Track By Tracks: Bantoriak - Vol. II (2026)

VOL II opens the album like a sonic portal: a psychedelic introduction rooted in a seventies aesthetic that immediately immerses the listener in the album’s lysergic and alienating atmosphere.

BLU BUS is deeply rooted in a dense and hallucinatory doom-psych sound, built around deliberately prominent organs that amplify the track’s ritualistic and lysergic dimension.

The guitars, enriched by the collaboration with Sergio Ch. (Los Natas, Soldati), help shape a hypnotic, desert-like soundscape suspended between darkness and psychedelic trance.

The title is a direct tribute to a fragment from The End by The Doors, evoking its visionary imagery and sense of an irreversible inner journey.

Ritualism is a hypnotic suite conceived as an actual sonic ritual.

Through iterative structures, expanded tensions, and immersive layering, the track leads the listener into an almost trance-inducing state, suspended between dark psychedelia and ritual meditation.

Its inspiration comes from Tibetan tantric chants, reinterpreted through a visionary and contemporary sonic language.

Liquid Brain unfolds like a true soundtrack for the moment when the mind abandons its logical structure and begins slipping into unpredictable and altered territories.

The track follows a shifting and visionary psychedelic flow where perception, instinct, and the subconscious progressively take control.

Kairot is a slow, heavy, and deeply immersive doom track, built upon a constant balance between sonic oppression and softer, more contemplative openings.

While maintaining a strong monolithic core, the song allows more fluid arrangements to emerge, guiding the listener through its own darkness.

La Muerte originates from a question as symbolic as it is surreal: how does a sitar die?

From this image emerges a track suspended between dissolution and spirituality, where sound seems to slowly consume itself until it loses consistency, turning into echo, vibration, and memory.

With Amanita, the album temporarily drifts toward southern and desert rock territories while preserving its dark and visionary essence.

The track alternates earthy, dusty dynamics with a constant psychedelic undercurrent, remaining fully coherent with the album’s overall mood.

The second processed drum layer, created by Andrea Appino, acts as a ghostly perceptual element moving beneath the surface of the song, further amplifying its hypnotic nature.

Karpura closes the album like a ritual prayer suspended between contemplation and annihilation. The track follows a gradual process of dissolution culminating in the symbolic destruction of everything — understood not as a definitive ending, but as a necessary act of purification and rebirth.

A cathartic conclusion in which sound consumes itself to make room for a new possibility.

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