rhythms, and vocals that feel more like a ritual invocation than a performance.

“The Lizard Sleeps in Oil” isn’t just a track—it’s a vision. One of the most enigmatic entries on Stone Oracle, slated to drop in 2026.

© & ℗ Hostal Handshake, 2025

lyrics:
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In this scorched and desert land  
A lizard sleeps beneath the sand  
Not quite dead, not truly alive  
Where human dreams no longer thrive  

Their sleeping god? Creep through the sludge  
Their civilization lost to grudge  
This tipping point sparked up this joint  
And it’s never coming back to the point  

They wait to rise with no more lies  
This could be the end of all days  
They want to see, what to believe  
Weep for rusted gods in the haze  
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The Lizard Sleeps in Oil

Take a dive into the sailors prayer, where sirens call out to those who seek solidarity 

The Sailors Prayer

SUPER SECRET EXCLUSIVE DEMO OF 'A GHOST' (only available on SoundCloud)

A GHOST (DEMO)

Hostal Handshake is a stoner doom / hard desert rock band from Athens, Greece, active since 2001. Following early promos and their debut album Hellish (2007, Secret Port Records), they return with Stone Oracle—their long-awaited sophomore full-length, set for release in January 2026. After 18 years, the riffs are heavier, the fuzz deeper, and the desert winds louder.

Female fronted, alternative rock with a warm, experimental, hard hitting twist. Storyteller and introspective lyrics with the addition of doom/rock/blues influences creates quite the sound.

New tracks tagged #doom rock