“Less is more”. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe coined the phrase to describe architecture, yet sometimes it proves just as fitting in music. The members of Thrownness are the latest to demonstrate why. Two years after the release of the EP “Marrow”, the Portuguese quartet returned with “Marrow Part II:...

“Metal is death. Death is metal. Nunslaughter, death metal”. In just a few words, that is how the attitude of the members of Nunslaughter could be summed up. With an extensive discography behind them, with nearly four decades devoted to the same death metal spirit, the Americans finally arrived...

The organisers of Rockstadt Extreme Fest have published the complete timetable for the 2026 edition, allowing festivalgoers to map out six days of performances before the event’s first gathering in Ghimbav, Romania. Scheduled to take place between 27 July and 1 August 2026, the festival will spread almost one...

Some dreams do come true. And the proof comes from the members of the post-black metal band Dymna Lotva, who on 18 June 2026 released the second single from the album “Vyraj”. Titled “Ладдзя Роспачы” , the song was filmed deep underground in a...

Seven years of silence have come to an end. Returning with a more vicious, heavier, and more confrontational sound, the French members of the sludge/doom metal band Verdun released “Abyssal Womb” on 26 June 2026, via Transcending Obscurity Records. The purpose was clear: no wasting time on ambience or...

Spears of Wallachia Festival will return to Quantic on 13 November 2026. Organised by Cavalleria Events, the festival seeks to continue the path opened by its inaugural edition, bringing together distinctive underground acts and artists seldom seen in Romania from across the more shadowed territories of extreme metal. This...

When you thought of Green Carnation, you thought of  “Journey to the End of the Night” and “Light of Day, Day of Darkness”. Naturally, you also thought of Norway and those passages of progressive metal that stayed with you. Now, years after the formation of the band in 1990,...

P.G. has devoted the greater part of his life to music. After spending his early years in other bands, the German artist went on to establish Groza, a project that would become the vessel for his creative vision. Alongside the black metal band Groza, P.G. had already crossed the threshold...

A fair amount of time has passed since the compositions of Arckanum last left their mark upon us. Shamaatae is well aware of that fact. Therefore, nine years after the release of “Den förstfödde”, the 2017 full-length that appeared to close the musical chapter of the project, the Swedish...