BULLET CROWNED MUSIC 2024

So, a new contest is here! Now we’re looking for musicians. The prize pool, as before, will be over 1000 euros. It will be: Like with the ART CONTEST 2023, we will coincide the awarding of winners with a sacred date, this time it’s the Summer Solstice, June 22, 2024.  We invite a wide audience […]

MILITANT ZONE – ART CONTEST 2023 – RESULTS

So, it’s time to sum up the results of the most powerful competition! All the participants in the competition are handsome, you managed to show that there is Fresh Blood and it is hot! We are now ready to collaborate with many of the artists from these collections for a long time on ideological and […]

War in Ukraine

From the first day of the full-scale War – February 24, 2022, the MZ team was in the line of Defense of Kyiv – at that moment it seemed to be a truly Tragic and Destiny moment: car columns of fleeing citizens, air raid sirens, missile arrivals and, of course, news from the borders, true and […]

HERETIC FEST II – 2021

Militant Zone as a label and event organizer has been very active in the last years. Iconic Asgardsrei Festival, first started in Moscow, and organized since 2012 is a name of its own and the bands being released on the label are in the avant-garde of ideological black metal underground. Heretic Fest is another initiative organized in […]

SUNWHEEL (POL) “The Iron Age of Strife” (2021) (Militant Zone)

While approaching the review of the newest SUNWHEEL album called “The Iron Age of Strife” I’d propose the readers to take a shorter excursion unto the past of this notable Polish Black Metal formation. This musical entity was born in 1998 under the name of SWASTYKA and originally featured current SUNWHEEL members Piaty (KATAXU, GONTYNA […]

MILITANT STORE IN CENTRAL KIEV

Our brick and mortar Militant Store is ready to welcome guests and supporters from all over Europe! The store is open Thursday – Monday from 12.00 to 20.00 (Friday until 23.00). You can find all our original products as well as official merch, CDs and vinyl records by other labels and bands. To make things easier for everyone we are accepting […]

PACT OF STEEL (CONFERENCE 2016) – WHAT IS MUSIC FOR IN A DESTITUTE TIME?

The first international “Pact of Steel” conference was successfully held in Kiev on December 17, 2016, the day prior to the Asgardsrei V fest. A fruitful synthesis between arts and metapolitics, the conference laid the foundation for future studies of the ideocratic, worldview-shaping potential of Black Metal in response to the sociocultural challenges of today. […]

RELIGION IN BLACK METAL – AN EMPTY THREAT (EN, RU)

RELIGION IN BLACK METAL  The anti-Christian sentiment that permeates the contemporary Black Metal scene reveals weaknesses in its own belief system. It has been over a century now since Christianity lost its influence and power in Europe and, more generally, in the Western World. Christianity no longer constitutes an important part of social life, which […]