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

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

StonerKras Fest 2024 Aftermovie

Granted, there are still four days left in the year, so technically, there’s time, but I think we might actually be looking at the final band Argonauta Records will announce as having signed in 2017. The Italian label went on whatever is the next level up from a spree this past year and has built a momentum of impending releases that will carry them into the early months of 2018 and likely beyond that as well, working in a range of styles and geographies within and outside of Europe. Veuve, also from Italy, seem to have the honor of rounding things out.

Their debut full-length, Yard, surfaced in 2016, and next year, the Spilimbergo trio will follow it with a yet-unnamed new long-player to be delivered via Argonauta and possibly someone else for vinyl. Stylistically they reside in a semi-psychedelic sphere, bringing together thick grooves and spacious effects wash so that by the time Yard gets down to closer “Pryp’jat’,” it recalls Sigiriya‘s first record, Abrahma, or even New Zealand’s Arc of Ascent in its blend. As for where the new one’s headed, I don’t even know if it’s recorded yet, so mark it as TBA. As ever, we’ll find out when we get there.

The PR wire has narrative:

Heavy Psych Rockers VEUVE signs to ARGONAUTA RECORDS

Heavy Psych Rockers VEUVE joined Argonauta family! VEUVE are a power trio formed in Italy. While messing around since 2014, they released two albums: a self-produced EP (February 2015) and a full-length album “Yard” (via The Smoking Goat Records & Acid Cosmonaut Records, February 2016).

VEUVE hang between the fuzzy “seventies-fashioned” riffs of mother Sabbath & father Kyuss, infinite kraut drifts with a strong taste of Hawkwind and clean, watery post-metal trails, like true delay-lovers.

“We are thrilled of becoming part of the Argonauta Records orbit” the band says “we have been following their releases from almost the beginning and having their mark on our work will be astonishing. We are already working on our next full-length album, heading to craft something cool”.

More details on the new album will be revealed soon, in the meantime you can have a taste of the band here: https://veuve.bandcamp.com/

VEUVE
Andrea Carlin – Drums
Felice di Paolo – Guitar
Riccardo Quattrin – Bass

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Veuve/573106166115215
http://instagram.com/veuve_band
https://twitter.com/VEUVEBand
https://veuve.bandcamp.com/
www.argonautarecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/ArgonautaRecords/
https://twitter.com/argonautarex
https://www.instagram.com/argonautarecords/

Veuve, Yard (2016)