Post-doom instrumental heavyweights CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC return with a new full-length album, “Berlin 2023”, set to be released on March 6 via Kinda Like Music. As the second chapter in the band’s Live in Studio series, the album captures the group exactly as they sound on stage: towering, hypnotic, and relentlessly heavy. 

To mark the announcement, Decibel Magazine is premiering the album’s lead single “Beast From the Sea,” describing it as “a full-on mountain-moving crusher that thuds away as a multitude of riffs and snaky leads unfurl like wisps of weed-scented smoke.”

Listen to “Beast From the Sea” now via Decibel Magazine!

Recorded live with no overdubs at Berlin’s legendary Big Snuff Studios in May 2023, “Berlin 2023” documents the band’s European tour setlist from that year, preserving the physical force, volume, and flow that have made CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC one of the most formidable instrumental acts in heavy music today. The album will be available on yellow vinyl, CD, digital download, and streaming, and features striking Berlin-inspired artwork by Simon Berndt. Pre-orders are now available at this location. 

Formed in Brooklyn, New York in 2013 by guitarist Steve Scavuzzo, CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC were conceived as a collision between the minimalist gravity of Sleep and Earth and the instrumental heft of Pelican and Bongripper. Their debut, “To Sleep Beyond the Earth”, established the project with a single 40-minute composition, and the band have released a new record every year since, steadily expanding their sound beyond traditional doom boundaries.

With minimal lineup changes across more than a decade, the band have built a reputation for blending stoner rock, classic doom, space rock, and progressive metal into immersive, riff-driven journeys. Their live shows, often accompanied by elaborate visual elements, have become multi-sensory experiences that amplify the depth and intensity of their recordings.

Following the release of “Birmingham 2024” earlier this year as Volume I in the Live in Studio series, “Berlin 2023” continues this unfiltered exploration of the band’s immense live power.