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@laibachofficial - Musick (@muterecords)

"The rise of generative AI in industry music (=music the music industry creates for the sole purpose of maximizingthe interests of share holders and certain billionaires, who use their profits to invest in the military industrial complex) has already been anticipated and prepared long before AI - as it irreparably destroys the internet today - existed.

The consumer has been conditioned to respond to a lowest common denominator of individuality, to music without creative risks, optimized for recognition as a hit at any given moment the medium reaches therecipient's ear. Compression, elimitation of dynamics, the use of formulaic sounds, chords, measures, which trigger expected trained reactions - they have all been common practise for decades, with the ultimate culmination in altering what the general public even perceives as emotion, as vocals became flat and auto-tuned, establishing a digitalized uncanny valley as the new normal.
It worked so successfully that many talented young singers unknowingly don't even try to sound like naturally emoting humans anymore, but already emulate the distorted, stripped off personality simulation of soul in industry music.

The step from standardized assembly line instrumentals and robotized vocals to completely artificially generated music, as soon as the tools to do so were available, was minimal.

Now we're flooded with both, becoming less and less able to distinguish one from another: Real music, which feels unreal, while it tries to shed its inherent humanity - and an abundance of music without a maker, not even meant to be listened to, randomly replacable content inflating the streaming bubble to fabricate size and create capitalist revenue.

It's sickening. Enter Laibach [...]"

Read my whole review here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/laibach-musick.html

@laibachofficial - Musick (@muterecords)

"The rise of generative AI in industry music (=music the music industry creates for the sole purpose of maximizingthe interests of share holders and certain billionaires, who use their profits to invest in the military industrial complex) has already been anticipated and prepared long before AI - as it irreparably destroys the internet today - existed.

The consumer has been conditioned to respond to a lowest common denominator of individuality, to music without creative risks, optimized for recognition as a hit at any given moment the medium reaches therecipient's ear. Compression, elimitation of dynamics, the use of formulaic sounds, chords, measures, which trigger expected trained reactions - they have all been common practise for decades, with the ultimate culmination in altering what the general public even perceives as emotion, as vocals became flat and auto-tuned, establishing a digitalized uncanny valley as the new normal.
It worked so successfully that many talented young singers unknowingly don't even try to sound like naturally emoting humans anymore, but already emulate the distorted, stripped off personality simulation of soul in industry music.

The step from standardized assembly line instrumentals and robotized vocals to completely artificially generated music, as soon as the tools to do so were available, was minimal.

Now we're flooded with both, becoming less and less able to distinguish one from another: Real music, which feels unreal, while it tries to shed its inherent humanity - and an abundance of music without a maker, not even meant to be listened to, randomly replacable content inflating the streaming bubble to fabricate size and create capitalist revenue.

It's sickening. Enter Laibach [...]"

Read my whole review here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/laibach-musick.html

@laneshiotayonii - Love Is In The Shit (@pelagic_records)

"I got no talent
Just a story after another story"

While I cannot deny the urge to argue about the truth of that statement with her, let's just assume Lane Shi Otay:onii is completely right... ... ok ... Can I even do that?

Given the sheer amount of stories being told by her in solo works, bands, collaborations (for example with thisquietarmy), her recent commissioned "Moonstruck Old Tales" show, which won Roadburn for me, or that completely over the top post-apocalyptic Biennale Venice open air performance with a coven of naked mermaids, of which I'd really love to see more than these already mind-blowing Instagram snippets, attributing the artist no talent feels like an almost criminal understatement.

Continue reading the rest of my review here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/otayonii-love-is-in-shit.html

@laneshiotayonii - Love Is In The Shit (@pelagic_records)

"I got no talent
Just a story after another story"

While I cannot deny the urge to argue about the truth of that statement with her, let's just assume Lane Shi Otay:onii is completely right... ... ok ... Can I even do that?

Given the sheer amount of stories being told by her in solo works, bands, collaborations (for example with thisquietarmy), her recent commissioned "Moonstruck Old Tales" show, which won Roadburn for me, or that completely over the top post-apocalyptic Biennale Venice open air performance with a coven of naked mermaids, of which I'd really love to see more than these already mind-blowing Instagram snippets, attributing the artist no talent feels like an almost criminal understatement.

Continue reading the rest of my review here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/otayonii-love-is-in-shit.html

@laneshiotayonii - Love Is In The Shit (@pelagic_records)

"I got no talent
Just a story after another story"

While I cannot deny the urge to argue about the truth of that statement with her, let's just assume Lane Shi Otay:onii is completely right... ... ok ... Can I even do that?

Given the sheer amount of stories being told by her in solo works, bands, collaborations (for example with thisquietarmy), her recent commissioned "Moonstruck Old Tales" show, which won Roadburn for me, or that completely over the top post-apocalyptic Biennale Venice open air performance with a coven of naked mermaids, of which I'd really love to see more than these already mind-blowing Instagram snippets, attributing the artist no talent feels like an almost criminal understatement.

Continue reading the rest of my review here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/otayonii-love-is-in-shit.html

@jegongband - Gomi Kuzu Can

"[...] most of this album focusses on a repetitive Psychedelic purity layered with Ambient and Noise. Similar to the last Sum Of R record there's a lot of eeriness and darkness on Gomi Kuzu Can, but this album omits the outright evil escapades and leans more into cosmic and retro-futuristic atmospheres [...]"

https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/jegong-gomi-kuzu-can.html

#Cavs - Sojourn

After reviewing Flea's debut it's only logical to continue with another solo album more interesting than the recent output of the artist's main band. Enter King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard drummer Michael "Cavs" Cavanagh!

https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/cavs-sojourn.html

#Cavs - Sojourn

After reviewing Flea's debut it's only logical to continue with another solo album more interesting than the recent output of the artist's main band. Enter King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard drummer Michael "Cavs" Cavanagh!

https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/cavs-sojourn.html

@flea333 - Honora

In my last post here I reported four severe Jazz crimes to the Jazz Police. I also announced that I would soon write about the so far worst offender this year. And here we are!

But first let's answer the potential question what the Jazz Police even is:

In German we call it them Jazzpolizei. They are the Star Trek canon fundamentalists and the Trve Black Metal gatekeepers of Jazz - a phalanx of fans, writers, snobs dedicated not really to save the purity of Jazz, but in truth mainly rather to loudly verbalize their personal superiority over the lesser jazz-enlightened mob, who doesn't reject what they deem unworthy of being taken serious as Jazz.

As so often with cops, members of the Jazz Police aren't always the brightest. So when non-Jazz band Red Hot Chili Peppers bass player Flea's first solo album was being announced as a Jazz album with him playing trumpet and featuring guests like non_jazz singers Thom Yorke and Nick Cave, naturally parts of the social media Jazz bubble reaction were predictably embarrassing...

In truth however Michael Peter "Flea" Balzary knew exactly what he was doing there, came prepared and made (almost) all the right decisions [...]

Continue to read my whole review here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/flea-honora.html

@flea333 - Honora

In my last post here I reported four severe Jazz crimes to the Jazz Police. I also announced that I would soon write about the so far worst offender this year. And here we are!

But first let's answer the potential question what the Jazz Police even is:

In German we call it them Jazzpolizei. They are the Star Trek canon fundamentalists and the Trve Black Metal gatekeepers of Jazz - a phalanx of fans, writers, snobs dedicated not really to save the purity of Jazz, but in truth mainly rather to loudly verbalize their personal superiority over the lesser jazz-enlightened mob, who doesn't reject what they deem unworthy of being taken serious as Jazz.

As so often with cops, members of the Jazz Police aren't always the brightest. So when non-Jazz band Red Hot Chili Peppers bass player Flea's first solo album was being announced as a Jazz album with him playing trumpet and featuring guests like non_jazz singers Thom Yorke and Nick Cave, naturally parts of the social media Jazz bubble reaction were predictably embarrassing...

In truth however Michael Peter "Flea" Balzary knew exactly what he was doing there, came prepared and made (almost) all the right decisions [...]

Continue to read my whole review here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/flea-honora.html

JAZZ CRIMES REPORT feat. #jü , @octo_noise , #suncuts and @taupetaupetaupe

Cover your ears and call the Jazz Police right now!
In this quadruple review I am going to expose brutal atrocities commited by ruthless organisations hiding behind insconspicious short names to the purity and innocence of Jazz. Get ready to cross your arms and frown in disgust! Precious Jazz, what have they done to you?

"[...] This obviously unlawful album must contain forbidden addictive elements. Because despite knowing that this shouldn't be allowed I am stillabnormally drawn to this Collective Heliophobic Dream (which is definitely a code for some illegal substance) [...]"

"[...] In favour of the defendants one could argue that in comparison to their previous work III this is purer, with less carefully planned ventures away from Jazz. Just the trio playing as if you had been kidnapped by them and they were jamming with you shackled in the middle in a smokey small dark room [...]"

"[...] Producing proof was way easier in the case of the three-headed syndicate called Taupe from Glasgow, Scotland - where famously Jazz goes to die [...] I could get hold of this compact disc wrenching it directly from the main suspects for its manufacturing, immediately after those had wreaked havoc [...] in Tilburg [...]"

"[...] out all the culprits in this report this German trio surely is the most insidious. They don't even claim to have anything to do with Jazz at all, masquerading as a Noise Rock band. Well gotcha!, the title of track number four, Jazz Waffen Jemen (Jazz Weapons Yemen) tells another story! [...]"

Read the full unredacted report here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/jazz-crimes-report-feat-ju-octo-suncuts.html

@hypergal__ and @zahn.band live at @hafenklanghamburg (May 7th 2026)

"[...] Their mixture of hypnotic agitative rally-chant-style vocals and Electronic Harsh Noise / No Wave with ferocious Punk / Grind and danceable drumming felt as thrillingly experimental as gloriously bold and primitive. Koharu Ishida and Kurumi Kadoya for sure gave me one of the weirdest kicks into the face I received in a while [...]"

The whole review here in my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/hyper-gal-and-zahn-live-at-hafenklang.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 4: Sunday, April 19th

- One Last Hug With The Devil -

feat. @akchamel_ , @djiintheband , @hu66in6 , @kxpmusic , @primitivemandoom , @sirrichardbishop
and @streetsects

"[...] Was I getting a peek at creatures from the limbo between the Black Lodge and our world? Was I being spiritually cleansed by alien shamans from another planet? Had I been transported back in time and to a far away place in the fictional mystic world of Heilung? Or was simply all of that equally true?

Between experimental noises and tribal rhythms, enigmatic chants and folklore of undefinable origin, from ominous blessing to transcendent mortuary rite Ak'Chamel led the audience in the Engine Room from bewildering theatre play to cosmic Krautrock levitation.

Weirdest trip of the festival? Or closest encounter with mankind's inner truth? All is true, is air and smoke. My soul is the spark of glowing embers blown through the ashes. That doesn't have to make any sense. But it sounds cool, right? Come on, don't pretend it doesn't! [...]"

My full report of he final Roadburn day 2026 with many pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-4-sunday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 4: Sunday, April 19th

- One Last Hug With The Devil -

feat. @akchamel_ , @djiintheband , @hu66in6 , @kxpmusic , @primitivemandoom , @sirrichardbishop
and @streetsects

"[...] Was I getting a peek at creatures from the limbo between the Black Lodge and our world? Was I being spiritually cleansed by alien shamans from another planet? Had I been transported back in time and to a far away place in the fictional mystic world of Heilung? Or was simply all of that equally true?

Between experimental noises and tribal rhythms, enigmatic chants and folklore of undefinable origin, from ominous blessing to transcendent mortuary rite Ak'Chamel led the audience in the Engine Room from bewildering theatre play to cosmic Krautrock levitation.

Weirdest trip of the festival? Or closest encounter with mankind's inner truth? All is true, is air and smoke. My soul is the spark of glowing embers blown through the ashes. That doesn't have to make any sense. But it sounds cool, right? Come on, don't pretend it doesn't! [...]"

My full report of he final Roadburn day 2026 with many pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-4-sunday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 4: Sunday, April 19th

- One Last Hug With The Devil -

feat. @akchamel_ , @djiintheband , @hu66in6 , @kxpmusic , @primitivemandoom , @sirrichardbishop
and @streetsects

"[...] Was I getting a peek at creatures from the limbo between the Black Lodge and our world? Was I being spiritually cleansed by alien shamans from another planet? Had I been transported back in time and to a far away place in the fictional mystic world of Heilung? Or was simply all of that equally true?

Between experimental noises and tribal rhythms, enigmatic chants and folklore of undefinable origin, from ominous blessing to transcendent mortuary rite Ak'Chamel led the audience in the Engine Room from bewildering theatre play to cosmic Krautrock levitation.

Weirdest trip of the festival? Or closest encounter with mankind's inner truth? All is true, is air and smoke. My soul is the spark of glowing embers blown through the ashes. That doesn't have to make any sense. But it sounds cool, right? Come on, don't pretend it doesn't! [...]"

My full report of he final Roadburn day 2026 with many pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-4-sunday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 4: Sunday, April 19th

- One Last Hug With The Devil -

feat. @akchamel_ , @djiintheband , @hu66in6 , @kxpmusic , @primitivemandoom , @sirrichardbishop
and @streetsects

"[...] Was I getting a peek at creatures from the limbo between the Black Lodge and our world? Was I being spiritually cleansed by alien shamans from another planet? Had I been transported back in time and to a far away place in the fictional mystic world of Heilung? Or was simply all of that equally true?

Between experimental noises and tribal rhythms, enigmatic chants and folklore of undefinable origin, from ominous blessing to transcendent mortuary rite Ak'Chamel led the audience in the Engine Room from bewildering theatre play to cosmic Krautrock levitation.

Weirdest trip of the festival? Or closest encounter with mankind's inner truth? All is true, is air and smoke. My soul is the spark of glowing embers blown through the ashes. That doesn't have to make any sense. But it sounds cool, right? Come on, don't pretend it doesn't! [...]"

My full report of he final Roadburn day 2026 with many pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-4-sunday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 4: Sunday, April 19th

- One Last Hug With The Devil -

feat. @akchamel_ , @djiintheband , @hu66in6 , @kxpmusic , @primitivemandoom , @sirrichardbishop
and @streetsects

"[...] Was I getting a peek at creatures from the limbo between the Black Lodge and our world? Was I being spiritually cleansed by alien shamans from another planet? Had I been transported back in time and to a far away place in the fictional mystic world of Heilung? Or was simply all of that equally true?

Between experimental noises and tribal rhythms, enigmatic chants and folklore of undefinable origin, from ominous blessing to transcendent mortuary rite Ak'Chamel led the audience in the Engine Room from bewildering theatre play to cosmic Krautrock levitation.

Weirdest trip of the festival? Or closest encounter with mankind's inner truth? All is true, is air and smoke. My soul is the spark of glowing embers blown through the ashes. That doesn't have to make any sense. But it sounds cool, right? Come on, don't pretend it doesn't! [...]"

My full report of he final Roadburn day 2026 with many pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-4-sunday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 4: Sunday, April 19th

- One Last Hug With The Devil -

feat. @akchamel_ , @djiintheband , @hu66in6 , @kxpmusic , @primitivemandoom , @sirrichardbishop
and @streetsects

"[...] Was I getting a peek at creatures from the limbo between the Black Lodge and our world? Was I being spiritually cleansed by alien shamans from another planet? Had I been transported back in time and to a far away place in the fictional mystic world of Heilung? Or was simply all of that equally true?

Between experimental noises and tribal rhythms, enigmatic chants and folklore of undefinable origin, from ominous blessing to transcendent mortuary rite Ak'Chamel led the audience in the Engine Room from bewildering theatre play to cosmic Krautrock levitation.

Weirdest trip of the festival? Or closest encounter with mankind's inner truth? All is true, is air and smoke. My soul is the spark of glowing embers blown through the ashes. That doesn't have to make any sense. But it sounds cool, right? Come on, don't pretend it doesn't! [...]"

My full report of he final Roadburn day 2026 with many pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-4-sunday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 4: Sunday, April 19th

- One Last Hug With The Devil -

feat. @akchamel_ , @djiintheband , @hu66in6 , @kxpmusic , @primitivemandoom , @sirrichardbishop
and @streetsects

"[...] Was I getting a peek at creatures from the limbo between the Black Lodge and our world? Was I being spiritually cleansed by alien shamans from another planet? Had I been transported back in time and to a far away place in the fictional mystic world of Heilung? Or was simply all of that equally true?

Between experimental noises and tribal rhythms, enigmatic chants and folklore of undefinable origin, from ominous blessing to transcendent mortuary rite Ak'Chamel led the audience in the Engine Room from bewildering theatre play to cosmic Krautrock levitation.

Weirdest trip of the festival? Or closest encounter with mankind's inner truth? All is true, is air and smoke. My soul is the spark of glowing embers blown through the ashes. That doesn't have to make any sense. But it sounds cool, right? Come on, don't pretend it doesn't! [...]"

My full report of he final Roadburn day 2026 with many pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-4-sunday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 4: Sunday, April 19th

- One Last Hug With The Devil -

feat. @akchamel_ , @djiintheband , @hu66in6 , @kxpmusic , @primitivemandoom , @sirrichardbishop
and @streetsects

"[...] Was I getting a peek at creatures from the limbo between the Black Lodge and our world? Was I being spiritually cleansed by alien shamans from another planet? Had I been transported back in time and to a far away place in the fictional mystic world of Heilung? Or was simply all of that equally true?

Between experimental noises and tribal rhythms, enigmatic chants and folklore of undefinable origin, from ominous blessing to transcendent mortuary rite Ak'Chamel led the audience in the Engine Room from bewildering theatre play to cosmic Krautrock levitation.

Weirdest trip of the festival? Or closest encounter with mankind's inner truth? All is true, is air and smoke. My soul is the spark of glowing embers blown through the ashes. That doesn't have to make any sense. But it sounds cool, right? Come on, don't pretend it doesn't! [...]"

My full report of he final Roadburn day 2026 with many pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-4-sunday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 3: Saturday, April 18th

- I Drifted On Alpine Oceans
With The Taste Of The Moon On My Tongue -

feat. @borisdronevil , @heaveninherarms_official , @theoathbreakerreigns , @laneshiotayonii , @roismusicroismusic , @sliftrock , #steamboatswitzerland and @taupetaupetaupe

"[...] My last show of the night was Slift being Slift. If you're sensitive to flashing lights and immune to the allure of rabid Heavy Psychedelic Rock at permanent full throttle, then the French trio isn't for you.
For everyone else their warp eleven space flight through deadly asteroid fields and treacherous nebulas, in pursuit of comet tails and surfing on the edge of the event horizon must have been a hyper-energetic blast. Well, at least it absolutely was for me! These guys just always deliver a supernova of groove, noisy Kraut excess and hypnotic overdrive [...]"

Read everything before that and look at more pictures of the third full Roadburn day here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-3-saturday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 3: Saturday, April 18th

- I Drifted On Alpine Oceans
With The Taste Of The Moon On My Tongue -

feat. @borisdronevil , @heaveninherarms_official , @theoathbreakerreigns , @laneshiotayonii , @roismusicroismusic , @sliftrock , #steamboatswitzerland and @taupetaupetaupe

"[...] My last show of the night was Slift being Slift. If you're sensitive to flashing lights and immune to the allure of rabid Heavy Psychedelic Rock at permanent full throttle, then the French trio isn't for you.
For everyone else their warp eleven space flight through deadly asteroid fields and treacherous nebulas, in pursuit of comet tails and surfing on the edge of the event horizon must have been a hyper-energetic blast. Well, at least it absolutely was for me! These guys just always deliver a supernova of groove, noisy Kraut excess and hypnotic overdrive [...]"

Read everything before that and look at more pictures of the third full Roadburn day here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-3-saturday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 3: Saturday, April 18th

- I Drifted On Alpine Oceans
With The Taste Of The Moon On My Tongue -

feat. @borisdronevil , @heaveninherarms_official , @theoathbreakerreigns , @laneshiotayonii , @roismusicroismusic , @sliftrock , #steamboatswitzerland and @taupetaupetaupe

"[...] My last show of the night was Slift being Slift. If you're sensitive to flashing lights and immune to the allure of rabid Heavy Psychedelic Rock at permanent full throttle, then the French trio isn't for you.
For everyone else their warp eleven space flight through deadly asteroid fields and treacherous nebulas, in pursuit of comet tails and surfing on the edge of the event horizon must have been a hyper-energetic blast. Well, at least it absolutely was for me! These guys just always deliver a supernova of groove, noisy Kraut excess and hypnotic overdrive [...]"

Read everything before that and look at more pictures of the third full Roadburn day here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-3-saturday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 3: Saturday, April 18th

- I Drifted On Alpine Oceans
With The Taste Of The Moon On My Tongue -

feat. @borisdronevil , @heaveninherarms_official , @theoathbreakerreigns , @laneshiotayonii , @roismusicroismusic , @sliftrock , #steamboatswitzerland and @taupetaupetaupe

"[...] My last show of the night was Slift being Slift. If you're sensitive to flashing lights and immune to the allure of rabid Heavy Psychedelic Rock at permanent full throttle, then the French trio isn't for you.
For everyone else their warp eleven space flight through deadly asteroid fields and treacherous nebulas, in pursuit of comet tails and surfing on the edge of the event horizon must have been a hyper-energetic blast. Well, at least it absolutely was for me! These guys just always deliver a supernova of groove, noisy Kraut excess and hypnotic overdrive [...]"

Read everything before that and look at more pictures of the third full Roadburn day here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-3-saturday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 3: Saturday, April 18th

- I Drifted On Alpine Oceans
With The Taste Of The Moon On My Tongue -

feat. @borisdronevil , @heaveninherarms_official , @theoathbreakerreigns , @laneshiotayonii , @roismusicroismusic , @sliftrock , #steamboatswitzerland and @taupetaupetaupe

"[...] My last show of the night was Slift being Slift. If you're sensitive to flashing lights and immune to the allure of rabid Heavy Psychedelic Rock at permanent full throttle, then the French trio isn't for you.
For everyone else their warp eleven space flight through deadly asteroid fields and treacherous nebulas, in pursuit of comet tails and surfing on the edge of the event horizon must have been a hyper-energetic blast. Well, at least it absolutely was for me! These guys just always deliver a supernova of groove, noisy Kraut excess and hypnotic overdrive [...]"

Read everything before that and look at more pictures of the third full Roadburn day here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-3-saturday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 3: Saturday, April 18th

- I Drifted On Alpine Oceans
With The Taste Of The Moon On My Tongue -

feat. @borisdronevil , @heaveninherarms_official , @theoathbreakerreigns , @laneshiotayonii , @roismusicroismusic , @sliftrock , #steamboatswitzerland and @taupetaupetaupe

"[...] My last show of the night was Slift being Slift. If you're sensitive to flashing lights and immune to the allure of rabid Heavy Psychedelic Rock at permanent full throttle, then the French trio isn't for you.
For everyone else their warp eleven space flight through deadly asteroid fields and treacherous nebulas, in pursuit of comet tails and surfing on the edge of the event horizon must have been a hyper-energetic blast. Well, at least it absolutely was for me! These guys just always deliver a supernova of groove, noisy Kraut excess and hypnotic overdrive [...]"

Read everything before that and look at more pictures of the third full Roadburn day here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-3-saturday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 3: Saturday, April 18th

- I Drifted On Alpine Oceans
With The Taste Of The Moon On My Tongue -

feat. @borisdronevil , @heaveninherarms_official , @theoathbreakerreigns , @laneshiotayonii , @roismusicroismusic , @sliftrock , #steamboatswitzerland and @taupetaupetaupe

"[...] My last show of the night was Slift being Slift. If you're sensitive to flashing lights and immune to the allure of rabid Heavy Psychedelic Rock at permanent full throttle, then the French trio isn't for you.
For everyone else their warp eleven space flight through deadly asteroid fields and treacherous nebulas, in pursuit of comet tails and surfing on the edge of the event horizon must have been a hyper-energetic blast. Well, at least it absolutely was for me! These guys just always deliver a supernova of groove, noisy Kraut excess and hypnotic overdrive [...]"

Read everything before that and look at more pictures of the third full Roadburn day here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-3-saturday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 3: Saturday, April 18th

- I Drifted On Alpine Oceans
With The Taste Of The Moon On My Tongue -

feat. @borisdronevil , @heaveninherarms_official , @theoathbreakerreigns , @laneshiotayonii , @roismusicroismusic , @sliftrock , #steamboatswitzerland and @taupetaupetaupe

"[...] My last show of the night was Slift being Slift. If you're sensitive to flashing lights and immune to the allure of rabid Heavy Psychedelic Rock at permanent full throttle, then the French trio isn't for you.
For everyone else their warp eleven space flight through deadly asteroid fields and treacherous nebulas, in pursuit of comet tails and surfing on the edge of the event horizon must have been a hyper-energetic blast. Well, at least it absolutely was for me! These guys just always deliver a supernova of groove, noisy Kraut excess and hypnotic overdrive [...]"

Read everything before that and look at more pictures of the third full Roadburn day here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-3-saturday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 3: Saturday, April 18th

- I Drifted On Alpine Oceans
With The Taste Of The Moon On My Tongue -

feat. @borisdronevil , @heaveninherarms_official , @theoathbreakerreigns , @laneshiotayonii , @roismusicroismusic , @sliftrock , #steamboatswitzerland and @taupetaupetaupe

"[...] My last show of the night was Slift being Slift. If you're sensitive to flashing lights and immune to the allure of rabid Heavy Psychedelic Rock at permanent full throttle, then the French trio isn't for you.
For everyone else their warp eleven space flight through deadly asteroid fields and treacherous nebulas, in pursuit of comet tails and surfing on the edge of the event horizon must have been a hyper-energetic blast. Well, at least it absolutely was for me! These guys just always deliver a supernova of groove, noisy Kraut excess and hypnotic overdrive [...]"

Read everything before that and look at more pictures of the third full Roadburn day here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-3-saturday.html

Oops, I already posted Wednesday and Fridaybut forgot the first full #Roadburn day between them So let's do this before my Saturday review is finished!

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY ONE: Thursday, April 16th

- The Spiritual Sound of Hypnotic Eternity -

feat. @blawan , @cripplingalcoholism.band , @deadneanderthals , @fauna_gbg , @hetconcreet , @marujaofficial and @shearling__official

"[...] It took long for the two notes to even be there. At point seven o'clock a priest chanted far away from the pews where the audience was seated, seemingly blessing the performance. Then the four musicians entered the stage at the crossing of the nave and the slowest, quietest ascend into tone I've ever (rarely) heard began. In this first phase noises from outside like a choir singing far away at the street, the entry being opened and shut, the footsteps of people coming and going was the core of the piece, rather than what - not even all - musicians were doing [...]"

Many more words and pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-thursday-april.html

Oops, I already posted Wednesday and Fridaybut forgot the first full #Roadburn day between them So let's do this before my Saturday review is finished!

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY ONE: Thursday, April 16th

- The Spiritual Sound of Hypnotic Eternity -

feat. @blawan , @cripplingalcoholism.band , @deadneanderthals , @fauna_gbg , @hetconcreet , @marujaofficial and @shearling__official

"[...] It took long for the two notes to even be there. At point seven o'clock a priest chanted far away from the pews where the audience was seated, seemingly blessing the performance. Then the four musicians entered the stage at the crossing of the nave and the slowest, quietest ascend into tone I've ever (rarely) heard began. In this first phase noises from outside like a choir singing far away at the street, the entry being opened and shut, the footsteps of people coming and going was the core of the piece, rather than what - not even all - musicians were doing [...]"

Many more words and pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-thursday-april.html

Oops, I already posted Wednesday and Fridaybut forgot the first full #Roadburn day between them So let's do this before my Saturday review is finished!

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY ONE: Thursday, April 16th

- The Spiritual Sound of Hypnotic Eternity -

feat. @blawan , @cripplingalcoholism.band , @deadneanderthals , @fauna_gbg , @hetconcreet , @marujaofficial and @shearling__official

"[...] It took long for the two notes to even be there. At point seven o'clock a priest chanted far away from the pews where the audience was seated, seemingly blessing the performance. Then the four musicians entered the stage at the crossing of the nave and the slowest, quietest ascend into tone I've ever (rarely) heard began. In this first phase noises from outside like a choir singing far away at the street, the entry being opened and shut, the footsteps of people coming and going was the core of the piece, rather than what - not even all - musicians were doing [...]"

Many more words and pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-thursday-april.html

Oops, I already posted Wednesday and Fridaybut forgot the first full #Roadburn day between them So let's do this before my Saturday review is finished!

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY ONE: Thursday, April 16th

- The Spiritual Sound of Hypnotic Eternity -

feat. @blawan , @cripplingalcoholism.band , @deadneanderthals , @fauna_gbg , @hetconcreet , @marujaofficial and @shearling__official

"[...] It took long for the two notes to even be there. At point seven o'clock a priest chanted far away from the pews where the audience was seated, seemingly blessing the performance. Then the four musicians entered the stage at the crossing of the nave and the slowest, quietest ascend into tone I've ever (rarely) heard began. In this first phase noises from outside like a choir singing far away at the street, the entry being opened and shut, the footsteps of people coming and going was the core of the piece, rather than what - not even all - musicians were doing [...]"

Many more words and pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-thursday-april.html

Oops, I already posted Wednesday and Fridaybut forgot the first full #Roadburn day between them So let's do this before my Saturday review is finished!

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY ONE: Thursday, April 16th

- The Spiritual Sound of Hypnotic Eternity -

feat. @blawan , @cripplingalcoholism.band , @deadneanderthals , @fauna_gbg , @hetconcreet , @marujaofficial and @shearling__official

"[...] It took long for the two notes to even be there. At point seven o'clock a priest chanted far away from the pews where the audience was seated, seemingly blessing the performance. Then the four musicians entered the stage at the crossing of the nave and the slowest, quietest ascend into tone I've ever (rarely) heard began. In this first phase noises from outside like a choir singing far away at the street, the entry being opened and shut, the footsteps of people coming and going was the core of the piece, rather than what - not even all - musicians were doing [...]"

Many more words and pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-thursday-april.html

Oops, I already posted Wednesday and Fridaybut forgot the first full #Roadburn day between them So let's do this before my Saturday review is finished!

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY ONE: Thursday, April 16th

- The Spiritual Sound of Hypnotic Eternity -

feat. @blawan , @cripplingalcoholism.band , @deadneanderthals , @fauna_gbg , @hetconcreet , @marujaofficial and @shearling__official

"[...] It took long for the two notes to even be there. At point seven o'clock a priest chanted far away from the pews where the audience was seated, seemingly blessing the performance. Then the four musicians entered the stage at the crossing of the nave and the slowest, quietest ascend into tone I've ever (rarely) heard began. In this first phase noises from outside like a choir singing far away at the street, the entry being opened and shut, the footsteps of people coming and going was the core of the piece, rather than what - not even all - musicians were doing [...]"

Many more words and pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-thursday-april.html

Oops, I already posted Wednesday and Fridaybut forgot the first full #Roadburn day between them So let's do this before my Saturday review is finished!

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY ONE: Thursday, April 16th

- The Spiritual Sound of Hypnotic Eternity -

feat. @blawan , @cripplingalcoholism.band , @deadneanderthals , @fauna_gbg , @hetconcreet , @marujaofficial and @shearling__official

"[...] It took long for the two notes to even be there. At point seven o'clock a priest chanted far away from the pews where the audience was seated, seemingly blessing the performance. Then the four musicians entered the stage at the crossing of the nave and the slowest, quietest ascend into tone I've ever (rarely) heard began. In this first phase noises from outside like a choir singing far away at the street, the entry being opened and shut, the footsteps of people coming and going was the core of the piece, rather than what - not even all - musicians were doing [...]"

Many more words and pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-thursday-april.html

Oops, I already posted Wednesday and Fridaybut forgot the first full #Roadburn day between them So let's do this before my Saturday review is finished!

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY ONE: Thursday, April 16th

- The Spiritual Sound of Hypnotic Eternity -

feat. @blawan , @cripplingalcoholism.band , @deadneanderthals , @fauna_gbg , @hetconcreet , @marujaofficial and @shearling__official

"[...] It took long for the two notes to even be there. At point seven o'clock a priest chanted far away from the pews where the audience was seated, seemingly blessing the performance. Then the four musicians entered the stage at the crossing of the nave and the slowest, quietest ascend into tone I've ever (rarely) heard began. In this first phase noises from outside like a choir singing far away at the street, the entry being opened and shut, the footsteps of people coming and going was the core of the piece, rather than what - not even all - musicians were doing [...]"

Many more words and pictures here: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-thursday-april.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 2: Friday, April 17th

- Psych, Sax and Violence! -

feat. @acidmotherstempleofficial , @agriculture_music , #backengrillen , Teardrinker
feat. Acid Mothers Temple, Agriculture, Backengrillen,@tear.drinker , @themachine_nl , @wiegedood_official & @blindman_collectief , @yelloweyesband and @zu.music

"[...] I'm a simple man: give me a saxophone and I will love any kind of music twice as much as without it. So the whole stage setup of Black Metal masters Wiegedood and the saxophone quartet Bl!ndman with not just regular guitar, bass and drums, but also eight horns, two theremins and big, almost art installation style metal plates to be hit and bowed was like an irresistable catnip luring me to the Main Stage [...]"

Full Roadburn Friday review and many pictures here on my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-2-friday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 2: Friday, April 17th

- Psych, Sax and Violence! -

feat. @acidmotherstempleofficial , @agriculture_music , #backengrillen , Teardrinker
feat. Acid Mothers Temple, Agriculture, Backengrillen,@tear.drinker , @themachine_nl , @wiegedood_official & @blindman_collectief , @yelloweyesband and @zu.music

"[...] I'm a simple man: give me a saxophone and I will love any kind of music twice as much as without it. So the whole stage setup of Black Metal masters Wiegedood and the saxophone quartet Bl!ndman with not just regular guitar, bass and drums, but also eight horns, two theremins and big, almost art installation style metal plates to be hit and bowed was like an irresistable catnip luring me to the Main Stage [...]"

Full Roadburn Friday review and many pictures here on my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-2-friday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 2: Friday, April 17th

- Psych, Sax and Violence! -

feat. @acidmotherstempleofficial , @agriculture_music , #backengrillen , Teardrinker
feat. Acid Mothers Temple, Agriculture, Backengrillen,@tear.drinker , @themachine_nl , @wiegedood_official & @blindman_collectief , @yelloweyesband and @zu.music

"[...] I'm a simple man: give me a saxophone and I will love any kind of music twice as much as without it. So the whole stage setup of Black Metal masters Wiegedood and the saxophone quartet Bl!ndman with not just regular guitar, bass and drums, but also eight horns, two theremins and big, almost art installation style metal plates to be hit and bowed was like an irresistable catnip luring me to the Main Stage [...]"

Full Roadburn Friday review and many pictures here on my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-2-friday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 2: Friday, April 17th

- Psych, Sax and Violence! -

feat. @acidmotherstempleofficial , @agriculture_music , #backengrillen , Teardrinker
feat. Acid Mothers Temple, Agriculture, Backengrillen,@tear.drinker , @themachine_nl , @wiegedood_official & @blindman_collectief , @yelloweyesband and @zu.music

"[...] I'm a simple man: give me a saxophone and I will love any kind of music twice as much as without it. So the whole stage setup of Black Metal masters Wiegedood and the saxophone quartet Bl!ndman with not just regular guitar, bass and drums, but also eight horns, two theremins and big, almost art installation style metal plates to be hit and bowed was like an irresistable catnip luring me to the Main Stage [...]"

Full Roadburn Friday review and many pictures here on my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-2-friday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 2: Friday, April 17th

- Psych, Sax and Violence! -

feat. @acidmotherstempleofficial , @agriculture_music , #backengrillen , Teardrinker
feat. Acid Mothers Temple, Agriculture, Backengrillen,@tear.drinker , @themachine_nl , @wiegedood_official & @blindman_collectief , @yelloweyesband and @zu.music

"[...] I'm a simple man: give me a saxophone and I will love any kind of music twice as much as without it. So the whole stage setup of Black Metal masters Wiegedood and the saxophone quartet Bl!ndman with not just regular guitar, bass and drums, but also eight horns, two theremins and big, almost art installation style metal plates to be hit and bowed was like an irresistable catnip luring me to the Main Stage [...]"

Full Roadburn Friday review and many pictures here on my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-2-friday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 2: Friday, April 17th

- Psych, Sax and Violence! -

feat. @acidmotherstempleofficial , @agriculture_music , #backengrillen , Teardrinker
feat. Acid Mothers Temple, Agriculture, Backengrillen,@tear.drinker , @themachine_nl , @wiegedood_official & @blindman_collectief , @yelloweyesband and @zu.music

"[...] I'm a simple man: give me a saxophone and I will love any kind of music twice as much as without it. So the whole stage setup of Black Metal masters Wiegedood and the saxophone quartet Bl!ndman with not just regular guitar, bass and drums, but also eight horns, two theremins and big, almost art installation style metal plates to be hit and bowed was like an irresistable catnip luring me to the Main Stage [...]"

Full Roadburn Friday review and many pictures here on my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-2-friday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 2: Friday, April 17th

- Psych, Sax and Violence! -

feat. @acidmotherstempleofficial , @agriculture_music , #backengrillen , Teardrinker
feat. Acid Mothers Temple, Agriculture, Backengrillen,@tear.drinker , @themachine_nl , @wiegedood_official & @blindman_collectief , @yelloweyesband and @zu.music

"[...] I'm a simple man: give me a saxophone and I will love any kind of music twice as much as without it. So the whole stage setup of Black Metal masters Wiegedood and the saxophone quartet Bl!ndman with not just regular guitar, bass and drums, but also eight horns, two theremins and big, almost art installation style metal plates to be hit and bowed was like an irresistable catnip luring me to the Main Stage [...]"

Full Roadburn Friday review and many pictures here on my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-2-friday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 2: Friday, April 17th

- Psych, Sax and Violence! -

feat. @acidmotherstempleofficial , @agriculture_music , #backengrillen , Teardrinker
feat. Acid Mothers Temple, Agriculture, Backengrillen,@tear.drinker , @themachine_nl , @wiegedood_official & @blindman_collectief , @yelloweyesband and @zu.music

"[...] I'm a simple man: give me a saxophone and I will love any kind of music twice as much as without it. So the whole stage setup of Black Metal masters Wiegedood and the saxophone quartet Bl!ndman with not just regular guitar, bass and drums, but also eight horns, two theremins and big, almost art installation style metal plates to be hit and bowed was like an irresistable catnip luring me to the Main Stage [...]"

Full Roadburn Friday review and many pictures here on my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-2-friday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • DAY 2: Friday, April 17th

- Psych, Sax and Violence! -

feat. @acidmotherstempleofficial , @agriculture_music , #backengrillen , Teardrinker
feat. Acid Mothers Temple, Agriculture, Backengrillen,@tear.drinker , @themachine_nl , @wiegedood_official & @blindman_collectief , @yelloweyesband and @zu.music

"[...] I'm a simple man: give me a saxophone and I will love any kind of music twice as much as without it. So the whole stage setup of Black Metal masters Wiegedood and the saxophone quartet Bl!ndman with not just regular guitar, bass and drums, but also eight horns, two theremins and big, almost art installation style metal plates to be hit and bowed was like an irresistable catnip luring me to the Main Stage [...]"

Full Roadburn Friday review and many pictures here on my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/05/roadburn-festival-2026-day-2-friday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • The Spark: Wednesday, April 15th

- The Bad Bird Catches The Spark -

feat. @badbreeding , @cripplingalcoholism.band and @birdxp

"[...] Visually they're mostly a blur, because that cozy socks/ open house slippers combo of the tourist guy energy frontman kind of overshadowed everything else. Musically the sextet brought a mix of sometimes Hardcore/Sludge heavy, sometimes wearing-sunglasses-in-the-dark danceable, but always melancholic Post Punk, which - also attitude-wise - very much felt like the Goth version of Chat Pile [...]"

Read the whole review here in my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-spark-wednesday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • The Spark: Wednesday, April 15th

- The Bad Bird Catches The Spark -

feat. @badbreeding , @cripplingalcoholism.band and @birdxp

"[...] Visually they're mostly a blur, because that cozy socks/ open house slippers combo of the tourist guy energy frontman kind of overshadowed everything else. Musically the sextet brought a mix of sometimes Hardcore/Sludge heavy, sometimes wearing-sunglasses-in-the-dark danceable, but always melancholic Post Punk, which - also attitude-wise - very much felt like the Goth version of Chat Pile [...]"

Read the whole review here in my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-spark-wednesday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • The Spark: Wednesday, April 15th

- The Bad Bird Catches The Spark -

feat. @badbreeding , @cripplingalcoholism.band and @birdxp

"[...] Visually they're mostly a blur, because that cozy socks/ open house slippers combo of the tourist guy energy frontman kind of overshadowed everything else. Musically the sextet brought a mix of sometimes Hardcore/Sludge heavy, sometimes wearing-sunglasses-in-the-dark danceable, but always melancholic Post Punk, which - also attitude-wise - very much felt like the Goth version of Chat Pile [...]"

Read the whole review here in my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-spark-wednesday.html

@roadburnfest 2026 • The Spark: Wednesday, April 15th

- The Bad Bird Catches The Spark -

feat. @badbreeding , @cripplingalcoholism.band and @birdxp

"[...] Visually they're mostly a blur, because that cozy socks/ open house slippers combo of the tourist guy energy frontman kind of overshadowed everything else. Musically the sextet brought a mix of sometimes Hardcore/Sludge heavy, sometimes wearing-sunglasses-in-the-dark danceable, but always melancholic Post Punk, which - also attitude-wise - very much felt like the Goth version of Chat Pile [...]"

Read the whole review here in my blog: https://derohlsen.blogspot.com/2026/04/roadburn-festival-2026-spark-wednesday.html