As part of our partnered audience development project NOISS, this year’s NEXT will feature Gravetemple, with a performance on Wednesday, 24 November 2021 in A4 – Space for Contemporary Culture.

Gravetemple is Stephen O’Malley, Oren Ambarchi and Attila Csihar. Formed in 2006 for a one-off tour in Israel, the formation has continued its activities on and off for the past 15 years. On their latest and second official album Impassable Fears (2017) the trio’s aim was “to break boundaries and find new sonic horizons, challenging their current conceptions of human existence via the channels of musical trance”. The result is a shamanic, constantly shifting, sonically oppressive experimental drone-metal record. Ambarchi’s drumming is spasmodic, O’Malley’s guitars earsplitting yet dynamic, and Csihar’s growling, hissing and chanting barely human. This is sonified existential horror, positioned somewhere between raw black metal, free improvisation and drone metal. Brutal, uncompromising, rowdy and metaphysical music. A must-see for fans of both Sunn O))) as well as Haino/Ambarchi/O’Rourke.

NEXT Festival is part of Project NOISS (Norway – Iceland – Slovakia): New Music for New Audiences. Project NOISS received a grant of 192 300 € from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grant scheme. The project was co-funded with an additional 28 845 € from the National Budget of the Slovak Republic. The project’s aims include audience development and capacity and mobility building promoting the values of creativity, artistic freedom and collaboration in contemporary avantgarde music.

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