The inaugural Drums of War Festival descends on Barcelona, Spain, this August 27 to 29 with 31 bands across three days of underground extreme metal at Atlantic Events. Destruction, 1349, Nargaroth, Pestilence, Grave, Tormentor, Unleashed, Impaled Nazarene, and many more fill the bill. Tickets at drumsofwar.com. Continue reading
Over two years since being shut down in the middle of a show by the New York City Department of Buildings, Saint Vitus Bar will return to Brooklyn this fall in a new location. The new venue will be at 428 Troutman Street in Bushwick, the site of the old Brooklyn Made club, which closed in 2025. After a lot of teasing on social media leading up to the reveal, with a series of videos where Günther, the mascot/mannequin, left the bar at the old Greenpoint location on Manhattan Avenue and Clay Street, leaves his former home and sojourns to his new one. You can watch the last video in the series, which has him arriving at 428 Troutman and going inside, below.
Dubbed the “home of metal” in NYC, if not the USA, by Ghost Cult in our post-mortem about the closure, we are stoked to see it return!
Congrats and welcome back Saint Vitus Bar! Continue reading
Though recorded in the wake of lifted lockdowns, Winter Mass (Season of Mist) wastes no time reminding the world what true black metal combustion sounds like. Captured live at Oslo’s Parkteatret, the set explodes open with 1349’s signature aural hellfire, searing an unfiltered surge of energy that feels less like a concert and more like an exorcism. For over an hour, the band command the stage with a career-spanning selection of apocalyptic incantations drawn from their ever-boiling cauldron of chaos. Continue reading