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2012

Thank you to Inner-X-Musick for supplying this FREE single. Three different versions of the title track off the up coming John Zewizz solo release "2012". The release should be available within a month or so. Feel free to post this link EVERYWHERE. Repost this post EVERYWHERE. However you want to do it...

Track Listing;

2012 - 1		20012 (Radio Mix)
2012 - 2		2012 (Club Mix)
2012 - 3		2012 (Soundtrack Mix)

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Species Interruptus (Live In Germany) Vol. 1

The cover art for this release was mistakenly credited to Dianna Müller. The cover photo was actually taken by Karen Arntz-Morgan!

Originally to be released by Fünfundvierzig, but Fünfundvierzig never followed through. Now available. All the best of the German Tour in two volumes. Vol 1. Excellent sound quality makes you feel like you are in the second row. Inside the release is a coupon for the controversial booklet. With the coupon the booklet is only 8 dollars. With out the coupon the booklet will be 10 dollars.

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JOHN ZEWIZZ PRESENTS HIS INFAMOUS WOMEN OF THE SS

Originally released as a CD and CDR by RRRecords, this masterpiece of the decadent is a collection of the best WOMEN OF THE SS tracks. $10.00 USD!

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MESCALINE DREAMS (DVD)

If you never saw SLEEPCHAMBER live here is your chance. This is a re-issue of the classic 1989 VHS "MESCALINE DREAMS". Featuring the classic SLEEPCHAMBER line up of Zewizz, Briley, and Tione. Recorded live at the Worcester Performance Art Center (yes, misspelled on purpose on the DVD, as with the original VHS). This performance is guaranteed to rip your lips off... so cross your legs.

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NOW RELEASED! "STOLEN SLEEP"

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"Their first vocal CD release in over 10 years! This new material includes some ov Zewizz's most powerful an unique singing and song writing. Overly mystic & spiritually dark lyrics - "STOLEN SLEEP" combines sexuality with magick and Egyptian grave robbing ov tombs (aka SLEEP CHAMBERS)"

"Their noticable style evolution shows that SLEEPCHAMBER haz not lost a beat in their lengthy absence."

"Tracks like "Tomb" & "Aura Ov Datura" clock in at a pounding 8 minutes ov cryptic sexual intrigue. A revamped version ov 1985's "Kum Kleopatra Kum" shows just how far they have kum in over 25 years!"

""Cult Ov Anubus" weaves iano & wolf howls with dark synth waves & heavy drum kicks. The title track "Stolen Sleep" iz a totally different mixing style putting the bass guitar & cymbals up front. Top pick haz to be "Into The Crypt" fling by at a fast tempo in 5 minutes ov toe tapping, hip humping rhythms, and hypnotic chorus."

"The very Noticeable Middle Eastern keyboards and entangled guitar styles iz continuous thru out the complete CD. Featured artwork by KAYTWO iz excellent!"

"A limited special price of $10.00 makes this release a must to any and all SLEEPCHAMBER admires. Seriously, if you own any SLEEP release this should be it. It reflects their very unique rogue style which only they can deliver. Surely to please even the fussiest tastes. Their efforts here merit all SLEEPCHAMBER admires support."

"KEEP THEM ALIVE"

AVAILABLE NOW - "SOUNDTRAX"

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CD edition of SOUNDTRAX - Released on INNER-X-MUSICK

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Finally the long awaited "SOUNDTRAX" release by SLEEPCHAMBER awakes. The material ranges over the time period of 1989 to 2007. It fills in the missing link crossover periods left unreleased and overlooked.

The material iz quite unique. "Sanatorium" iz remixed and edited down to 20 minutes from a video soundtrak ov 1989 that stands on its own. "Succubi Sister" iz an unreleased track from the "SIAMESE SUCCUBI" sessions. It features Laura Graff on spoken words (to whom this release iz "in loving memory ov"). Another "Succubi" track iz "Psychosexual" - left off because Zewizz felt there were already too many instrumentals on "SIAMESE SUCCUBI". "No Air No Way" iz featured remixed and unedited, much better than the earlier release. "Blackmask (Hex 23)" iz a keyboard piece done by Zewizz in 2000. It stands outside the usual SLEEPCHAMBER style. It's quite eerie. "Archangel" iz a track rejected from the movie "The Prophecy" reasons unknown. Other tracks are from rekordings ov the 2001 era - planned release on Musica Maxima Magnetica Italian label. All unreleased.

The "SOUNDTRAX" CD iz the first release on Inner-X in a special series ov serious releases.

You will want to own an original and collect this series proudly.
SLEEPCHAMBER refuses to cater to the masses.

Az you probably already know...

THEY ARE TRULY THE ULTIMATE MINORITY

Official copies will have the SLEEPCHAMBER stamp, and the first 500 will be autographed. Some trax processed with "sound suggestion", complete with liner notes and booklet.

SORCERY, SPELL & SERPENT CHARMS

HAS BEEN RELEASED!

KLANGGALERIE IS NOW SHIPPING ORDERS FOR

"SORCERY, SPELLS AND SERPENT CHARMS"

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US customers can purchase it at Soleilmoon for $16.99 HERE

Or to find a list of distributors go to the LINKS section

NEW SLEEPCHAMBER CD! RELEASED FEBRUARY 19 ON KLANGGALERIE

featuring the new SLEEPCHAMBER line up of

John Zewizz, Bob Vakaen, Gimme Sparks, and George Bolton

Captured Spirits, spells, white horns and halos, white wings, black wings an a tail dimension ov fascination. You are who you made yourself or who you want to be. Destines are planned and maintained. Fate iz accepting that choices & change iz unobtainable. Enclosed dreams and dimensional ortals reveal audio that welkums entrance to secret and sorcery and charms turned spell.

Klanggalerie is no stranger to SLEEPCHAMBER. Having released 1997's limited edition 7" single "LIEZ IN THE SKYZ" as one of the labels inaugural releases. Since then Kanggalerie has gone one to release wonderful reissues by acts such as Nocturnal Emissions and Konxtruktivists, as well as new releases from such greats as Rapoon, Muslimgauze, Beequeen, and Nurse With Wound... just to name a few.

NEWS & INFORMATION

SATANIC SANCTION FALL 2009

Satanic Sanction will be re-issued Fall of 2009 through Klanggalerie

Look for the new Satanic Sanction to contain unreleased musick from the sessions. More details as the bekum available.

Coming soon...

A new "Lyric book" is being illustrated by P. Emerson Williams with help from John Zewizz and myself. This should be for sale on the shop at some point this year. Perhaps by Christmas?

FREE OCTOBER/NOVEMBER DOWNLOAD

JOHN ZEWIZZ - 2012 [PROMO]

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2012 = the year ov cataclysmic or transformative events
Geomagnetic Reversal
The Prophecies of Mother Shipton
The quatrains of Nostradamus

Coming soon on INNER-X-MUSICK is John Zewizz's first solo release in since 1987. It is titled 2012. More details on the release will be available soon... but as readers of this blog you get the first sneak peak at the new release - short snippets of the upcoming tracks with an introduction by John Zewizz - much like was done for STOLEN SLEEP.

Keeping it up for two months!

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Previous downloads of the month. (NO LONGER AVAILABLE)

September 2009 - Noizeclot - Music For Torture, Bondage, & Leather Sex
August 2009 - 7 From Life - Souls Of Dead Sharks
July 2009 - Fetish Garden
June 2009 - Live On WERS/FM 4/4/87
May 2009 - This Is The Way... Step Inside
April 2009 - MonkeyMan/Cobra Heart (Live At The Middle East 1993)
March 2009 - Rare Studio Trax Cassette
February 2009 - Green Sex 7" single
January 2009 - Sleep Chamber LP/The Other Sound Issue #7
December 2008 - Merry XXX Mas
October 2008 - Best Ov The Rest #2
November 2008 - Ze'Wizz Kidz

New Stuff

NEW PHOTO'S: More band photos posted in the SLEEPCHAMBER 2009 gallery.

EVERETT ASSAULT DIARY: Now posted in John's Diary is the story of the Everett Assault. Read it HERE 11/15/09

VEIL OF THORNS: New Veil Of Thorns section added HERE

STOLEN SLEEP REVIEW: New review posted for "Stolen Sleep" by Cultural Asylum in the Review section.

MEET BOB: Up now is an exclusive biography for SLEEPCHAMBER's Bob Avakian. You can check it out HERE. 10/6/09

MAGICK: Another post on magick, written by John Zewizz in the Magick section. This particular entry is on "Hex Bags". 9/14/09

SPECIES INTERUPPTUS: Hey did you hear, there is a new SLEEPCHAMBER release out called SPECIES INTERUPPTUS! Yup. Buy it! Buy it NOW DAMN IT! And if you are real good then I should have some more goodies by next week. 9/5/09

NEW INNER-X-MUSICK SITE: There is now a new Inner-X-Musick recordings site. You can get there by following the same link to the old shop on the side bar, or simply type in www.innerxmusick.com in your address bar. Be sure to bookmark it and check it often. There will always be news, polls, and information available. 7/6/09

SLEEPCHAMBER.INFO: The John Zewizz Appreciation Society can now be accessed TWO WAYS!!!! You can continue to use http://www.freewebs.com/theebradmiller/

or you can also access the page by going to http://sleepchamber.info/

Thanks to "Rodolfo of Team Kali (www.teamkali.com)" for setting up the mirror site!!!

theebradmiller@yahoo.com

Biography

John Zewizz (real name John McSweeney) is the founding and sole permanent member of the Industrial/Techno/Tribal band Sleep Chamber as well as a video producer, record label owner, and magazine publisher. John's endeavors focused often around the imagery of S&M, Bondage and Magick.

EARLY LIFE

John McSweeney was born in Essex, England on August 15^th, 1955. His family moved to the United States when John was an infant. John's love and knowledge of music grew through his high school years. Friends remember him as "the definitive rock and roll Impresario. If John didn’t have the record, you didn’t need to hear it." During the 1970's John was the president of a Rolling Stone fan club called “Smooth”. It was in the late 1970’s John began listening to bands like Throbbing Gristle. This was a huge influence on John’s musical direction.

John began his musical career in the late 1970's performing as “John Cage” in various bands. Beginning 1978, under the alias "Green Sex" John began his recoding career. The output was limited and by 1981 "Green Sex" ceased to exist. During this time John began going by the name John Zewizz (or John Ze'Wizz), and even briefly fronted a band called Ze Wizz Kidz in 1979 with friends Aero Cixal and Robert Catalono.

1981-1989 SLEEP CHAMBER & XXX bands
Sometime between 1981 and 1982 Sleep Chamber came into existence featuring John Zewizz, Eugene Difrancisco and Phil Brosseau. Zewizz, Difancisco and Brosseau were friends from High School. Both Difancisco and Brosseau fronted a band called The Product and John had worked as a producer on their one and only single. When The Product folded Difrancisco and Brosseau began a band called Daze Of Trance., John occasionally helped out with Daze Of Trance, even playing on a cassette release as part of the band. Eventually the three recorded with John as the front man in a band they called Sleep Chamber. Very early works were experimental and electronic/industrial in nature. Live Sleep Chamber was often described as resembling a "Black Mass", with smoke (containing a special blend of incense) billowing out of machines, and the band donning black bondage masks while performing on stage. Their concerts scared some local club owners prompting them to ban Sleep Chamber from playing. Local reviewers often accused the band of being Satanic. Zewizz, over the years, has denied this accusation. These early concerts featured Zewizz in different combination's with Difrancisco, Brosseau, and also Malcom Smith (whom Zewizz collaborated with in the bands Dokument and Hidious In Strength), Darlene Victor, and Richard Gellar.

Between 1982 and 1985 Sleep Chamber released dozens of recordings culminating in their first LP, the self titled release "SLEEP CHAMBER" and the highly controversial release "SUBMIT TO DESIRE". "SUBMIT TO DESIRE" was recorded with the line-up of Richard Gellar, Darlene Victor, Chris Means and Michael Moynihan. Featured on the cover was the negative film image of two women in an embrace. But the overt sexuality did not end there. Songs such as "Oral Maze" and "Fetish" put hidden sexual practices in the limelight. Record stores refused to carry "SUBMIT TO DESIRE" because of it's cover and content, but the publicity only helped Sleep Chamber.

The early 1980's also saw Zewizz recording under the names Cult Ov The Womb, Mahcanik, Hideous In Strength, Noizeclot and Women Of The SS. All these various groups released their music under the ever growing cassette culture through John's label XXX Productions (also called Triple X). XXX (later became Inner-X-Musick) even published a magazine during this time called "The Other Sound" which ran stories about bands under the XXX flag, but also artists as diverse as Hunting Lodge, Brian Eno, Human Flesh, Nurse With Wound, Psychic TV and Cosey Fanni Tutti.

The 80's were a time of hyper-productivity for John and Sleep Chamber. Rapidly other members began to join in what was to become a revolving door for musicians. During this time band members included (previously mentioned) Difrancisco, Brosseau, Smith, Victor, Gellar, Moynihan, as well as Thomas Thorn, Jonathan Briley, Lawerence Van Horn, and Tione. As the 1980’s drew to a close, Sleep Chamber became John’s sole musical focus. Classic Sleep Chamber releases such as "SEX MAGICK RITUAL" and "SPELLBONDAGE" continued to push the envelope and expand Sleep Chambers horizons. During this time John also became interested in making videos. It became common practice for new Sleep Chamber releases to be accompanied with the release of an Inner-X-Video release as well. From the mid 1980’s through the mid 1990’s John produced dozens of videos for Sleep Chamber, as well as a few soft porn style videos.

1990 - 2001 SLEEP CHAMBER & THE BARBITCHUETTES
It was during the 1990’s John incorporated bondage/fetish dancers called the Barbitchuettes in to Sleep Chamber live performances. With this addition Sleep Chambers popularity exploded. During live shows the Barbitchuette dancers would perform S & M acts on the stage as well as caressing and dancing with other Barbitchuette dancers. During the Barbitchuettes hay-day with Sleep Chamber it was not uncommon for the band to travel with up to 11 Barbitchuette dancers.

The 1990's also started off with John's biggest hit to date with the Sleep Chamber release "SLEEP, OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PIECE". This new popularity also resulted in wider distribution for John's musick. Sleep Chamber saw their material expand from the Inner-X-Musick to distribution overseas and in the US by the Italian label Musica Maxima Magnetica and the German label FünfUndVierzig and Cleopatra Records out of L.A.. Along with bigger sales came bigger opportunities. Sleep Chambers local gigs required bigger and bigger venues. The increased popularity also allowed Sleep Chamber to do two quick tours of Texas in the late 80's and early 1990's. These tours featured Zewizz along with Briley, Tione, Difrancisco, Arthur PW. At the end of the Texas tour John found himself looking for a new collaborator with the departure of Arthur PW and Briley.

Elaine Walker entered the picture in 1991/92 to fill that void. Walker's band DDT had frequently played with Sleep Chamber at local venues around the Boston area. Walker's was a Berkley School of Music graduate and impressed John with her abilities. Zewizz and Walker, together with the help of Ashley Swanson, began working on the CD "SIAMESE SUCCUBI". Sales of "SIAMESE SUCCUBI" were even better than "SLEEP, OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PIECE". A successful tour of California resulted featuring Zewizz, Walker, Swanson and long time friend and collaborator Difrancisco. John was pleased with the line up, but friction arose and at the end of the California tour and both Difrancisco and Walker left.

Once again John introduced a new Sleep Chamber line up of Swanson, and the musical writing duo of Andrew Woolf and Craig Wien, as well as Jay Keegan. This line up was the last recording version of Sleep Chamber. Their recordings ended up on several releases, predominantly “SOME GODZ DIE YOUNG” and "SONOROUS INVOKATIONS OV BRIAN JONES" - the latter being solely Zeiwzz & Woolf. However, drug addiction, personal problems, and constant touring had all but ceased John's steady flow “new” musick by the end of 1995.

The first problems began in earnest in 1995 when John was questioned for the murder of Karina Holmer a Swedish au pair living in Boston. Karina's body was found in a dumpster not far from John's home. The police considered John a suspect, but no charges were ever brought. The accusation, coupled with a growing heroin addiction, quickly began to destroy the band and drive John away from band mates and friends.

All the problems aside, 1996 saw Sleep Chamber take on it's most ambitious project to date. A tour of Germany. Unable to get commitments from the current line-up of Sleep Chamber, John took on two new member (Scott Walker and Tyler Newman) as band mates for the German tour. Along with these new members, John took Barbitchuette dancer "Lulu" as well. "Lulu's" job during the tour covered; dancing during the shows, and recruiting dancers from local strip clubs. From the home front Andrew Woolf manned the booking of the German tour. There are many stories of John's escalating drug addiction during the tour, and although the band was ripped of by the promoters, the shows were well received and the seeds for a large European fan base were set because of the tour. Seeing John's life beginning to spiral out of control friends tried to help John after returning from the German tour with a benefit concert, but the downward spiral was to far along. After the German Tour, Sleep Chamber only performed two more times. The first was the 1997 benefit concert (with Zewizz, Newman, and Walker no Barbitchuettes). 2000 saw the last Sleep Chamber show on December 31st. This last show featured John and new collaborator B. Avikon as well as Barbitchuette dancer Semiramis.

The final blow to John came in 2001 when Barbitchuette dancer and then girlfriend of Zewizz, Laura Graff died of an apparent overdose. Zewizz was questioned by police in the suspicious death before it was ruled an accidental heroin overdose.

2001-PRESENT - SLEEPCHAMBER

All though out of the public eye, John never stopped recording. In 2004 John was able to overcome his heroin addiction through the use of Magick and began remixing and recording Sleep Chamber material with a new enthusiasm. In 2004 he released a limited edition CD titled "SLEEPSIRKLE".

2007 saw The John Zewizz Appreciation Society go live on the Internet. That same year, a new SLEEPCHAMBER line up was announced. Gimmie Sparks and long time collaborator B. Avikon joined John Zewizz to form the new centuries version of the band.

In 2008 John Zewizz did his first Interview with me (TheeBradMiller) that was featured at EMOFAG.NET as well as Alterati.com/G-Spot #48 (with a cool podcast of tracks picked by John Zewizz, TheeBradMiller, and P. Emerson Williams).

Things really kicked into gear in 2009. Three more recordings were compiled in 2009. "SOUNDTRAX" - a collection of material left off earlier recordings, or recorded between 2000 and 2008. "SOUNDTRAX" was available as a CDr signed and stamped by John Zewizz, but ultimately a CD version was also made available. Also a remixed/reworked/re-recorded version of the 1989 recording "SORCERY, MAGICK AND CHARMS" was released by Klanggallerie called "SORCERY, SPELL & SERPENT CHARMS" . "SORCERY, SPELL & SERPENT CHARMS" marked SLEEPCHAMBERS first major label release in 10 Years! In June of 2009 the first CD of all new material featuring Gimmie Sparks and B. Avikon titled "STOLEN SLEEP" was released in June, followed by SPECIES INTERUPPTUS in August of 09 and a John Zewizz solo release titled 2010 in the fall of 09.

2009/2010 promises to be a busy year, hear is what the future holds

A new "Lyric book" is being put together by P. Emerson Williams with help from John Zewizz and myself. This should be for sale on the shop at some point this year.
Klanggallerie will be releasing "SATANIC SANCTION" in the fall of 2009.
John Zewizz and Vinyl On Demand are currently working on a 4 LP box set tentatively titled "666". This Box Set will be a retrospective of the first 6 years of SLEEPCHAMBER and focus on the early cassette releases.

Also on the horizon is Part 2 of "SONOROUS INVOKATIONS OV BRIAN JONES" and "SECOND INTITIATION" – with the all new releases under the name SLEEPCHAMBER featuring bandmates Gimmie Sparks and B. Avikon.