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How to Survive Old Grave Festival (and Maybe Even Remember It)
Every autumn, Bucharest gets louder than traffic, darker than John Wayne Gacy’s basement,... -
Unveiling: Underground For The Masses Second Edition
Get ready to dive back into the abyss! Underground For The Masses is... -
INTERVIEW: Treasondom. No Rules, No Compromises
There is little point in asking for creative freedom if you’re not prepared... -
INTERVIEW: Rotheads. Notes from the Underground
The best ideas don’t always come together straight away. For Rotheads, a song...
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Every autumn, Bucharest gets louder than traffic, darker than John Wayne Gacy’s basement, and far sweatier than any gym membership. That’s right: Old Grave Festival 12 is coming, October... -
Get ready to dive back into the abyss! Underground For The Masses is returning for its second edition on April 4th and 5th, 2024, at Quantic Club Bucharest. Mark...
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The underground has never been short of people with opinions about how things should be done. Fewer are willing to spend decades actually doing them. Romanian promoter Coro has...
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Master’s Hammer back on track! The Czech black metal group released a new single, entitled “Environmental Grief” on 28 October 2026. Political satire and environmental despair take centre stage,...
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A new creation, crawling out of a putrid nightmare, will come to infest your mind. For the dissonant death metal band Resin Tomb will release their second album, “Fetid...
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After a period away from the stage, Olympus Mons, the Romanian doom metal group formed in 2018, returned to Quantic with a new drummer and renewed creative energy, while...
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There is little point in asking for creative freedom if you’re not prepared to use it. For Treasondom, that means writing what feels right, rejecting ideas that don’t work,...
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The best ideas don’t always come together straight away. For Rotheads, a song can begin with two unrelated riffs, take an unexpected turn and only find its final form...
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The underground has never been short of people with opinions about how things should be done. Fewer are willing to spend decades actually doing them. Romanian promoter Coro has...
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After a period away from the stage, Olympus Mons, the Romanian doom metal group formed in 2018, returned to Quantic with a new drummer and renewed creative energy, while...
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Some stories are told through cinema, others through music, and a few take shape in images that seem to have wandered out of a dream best left unexplained. At...
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After 20 years of transforming his darkest visions into complex music, Andrew Borphy‘s Metaladian released the debut album, “Deaditation” this past July. For this concoction to take root in...
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For Alex Krull, music has always been a means of pushing beyond conventional boundaries. With Atrocity active since 1988 and Leaves’ Eyes formed in 2003, his work spans technical...
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Schirenc Plays PUNGENT STENCH in Romania. Does that ring any bells? Well, it should. More than that, 23 October 2026 marks the final appearance in this country of this...
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Every quest begins with a questionable decision, a destination on the map and the vague suspicion that things might get out of hand. Ours took us to Istanbul, where...
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Old Grave Fest, organised by Romanian Thrash Metal Club, arrived at Quantic in Bucharest between 8 and 10 October 2026 to smash our brains in and remind us why,...
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Greece has never been short of death metal, but the members of Serement have chosen to let black metal’s more vicious impulses seep into the old-school foundations of their...
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What do Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical drawings, Sumerian mythology, Lovecraftian horrors and extreme metal have in common? For Turkish band Khepra, they are all ingredients in a creative formula...
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In 2020, three musicians set out to play war metal under the name Warslaughter, with thrash metal influences also part of the original plan. As the years passed, the...
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Celebrare Noctem Fest returns for its XI edition, set to take place at Alter Schlachthof Wels in Austria from 4 to 5 December 2026. December may still be a... -
Norwegian avant-garde metal has produced its share of distinctive voices, with Vulture Industries standing among the names that have shaped its more experimental side since 2003. Their music brings...
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More than 30 years after forming Sear Bliss, András Nagy is still writing music, playing live and looking towards the future. The band from Hungary marked the 30th anniversary...
