Author: Yannick Chauvet

Nightmare Rave in the Desert: Nine Inch Noize Tear Coachella Apart

Nightmare Rave in the Desert: Nine Inch Noize Tear Coachella Apart

Trent Reznor has never been particularly interested in giving people what they expect. So when Nine Inch Noize, the collaboration between Nine Inch Nails and producer Boys Noize, took the Sahara Tent at Coachella on 11 April 2026 for a 45-minute set of 11 songs, […]

Mystic Festival 2026 Drops Its Timetable And Suddenly Life Gets Exciting

Mystic Festival 2026 Drops Its Timetable And Suddenly Life Gets Exciting

As a photogtrapher, there’s a very specific kind of panic that hits when a festival finally drops its full timetable. Not fear. Not stress. Something sharper. The realisation that for four days straight, your life becomes a tactical operation built around riffs, sweat, and impossible […]

Five Years in, Sea You 2026 is Bigger Than Any Single Night

Five Years in, Sea You 2026 is Bigger Than Any Single Night

The Trójmiasto’s most important music showcase has reached a milestone. Five years of championing local artists, five years of bringing the industry to Gdańsk, five years of building something that did not exist before. Five years. For an independent, locally-rooted music showcase built around a […]

Sundat at 9. Schizma. Hamulec & Frontside Deliver Total Impact at Drizzly Grizzly

Sundat at 9. Schizma. Hamulec & Frontside Deliver Total Impact at Drizzly Grizzly

Drizzly Grizzly didn’t host a gig. It swallowed one whole. No warm-up. No easing in. Just impact, immediate, total, non-negotiable. From the first note, it was already happening. Guitars tore straight through the room. Bass hit you, blunt and physical, somewhere between your ribs and […]

Inside Seaside Reveals First Acts For 2026: Editors, Jessie Ware And Hermanos Gutiérrez Head To Gdańsk

Inside Seaside Reveals First Acts For 2026: Editors, Jessie Ware And Hermanos Gutiérrez Head To Gdańsk

Inside Seaside Festival 2026: First Acts Revealed For Gdańsk The fourth edition of Inside Seaside now has its first confirmed names, and they hit hard. Jessie Ware, Editors and Hermanos Gutiérrez are the opening statement for what promises to be the strongest edition yet of […]

More Names, More Noise: Open’er 2026 Keeps Building

More Names, More Noise: Open’er 2026 Keeps Building

The Baltic keeps pulling them in. More names for the 2026 edition, more proof that Open’er doesn’t do half-measures. Florence + The Machine headlines the Orange Main Stage on July 1, and this feels like the right moment. “Everybody Scream”, released last Halloween, is her […]

Behemoth Bows to Bathory: “The Return of Darkness and Evil” Is the Anthem of Mystic Festival 2026

Behemoth Bows to Bathory: “The Return of Darkness and Evil” Is the Anthem of Mystic Festival 2026

No warning, no mercy. Behemoth have released both the single and the music video for “The Return of Darkness and Evil“, their reinterpretation of the Bathory classic, and it’s the official anthem of Mystic Festival 2026. The backstory matters here. Nergal has carried a deep personal connection to the original […]

Dead Poets, Live Claws: Szpony’s Stunning Debut

Dead Poets, Live Claws: Szpony’s Stunning Debut

Polish poetry and extreme metal have shared a fascinating relationship for decades. From Kat‘s early flirtations with the symbolism of Tadeusz Miciński in the ’80s, through Behemoth setting Miciński’s poem “Lucifer” to blackened fury on “Evangelion“, the Young Poland movement has quietly haunted the Polish […]