Kenyan metalheads Duma fuse extreme music and club culture as they run nihilistic noise and adrenaline-pumping grindcore through their anxiety-inducing meat grinder. After one of the most intense concerts at this year’s Roskilde Festival, they return to Danish soil this September for a show at Stengade. Son of Seth will open the evening with doom drone and death industrial.

Martin Khanja (aka Lord Spike Heart) and Sam Karugu emerge from Nairobi’s flourishing underground metal scene as former members of the bands Lust of a Dying Breed and Seeds of Datura. Together in 2019 they formed Duma (Darkness in kikuyu) with Sam abandoning bass for production and guitars and Lord Spike Heart providing extreme vocals to the project. Their unique sound fuses the frenetic euphoria, unrelenting physicality and rebellious attitude of hardcore punk and trash metal with bone-crunching breakcore and raw, nihilist industrial noise through a claustrophobic vortex of visceral screams. A sonic aggression of feral intensity with disregard for styles, the duo promises to impact the hungry East African metal scene moving it into totally new, boundary-challenging experimental territories.

We first presented Duma at last year’s Gong Tomorrow festival where they had the concrete walls of Volume shaking, and after a wild reunion at this year’s Roskilde Festival we can’t wait for this duo to make our bones ratte once again.

Danish Son of Seth will open the evening with a cathartic live performance of entangling doom drones mixed with shrieking powerful vocals, straight out Dante’s nine circles of hell.