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The Thirteenth Sun is a Romanian band that was born in 2011 when Radu Barna (vocalist and lead guitarist) together with Marius Muntean (keyboards) started writing the first songs. They released their first EP entitled “Genesis” in late 2012.   In 2016 the band started recording their debut album named...

Void Forger is a Romanian band from Bucharest playing a mix of sludge, crust and death metal, formed in 2010. On April 24, they released their first 7″ vinyl split with vvvlv. Tracklist: Excess Collapse Homo Economicus Excess Collapse: Guitars and drums recorded with Grig (Studio Coop) Bass and...

A nice event took place on Saturday, 27th May, in Fabrica. I was glad to be part of the crowd, as well as a photographer. So far so good; the night began quietly and people started coming in and despite the weather, around 100 people had already gathered before...

The Austrian band Harakiri for the Sky will perform for the first time in Bucharest and Cluj Napoca, as follows:  on June 10, 2017 in Bucharest, fabrica club and on June 11, 2017 in Cluj Napoca, Flying Circus club. On both cities, their invites are Fjord, from Bucharest. Tickets...

Supergroups are always a double edged sword. On the one hand you have a number of highly talented, experienced musicians coming together to bring a common vision. On the other hand you have clashing egos, and bombastic press release blurbs showing off pedigree but no substance or originality. This...

The best voice of Symphonic Metal in Europe and probably one of the best singers in the world, Tarja Turunen is the latest name confirmed at ARTmania festival, taking place in Sibiu, July 28-29, 2017. The Finnish soprano and piano singer, renowned for being the vocalist in Nightwish, will...

After the concert in Cluj-Napoca we wrote about here, “Crusade of Threnody” Tour continued in Bucharest, in fabrica club. The gig started on time or maybe even a bit earlier with Bloodrocuted – I arrived 5-10 minutes late and they were already on stage. I regret not being able...

Last Saturday I attended the second concert from the “Crusade of Threnody” Tour, held in Flying Circus Pub in Cluj Napoca and organized by Black Mass Entertainment. The concert is part of NARGAROTH tour of promoting their long-awaited new album “Era of Threnody” together with ABSU and HATE as support...

Black Water was initially formed as a duo by Romanian musicians Silviu Pop (We Are Numbers / Ordinul Negru) and Sikorsky (The Thirteenth Sun / Round Sound). They managed to record 3 electro-acoustic tracks: BLACK LIGHT, BURNING FIRE and DELIAH IS NO MORE. The musical genre started to evolve...