Release Date: January 30th 2026. Record Label: Heavy Psych Sounds. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl
Ultra Soul - Tracklisting
1.Electric Dunes
2.Gigantia
3.Smoke Tower
4.Black River Blues
5.Astral Crypt
6.MindNight
7.Leave This World With Me
Members
Leandro Gaccione – Guitar
Edoardo De Nardi – Bass
Tommaso Urzino – Drums
Review
Instrumental Doom/Stoner Metallers LORD ELEPHANT made a huge impression with their acclaimed 2022 debut album Cosmic Awakening. The band return with ULTRA SOUL and this continues their Doomed Out Blend of Instrumental WEEDIAN and PSYCHEDELIC bliss that further develops the sonically mind inducing grooves first heard on their debut release. This time round LORD ELEPHANT plays with a heavier, richer and fuller sound that’s packed with melodic focus and COSMIC aggression which also sees a subtle style of Sludge, Prog, Ambient and Shoegaze energy.
The music can be quite forceful and solitary in places which LORD ELEPHANT develops superbly throughout the whole record with the opening songs of Electric Dunes and Gigantia playing similar strands of music to the likes of fellow instrumental doomsters BELZEBONG. The stunning mix of Sludge Metal soundscapes merging with Ambient Rock that brings a thunderous sound to the record that makes you feel you’re listening to music that’s opening the portal or gateway into a different dimension.
LORD ELEPHANT has an expert delivery by creating Post-Rock / Ambient Rock themes before expanding this into a more thrilling way of creative storytelling on tracks such as Smoke Tower, Black River Blues and Astral Crypt. The music feels more grounded and even quite fantastical at the same time with the band taking minor instrumental influences from the likes of SLEEP, HIGH ON FIRE and MASTODON but allowing themselves the opportunity to play their own highly original sound.
Strands of eerie Post-Rock and Shoegaze appear momentarily with the subtle shadows of Psychedelic Rock and Space Rock holding everything together. The second half of ULTRA SOUL is where Lord Elephant become more daring with their music and even CINEMATIC as the whole atmosphere is moody, catchy and brilliantly EPIC on the final two tracks of MindNight and Leave This World With Me. With a sudden appearance of DRONE and DISTORTED surroundings, Lord Elephant really pulls out all of the stops within the final stages of the whole record.
With a neverending supply of FUZZED OUT AMPLIFIERS, LORD ELEPHANT, have released an album that’s better in every department compared to their debut album. Ultra Soul is everything you want, fully deserve and could possibly wish for an Instrumental Doom/Stoner Metal album that will no doubt go down a storm within the underground community and allow LORD ELEPHANT the opportunity to play on some of the most prestigious FESTIVAL slots within the scene.
Mind-blowing. End Of.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Purple Sage PR for the promo.
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