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The Devil And The Universe is proud to present its latest and third album "Benedicere". The ever-evolving and design-oriented The Devil And The Universe project has a toolbox filled with musical and imagery equipment as provided by all things e.g. religious ...

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Shiv-r - Eye of the Needle

For this release, instead of choosing all the remix artists ourselves, we held a remix competition for the track "Eye of the Needle" and issued the remix kit to the public, offering the talented winner a slot on the official ...

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Me The Tiger - As We Really Are

"As We Really Are", the second single, taken from the album "Vitriolic", is another strong track for the clubs. It has a deeper meaning: It is about that more and more young people are growing up with mental ill-health in an alienage and being ...

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New video from Evestus (News)
Cynical Existence - Echoes (News)
Lord Of The Lost - A Night To Remember (News)
Seraphim System - This Is Invasion (News)
Megaherz - Erdwärts (News)

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Breakdown of Sanity

This coverage is for all those who, hearing the word "metalcore" shudder and change the subject. Since metalcore is not as terrible as it’s presented. And the concert of Breadown of Sanity at Pod Minogą club in Poznan on 29.09.2015 definitely proved it. Clawerfield The first band has it always the taughest, or so it’s said. However the Swiss from Clawerfield couldn’t complain about the lack of response from ...

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Epica and Eluveitie in Cracow

If we are to call out ghosts, let’s do this well… following this idea we’ve decided to spend Halloween evening taking part in a concert. A long awaited performance of two metal gigants, Eluveitie and Epica is taking place precisely on the 31st October at Wisła Hall in Cracow. So we follow the dark and misty way to the nether world… however, before we immerse ourselves into a ‘music maelstrom’ ...

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Japanicon 2015

This year's Japanese Culture Festival was held on 10-11 October 2015. As in the previous year, Japanicon 6 also took place in Zespół Szkół Ogólnokształcących nr 4, im. ks. prof. Józefa Tischnera in Poznan. The location could not be mistaken, because already from some distance could be seen a long line of supporters, who came especially for this event from all over Poland. Some people have arrived the day before, ...

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PYRKON Fantasy Convention (Live reports)
Mlada Fronta - Polygon (Music reviews)
2KM2 - It Was Tough (Music reviews)
Celldweller - Transmissions Vol. 01 (Music reviews)
Sieben - Each Divine Spark (Music reviews)

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Closterkeller: Scarlet - 20 anniversary + tour (Events)
Breakdown Of Sanity in Poznań! (Events)
Warsaw Dark Electro Festival (Events)
Spiritual Front show CANCELED! (Events)
Infest 2016 confirmed! (Events)

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Recent publishing

2016-01-22

Ulver
ATGCLVLSSCAP
(CD)
2016-01-22

Erdling
Aus den Tiefen
(CD)
2016-01-22

Clicks
Glitch Machine
(CD)
2016-01-16

Ost+Front
Ultra
(CD)
2016-01-15

Dubcon
Martian Dub Beacon
(CD)
2016-01-08

Syntec
Puppets & Angels
(CD)
2015-12-20

Claudio Simonetti
's Goblin - Bloody Anthology
(CD)
2015-12-14

Advanced Art
Archive
(2CD)
2015-12-11

New Order
Tutti Frutti
(CDS)
2015-12-08

The Devil And The Universe
Benedicere
(CD)
2015-12-05

Cynical Existence
Echoes
(EP)
2015-12-04

Sunn O)))
Kannon
(CD)
2015-12-04

In Strict Confidence
Exile Paradise - Collected
(3CD)
2015-12-04

Megaherz
Erdwärts
(EP)

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