Band of the week 19/2025
Origin:Warsaw/Masovia, Poland/Belarus
Genre: Depressive-/Post Black Metal
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The band about itself:
„Hangover in Minsk was founded with a hangover after Dark Easter Metal Meeting 2024 festival. It started as jokes about depressive beer metal during a 12-hour drive from Munich to Warsaw. The musicians of Dymna Lotva couldn’t agree on what to listen to on the bus in such a condition, so they decided to create suitable music …“
Editorial commentary:
Between smoke, intoxication and rebellion – a debut that burns
I had the rare fortune of attending Hangover in Minsk’s very first live performance – at the Dark Easter Metal Meeting 2025. The year before, the musicians had played there with their main project Dynma Lotva – a dark, atmospheric black metal act known for its deeply sad sound language. The fact that this developed into a side project with the tongue-in-cheek name Hangover in Minsk piqued my curiosity. Without any great expectations, without a clue as to what to expect, I descended into the club at Backstage Munich – and was taken completely by surprise.
No sacred aesthetics, no forest sounds, no samples from ancient Russian chronicles – instead, the gig began with two people sitting on the stage floor. A crate of beer next to them. The singer and the drummer clinked glasses, raised the bottle as if it were the most natural thing in the world, and then casually began a set that turned out to be an emotional borderline experience.
The performance was a feverish dance between pain and ecstasy. At the center: the singer – sometimes clutching the microphone, wailing, screaming as if she had to tear her throat out, sometimes whirling light-footedly and detachedly across the stage as if there was no heaviness in this world. The break between these states came without warning – surreal, grotesque, almost bizarre. In one of these moments, she tipped a bottle of water over her white top, revealing a Dark Throne shirt – an image somewhere between irony, defiance and a deep bow to the genre.
The second half of the performance took a drastic turn. With Gui from Thy Light a guest singer entered the stage and took on the role of an aggressive partner. Chains were placed around the singer’s wrists – symbolizing oppression and patriarchal violence. The performance developed into a musical duet that oscillated between dominance and resistance. Only after two songs did she symbolically break her shackles. The two singers reconciled at the end, but the aftertaste remained – painful and deliberate. This depiction of patriarchal power structures in a black metal setting was disturbing, courageous and – this much can be said – unique.
Hangover in Minsk made a strong, unforgettable statement with their first appearance: in favor of radical emotionality, subversive performance and a conscious expansion of the black metal canon. What was on offer here was not just music, but a scenic statement – raw, political, disturbingly beautiful.
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Band of the week is our weekly posting about a band we recommend and is posted every Tuesday at 8pm (CEST). These are bands that are just at the beginning of their career and that we think should receive more attention.
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