In 2019, after releasing the album “Niewiosna“, Blindead disappeared for a few years, only to return in 2024 with a new release titled “Vanishing“, which, paradoxically, means “disappearing”. This marks a new incarnation of the band, with a changed lineup and a new name: Blindead 23. What hasn’t changed is their approach to music: they play metal that’s more exploratory than extreme but utterly immersive, pulling the listener into a whirlpool of sound and emotion.
Blindead 23 will perform this tour with a core lineup consisting of Mateusz, Patryk Zwoliński (vocals), and Paweł Jaroszewicz (drums), joined on stage by Roger Öjersson (Katatonia), Maciej Janas (Ketha), and Kuba Mańkowski (the producer of Vanishing). The setlist will include both new songs and “Affliction “by Blindead, played in full to celebrate the 15th anniversary of its release.
Obscure Sphinx had been silent for several years, a silence that fans of their melancholic, doom-and post-metal-laden darkness keenly felt. Fortunately, that’s behind them, as the Warsaw quartet has recently played two fantastic festival shows at Summer Dying Loud and Metal Mine and is now working on the follow-up to “Epitaphs“.
Wij has a pact with the devil, summoning the spirits of metal’s founding fathers, looking for distortions in nature. With their album “Przestwór” released last year, they proved that it’s possible to sound both archaic and modern, transporting audiences through their concerts into a dark and slippery realm inhabited by Lucyferyna, Poroniec, Skrzypłocz, Żmija, and other eerie beings.
We all know where the roses of love flourish best, but “Kwiaty zła” (“Flowers of Evil”) is a well-received single promoting “Poświaty“, the second album by the Warsaw quartet Kryształ, due at the end of November. Here, coldwave brushes up against the shores of metal, at times swelling into shoegaze-like walls of sound.
