StonerKras Fest 2026 Adds Acid Row and Tytus

Posted in Whathaveyou on April 6th, 2026 by JJ Koczan

By the time Prague’s Acid Row take the stage at StonerKras Fest 2026 in Trieste, Italy, this July, the band’s new album, Magic, will have seen both its digital and physical release (May 1 and 16, respectively) come and go, and I don’t know what the status currently is, but trad-metallers Tytus recorded their own third full-length last Fall and I haven’t seen any announcement for it, but it could well be out by summer too for all I know. These two joining Stoned Jesus broadens the bill stylistically and geographcally, and with more to come, the two-day fifth edition of StonerKras is beginning to take shape. What I’m curious about is how many bands will ultimately play each day and how it will all play out sound-wise.

To the best of my recollection, StonerKras has always been one-day, about five or six bands, so if there’s two days this year, then time’s getting on to get all the names out. Fair enough for the festival to expand, as it has looked like a family-friendly good time since it started. I guess there’s time still for everybody to be revealed, but so far it’s three different bands bringing three different sounds, all of them right on.

From the PR wire:

stonerkras fest 2026 second announce poster

Rocket Panda Management to announce StonerKras Fest 2026 – MORE BANDS ANNOUNCED TODAY !!

Arci Trieste and Rocket Panda Management present

*** STONERKRAS FEST 2026 ***
– 11 & 12.07.2026 – Prosek-Prosecco (Trieste, ITA) –
V edition

StonerKras Fest 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.

The festival will celebrate its 5th edition with an amazing lineup that will be unveiled in the next weeks.

!! IN ADDITION TO STONED JESUS – MORE BANDS ANNOUNCED TODAY !!

*** ACID ROW ***
stoner rock from Czech Republic

Acid Row is a Czech band active since around 2012, known for its explosive blend of stoner rock and punk, spiced with elements of doom, psychedelia, and ’90s grunge. Originally formed in Plzeň and relocated to Prague in 2019, the band has built a reputation for its ferocious live energy and an affinity for a darker, “devilish” aesthetic. Currently, the band performs as a trio consisting of Alex Fonar (vocals, bass), Dominik Klesa (guitar), and Radek Bacík (drums).

*** TYTUS ***
heavy metal from Trieste

Their sound harks back to the glorious years of NWOBHM and Speed Metal.

Firmly rooted somewhere between ’79 and ’84, their mission is to make those classic sounds fresh and new again, keeping the pure spirit of metal alive.

To date, the band has released two full-length albums, several singles, and a couple of EPs.

GRAB YOUR TICKETs HERE:
https://stonerkras.it/tickets.html

MORE BANDS WILL BE UNVEILED IN THE NEXT WEEKS..

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** FOOD & DRINKS **
** MARKET STANDS **
** PSYCHEDELIC LIGHT SHOW **
** MASSAGE-SHIATSU AREA **
** FREE AFTERPARTY DJ-SET ***
+
** OVERNIGHT AREA **
** SUNDAY AFTERPARTY with LIVE MUSIC **

Artwork made by Mirkow Gastow

https://www.stonerkras.it/
https://www.instagram.com/stonerkrasfest/
https://www.facebook.com/StonerKrasFest

Acid Row, “Vertigo”

Tytus, Roaming in Despair (2023)

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StonerKras Fest 2026 Announces Stoned Jesus to Play

Posted in Whathaveyou on February 16th, 2026 by JJ Koczan

stoned jesus (Photo by Daina Forys)

At some point this year, maybe even by July when StonerKras 2026 is set to take place, Stoned Jesus will issue the second installment of their intended triptych in the form of Songs to Moon, following the 2025 highlight Songs to Sun (review here) and preceding 2027’s intended Songs to Earth. If you like good news — and you know I do — that should certainly qualify.

That Stoned Jesus are the first band confirmed for StonerKras Fest in Trieste, Italy — hence the ‘+TBA’ on the poster below — tells you they’ll probably be on tour at the time, coming from Germany where the Ukraine-rooted band are now living (because endless war), but it also tells you StonerKras is going to be killer. I assume Stoned Jesus will headline, since the lineups for StonerKras have tended to be low-key killer, doable-with-a-family, all-dayer-type affairs complete with vending and such, but I don’t actually know that, so will look forward to seeing who else is taking part.

Looks like a good time to me:

stonerkras fest 2026 stoned jesus

Rocket Panda Management to announce StonerKras Fest 2026 – FIRST BAND ANNOUNCED TODAY !!

*** STONERKRAS FEST 2026 ***
– 11.07.2026 – Prosek-Prosecco (Trieste, ITA) –
V edition

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://fb.me/e/6EZVl43ZR

TICKETS: https://stonerkras.it/tickets.html

StonerKras Fest 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.

The festival will celebrate it’s 5th edition with an amazing lineup that will be unveiled in the next weeks.

!! FIRST BAND ANNOUNCED TODAY !!
!! VERY EXCLUSIVE SHOW FOR NORTH-EAST ITALY, SLOVENIA AND CROATIA IN THIS 2026 !!

*** STONED JESUS ***
stoner prog from Ukraine

We are stoked to announce the first confirmed band for our StonerKras Fest 5th edition.
The mighties stoner prog wizards STONED JESUS will perform with a very exclusive show for North-East Italy, Slovenia and Croatia in 2026 !!

Stoned Jesus is an Ukrainian stoner prog-rock trio formed in Kiev in 2009 by Igor Sydorenko.

They are considered one of the the pillars of the European heavy rock scene, known for popularizing the genre with epic, extended songs like their cult classic “I’m the Mountain.”

GRAB YOUR TICKET HERE:
https://stonerkras.it/tickets.html

MORE BANDS WILL BE UNVEILED IN THE NEXT WEEKS..

** FOOD & DRINKS **
** MARKET STANDS **
** PSYCHEDELIC LIGHT SHOW **
** MASSAGE-SHIATSU AREA **
** FREE AFTERPARTY DJ-SET ***
+
** OVERNIGHT AREA **
** SUNDAY AFTERPARTY with LIVE MUSIC **

Artwork made by Mirkow Gastow

https://www.stonerkras.it/
https://www.instagram.com/stonerkrasfest/
https://www.facebook.com/StonerKrasFest

Stoned Jesus, “Shadowland” official video

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StonerKras Fest 2025 Announces Full Lineup

Posted in Whathaveyou on March 19th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

It’s a cool one. I dig the whole vibe here. The way StonerKras comes across to me is so much more like an open party than a typical heavyfest. It’s six bands in 2025, which isn’t nothing, but consider that part of the intention is that the party goes all night for those who’d be mad enough to ever want it to — I know some humans are still in their 20s, and that’s adorable — and a friendly experiential presentation that includes shiatsu massage and vendors selling probably hippie clothes and I don’t know what, as well as the ongoing encourangement toward family attendance, and it seems like it would be a laid back time either way. I don’t know that the kid would make it to the afterparty, but I know for sure I wouldn’t, so there you go.

And the lineup’s good too. Truckfighters were previously announced, but I saw MR.BISON in January and they were expansive despite such solid groove. Them Moose Rush and Zolle are both righteous in completely different ways. I am less familiar with Veuve — though I know they were on Argonauta at one point — and Black Pope, but if you’re going to a thing like this, you go ready to learn. That’s not to say I’ll be there, sadly, but even the hypothetical is fun.

Here’s the announcement:

stonerkras fest 2025 poster sq

*** STONERKRAS FEST 2025 *** – 12.07.2025 – Prosek-Prosecco (Trieste, ITA) – IV edition

StonerKras Fest is an open air 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.

!!! FULL LINEUP ANNOUNCED TODAY !!!

TRUCKFIGHTERS (very exclusive show for Italy/Slovenia/Croatia in 2025)
MR.BISON (heavy psych, ITA)
THEM MOOSE RUSH (stoner prog, CRO)
ZOLLE (lard rock duo, ITA)
BLACK POPE (southern metal, ITA)
VEUVE (heavy psych, ITA)

+ AFTERPARTY DJSET with Alterative Nite + Satisfaction

TICKETS PRESALE:
https://stonerkras.it/tickets.html

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

+ for the first time
** OVERNIGHT AREA **
** SUNDAY AFTERPARTY WITH LIVE MUSIC **

Artwork made by Mirkow Gastow

https://www.instagram.com/stonerkrasfest/
https://www.facebook.com/StonerKrasFest/

StonerKras Fest 2024 Aftermovie

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StonerKras Fest 2025 Announces Truckfighters to Play

Posted in Whathaveyou on February 13th, 2025 by JJ Koczan

After a 2024 lineup that featured Colour Haze and Black Rainbows, among others, the Trieste, Italy-based StonerKras Fest is starting big with its 2025 reveals — no less than Swedish fuzz kingpins Truckfighters will take part. Among the most reliable live acts heavy rock and roll has ever produced, Truckfighters will play this show as a regional exclusive, Trieste being situated near the Italian/Slovenian border.

I don’t know how many acts the festival will ultimately have – last year’s StonerKras was an eminently manageable five bands — but particularly if you’re looking for a smaller fest-type event where you can take your family, this is one to keep in mind. I’m doing the same, for whatever that might be worth. Tickets are up for presale now, and I will do my best to keep up with announcements and details as they emerge.

For now, from the PR wire:

StonerKras Fest 2025 Truckfighters

*** STONERKRAS FEST 2025 ***
– 12.07.2025 – Prosek-Prosecco (Trieste, ITA) –
IV edition

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.

!!! FIRST BAND + TICKETS PRESALE ANNOUNCED TODAY !!!

*** TRUCKFIGHTERS ***
– stoner fuzz rock legends from Sweden –

!!! VERY EXCLUSIVE SHOW FOR ITALY, SLOVENIA and CROATIA IN THIS 2025 !!!

If you are interested in groovy, stoner-influenced, progressive and melodic hard rock you probably know about Truckfighters already. “The best band that ever existed” as Josh Homme said in the 2011 “fuzzomentary” Truckfighters. You might also know the story about how Niklas ‘Dango‘ Källgren teamed up with bassist and vocalist Oskar ‘Ozo’ Cedermalm in a worn down rehearsal space in Örebro, Sweden in 2001 and how the first song they ever recorded, Desert Cruiser, since then has gone on to become a desert rock anthem. You probably also know that the band itself has gone on to release five full length albums and played sold out shows on four continents.

Truckfighters have become a fundament in the ‘stoner rock/metal’ sub-genre with fans all over the world enjoying the crazy live shows and the fuzzy sounds…

After more than 20 years as a band it is safe to say the touring is less frequent than the most intense years of the band. Just as safe as is it to say that the shows will be better than ever and as always with a hell of a fuzzy sound!

+ more bands TBA !!!

TICKETS PRESALE STARTS TODAY:
https://stonerkras.it/tickets.html

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

+ for the first time

** OVERNIGHT AREA **
** SUNDAY AFTERPARTY **

Artwork made by Mirkow Gastow

https://www.instagram.com/stonerkrasfest/
https://www.facebook.com/StonerKrasFest/

Truckfighters, live at Desertfest New York 2024

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StonerKras Fest 2024 Announces Full Lineup

Posted in Whathaveyou on April 30th, 2024 by JJ Koczan

I’m never going to claim to be an expert on the visual arts, whether it’s a question of aesthetic or technique. But I know when I see something awesome, and the three-eyed ribbitdragon adorning the poster below for Trieste, Italy’s StonerKras Fest 2024 this July for sure qualifies. The art is by Mirkow Gastow, who’s done other posters and graphics in and around the operating sphere of Heavy Psych Sounds, whose flagship outfit Black Rainbows feature in the third edition of StonerKras‘ lineup, assuring the all-dayer’s cosmic-party quotient will be met before German heavy psychedelic forebears Colour Haze headline as part of their ongoing 30th anniversary celebration in 2024.

Last July’s StonerKras had seven bands on the bill — among them 1000mods and Nick Oliveri‘s Mondo Generator — and Black Mamba Rock Explosion, Savanah and Britof round out the stated-as-full lineup of five for this year, but I wouldn’t be surprised if maybe part of that is to allow for longer set times or changeovers, or just to let the crowd take in some of the merch stands or, you know, get a massage. I can’t remember ever seeing a massage therapist on-grounds at a festival before, but speaking as a human living in a body that’s not getting any younger, I get it. Not all considerations are as timeless or ethereally rad as a three-eyed ribbitdragon. Sometimes your back hurts.

Cool to see this one growing and finding its niche over the last few years. Here’s the announcement:

stonerkras fest 2024 poster sq

STONERKRAS FEST 2024 – III edition

– 13.07.2024 – Prosek-Prosecco (Trieste, ITA) –

FULL LINEUP + TICKETS PRESALE 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.

The festival will be taking place on Saturday, July 13th in the gorgeous village Prosek-Prosecco near Trieste (Italy).

Today Rocket Panda Management in collaboration with Never In has announced the FULL LINEUP and TICKETS PRESALE for the StonerKras Fest III edition !!!

*** STONERKRAS FEST ***
13.07.2024 – Prosek-Trieste (ITA)

COLOUR HAZE (psychedelic heavy rock, DE)
BLACK RAINBOWS (heavy psych/fuzz rock, ITA – exclusive show for north Italy/Slovenia/Croatia in 2024)
BLACK MAMBA ROCK EXPLOSION (hard rock’n’roll, ITA)
SAVANAH (progressive stoner, AT)
BRITOF (doom/sludge, SLO)
+
AFTERPARTY DJ SET

** FOOD & DRINKS **
** MARKET STANDS **
** RELAX/MASSAGE AREA **
** PSYCHEDELIC LIGHT SHOW **
** FREE AFTERPARTY DJ-SET ***
*** CHILDREN FRIENDLY ***

TICKETS PRESALE: https://biglietteria.ticketpoint-trieste.it/dettaglio-spettacolo.php?negozio_spettacolo_id=841

FB EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/810302051013124/

ARTWORK by the one and only Mirkow Gastow: https://linktr.ee/mirkowgastow

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Colour Haze, “Tempel” live in Karlsruhe, DE, Feb. 16, 2024

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StonerKras Fest 2023 Completes Lineup

Posted in Whathaveyou on May 12th, 2023 by JJ Koczan

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-2023-last-poster

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 ***

– – – – – – – –

!!! TICKETS PRESALE !!!
WWW.STONERKRAS.IT

https://www.instagram.com/stonerkrasfest/
https://www.facebook.com/StonerKrasFest/

Margarita Witch Cult, Margarita Witch Cult (2023)

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StonerKras Fest 2023 Announces New Bands & Ticket Presales

Posted in Whathaveyou on March 22nd, 2023 by JJ Koczan

With Mondo Generator, Trieste’s own TSO and Slovenian instrumentalists Jegulja in this second announcement, 2023’s StonerKras Fest embodies what seems to be the core mission of the festival in bringing together higher-profile touring acts — recall the first band unveiled was Greece’s 1000mods — with those local to the event’s locale near the Italy/Slovenia border. Trying to make something happen, to spread the word about a regional scene and support its bands while benefiting as well from providing a stop on European tours where otherwise there probably wouldn’t be one.

It’s an all-dayer, and last year’s inaugural edition had six bands, so it seems reasonable to think there’s at least one more announcement coming ahead of July,

StonerKras Fest 2023 second poster

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

TICKETS PRESALE starts today + 3 more bands 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 !!!

*** MONDO GENERATOR ***

– stoner punk legends from California –

Mondo Generator was formed in 1997 by Queens of the Stone Age bassist/singer Nick Oliveri. Initially intended as a solo/side project, the classic “Cocaine Rodeo” album was recorded that same year, but shelved until the Southern Lord label released it and its unique brand of criminal insanity to widespread acclaim and horror in the summer of 2000. The follow-up, “A Drug Problem That Never Existed,” was released jointly in the Summer of 2003 by Ipecac/Rekords Rekords to further critical acclaim. A worldwide tour followed that was chronicled on video for the DVD release “Use Once and Destroy Me”.

In 2004, Mondo Generator recorded and released “III The EP.” Oliveri began a solo acoustic career shortly after, which would see two full releases, “Demolition Day”, and 2010’s “Death Acoustic.” In 2006, Mondo Generator released “Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails” on English label Mother Tongue. It would be released worldwide the following year on Suburban Noize Records. In late 2010, Mondo Generator would be put on a back-burner as Oliveri rejoined Kyuss, re-branded as Kyuss Lives! (and now Vista Chino), which also featured John Garcia, Brant Bjork, and new guitarist Bruno Fevery. In summer 2012, the new Mondo Generator album, “Hell Comes To Your Heart,” was released by Mondo Media/Cobraside.

The band has come back with a new lineup (Nick Oliveri with Mike Pygmie on guitars and Michael Amster on drums), a brand new album FUCK IT and a bunch of represses via Heavy Psych Sounds !!!

*** TSO ***

– alternative rock from Trieste –

Founded by Abbrescia brothers in 2013 in Trieste, with two albums and a bunch of tours, TSO are working on their third record.

Catchy tunes, heavy riffs, some oddities and underground wizardry.

One of the best bands in town!

*** JEGULJA ***

– instrumental stoner metal from Slovenia –

Jegulja is a psychedelic stoner/metal trio with seventh drummer.

Jegulja has completed its second album Exit Sandman in 2020. The first Darkest Light album was [released in 2017].

Jegulja is Rok ‘Boogie’ Henigman on drums, Jure Gašper – baritone guitar and Jan Kozel – Fender Stratocaster.

+ more bands TBA !!!

– – – – – – – –

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

– – – – – – – –

!!! 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

https://www.instagram.com/stonerkrasfest/
https://www.facebook.com/StonerKrasFest/

Mondo Generator, Live at Freak Valley Festival 2022

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StonerKras Fest 2023 Announces 1000mods to Play

Posted in Whathaveyou on February 20th, 2023 by JJ Koczan

Based in the north of Italy near the borders with Slovenia and Croatia, StonerKras Fest will hold its 2023 edition this July, with Greece’s 1000mods as the first act to be announced. That’s a solid pull out of the gate, though I’m left wondering if they’ll headline. You might recall in 2022 Nebula topped the bill, and while 1000mods are not necessarily as long-tenured as the reinvigorated L.A./desert mainstays and so can’t yet claim the same kind of generational influence — though their native underground would not be what it is without them, to be sure — they’re probably right around the same in terms of draw.

Last year’s StonerKras also dug into its regional sphere with a Glory Owl reunion featured in 2022, and certainly between Northern Italy, Slovenia and Croatia there’s plenty more to include and explore in that regard as they work their way toward a full lineup this time around. It was six bands in 2022, and if 1000mods aren’t headlining and there’s another big name coming in for the day, that already ups the stakes for this July. I know nothing, as ever, so we’ll see how it comes together presumably over the next few weeks/months as tickets go on sale and so on.

Or, to put it another way, more to come. For today, here’s this:

StonerKras Fest 2023 1000mods

Rocket Panda Management is proud to announce STONERKRAS

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

II edition

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.

!!! FIRST BAND ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY !!!

*** 1000MODS ***
– stoner rock legends from Greece –

!!! VERY EXCLUSIVE SHOW FOR NORTH-EAST ITALY, SLOVENIA and CROATIA IN SUMMER 2023 !!!

+ more bands TBA !!!

– – – – – – – –

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

TICKETS PRESALE AVAILABLE VERY SOON

https://www.instagram.com/stonerkrasfest/
https://www.facebook.com/StonerKrasFest/

1000mods, “Electric Carve” official video

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