Doomsday Festival debuted in 2009 and showcases a selection of Australia's best sludge, doom, psychedelic, rock and experimental bands. In 2010 Doomsday is shaping up to be a monster roving around the country Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide and for the first time, a very special international band will be joining the previously locals only lineup.

Headlining Doomsday 2010 will be special international guests (and first‐time Australian tourists) ACID KING. Founded and fronted by tough, motorbike riding and guitar slinging Lori S, Acid King has been kicking out the stoner rock and doom metal jams since 1993. The San Francisco based trio have released three albums (all produced by Billy Anderson), toured with no less than High On Fire, Fu Manchu and The Melvins and played as support to Sleep, Hawkwind, Spirit Caravan, The Obsessed and The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight (featuring Jimmy Bower from Down).

The Absolut Metal website aptly described the band as oomy as hell, and they groove. If you like Electric Wizard and Sleep, you'll instantly fall victim to their slow, Sabbath‐y tunes. Lori S leads this 3‐piece with her eerie, droning vocals and badass riffs.Having toured throughout the US, as well as Europe twice and Japan once, Acid King are now poised to undertake their first Australian tour, as the headline act for the Doomsday Festival.

Local acts Clagg, Looking Glass, Summonus, Sons of the Ionian Sea, Fattura Della Morte, Adrift for Days, Fear the Setting Sun, Mother Mars, VAN, Pod People, Space Bong, Agonhymn, Whitehorse and Encircling Sea will be enticing fans to various venues across the country in October.

So if youe a fan of a heavier type of music, Doomsday Festival 2010 will, once again, torment you in all the right ways. Brutal!