A name well known to local connoisseurs of extreme metal, Swiss titans BØLZER are armouring up for a return visit to Aotearoa New Zealand, playing headline dates at Pōneke’s Valhalla and Tāmaki Makaurau’s Whammy Bar this coming August. Okoi Thierry Jones and Fabian Wyrsch have forged their mould-breaking style of blackened death since emerging in Zürich during the late ’00s, enthralling critics and fans worldwide with a storming run of EPs releases and but one studio album to their name thus far, 2016’s Hero. Last here during the pre-pandemic era touring with Destroyer 666 in 2019 (their third NZ tour), do not dare miss BØLZER’s monumental return down under, preparing us for the launch of their impatiently awaited second album Rex Revenant via their own imprint Lightning & Sons — brought to you by Valhalla Touring…
BØLZER
Wednesday 20th August – Valhalla, Wellington
Thursday 21st August – Whammy Bar, Auckland
Tickets on sale HERE via UTR
Experience BØLZER’s ‘The Archer’ from 2016’s Hero…
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Press release:
An intuitive art project born from raw passion; musical ecstasy fueled by impulsive composition and enactment. BØLZER describe their own stage experience as a form of spiritual rapture, an atavis-tic vortex woven together from the profound union of spectacle meeting spectator on a deeper plane.