Asphyx — Running Free Festival, 2025

In 2025, Dutch band Asphyx performed at the Running Free Festival in Bulgaria. A major death-doom outfit since the late 1980s, Asphyx is renowned for its heavy sound, crawling tempos and the cavernous voice of Martin van Drunen, one of the most recognisable singers in European death metal. Filmed in concert, this live capture conveys the full power of a brutal, uncompromising stage set, between massive riffs, crushing doom passages and death-metal accelerations. This live concert film testifies to the longevity and intransigence of a cult band, still faithful to an underground aesthetic and a ferocious live energy. Before a crowd of metal festival-goers, Asphyx unfolds a repertoire built for the stage, where heaviness vies with speed. For lovers of old-school death metal, this full concert offers a convincing demonstration of what built Asphyx’s reputation: extreme, direct and visceral metal, captured close to the fury of the stage.