It’s a pretty distractible morning apparently, but I’m going to try to finish this post before my head meanders to one of the other three I’ve currently got going at the same time. So it goes when you’ve spent the week not answering emails while doing a Quarterly Review; always a bit of catchup. I’m happy to note, though, that this news only came in yesterday, so I’m not nearly as behind on it as, well, whatever will probably go up on Monday, for example.

StonerKras Fest 2023 has announced its complete lineup for this July in Trieste, Italy. The final bands added are Heavy Psych Sounds upstarts Margarita Witch Cult from the UK — their self-titled debut came out in April — as well as the evidently prolific and weird Long Hours and Mystic Majesty, whose first record was released in March. They join the ranks of 1000mods and Mondo Generator, who will headline the all-dayer set for July 15, and cap a bill that’s already grown more diverse from the first edition’s lineup last year. ‘Plant a seed and work your ass off to watch it grow,’ I think is the saying about music festivals.

As much fun as it is to pretend one might be able to abscond to the Italian northeast and catch this gig, it doesn’t seem likely I’ll make it out, but it’s been cool to keep up here and I’ll look forward to how StonerKras continues to develop in 2024. In the meantime, if you are in a position geographically or financially to get there, tickets are on sale now.

As the PR wire tells it:

STONERKRAS – 15.07.2023 – Prosek-Prosecco (Trieste, ITA)

FULL LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT

StonerKras is a psychedelic music gathering based on stoner, doom and heavy psych music. The festival has an international footprint but with the aim of enhancing the local heavy scene (both Slovenian and Italian) while attracting spectators from the region but also from neighboring countries.
Youth aggregation and cultural exchange accompanied by good music.

!!! TICKETS PRESALE STARTS TODAY !!!
FIRST 100 EARLY BIRD TICKETS
ONLY 20€ (+presale tax)

https://biglietteria.ticketpoint-trieste.it/dettaglio-spettacolo.php?negozio_spettacolo_id=569

!!! THREE MORE BANDS ANNOUNCED TODAY !!!

*** MARGARITA WITCH CULT ***
– new proto metal-doom UK sensation –

Hailing from the home of metal, Birmingham UK, Margarita Witch Cult are the Sabbath City’s newest heirs to the throne of darkness serving a merciless concoction of stoned sludge, demented thrash, and proto-metal weirdness.

Their self-titled debut album was released via Heavy Psych Sounds in April 2023.

*** LONG HOURS ***
– Elvis performing on acid.. –

Long hours has been coined as being lofi, nowave, synth punk croon-core, gothdoowop with a relentless live show inspired by frontmen such as David Yow (the Jesus lizard) JG Thirlwell (Foetus) Alan Vega (suicide). Long hours has performed up & down the east coast of Australia countless times and has toured Japan twice. He has also released 27 albums in the space of 3 years.

Imagine an Elvis performance… on acid!

*** MYSTIC MAJESTY ***
– hard robot rock from Italy –

Born in 2018 from the ashes of different projects, inspired by the stoner scene with psychedelic influences and without forgetting their roots, Mystic Majesty is an explosive and powerful mix of sound and lyrics defined Hard Robot Rock. Their will is to bring the listener out of space/time to make us feel one with the universe.

Even just for a brief moment..

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*** STONERKRAS FEST ***
15.07.2023 – Prosek-Trieste (ITA)

1000MODS (stoner rock, GR – exclusive show for north-east Italy/Slovenia/Croatia in summer 2023)
MONDO GENERATOR (stoner punk, USA)
MARGARITA WITCH CULT (proto metal/doom, UK)
TSO (alternative rock, ITA)
JEGULJA (instrumental stoner metal, SLO)
LONG HOURS (lo-fi/punk/acid folk, AUS)
MYSTIC MAJESTY (hard robot rock, ITA)

** FOOD & DRINKS **
** MARKET STANDS **
** PSYCHEDELIC LIGHT SHOW **
** FREE AFTERPARTY DJ-SET ***

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Margarita Witch Cult, Margarita Witch Cult (2023)