The Colombian band Eshtadur will have a concert in Sofia today. The venue is Live & Loud Club. The melodic death metal musicians will perform for a second time in Sofia after their appearance as a supporting band at the Batushka concert. Founded in 2005 , they released the demo “Timo Be Timo,” featuring a sound reminiscent of Covenant, Dimmu Borgir, and Old Man’s Child. After the start, they released two EPs and five full-length albums.

The name Eshtadur means “the rebellion of the angels”, and their music has a deep love for poetry, mysticism, and the exploration of existence and cosmogony. The melodic death metal brings an atmosphere of darkness and despair. The band’s style can be compared to Septic Flesh, Behemoth, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Carach Angren, and other similar bands. Eshtadur has developed a strong live presence at the world concert stages. performances in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. After the release of their third album, “Mother Gray” (2017), “The Crows” from Colombia had a tour in eight European countries in 2018 and subsequently visited the United States and Mexico for the first time as part of the “Gray America Tour”. After the release of their fourth album “From the Abyss” (2020), the band toured in 2022 as a supporting act for Batushka and Diabolical, visiting Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland.

In 2023, Eshtadur performed at the “70000 Tons of Metal” festival, followed by a North American tour alongside Summoner’s Circle, with stops in New York, Kentucky, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. After playing 19 shows in the United States, they appeared as special guests at Latin America’s largest music festival, “Rock Al Parque,” supporting In Flames (Sweden). The “Crows” from Colombia had a magnificent concert with the Pereira Symphony Orchestra at the Santiago Londoño Theatre; this performance was subsequently released on pro-tape by Mutilated Records for dedicated collectors. In 2024, the band joined forces with Graveworm for a Latin American tour, visiting Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Colombia. ESHTADUR also performed at the 17th edition of Grita Fest in Manizales, Colombia, serving as a supporting act for Hate and Exodus.

On October 2nd, Eshtadur released their latest album, “In Darkness All Shadows Gone”, which came out in a digital format via Rockshots Records. Now “The Crows” from Colombia will bring their darkness and despair to Europe on their “The Shadow of the Crow” tour, supporting the new album. They will have four concerts in Bulgaria. Tonight is their concert in Sofia, and the support act will be the local band Carcerous. Carcerous is a death metal group formed in 2023 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Their musical style is a blend of death metal with other styles – doom, thrash, black metal, and more. They have released one EP and one full-length album.

The concert will start at 19.30. Tickets will be available at Live & Loud Club’s entrance at a price of 10 EUR.

For all fans of the band, there will be three more dates in Bulgaria:

11.11 – Kazanlak, “Hope Live Club”
15.11 – Varna, “Varna Live Club”
17.11 – Ruse, “Karaoke Star”