Once a month, The Sonic Sofa jettisons some of the heaviest and coolest releases from the past month straight to your ear holes. The reviews are byte size to pack in even more jams. Click on links to support the musicians and use the built in song players to listen to stoner rock while you read!  Fox Medicine release new full length, Doom Candy Fox Medicine’s style is lavishly plush and definitely bubble-gummy. Strings and vocals are credited to Neezy Dynamite, who delivers high-flying melodies and some downright nasty riffs. Drums and percussion are performed by Vanny Keeps. The doomy P ..read more

Acid King has returned with their fifth studio album, Beyond Vision. It’s been five years since their last album, Middle of Nowhere Center of Everywhere, and it’s safe to say that the stoner rock community was drooling when the band teased the new singles, Mind’s Eye and Destination Psych, a few months back. Beyond Vision dropped in March, and it is a crusher. If you’re not familiar with Acid King, they fall in the smoky ranks of stoner doom bands like Sleep and Om, but with female vocals. It’s psychedelic stoner rock with a meditative quality. Basically, we’re talking about heavy music that ..read more

Mystic Vulture was released Feb 7 *** SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE FOR A FREE SONIC SOFA STICKER OFFER!! *** This album review comes with bittersweet news: Cleõphüzz, the five piece desert rock band from Ville Marie, Quebec, unique for their addition of cello in the mix, have announced that they are parting ways, citing problems related to the pandemic. Lucky for us, they were able to rally their forces one last time to release Mystic Vulture, their epic final album. Mystic Vulture is the group’s second full length, a followup to 2018’s Wizard of Ph​ü​zz. The album has everything you c ..read more

Demonic Bongolic Cannabinoise released Dec 27, 2022 Bongoloid is the cannabinoisy doom metal project of Franciso Calvinho, a multi-instrumentalist based in Rafaela, Argentina. His exploratory and experimental debut EP, Demonic Bongolic Cannabinoise, was released in December. It’s like a bowl fully packed with stoner doom riffs and weedy lyrics. If cannabis infused vocals, trance-inducing rhythms, and chunky doom tones are your bread and cannabutter, you’ll dig Bongoloid. By The Lighter And The Bowl 06:37 The Altar Of The God Of Bong 3:15 The Color Of Ashes 06:24 Smoke & Mirrors 04:07 The ..read more

Games was released in December, 2022 Split Parasite is an alternative rock band from Fort Wayne, Indiana. The group was formed by guitarist and vocalist, “Ghosty” Sam Baker, and drummer and vocalist, Aaron Bushong, both of The Great Flood Catastrophe fame. Split Parasite produces a catchy mix of progressive, alternative rock, in the vein of bands like Incubus and Deftones. Their debut self-titled EP was released in April, 2022, and is followed by their latest release, Games. Games dropped in December. It was recorded and mixed by Caleb Lewis of Champion O.I. Records. Caleb also provides additi ..read more

Force Form Free was released on December 9th Dead Meadow is a psychedelic rock band. Formed in 1998 in Washington DC, the band is now based in LA. The group has spent the better part of 25 years immersing listeners in laid back, fuzzy audio waves. Their music is soaked in a deep groove you can almost taste, with wah drenched guitar leads that will astral project your ears into a different reality. Dead Meadow will appeal to fans of bands like Sleepy Sun, Black Mountain, and The Re-Stoned. Force Form Free, the band’s latest album, was released through independent label, Blues Funeral Recordings ..read more

After four years, The Sonic Sofa remains in low-earth orbit, its continuing mission to explore strange new sounds. To seek out new bands and heavy stoner rock riffs. To boldly go where no sofa has gone before! 2022 saw the addition of the Facebook page, so follow us to get all of the music reviews, memes, and Friday riffage posts. The page could seriously use more activity, so leave a comment to give us a boost! Also this year, The Sonic Sofa was magically reupholstered with some spacy new artwork (pictured below) by legendary stoner rock artist, Steven Yoyada. Stay tuned in 2023 for more hea ..read more

Feedspot recently published a list of the 25 best psychedelic music blogs and websites featuring none other than The Sonic Sofa! We’re seriously happy with the news and are proud and humbled to be named next to incredible websites such as It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine, More Fuzz, and Consequence of Sound. You can read the whole list HERE. Thanks for the continued support from Feedspot and all of The Sonic Sofa community ..read more

Innate Passage was released on November 25, 2022 Elder is a four-piece heavy psych band based in Berlin, Germany. Originally from Boston, Mass, the band was formed by founding guitarist and vocalist, Nick DiSalvo and bassist Jack Donovan. The current lineup includes Mike Risberg on guitars and keys and Georg Edert on drums. Since their formation in 2006, the band has been continuously evolving, adding new elements to their sound. What started as primarily a Sleep-worshipping stoner rock band has significantly grown and developed over the last decade and a half. Through the course of their care ..read more

Hallucinate Your Faith was released Nov 1 Nova Koloso is a heavy psych, alternative rock band from Baltimore, Maryland. The group formed during the pandemic by brothers Mark and Tom Colegrove. With Tom on drums and Mark covering everything else, the duo produces a fast paced blend of progressive psych rock, with plenty of jamming and layering of all kinds of groovy guitar sounds and catchy keyboard tones, topped off with grungy vocals. Their Self-titled first release was released in 2021. Now, the group is back with their second psychedelic offering, Hallucinate Your Faith. In it, the group dr ..read more