Four bands, four drastically different manifestations of intense, dark emotions. In 2026, in Gdańsk, you will see and hear Death To All, Harakiri For The Sky, Carach Angren, and Monkey3.
Death to All
Not even death tore us apart. Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of the premature passing of the metal god Chuck Schuldiner, though his revolutionary music continues to live on. Not only on the monumental Death records, but also in concerts thanks to his friends from Death To All, who are keeping the flame burning. They do it, of course, with the masterful precision worthy of Death’s legacy – after all, we are talking about a band composed of illustrious personae of the extreme scene. Death To All are coming to Gdańsk with their Symbolic Healing programme, built on the material off the albums Spiritual Healing and Symbolic.
Harakiri For The Sky
Though the sky’s in their name, the title of their latest record is Scorched Earth. The 2025 album tells the story of a fallen world and our hopeless, lonesome wandering across this land of death. It’s a stirring and depressing vision, made chillingly compelling through the unique music of the Austrians – a beautiful yet deeply sombre post-black metal. Their concert will wipe the smiles off your faces.
Carach Angren
When it seemed like Cradle Of Filth and Dimmu Borgir have exhausted the possibilities of symphonic black metal, Carach Angren emerged from Mordor to create this music anew. Even just on their debut album, Lammendam, the Dutch spread their black wings wide, and afterwards, things just got better and harder. Their music marries the symphonic grandiosity with the graveyard venom of the extreme metal and the petrifying atmosphere of best horror stories. They’ve just returned to us with the EP The Cult of Kariba and… abandon all hope ye who enter here.
Monkey3
Monkeys in space. For a quarter of a century now, the Swiss band have been circling around an orbit only they can reach, combining the cream of the crop of space rock and psychedelics – from Hawkwind to Pink Floyd – with the stoner heaviness and a contemporary sound palette. Their fantastic 2024 album might have been entitled Welcome to the Machine, but soulless machinery could never make such an inspired music.