Date: 10/04/2026
Location: Drizzly Grizzly, Gdańsk
Oraganizer: Knock Out ProductionsOn the 10th of April, Drizzly Grizzly, four Polish bands. Two co-headliners. Zero filler. This is what a proper metal night looks like.
Frontside and Hamulec share the top of the bill, and what a pairing it is. It is the kind of co-headliner announcement that makes you put down your drink and pay attention.
Frontside need no introduction, but they deserve one anyway. Founded in Sosnowiec in 1993, they spent the early years doing hardcore with hip-hop influences, rapping and scratching their way through demos. Then they pivoted, hard. Back when combining metal with hardcore was deemed sacrilegious in Poland, they were among the first to commit this blasphemous marriage. Thirty-plus years later, they are living legends of Polish metalcore. Their debut album landed in 2001, and a year later came their sophomore record, considered by many to be their magnum opus, “I Odpuść Nam Nasze Winy“, which also won a Fryderyk Award in the Best Album of the Year, Heavy Metal category. They have never stopped evolving and they have never stopped hitting hard. Expect new material, delivered with the ferocity this band simply cannot help but produce.
On the other side of the co-headliner equation, Hamulec represent a younger generation of Polish metal, but do not let that fool you. Their thrash is nasty, punk-infected, and built for mosh pits. They earned a viral moment, sure, but this is a band whose live show makes the argument for itself.
Then come the guests, and they are not exactly afterthoughts.
Schizma have been doing this longer than most. Formed in 1990 in Bydgoszcz, they are one of the longest-running and most internationally recognised Polish hardcore bands. Over three decades of line-up changes and they have never once compromised the sound. Their most recent full-length, “Upadek“, released in 2023 via Piranha Music, was designed to confirm their legendary status while keeping one foot firmly in the underground. Live, they remain a force of nature.
Sunday At 9 round out a genuinely stacked night. Their groove metal instincts are sharp, and they know how to weaponise a riff, pivoting effortlessly between swaggering groove and full-on death metal brutality. They are the kind of band that makes new converts at every show.
