If the Bermuda Triangle or the Twilight Zone existed in the Canadian music scene, then Toronto's Sons of Otis would be their prime resident. Known for their trance-like neuron-firing live performances which include spinning lights and smoke machines, Sons of Otis can summon spaceships and create supernovas. Utilizing only the finest vintage instruments, amplification and recording equipment the band creates a genre unto its own, unique enough to become a patented prescription medication yet heavy enough to avoid being labeled "prog" rock. In fact, in their native Toronto the band has already gained notoriety as being the heaviest around.

Originally dubbed Otis, in homage to the character of the same name in the cult film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, by trio's founder/guitarist/vocalist Ken Baluke the band garnered instant success as well as a prestigious reputation in Toronto’s underground music scene when the band released an incredible debut 6 track EP entitled "Paid To Suffer." This in turn led them to a recording
contract that same year with Canadian label Hypnotic Records and the beginnings of their spinal tap-esque career. Just before their first full-length disc, "SpaceJumboFudge," was released in 1996, the band had to affix 'Sons Of' in front of their name due to a legal conflict with a US band of the same name. "SpaceJumboFudge" was to be the only album to come out of the first of many record deals. The legendary Man's Ruin records managed to hang onto OTIS for the next two successive albums, 1999's awe inspiring "Templeball" along with the 2000 re-issue of "SpaceJumboFudge." The Music Cartel followed suit with 2001's should-have-been-classic "Songs For Worship." Enter Small Stone (the patron saint label for all criminally under appreciated heavy on the heavy rawk bands) who are proud to announce the release of Otis’s third full length release "X"

Sons of Otis have spent the past decade sharing the stage with bands like Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Clutch, Fu Manchu, New Kingdom, Voivod, Electric Wizard and Shallow North Dakota while simultaneously helping to reshape the fabric of time, space, and rock and roll. These humble Canadian’s have managed to create some of the most organically dense and psychedelic riffage known to man. Each track billows forth from uncharted regions of the cosmos while Ken's vocals echo from underneath, seemingly originating from a series of relayed satellites nestled ultra-deep space. They return to the road this coming Spring & Summer both in North America and Europe. They are not to be missed.