OLD NIGHT - CROATIA

Pale Cold Irrelevance - 2017 Rain Without End
A Fracture In The Human Soul - 2019 - Rain Without End
Ghost Light - 2022 - Solitude
Mediterranean Melancholy - 2025 - Meuse

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Members
Vocals
Matej Hanžek - IVAN HANŽEK - LUKA PETROVIĆ

Guitar
IVAN HANŽEK - Gate, Castrum, Gorthaur's Wrath, Czaar>>BOJAN FRLAN>>Czaar - Uma Thurman, Uma>>Matej Hanžek>>Uma Thurman, Uma - Nekroza>>RAFAEL CVITKOVIĆ>>Nekroza

Bass
Gorthaur's Wrath, Ashes You Leave>>LUKA PETROVIĆ>>Ashes You Leave

Drum
Strip Forbidden>>NIKOLA JOVANOVIĆ




History & Biography
The act was founded as a Luka Petrovic solo project in Rijeka in 2015. The bassist and drummer Nikola were music judges at an event called RiRock in Rijeka and spotted guitarist Ivan performing. Ivan then brought in his brother to sing.The act was not a solo one as of 2016.

The band's first full-length arrived in the summer of 2017. This was the first of a trilogy of albums for the band. Old Night was booked for a Croatian show called Udar Groma and also the Dark "O" Metal Fest in 2017. 2018 brought a booking for Doom Over Vienna XIII. Ghost Light was supported through a video for the song Cognitive Dissonance. Singer and guitarist Matej Hanžek left at the beginning of 2024. Ivan Hanžek took over the microphone as well and the band recruited guitarist Rafael Cvitković. Croatia-based doom metal group Old Night signed with Meuse Music Records in 2025. An album, called Mediterranean Melancholy, was released on November 21st, 2025. The band had already been billed at Valhalla MUF Festival earlier that year. The group offered a video clip for the song Homebound.

'Old Night' is a deity from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It represents one of the two tenets that Satan encounters.


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