Queen Elephantine

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.


Bio from New Noise Magazine:
"Now based in Philadelphia, Queen Elephantine was formed in 2006 in Hong Kong by Indian musician Indrayudh Shome, the son of a temple dancer, before he moved to the United States a couple of years later with his project.

Fans of their earliest output — a split with the mighty Elder and their debut album Surya — celebrated the loose psychedelic epics over a meditative, repetitive, heavy foundation of bass and percussion. However, their following releases — a split with Sons of Otis and their second album Kailash — destroyed all expectations and established the group as fearless explorers of the inner realm.

The band’s global heritage is clear in the sound and the facade of a doom metal band soon collapses into a spiritual yearning that worships Master Musicians of Jajouka and Peter Brötzmann beside Burning Witch."


"Wicked... Mind-expanding..." —Rolling Stone India

"Incredible... Masters of evocative, atmospheric drone..." —Terrorizer Magazine

"Awe-inspiring... [QE] entrap us from the first instant with the sheer ritual of their sound, the sheer multi-levelled drama of their experience." —Julian Cope