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Day 0 This year’s edition of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest started on the 23rd of April. This day 0, with free entrance, was the stage for the W:O:A Metal Battle Portugal. The four bands that disputed this final were NEBULOUS, REVOLUTION WITHIN, DESTROYERS OF ALL and DEMENTIA 13. All bands played their part really well, and [...]

Well known Swedish Black Metallers Craft, who have always been a “studio” band, have been confirmed to play live for the first time ever. Even after highly public acclaimed 1 demo and 4 albums, the band has always avoided playing live, but it seems that things have changed. So far there aren’t any other dates [...]

American blackened sludge metal band WOLVHAMMER has revealed new details about their third studio album. It will be entitled Clawing Into Black Sun. In this new work, Wolvhammer mix “black metal, death rock, and punk into even more lethal volatile territory,” according to their label Profound Lore Records. The band also released the new single “Death [...]

“Pas pleine, mais surtout pas vide”, República da Música hosted Goodlife HQ’s most daring event: CELESTE headlining tour. The sound was pretty accurate during the whole night where it became clear since very soon that almost everyone was there with one main purpose: to be washed away by the French chaotic anthems. But before that, [...]

  Canadian sludge doomsters DOPETHRONE will embark on a European three weeks tour starting the 23rd of June. The support band will be GURT, from United Kingdom. There are still some locations to be confirmed as shown below: Tour dates: 23.06.2014 – GBR, Birmingham – Asylum 2                 [...]

UNDER THE BLACK SUN festival has announced the full running order for the 2014th edition. The event will take place in the woods of Bornicke, at Bernau bei Berlin, in Germany, from 3 to 5 July 2014. This year, the German organisers present a festival with two stages and some non black metal bands that [...]

REVERENCE FESTIVAL is threatening to leave a strong mark in our 2014 festivals calendar.  Already counting with strong names such as Electric Wizard, Hawkind, Graveyard and more, the Portuguese organizers have recently confirmed six more bands to the band bill. According to Portuguese magazine Blitz, North Americans BARDO POND, WOODEN WAND, SLEEPY SUN, CAVE, DAUGHTERS [...]

American technical death metallers ORIGIN have revealed the details of their new album, “Omnipresent”. Due out on July 4th in Europe through Agonia Records (July 8th in North America via Nuclear Blast), the opus features a cover artwork crafted by Colin Marks (Nevermore, Kataklysm, Exodus) which can be seen below. As for new music, you will have [...]

New details surface about “Celestite”, the upcoming experimental and instrumental companion record to WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM’s  2011 album “Celestial Lineage”. The North American release date for Celestite is July 8th, 2014, marking the first release on the band’s new label, Artemisia Records, which will be their outlet for future recordings. The cover art and tracklist for the [...]

Portuguese cold black metalers DOLENTIA have finished their new effort entitled “INICIAÇÂO EVERSIVA”. The album will be out in the next few weeks through British Mordgrimm records and will be available also by Altare Productions. Meanwhile you can check out the sample advance below. [...]

Greek death metalers DEAD CONGREGATION have just unveiled the first details of their new album. The follower of Graves Of The Archangels (2008), and second full lenght will be named “Promulgation Of The Fall”. You can take a look at the cover artwork right now, available below. The first audio teasers are expected in the next couple of [...]

Still in a cold April night, Side B hosted an honest black metal event, which finished the sequence of three black metal nights (with Morte Incandescente and Corpus Christii playing before) in the Lisbon area. Apparently with a less strong band bill, State of Warfare joined a significant mass of people at Benavente, with 11TH [...]

Despite some rumours concerning the realisation of the fifth edition of the Finish black metal festival, the organisers came up with a killer first set of bands, including: TAAKE, NARGAROTH, BOLZER, ARCHGOAT, BAPTISM, BLACK WITCHERY, MORBOSIDAD and MALTHUSIAN. The bands are already separated by each one of the two days, as follows: BLACK FLAMES OF BLASPHEMY [...]

The organizers of the Vagos Open Air festival has announced that this year’s edition will have a 3rd day of concerts. There will be a pricing update, but all the people who buy tickets until April 23rd will be able to see 3 days for the price of 2. Vagos Open Air 2014 will take [...]