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Galder leaves Dimmu Borgir and revives Old Man’s Child

Galder leaves Dimmu Borgir and revives Old Man’s Child

In a significant development for the black metal community, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter Galder has announced his departure from Dimmu Borgir after nearly 25 years with the band. In a heartfelt press statement released yesterday, Galder, whose real name is Tom Rune Andersen, shared that he has played his final show with Dimmu Borgir and [...]

August 18, 2024 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on Galder leaves Dimmu Borgir and revives Old Man’s Child

Report: Vagos Metal Fest 2022

Report: Vagos Metal Fest 2022

(Disclaimer: due to force majeure commitments, it was impossible for us to capture images of some concerts that started in the afternoon) The Vagos Metal Fest returned after an interregnum caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Expectations were high, the hype was immense and there was an atmosphere of excitement in the air. The venue turned [...]

August 6, 2022 Filipe Gomes Festivals, Reports Comments Off on Report: Vagos Metal Fest 2022

Preview: Vagos Metal Fest 2022

Preview: Vagos Metal Fest 2022

After being postponed to 2022, the Vagos Metal Fest will finally return with an epic band lineup. Check below for all the information you need to know! :: BANDS :: :: Tickets :: 3 day passes 95.00 € – On the day Daily 47.50 € – On the day Tickets are already on sale at [...]

July 22, 2022 Filipe Gomes Previews Comments Off on Preview: Vagos Metal Fest 2022

Vagos Metal Fest: My Dying Bride and Sacred Reich cancel. Desire and Crypta announced.

Vagos Metal Fest: My Dying Bride and Sacred Reich cancel. Desire and Crypta announced.

Vagos Metal Fest announced that My Dying Bride and Sacred Reich have cancelled their shows. Portuguese Doom band Desire and Brazilian deathmetal Crypta will replace. [...]

July 13, 2022 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on Vagos Metal Fest: My Dying Bride and Sacred Reich cancel. Desire and Crypta announced.

Vagos Metal Fest confirms Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Testament & more!

Vagos Metal Fest confirms Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Testament & more!

After being postponed to 2022, the organisers of the Vagos Metal Fest have been busy. Amazing Events have confirmed that both Norwegian legendary black metal bands Emperor and Dimmu Borgir will perform at this year’s edition of Vagos Metal Fest. The thrash titans Testament have also been confirmed, along My Dying Bride and Trollfest. Quoting [...]

October 5, 2021 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on Vagos Metal Fest confirms Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Testament & more!

Copenhell 2019 – Ten Years In Hell – part 2

Copenhell 2019 – Ten Years In Hell – part 2

DAY 3: Day number three was opened by Matt Heafy and Trivium on the main stage, and the chaos around it. The inflow of crowd surfers during their show was the highest until that moment at Copenhell. Trivium delivered a high-quality performance as they always do. Matt is an amazing performer, he has this ease [...]

July 22, 2019 Kasper Pasinski Festivals, Reports Comments Off on Copenhell 2019 – Ten Years In Hell – part 2

Copenhell closes the lineup for 2019

Copenhell closes the lineup for 2019

After kicking-off the announcements with the strong confirmations of Tool and Slipknot as headliners, Copenhell has presented their final lineup for this year’s edition. Copenhell is considered the true metal holiday in Denmark. On top of the earlier presented bands Copenhell team managed to book additional names presenting mixture of music styles to please different taste [...]

April 2, 2019 Kasper Pasinski Previews Comments Off on Copenhell closes the lineup for 2019

Preview: Copenhell 2019 (10th edition)

Preview: Copenhell 2019 (10th edition)

Copenhell is making Copenhagen loud for the 10th time! Since 2010 Copenhell has been bringing the biggest metal music names to the capital of Denmark. To celebrate the 10th edition of one of the biggest heavy music festivals in Scandinavia you should reserve the dates 19th till 22nd of June 2019. The event is organized [...]

January 27, 2019 Kasper Pasinski Previews Comments Off on Preview: Copenhell 2019 (10th edition)

TOP 20 – 2018: The Staff’s Choices – Carlos Pereira

TOP 20 – 2018: The Staff’s Choices – Carlos Pereira

With the year of 2018 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 2018. Here are the choices [...]

January 1, 2019 Rita Limede Tops Comments Off on TOP 20 – 2018: The Staff’s Choices – Carlos Pereira

TOP 20 – 2018: The staff’s choices – Ricardo Pereira

TOP 20 – 2018: The staff’s choices – Ricardo Pereira

With the year of 2018 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 2018. Here are the choices [...]

December 28, 2018 Rita Limede Tops Comments Off on TOP 20 – 2018: The staff’s choices – Ricardo Pereira

Brutal Assault announce Dimmu Borgir, Godflesh & many more

Brutal Assault announce Dimmu Borgir, Godflesh & many more

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! [...]

December 17, 2018 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on Brutal Assault announce Dimmu Borgir, Godflesh & many more

Dimmu Borgir premiere new video “Interdimensional Summit”

Dimmu Borgir premiere new video “Interdimensional Summit”

New Dimmu Borgir album, “Eonian”, coming on May 4 via Nuclear Blast. Norwegian black metal titans Dimmu Borgir have finally ended the waiting for everyone who have been craving for new music. The band has just released the highly awaited first single of the upcoming album “Eonian”. The song is called “Interdimensional Summit” and the [...]

February 23, 2018 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on Dimmu Borgir premiere new video “Interdimensional Summit”

Dimmu Borgir reveal second trailer for live DVD

Dimmu Borgir reveal second trailer for live DVD

On April 28th, Dimmu Borgir will unleash upon mankind their highly-anticipated double-DVD/BluRay “Forces Of The Northern Night”. On this brand new soundtrack of the apocalypse, you can witness two different live shows: The legendary concert in Oslo, showing DIMMU BORGIR on stage with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and a bombastic choir, as well as the [...]

March 28, 2017 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on Dimmu Borgir reveal second trailer for live DVD

Dimmu Borgir announce live DVD “Forces…”

Dimmu Borgir announce live DVD “Forces…”

Nowegian Symphonic Black Metal kings Dimmu Borgir have recently announced the release of “Forces of the Northern Night” DVD. The release date is scheduled to April 14th and will be distributed via Nuclear Blast. The package includes a pair of Dimmu Borgir live performances. The first one is a 2011 concert recorded in Oslo, Norway. [...]

January 17, 2017 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on Dimmu Borgir announce live DVD “Forces…”