Høstsabbat 2023: Bongripper Added as Headliner
Høstsabbat 2023 follows its first announcement of the year, which brought Green Lung, Alastor, Cult Member and Witch Club Satan to the bill, with Bongripper. And as Bongripper will, the news lands with a rather significant thud when one imagines the long-running Chicago crush-minded instrumentalists stepping on the altar of the Kulturkirken Jakob and laying waste with tonality to shake the floor and the kind of volume you feel in your chest. Clearly for the festival’s 10th anniversary they’re going all out.
That’s gonna be good and I’ll tell you outright I hope I’m there to see it, though I acknowledge that as the festival grows, expands in sound, adds venues, etc., and becomes part of the cultural fabric of its host city — which it will continue to do as it enters its second decade, no doubt — my small-fry ass is at best tagging along. There are videographers filming sets with meaningful slow motion headbanging and actual photographers to take pictures, so having me hobble around between stages feels superfluous. For me, that’s all the more reason to appreciate being there. For them, it’s less of a reason to have me. Those two lines invariably intersect at some point.
Nonetheless, whether I end up going or not, this is a great fest put on by wonderful people — Ole, Jens, Vesper, and their crew — and I’m happy to support as best I’m able. This news landed Friday and I didn’t see it until the week was already closed out, but if you missed it or just want to listen to some Bongripper — reasonable — here it is, as per social media:
When we first got hold of the church as our venue in 2018, there was a few bands that instantly came to mind. The acoustics, the setting, the space. Everything about it. It almost felt like the church was longing to be crushed by certain bands itself. One of those bands is Bongripper.
For our 10-year anniversary the stars aligned, and BONGRIPPER is flying out from Chicago to give Høstsabbat a masterclass in pure, distinct and emotional heaviness. Chicago seems to be our go-to city in the US these days, and it feels great to follow up the performances with REZN and Indian from last year, with the purveyors of instrumental, thundering, monstrous doom.
Bongripper hits you like a steamroller, and will leave no ear drums unmarked.
We couldn’t be more stoked.
Please welcome Bongripper as one of our headliners!
Hail Satan, Worship Doom!
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