Rock-a-Rolla Magazine : : : Pherone is easily one of the best and most intriguing releases to emerge from the post-Khanate world of what people are calling 'art-doom- these days.

Decibel Magazine : : : Four tracks in 39 minutes yields some decent extinction-level doom. The trump card is Ohara's wail, which reminds me of the mysterious Japanese voice in Blade Runner in a lower register.

CMJ : : : Pheromone is caked with crust and is defined by long, slow, trance-inducing songs that could double as funeral hymns. Yoshiko Ohara wails and howls as though she's in a perpetual state of mourning, and it's the perfect complement to the doom and gloom riffs. -- CMJ

Revolver Magazine : : : Sounds like a crazy Japanese chick hijacking the mic at tectonic doom behemoths Khanate's final show--and moaning so well the band decided not to break up.

Metal Maniacs Magazine : : : Pheromone will lead you through a radical purification of sorts, setting a blazing fire at the roots of your very existence, burningwith a slow-roast ferocity many bands attempt but few ever master.

Rocksound Magazine : : : With their unique vision and cathartic live performance, there's little doubt that the 'Panda are destined for cult stardom.

John Darnielle/Last Plane to Jakarta : : : I've been listening to it for about a month, and it warrants the word "stunning" in a way that not much music does...that a band this great - a Brooklyn band this great, no less - are managing to sustain semi-invisibility in this day and age is both frustrating (since they're awesome) and somewhat gratifying (since invisibility trumps both flying and super-strength, as any right-thinking eight-year-old knows).

MTV's Headbanger's Blog : : : A different kind of doom metal comes from this Japanese female-fronted New York outfit. Busier than most bands of its ilk, Bloody Panda play dense, despairing songs that tumble, clatter and drone through the ether.

Paper Thin Walls : : : Most of these apocalyptic belly-crawlers run around 10 minutes, but the shortest track, killer opener "Untitled," gets right to it, baring all their gifts: "Right to it" being a slooow funereal death plod that seems too tied to the Earth to follow Yoshiko's enchanting life-exit-strategy siren song.

PopMatters : : : Metal fans, you're looking at one of the finest doom albums to come out in recent memory. Indie fans, if you dig this, welcome, you've officially crossed over to the dark side for good. -- PopMatters

CMJ June 19, 2006 : : : Everything about their show is visceral, from drummer Dan Weiss's socio-pathic smashy-smashy, to creating frequencies that turn stomachs, to wearing creepy, executioner-style masks on stage

Flavor Pill February 21, 2006 : : : Brooklyn-based doom quintet Bloody Panda are a strange animal. A hybrid of experimental atmospherics and cold, evil metal, they're equally at home opening for Soilent Green and playing with local avant-folk acts. These sinister pallbearers traverse vast, black landscapes, their slow procession ballasted by Blake McDowell's mournful keyboards and the complex rhythms of newly recruited drummer Dan Weiss. However, the nucleus of this dirge is vocalist Yoshiko Ohara, whose deep and sorrowful chants -- occasionally augmented by monstrous howls from the band -- belie her diminutive stature

Decibel April, 2006 : : : Khanate-caliber Doom Metal.

TimeOut NY, July 14, 2005 : : : We strongly urge you to catch Bloody Panda, a local quartet whose demos sound like Keiji Haino murmuring karaoke Khanate in his own private torture garden. (For those who don't speak Doom, that translates as "really heavy, slow and creepy.")

Village Voice, July 12, 2005 : : : Locals Bloody Panda are doom dealers with a female Japanese singer and dualing atmospheric keybs--word on the streets is they the shite!

Zero Tolerance, February 2006 : : : It's rare that a band back up such crushing tones with a distinct craft of thought, both musically and otherwise. Avant-doomsters Bloody Panda are one such band -- there is absolutely nothing left to chance here. This is a band that can talk the talk and walk the walk... If   you aren't already salivating in anticipation for this particular Panda outing,then you're chewing on the wrong kind of bamboo.

Metal Invader, October 23, 2005 : : : Don't look further for the best extreme doom act of the year coz here they are: BLOODY PANDA. This band from New York have already shared the stage with masters like THRONES, UNEARTHLY TRANCE and LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR and seems they have the gift to change the underground doom scene as we know it.

New York Knight Train, February 22, 2006 : : : With a whole lot more brains, taste, and musical sophistication than the recent trendy crop of indie metalists and a whole lot more balls than your average art band, they have a lot more in common with either the sort of art-core lineage that has over the years bridged New York jazzmen's forays into heaviness with Japanese masters of abrasiveness...Pure tooth-grinding paint-peeling.

Doom-Metal.com : : : Very filthy and heavy sludge/doom with hints of thrash and stoner. Some of their tracks are long ambient/drone sections with the emphasis on doom. Very nasty music for fans of GranG and Grief.

Music for Robots, July 19, 2005 : : : Praising Panda: It slowly built up to a nice sort of dirgy, slow hardcore sound like a more raw Neurosis or Cult of Luna. Very big and cinematic sounding : : : Praising Lead Vokillist Yoshiko O'Hara: Then this little Japanese girl wanders out onto stage looking kind of lost. I'm pretty unprepared when she hunches over and starts "chanting"...Slow and melodic but about an octave lower than you'd expect for someone her size. I was pretty much hooked from that point on. On some of the later songs the chanting turned more into a low screaming, but always avoided the cliches. You couldn't take your eyes off her.