September 24 opening for JESU in Sofia as Born Erased

September 2026 is straight up insane. Just two days after we open for Merzbow with Shentov & Lukanov in Sofia, I'll be opening for Justin Broadrick's JESU, a project I've never even dreamed of seeing live in Bulgaria. Thanks to the efforts of Threechord Record Store, he's coming to town, and I'll have the honor of supporting him by playing music from my latest musical project, Born Erased. I hope to see some of you there.

Born Erased live by Niya Kirkova

Get your tickets here.

Expectations 2026 - new album and Balkan tour with Madball, Combust and Desolated in October

The title says it all, but I'm glad to say that after 15 years, Expectations still have what to say. Our new album is coming in September, and in October we're heading on tour with NYC kings Madball, Combust, and Desolated. We're playing some of our favorite cities, so I hope to see as many friends as possible!

Expectations 2026 shot by Zlatina Tochkova.

September 22 opening for Merzbow with our drone trio Shentov, Simitchiev, Lukanov at Toplocentrala, Sofia

Yeah, you read that right: noise legend Merzbow is coming to Bulgaria for the first time, and we'll be opening the show with the drone trio Shentov, Simitchiev, Lukanov. This is happening at Toplocentrala, Sofia, as part of their LIMINAL/TETZA concert series curated by Nikola Nikolov of ТДК fame, and we're eternally grateful for the invite. 

Get your tickets here: https://payment.toplocentrala.bg/program/977

Shentov, Simitchiev, Lukanov shot by Zlatina Tochkova

July 4, 2026 playing a collab set with Chavdar Manolchev (Crowfish, Outrage, Indignty) at НУЛА, Varna

The Next show I'm playing is at НУЛА, Varna, on July 4. I'll be doing a collaborative set with long-time friend and big inspiration, multi-instrumentalist Chavdar Manolchev (Crowfish, Indignity, Outrage). While our hardcore punk bands have shared the bill multiple times, this is the first time we'll be actually playing together. I love collaborating with friends, and I hope this show will take our music somewhere it's never been before. Also on the bill of the show are Nikolay Stanchev's Autonomaton and Eyal Talmor. It's a free donation show, so don't miss it if you're around Varna. 

RSVP here: https://facebook.com/events/1732770294515478

Born Erased at Kolonia, Gdansk for ate's 10th anniversary

This month, I'll be returning to Poland after way too many years to present my latest project, Born Erased. The occasion is the 10th anniversary of ate, the solo project of my dear friend and tour mate Petar Petkov, whose first releases under this name appeared on Amek Collective. I'm glad to be sharing opening duties with Galuschka. All friends in Poland, hope you join us on this journey!

RSVP here: https://facebook.com/events/1667302047827463

Expectations opening for Knocked Loose alongside Last Hope

On May 11 we're opening for Knocked Loose with Expectations alongside Sofia hardcore legends Last Hope. It's an open-air show. Louisville's finest are on top of their game, so it'll be one for the books. Get your tickets here and see you at Vidas Art Arena, Sofia. We start at 19:00 sharp.

OOHS! & Dayin opening for Jarboe & Joy Von Spain in Sofia on May 25

I’ve never missed a Jarboe show in Bulgaria, and even though I’m bummed out Thor Harris won’t be making it to Sofia for the first time, I’m beyond grateful to Threechord Record Store for not only putting this one together but also inviting Maxim Mokdad (of OOHS! fame) and me (as Dayin) to open this concert.

OOHS! & Dayin, photo by Tom Kirk.

That's going to be our second show together after playing with Kayo Dot last year, right after releasing our collaborative track, “And To Him We Will Return (Grasping Air).”

Get your tickets here while they last.

April 2026 Born Erased show in Bulgaria

It's been over 4 months since Cyclic Law released my second Born Erased full-length, Birds Drink My Blood, and I still haven't presented the music on it live in its entirety. That changes in April with two shows I'll be playing in Sofia and Varna. I hope to see some of you there.

If you still haven't checked out Birds Drink My Blood, press play below.

The shows are as follows.

April 17 at Fabrika Avtonomia, Sofia. Poster by Diana Bunkin.
RSVP here: https://facebook.com/events/813543901169844

April 18 at НУЛА, Varna. RSVP here: https://facebook.com/events/1240503944859386

Born Erased "Birds Drink My Blood" out on December 4 via Cyclic Law

Still can't quite comprehend that my new album as BORN ERASED is released by the legendary ambient and industrial label Cyclic Law. I'm eternally grateful to them for believing in this record, and I'd also like to thank two of my personal heroes in atmospheric electronic music, Mondkopf & Vanity Productions, for being a part of it. Without Silvana Ilieva (artwork), Georgi Sharov (layout) & Marius Costache (mastering), I wouldn't be able to present this work as I envisioned it. 

Order on CD/DL at Bandcamp.

Birds Drink My Blood is the second full-length album from Born Erased, the latest solo venture of Bulgarian musician Angel Simitchiev. Conceived as a meditation on nature’s brutal beauty, the album channels the relentless flow of the natural world, its internal hierarchies, and the unseen forces that shape it. Electronic instrumentation forms the foundation of the record, marking this as the closest Born Erased has come to the final works released under Simitchiev’s now-retired Mytrip alias. 

Where I Am The End Of The World (BLWBCK, 2023) relied on the tension between acoustic drums, distorted guitars, and ambient electronics, Birds Drink My Blood turns inward, placing its focus firmly on electronic expression. Across six pieces, the music moves between stillness and intensity, occupying a space where fragile motifs and submerged power coexist. 

Born Erased once again opens the door to collaboration. French electronic artist Mondkopf contributes his intricate synth work to the track “Unmade,” while Denmark’s Vanity Productions brings his signature melancholy-drenched feedback and noise experiments to the abrasive “Dead Sun Emblem.” These collaborative tracks enhance the album’s contrasts, highlighting moments of interplay between guest interventions and Born Erased’s core sound. 

Birds Drink My Blood stands as a vivid reflection of a world where grace and violence remain inseparably entwined, and where collaboration amplifies the tension between beauty and brutality.

See the video for 'Voider', the opening track of the album, below.

October & November shows

Here are a few gigs I'll be playing this Autumn, I'll be updating as they are announced so keep an eye and hopefully catch you somewhere. 

On October 9th, Martin Lukanov and I are bringing mother spit back from its two-year-long slumber. It's been a while since we played together, and this won't be a recurrent event. So, see you at Fabrika Avtonomia for the screening of Jason Papperiella's An Observance of Absence and a live set by my long-time friend Fliessgewasser.

RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/1825589084711672

On November 6, I'll be playing brand new Dayin material and some bits from my latest full-length album Meditations on Forgetting (Mahorka, 2025) on the second day of this year's Sofia Experimental Festival. That's taking place at Goethe Institut Bulgaria.

RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/840199971665272

On November 20, playing at Mesmeric Club in Sofia, as part of Vague Voices, our duo with Stefan Batchvarov (Cyberian), alongside local heroes Evitceles, LATE & IC1101. The entry is at half price for noise heads under 22 y.o. Don't miss out.

RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/842500655001814/

August & September shows

If anyone is still checking this place out and/or gives a damn, here are a few shows I'll be playing these next few weeks with various projects.

Aug 29 TON 618, Varna under my own name in good company
RSVP here: https://facebook.com/events/1502395537584248/ 

Sept 4 Singles, Sofia as Dayin in a duo set with OOHS! before Kayo Dot
Get your tickets here: https://epaygo.bg/2362243715

Sept 20 Kapana, Plovdiv with Expectations
Get your tickets here: https://ticketstation.bg/bg/p5357-10-years-kapana

Dayin "Inert World" EP & Diminished Vigor video

I do realize 2024 ended with a new release of my trio with Martin Lukanov and Ivan Shentov, and at the beginning of the new year, I dropped two new tapes, one of which was Dayin material too, but it's been a tough job trying to keep all this music buried on my hard drive, so here's another little digital-only Dayin EP. Inert World consists of four quiet (by my standards) ambient tracks dedicated to a world that won't stop screaming. I hope you find some peace within it.

Inert World is available only on Bandcamp as a name-your-price download.

Below, you can also stream the video for Dimishied Vigor, the second track off the EP.

Born Erased opening for Acid Mothers Temple on May 25 at Pave Club, Sofia

After a memorable show with long-time favorite Croatian Amor and AKA HEX, I'll be back at Pave Club in Sofia for a Born Erased performance with Nedy Miladinov on drums alongside legendary psychedelic collective ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE. 

Photo by Niya Kirkova during Sofia Underground 2025 by Synaesthesia Collective

Get your tickets here: https://epaygo.bg/4054456613

Photo by Niya Kirkova during Sofia Underground 2025 by Synaesthesia Collective

Dayin - Meditations On Forgetting CS out now on Mahorka

Meditations On Forgetting, my new album as Dayin was released today on the legendary Bulgarian label Mahorka.

Order at Bandcamp.

"Meditations on Forgetting" is the second Dayin release on Mahorka, after the extended cassette reissue "Warm Like Crystal Throats" in 2023. It was inspired by the unexpected and unstoppable process of memory loss. "Meditations on Forgetting" was created to honor the souls slipping away from the world they built from themselves. A transition that is equally scary and intriguing. One can only hope there are other, more beautiful and worthy realms beyond.

Artwork by Silvana Ilieva

Born Erased opening four shows for Crowfish in February

This February I'm opening four shows around Bulgaria as Born Erased for one of my favorite local bands Crowfish who not only recently reunited but released a brand new EP. All shows are with 4?, another amazing Bulgarian band that hasn't played live for quite some time. Hope to see you somewhere! I'll be playing pretty much different sets everywhere.

07/02 Mixtape 5, Sofia

08/02 Download, Plovdiv w/ Nedy Miladinov on drums

21/02 Block 14, Ruse

22/02 Rubik, Varna

Waning End "Moving Houses" CS out on Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere

Head diving into 2025 with a new record created in collaboration with one of my favorite musicians and released on one of my favorite labels. 

Order on cassette or digital at Bandcamp.

Amongst the dust and sealed windows a key is laid bare to unlock the forgotten and reanimate reality. A garden of solitary reminiscence opens up as a gleaming tunnel, confronting visions of a derelict Eden. 

Moving Houses is the debut collaborative effort of Niels Geybels & Angel Simitchiev under the name Waning End. It was created in an intuitive and impulsive exchange of sounds, ideas, and recollections. The process spanned within just a few months but was inspired by a lifelong fascination with nostalgia, with the urge to retrace what we leave behind or find along the way. Waning End was a means to revisit places that are no longer 'ours' but that made us who we are today. 

On the surface, Moving Houses builds a world where abandonment and emptiness reign supreme but the closer you listen the more you recognize the echoes of your own looping memories, saturated images, and fading presences of (not so) distant moments in time. Waning End embraces the past and orchestrates its fragile debris in a glacially paced, densely textural musical experience that welcomes you not only as a spectator but as a participant.

Artwork by Niels Geybels 

Mastered by Marius Costache

Expectations July 2024

 Playing Exit Festival (Novi Sad, Serbia) and Hills of Rock (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) in July with Expectations. 

Photo by Stella Gocheva

Dayin "Aching Halo" EP & "Wings Filled With Water" (video)

I'm happy to share a new Dayin digital-only EP, a follower of last year's Mahorka cassette reissue of my previous self-released material. Below you'll find both the Bandcamp link (no other streaming options for this one) and a video I put together for the closing track.

Aching Halo is available on Bandcamp as a name-your-price download.

"When marshes become deserts the ruins of our hands will blossom again."

Thanks for still listening and caring.

Кадзе (premiere June 13, 2024)

After contributing sound design to Metheor Collective's "Дарума" back in 2021, I'm happy to share "Кадзе". Its somewhat spiritual successor premieres on June 13 at Sofia's Lumiere Cinema. Find your tickets here.

Born Erased "I Am The End Of The World" CS

The debut album of my new music endeavor Born Erased has been just released. "I Am The End Of The World" dropped on November 17 via my beloved and freshly restarted tape label BLWBCK. Find more info about the album below. It's streaming everywhere but consider scoring a cassette while they last.

Order on tape & digital.

I Am The End of The World is the first offering of Born Erased, a new endeavor by Bulgarian musician Angel Simitchiev, who first appeared on BLWBCK in 2013 with his now-defunct alias Mytrip. As both the project name and album title suggest, the music is meant to evoke bleaker, darker, and even dystopian visions. These are parts of a narrative that is simultaneously deeply personal and universal. Muted anger, despise, and hatred for the world collide with hope for freedom, even if it comes at the cost of the total eradication of the reality we are forced to live in. 

I Am The End of The World took nearly three years to be completed. The backbone of the record was written in a breath but then slowly structured and expanded upon. In this album, Simitchiev juxtaposes his nearly two decades' worth of ambient research with his long involvement in hardcore punk. Severely deformed guitars, cavernous synths, and drastically manipulated recordings of heavy machinery are organically intertwined to become the core of the album. A big part of why it is so impactful is that the gates were open for several guest musicians who added even more depth and character to a record already highly dense with sound. Moss Harvest (tape manipulation and textures) and V0LAND (cello) are found on two of the more straightforward ambient tracks in the album. Shattering, almost doom-influenced live drums on three of the tracks have been performed by Boris Malevanov (Nocktern, Heptagram) which brings this otherwise fragile and drifting genre to its most extreme form.

© Silvana Ilieva

Written & recorded by Angel Simitchiev between 2020-2023 

Noise and textures on track 1 by Moss Harvest 

Drums on tracks 2, 5, and 7 by Boris Malevanov 

Cello on track 3 by Symeon Yovev (V0LAND)

Drums recorded by Mihail Slavov (Wind City Studio)

Mixed & mastered by Marius Costache (Studio 148)

Artwork by Silvana Ilieva (silvanailieva.com)

Layout by Romain Barbot (iamsailor.com)