Vágtázó Halottkémek

VHK are also known as ethno-punk, shaman-punk or psychedelic hardcore, because they play electric instruments and thundering timpani, and their concerts, which are bursting with the extraordinary experiences and visions of the world burning within them, are relatively comparable to the ecstatic shamanic ceremonies, the energy, wildness and consciousness of hardcore punk, primeval rock and psychedelic rock. They were banned in Hungary until 1986, yet they performed often because they were considered so extraordinary that many promoters took the risk of performing them. From 1984 they were also frequently invited to Western Europe. By the time of the regime change, they had become one of the best-known underground cult bands in Europe and then America. Most people experience the band's performances as an incredible event, unlike anything they had previously expected.

The latest album by the Raging Deathspies, entitled Rebel to the Void Eternity, will be released in early 2025, the 50th anniversary of the madmen who have experienced life as a revolution that has completed our human existence. VHK's music has always drawn solely from the eternal creative force deeper than music, from the motivating power of the lawful feelings inherent in cosmic life, and has remained self-identical for fifty years without ever repeating itself. Fell into Nothingness is a musical imprint of life lived to the full, a consonance of radical originality, unrelenting energy and overflowing beauty. How Eternity Rises from Nothing will be presented on 14 February at the Hungarian House of Music.