The amount of bands, records and productions that John Dwyer has on his record takes on mythical proportions. Absolute showpiece is and remains ‘his’ Thee Oh Sees, meanwhile written as Osees. Probably one of the most prolific rock bands of its generation. More than 20 studio albums, a more than solid reputation on stage, they became THE reference in terms of garage rock music. After many changes in the formation, Dwyer has now found the successful composition for a few years: Dan Rincon and Paul Quattrone as a driving and synchronous drum duo, Tim Hellman on bass, Tomas Dolas on keys and the manic John on guitar and synths. Live shows are a relentless barage of sonical garage songs infused with psychedelica, krautrock, noise and even metal. Osees are not to be missed!

The Swedish band Graveyard takes you back to the seventies with their swampy blues boogie riffs and powerful vocal chops in the best tradition. Formed in 2006 in Gothenburg, their shared passion for hard rock,  psychedelia and the eternal bedrock of blues marked them out from the start. Rock as it’s intended. The album “Hisingen Blues” was a critical smash hit that more than lived up to the hype, it established Graveyard as rock’n’roll heavyweights. A thunderous, soul-stirring live band, with subtlety and swagger in equal amounts, they spent the next decade keeping fans of loose-limbed and earthy rock music in a near-constant state of rapture. We’re more than thrilled to welcome Graveyard for the first time to Sonic Whip!

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.

Bubbling up from the psychedelic tar pits of L.A., Frankie and the Witch Fingers have been a constant source of primordial groove for the better part of the last decade. Formed and incubated in teh Midwest before moving west to scrap with Los Angeles’ garage rock rabble, the band evolved from cavern-clawed echo merchants to architects of prog-infected psych epics that evoke a shift in reality. Frankie and the Witch Fingers sound like the crazy four-headed nephew of The Sonics after a mushroom trip, and they sound as if they’re time travelling between every decade of the past 60 years. They’ve welded their arsenal of influences to a chassis of nail-bitten bombast that shows on stage as well being one of the most furious live bands around.

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.

Hailing from the city of Bergen, Norway, Slomosa channel the sprawl of their surroundings through a sweeping signature hybrid of revved-up stoner rock riffage, grungy hooks, and a concentrated punk wallop. As if holding up a sonic mirror image to the landscape, an avalanche of distortion tumbles into valleys of massive melody, teeming with tectonic force. Slomosa have proven to be Norway’s new shooting stars of huge rock!

American noise punk and sludge juggernauts WHORES. have established themselves as one of heavy music’s most distinctive acts thanks to the formidable combination of the group’s punk ethos and the ferocity of their sound.  ‘Good Times, Bad Vibes’ is the band’s mission statement which makes a great bumper sticker. The band is not messing around;  “You have to bring a sense of realness to the music, otherwise it’s fake, and it sounds fake. You have to be honest about it, and it’s about getting to the really ugly stuff inside of you, and that’s what we do.” WHORES. has eagerly shared that ugliness with their audience having crisscrossed the globe, including Nijmegen. To that end, the band’s tireless dedication to the road is simply a mirrored image of their music’s relentless power, an attribute that has undoubtedly resulted in their most unforgiving effort yet, proof that good and heavy things come to those who wait. Sonic Whip is up next!

Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland The Cosmic Dead are an amorphous blob of space rock energy. Their exploratory compositions often reach levels of sonic destruction through reflective repetition and visceral harmony. The whole band furiously resonates, propelled by a thundering rhythm section and backed by synthetic effects from another time, another galaxy. Live shows are not something you just dip in and out of – you need to fully immerse yourself in it to truly appreciate its genius and beauty.

Hailing from California, Psychic Graveyard makes consistently thrilling and unsettled sonic artifacts for a world emptied out and flattened by a joyless and sociopathic mediascape. Their music consists of relentless, drum-driven freak rock with gritty synthesizers and distorted guitars. It growls and grinds its way through the songs and there is no let up.  And they are productive too with four records in just four years. The music ánd videos of Psychic Graveyard are a bit bonkers, but we urge you to get on it… could well be the surprise of the day.

The four-piece Polish band Sunnata, from Warsaw, is widely praised for their heavy transcendent ritual doom songs. Their sound cannot be compared to other acts in the genre. Sunnata, which translated from Sanskrit means ‘emptiness’, brings a cross-pollination of styles that sound heavy and intense, but also graceful and tender at the same time. A combination that you don’t often get to choose from. The progressive doom, mixed with sludge and a pinch of psychedelia and even grunge, grabs you by the throat.

Conjuring heavy drones and sinister garage psych freak outs, Stockholm outfit The Janitors have been a formidable presence on the European underground since the beginning of this century. Their latest effort ‘An Error Has Occured’ is nodding, fuzzed-out, garage-psych mind-fuck album of the highest order. The band are masters of taking hold of a gnarly fuzzed out groove and beating it within an inch of its life. Probably not for the faint of heart, their druggy wig-outs are totally relentless and unforgiving. A mega-trippy, psychedelic aural wormhole, cool, weird and slightly unsettling. Highly recommended.

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!

The American trio of Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol create the most brilliant doom sludge pop psych combination you propably will hear this year and beyond… Explaining what is offered here is practically undoable, you have to listen and undergo the expercience yourselves. They are a real mood shifter and if you need some release from the daily grind, there’s no better way to beat the blues than a live show of Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol. It’s big, it’s dumb, it’s fucking rifftastic!

Aussie band Khan meld hazy psychedelia and heavy stoner riffs with a penchant for progressive rhythms and almost dirge-like, industrial-scale crescendos. The songs are lyrically evocative, often exuding a sense of despondency and melancholy. Vocally, they waver from ethereal falsetto and hypnotic crooning to impassioned wailing punctuated by occasional guttural screams. Just when you find time to draw some breath, they’ll pull you back into the vortex with full power. Mountain high, river deep..

Orsak:Oslo plays a melancholic brew of psych, kraut, post-rock and doom with gentle fuzz-filled melodies and a noticeable nordic atmosphere. The Norwegian-Swedish band have been lurking around the underground for years, steadily pawing their way with their grinding nature and dystopian themes. It’s one of those hidden gems, always grinding, perfecting the imperfections. The band deliver a compelling departure from the expected with their unique hauntingly sound and flavour. Let your spirit ignite and take you away with their melancholic, overwhelming, soulful and never-ending journey.

Never judge a book by its cover is an oft used expression. This could maybe apply to Austin, Texas band Lord Buffalo who’s music is best described as haunting cinematic psych-Americana-post rock. There’s a distinctly blackened hue to the doom soul sound drizzled with melancholy and atmospheric dynamics. Like a dark grey haze Lord Buffalo is drawing listeners in with the band’s deft juxtapositions of droning violin, guitars, drums and vocals. They draw equally from Morricone and Badalementi as from Sabbath and Swans. Intruiging stuff if you ask us. This show marks their debut in The Netherlands. Something we immensely look forward to.

Underground cracked-psych-prog purveyors Green Milk From The Planet Orange from Tokyo are a trio of former grindcore devotees given over to more experimental wanderings. The band coalesced early this century with a mind towards more psych and jazz oriented overtures. The punk-oriented background gives them free reign to undercut their instrumentals with a contagious sense of purpose. Showing off some of neo-psychedelia’s most ambitious and masterfully sounds they truly come alive on stage. Their live performances are second to none offering creative and powerful jamlike psychedelic sprawlings.

Thee Alcoholics could be loosely assigned the noise-rock genre tag, but it’s so much more. The sound of the London five piece, formed by ex Hey Colossus member Rhys Llewellyn, is a reckless mix of distorted guitars, pounding rhythms, and howling vocals that summon the spirits of wild nights and bad decisions. A churning, doomy, krauty racket somewhere between Chrome, The Heads and The Fall at their most cantankerous.

No one knows exactly what the future holds, but for some there’s a craggy landscape that looks bleak and desolate. Portland, Oregon’s power trio, HELP, dive headfirst into that terrain with a determined and decisive direction when they tear into one of their throat-shredding, veins-bulging, shirt-soaking hardcore songs. The politically charged noise-punk sounds like a band serenading the end of the republic, riotously fueling the uprising against the rich and powerful. It’s not angry music for the sake of anger, but listening to HELP feels like a release value getting turned to the left, and that’s very much what the band aimed to do. Their motto: “Remove fear from decision making. Act in defiant joy. Refuse to dominate others. The future is uncertain. Solidarity now. Class war now.”

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.

Last years performance of Finnish psychrockers Skyjoggers during Sonic Whip took everybody by surprise. It was a fantastic display of creativity, drive and energy. With a killer new album on the way it became clear this young band deserved a rematch at Sonic Whip. So we invited them again! The long exhilarating tracks leave a lot of room for the individual qualities of the musicians. The fusion of heavy psych, mindbendingly 60s and spaced out rock jams are literally bursting with radiating energy. It’s contagegeously wild, mad at times and definitely breathing the DNA of what Sonic Whip is all about.

A psychedelic storm rages over The Netherlands, and its name is Heath. Their upcoming debut album “Isaak’s Marble” marks the beginning of a long story and opens the door to the world of Heath, where anything is possible. Odd time signatures, blazing harmonica, and driving guitars accompanied by narrative vocals create an enchanting journey. Their carefully drawn out eclectic songs seamlessly blend into an atmosphere that is both hypnotic and liberating.

A powertrio in search of the razor-sharp edge between heavy psych and punk. Rats and Daggers focuses the intention of IDLES, the schwung of QOTSA and the fuck-it-all attitude of Amyl and The Sniffers into flying punkrock projectiles that awaken moshpits instantaneously. Live both disarming and exceptionally expressive whilst this Dutch trio play energetic, sincere punk straight from the tips of their toes. Sure to stir everyone in the room and offer them a moment of temporary escape.