Psychorizon – Tour News MMXIX

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Three months and three days into 2019 and so far there’s not too much on my schedule. But with spring ahead, some really decent tours are on the horizon and some will even head my way. While US-audiences always seem to get a much bigger piece of the cake, there’s no reason to complain on my end.

Kicking off 13 days from today, Sweden’s Lucifer will cross the big pond for an extended North-American tour with very special guests Spell. Furthermore the band will join forces with The Hellacopters to glance Europe with their collective Rock’n’Roll shenanigans.

Lucifer & The Hellacopters 

13.05. Cologne, Germany, E – Werk

14.05. Hamburg, Germany, Markthalle

15.05. Berlin, Germany, Astra

16.05. Copenhagen, Denmark, Vega

And as the US will be welcoming yet another amazing tour package featuring King Dude and Maggot Heart, traveling the opposite direction, will be none other than Coven. After I missed out on their headlining appearance at Roadburn 2017 as well as the entire tour last year, I hope to finally catch of with Jinx Dawson and her fellow musicians as they return to European soil this summer.

Teaming up again this year will be Iceland’s finest The Vintage Caravan and Belgium’s very own Black Mirrors. After the first part of The Gateways tour last year, the two bands will hit the road once more throughout April and early May. Two years ago on this day, Black Mirrors released their eponymous debut EP. Their full-length followup “Look Into The Black Mirror” came out on August 30th, 2018. With their third album at hand, The Vintage Caravan will also be supporting Swedish Heavy Metal outlaws Bullet for a few selected dates.

 

Psychorizon – Der Schwesternschaft obskure Ausblicke auf 2019

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Adam Lambert, Black Mirrors, Black Sabbath, Cher, Cherokee, Coven, Dead Lord, Feverdance Rituals, Guns N' Roses, Hällas, Horisont, Jex Thoth, Kadavar, Lucifer, Maggot Heart, Muskelrock på Tyrolen, Obscure Sisterhood, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen, Reveal, Rock Hard Festival, Slægt, Sodom, Spiders, The Oath, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Vintage Caravan, Tribulation, TuRock Open Air, Vulva, Wolf City Fest, Wucan, Yorck Segatz

Hallo 2019! Und Euch allen an den Bildschirmen ein frohes neues Jahr!

Ein spannendes und ereignisreiches Jahr liegt hinter mir und für die kommenden 364 Tage habe ich einiges für Psychorizon geplant. Eine der aufregendsten News kam direkt im Januar 2018 mit dem neuen Lineup der Trashlegende Sodom. Für mich hat dies auch persönlich große Bedeutung, da einer der zwei neuen Gitarristen Teil meines engsten Freundeskreises ist. Und für die Live-Premiere hätte es kein besseres Event geben können als das Rock Hard Festival. Für mich war es nunmehr das zehnte Jahr in Folge und das insgesamt 12 mal, dass ich dort war. Ob ich 2019 auch wieder mit dabei bin, kann ich zur Stunde noch nicht sagen – möglich ist alles.

Tribulation & Turnschuhe beim TuRock Open Air 2018

Insgesamt war das vergangene Jahr fast schon zu entspannt, aber dafür mit einigen echten Highlights erfüllt. Schon die erste Show, die ich besuchte war eine besondere: Maggot Heart – mehr muss ich dazu nicht sagen. Es folgte eine der besten Clubshows seit langem mit Horisont, Spiders und Dead Lord im TuRock. Beim alljährlichen TuRock Open Air gab es zudem ein Wiedersehen mit Tribulation. Und auch eine der größten Enttäuschungen habe ich erlebt: Guns N’ Roses – die Meinungen hierzu gehen so weit auseinander, wie der Körperumfang von Axl Rose bzw. er und Slash auf der Bühne. Direkt am Tag danach haben mich Queen mit Sänger Adam Lambert wieder versöhnt und bisweilen zu Tränen gerührt. Doch die größte Überraschung war mit großem Abstand Ozzy, der wie ein junger Bursche über die Bühne hüpfte und so viel Lebensfreude versprühte, dass ich noch jetzt davon zehre – Wahnsinn!

Wenn fast alle Deine Lieblingsmenschen beim RHF sind

Auch wenn ich gar nicht an frühere Erfolge anknüpfen möchte, so werde ich zumindest zur alten Stärke zurück kehren und wieder mehr für die ursprüngliche Idee hinter Psychorizon stehen. Mit meiner neuen Interviewreihe werde ich wieder dem nachgehen, das mir immer das wichtigste war: Frauen unterstützen, die in der Rock- und Metal Szene aktiv sind. Ihnen widme ich die neue Kategorie “Obscure Sisterhood“.

In diesem Sinne: Auf 2019, es wird legendär!

Und zum Abschluss noch meine Top-Liste aller verpassten Bands & Events 2018 und ein Ausblick auf die bisherige Planung für 2019:

Maggot Heart & Slægt und Lucifer jeweils in Dortmund aufgrund einer Knieverletzung

Muskelrock mit Jubiläums-Lineup…was soll ich dazu sagen?!

Jex Thoth und Coven, weil zu weit weg und zeitgleich zu anderen Events…zum Heulen

The Vintage Caravan, Black Mirrors, Wucan weil wegen blöd und viel zu viele mehr!

Und was steht bisher im Kalender: Mindestens einmal Maggot Heart in Köln, vielleicht auch in Oldenburg. Hällas, Vulva und Cherokee bei der fünften Auflage der Feverdance Rituals im TuRock (!!!), Wolf City Fest und die Smashing Pumpkins beides in Berlin und OMG die göttliche CHER, AUSFUCKINFLIPP! Und ja, ich trage tatsächlich ein Cher-Shirt unter meiner Kutte.

 

MUSKELROCK PÅ TYROLEN 2018 – 10 Years Anniversary Visuals

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About Time, Ann-Sofie Hoyles, Ashbury, Astral Seer, Blood Moon Rise, Bullet, Cirith Ungol, Death Alley, Exterminator, Hällas, Honeymoon Disease, Horisont, Jex Thoth, Killer Machine, Lucifer, Manilla Road, Muskelrock på Tyrolen, Night Viper, Queen of Doom, Queen Of Spades Photography, Rolling Home, Slægt, Spiders, Star Rider, Summon The Dead, The Transecendence, Time Warriors, Två Sidor Av Horisonten

While I was enjoying an extra day off at home right after this years Rock Hard Festival, my partner in crime Queen Of Spades Photography was out and about for some Swedish shenanigans to celebrate ten years of Muskelrock.

Swedish Killer Machine: Spiders

The first edition of this fine event was held in June 2009 and it was a success right from the start. Now it has become a tradition and every year about 1500 headbangers come to the small amusement park Tyrolen to meet old and new friends and listen to good heavy metal music.

Summoning the living: Night Viper

The creators and organizers of the three-day festival have always had a reputation for inviting only the best bands available and this anniversary edition was no exception with legendary acts like Ashbury, Cirith Ungol and Manilla Road garning the line up next to up and coming ones like Death Alley and Slægt. Local bands like Bullet and Horisont shared stages with the likes of Hällas, none of them would miss the chance to play an event like this in their native Sweden. And with Jex Thoth, Spiders, Lucifer, Honeymoon Disease, Night Viper and more, the ladies finally took over!

Star Riders on stage: Hällas

All pictures courtesy of Queen Of Spades Photography

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LUCIFER – Sharing The Magic & Casting A Spell On Europe This Fall

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Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult, California Son, Century Media, Deep Purple, Dreamer, Entombed, Europan Tour, Fleetwood Mac, Johanna Sadonis, Linnéa Olsson, Lucifer, Lucifer’s Friend, Maggot Heart, Nicke Andersson, Steppenwolf, Stevie Nicks, The Hellacopters, The Oath, The Second Coming

Kicking off a month from today, magically infused Rock revelation Lucifer will cast a Spell on Europe this fall. Lucifer is a multinational Heavy Rock band from Stockholm. Founded in 2014 in Berlin by The Oath front woman Johanna Sadonis who had then parted ways with former band mate Linnéa Olsson (Maggot Heart) just as their praiseworthy debut saw the light of day. Lucifer is defined by their very heavy 1970s Hard Rock sound, spiced with a good dose of Proto Heavy Metal and Doom Rock. Main influences are groups such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Blue Öyster Cult, Lucifer’s Friend, Steppenwolf, 70’s Heart and Fleetwood Mac. With a shift of constellation within the band in 2016 and Johanna Sadonis’ move from Berlin to Stockholm, Lucifer were ready for chapter two. With the critically acclaimed release of their long-awaited second album ‘Lucifer II’ via Century Media on July 6th 2018 and the videos for their new singles ‘California Son’ and ‘Dreamer’, Lucifer is facing a new grand chapter.

Lucifer corrupted the souls of many and achieved international recognition on their past tours. Starting this years live ritual on October 7th, the band will be homebound, playing the first show in the fair city of Stockholm. A most logical step as both sticksman Nicke Andersson (Entombed, The Hellacopters) and his now wife singer Johanna Sadonis call the Swedish capital their home. The newly weds tied the knot on Friday, July 13th 2018  – congrats to the happy couple!

Make sure to catch their magic and love live on stage at any of the upcoming dates in October – check flyer below.

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ELECTRIC WIZARD – On Tour In Europe With ANGEL WITCH

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Jus & Liz…and they call it puffy love!

Hailing from the coastal Southwest of the United Kingdom, Electric Wizard have consistently redefined the preconceived thresholds of a detuned guitar chord with their peerless doom metal achievements. Formed by vocalist/guitarist Justin Oborn (previously with Lords of Putrefaction), bassist Tim Bagshaw, and drummer Mark Greening, and initially known as Thy Grief Eternal (briefer still, simply Eternal), the band made their debut with 1993’s; “Demon Lung” single – a split release with Our Haunted Kingdom (who later evolved into Orange Goblin). Released by Lee Dorrian’s very own Rise Above Records, the single paved the way for Electric Wizard’s eponymous first full-length a year later. Almost a quarter of a century later, Electric Wizard has seen numerous lineup changes and released seven more studio albums, the most recent, “Time To Die”, in September of 2014.

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Kicking off today, Electric Wizard will return to European soil and “there is a constant Electric Wizard line-up. Me and Liz, ” to quote the master himself and just to clarify this upfront. Joining in the Dorset Doomsters for all dates except for the Stockholm show tonight, will be fellow legends Angel Witch. Formed, originally under the name of Lucifer, and was initially composed of guitarist and vocalist Kevin Heybourne, guitarist Rob Downing, drummer Steve Jones, and bassist Barry Clements. The band has regrouped and split up several times and has been going strong ever since getting back together at the dawn of the 2000s. Besides fronter Heybourne, the current incarnation features sticksman Andrew Prestidge and lowrider Will Palmer. With their self-titled debut, Angel Witch is considered as one of the most important bands from the NWOBHM-era. After missing their performance at the “Hunting Across Europe” tour in 2013, I will finally be catching up with them twice this month!

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