It was covered here last year as well, but just as a refresher: GockelScream is a private festival — if you want to go, you need to write for tickets — put together at the behest of ElbSludgeBooking and held in a secret location in Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach, Germany. And why would such a thing be covered? Well first, because I think it’s awesome and if the notion of attending a private fest with however few other people fortunate enough to do so doesn’t pique your imagination, then the international reach of the lineup hopefully will. Take a look at the day splits below. You’ve got bands from Germany and Austria, of course, but also Israel, the US, Sweden, Poland, France and the Netherlands. For what’s basically a birthday party, that’s some significant reach.

Details, if you want ’em, are available by emailing ElbSludgeBooking, and while no, I don’t think this is going to be the hugest event of the year, I also don’t think it’s trying to be. This is something for friends or those willing to be friends, and if that’s you, then I hope you go and make friends and have a great time watching killer bands. You got Temple Fang and Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree (among others) playing on the same day. Ecstatic Vision and Clouds Taste Satanic meeting up (maybe touring together?), and Deathchant, Karkara, Moonstone and DUNDDW on the last day with a slot still open. Got until May to fill it and there are a ton of acts on the road then around Desertfest and the rest of the Spring festival season. Seems to me there probably won’t be a problem finding someone, it’s just a question of waiting to see who it is.

This is the kind of thing that, if I had all the money in the universe, I’d both host and attend on the regular. Maybe with a different poster, but you get the idea.

From the PR wire:

Gockelscream #4.0

May 26-29 – Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach

Gockelscream #4 will go down in Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach from 26. to 29.05.2023.

So here are the day splits:

Friday: Ecstatic Vision (USA), Clouds taste satanic (USA), Black Smoke (PL), Hypnotic floor (A)

Saturday: The Great Machine (ISR), Temple Fang (NL), Stew (SWE), Bees made honey in the vein tree (GER), Love your witch (ISR)

Sunday: Deathchant (USA), Karkara (FR), Moonstone (PL), DUNDDW (NL)+ slot open still

Line up:

Our goal for GockelScream is always to make it just like a big party with great music. We try to come up with a one-of-a-kind line-up with bands that are not in the normal concert circuit.. Some of the bands play for the first time in our area or even in Germany. This year we wanted to get some more heaviness into the mix too because we are Elb”SLUDGE”booking, okay?

The location:

Last year we had to move the location for the fest and quickly found the perfect match for our purposes. The place in Dürrröhrsdorf-Dittersbach lies in a small valley, next to a small river. It’s a private property and the people there are just super supportive and share our DIY-attitude. We have plenty of space there for lotsa people, camping, 2 stages and the infamous Rattenbar. We couldn’t be more happy.

How to get in:

Write a mail to gockelscream (at) elbsludge.de and you will get all the information you need.

Event page: https://facebook.com/events/1338937726922664/

https://www.facebook.com/Elbsludgebooking/
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Ecstatic Vision, “You Got it or You Don’t” live at Duna Jam 2022

Vienna quirk rockers Hypnotic Floor will release their second full-length, Odd Conjectures next month through StoneFree Records. The first single from the outing is the bouncing, fuzzy-but-mathy “Toxo,” premiering below in a video that’s suitably weirdo in its vibe, with a claymation storyline playing out that’s probably a metaphor for something about violence but I’m not even sure what and I think that might be the point to start with. It goes like that.

I’m a fan of not knowing things sometimes, and the proggy underpinnings here, the sense of control Hypnotic Floor exhibit as they hop from one measure to the next, the vocals of Julian Streit recalling some lost krautrock incantation about traveling inside your brain, lets you know they’re in charge of the procession, thoughtful about the song’s movement and indeed that of the clay accompanying. I don’t know who in the band — whether Streit, guitarist Jonas Biesenbender, bassist Andreas Gnigler or drummer Serafin Eiter — is down with stop-motion photography, but the “Toxo” clip is, like the song itself, a work of very specific skill and precision. It reminds me of an old Sesame Street interlude, except longer, and instead of spelling out letters the clay alien creatures seem to kill each other and lay eggs on corpses. Okay, so maybe not Sesame Street. You get what I’m saying though.

So what does the rest of Odd Conjectures hold? I don’t know that either. Haven’t heard it. But based on “Toxo,” I’d expect it to be aptly named, since the spirit in which the song is brought to bear seems very much forward-looking and is, as noted at the outset, in no small part defined by its quirk. But we’ll see when we get there.

Until then, enjoy the video:

Hypnotic Floor, “Toxo” Video Premiere

Toxo is the first single from the upcoming album “ODD CONJECTURES” which will be release via StoneFree Records early September.

The Vienna quartet HYPNOTIC FLOOR combines influences of Psych-, Kraut- and Progressive Rock. Their music is shaped by fuzzy riffs, spaced out synths and changing timesignatures and covers a varied range of sounds. The contrast between complex melodic lines and hypnotic and repetitive grooves is predominant throughout their meandering songs.

In February 2020 they released their debut album „Foggy Bog Eyes“ via “Ultraviolence Records”.

Members:
Jonas Biesenbender – Guitar
Julian Streit – Guitar, Vocals
Andreas Gnigler – Bass
Serafin Eiter – Drums

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