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Godiva announce EXCLUSIVE concert in the special Halloween night at Hard Rock Cafe Porto. After an unprecedented concert at Vagos Metal Fest where accompanied by an orchestra of about 50 musicians on stage, Godiva now announce a more intimate performance after an invitation by Hard Rock Café of Porto for a special Halloween night where [...]

After having confirmed the desired return to Portuguese stages of SYSTEM OF A DOWN, headliners of the first day of the 2020 edition, at the VOA – HEAVY ROCK FESTIVAL, Prime Artists now announces the performance of KORN on the same day and BRING ME THE HORIZON, headliners on the second and last day. One [...]

Laurus Nobilis will take place at V. N. de Famalicão on July 23rd~25th of 2020. Italian gothic metal icons Lacuna Coil have been confirmed for 2020 edition of Laurus Nobilis Music Famalicão. Also confirmed are Venom Inc., Polish death metal machine Hate, Portuguese veiled entities Gaerea and melodic death metal Moonshade, also from Portugal. Ticket [...]

BLACK BONE NATION frontman Zakk Styles has revealed in a new interview that the band is currently in the studio recording what is presumably the band’s long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s self-titled “Black Bone Nation” EP album, aptly titled “Born To Rock”. He stated that the band has written close to 13 new songs for its [...]

System Of  A Down are returning to the stages and the organizers of the VOA Heavy Rock fest have confirmed that the Armenian-American band will return to Portugal in 2020 as headliner. According to Blitz magazine, special Early-bird tickets costing €70.00 will be on sale this friday September the 20th, starting at 10AM exclusively in [...]

Pist will release a new album ‘Hailz’ on the 8th of November through APF Records (Mastiff, Battalions, BongCauldron, Desert Storm). Lancashire based quartet follow their recent Spring UK tour alongside Orange Goblin with 7 tracks that see them taking a step away from the stoner-doom label they were tagged with.  Vocalist David Rowlands explains, “Myself and John (guitarist) had loads of ideas [...]

The organizers of the Roadburn Festival have issued their first confirmations, you can read the press release below. For the first time, Roadburn Festival will have two separate curators. CURATOR: EMMA RUTH RUNDLE Emma has left such a mark on the festival, and the wider musical landscape over the past few years; we’re honoured to [...]

COILGUNS have announced their third full-length album, Watchwinders, as well as accompanying tour dates through Europe in support of the release. Watchwinders will be released via Hummus Records (founded by guitarist Jona Nido) on October 25. Pre-orders are available HERE. Watchwinders was written and recorded during one intense month-long session, with the results being an [...]

Spanish melodic Death Metallers IN THOUSAND LAKES, have just released a lyric-video of the song “Murder Castle” as a 2nd advance single of their upcoming EP “Evolution”, scheduled for next 25th of September 2019 through Xtreem Music. “Evolution” contains 6 new tracks and a cover version of the classic “Breaking the Chains” by DOKKEN in [...]

SWR Barroselas Metalfest, one of the oldest, most respected festivals dedicated to extreme sonorities in the old continent, will return to Vila de Barroselas, Viana do Castelo, Portugal on April 29th until May 2nd 2020. The organizers have announced oldschool death metal act Autopsy as their first confirmation! The official Facebook event is already online: [...]

Norwegian black metal masters 1349 have announced the release date of their new album. The record, titled ‘The Infernal Pathway’ was recorded in Amper Tone studios and Studio Nyhagen with engineer Jarrett Pritchard earlier this year. ‘The Infernal Pathway’ will see a worldwide release via Season of Mist on October 18, 2019. Norwegian black metal [...]

UK Doomsters ESOTERIC have unveiled the cover artwork and track list of their new album ‘A Pyrrhic Existence’. The record is set for worldwide release  on November 8, via Season of Mist. The long-awaited follow up to 2011’s ‘Paragon of Dissonance’ was recorded earlier this year at vocalist/guitarist Greg Chandler’s Priory Recording Studios in Birmingham. [...]

Greek progressive death metal act Desolate Plains released their brand new video “A Final Thought”. This is the first single extracted from the band’s new album “The Face of the Earth”, out now in digital format via Molon Lave Records. Just two years after the release of Desolate Plains’ debut album “Practicing the Inner Arts”, [...]

Portuguese festival Under The Doom has just revealed the first confirmations for this year’s edition. Alcest (Fr), Daylight Dies (Usa), Disillusion (Ger), Darkher (UK), Ardours (Pt), Wells Valley (Pt) and Pântano (Pt) are the first confirmations. The Festival will be held on 6, 7 and 8 December in Lisbon, RCA Club and LAV-Lisboa ao Vivo [...]