“Osaka based six piece fuses black metal aesthetics with the endorphin rush of peak time hard trance and gabber” - The Wire

“Black metal supergroup” - FACT Mag

VMO aka Violent Magic Orchestra break through the darkness and herald a spectacular mould-melting sound on their forthcoming album DEATH RAVE.
After touring the globe showcasing their A/V moshpit-inducing live show, they are revealing their new musical creations to an unsuspecting public. Never Sleep are proud to present a landmark moment in the Japanese hardcore new rave scene. 
The blinding lights of DEATH RAVE point to an untraveled journey, a sci-fi fusion of black metal, gabber, cyberpunk, performance art and techno. It’s their first for the Berlin label (founded by Gabber Eleganza) following 2021’s EP Principle of Light Speed Variance.

Ahead of the release VMO have brought their digital harcore to festivals around the globe, including Roadburn Festival, BANG FACE Weekender, Brutal Assault extreme music festival, Le Guess Who?, CTM Berlin and Dark Mofo. Their performance is the ultimate extreme visual music project in which techno, black metal, and industrial unite to create a ritual from the near future, 2099. 
All visual art and stage setting is provided by non-touring member, artist and programmer Kezzardrix (who has been visual director for millennium parade and BABYMETAL previously).
The power consumption of a VMO show is equivalent to 56 guitar
amplifiers, 5000W, a mind-expanding supreme noise and light experience.

The band members all go by the names of classic black metal bands rendered in the Japanese katakana script; “ダークスローン (Darkthrone)”; “メイヘム (Mayhem)”, and “エンペラー(Emperor)”. 
Their new LP is the first to feature lead vocalist ザスタ ー (Xasthur). 

The record also features guest vocalist from extreme metal icon Attila
Csihar, known for singing with Mayhem and Sunn O))). The result is a leap forward from their 2016 debut, where they have found a singularity where death metal meets Kraftwerk, or Rephlex goes black. 
Dressed in corpse paint and other hell-raising looks, onstage they are like “Shinigami (death gods) from the Death Note manga”.
Singles Venom, Supergaze and Martello Mosh Pit featuring Gabber Eleganza have been released in the lead up to the record and have been shocking techno dance floors too with their hi-NRG-symphonic doom-gaze. 

They have shared their video for Planet Helvetech (here), created by Berlin-based Patrick Defasten. Helvetech combines the Norwegian word for hell (hevlete) with techno and is a reference to the infamous black metal shop founded by Mayhem’s Euronymous. 
It’s a song that imagines time travel from 2099 on the planet Helvetech (where VMO comes from) to 1990s Oslo.

In 2023, they performed at the CTM festival in Berlin, as well as at
Berghain, receiving rave reviews. 
At Sydney’s leading multi-sensory SOFT CENTER festival they drove the crowd into a frenzy on the 17 metre X 30 metre jumbo screen.
They have also collaborated with artists, performing at the two day installation by the trailblazing Tianzhuo Chen - The Shepherd - at the Kyoto International Performing Arts Festival in 2021 here.

VIOLENT MAGIC ORCHESTRA - WELCOME TO THE DEATH RAVE [NSR014]

wires that used to connect beings with each others are damaged
cyclops hidden in the forest of information are waiting for a second eye that could give them perspective
this is not about us
trying to reach the other side of the underneath, our astral bodiex are exhausted
this is not about us
the kin goes beyond and spreads its energy all around
the love we've created does not belong to us
we kiss dying people foreheads to make them feel the warm
the healing path glows so we can find it in the dark.

the love we've created does not belong to us

mastering by @dj-heroin
artwork by Aljoscha Lanz @lordsoft
fonts by Dinamo Typefaces @abcdinamo @fabianharb

nunu - cycle (GIL remix)

That cold rush you get when home from church on Sunday with the bro's.

Christian Love Forum - Unconditional Love 14(Version 1)

Welcome To The Death Rave

Venom

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Venom

Planet Helvetech

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Planet Helvetech

Warp

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Warp

Choking Persuasion

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Choking Persuasion

Kokka

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - Kokka

The Destroyer (Electric Utilities version)

VMO (Violent Magic Orchestra) - The Destroyer (Electric Utilities version)

'Time-Lapse Wilt' is the first single from duo Ephemera, with an accompanying visualiser.

Ephemera is a visceral amalgamation between artists Bride and IVORY BLACK; a joint rapture saturated with interpersonal vehemence and the desire to express themselves through a perception of sentimentality and assertion. 

Their debut record as Ephemera will be released on ALLOY CHOIR in April 2024.

EPHEMERA - Time-Lapse Wilt

Performed live @ Q-Factory Amsterdam 29.2.2024
Performers: Iara Perillo, Waldorf 
Mastered: Waldorf
Cover Art: Waldorf

https://formforum.bandcamp.com/track/d-exp0i

Iara Perillo, Waldorf - D.Exp0I [live]

This composition was created as a result of a daily collection of sounds that Anna recorded during a demanding month. Working on a sound collage helped her to stay in the present.

Production+mix: Petr Bursa

Anna Ruth is a visionary ambient artist and talented flautist, known for her haunting melodies and flute performances that caress the soul and create enchanting soundscapes. Anna emerges from the Prague art scene as a painter who freely transitions between painting and sound. Drawing inspiration from nature and her personal mythology, she weaves soundscapes that transport the listener into hypnotic states.

With her ethereal voice, enchanting flute and magnetic stage presence, she often appears as a solo artist but also collaborates with various artists to expand her artistic expression.

Anna Ruth - IL Paese Incantato

[BR-051] MORANA.Degradation - Various Artists Compilation

It comes with dark times to remind us about things we begin to forget.

MORANA. The ninth circle. Even the void unravels. Decay consumes all, leaving only a putrid slurry of sonic detritus. Fractured frequencies bleed into a miasma of static and distortion. The echoes of despair fade into a monotonous drone, a morbid lullaby for a world dissolving into nothingness. Here, even silence rots. This is not death, but something far worse: the utter degradation of existence itself.

Degradation. 10 industrial techno rides by underground artists.

Artist links:
https://soundcloud.com/jim-aslan
https://www.instagram.com/aslanidis.dim/

Mastered by TRPDVSR
Artwork and designed by Beryllium

More about us:
instagram.com/berylliumproject
facebook.com/berylliumproject
http://berylliumproject.bandcamp.com

MORANA.Degradation

SiGNALS

[BR-051] ΨΥΧΟ - SiGNALS

hex formes + nekomata shadow - User Not Found (Samuel Echo mix)

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Rammstein - Sonne  (JX Spark Edit)

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