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 *** – 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

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

StonerKras Fest 2024 Aftermovie

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 ***
– 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

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

Truckfighters, live at Desertfest New York 2024

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 – 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

Okeydokey, what do we learn here? Bongzilla will be in Europe this Spring, and Mondo Generator will be out to follow up on Nick Oliveri‘s winter solo tour, and Kadabra will go supporting their most excellent 2023 outing, Umbra (review here), though that was already apparent from the first Desertfest London announce. Along with MR.BISON, the esteemed Ufomammut — who’ll have a new LP out sometime in 2024, allegedly — Greek mainstays Nightstalker and upstarts 1782, speedrockers Tankzilla and punkers The Clamps, that’s the bill as it stands that will swap acts back and forth across two nights in Bologna and Trieste next May for Heavy Psych Sounds Fest Italy 2024.

This is not the end of the announcements, of course, but it’s a rousing start as the Italian label and booking agency continues to branch out to new places. You’ll note Trieste is home for Rocket Panda Management, who are involved here and also behind the StonerKras Fest that’s taken place the last couple of years later in the summer. I assume that’s still happening too, and will do so until I hear or see otherwise.

I don’t have numbers on the site’s readership in Bologna or Trieste, but I think these things are relevant anyway exactly because of the above: they show you who’s going to be where when. And it gives me an excuse to post the Kadabra record again. Double-win.

From the PR wire:

Heavy Psych Sounds to announce HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS FEST ITALY 2024 Bologna & Trieste – TICKETS PRESALE + FIRST BANDS !!!

Heavy Psych Sounds Records & Booking will smash Bologna and for the first time Trieste with their highly acclaimed mini festival-series, the HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS FEST!

In cooperation with Freakout Club and Rocket Panda Management, today Heavy Psych Sounds has announced the first confirmed bands + TICKETS PRESALE for the upcoming HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS FEST ITALY 2024 !!!

The HPS Fest Italy will be taking place 3rd and 4th of May at the Teatro Miela in Trieste and 4th and 5th of May at the TPO Club in Bologna !!!

HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS FEST ITALY 2024 – BOLOGNA & TRIESTE

@ TPO, Bologna // 4th and 5th May 2024

@ Teatro Miela, Trieste // 3rd and 4th May 2024

feat.
BONGZILLA
MONDO GENERATOR
UFOMAMMUT
NIGHTSTALKER
1782
KADABRA
MR. BISON
TANKZILLA
THE CLAMPS
+ more TBA

BOLOGNA WEEKEND TICKETS:
https://www.freakoutbologna.com/hps

TRIESTE WEEKEND TICKETS:
https://www.miela.it/spettacoli/heavy-psych-sounds-fest-italy-2024/

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www.heavypsychsounds.com
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Mondo Generator, We Stand Against You (2023)

Kadabra, Umbra (2023)

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 ***

– – – – – – – –

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

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

Margarita Witch Cult, Margarita Witch Cult (2023)

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 – 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 !!!

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** 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

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:

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

Northern Italy’s Buss will release their debut full-length, Aroused, on Nov. 11. The raw-styled fuzz trio from Trieste situated near the Slovenian border issued their self-titled debut EP (review here) in May 2020 (whoops…) and have been kicking around since, honing live chops while building toward the right time for the album’s arrival. As they move from the initial sample to begin with the buzz tones, punchy bass and throaty vocals of the 6:41 opener and longest track (immediate points) “Woland” and the gruff reaffirmation of “Canned Fear” (premiering below), they are as much punk as heavy rock, even if they groove like the latter, and bassist Erik Carpani‘s vocals, with just a bit of reverb, remind of Venom circa Black Metal; a heaping dose of fuckall present and accounted for as a defining aspect of their craft.

Carpani, guitarist Patrik Pregarc and drummer Ivan Kralj make the most of their rawness as the centerpiece “Pistol Shrimp” roll out brash midtempo nod in answer to the garage metal chug and thud of “Iron Flies” just before, but in that song and throughout, the swagger leans hard on sneering arrogance, furthering the punker underpinning and tying Aroused together around its basic introductory premise. I’ve no doubt, in other words, that if Buss had issued their debut long-player in 2020 or 2021 as they otherwise might have, they would already be at work on what’s next, but as it stands, they’re not held back at all for the misfortune of timing (and so much else). If anything, with live music “back,” the energy with which they execute these songs feels all the more stage-resonant. That is, after listening to the record, I’d be glad to watch them play a set on an actual stage. That’s how it’s supposed to work, right?

Digging into the second half of the seven-songs-plus-bonus-track album, “Onion Rings” brings bluesy vibes in its opening stretch of lead guitar and offers one of Aroused‘s most vibrant swings, a classic shuffle-into-release working from the verse to the chorus with the steady pulse of the drums beneath. There’s room in the 5:58 runtime for a jam and a slowdown both, and Buss don’t waste that time, Pregarc‘s guitar once again holding court in the first position, with Carpani‘s vocals roughing up the sound along the way. Their vision of classic heavy is more Atomic Rooster than Black Sabbath in “Garden of Fools,” but that solo and the progression underneath is pure Iommi and clearly intended as same. As with the fuzzroller “Beer Song,” tucked away like the stumbling patron the bartender stuck in the corner with a hopefully restorative cup of coffee, Buss ask little of the listener and offer much in their no-pretense, here-because-we-love-it style.

Europe’s heavy underground, even if you want to narrow it just to Italy, is slammed with bands. Saturated. How Buss will ultimately stand themselves out from the multitudes, if they will, remains to be seen, but there’s opportunity for developing their sound along any number of lines throughout Aroused, and if you can’t hear at least some of that potential within “Canned Fear,” it’s not the band’s fault. Between metal, punk, heavy rock, and that semi-cover bonus track “Mint Julep”‘s casual lean, they shine through, putting the pieces together to make something of their own from what’s come before and what’s out there now. I’m not gonna predict their future or tell you they’re destined to be some kind of a big deal — not saying such a thing couldn’t happen, either, of course — but Buss sound eager to get out, hit as many stages as possible and win support the hard way. Such multifaceted traditionalism will suit them well in that, in addition to the strength of songwriting on display here.

“Canned Fear” premieres in the video below, followed by a band quote and done PR wire whatnot, for your convenient perusal. Having done a few premieres for Buss at this point, I’m glad to be on board for this one. Don’t sleep on the record.

Enjoy:

Buss, “Canned Fear” video premiere

Buss on Aroused:

Whatever happened in the past two years, clearly showed that we probably chose the worst historical period to make and enjoy music. Don’t need to tell you what we’re talking about. But even if sabotaged and talented in making wrong decisions, we found enough time to work on something that bands use to do: a full album.

AROUSED was the right word to describe our mood: lustful, provocative and disappointed. Sexy woman’s fingers on the cover, can clearly describe our pleasure in our music, but still uncomfortable with our times. All songs are written and performed by Buss except the bonus track “Mint Julep” written by the Italian author Nino Ferrer in the ’60s and revisited in our style.

Our riffs were recorded with only heavy vintage classic instruments and even with prototypes. Nothing strange if at some point the bass cabinet burned down. Recorded and cuddled by the only reliable Truck Terminal Studio, mixed by James Atkinson at The Stationhouse in the U.K. and mastered by Claudio Bisi.

Presale: https://bussband.bandcamp.com/releases

First single of the upcoming album by Buss. Recorded in MKNŽ Ilirska Bistrica by Klemen Čepar and mastered by Matej Čebulec. Special thanks to Pablo Scarpa, Rok Samsa and MKNŽ guys. Powered by Rocket Panda Management. 

BUSS – AROUSED Tracklist:
1. Woland
2. Canned Fear
3. Iron Flies
4. Pistol Shrimp
5. Onion Rings
6. Garden of Fools
7. Beer Song
8. (Bonus Track) Mint Julep

BUSS is:
Erik Carpani – bass & vocals
Patrik Pregarc – guitar
Ivan Kralj – drums

Buss, Buss EP (2020)

Buss on Instagram

Buss on Facebook

Buss on YouTube

Buss on Bandcamp

Buss on Spotify