Philip 'Riko' Zen opens up about WormZ - Past, future and "presents"

Link to the 2009 first WormZ demo, previously lost, called R://Evolution.exe
• WormZ - Full and never...
Free mp3 download link:
www.mediafire....
I hope you will enjoy it.
This video is divided in two main parts:
an intro with two special announcements and my story about what happened the last years.
Story time starts at 2:00 minutes. It's a lot of talking but i really needed that.
Thank you for the support.
Contacts and social media:
WormZ: / wormzcorporation
Personal: / frankenstar
Instagram: / philiprikozen
Mail: [e-mail]
Feel free to send me comments and suggestions directly, they are appreciated.
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This is what i say in the video:
Welcome, this is Riko, thank you for been here.
This is my first time doing something like this so here goes nothing.
Later in this video i'm gonna explain what happened before my break but, first, here's the gift.
By pure miracle (let me know if you wanna hear about it) a physical copy of the never released and lost, first WormZ demo came back to me, and here i am releasing it for you people, i just ripped and uploaded it, no cleaning or fixing, one song you will probably recognize, the other two are never heard before, straight from 2009 to today 2019.
I hope you will enjoy them as much as i was happy founding them again for everything that they represent for me and for WormZ history.
Now to the other business, the surprise.
As you may have guessed, before disappearing, there was music in the making, and i can tell you that not only it was in the making, but an entire 10 songs album was 90% finished by the end of 2013, and more about this later in the video if you are interested.
What i'm gonna say now is that i'm gonna evolve and finish that album, but i'm gonna do it my way, as i started WormZ, as i envisioned the project ten years ago, adding to it, all the new experiences i made till now.
I’m gonna keep you posted with updates and previews, on the fb page, on UA-cam and on new Instagram and maybe Twitter accounts.
Now i'm gonna leave you to the music, or if you want to, you can hear the story behind the break and then go to songs.
This is the as short as possible version of the story.
Let me please tell you this immediately, i'm not fishing for any pity, i've already been ashamed for years, stuck into this limbo, i just want to get it out and i can get over it and move on.
So why did i stop?
Probably the same reason anybody stops doing something they truly love: a series of problems, big or small, that pile up so fast you just can't deal with them and before you realise, years has gone by and you forgot who you are and go on on autopilot.
Mine started by having internal band problems that kept delaying an almost complete album that i was really proud of.
Then we had the first videoclip for a new song, done and ready, entirely lost and if i think of the reason my head is gonna explode.
The movie crew i was working with for years, after struggling and busting our asses to get noticed, fell apart for mad reasons just when we were getting better work proposals.
And then, the last straw, by a freak accident, i lost both my hard drives and the backups, years of projects gone in a moment with no chance of recovery.
That pushed me straight into oblivion, i just gave up, in less then a year, everything went to shit, i isolated myself, got back near my family which has been even worse since they are of a yielding mentality, accepting everything like it's supposed to happen to you and i had no energy to get out of it.
Then what happened? Why today or last week or whatever? Nothing dramatic or incredible had to happen, that's the deal i didn't understand before, i just stopped my negative routine and started doing and seeing stuff differently beginning from the smaller things.
I realised if you wanna do something, you just have to do it, excuses are excuses and they go nowhere, it's true that a lot of stuff sucks, 99% of the time we may be surrounded by negativity and oppression, but the only think i can do is be myself or watch someone else live for me a life i hate till the day i die.
As of right now, I have no long term big projects yet, i just wanna start doing stuff and i didn't fill my head with a movie of what’s gonna happen.
I know that WormZ was lifeforce for me and it turned into a cancer and i want it to change into something driving me again, and this is the objective i will work toward to.
So, thank you again for your attention and your time, this has been very long.
If you wanna know more just ask, i never forgave myself for not listening to my guts and speaking freely with fans and friends as i wished to do and if randoms wanna talk trash they gonna do it all the same.
I am me and, well, everyone is going to die anyway right?
See ya in Cyberpunk 2020

[@Audiotrocious]

Wormz was perhaps one of my all time favorite music projects, and still is today. Thank you for all your hard work and awesome music.

[@PhilipRikoZen]

thank you, it's hard to believe that i could create so much passion in someone else, it's a great achievement for me

[@Audiotrocious]

Philip Zen may have been hard to believe, but you did it. Keep making the music that you want.

[@JudasAdorus]

Thank you so much for opening up about everything. I'm just happy that you're doing better and have found direction again! Wormz is still one of my favorite music projects of all time. I am grateful for anything else you could possibly create, and I'm so excited for the future

[@PhilipRikoZen]

that's amazing to hear thank you, it's always such a great energy to know that someone not only cared but that i made a life a little better. i always wanted to be honest and unfiltered, it's really hard to not give up to the comodity of disappearing into the mass

[@mallenkamp]

WHOA