Lord Elephant Premiere “Black River Blues”; Ultra Soul LP Due Jan. 30
Posted in audiObelisk, Whathaveyou on November 4th, 2025 by JJ Koczan
In 2022, Lord Elephant released their debut album, Cosmic Awakening (review here), through Heavy Psych Sounds. The next year, the Florence trio took part in an HPS-backed split with labelmates Oreyeon. And even as Ultra Soul, their second full-length introduced to listeners with the premiere of “Black River Blues” below, and they’ve been playing live all the while. Last week, Heavy Psych Sounds announced the album’s existence in saying it had re-signed the band, and in addition to the advent of “Black River Blues” — a sweetly desert-hued number as regards tone, but definitely cast with the intent to roll — the kind of thing that makes Sleep fans raise an eyebrow while the Kyuss heads are already drunk to it. You understand this. I know you do.
As to the ‘blues’ in the title, if you’ve got a quota, the solo in the first half will meet it en route to the more brash volume trades later in the instrumental procession. There’s a break right about halfway — because of course — where the bass leads the way back in, and if you and your family celebrate groove in any of its forms, well, you might like to make a donation to Lord Elephant‘s church. Riffs for the glory of riffage. Riffs to save us all.
But most essentially, riffs. Lord Elephant have already been confirmed for Heavy Psych Sounds Fest in Belgium next year. I would not expect that to be the last you’ll see of their name in 2026.
Audio, PR wire info, links and more follow. Please enjoy:
Lord Elephant, “Black River Blues” track premiere
BLACK RIVER BLUES is LORD ELEPHANT first single taken from the band’s upcoming new album ULTRA SOUL.
The release will see the light January 30th via Heavy Psych Sounds.
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Lord Elephant on “Black River Blues”: “The first single taken from the album is a stoned-paced hard blues delirium, written in honor of the cheapest and deadliest whiskey we could find on the market, Black River Whiskey, that quenched our thirst so many times for travels and live shows! The limping time of the beginning evolves into a second doomy section, that hits hard as the last sip of the low-priced bottle of whiskey in our hand! In the end, this is something like a real love song if you think about that, isn’t?”
Lord Elephant are back with their second studio album “Ultra Soul”, a psyched blend of 70’s, 90’s and 00’s extravaganzas mixed together with the distinctive heavy breath of the band. Blues, doom and sludge are fused again in the strange trademark of the trio, allergic to genre-labels and ready to expand the vision beyond cages!
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio 73, Ravenna, by Riccardo Pasini (Nero Di Marte, Ephel Duath, Ottone Pesante..)
Artwork and Layout by JJ Farfante ArtLab (Melvins, Mudhoney, Ufomammut)
LORD ELEPHANT is:
Leandro Gaccione – Guitar
Edoardo De Nardi – Bass
Tommaso Urzino – Drums
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