PRESS
“Philly’s Stinking Lizaveta systematically decimated the place with their rich and remarkably comprehensive jazz of doom. That’s the only way I can describe it.
Guitarist Yanni Papadopoulos, a dead ringer for a homeless and thirsty Cheech Marin, led brother Alexi on upright bass and Cheshire Agusta on drums into blissful atmospheric oblivion, as he leapt shirtless from the columns, howled into his pickups and basically held court for 40 minutes with a Zappa-esque fretboard assault. And Agusta handled the 5/4s with a graciousness that made me want to quit my job. All five of them.”
Bill Ketser of Albany’s weekly Metroland.
Stinking Lizaveta’s instrumental excursions into dark territories
psychedelic are accomplished and engaging. Managing to conjure a doomy
stoner metal sound without excess guitar fuzz, the band moves forward with
slow but chunky riffs and slight references to world music (of the trippy
variety, naturally).The music is wandering but never feels as if it is
goalless. There is a drive and sense of where the music is headed that saves
it from some of the overkill of extreme prog. Fusing psyche sounds with
stoner personality, Stinking Lizaveta is hard music for metal tripmeisters.
Monolith go there…
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Rank and Review go there…
Allan’s Pick at Aquarius Records go there…
Smother.net Editor’s Pick go there…
Sleazegrinder go there…
Review - Creative Loafing go there…
October 7,2004. City Paper, Philadelphia read
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AbsolutMetal review of our fourth album. October 2004:
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Cheshire Press - Drum!Mag. 2002: read more…
Kerrang review of our third album. November 2001:read
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More press on our third album. 2001: read more…
And still more press: read more…
And the archive of the early years of Stinking Lizaveta: read
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"All instrumental, rarely wanky in a nauseous
metal or blues way and tasteful in their choice of various improvisational
meanderings, Stinking Lizaveta frequently comes up with gorgeous music,
sounding both polished and unruly."
from the LA Weekly
