Anathema

Last year the PROGNOSIS festival made its mark by hiring mostly first-class prog bands such as Leprous, Vola or TesseracT as well as providing a lot of additional happenings such as clinics of singing, drumming, composing etc. with Devin Townsend, Baard Kolstad of Leprous, Giancarlo Erra among others. This year’s edition will be held in [...]

Brutal Assault will take place at in Fortress Josefov in August 7 ~ 10, 2019. Czech Republic’s iconic metal festival Brutal Assault has issued another number of confirmations. Dimmu Borgir and Godflesh are among the highlighted bands, but there are many more. Read the statement below: Let’s open this mega update with black metal stormblast! [...]

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. Here are the choices [...]

Anathema came to Denmark to promote their new album ’The Optimist’. This record, which won ‘Album the year’ award during ‘Progressive Music Awards’ in September 2017, promotes itself. Anathema were accompanied by the French band Alcest,  as an opening act for them in this European tour. Alcest, the shoegaze black metal act was the opener of [...]

Be Prog! My Friend 2017 will happen at Poble Espanyol, Barcelona, Spain on the 30th of June and 1st of July. Moving to the 4th edition, Be Prog! My Friend stands firmly by its name. The festival brings the best of the progressive music in metal and rock. Two days listening to the finest progressive [...]

Cardhouse released a new single called ”Ink” along with a video. Cardhouse is the solo project of the portuguese multi-instrumentalist and producer Daniel Cardoso (most known for being the keyboardist of Anathema). ”Ink” is one of the songs to be part of the projects debut album called ”City Blur”. The album has no date yet [...]

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. [...]

The festival previously known as Vagos Open Air is back, and with a few changes. First of all, the festival has changed its name to VOA Fest, and contrary to their previous editions, this year will take place on Corroios at Quinta da Marialva, on the 5th and 6th of August. The organization, Prime Artists, [...]

Anathema have announced that touring member Daniel Cardoso has joined the band full-time. The keyboardist will bring his additional talents as a producer and drummer into the fold, with mainman Daniel Cavanagh sure the results will create the “strongest incarnation” of the band. Cavanagh commented: “Anathema is delighted and proud to announce that Daniel Cardoso [...]