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“You are what we live for!” These words capture the place music occupies in the lives of the members of the NWOBHM band Holocaust and the collective consciousness shared by people who come together through music, a connection that feels especially precious in a world full of turmoil. When...
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Old Grave Fest, organised by Romanian Thrash Metal Club, arrived at Quantic in Bucharest between 8 and 10 October 2026 to smash our brains in and remind us why, for many years, the event has been home to heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal and NWOBHM. Acts we could...
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They plugged in, and they came to wound. Sweden’s Atonement brought their filth-soaked death metal to Old Grave Fest 12 and didn’t waste a single note doing it. No tricks, no polish – just riffs that bite...
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Death metal isn’t meant to be polite – and Sacrofuck from Poland embody that truth. Their music reeks of a time when the genre had danger, form, and intent. It’s not about movements or trends – it’s about the will to desecrate through sound. After they massacred the stage...
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Time cannot erode the bite of certain riffs – and Nige Rockett knows this better than most. As the guitarist and founding member of Onslaught, from the United Kingdom, he has spent over four decades steering a thrash metal assault that still rips through speakers and skin alike. This...
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It’s Death Metal O’Clock, everyone! We had the honor of performing a live autopsy on Autopsy! Took our scalpels in hand and started the procedure, with a first incision that threw us out in a full-on vivisection under the mastermind supervision of the legendary Chris Reifert. We are disgustingly...
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Every autumn, Bucharest gets louder than traffic, darker than John Wayne Gacy’s basement, and far sweatier than any gym membership. That’s right: Old Grave Festival 12 is coming, October 10–11 at Quantic Pub, and it doesn’t care if you’re ready; it only cares if you can survive it! Every...
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NWOBHM legends Pagan Altar and up-and-coming Danish death metal band Phrenelith join the Old Grave Fest! Imagine this: you’re living in 1982 and a friend just lent you a demo of an unheard of band, insisting that you really need to check this out. The band is Pagan Altar,...
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We are proud to announce the first few bands that will take to the stage at Old Grave Fest VII, on 12-13 October 2018, in Club Fabrica, Bucharest, Romania: Dawn Of Winter (Germany), Malokarpatan(Slovakia), Nocturnal Witch (Germany) and Eggs of Gomorrh (Switzerland): “Doom is the soul of metal” is...
“You are what we live for!” These words capture the place music occupies in the lives of the members of the NWOBHM band Holocaust and the collective consciousness shared by people who come together through music, a connection that feels especially precious in a world full of turmoil. When...
