Melodic black metal is probably the closest generic label you could put on Negurǎ Bunget, but somehow it doesn’t feel completely adequate.
The band hails from Romania, and the name translates from ancient Romanian to “black foggy forest”, and it wasn’t hard to see that this was the kind of atmosphere they were going for.

For unknown reasons, Negurǎ Bunget had changed their playtime from the day before to instead open the Main Stage here on the Monday.
We went to see them as they had been recommended to us by one of our neighbours at the campsite as an interesting live-band. I’d say this was true from one perspective, and from another it wasn’t as much...
Visually, the band was intriguing, with their forest dweller garments and unconventional collection of instruments, ranging from (excluding the normal instruments here) shamanic drums, pan- and several other forms of flutes, a xylophone and a stringed up wooden plank (!).
However, the show itself left me wanting, as there wasn’t much liveliness to be found in the musicians, and they even ended up playing with their backs to the audience every time they made use of their strange instruments.

The midsized crowd was in return also very calm, although I’d say the music was more inspiring for sitting down and meditating than it was for starting up a moshpit. At times the atmosphere reminded me somewhat of that which Opeth conjures when they enter their calmer mode.

I am sure the band played really well and all, but in the warm daylight it was hard to get into the right atmosphere, resulting in Negurǎ Bunget missing their mark.