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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 […]

The 69 Eyes, New Single “Cold Sweat” From EP “I Survive” to Be Released on June 5, 2026

The 69 Eyes, New Single “Cold Sweat” From EP “I Survive” to Be Released on June 5, 2026

Here’s where it gets delightfully tangled. The 69 Eyes have announced a new EP, “I Survive“, dropping June 5 via BLKIIBLK, the Frontiers label group imprint, marking a new chapter for the Helsinki Vampires. The lead single? A cover of Thin Lizzy‘s “Cold Sweat” from […]

This Week’s Videos, Our Selection: Five Worlds, One Playlist”

This Week’s Videos, Our Selection: Five Worlds, One Playlist”

Five videos. Five bands operating in completely different corners of heavy and loud, each one doing something the other four couldn’t. This week we’ve got an Austin trio weaponising nu-metal, trip-hop and avant-garde darkness into something genuinely menacing, a New York rock provocateur turning a […]