It is Saturday evening, the day before International Women’s Day, and I am going to bed early. More precisely, I will drive to bed tonight. 'Das Bett' – German for 'bed' – is the venue where we will be enjoying ourselves instead of getting too much sleep: Manntra from Croatia are on their Titans Tour, supported by German goth-dark metalists Wisborg.
Today, 12th February 2026, just before the escalating final of street carnival, we meet at Colos-Saal for something completely different. Colos-Saal is a club with a capacity of around 600 people, and is located very centrally in Aschaffenburg, close to the railway station. We experience two remarkable, even though very different German bands in a quite sold-out concert tonight. Welcome to the tour kick-off of Nachtblut's Todschick Tour Part II!
If you are a fan of Dark and/or Gothic Metal, you have probably heard of Mono Inc. Now Martin Engler, Katha Mia, Carl Fornia and Val Perun are back with a real gem of a tour, their second symphonic tour. It takes Mono Inc. and their orchestral ensemble through 18 German cities and mostly unique venues like the Christuskirche in Bochum, Bad Elster’s König Albert Theater, or St. Matthäus in Munich and many more.
The show was a blast. I can only recommend to check the dates, get a ticket while they are available and go to the show. It is well worth your time and money. I personally believe that next time I will see Manntra in a bigger venue, they are rising and rising and they deserve all their success because it is the result of hard work.
Are you ready for some really different metal? It is not industrial metal and it is not gothic metal. Neither is it power metal nor symphonic metal. Instead, it is a unique mix of all these genres combined with a good portion of folk metal, folkloric Croatian influences and catchy melodies! Welcome to Manntra's War Of The Heathens presented by NoCut Entertainment!
Meet Kimmo Korhonen, main creative force of Solacide, but as guitarist known also from Waltari, Amberian Dawn or Barren Earth (live). He and Matti Jauhola founded Solacide as teenagers in 1996. But Kimmo tells us also about his other and former bands, how they work and what he learned from playing with them.