(news-festivals) Metal Mine 2023 unveiled full line-up!

After a three-year break, Metal Mine Festival returns in a new version as an open air festival! During two days, 22 bands will perform! The festival will take place in Wałbrzych (Poland) on August 25-26, 2023 (event on Facebook).

Full line up for Metal Mine Festival 2023 presents as follows:

  • ROTTING CHRIST (black metal, GR), 
  • TAAKE (black metal, NO), 
  • GAEREA (black metal, PT), 
  • 1914 (blackened death/doom metal, UA),
  • KARG (post-black metal, AT),
  • HERETOIR (post-black metal, DE),
  • DOOMAS (melodic doom/death metal, SK),
  • DYSANGELIUM (death metal, CZ),
  • ARMADA (death metal, MEX),
  • AGRESSIVA69 (industrial rock, PL),
  • BESIDES (post-rock, PL),
  • JARUN (progressive black metal, PL),
  • MEDICO PESTE (black metal, PL),
  • DORMANT ORDEAL (death metal, PL),
  • DEADPOINT (groove metal, PL),
  • BAALZAGOTH (death metal, PL),
  • KALT VINDUR (atmospheric/progressive black metal, PL),
  • SOTHORIS (blackened death metal, PL),
  • LYRRE (neomedieval metal, PL),
  • PANDRADOR (death metal, PL),
  • AZELS MOUNTAIN (pagan black metal, PL),
  • ZGROZA (black metal, PL).

Official Spotify playlist: https://spoti.fi/3jy8ZeB

Tickets:

  • 1-day ticket (150 PLN / 33 EUR)
  • 2-days ticket (230 PLN / 50 EUR) available at Ticketmaster.

The organizers of the upcoming edition of Metal Mine will open up to new music genres. The event area is, of course, the unique and amazing space of the Old Mine in Wałbrzych. Who was there knows that the place is amazing. The Old Mine Science and Art Center in Wałbrzych is the largest post-industrial tourist attraction in Poland, located on the site of a former mine. The revitalization carried out in 2014 allowed for the creation of a unique facility. On the area of 4.5 hectares, there are many historic post-industrial buildings with authentic furnishings, e.g. secured and a machine park available to visitors. Between the mine machines, there will be a zone with food trucks and cold beer, stands with contractors’ merch, and a campsite. Participants will also have the opportunity to contact with musicians in a special Meet & Greet zone.

(book) Jim X Dodge – ‘Theta House’ (Earth Island Books)

Earth Island books became known to me as the source of beautiful and superb books about punk and hardcore scene, but this time they tried themselves in releasing horror novel by Jim X Dodge, who also has roots in punk and DIY scene. This one is a keeper! Reading this book was like watching a tense and chilling horror thriller movie. The story evolves around six young people who were invited to come to Theta House(Theta means Death in Greek), to participate in a game, something similar to solving riddles and escape room puzzles. But, this game is real, this game involves death, gore and will there be escape for any of the participants?

This story is not something quite new and original, but the idea is executed with precision and accuracy, reading this one is not hard, it is something I as a reader enjoyed very much. Characters are someone you can relate to, from overweight transgender Dana, gothic emo Baron, two stupid fraternity guys to Asian American twins, a bit arrogant in their postures. There are no filler pages, nothing to make this book boring and the ending is satisfying to all of us gore fiends out there, so I heartily recommend this one.

Conclusion: 9/10 axes. Horror and thriller in one chilling package of gore, mystery and destruction.

(new single) World Negation New Song Rejected By Hell OUT NOW!

Photocredit:Viktor Steinbach

World Negation have released a new single. The song ‘Rejected By Hell’ is about personal development in a cold, broken world with the subculture as a shelter full of people with flaws, problems and rough edges who do not try to fit in to a superficial, appearance-preserving and smooth society. The single was released via Dedication Rec. and is available on all major platforms.

Stream Rejected By Hell 
https://push.fm/fl/vksizvg4
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