Dara, a project from Timisoara, Romania, featuring Fulmineos and Inia Dinia of Argus Megere and ex-Negură Bunget, will release its second album this Winter Solstice, 21st of December, through Loud Rage Music. The album is titled "Și Glia Luă Nume" (Romanian for "And The Land Took Name").

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Band profile:	Dara

After two consecutive postponements, it seems like the odds are finally in Rockstadt Extreme Fest's favor for 2022. While we can only hope that there will be no further postponements, the festival has finally filled all the "TBA" spots in its lineup:

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Event:	Rockstadt Extreme Fest 2022

Romanian folk metal band E-an-na has already proven its desire to break outside of the folk metal norms with their previous EP, the tango Fascinathanatango EP, and now they released a surprise EP that mixes modern metal and Eastern European traditional music. M.L.R. was released on the 29th of September along with a music video for the track "Malere", which features guest vocals from Bogdan Muşuroia (stylized as "Bogdan de la Vâlcea").

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Band profile:	E-an-na

Guitarist of Romanian heavy metal and hard rock band Cargo, Adrian Bărar, who has been part of the band since the 1980s, has sadly passed away after a few weeks in the hospital.

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After previously getting booted from their previous label, Season Of Mist, after court files regarding frontman Dagon's involvement with child pornography came to light, it seems that Inquisition have found a new label in Agonia Records, which have released their new album, Black Mass For A Mass Grave, on the 20th of November. Now the label is defending that decision.

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Band profile:	Inquisition

Robert Cotoros, the man behind the one-man project The Bipolar Disorder Project, has tragically passed away in the hospital yesterday. He has also been a member of Hteththemeth and has worked with, produced and guested on works by several other bands including E-an-na and Karmic Thread, among others not listed on this website.

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Band profile:	The Bipolar Disorder Project

Romanian folk metallers Dirty Shirt would likely had celebrated their 25th anniversary with something more bombastic, but considering current events, one open air concert will have to suffice. The event will take place on the 25th of September, at the Arenele Romane in Bucharest, Romania.

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Event:	Dirty Shirt - 25 Dirty Years: Pandemic Special

While the festival as a whole had to be postponed for 2021, when it hopefully will be able to take place, a few Roadburn related and promoted livestreams have been announced, some of which on Instagram.

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Event:	Roadburn 2021

With the current COVID-19 pandemic and the Netherlands' decision to ban public events, it was clear that this year's Roadburn Festival would not take place as planned. Now the question of when it will and whether tickets and other purchases will remain available has been answered.

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Roadburn 2021

With the recent April Fools' Bad English saga of first pretending that he is permabanned and then that his English skills are a gimmick, we've had second thoughts after seeing a fair deal of people take the second seriously because it was posted on April 2nd instead of April 1st. We felt a bit guilty about continuing the joke after April Fools', so we decided to come clean about Bad English.

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After many batches of festival lineup announcements, Roadburn Festival finally announced the "final" running order. We say "final" because there are still some surprise sets that will only be announced during the festival. So if you plan on coming, get your highlighter and start planning.

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Event:	Roadburn 2021

You read that right, Lee Buford of The Body, Kristin Hayter of Lingua Ignota and Dylan Walker of Full Of Hell are coming together under the name of Sightless Pit and are to release their debut album, Grave Of A Dog, on the 21st of February 2020. One song is already streaming and you can listen to it below.

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Sightless Pit

It was a surprise last month when Children Of Bodom announced the end of the current lineup, with Henkka, Janne and Jaska announcing their departure, and with a last show being played on the 15th of December at Helsinki Ice Hall. Now with a Facebook post they confirmed that they are in ownership of the Children Of Bodom brand.

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Adam "Nergal" Darski of Behemoth posted a picture of one of his demos from a previous band, Centaur, on his Instagram, after going through his tapes, which also included extra demo masters from back in the day, which will prompt a new series of reissues of the back catalog with "massive bonus content, both audio and aesthetics!" The first of these will be ...And The Forests Dream Eternally, coming sometimes May 2020.

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Band profile:	Behemoth

Unreqvited will release their follow-up to 2018's Mosaic I: L'amour Et L'ardeur, titled Mosaic II: La Déteste Et La Détresse, on the 10th of January through Prophecy Productions. We now get a new song, "Pale", from the upcoming output, which you can listen to below.

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Band profile:	Unreqvited