Reviews

There are records one encounters and promptly leaves behind, like forgotten signposts beside a road travelled only once. A single listen suffices, sometimes two. Then there are others that refuse such an easy departure. Long after the music falls silent, fragments remain behind, resurfacing at inconvenient hours and drawing...

April 28th, Bucharest was exactly that kind of night. If you thought Demoncy & Ares Kingdom – show in Bucharest, it wasn’t going to be talked about for days, weeks, months, years, or probably centuries from now on — well, you clearly weren’t paying attention, or you were just...

Sometimes, the magic lies in trying to tell a story that has earned its place in this world, or perhaps one that clawed its way into existence because silence could no longer contain it. And this truth is known well by Amenra and Am Fost La Munte Și Mi-a...

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...

The greek death metal band In Utero Cannibalism released their eight full-lenght album, “Decadence” on February 13, 2026 through Sleaszy Rider. The album plunges into humanity’s moral decay: an exploration of corruption, madness, and the rot beneath civilization’s surface. While staying true to the raw brutality of their early work, In Utero Cannibalism injects new dimensions of technicality and compositional depth, delivering a sound...

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,...

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...

There is always a moment, somewhere, when the spark catches again. A guitar hums to life in a dim room. A worn amp crackles. Someone, somewhere, rediscovers velocity and decides silence is no longer an option. Decades after Venom dragged darkness into speed and Motörhead reduced rock ‘n’ roll...