The decision came faster than we expected. At the moment, it is already clear that keeping the festival dates in late May is too great a risk. Airlines have started canceling flights for this period of time, and we cannot READ MORE
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Metal East: Нове Коло 2019 | Official Aftermovie
3 days, 21 bands from 8 countries, 14 Meet & Greet and thousands of autographs, Two dozen of art events, And, of course, hundreds of You – visitors from different parts of the World. That’s what Metal East: Нове Коло READ MORE
Primordial [Ireland]
The time for the final musical announcement for the 2020 edition of the festival has come. This is the band that expresses the inexorable movement of the wheel of history through their unique brand of epic metal – PRIMORDIAL from READ MORE
Nokturnal Mortum [Ukraine]
The next announcement in line is predictable for many of you but at the same time is very special. Almost quarter of the century ago the godfathers of Ukrainian pagan black metal Nokturnal Mortum created one of their most praised READ MORE
GreyAblaze [Ukraine]
GREYABLAZE is a project formed by Astargh (also in ELDERBLOOD, ex-NOKTURNAL MORTUM) in 2013 with support of other experienced Kharkiv musicians. It released eponymous full-length record in 2016. The five songs from the album were a five steps to cold READ MORE
Necrom [Ukraine]
Old school death metal brigade NECROM was formed in 2018 by experienced musicians from some of the best Ukrainian underground metal bands. In 2019 they released short demo record “The Light Has Never Been Here” and tamed Metal East Nove READ MORE
Kampfar [Norway]
We proudly welcome to the festival the voice of Norwegian fjords – KAMPFAR! Since debut demo record in 1995 and their first full-length album in 1997 they have been demonstrating how to create true northern black metal with usage of READ MORE
Rippikoulu [Finland]
Sometimes they are back – bands, which never were a “stars” inside the large metalhead community, but gained cult recognition among the circles of die-hard underground maniacs. RIPPIKOULU are a perfect example of such story. Only a couple of demos READ MORE
Sinister [Netherlands]
We gladly welcome to fest line-up the death metal veterans from Netherlands, SINISTER. Experience is their second name – after formation in 1988 they created huge discography, survived simply countless line-up changes, split-up and reunion. However they have been keeping READ MORE
Master [USA]
Straight from the times when extreme metal had been recently born and was a bestial voice of working class youth of Europe and both Americas comes indestructible Paul Speckmann with his cult creature – Master. The feast of old school READ MORE