Photo by Dave Bellard.

BIOGRAPHY

Formed in 2006 in Hong Kong by Indian musician Indrayudh Shome and currently based in Philadelphia, USA, 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 studio albums as well as several EPs including splits with Elder and Sons of Otis. GORGON, the latest LP, was released in November 2019 via Argonauta Records and Atypeek Music.

Queen Elephantine's latest offering is a collaboration with Phurpa, the renowned Tibetan ritual band from Russia, released May 2021 on 4iB Records and Misophonia Records.



DISCOGRAPHY

Full Length
Gorgon (CD, LP 2019)
KALA (CD, LP 2016)
Scarab (CD, LP 2013)
Garland of Skulls (CD 2011, LP 2016)
Kailash (CD, Cass 2019)
Surya (CD 2007)

EP / Split
Collaboration with Phurpa (CD, Cass 2021)
Tribute to Atrophos Vol I-III (Digi 2020)
Omen (Digi 2015)
8XI08 Live in Brooklyn (CD 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)

INFO
Contact: DeathlessState at gmail.com

EPK: http://QueenElephantine.com
Music + Shows: http://QueenElephantine.bandcamp.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/QueenElephantine

“Doom rock at its brooding, soul-striping best.”
—Hong Kong Magazine

"Wicked... Mind-expanding experiments with drone guitars, lumbering bass lines and mystic atmosphere."
—Rolling Stone India Read more...

"Incredible... 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 Read more...

"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 Read more...

"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 Read more...

"Awe-inspiring... [QE] entrap us from the first instant with the sheer ritual of their sound, the sheer multi-levelled drama of their experience. What's it sound like? Like largactilled earthmovers aping human metal culture while the cities burn on the horizon."
—Julian Cope's Head Heritage Read more...


For fans of: Ufomammut, Univers Zero, This Heat, 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 Jajouka, Kushal Das, La Monte Young, Harvey Milk, Hamid Drake, Earth, Eagle Twin, Desert Sessions, Current 93, Colour Haze, Circle, Can, Burning Witch, Bong, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Ascend, Amon Düül II, Ustad Ahmed Jan Thirakwa, Alice In Chains