Violent Magic Orchestra: Death Rave • Assmann, Prag, Schall: Star of Xanax
Violent Magic Orchestra: Death Rave • Assmann, Prag, Schall: Star of Xanax
Violent Magic Orchestra was founded in the year 2099 and hail from the planet Halvetech. The only way to get back to their planet is to perform DEATH RAVE – endless dancing and riot transforms into a beam of light that forms a dragon whose path becomes a time tunnel to Halvetech.
The six-piece band from Osaka Violent Magic Orchestra is known for their audiovisual super shows! On 6 June, they will play in the stage design of the preceding performance installation Star Of Xanax by artists Natalie Assmann, Maximilian Prag and Anna Schall, who have invited dancer DaDa JV and music producer IDKLANG. Together they embark on a journey into the unknown, a sci-fi fusion of black metal, gabber, cyberpunk, performance art and techno.
In cooperation with the CTM Festival – with the support of BMKOES*.
Violent Magic Orchestra will play their new album DEATH RAVE on the backstage of the Volksbühne. After touring the world to present their A/V moshpit-live-show, they unveil a milestone in the Japanese hardcore new rave scene with their new musical creations. DEATH RAVE fuses the aesthetics of black metal with the euphoria and rush of hardcore and gabber. The album was released on Gabber Eleganzaʼs Never Sleep label and includes contributions from Attila Csihar (Mayhem), Ican Harem, Gabber Modus Operandi, Infinity Division and Dylan Walker – Full of Hell.
Produced for the S_P_I_T Queer Performance Festival 2023 in Vienna, the artists Natalie Assmann, Maximilian Prag, Anna Schall, DaDa JV and IDKLANG are further developing the multidisciplinary work Star Of Xanax as part of the CTM Festival for Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Their performative installation stands between climate anxiety, beta blockers and queer utopias of post-humanist visions of the future, which are directly related to the farewells we experience every day in the „here and now“. Star Of Xanax calls for a paradigm shift by acknowledging collective fear and the radical dissolution of hierarchies between humans and matter.