FESTIVAL PREVIEW: Bloodstock Open Air 2019


The time is nigh! Bloodstock 2019, the best major independent music festival in the world is here! Ghost Cult’s crack team will be on-site as we have been every year in our existence, bringing you this vital heavy music event and experience! Featuring Sabaton, Parkway Drive and Scorpions, along with Anthrax, Batushka, Children Of Bodom, Code Orange, Cancer Bats, Powerwolf, Soilwork, Cradle Of Filth, Thy Art Is Murder, Tesseract, Metal Church, Soulfly, Death Angel, Dee Snider, Queensryche, Eluveitie, Swallow The Sun, Evil Scarecrow, Ross The Boss, Grand Magus, Krysthla, Rotting Christ, Aborted, Skeletal Remains, All Hail The Yeti, Incite, Hypocrisy, Taake, The Lazys, Xentrix, and many more on the Catton Park stages this August. More bands are still being announced, but see the line-up so far here. Check out our day by day list must-see list below and everything else you need to know! Continue reading


Batushka Added to Bloodstock This Weekend, Dimmu Borgir Cancels


Polish Black Metal band Batushka (Bart version) has been added as a late addition to Bloodstock 2019 on the main stage third from the top on Sunday, replacing Dimmu Borgir who have canceled due to illness. The band released their album Hospodi through Metal Blade Records. They will play directly before Queensryche and Scorpions on Sunday 11th August. Continue reading


Batushka Announces North American Headline Tour Dates, New Album Out Now


Batushka (Bart version) has released their epic new album Hospodi is out now via Metal Blade Records. The band has now announced a headline tour of the U.S. and Canada in November and December. The tour kicks off on November 29 in Toronto and runs through December 21 in Los Angeles. All dates are below. Tickets go on sale on Friday, July 26 at 10 am local time.Continue reading


Batushka (Bart version) Shares New Single and Video for “Wieczernia”


Polish Black Metal collective Batushka (Bart version) has shared a new single and video for a new song ‘Wieczernia’. You can watch the clip below. The track comes from their upcoming new album Hospodi, due out July 12th via Metal Blade Records. The band appeared at last weekend in the UK at Download Festival on Saturday 15th June. Worldwide headline tour announcements to follow. Continue reading


Батюшка – Панихида


Probably one of the more perplexing things going on in extreme metal over the first half of 2019, since Ghost Cult broke the news internationally would be what in the name of Satan’s left testicle was going on with Polish Raw Occult Black Metal band Batushka. Continue reading


Batushka (Derph Version) Surprise Releases Entire New Album “Панихида”


Batushka has surprise-released his new album, from the version helmed by former/current frontman Krzysztof “Derph” Drabikowski. So far this raw occult black metal sounds amazing. Please buy and stream the Панихида album now. Continue reading