ELKS

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Sean Adams, Devin McManus, Josh Scannell, Don Stewart

HOMETOWN

Brooklyn, NY

LABEL

Tee Pee Records

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RECENT NEWS! Burgeoning Brooklyn buzz band ELKS will release its debut album Destined for the Sun on September 13 via NYC's Tee Pee Records.  Featuring an abstract conceptual theme chronicling "the history of a tribe of nomadic Space Vikings," ELKS' Destined for the Sun tells the tale of "peaceful inhabitants of a planet colonized by an expanding empire," incorporating a myriad of strange sci-fi ephemera including a "super computer" at the end of the universe dubbed "The Wizard."  Recorded by Made Out of Babies guitarist Brendan Tobin at Brooklyn's Translator Audio, the album captures every nuance of ELKS' dynamic live spectacle and amps it up tenfold, resulting in the perfect sonic experience for fans of mind-bending modern metal.

Current Release

Destined For the Sun

September 13, 2011 Tee Pee Records
  • 1.) White Fang Learns to Hate
  • 2.) Fall of the Starchitect
  • 3.) Two Moons of Mars
  • 4.) Destined for the Sun
  • 5.) Eaters of the Dead
  • 6.) Weedwolf

    • Discography

    Tour Dates

    CURRENTLY NOT ON TOUR.

    Press

    • "A lean, tight work, clocking in at 22 minutes, it combines shoegaze and sludge metal with psychedelic punk rock" ABOUT.com
    • "Destined for the Sun possesses interstellar expanse and laser-gun grit despite being, essentially, a really loud comic book for metalheads. Imagine Motörhead hurtling around the planet, locked in manic orbit, and you get a sense of Elks' sonic firepower..." TUCSON WEEKLY
    • "Somewhere at the crossroads of punk, metal, sludge, garage, and a beer-soaked bag of 12-sided die lie Brooklyn chug-monsters Elks. Much like contemporaries High On Fire or Coliseum, the band is at once majestic and rollicking, matching fantastic, orc-stabbing melodies with a friendly, Mastodonic gallop." VILLAGE VOICE

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