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Psychorizon Ten Years Anniversary

01 Sunday Aug 2021

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Abra Kadavar, Angel Witch, Angelo Kelly, Anniversary, Black Sabbath, Blood Ceremony, Blues Pills, Doc Martens, Doomsday, Dortmund, Duisburg, Electric Wizard, Elin Larsson, Hammer Of Doom, Headliner, Helvete, Irish Christmas Tour, Jex Thoth, Kadavar, Köln, Kelly Family, Live Music Hall, Liz Buckingham, Love Music Hall, Maggot Heart, Pit, Psychorizon, Rock Hard Festival, Rockpalast, Sexy Jexi, The Devil's Blood, The Oath, Tribulation, TuRock Open Air, WDR Rockpalast, Weihnachten, Westfalenhalle

Heute ist es nun also wirklich so weit: Psychorizon feiert zehnjähriges Jubiläum! Wer hätte das gedacht, also ich selbst wohl am aller wenigsten! Leider waren die vergangenen zwei Jahre recht ereignislos und bisher ist noch nicht absehbar, wann die Veranstaltungsbranche wieder zur alten bzw. neuen Stärken gelangen wird. Somit steht auch in den Sternen, wann und unter welchen Umständen es endlich wieder Berichterstattung von Konzerten und Festivals geben wird und ob sich Ende 2021 für mich ein weiterer Kreis schließen wird. Denn kurz nach Weihnachten 2020 habe ich mir eine Karte für die 'Irish Christmas Tour' von Angelo Kelly & Family gekauft und werde mit ganz viel Glück zusammen mit allen seinen 40. Geburtstag am 23.12.2021 in der Dortmunder Westfalenhalle feiern können. Wer Psychorizon intensiv verfolgt, weiß wahrscheinlich, dass mein allererstes Konzert am 23.12.1994 in Duisburg die Kelly Family war und wer im Kopf rechnen kann, wird feststellen, dass es Angelos 13. Geburtstag war.

Aber genug der warmen Worte, denn es geht heute um jede Menge großartige Momente und da ich in den vergangenen zehn Jahren genug geschrieben habe, möchte ich einfach Bilder für mich sprechen lassen. In diesem Sinne: Auf die nächsten zehn und hoffentlich ganz viele neue Highlights.

Daumen hoch gab es für das RHF 2014 und beste Aussichten im Pit. Neben den 'Best of Boots & Shoegaze'-Bildern, gibt es auch noch jede Menge Menschen in voller Größe und in Aktion - vor und auf der Bühne zu bestaunen. Aber ich habe seit langer Zeit eine Vorliebe, für derartige Schnappschüsse, die hauptsächlich Hosenbeine und Schnürsenkelhalter zeigen. So auch bei der Headline-Show von The Devil's Blood beim Rock Hard 2010, Maggot Heart im Helvete und Tribulation beim TuRock Open Air (beides 2018) und 2019 totally random-mäßig beim Rock Hard. Weiter geht es daher mit ein paar weiteren witzigen Impressionen, die während der zahlreichen Events entstanden.

Beim Wiedersehen mit 'Sexy Jexi' und meinem Tagesausflug zum Hammer Of Doom 2013, gab es ganz viel Liebe. Mindestens genauso herzlich und herzig war es auch im Folgejahr auf dem RHF sowie 2017, als ich es endlich geschafft habe, Electric Wizard live zu sehen. Dank bester Plätze in der ersten Reihe, wurde die Kölner Live Music Hall an diesem Abend zur Love Music Hall und ich völlig verzaubert von der großartigen Liz Buckingham. Zu guter Letzt gibt es noch den kompletten Mitschnitt des Blues Pills Auftritts beim RHF 2014. Neben Jex Thoth, The Devil's Blood und Blood Ceremony, eine der Bands, die ich am meisten verfolgt und auf der Bühne bewundern durfte. Leider finde ich vom RHF 2014 kein gutes Video der jungen Schweden, dort wäre ich sogar selbst bei Abrocken zu sehen. __________________________________________________________________________

PSYCHORIZON – Rollercoaster Of Rock

12 Monday Feb 2018

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Adam Lambert, Aura Noir, Axl Rose, Beastmaster, Beyondition, Bolt Thrower, Death Alley, Grave Pleasures, Guns N' Roses, In Solitude, Linnéa Olsson, Maggot Heart, Monsterpics, Old School Death Metal, Ozzy Osbourne, Procession, Psychorizon, Queen, Rock Hard Festival, Slash, Sodom, Tribulation, Uno Bruniusson, Wacken Open Air

Just a about a month ago my review on the past year was so much fun and I really look back on 2017 with a good feeling. And now that we’re well into February, 2018 has already been quite a ride already. First off, my best friend finally made his way into the Metal-Olymp by joining veteran Thrash band SODOM. Looks like he’s gonna be a real Rockstar after all. Besides, his own band BEYONDITION is much of a class act within the local underground itself. Offering a fine blend of Old School Death Metal in the vein of BOLT THROWER with a twist of Swedish Death to it. Guess I should try and do an interview with the guys to introduce them to the rest of the world. They are currently working on a debut album, with a 2017 demo sold out by now. Anyone who missed out on buying the tape: The demo is available as a full download via bandcamp. Totally looking forward to seeing them again soon!

BEYONDITION – Red Light Special

Speaking of which, it only took me a good month to spend more money on concerts than I have in the past few years. And the amount that other people are willing to pay for the entire Wacken weekend, I will be celebrating two days of pure Rock’n’Roll awesomeness. After my failed attempt to see one of my all-time favorite bands at Rock Am Ring in 2006, this year will totally make up for it, as I will finally see GUNS N’ ROSES with BOTH Axl and Slash sharing stages again! And to top it all, just one day later, QUEEN and ADAM LAMBERT are playing have a tour stop in Cologne. Only took me about eight years to catch up with Adam again. But I’m 100 percent sure that it will be totally worth the wait. Additionally, 2018 also marks my personal anniversary of ten consecutive years as an official press member at the annual Rock Hard Festival. Kicking off my run of live show shenanigans, will be the ever so amazing Linnéa Olsson with her very own MAGGOT HEART – featuring her former GRAVE PLEASURES bandmate Uno Bruniusson (PROCESSION, DEATH ALLEY, ex-IN SOLITUDE) on drums. With quite some more thins on my list of possible activities for the year ahead, including OZZY OSBOURNE, 2018 will really rock!

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Psychorizon – Favourite Moments Of 2016

31 Saturday Dec 2016

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(Dolch), Acherontic Arts Fest, Anniversary, ArieZ, Beastmilk, Drain, Electric Wizard, Gold, Grave Pleasures, Helvete, In Solitude, Kadavar, King Dude, Linnéa Olsson, Liz Buckingham, Path Of Samsara, Psychorizon, Queen Of Spades Photography, Rock Hard Festival 2016, The Ruins Of Beverast, Thränenkind, Tribulation, TuRock, Uno Bruniusson, Urfaust, Ván Records, Völur

2016 started off with a rare moment as I had the first and unfortunately final chance the see Grave Pleasures in their best lineup, featuring Swedish guitarist Linnéa Olsson and former In Solitude drummer Uno Bruniusson. The now newly formed band was touring alongside Tribulation in January and gladly played a brilliant show at TuRock, Essen – not shying away from including several tunes from their former incarnation Beastmilk. Later this year I was lucky enough to see Tribulation again at Rock Hard Festival.

grave-pleasures-linneaLiz Buckingham’s long-lost Swedish twin-sister – Linnéa Olsson

But before the outdoor season started, one of many indoor festivals caught my attention and had me attending – attempted pun intended – the second edition of Ván Records’ very own Acherontic Arts Festival which took place in early May. Gathering the brightest shining gems of his artist roster, Sven clearly knows his way around a brilliant billing. Urfaust, Gold, the recently disbanded Path Of Samsara, The Ruins Of Beverast, to name but a few. My personal highlights have to be King Dude, who gave me all those emotions, from goosebumps, to shivers to tears and the outstanding performance of Germany’s very own (D O L C H) – leaving me speechless and that rarely ever happens!

Feel the dagger – (D O L C H)

psychorizon-and-queen-of-spades-photographyPartners in crime – Psychorizon & Queen Of Spades Photography

And then there was this: Rock Hard Festival – the only event I’ve been at almost every year since 2004. Second time watching Tribulation and for the first time in a while I could finally catch up with Kadavar again. Great to see these guys, that I’ve been a fan of and working with in a past life, making their way towards the big stages. This year also saw a premier, as I officially teamed up with Queen Of Spades Photography – run by my good friend and talented photographer Susan – to cover the mandatory reports. In August it was finally time to look back the first five years of Psychorizon with a little festival. Four bands from three countries gathered at a local youth club to celebrate with me and my friends, fans, readers and the audience for one night. Even though only a handful of folks actually came around to enjoy the event, there shall be more live action to go about in the future. Special thanks to those who joined the party, my catering chef Cati and all members of the most brilliant opening act ArieZ, Swiss Stoner crew Drain and of course my amazing Canadian headliner Völur. Couldn’t have done it without you, thanks so much! Spread the love and hope to see you all soon again!!!

Vocalist Nils becomes one with the music & his microphone

And last but certainly not least, another most memorable night featured Ghost Bath and Thränenkind, who played at Helvete, Oberhausen on August 28th. While the main part of the audience was eagerly waiting to see the headliner, all I wanted was to finally see the band that created my personal favourite album of the year. Due to some scheduling difficulties, bass player Matthias and vocalist Nils had to borrow some stand-in musicians and still managed to deliver a stunning show. Hope they’ll return to my area again soon!

European Summer 2016Energetic Anarchy: Matthias the bass-machine!

This year has been a crazy ride and I’m really looking forward to all the adventures the next one will bring – hope we’ll all make it a good one.

See you all in 2017

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JEX THOTH – A Message From The Queen Of Doom For Psychorizon!

12 Sunday Oct 2014

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Amon Düül II, Black Mountain, Black Sabbath, Blood Moon Rise, Blue Öyster Cult, Brandon Newhouse, Daniel Gonzalez, Desert Fest Belgium, Earth, European Tour, Hammer Of Doom, Heart, I Hate Records, Jessica Thoth, Jex Thoth, Keep Your Weeds, Kult Temple Oberhausen, Matt Jacobs, Mitchell K. Johnson, Nick Ray Johnson, Pink Floyd, Psyar, Psychorizon, Randall Dunn, Rock Hard Festival, Sunn O))), The Four of Us Are Dying, The Places You Walk, Witness

Jex Thoth - MessageNothing Left To Say…

Ever since the announcement of the ongoing European leg of JEX THOTH’s 2014 tour, which will be concluded tonight at Desert Fest Belgium in Antwerp, I have been most looking forward to catch up with the Queen Of Doom herself again. Our last encounter at the 2013 edition of German Hammer Of Doom festival was truly magic – an enchanting live set featuring tracks from the latest release “Blood Moon Rise” – Psychorizon’s Album Of The Year #2 – the “Witness” EP as well as the eponymous 2008 record “Jex Thoth“, dusky lights, candles and fumes of ancient Palo Santo wood filling the inside of the venue. Finally after the show we got together and talked the hours away.

Jex Thoth - Hammer Of DoomVery happy me with the very lovely Queen Of Doom

This time around, luck wasn’t on my side and after hoping for the long to attend the Stuttgart show on October 09th, 2014 I had to pull off in the end after all. But would life be without awesome friends that will pull all strings to have a personal message delivered from the one and only Jex herself. So I find myself receiving a picture from last nights’ the show at Helvete Metal Club, Oberhausen – thanks a billion to DJ Iron Fist for this! Even if I’m not there myself, my spirit will always be around – and to quote Jex for some final words of wisdom: rivers are wide, don’t slide ‘neath the water…

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ROCK HARD FESTIVAL 2012 – Prelude To Party

27 Wednesday Jun 2012

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Amphitheater Gelsenkirchen, Deathfist, Jex Thoth, Krisiun, Kvelertak, Psychorizon, Purify With Pyra Tour, Ram, Rock Hard Festival 2012, Stoned From The Underground 2011, The Hellacopters, Turbojugend, Turbonegro

Just about a month has passed since this years Rock Hard Festival turned the sight located somewhat outside the city of Gelsenkirchen into the centre of attention for an entire scene once again. It takes about a half hour bus ride from the central station to get to the beautiful and impressive area offering anything from red-painted bridges, park side in the green, industrial buildings and of course the waves of Rhine-Herne Chanel that makes the whole event so special. Along these important transportation waterway, the Amphitheater is situated with its stage giving straight view onto the splashing blue, furthermore the campground is generously build along it as well. It seems more like a resort offering daily concerts and with its informal and almost intimate atmosphere becomes so much more than just an odinary festival.

Still a day to go before the “real deal” gets going as we arrive in the sunny and unbelievably warm part of Germany on thursday. Good thing to show up at this point, cause it seems that half the population of the surrounding cities decided to attend Rock Hard Festival 2012 and getting an appropriate temporary home base for the next few days gets harder within the hour. One major change this year would be the option to reserve a campground area in advance, which is marked as a Fanclub for whatever name one would like to give it. And with the main act on friday night being Turbonegro of course it won’t take long to find their colourful fans.

After an intensive all over inspection and some soundchecking of the festival opener Deathfist – featuring one of the constantly growing number of female shouters – the first Highlight and only band I really wanted to watch plays second in row: Jex Thoth.

Jex Thoth on stage

Besides the fact that a rather small part of the audience hails them as much as we do on Psychorizon, there are some things that make their appearance not as overwhelming as the one at last years Stoned From The Underground Festival. First of all the sound at stage level is and let me point out for the first time EVER since I started attending RHF on a regular basis in 2004, pretty bad. Too loud, too undefined and actually all I can perceive is bass all over. On the ranks it is much better in fact but the choice is somewhere between a tonal disaster and getting roasted. Nevertheless the US-based band surely wins a bunch of new admires and as we get to know a few days later, this day turns out to be one of the most successful shows of their “Purify With Pyra” Tour. Another thing a true fan would have to miss is the notorious ritual burning of sandalwood, vocalist Jessica likes to perform, but it was hot enough anyway! The setlist includes a mixture of older and brand-new songs and my favourite “Warrior Woman”, well done.

Setlist Jex Thoth:

Kagemni
Stone Evil
Obsidian Night
Raven Nor The Spirit
Slow Rewind
Eclipsed
Separated At Birth
Nothing Left To Die
Warrior Woman

After this first set of slow-mo onstage action time calles for a midday offering. Sorry to all you veggies and vegans out there, but for many visitors a campout almost mandatory barbecue serving meat in all kind of forms. Rocking all day long makes one hungry and while RAM and Krisiun are sweating just a few steps away, we do the same in front of our tent.

Even as the evening hits off the only refreshment besides cooled drinks seems to be diving into the water, which as we now know is restricted and will be paid penalty if one gets caught by the river police.

The night of the Norwegian vikings was heralded by one of the more exotic bands of this year’s RHF edition. Combining elements of Thrash, Black Metal and High Energy R’n’R in the style of The Hellacopters, Kvelertak entered the stage with a bang. Although the sound issues were still not really solved, the six Berserkers set sails to Helheim immediately. The show included all the songs from their self-titled debut record as well as “Spring”, a relatively new track that die-hards knew already from last year’s headlining tour.

With a three-guitar onslaught, Kvelertak (meaning “Stranglehold” in English) kept a tight grip on the audience: Singer Erlend Hjelvik rampaged from one side to the other and screamed, screeched and barked like there was no tomorrow, culminating in his obligatory stage dive and mingling with the front rows, while tattooed beat messiah Kjetil Gjermundrød clearly enjoyed the scenery around the drum-kit and hammered savagely on his drumheads throughout the set.

If you have a full stack or some lighting rigs on stage, chances are nearly 100% that a man called Marvin Nygaard will climb them in order to perform from a higher point of view. With Orange stacks around a plenty, the fierce bass player of course took the chance and boarded several of these amplifiers. Although Kvelertak’s lyrics are in Norwegian, a lot fans at least knew when to chant the keywords, so crowd participation was always at a very high level. Celebrated by Thrash Metal maniacs and Turbojugend members alike, the band finished its set with Utryd Dei Svake, leaving only scorched earth behind.

Setlist Kvelertak:

Sjøhyenar (Havets Herrer)
Fossegrim
Blodtørst
Sultans Of Satan
Spring
Liktorn
Offernatt
Ulvetid
Nekroskop
Ordsmedar av Rang
Mjød

Turbonegro have gone through some very hard times during the last few years. After loosing iconic long-time singer Hank von Helvete, the handsome sailorband recruited Turbojugend London President, Dukes of Nothing singer and former PR officer Tony Sylvester. Founding member Rune Rebellion also left, but re-joined and keyboardist/overall entertainer Pål Pot Pamparius only serves as a part-time member nowadays.

A lot of Turbojugend members were present at the gig to witness if the new line-up could live up to the reputation of the band.

Opening the set with well-known “mainstream ingratiation” All My Friends Are Dead, the handsome sailors put on a very professional show right from the beginning. Tony definitely showed no signs of nervousness and blended perfectly into the show, featuring a Clockwork Orange inspired make up and dress.

After two classics (Dungaree High being the second song), it’s time for three new ones in a row. IMHO a great statement to show off Tony Silvester’s qualities. You Give Me Worms, first single from the upcoming album Sexual Harassment and sufficiently known thanks to youtube, clearly picks up the vibe of Party Animals era TRBNGR. The raspier and slightly lower voice compared to Hank adds a rough edge to hymns full of sexual innuendo, alcohol and other means of self-destruction.

If there would be an energy-level indicator installed in the front rows, it would be deeply in the reds all the way. Partying hard to every song, I literally got soaked up into the center of the Jugend and had a great time during all of the songs, no matter if it’s a new masterpiece or an old classic.

Bass player Happy Tom, known for his special sense of humor, made the crowd laugh with funny announcements in broken German (“Schüttel’ dein Scheiße-Apparatus!” for Shake your Shit Machine), while steadily pumping out his distinctive Turbo-basslines. Euroboy aka Prince of the Rodeo lived up to his name as usual, delivering his solos and fills with grace and power alike.

The encore featured the ultimate threesome: Age Of Pamparius, Prince Of The Rodeo and I Got Erection, showing once again that the band remains untamed and still is able to fuck the world after all the changes it has gone through.

If my body ever was a temple, re-born TRBNGR teared it down once more on this wild night!

Throughout the day even RockHard member “Heavenstone” could be seen wearing his Turbojugend Satanica jacket proudly alongside lots of Turbojugend member with day tickets.

Setlist Turbonegro:

All My Friends Are Dead
Back To Dungaree High
You Give Me Worms
I Got A Knife
T.N.A. (The Nihilistic Army)
Get It On
Denim Demon
Mister Sister
Shake Your Shit Machine
Hello Darkness
Do You Do You Dig Destruction
Wasted Again
Fuck The World (F.T.W.)
Turbonegro Must Be Destroyed
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The Age Of Pamparius
The Prince Of Rodeo
I Got Erection

Psychorizon – Featured on Rock’n’Vintage

18 Friday May 2012

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Almost Famous, Alunah, Apocalypse Now, Blood Ceremony, Clerical architecture, Courtney Love, Crucified Barbara, Elvis Presley, Essen, Full Metal Jacket, Gallons Of Mud, Grand Magus, Groan, Grunge, Harasai, Hole, Interview, Jefferson Airplane, Jex Thoth, L7, Motorjesus, Northrhine-Westfalia, Orchid, Pop Art, Psychorizon, Rock'n'Vintage, Romanticism, Sigiriya, Soph Alunah Day, Surrealism, The B52s, The Byrds, The Cement Garden, The Devil's Blood, The Donnas, The Mamas And The Papas, Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats

Well I might not have done so much for the page during the last few days, but check out this really cool Interview I did with the fabulous Rock’n’Vintage Blog.

It was great fun to be on “the other side” for a change and it might answer some of your questions as well.

 

Thanks to Soph and enjoy it!

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