Queen Elephantine
http://queenelephantine.com
"Wicked... Mind-expanding." —Rolling Stone India
"Masters of evocative, atmospheric drone." —Terrorizer What's it sound like?
"Wicked... Mind-expanding experiments with drone guitars, lumbering bass lines and mystic atmosphere."
—Rolling Stone India
"8.5... Queen Elephantine have become masters of evocative, atmospheric drone, enlisting a multitude of musical traditions from across the world to create aural environments that feel ancient and earthy. Entrancing riffs crawl and repeat before either exploring into a flurry of noise or collapsing complete to almost nothing but an ego-destroying drone and group chanting."
—Terrorizer Magazine
“Doom rock at its brooding, soul-striping best.”
—Hong Kong Magazine
"There comes a point when listening to a record becomes more of a religious experience than a musical one."
—Roadburn's Album of the Day
"One of the finest current purveyors of opiated psychdoom... Killer."
—Crucial Blast
"This is how you intoxicate your audience… The perfect storm of instrumentation, musicians and sensibilities; the vision is singular, and the results are spectacular… A majestic, downtrodden, mystical form of drone doom unlike anything I have heard for a while.”
—The Sleeping Shaman
"[QE] entrap us from the first instant with the sheer ritual of their sound, the sheer multi-levelled drama of their experience. Like largactilled earthmovers aping human metal culture while the cities burn on the horizon... Awe-inspiring."
—Julian Cope's Head Heritage
For fans of: Ufomammut, Univers Zero, Swans, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Sun Ra, Sonic Youth, Six Organs of Admittance, Pink Floyd, Oxbow, Orthodox, Om, Mukul Shivputra, Miles Davis, Melvins, Master Musicians of Bu***ke, Kushal Das, La Monte Young, Harvey Milk, Hamid Drake, Earth, Eagle Twin, Desert Sessions, Colour Haze, Circle, Can, Burning Witch, B**g, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Ascend, Amon Düül II, Ustad Ahmed Jan Thirakwa, Alice In Chains
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DISCOGRAPHY
Full Length
Gorgon (CD, LP 2019)
KALA (CD, LP 2016, cas 2017)
Scarab (CD, LP 2013)
Garland of Skulls (CD 2011, LP 2016)
Kailash (CD 2010, cas 2009)
Surya (CD 2007)
EP / Split
Tribute to Atrophos (Digi 2020)
Omen (Digi 2015)
8XI08 Live in Brooklyn (CDR 2010)
Split with Alunah (7” 2009)
To Tartarus (Digi 2008)
Yatra (Digi 2008)
Split with Sons of Otis (CD 2007)
Split with Elder (CDR 2006)
Queen Elephantine (CDR 2006)
04/08/2026
To mark the group's 20th anniversary, QUEEN ELEPHANTINE is releasing two EPs digitally. LIVE ONCE is a live studio session of new material and AMULET is an instrumental improvisation.
Formed in 2006 in Hong Kong by Indian musician Indrayudh Shome, and currently based in Philadelphia, QUEEN ELEPHANTINE is a nebulous worship of heavy mood and time, a pilgrimage through cosmic sludge. The shapeshifting post-apocalyptic rock band draws from psychedelia, doom, drone, and noise as well as free jazz and sacred music from around the world. They have released six full albums as well as several EPs including splits with Elder and Sons of Otis, and have joined Oxbow, Insect Ark, and many others on the road.
"Starless Wanderer" live video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP5nHdmaX_k
Bandcamp
https://queenelephantine.bandcamp.com/album/live-once
Live Once, by Queen Elephantine 3 track album
24/07/2026
QUEEN ELEPHANTINE Announce 20th Anniversary EP Releases Currently based in Philadelphia, Queen Elephantine celebrate 20 years of experimentalist and exploratory heavy drone and doom in 2026, an avant-garde approach that’s never really fit with trend or let itself settle into expectations-based going through the motions. That is to say, Queen Elephantin...
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