The Obelisk (magazine)

The Obelisk is an American online music magazine dedicated to heavy metal news, band interviews and album reviews. It was founded by JJ Koczan in January 2009 while living in Boonton, New Jersey.[1] The Obelisk has covered an extensive range of heavy metal and hard rock music over the years, but generally focuses on doom metal, sludge metal and stoner metal.[2][3] The webzine's header logo was illustrated by Belgian artist Christophe Szpajdel.[4][5]

This article is about the online music magazine. For other uses, see Obelisk (disambiguation).
The Obelisk
The Obelisk header. Logo by Christophe Szpajdel and artwork by Adam Burke
Type of site
Online magazine, music blog
Available inEnglish
FoundedJanuary 2009 (2009-01)
HeadquartersMorris Plains, New Jersey,
United States
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)JJ Koczan
EditorJJ Koczan
IndustryHeavy metal music
URLwww.theobelisk.net
CommercialNo
RegistrationNo
Launched31 January 2009 (2009-01-31)
Current statusActive

Koczan has remained sole editor and principal writer at The Obelisk, but has, on occasion, invited established writers and musicians to contribute guest posts. Some of these guest writers include Mario Lalli (from Queens of the Stone Age, Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson and Ten East), Ben Ward (from Orange Goblin), Tommy Southard (from Godspeed, Solace and Prunella Scales), Tim Catz (from Roadsaw) and Ben Hogg (from Birds of Prey).[2]

Background

Prior to founding The Obelisk, JJ Koczan was a disc jockey at Seton Hall University's radio station WSOU, where he hosted a specialty show titled Blurred Visions devoted to stoner, doom and sludge metal.[2][6] He also wrote for and was managing editor at The Aquarian Weekly and associate editor at Metal Maniacs.[7][8][9] Koczan's monthly column in Metal Maniacs magazine was titled Feast of the Obelisk and also focused on stoner, doom and sludge metal.[2][10] When Metal Maniacs' parent organization, Zenbu Media, decided to shut the magazine down in early 2009, Koczan opted to start his own online magazine, The Obelisk, inspired by his admiration for metal webzine MetalSucks.[2][7][11] At the time, Koczan resided in Boonton, New Jersey and was beginning a Master of Fine Arts degree in writing at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[1][7] In 2013 he relocated to East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, but ultimately returned to New Jersey in 2019 to settle in Morris Plains.[12][13] During the webzine's early years, Koczan performed as vocalist in several stoner and doom metal bands, including Maegashira, Ogima, Mynok and Moth Eater.[14][15][16]

Many of the early articles published on The Obelisk originated from submissions sent to Koczan while working at Metal Maniacs.[2] In order to reach a wider fan-base, those early articles were often re-published on the (at the time) much larger webzine StonerRock.com, until its closure in 2010.[2] Koczan also published a series of exclusive articles covering Roadburn Festival for BrooklynVegan in 2009, through which he befriended Invisible Oranges' later editor-in-chief Fred Pessaro.[2][17][18][19][20] Koczan has maintained a close affiliation with Roadburn Festival through The Obelisk in the years since; he is one of the principal photographers at the festival and is editor and lead writer for Roadburn's daily fanzine Weirdo Canyon Dispatch.[21][22][23] The Obelisk also has access to exclusive coverage each year and has written the liner notes and provided photographs for several live albums recorded at the festival, such as Edler's Live at Roadburn and Bongripper's Live at Roadburn.[24][16] In 2017, The Obelisk was briefly sponsored by All That Is Heavy and MeteorCity.[25][26]

audiObelisk, The Obelisk Radio and The Obelisk Show

On December 21, 2009, Koczan launched a series of podcasts titled audiObelisk.[27] Each podcast is given an identifier titled Transmission, followed by a number, and are hosted on the Internet Archive for free streaming or download.[28] The latest podcast, Transmission 065, was posted on February 26, 2018.[29] Koczan has also used the audiObelisk series to categorize The Obelisk articles which feature exclusive streams, such as album or single premieres, or live concert broadcasting.[30]

On November 26, 2012, Koczan launched The Obelisk Radio, a 24-hour streaming radio station.[31][32] The Obelisk Radio began with a back-catalog of over 7,500 songs, which were once the basis of StonerRock.com's own internet radio station K666 Radio; the later had shut down two years prior on November 29, 2010.[32] The hard drive of music was donated to Koczan by Johnny Arzgarth, former editor at StonerRock.com.[31] The first new release added to The Obelisk Radio was Sungrazer's album Mirador; Koczan has since been adding new and archival releases regularly.[33]

In 2018, Koczan was approached by heavy metal internet radio Gimme Radio to host his own specialty show.[34] The Obelisk Show debuted on Sunday, September 23, 2018 at 5 P.M. EST.[35][36] The second program of The Obelisk Show aired a month later, on Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 5 P.M. EST.[37] After two successful episodes, Koczan was given a permanent bi-weekly program: from November 4, 2018 to April 28, 2019, The Obelisk Show aired every other Sunday evening at 7 P.M. EST; re-runs altered between Monday, Tuesday or Thursday mornings between 6 A.M. and 9 A.M. EST.[38][39]

Starting on May 24, 2019, and lasting until August 30, 2019, The Obelisk Show aired every other Friday afternoon at 1 P.M. EST (with the exception of July 5, 2019, which was aired two weeks later due to Independence Day).[40][41] Re-runs began airing steadily every Sunday evening at 7 P.M. EST, in the show's former time-slot.[40] The Obelisk Show did not air in October 2019 due to several specials Gimme Radio was running.[42] When it returned on the air, the show retained its Friday afternoon 1 P.M. EST time-slot, but was reduced to airing once a month.[43] This schedule was maintained from November 8, 2019 to January 31, 2020 (with re-runs still on Sundays at 7 P.M. EST).[43] Since February 14, 2020, The Obelisk Show has aired every Friday evening at 5 P.M. EST and every Sunday evening at 7 P.M. EST; new episodes air bi-weekly on Fridays while repeats air on alternate Fridays and on every Sunday.[43]

The Obelisk All-Dayer and The Obelisk Presents

On August 20, 2016, The Obelisk hosted a one-day festival at the Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn, New York named The Obelisk All-Dayer.[44][45] The main event featured Mars Red Sky, Death Alley, Snail, EYE, Kings Destroy, Funeral Horse, King Buffalo and Heavy Temple, followed by an after-party with DJ Adzo and Walter Hoeijmakers, co-founder of Roadburn Festival.[46]

This lead way to a long-running series of concerts and tours sponsored, booked or promoted by The Obelisk titled The Obelisk Presents. Some of the bands billed under The Obelisk Presents have included Bongzilla, Mars Red Sky, Black Cobra, Lo-Pan, Sheavy, Conan, Sasquatch, Buzzoven, Earthride, Sólstafir, The Skull, Jex Thoth, Sourvein, 1000mods, Monarch, The Hellacopters, Earthless, Dozer, Mondo Generator, Church of the Cosmic Skull, Årabrot, Turbowolf, Somali Yacht Club, Fasto Jetson and Greenleaf.[47]

Visual identification and merchandising

Over a dozen different The Obelisk logos and headers have been designed by various international artists, calligraphists and illustrators over the years. The general design and presentation of the website itself, however, has remained unchanged since its inception. The Obelisk is back-end operated through a WordPress installation, using the Black Letterhead theme (designed by Ulysses Ronquillo), the Lucida font in orange color and a solid black background.[1]

The Obelisk's original logo and header, which appeared atop of the website from February 2009 to April 2012, was designed by JJ Koczan.[48] The header featured a photograph of an orange-colored clouded sky with a sun setting behind the roof of a house and a moon crescent above it.[49] The logo was designed using the Ariosto font in orange color; the font (in the same orange color) has continued to be used for most of the Koczan-designed graphics on the website to this day. The header also featured the subtext Patet Non Pervium, a Latin phrase roughly translating to passing is not clear; this was changed to This. in April 2011, then to Thank You in August 2011, and finally to Heavy on the Heavy in December 2011.[50][51][52]

In April 2012, The Obelisk's header and logo received a make-over. The second logo was designed using the Latin font, italicized, in black color, with the i in Obelisk replaced by a tall, black, pointy obelisk.[53] The header featured a digitally illustrated sun eclipsed by the upper point of the obelisk from the logo, with the sun's orange and brown wavy rays spreading across the landscape, and casting black shadows from behind the logo over a grey-surfaced bottom.[53] The second header bared the subtext Drinking Club and Opinion Dispensary in the orange Ariosto font.

On September 6, 2012, Koczan unveiled The Obelisk's third header and logo.[54] This one was designed by Sean McEleny at Skillit-Art, an American artist whom Koczan had previously interviewed for The Obelisk on July 28, 2011.[55] McEleny's design introduced the purple octopus, which has since become a recognizable staple for The Obelisk and has been featured on all of its future headers; it is sometimes also incorporated within logos.[56] The drawn psychedelic art-styled header featured a purple octopus wrapped around a sand-colored obelisk on the left-hand side, while a desert scene, complete with six green cacti, purple mountains, sand dunes, orange sunset and light blueish grey clouds make up the middle and right-hand portion. The light blue colored logo was hand-drawn by McEleny, loosely adapted from the Ariosto font logo originally conceptualized by Koczan. The website's header originally had the subtext If It Ain't Heavy It Ain't Shit, though this was removed in May 2013.[57][58] To celebrate the new design, a limited amount of stickers and banners were printed.[56] McEleny later designed the poster for The Obelisk's one-day concert event, The Obelisk All-Dayer, in 2016.[59]

On January 3, 2014, Koczan introduced The Obelisk's fourth header and logo.[60] The new logo was hand-drawn by Belgian-born (then living in England) calligraphist Christophe Szpajdel, whom Koczan had discovered (and since long-admired) while editing a feature piece for Metal Maniacs magazine.[60] Szpajdel, known by black and death metal fans as the Lord of the Logos, designed a logo that was both readable, yet very metal, using the h in THE as an obelisk.[60] The header background was painted by American illustrator Adam Burke at Nightjar Illustration, whom Koczan had also long-admired and previously interviewed for The Obelisk on September 26, 2013.[61] Burke's watercolor painting featured shades of black, deep red, light pink, deep and soft orange and light yellow depicting a sun-covered landscape of rocky crags on the left-hand side, with a purple land-octopus on the right-hand side.[60] Instead of replacing McEleny's 2012 header by the newer Szpajdel/Burke artwork, Koczan enabled both headers to appear at random for visitors of The Obelisk, a practice he continues to maintain to this day with additional new headers. Burke later illustrated the cover art of Koczan's poetry and short story collection book Electroprofen, published on April 22, 2016 by War Crime Recordings.[62]

In November 2015, Koczan commissioned two new The Obelisk logos to be used for t-shirt and hoodie designs.[63][62] The first of these new logos was designed by German graphic designer Alexander von Wieding, whom Koczan had first worked with through his record label The Maple Forum in 2010, on Blackwolfgoat's Dronolith album.[64] This The Obelisk logo is notable for being diamond-shaped and, in addition to the t-shirts and hoodies made in 2015, was later used on limited edition patches sold exclusively at The Obelisk All-Dayer in August 2016, and on a second batch of t-shirts made in October 2018.[65][66][67]

The second of these new logos was designed by Australian illustrator Jasmin Meier at Harley and J Illustrations, whom Koczan had first discovered through a review of Comacozer's Deloun album.[68] This The Obelisk logo is notable for being circular-shaped and has been used on more official merchandise and designs over the years than any other logo; in addition to the t-shirts and hoodies made in 2015, this logo was used on a second batch of t-shirts made in October 2018, and then again on a third batch of merchandise made in November 2019 which included t-shirts, hoodies, patches, long-sleeved shirts, sweatpants, toques and caps.[69][70][71] The first batch of t-shirts and hoodies were silk-screened by David Paul Seymour at Made In Brooklyn Silk Screeners between late December 2015 and early January 2016; around 150 units were made and shipped out individually by Koczan starting January 7, 2016.[62][67] Made In Brooklyn Silk Screeners have since become the exclusive manufacturers of all of The Obelisk's clothing merchandize.

On June 23, 2016, Koczan revealed the first logo and header for The Obelisk Radio. Illustrated by Dutch artist Vince Trommel at Cavum Scriptorium, the image featured a close-up on the face of an orange octopus with purple squiggly eyes, an Eye of Providence symbol on its forehead and an obelisk over it.[72] This was quickly followed on September 1, 2016 by another illustration by Trommel, this time as the fifth header and logo for The Obelisk.[73] The website header closely resembled the one designed for The Obelisk Radio, though it had a large purple octopus on the right-hand side with its tentacles extended all the way to the left side of the image where it held a human skull and an hourglass. The center of the image had an upside down Eye of Providence symbol with an obelisk straight down the middle, covered by a hand-drawn logo. This design was added to the rotation of headers on The Obelisk's website, along with the Szpajdel/Burke and McEleny headers.

In 2017, a new illustration was designed by Dutch artist Maarten Donders especially for the book The Doomster's Monolithic Pocket Alphabet; an A-Z comic book on the doom metal scene, published by Image Comics on November 8, 2017.[74] The orange, brown, yellow, black and blue-colored illustration depicted a young man sitting at a desk with a lamp shining down as he writes, and a giant obelisk erect ahead of him, baring Egyptian symbols and eclipsing a setting sun with rays across the sky.[75] The illustration was used for the letter J in the book, depicting JJ Koczan, editor of The Obelisk webzine with the text "Upon the gates of doom-heaven brace thyself, for thou shalt be judged by the genre's own St. Peter, JJ Koczan, aka The Obelisk, aka HP Taskmaster, aka The Man. Pray for a positive critique. Or be eternally doomed."[75]

In December 2017, Christophe Szpajdel illustrated a second logo for The Obelisk.[76] The logo was revealed by Koczan on December 17, 2017 to celebrate The Obelisk's Facebook page having reached 6,000 likes in less than nine months (its Facebook page having been created on March 18, 2017).[76] It was announced that this second Szpajdel logo would be used in a new header for the website, however, it was never used on a header, nor anywhere else. This logo differed greatly from the first one that Szpajdel designed. While the first one was very black metal-looking with sharp points, by contrast, the new logo resembled psychedelic rock band logos of the 1960s and was curved to resemble a worm or insect larvae.[76] On September 14, 2018, another new The Obelisk logo was revealed.[77][78] This one was designed by Danish artist Jakob Skøtt, who played drums in the band Causa Sui and was co-owner of El Paraiso Records. Skøtt's logo was a knock-off of IKEA's logo and visual presentation and it was later used on The Obelisk hoodies manufactured in January 2020.[77][78][79]

In September 2018, Vince Trommel at Cavum Scriptorium designed his third logo for The Obelisk.[80] This logo was first posted on Facebook as a reply to Jakob Skøtt's IKEA-knock-off logo; Trommel's logo was a play on Target's logo.[77] By the time that it was used officially by The Obelisk, on a limited edition batch of t-shirts, long sleeved shirts and hoodies in October 2018, it had been refined and combined with an illustration of an outer space scene: an astronaut wearing Converse shoes, an alien helmet, squiggly arms and the Eye of Providence symbols on its hands, planets, stars and a rocket ship, and finally the octopus.[80] The illustration was used again for a second batch of t-shirts, long sleeved shirts and hoodies in January 2020.

In January 2019, American graphic designer Shy Kennedy at Blackseed Design was commissioned to create a new The Obelisk logo and design for a limited edition t-shirt.[81][82] Kennedy first caught to the attention of The Obelisk when her band Horehound sent the webzine a press release for their debut album in April 2016.[83] Kennedy's design incorporated an octopus wrapped around an obelisk, superimposed over a heavily cratered moon.[81] On June 24, 2019, Koczan revealed a new artwork for his radio show The Obelisk Show.[84] The artwork was done by American illustrator Mark Kitchens and featured an upright platypus wearing a white scientist jacket, holding an obelisk with an antenna sticking out of the top surrounded by lightning bolts, indicating that the antennae is broadcasting.[84] Kitchens and his band Stone Machine Electric had been featured on The Obelisk dozens of times over the years, starting with an interview published on January 24, 2013.[85]

In October 2019, American graphic designer Hal Miller at Ritual Design Brooklyn created a new The Obelisk logo which was used on limited edition batches of t-shirts and sweatpants. This collage-style design featured an elephant with a crown-wearing skull on its hind leg, its ear turned into a bat wing and an obelisk erecting from its back with the words The Obelisk coming down vertically.[86][87] Miller had been introduced to The Obelisk when his band Eternal Black sent the webzine a press release in June 2015.[88]

On July 30, 2020 Koczan revealed The Obelisk's sixth website header. This was Vince Trommel at Cavum Scriptorium's fourth logo for The Obelisk and it reused all of the visual identifications from his two prior designs; a giant purple octopus on the left-hand side, the Eye of Providence on the right, rocket-ship-obelisks shooting out of the earth and a space scenery.[89] This header was added to the rotation of headers on The Obelisk, along with Trommel's earlier header, the Burke/Szpajdel header and the McEleny's header.

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