Lore is turning 10 years old. This album marked a point of departure for Elder upon a path which the band is still walking now. This is the record where the American band came into its own as a unique voice in the heavy rock underground. Approaching the second decade, it’s only appropriate to look back on this landmark and acknowledge it properly, which is why Elder is doing a tour performing the entire album along with some other tracks from our earlier catalog. We are honoured to give this era of the band a proper celebration during Sonic Whip.

Heavily inspired by Delta blues, and standing at the crossroads of both American and British blues-based rock, The Devil and the Almighty Blues hail about as far from that unmarked place where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil as one can be – Oslo, Norway. The Devil and the Almighty Blues offer a new take on this traditional genre by infusing all the world’s other sub-genres of rock, from punk to garage rock, and from heavy psych to southern sludge, the band sounds heavy without becoming too metal, slow without being doom, and raw, fucked up and bluesy without being predictable, or losing the blues’ muddy origins.

In just a few years time Temple Fang launched themselves as the Dutch masters of hypnotic 70s psychedelic rock. With guitar walls curving up and down, a pumping rhythm section and a mellow groove that you rarely experience. After the pandemic the band had hit upon a fresh and​ ​ambitious sound, crafting songs that​ r​un upwards of 20 minutes while​ ​exploring the outer limits of psychedelic​ ​heavy rock. From lysergic grooves to​ ​blistering space rock, from blissed out​ ​melody to walls of dense sonic​ ​atmosphere. It’s been a five years since the last time Temple Fang played Sonic Whip. We look forward seeing them again on stage, this time the mainstage and it is well earned!

Explosive power that furiously mixes garage, fuzz and middle eastern sounds; the French trio of Karkara takes the gamble of glueing together the East and the West sound in a common goal: transcendence. Founded in 2017 in Toulouse – France- under the idea of the guitarist and the bassist and inspired by the psychedelic rock scene of the Middle East and the Maghreb of the 60s and 70s, the band combines its traditional inspirations with a viceral taste for the shattering sounds of garage fuzz and contemporary krautrock.  Karkara take pleasure in pushing the boundaries of the genre further and take their audience into a mystical and indomitable world.

Swedish post-psych outfit Den Der Hale aims not so much at creating a specific sound, as much as melding together the various creative inspirations of each individual member. As such, the result is eclectic and experimental and, in many ways, more than the mere sum of its parts. Itinerant rhythms and atonal melodies are filtered through heavy effects, harsh layers of noise are contrasted by animate bass lines and propulsive percussions. In this seemingly chaotic amalgam, there is always a red line, and often each musical output becomes a synthesis, a whole.