“Blackbraid” Concert

Blackbraid Brings Black Metal With Deep Roots to Poblenou
Blackbraid plays his first-ever Spanish show at Razzmatazz 3 in Poblenou on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, and this Blackbraid Barcelona date is the only stop on his European tour where you can catch him this year. Doors open and the set starts at 7:00 PM. If you know black metal only as blast beats and corpse paint, this project asks you to rethink the genre entirely.
Who Is Blackbraid
Blackbraid is the solo project of Jon Krieger, who performs under the stage name Sgah’gahsowáh — Mohawk for “the wizard hawk.” Krieger is a multi-instrumentalist of Indigenous North American descent, and he writes, records, and performs almost everything himself. His music draws on the Adirondack wilderness where he grew up, weaving Indigenous spirituality and imagery into a sound built from raw, atmospheric black metal. Two albums in, he has become one of the more distinctive voices in a genre that rarely makes room for identity this specific.
Black metal has a long, uncomfortable history with nationalism and exclusion, particularly in its Scandinavian roots. Blackbraid pushes in the opposite direction. The project centers a specific Indigenous American identity and history without softening the genre’s intensity to do it, which is part of why it has drawn attention well beyond the usual metal press.
What to Expect
Razzmatazz 3 is one of the smaller rooms inside the larger Razzmatazz complex, a multi-hall venue that has hosted Barcelona’s heavier and more underground shows for years. Because Krieger records solo but tours with a full band, expect a wall of sound that the album versions only hint at. The set should lean on material tied to Blackbraid’s core themes: land, ancestry, and the natural world treated as sacred rather than scenic.
This is not a festival slot or a support set. It is a headline show in a room built for the genre, so the sound will carry the weight the songs are written for.
When and Where
The show happens on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, with doors and the performance starting at 7:00 PM. Razzmatazz 3 sits at Carrer dels Almogàvers 122, in Poblenou — the neighbourhood just east of the city centre that has grown into one of Barcelona’s main hubs for live music and nightlife. The nearest metro stops are Bogatell (L4) and Marina (L1), both roughly five to ten minutes on foot.
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Poblenou’s old industrial buildings now hold clubs, galleries, and venues like Razzmatazz side by side, so a night out here rarely means just one stop.
The Room Matters
Razzmatazz built its reputation on club nights and mid-size touring shows, and Razzmatazz 3 is where the venue puts its heavier bookings. The room is smaller than the main Razzmatazz hall, which keeps the sound tight instead of swallowed by a cavernous space. Blackbraid’s music leans on atmosphere as much as riffs, and a tighter room lets that atmosphere carry to the back wall instead of dissolving before it gets there.
Tickets
Tickets are sold exclusively through madnesslive.es, the promoter behind the show. Advance tickets cost €25, while the door price rises to €30, so buying ahead is the better deal once the date is set.
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Why It’s Worth Going
Touring bands rarely skip Spain entirely, but plenty of underground metal acts do, and Blackbraid’s 2026 European run makes Barcelona the only Spanish date. That alone makes this a rare booking. Beyond the novelty, though, Blackbraid’s music does something genuinely uncommon in the genre: it treats Indigenous identity as the whole point rather than an aesthetic borrowed for atmosphere. Krieger writes from a specific place and a specific history, and that specificity is what gives the songs their force.
If you already follow black metal, this is a first Spanish appearance you won’t get another easy chance to see. If you don’t, it’s still a good entry point, because the songs are melodic enough to follow even when the genre is new to you.
Getting There and Practical Notes
Arrive with time to spare. Razzmatazz shows often start close to the listed time, and doors and showtime are the same here, at 7:00 PM. Poblenou has plenty of bars and restaurants nearby if you want dinner first, and the metro runs late enough on a Tuesday to get you home without trouble.
Ticket and schedule details from madnesslive.es, verified July 2026.