All posts by João Osório

A full house from the very star to the very end to see Pain and friends! When Swedish group Billion Dollar Babies started their show the venue was already packed. With just 30 minutes to play, they presented their most recent work, “Chemical God” released earlier this year. With a sound more in the heavy [...]

On the very next day after Moonspell’s gig, the locals went on another pilgrimage in search of dark side powered by the music of Dark Funeral, at the venue “Hellraiser”. This space is one of the most famous ones in Leipzig, as one might see due to the great number of shows that take place [...]

Moonspell passed by Leipzig for another date of their European tour, and it was an intense show. The opening acts were Eleine and The Foreshadowing. Eleine, Swedish symphonic gothic metal, were the first band to come upon stage. The crowd was still scarce when they started, maybe due to the fact that they are a [...]

On the last June 10th, the presentation of the new “Everchild” album of the German band Dark Suns took place in Werk 2 Kulturfabrik, Leipzig. Opening guest band were the FON, an alternative progressive post-rock band that fitted quite well for opening the event. Under the direction of bassist and lead singer Katharina Helmke, the other two [...]

The formation year of Darkestrah is 1999. Seventeen years of activity for a band is a considerable and respectable time. How you see the path you did and you are doing? Asbath: Well, as you already mentioned, Darkestrah was formed in 1999 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. However, we have moved to Germany in the early 2000s [...]