Author: Alex de Borba
Alex de Borba
Bogotá, Colombia
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Beyond Creation at Bogotá’s Relevent Music Hall This April
The Montréal technical death metal quartet performs ‘The Aura’ in full at Relevent Music Hall, Bogotá, on April 20 for…
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Spiros Antoniou of Athens Made the Face of Dark Metal
A formally trained Athenian painter, Spiros Antoniou has made his art famous through metal and kept it hidden behind it.
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Marcela Bolívar Grows Colombia From the Inside Out
A digital artist raised in Cali and now based in Germany, Bolívar makes images where Colombian vegetation and gothic darkness…
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Amorphis Descends on Bogotá’s Teatro Astor Plaza in October
Finnish progressive metal’s most mythologically driven force arrives at Teatro Astor Plaza, transforming ancestral grief into communal ritual.
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Vola Brings Catharsis to Bogotá’s 4.40 Music Hall on March 9
On March 9, 2026, Danish-Swedish progressive metal quartet Vola plays Bogotá’s 4.40 Music Hall, fusing Nordic gloom and Andean passion…
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Opeth Engulfs Bogotá’s Teatro Royal Center this November
Swedish gothic storytelling and Bogotá’s deep-seated devotion converge to transform a highly anticipated metal concert into a profound psycho-acoustic ritual.
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Draconian Redefines Melancholy with ‘In Somnolent Ruin’
The return of vocalist Lisa Johansson heralds a new era of darkness as the Swedish doom pioneers weave Platonic philosophy…
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Blindead 23 and the Renaissance Weight of ‘Deuterium’
Mateusz Śmierzchalski transmutes mental collapse into heavy stability on ‘Deuterium,’ fusing raw sludge aggression with crystalline, melodic sound.
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Hecate Enthroned Exhumes the ‘Gallery Of Rotting Portraits’
After seven years, the Cheshire symphonic black metal outfit returns to unearth a ritualized past with a sprawling new opus…
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Nubivagant Sanctifies Historic Théâtre de Denain This March
On March 7, 2026, in Denain, Nubivagant transforms the historic theatre into a temple of silence, merging Gnostic theology with…
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Within Temptation Brings Resistance to Graspop Metal Meeting
On June 18, 2026, in Dessel, Within Temptation transforms the Benelux’s premier metal summit into a stage for geopolitical protest…
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Libyan Queen Lamia’s Ancient Grief Became the Sterile Kiss of Victorian London
A mother’s raw, child-devouring grief was systematically tamed and polished into the Victorian vampire’s sterile, seductive hunger.
