Elks is an astral metal band from Brooklyn. They make intelligent and psych heavy rock music that that is steeped in sci-fi imagery, yet still manages to kick your ass where it counts. Their debut album Destined for the Sun chronicles "the history of a tribe of nomadic Space Vikings." — DS

Toronto's Burning Love has been ripping their hardcore punk songs since 2007. While keeping the feel of early ‘80s US punk (SST Records, Dischord, Alternative Tentacles, etc.), they have been creating their own explosion of raw energy for not only youth but, all the devoted sincere punk rock fans. — MT

Naam are totally disgusted with the lack of heavy, psychedelic rock you are making, and are coming to deliver their deafening sermon of self-healing and renewal via the internal sound that a man experiences while opening the door to all the mysteries and miracles hidden in the darkest caverns and the vastest seas, and also plan to split open time and space to show you how totally infinite they are. Thus speaketh Naam. -- dsa

Heavy, dirty, and righteous, Quest for Fire take Monster Magnet's worship of guitars drenched in fuzz and slow wah one step further.  Grow your hair long, bring a tallboy of 50, this is some serious dirtbag psych-rock.  The spawn of The Deadly Snakes and Cursed. — NY