Esox Lucifer
10,000 Years
Released on August 7, 2026 through Ripple Music, Esox Lucifer is the fourth album in five years from 10,000 Years, the stoner-metal trio from Västerås, Sweden. Produced by the band, the eight-track record develops the group’s established affection for dense fuzz, mammoth riffs, and sci-fi imagery while broadening its palette with progressive structures, psychedelic passages, and flashes of thrash-like aggression. Its songs create a surreal world of alien landscapes, occult imagery, paranoia, and mythic beasts, but the album’s defining quality is its forward motion: it treats heavy rock as something kinetic, colorful, and melodically charged rather than merely slow or oppressive.
The brief instrumental “Beasts of the Northern Wild” opens with eerie animal-like effects and spacey guitar before launching into the driving “Pursuit Special,” where thick, Queens of the Stone Age–like riffing meets a direct rock ’n’ roll pulse. “Fleur de Sledgehammer” balances weighty chords with melodic leads and a French spoken-word outro, while “Church of the Red Museum” and “Alien Tactics” push toward cosmic, mid-tempo thrash and more progressive arrangement changes. The single “Two Million Stones” sustains the record’s muscular, chugging momentum, “Paranoidium” converts anxiety into a tense, heavy groove, and the seven-minute title track closes with blackened intensity that eventually gives way to a more psychedelic, expansive finale. Esox Lucifer is therefore a hard-hitting stoner-metal album with enough dynamic contrast and melodic imagination to reach beyond genre routine.
Released on August 7, 2026 through Ripple Music, Esox Lucifer is the fourth album in five years from 10,000 Years, the stoner-metal trio from Västerås, Sweden. Produced by the band, the eight-track record develops the group’s established affection for dense fuzz, mammoth riffs, and sci-fi imagery while broadening its palette with progressive structures, psychedelic passages, and flashes of thrash-like aggression. Its songs create a surreal world of alien landscapes, occult imagery, paranoia, and mythic beasts, but the album’s defining quality is its forward motion: it treats heavy rock as something kinetic, colorful, and melodically charged rather than merely slow or oppressive.
The brief instrumental “Beasts of the Northern Wild” opens with eerie animal-like effects and spacey guitar before launching into the driving “Pursuit Special,” where thick, Queens of the Stone Age–like riffing meets a direct rock ’n’ roll pulse. “Fleur de Sledgehammer” balances weighty chords with melodic leads and a French spoken-word outro, while “Church of the Red Museum” and “Alien Tactics” push toward cosmic, mid-tempo thrash and more progressive arrangement changes. The single “Two Million Stones” sustains the record’s muscular, chugging momentum, “Paranoidium” converts anxiety into a tense, heavy groove, and the seven-minute title track closes with blackened intensity that eventually gives way to a more psychedelic, expansive finale. Esox Lucifer is therefore a hard-hitting stoner-metal album with enough dynamic contrast and melodic imagination to reach beyond genre routine.
Esox Lucifer
10,000 Years
Released on August 7, 2026 through Ripple Music, Esox Lucifer is the fourth album in five years from 10,000 Years, the stoner-metal trio from Västerås, Sweden. Produced by the band, the eight-track record develops the group’s established affection for dense fuzz, mammoth riffs, and sci-fi imagery while broadening its palette with progressive structures, psychedelic passages, and flashes of thrash-like aggression. Its songs create a surreal world of alien landscapes, occult imagery, paranoia, and mythic beasts, but the album’s defining quality is its forward motion: it treats heavy rock as something kinetic, colorful, and melodically charged rather than merely slow or oppressive.
The brief instrumental “Beasts of the Northern Wild” opens with eerie animal-like effects and spacey guitar before launching into the driving “Pursuit Special,” where thick, Queens of the Stone Age–like riffing meets a direct rock ’n’ roll pulse. “Fleur de Sledgehammer” balances weighty chords with melodic leads and a French spoken-word outro, while “Church of the Red Museum” and “Alien Tactics” push toward cosmic, mid-tempo thrash and more progressive arrangement changes. The single “Two Million Stones” sustains the record’s muscular, chugging momentum, “Paranoidium” converts anxiety into a tense, heavy groove, and the seven-minute title track closes with blackened intensity that eventually gives way to a more psychedelic, expansive finale. Esox Lucifer is therefore a hard-hitting stoner-metal album with enough dynamic contrast and melodic imagination to reach beyond genre routine.
Released on August 7, 2026 through Ripple Music, Esox Lucifer is the fourth album in five years from 10,000 Years, the stoner-metal trio from Västerås, Sweden. Produced by the band, the eight-track record develops the group’s established affection for dense fuzz, mammoth riffs, and sci-fi imagery while broadening its palette with progressive structures, psychedelic passages, and flashes of thrash-like aggression. Its songs create a surreal world of alien landscapes, occult imagery, paranoia, and mythic beasts, but the album’s defining quality is its forward motion: it treats heavy rock as something kinetic, colorful, and melodically charged rather than merely slow or oppressive.
The brief instrumental “Beasts of the Northern Wild” opens with eerie animal-like effects and spacey guitar before launching into the driving “Pursuit Special,” where thick, Queens of the Stone Age–like riffing meets a direct rock ’n’ roll pulse. “Fleur de Sledgehammer” balances weighty chords with melodic leads and a French spoken-word outro, while “Church of the Red Museum” and “Alien Tactics” push toward cosmic, mid-tempo thrash and more progressive arrangement changes. The single “Two Million Stones” sustains the record’s muscular, chugging momentum, “Paranoidium” converts anxiety into a tense, heavy groove, and the seven-minute title track closes with blackened intensity that eventually gives way to a more psychedelic, expansive finale. Esox Lucifer is therefore a hard-hitting stoner-metal album with enough dynamic contrast and melodic imagination to reach beyond genre routine.