VIOLENT MAGIC ORCHESTRA (JP) (Black Metal / Noise / Gabber)
VMO members are named after legendary black metal bands written in Japanese katakana, such as ダー クスローン (Darkthrone), メイヘム (Mayhem), エンペラー) (Emperor), ゴル ロス(Gorgoroth), etc.
With KEZZARDRIX (who has done live visuals for MILLENNIUM PARADE and BABYMETAL in the past) in charge of live visuals, VMO consists of five strobe lights, a smoke machine, and a vocalist - ザスター (Zastar) -.
The band creates an extreme art music project where techno, black metal, industrial, noise, gabber, contemporary music, etc. are combined.
It is like black metal meets Kraftwerk or APHEX TWIN with corpse painting. Incidentally, they are currently one of the most power hungry bands in live houses and clubs. VMO's total power consumption is 5000 watts (equivalent to 56 amplifiers in simple terms).

NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM, a.k.a. NNMM is a community of multi « occultural engineers » (*Genesis P-Orridge) with a variable geometry/line-up. This project was initiated by Guillaume Cazalet (CZLT ; SOL KIA ; ZAÄAR) and the veteran saxophonist player Jean- Jacques Duerinckx (ZAÄAR ; Ze Zorgs) in Brussels in 2018, especially during a residency with the two drummers Sebastien Schmit (K-Branding) and Pierre Arese (AKSU). The result was a bifacial entity, sometimes calling for a primitive voodoo trance with percussive intonations, dominated by rhythm and a savage movement, sometimes towards a psychedelic meditation with prophetic and spiritual accents resting on an amplified drone music where time is explored, harmony, the power of the tonic and its iridescent harmonics, durability, weight, ruin. From this residency were born a trilogy album called ÉONS released on I,Voidhanger Records, dedicated to the Sun, the Moon and the Earth and a first album, The Conference Of The Stars, released on the label Homo Sensibilis Records, mixing drone metal and spiritual free jazz, animated by a cosmic and psychedelic energy. Between 2019 and 2021, Reshma Goolamy, Romain Martini, Didié Nietzche (48 Cameras, Radio Prague), Joaquin Bermudez (Phoenician Drive), Alice Thiel, Stephane Fedele & Lukas Melville (CUSSD) joined the project that takes the form of an “Arkestra”. Since their last performance at the Roadburn Redux (2021), the collective now purpose several piece of work consisting in various line-ups and multiple sound/space explorations, depending on the venue conditions, like their «Moon Arkestra» (Roadburn line-up), their «Drone Arkestra» (quintet) or their "Solar Drone Arkestra" for exemple. In this way they can maximize their musical researches, following the rules of improvised music consisting in unexpected things. By exploring the evolution of the human species, particularly through the use of speculative texts in Homo-sapiens prototypal language (*Pierre Lanchantin), they question the future of the living on earth. They try to create a sense of acceptance of the end of the "Anthropocene" era through a musical experience.