There’s something rotten and electric crawling out of Hamburg, and it answers to the name Night Punch. Five musicians, faces hidden behind masks, purposefully stripping away ego to focus on impact. Their sound is a bleak collision of hardcore punk, dark punk, and cold synth, […]
The full programme of Mystic Festival 2026 has finally landed today, and like every year, it hits with the weight of a steel boot to the chest. This isn’t just another line up drop. This is the moment when months of announcements, teases, half confirmed […]
If you have ever felt like your soul was being dismantled by a cello and then reconstructed by a man who hits notes only dogs and depressed angels can hear, then you already know Leprous. These Norwegians are like a high pressure weather system. On […]
Forget the nostalgia acts and the tired rehashes of 1999. If you think nu metal died when the baggy jeans went into storage, you haven’t been paying attention to the cracks in the pavement in Krakow. Wirefall is not a tribute to the past, they […]
The digital postman just dropped a fever dream into my inbox here in Gdańsk, and the walls are still vibrating. It is a rare thing to have the morning stillness shattered by something that actually feels vital, but Dead Air have managed it. This trio […]
The first album of Źrenice, Śnienie”, didn’t reveal itself to me in one clean listen, it unfolded slowly. Musically, the impact was immediate, complex, layered, often brutal, but never careless or gratuitous. There’s craft here, tension, movement, the kind of record that keeps you alert […]
Kicking off the new year in typically skewed style, Puscifer have dropped “ImpetuoUs“, the third and final preview of their highly anticipated album “Normal Isn’t“, due out 6 February via Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings/BMG. “ImpetuoUs” arrives with a visualizer that doubles as our first peek into […]
Hardcore doesn’t ask politely. It turns up, kicks the door in, and dares you to look away. This night at Doki 4 is built exactly on that principle. Three bands, three generations, zero compromise. At the centre of it all, Schizma. Hardcore lifers from Bydgoszcz, […]
