SoundArt Festival returns in 2024 with the 5th edition, but also with the most diverse lineup so far, on April 26 and 27 in Quantic Club in Bucharest.
Hexvessel from Finland will present their latest album, Polar Veil, released in September 2023, and alongside them the Berliners from Earthship (GER), the sludge/stoner rock project of The Ocean drummer, Gunshee (RO) confirm their presence. Also, Doomsday Astronaut (RO) and Krishna (Malta). More bands will be announced in the next period.
The passes for the festival may be purchased from IaBilet.ro.
Hexvessel (Finland) is a forest folk, psychedelic, experimental band. Hexvessel was founded by British vocalist/songwriter Mat Kvohst McNerney upon his relocation to Finland in 2009. The band’s style is described as forest folk, although it encompasses a multitude of styles, from folk, Americana, psychedelic, experimental or even black metal influences, on the latest material. The first album, released by Svart Records in 2011, was mentioned in the British press as being significant for the style of occult rock that was emerging at that time.
No Holier Temple, the second album, raised the band to new heights, being nominated in two categories at Finland’s Grammy equivalent. The album won two awards, reached number 20 in the Finnish charts and was featured in many year-end charts in 2012.
Over the years the band has maintained an impressive live activity with shows at Ilosaari Festival and Provinssi Festival in Finland, Desertfest in UK, European tours in Germany, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, but also with repeated participation at Roadburn Festival in Holland .
Polar Veil, the new Hexvessel album, was released in September 2023.
Earth Ship (Germany) is a doom metal, sludge, stoner rock band. Since the founding of the band in 2010, Earth Ship from Berlin has built a solid reputation in the underground stoner / doom / sludge scene as one of the most relentless and loud live bands. With a great mix of sludgy riffs, bluesy leads, virulent vocals and a massive dose of groove, vocalist Jan Oberg, along with his wife Sabine (bass) and Sebastian Grimberg (drums) have taken Earth Ship to countless stages such as Desertfest, Stoned From The Underground, Pelagic Fest but also on tour with Red Fang, Torche, Crowbar and Voivod. In the studio, the band had a prolific activity: they released a total of 5 albums and two EPs.
Gunshee is a Romanian instrumental progressive rock trio. Gunshee‘s music falls into the area of instrumental progressive rock, with experimental elements, stoner, punk, among others. In 2021, the band released their first album, Friends Through Here and won the Grand Prize and the UndergroundMusic Prize for originality in the Posada Rock 2021 competition festival. During all this time, Gunshee had a continuous live activity, sharing the stage with established national and international bands, including Luna Amara, Cardinal, Sinoptik, The Omnific, Orkid, Saddayah.
Doomsday Astronaut is a progressive instrumental metal band from Sibiu, Romania. It was formed by guitarist Waqas Ahmed in February 2022. In the same year, the band won an important award at Posada Fest. In 2023, the band released the album Djent Djinn.
Krishna is a heavy band from Malta. The band members consider themselves explorers of the frontiers of post-metal, post-rock, stoner rock, doom metal and the list does not end here. The band is celebrating 10 years since its founding, during which time they released 2 studio albums, 4 live albums and a single. The latest album, entitled Headless, was released at the beginning of 2023 and contains a 50-minute track. The material was very well received, and the physical edition is sold out.
Now in its 5th edition, SoundArt is a brave projection in a social environment where events focused on a certain musical niche require massive work to be built and communicated to the public.
SoundArt is not a festival of bands that sing according to a certain successful musical recipe. It surprises you with personal elements, reinvents itself over time. It is in constant search and does not only refer to music, but also to other types of art.
The objective is an extremely clear one: the promotion of arts and artists at the local level, in a very special musical setting. The main ambassador of the brand is SoundArt Festival, a name that carries the public through quality musical journeys, bringing to its stage only bands chosen with the soul.
