BØLZER

An intuitive art project born from raw passion;
musical ecstasy fueled by impulsive composition
and enactment. Whilst wielding a lyrical and musical
medium largely inspired by – and seeking to
channel – the primeval essence of the human experience,
flashes of illumination will descend the sky
from which there shall be no shelter.
Forged of an intense understanding between drummer
Fabian Wyrsch and guitarist Okoi Jones, the
project first took physical form in 2008. Before
long, the dualistic significance of their musical partnership
outshone any need for a bass player and
has since served to both challenge and empower the
band’s creativity. Following their 2010 live debut in
Zürich, BØLZER soon made a name for themselves
as the remarkable Swiss-Antipodean duo capable of
conjuring up mighty barriers of sound with nothing
but a ten-stringed guitar and an almost ritualistic
percussion style. The pair describe their own stage
experience as a form of spiritual rapture, an atavistic
vortex woven together from the profound union
of spectacle meeting spectator on a deeper plane.
By 2013, BØLZER had begun plying their craft
on stages across most populated continents.
After garnering significant underground attention
with two EPs – Aura in 2013 followed by
Soma the year after – BØLZER carved out their
humble place in the bedrock of metal with the
critically acclaimed 2016 debut album, Hero.
To further embody the conceptual disciplines of
personal action and self-realization, 2019 saw the
band founding their own label, Lightning & Sons,
in a consciously independent effort to reorientate
and indeed reevaluate their place in a shifting landscape.
Resuming where the bombastic romanticism
of Hero left off, a fifth offering and autonomous
BØLZER [boelˈtsr] ~ He who strikes like lightning –
with sudden, decisive force or implications.
label debut, 2019 EP Lese Majesty rings true of its
namesake, the uncompromising voice of a heretic
granted contemporary audience.
2025 finds Wyrsch and Jones on the cusp of a new
era within the band’s career and overall creative vision,
the savage beauty of the existential stage continuing
to drive and define their work.
2026 will see the release of the duo’s long awaited
second full-length album, again via Lightning
& Sons, having concluded one cycle of their
journey to reemerge with the explosive passion
and volatile magic they are renowned for.