{"id":14785,"date":"2025-08-08T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14785"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:14:12","slug":"beautiful-freakin-weirdo-addresses-escapism-with-the-single-video-psychohead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14785","title":{"rendered":"BEAUTIFUL FREAKIN&#8217; WEIRDO\u00a0Addresses Escapism With The Single &amp; Video, &#8220;Psychohead&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BEAUTIFUL-FREAKIN-WEIRDO.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BEAUTIFUL-FREAKIN-WEIRDO.jpg 630w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BEAUTIFUL-FREAKIN-WEIRDO-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BEAUTIFUL-FREAKIN-WEIRDO-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>August 8th, 2025 &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>UK industrial metal project<strong>, BEAUTIFUL FREAKIN&#8217; WEIRDO&nbsp;<\/strong>recently dropped the video for their single, &#8220;Psychohead&#8221;.&nbsp; The track appears on their latest EP,&nbsp;<strong><em>Zap The Fear<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Psychohead<em>&#8220;<\/em>&nbsp;dives head-first into escapism, away from this world of fear in which we are all manipulated and controlled. &#8220;I think most, if not all, people have a little psycho in them,&#8221; founding member, Mick Pritchard says. &#8220;Your alter ego, your dark side, call it what you will. Take the red pill. Take the blue pill and all placebos. Good luck!&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Psychohead&#8221; is a tale of sleepwalking into the abyss of smoke and mirrors &#8211; into a world controlled by fear because there isn&#8217;t a &#8220;Hell&#8221;. Hell is here. This is where you take the red pill just to try and kill your savage alter ego &#8211; the Phsyco in your head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"PSHYCO HEAD\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uftHb2UFY48?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>About the&nbsp;<em><strong>Zap The Fear<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;EP:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Zap The Fear<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;stands out loud and proud with its full-on high energy and melodic, catchy trio of songs. These are songs that will keep you on the dance floor all night. Full of awesome riffs and hooks, the EP offers something exciting in today\u2019s market.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em><strong>Zap The Fear<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;is the breath of fresh air that is absolutely needed right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fronting two of the hottest bands playing the UK clubs (<strong>Adrenaline Kick<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Skeletron Swing<\/strong>)&nbsp;and still not grasping that coveted major label deal gave Mick Pritchard a need to sit back and reflect.&nbsp; Jumping head-first into Birmingham, England&#8217;s vibrant industrial metal scene, Pritchard rebranded himself as&nbsp;<strong>BEAUTIFUL FREAKIN&#8217;&nbsp;WEIRDO<\/strong>, locked himself in a studio and a rehearsal room for a few months and has emerged with his first new release as BFW, \u2018<strong><em>Zap the Fear<\/em><\/strong>.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pritchard has used the vast amount of knowledge and experience he has gained over the years -including relentless touring and being mentored by both Black Sabbath\u2019s and Diamond Head\u2019s management teams to maximum affect in creating this monster. Pritchard has created a pure explosion of dynamite that will shake your bones to their core from the very get-go.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow&nbsp;<strong>BEAUTIFUL FREAKIN&#8217; WEIRDO<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BeautifulFreakinWeirdo<br>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/michael.pritchard.5201<br>https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/1BYSmlaYgLWiygvRGTX3Fc<br>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@BEAUTIFULFREAKINWEIRDO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 8th, 2025 &#8211;&nbsp;UK industrial metal project, BEAUTIFUL FREAKIN&#8217; WEIRDO&nbsp;recently dropped the video for their single, &#8220;Psychohead&#8221;.&nbsp; The track appears on their latest EP,&nbsp;Zap The Fear. &#8220;Psychohead&#8220;&nbsp;dives head-first into escapism, away from this world of fear in which we are all manipulated and controlled. &#8220;I think most, if not all, people have a little psycho&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14785\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BEAUTIFUL FREAKIN&#8217; WEIRDO\u00a0Addresses Escapism With The Single &amp; Video, &#8220;Psychohead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14787,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785\/revisions\/14787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}