Winter return: Blindead 23 and Obscure Sphinx on tour together

Two highly anticipated returns, four cities, sixteen rituals. Coming in January, Blindead 23 and Obscure Sphinx are heading to Poland, accompanied by Wija and Crystal.

In 2019, after the release of the album 'Unspring', Blindead disappeared for a few years, only to return in 2024 with material entitled 'Vanishing', or - paradoxically - 'Vanishing'. This is the new incarnation of the group, with a changed line-up and banner: Blindead 23. The only thing that has not changed is their approach to music: they play metal that is exploratory rather than extreme, but total, absorbing the listener completely with a whirlwind of sounds and emotions.

- There are no coincidences. We are returning to the stage at the same time as our friends from Obscure Sphinx. I'm excited to look ahead to this winter tour of ours, and I'm excited to finally share with you what we've been cooking up behind the scenes with Mystic Coalition for the past few months," says Mateusz Smierzchalski, guitarist and frontman of Blindead 23.

Blindead 23 will play this tour with a line-up whose core, besides Mateusz, are Patryk Zwolinski (voice) and Paweł Jaroszewicz (drums), and they will be accompanied on stage by: Roger Öjersson (Katatonia), Maciej Janas (Ketha) and Kuba Mankowski (producer of "Vanishing"). The concert programme includes both new songs and Blindead's 'Affliction', played in its entirety to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the material's release.

Obscure Sphinx were silent for a good few years, and it was a significant silence - fans of darkness shrouded in suffocating melancholy, stretched between doom and post-metal, felt their absence acutely. Fortunately, this is now in the past, as the Warsaw quartet have two fantastic festival gigs behind them, at Summer Dying Loud and Metal Mine, and are working on the follow-up album to 'Epitaphs'.