The year 2012 brought with it a new name to Romania’s underground scene: Genune. “Genune”, as a word, is often used poetically in Romanian, meaning “chasm”, “precipice”, or “abyss”, and the band members have created their lyrics around themes such as death as a physical manifestation, identity and heritage,...

Underground for the Masses III, set in Quantic, Bucharest, Romania, draws near, and we stood by the cauldron, stirring it until the surface begins to boil. From that troubled brew come a handful of songs worth hearing at home before you step through those doors. Remember what this is...

On 15 April 2026, at Arenele Romane in Bucharest, Romania, one of the most anticipated spectacles for death metal and black metal devotees took place. We speak of Vomitory, who had only just brought their newest album, “In Death Throes”, to the ears of all gathered there; of Vreid,...

Jarle Kvåle began composing music during his adolescence, and from then until the present day his enthusiasm for art has not diminished. With a clearly defined goal, namely to create music that first satisfies himself, the artist was initially part of the band Ulcus, then Windir, and now channels...

Tabula Rasa from Austria are not a studio band. A blackened heavy metal group with punk influences, they do not shy away from testing new territory. This is not our claim, but that of Geheimrat F. representing Tabula Rasa, in the interview I constructed for them ahead of their...

Under a canvas stretched against the April cold, four banners rise in unison, each speaking a different strain of extremity. The “Mass Hallucination Tour 2026”. On 15 April 2026, Arenele Romane, from Bucharest, Romania, are about to become a sealed ground where Hypocrisy, Abbath, Vomitory, and Vreid align for...

“The only role of this band is to serve ourselves as individuals”, this is how Michael Bertoldini describes the function of Deathless Void, a death/black metal act formed in the Netherlands around 2022. Bertoldini prefers to let chaos define the rules and does not deviate in search of external...

If I have been gravitating around what France has to offer, I decided to “step” a little into Belgium as well and listen to what it has in terms of atmospheric black/doom metal. In doing so, I came across Splendidula, a band now composed of only three people, who...

I do not know how France does it, but in terms of music, it always comes with that something that impresses me. And the latest discovery was the album “Aux heures désespérées” by Archvile King, released this year, on 23 January. A solitary endeavour, inclined towards black metal, with...