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Brasswood Soundtracks 2026, When The Forest Starts Breathing Cinema

Brasswood Soundtracks 2026, When The Forest Starts Breathing Cinema

There’s something quietly radical happening in Sopot. Not loud, not desperate, not chasing trends. Just a festival that understands one simple truth: film music doesn’t belong in the background. It is the main story. Brasswood Soundtracks 2026 is the seventh edition of what began as […]

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, […]

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 […]

Lex Legion: The Kings Are Back, And They Didn’t Come to Be Polite

Lex Legion: The Kings Are Back, And They Didn’t Come to Be Polite

Four of the five musicians who made up King Diamond‘s most celebrated late-’80s line-up, the one that recorded “Them” and “Conspiracy“, have resurfaced together under a new name. Guitarist Pete Blakk, bassist Hal Patino, guitarist and producer Andy La Rocque, and drummer Mikkey Dee are […]

Moonspell New Album “Far From God” to Be Released on July 3, 2026

Moonspell New Album “Far From God” to Be Released on July 3, 2026

Five years. That’s how long it took Moonspell to get here. Five years of staring at blank pages, doubting themselves, nearly walking away. And then they didn’t, and the result is something that sounds genuinely furious and romantic in equal measure. “Far From God” drops […]