Dordeduh

With 2023 picking Timisoara as an European Capital of Culture and this being the city where I spend most of my time in, I decided to highlight four of our most significant metal exports in a series of interviews, ones that would focus on both the bands themselves and on the scene as a whole; and as we can see, barely managing to sneak their publishing while the year is still ongoing.

Timisoara’s scene is a decently sizeable one, as I hope I was able to showcase with this series, but I’d be lying if I said that most of its appeal abroad wasn’t carried on the backs of one massive musical project, the one that put Romania on the international metal map. One can tell from the multitude of related projects I mentioned in both parts of my “Getting Into: Negură Bunget” article series that there’s a lot in the scene that revolves around the history of this band. Most particularly in the present there is Dordeduh, formed by two of the three members of that band, and one whose place in the current metal world is already standing on its own feet rather than being continuously tied to a band of the past. Edmond Karban, being a member of both of those, as well a recording studio owner, and live concert sound engineer, has quite a thorough grasp on both the history and the present of Timisoara’s place as a cultural hub. We managed to talk both about the bands’ and the place’s history over the course of our interview.