Sardinian stoner/heavy psych trio Elepharmers drops new single »Drifter«; »Western Wilderness« LP out October 24th on Electric Valley Records!
Cagliari, Italy based stoner/heavy psych trio Elepharmers drops the second single »Drifter« taken from their upcoming full-length album, »Western Wilderness«, due out on October 24th, 2025 via Electric Valley Records.
Tracklist:
01. The Underworld
02. The Call Of The Wild
03. Arcuentu
04. Burning The Nest
05. Dung Beetle
06. Drifter
07. Blind
08. Towers Of Silence
09. Genna Serapis
Courtesy of Electric Valley Records:
»Western Wilderness« is the band’s fourth album and the second released by Electric Valley Records. The new album marks a return to basics, compared to the previous concept album »Lords Of Galaxia«, which featured many space-rock digressions. Nine tracks that articulate between desert stoner rock with some psychedelic episodes. It is not a concept album, but in the course of writing the record, an underlying idea spontaneously emerged that binds the tracks both musically and lyrically. »Western Wilderness« is an album inspired by abandoned mining villages, in an area where wild nature slowly takes back what man has taken from it over the centuries, amid silent sand dunes and sunsets over the sea.
Artwork by Andrea Cara Inkline.
Says the band: “»Drifter« is the second single and opens the B-side of the album. It’s a stoner-doom track with sulphurous downtuned riffs on 2/4 grooves that flow into desert-rock rides.”
Available in:
• 270x Transparent Sandy Yellow Vinyl
• 30x Ultra LTD “Desert Edition”
• Digital
Pre-order here:
electricvalleyrecords.com
evrecords.bandcamp.com
Elepharmers (Sardinia, Italy) are a stoner/heavy-psych trio. Formed in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy in 2010, the band consists of Guido Solinas aka El Chino on guitar, vocals, bass; Andrea Cadeddu on lead guitar; and Maurizio Mura on drums.
Always placed in the stoner genre, the three formed in the metal, thrash, grunge and hard rock of the 70s, 80s and 90s: the trio’s sound is driven by powerful downtuned guitar riffs and drum grooves, bluesy vocals and a free-sounding lead guitar. Over the years the band has released three albums: »Weird Tales From The Third Planet« (Go Down Records, 2013), »Erebus« (Go Down Records, 2016) and the concept »Lords Of Galaxia« (Electric Valley Records, 2019).
The Elepharmers have toured in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands; they have played at important international festivals such as Duna Jam, Elav Stoner Open Air, Maximum Festival, Monolithix Fest, Electric Valley Festival and have shared the stage with bands such as Karma To Burn, Orange Goblin, Yawning Man, Red Fang, Mars Red Sky, Toner Low, Monkey 3, Electric Moon, Wedge, Messa, Giöbia and many others. The spring 2020 European tour was postponed and then unfortunately cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Throughout 2020 and 2021 the Elepharmers suspended concert activity but continued to write new stuff, and in 2022 they resumed playing clubs and festivals in conjunction with the pre-production of a new album. »Western Wilderness« is the band’s fourth album and will be released by Electric Valley Records in October 2025. The Elepharmers will tour Europe again in November 2025.
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well