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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
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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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The fire is burning again in the Austrian black metal underground. Draugr returned with “Flammenmeer”, the second single taken from the upcoming full-length “Ahnenfeuer – Ginnungagap Chaos Pt. I”,...
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There is always room for a little more black metal in Transylvania. This time, however, it comes with a piece of metal history in tow. The British legends Venom...
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The lads of the melodic death/doom metal group Shores of Null are always keeping themselves busy. Recently, they have been working on their new album and, on 14 July...
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Rockstadt Fest continues its run of announcements for the 26-30 July 2027 edition, and this time the road leads towards thrash metal. The Americans of Overkill will take to...
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It is time for Polish black metal. And it is time for Mgła to return to Romania. Albums such as “Exercises in Futility” and “With Hearts Toward None” have...
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Neither the heat nor fatigue could keep us away from Ghimbav on the fifth day of the festival. After all, how could they, with a line-up that still had...
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Day IV of Rockstadt Extreme Fest was another one of those days when the line-up left little room for sitting still. Tiredness? What’s that? With plenty to choose from...
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After two days of moving between stages, Day III of Rockstadt Extreme Fest was waiting with another packed programme and plenty of reasons to keep doing the same. For...
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Dark Bombastic Evening has returned to Alba Iulia, Romania, more precisely to the RYMA Spaces, where people who put genuine care into what they do have once again...
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After seeing what Day I of Rockstadt Extreme Fest had to offer, with a handful of songs from it already making their way into my playlist, I set off...
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From 27 July to 1 August 2026, Rockstadt Extreme Fest took place. This edition brought together prominent names from the metal scene, alongside acts that have, over time, ventured...
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Composing both music and lyrics since 1995, Heljarmadr has become a recognised name in the black metal scene. Grá began in 2010 as a mind exercise intended to widen...
