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Yama is a stoner rock band from Tilburg, Netherlands, formed in 2008.

History
The band - named after the Vedic God of Death - has released one full length album Ananta (2014) and one 3-track demo Seaquake (2011) which is re-released as an EP later on. Performances in the Netherlands and abroad followed, strengthening Yama's solid live reputation, culminating in a performance at the Roadburn Festival (2014). The band toured with Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats and shared the stage with bands like Saint Vitus, Graveyard and Acid Mothers Temple. The central theme in their lyrics is the hubris of mankind. Yama's debut album Ananta is named after the primordial snake from the Rig Veda, has a distinct oriental theme while the music delivers heavy riffs and grooves fused into heavy and compact rock songs. Yama released a music video for the single Ananta.

What others have to say about Ananta: The Sleeping Shaman: "their first full length effort channels that momentum into an incredibly accomplished debut” Sludgelord: "Yama has the world at their feet. Having created a style of their own, they have all it takes to gain control of the world. Yama is on the other end blending everything perfectly and subsequently, either intentionally or simply by chance, have reinvented the whole stoner rock sound." Morefuzz: "It’s a thunderous first LP, 8 songs of pure heaviness, blending Stoner and Doom elements perfectly." MBlade: "Over these eight songs Yama have constructed an album full of fist pumping rock anthems that will get heads nodding, beers drunk and weed smoked like salmon”.

Members

 * Alex Schenkels - vocals, bluesharp
 * Sjoerd Albers - guitar
 * Peter Taverne - bass
 * Joep Schmitz - drums

Studio albums

 * Ananta (Lighttown Fidelity Records, 2014)

EPs

 * Seaquake Demo (Mind Flare Media, 2012)
 * Seaquake Demo (self released, 2011)