What do you do when you feel you have a story to tell, one that may not end in relief, but through which others might still find resonance? You turn it into songs. That is what Colin H. van Eeckhout, vocalist of the Belgian post-metal band Amenra, tells us....

Only a few embers still breathe beneath the ash before the dark swallows them whole. Tonight, 17 May 2026, the Belgian group Amenra and the Romanian band Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a Plăcut will take the stage at Quantic in Bucharest. Sludge/post-metal. Hardcore. Post-rock. One night and one...

Thunder rarely announced itself politely. Neither did Mork. The Norwegian black metal band released a new composition from the forthcoming album, “Monolitt”. The track bears the title “Torden” and was carried into the world through Peaceville Records on 15 May 2026. And because Thomas Eriksen, the creative mind behind...

For ages untold, the stars have guided wanderers across the blackened vault of night, as though the sky itself remembered roads long abandoned by men. And the members of the post-black metal band Dymna Lotva know this truth well. They know it so well that they shaped an entire...

When the sky cracked open, the hawk flew above a cursed blade. Thus, in but a handful of words, might one recount the story that unfurled at Quantic in Bucharest on 9 May 2026. That evening, the Romanian scene beheld and heard three names: two sprung from our own...

In several Scandinavian tales and myths, there is mention of the sword Tyrfing, the keenest of all blades. In Sweden, in 1995, another reference was also to appear, that of a viking/black metal band. And that group would find a place among already existing assemblies, more or less anchored...

If the people of Bucharest will not go to the mountains, then the mountain wanderers shall come to Quantic to speak of them instead. Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a Plăcut return to the local stage on 17 May 2026, opening the evening for Amenra. A five-piece Romanian instrumental...

Viking, folk and black metal followers, this one is for you! Thyrfing are preparing to come to Romania for the first time, more precisely to Quantic in Bucharest. And the Swedes are not without company, for they shall be joined by the Romanian groups Bucovina and Ashaena. Let the...

The organisers of Rockstadt Extreme Fest have set out the day-by-day structure for the 2026 edition, tracing a clear path from Monday’s opening sets through to Friday’s closing moments. Spread across multiple stages, the programme of the festival confirms it will take place between 27 and 31 July 2026...