ACID PLATO – Horòs (2026, 2LP Sound Effect Records) 

RELEASE INFO:

Label: Sound Effect Records

Format: 2LP, Album, Deluxe Double Vinyl Set, Limited Edition, Black Vinyl (includes a vinyl size 8 pages, thick paper booklet with graphic art & lyrics plus printed inner sleeves. Housed on a Japanese type resealable plastic bag with a hype sticker), 190 copies

Format: 2LP, Album, Deluxe Double Vinyl Set, Limited Edition, Two-tone sea blue/ milky clear vinyl (includes a vinyl size 8 pages, thick paper booklet with graphic art & lyrics plus printed inner sleeves. Housed on a Japanese type resealable plastic bag with a hype sticker), 96 copies

Release Date: 17 April 2026

In an era where psychedelic music often looks backwards for inspiration, Acid Plato choose a far more ambitious path: they descend into the depths of ancient myth in order to illuminate the anxieties of the present. Some records are meant to be heard. Others are meant to be experienced. “Horòs”, the sprawling debut opus from Greece’s Acid Plato, firmly belongs to the latter category.

Emerging from the shadows of Kavala’s underground scene, former The Dead Ends visionaries Giorgos Sechlidis and Dimitris Apostolidis have crafted a work that feels like a ritualistic passage through forgotten realms of myth, prophecy and resistance. Inspired by Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, yet speaking directly to the fractured realities of the twenty-first century, “Horòs” blurs the boundaries between theater, philosophy, political allegory and psychedelic exploration.

Across four vinyl sides, ancient voices awaken from the dust of history. Greek folk traditions intertwine with lysergic guitar passages, cosmic progressive excursions, Anatolian colors and hallucinatory soundscapes that seem suspended somewhere between Olympus and the outer reaches of the mind. Spoken narratives, hypnotic rhythms and dreamlike melodies guide the listener through a labyrinth where gods, rebels and ordinary mortals confront the eternal machinery of power.

Far removed from nostalgia-driven psychedelia, Acid Plato use the language of the past to challenge the present. The result is a visionary and deeply immersive work — a modern underground epic that evokes the spirit of the late-’60s psychedelic pioneers while remaining unmistakably rooted in Greek soil, mythology and collective memory. “Horòs” is not simply a journey back through time; it is a mirror held up to our own age, inviting us to choose between complacency and enlightenment, darkness and the Promethean spark.

“Horòs” is a conceptual double LP album, 3 acts, 22 tracks clock-ticking from 0:37 sec to 6:10 min. Songs between narrations and vice versa narrations between songs, with occasionally altering Greek and English vocals/lyrics/narrations. Of course the final result is astonishingly very “theatrical” and deeply Psychedelic in a way.

“Horos” is an absolutely Supreme Amalgam of old school Progressive Rock of the early Vertigo years (“Zeus (Authority)”), krauty experimental theatrical Psychedelia (“Against Authority”), drenched with huge doses of early 70s Psychedelia (“Together We Stand”), futuristic bucolic Space Rock from the mid-70s (“Okeanos (Learn Your Place)”, “Prometheus (Firebearer)”), Greek traditional scaled theatrical music (“Horos I”, “In Wrong Hands”, “Horos II”, “Horos III”), Acid ceremonial psychedelic Folk (“Colhic Lament”), sacramental fusion prog (“Ionian Sea”), Eastern Greek-a-delia (“Middle Class Bouzouki”), AND uplifting spacey prog (“Hermes (Media)”)… What more to ask?

Throughout its twenty-two interconnected pieces, “Horòs” succeeds in functioning simultaneously as a progressive-rock opera, a psychedelic folk ritual and a theatrical reinterpretation of ancient Greek tragedy.

Whether approached as a conceptual rock opera, a psychedelic folk odyssey or a political allegory disguised as mythological theater, “Horòs” succeeds on every level. It challenges, fascinates and rewards the listener, revealing new details with each return journey. Most importantly, it proves that ambitious underground music can still be intellectually stimulating, emotionally engaging and artistically fearless. A monumental debut and one of the most distinctive psychedelic statements to emerge from Greece in recent years.

Not merely a remarkable debut, “Horòs” feels destined for the small but sacred shelf reserved for Greece’s most visionary psychedelic epics — standing proudly beside “666” by Aphrodite’s Child and “Armageddon” by PLJ Band… Invest! TimeLord Michalis 

Tracklist

Links

Listen / Buy through ACID PLATO Bandcamp

Get it via SOUND EFFECT RECORDS Web store