All posts by Lucifer

Last February, the British Doom metal masters ESOTERIC were in Lisbon to headline the second day of Under the Doom Fest. We had the chance to have a pleasant chat with them, led mostly by Greg and Mark. With more than twenty years of extreme metal to cover… Paragon of Dissonance by Esoteric Hi guys. [...]

Altare Productions will hold the credits for another Portuguese Black Metal debut: ORDEM SATANICA’s first album “Ventos de Ódio” will hit the streets next 1st May and the artwork and setlist can be seen below. This new project counts with some established names of the Portuguese BM scene and has already seen its first live presentation [...]

In a weekend with an other event claiming the spotlights of the media attention, we kept faithful to our convictions and drove to Benavente for a night where an appealing line-up was ahead of us. INFRA were the ones with opening credits and started not much after the scheduled hour. They occupy an unparallel seat [...]

American bestial metal outfit HOWLS OF EBB (HoB) will see it’s second full lenght out next 15th April through I, Voidhanger Records. Now a vinyl edition is also confirmed for 15th May. The release of “Cursus Impasse – The Pendlomic Vows” is a joint venture by I, Voidhanger Records (CD), Nuclear War Now! (LP), and Caligari (cassette). It [...]

The Finnish act is back after their first and only release (“Blood For Satan”) in the distant year of 2001. Back then, the band were monikered simply Black Dawn before a no-name American band threatened legal action and forced a change to True Black Dawn. But brief moments after True Black Dawn just disappeared. Whispers of activity abounded, but nothing [...]

German obscure Death Metal masters NECROS CHRISTOS have been carving a distinctive mark in underground heavy music since their beginning. Fifteen years of desecration have passed and they keep faithful to their own thought, on the verge of a second show in Portuguese soil, scheduled for next 4th March in Side B Benavente. Take a [...]

Two of Portugal’s most nastiest Black Metal acts are spliting a tape through War Arts Productions. Ruach Raah meets Ordem Satânica. The launch date is set for 18th March and is entitled Tradição Decadente (English: “Decadent tradition”), featuring three songs from both hordes, Tradição Decadente  sees  RUACH RAAH continuing down the path of mid-paced primitivism hailing Satan and death, all [...]

Swedish Black metal band VALKYRJA has announced that they’ve part ways with now former vocalist A.L., and found a quick replacement: RSDX. The Hell Militia and Weltbrand’s frontman will take control of the vocals during the almost comming US tour in support of bestial Archgoat. This change is said to be aplicable also to the european [...]

Sweden’s cult Sludge band CULF OF LUNA will have a new album this year. “Mariner”, their eight full length, will represent a collaboration with Battle of Mice’s former frontwoman Julie Christmas, and is expected to have its official release the 8th of April, through Indie Recordings. As the pre-orders start exactly today we leave with [...]

Icelandic newspaper The Reykjavík Grapevine has issued an extended article covering the surpringly influent local Black metal scene. In a piece entitled “Welcome To The Circle – Meet The Men Behind Iceland’s Thriving Black Metal Scene”, several testimonies from the guys that are shaping new faces in the contemporary extreme musical panorama. Interviews with bands such as [...]

Portuguese occult Doom act DEAD PROCESSION will see its debut full length hit international landscapes next 1st March, through Labyrinth Productions, a sub-label of Altare Productions. This first long-run effort is entitled “Rituais e Mantras do Medo”, and the advance first song (“Percorrendo os Caminhos da Noite”) is now available for free listening at this location. [...]

Dutch black metal cult FOLTERAAR have premiere their new track “Mijn verlossing” at heavily trafficked web-portal InvisibleOranges.com. The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, “Vertellingen van een donkere eeuw”, set for international release on February 26th via Iron Bonehead Productions. You can listen to this track at this location. A rather primitive and bestial [...]

Notre Damme productions has announced the support bands for next 2nd March DESTROYER 666 gig. They are Portuguese veterans NEOPLASMAH and national newcomers ORDEM SATANICA. This concert comes as a warm-up for the European tour the Australians will endure alongside bestial Swiss outfit Bolzer. The Black/Thrash attack is scheduled to start at 21.00 at RCA, [...]

Lisbon based festival UNDER THE DOOM has now its band bill oficcially closed. After PANTHEIST’s cancellation, Notre Damme Productions have just unveilled the last two bands for the event: National funeral doomsters CARMA, presenting their self titled 2015 album and newcomers MY MASTER THE SUN debutting their psychedelic sludge. Both bands will enlarge the second day [...]