Artist description Psychonaut 75 is an Industrial - Ritualistic band which composes a wide variety of musick centered around Magick and Sorcery. While continually evolving, Psychonaut 75 explores various avenues of expression by Rhythm & Ambience, solitude and terror. Best described (but only scratching the surface of the diversity of the band) as "Dark Industrial Dance/Witchcraft & Ritual Musick," Psychonaut 75 implements a wide variety of sounds and atmospheres to weave their spells. Influences such as Arabic music, Human Bones as instruments, Psychonaut 75 is ushering forth a new kind of Chaos, sorcery through musick.

Music Style Dark Industrial/Ritual Musick - Sonic Black Magick

Musical Influences Industrial to ritual musick, from Zero Kama, Ain Soph, Sleep Chamber to Skinny Puppy.

Artist History The beginnings of Psychonaut 75 are within the underground black ambient industrial band, Valefor, whose debut on the Swedish label Cold Meat Industry gained the band a strong amount of respect due to the black and machine like soundscapes of the CD, "Death Magick", released in 1996. Followed up with "Invocation of Forneus" in 1997, Dark Vinyl of Germany issued this cult release which explored dark rhythm and noise together. In 1998 Psychonaut emerged as a side project of Valefor, which recorded "Liber AL vel Legis", Aleister Crowley's "The Book of the Law" to musick. Together with "The Witches Sabbath", Psychonaut produced two albums with a heavy focus on the Magick of Aleister Crowley and occult artist Austin Osman Spare. In 2001 Dana Dark and Tommie Vain joined with band founder Michael Ford and Davcina to begin a new phase of dark experimentation with the band. Implementing a dark industrial sound which has brought comparisons to Skinny Puppy and Die Form, blending industrial rhythm, noise and human bones into a wave of Sonic Black Magick and Chaotic structure(!). "Stealing the Fire from Heaven" marks the Luciferian Manifestation of this band. What remains with Psychonaut 75 or Valefor is an understanding that each album journey's into different yet extreme areas of musick experimentations. Web Site: www.psychonaut75.com

Group Members Michael Ford: Vocals, Human Bones, Programming/Synthesizers, various instruments Davcina: Vocals, Spoken Word, harmonies, keyboards, sigils and witchcraft Dana Dark: Vocals, Human Bones, invocations & keyboards Tommie Vain: Bass Guitar, Effects

Instruments Industrial Chaos, Ritualistic soundscapes, spoken word, voice, human bones, found objects

Press Reviews PSYCHONAUT 75 - `Stealing The Fire From Heaven` CD (Momento Mori) New album from PSYCHONAUT (now with 75 after the name), aka VALEFOR. More magickal based recordings – but this time taking a completely different path. Mixing strange mutant sub-techno rhythms and beats ala SKINNY PUPPY, or even early FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, PSYCHONAUT combine an EBM structure with noise, human bones and ambient experiments. Nice artwork. -COLD SPRING RECORDS, UK.

Location Houston, Texas - USA

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