Following an acclaimed return to their ferocious Industrial Metal roots via 2024 album “Black Noise“, BONG-RA – led by Dutch visionary Jason Köhnen (THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE, THE LOVECRAFT SEXTET) – takes to the stage for a substantial run. After a series of select performances as a trio in early 2025, the avant-garde pioneers now announce a 14-date European tour alongside mechanical juggernaut AUTHOR & PUNISHER.
The following dates are confirmed:
26.10.2025 – Hamburg, Germany
27.10.2025 – Aarhus, Denmark
28.10.2025 – Oslo, Norway
29.10.2025 – Goteburg, Sweden
30.10.2025 – Copenhagen, Denmark
31.10.2025 – Berlin, Germany
01.11.2025 – Gdansk, Poland
02.11.2025 – Warsaw, Poland
03.11.2025 – Poznan, Poland
04.11.2025 – Leipzig, Germany
05.11.2025 – Frankfurt, Germany
06.11.2025 – Paris, France
07.11.2025 – Bruxelles, Belgium
08.11.2025 – Lille, France
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Jason Köhnen comments on the tour:
“AUTHOR & PUNISHER and BONG-RA have a history together and go back more than a decade when BONG-RA also supported A&P on their first EU tour, which lead to BONG-RA remixing A&P‘s ‘Terrorbird‘ and ‘Flesh Ants‘ tracks back in 2014. On this tour BONG-RA will perform as a duo, instead of the regular trio. Due to personal reasons guitarist Botond Fogl is not able to join the tour, therefore Attila Kovacs will take both guitar parts for his account. The A&P tour will contain some more breakcore parts to it, seeing the remix album will be released on DMP early September, so these compositions will appear in the live set.“
Experience BONG-RA‘s haunting “Black Noise” below and on all major streaming platforms:
The album is available on CD and vinyl via DMP’s EU, US, and Bandcamp stores.
Jason Köhnen began his musical journey in 1988 as the vocalist/bassist for BLUUURGH…, an underground Dutch Crust/Death Metal/Grindcore band. Following the release of an EP and LP, in 1991 he founded the Death-Doom band CELESTIAL SEASON, gaining widespread recognition as a prominent name in the genre outside the renowned ‘Peaceville 3′.
In 1996, Köhnen shifted from Metal to electronic music, creating the project BONG-RA and pioneering the intense Breakcore genre of electronica. His 1998 debut album led to a Peel Session in 2002, and established BONG-RA as one of the first acts to fuse Extreme Metal with electronics. The experimentation deepened with releases like the 2007 “Grindkrusher” EP, featuring BOLT THROWER samples, and collaborative releases with noise artist Maruosa in DEATHSTORM and the neo-classical Doom project WHITE DARKNESS.
Beyond BONG-RA, Kohnen co-founded THE KILIMANJARO DARKJAZZ ENSEMBLE and later THE MOUNT FUJI DOOMJAZZ CORPORATION, releasing a series of cult albums up to 2013. Over his 30-year career, he has collaborated with notable artists such as VENETIAN SNARES and IGORRR, performed at major festivals including Glastonbury and Dour, and toured globally, sharing the stage with legendary acts like APHEX TWIN, MINISTRY and THE PRODIGY.
After a brief hiatus, during which BONG-RA explored Doom, Electronica and Jazz – including via 2018’s “Antediluvian” and 2022’s “Meditations” – Köhnen is now returning to his Metal and Grindcore roots. A deal with Debemur Morti Productions, also home to his Doomjazz project THE LOVECRAFT SEXTET, has been reached.
BONG-RA now prepares for a new era as a live three-piece featuring guitarists Attila Kovacs and Botond Fogl. This freshly rejuvenated vehicle for Metal/breaks fusion did debut in early 2025 with a new record “Black Noise” and an upcoming tour.