Abbath

The legendary ABBATH is ready for the road once again. The founding vocalist of Immortal will visit some European cities on the upcoming Dread Reaver European tour, which includes Lisbon and Porto! First, the historic Toxic Holocaust, who haven’t visited Europe for some time, take the stage. Joel Grind’s band promises 2 devastating performances that no one can miss. [...]

ABBATH are currently preparing for the European tour that will kick off on January 23 in Weimar, Germany. Alongside label mates 1349 and VLTIMAS and support act NUCLEAR, the package will hit the stages in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Czech Republic, Poland, Denmark and finally Sweden.  ABBATH has [...]

Norwegian black metal titans ABBATH are now releasing the second new track, taken from their upcoming full length ‘Outstrider’. The album is set for worldwide release on July 5, 2019 via Season of Mist. The new offering “Calm in Ire (of Hurricane)” is now streaming in the form of a lyric video: Abbath ‘Outstrider’ (Season of Mist) 1. [...]

Norwegian black metal titans ABBATH have announced the release of the second full length record ‘Outstrider’. The album is set for worldwide release on July 5, 2019. ABBATH have furthermore released an album teaser, which can be found at the official Season of Mist Youtube Channel: ABBATH – Outstrider (2019) Album teaser: When Abbath announced [...]

Season Of Mist has announced that Abbath parted ways with King ov Hell (also known for being involved in Gorgoroth for many years). Season Of Mist published: ABBATH’s bass player ‘King’ will no longer be part of the band, due to conflicting views on lyrical concepts of the upcoming album. The lyrics are inspired by [...]

Immortal’s 9th album is scheduled to be released this year via Nuclear Blast. Legendary Black Metal act Immortal have announced that they have finished the work in their highly-awaited upcoming album. Still untitled, this will be the first album without Abbath, who left the band in 2015. The album was produced by Peter Tägtgren (Abyss Studio), [...]

In the past few days we have presented you our staff choices for best albums of 2016. Now we bring you our final and oficial list for best releases from that year, to close that chapter. Here are our top 20 choices : 1 – Bolzer – Hero 2 – Animals As Leaders – The [...]

With 2016 coming to its end, its time to choose the best albums of the year. These are the choices of Daniel Lemminkainen: 1 – Avantasia – Ghostlights 2 – Moonsorrow – Jumalten Aika 3 – Finsterforst – #YOLO 4 – Amon Amarth – Jomsviking 5 – Asphyx – Incoming Death 6 – Rotting Christ [...]

VOA Fest returned under a new name and venue, the chosen place was Quinta da Marialva in Corroios. At first this change was heavily criticized by many Portuguese fans, however, given the flux of people in there we might say all was forgotten and a chance was given to this reborn festival on its new [...]

It’s that time of the year, festival season, and one of the biggest metal festivals in Portugal is back, for its 8 consecutive year, although it comes with a different name and location. The event previously known as Vagos Open Air, moved to Quinta da Marialva in Corroios, and change its name to VOA Fest. [...]

After having revealed its location and name change earlier this year, VOA Fest has closed its band billing for this year’s edition. The newly confirmed groups Equaleft, Abbath, Schammasch, Admiron and Soldier. These will join the previously announced bands Anthrax, Opeth, Kreator, Anathema, Katatonia, Mantar and Dark Oath. The event will take place in Corroios [...]

ABBATH, the former mentor of Immortal has debut a new track for his self-titled solo project. The song “Ashes Of The Damned”, that you can listen to bellow, is a part of the forthcoming first album of the project, titled “Abbath”. This record is set to be released on the 22nd of January, via Season [...]

Finally we get to hear the first solo song of ABBATH since he parted ways with Immortal. You can check out the song on the video for a live recording of “Fenrir Hunts”. This is a different version of the track that will appear on the band’s highly anticipated debut album set for a January [...]

Blabbermouth has recently announced that Immortal will continue without Abbath. Lyricist/guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta revealed some song titles (“Northern Chaos Gods”, “Called To Ice” and “Blacker Of Worlds”) that will appear in the next album which should be released by Nuclear Blast. Demonaz and Horgh said in a statement: “IMMORTAL never stopped. We just had [...]