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
PROGNOSIS festival took place in Eindhoven (Netherlands) on the 22nd – 23rd, 2019 The organizers of the “Prognosis” festival were once again aiming high. They invited and succeeded to gather the ‘crème-de-la-crème’ of the prog metal scene, mixing it with some other genres. Visitors from all over Europe travelled to see bands such as LEPROUS [...]
April 4, 2019
Uta Arnold
Festivals, Reports
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
There are a lot of good prog festivals lately, and Eindhoven seems to be a stronghold of prog metal, organizing one of the most thrilling events in a long time: Prognosis Festival! The organizers have invited none less than Devin Townsend himself to play an exclusive solo set, as well as the US no. 1 [...]
March 14, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Previews
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
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 27, 2018
Rita Limede
Tops
It’s that time of the year again! Since 2018 is coming to an end really soon, it’s about time for our staff to publish their lists regarding the best albums for the year. Like the years before, the amount of quality releases was immense, so it’s not always an easy choice, and eventually some releases [...]
December 23, 2018
Rita Limede
Tops
Portuguese festival Comendatio Music Fest has announced the first headliner: British progressive metal band Tesseract. More recently, two other Portuguese bands have been confirmed: Kandia and Pântano. Taking place in the city of Tomar, Comendatio Music Fest is scheduled for June 8 & 9 2019. More information soon. About Comendatio Music Fest Facebook [...]
December 17, 2018
Filipe Gomes
News
With 2015 coming to its end, its time to choose the best albums of the year. These are the choices of Slania: 1. Mgla – Exercises in Futility 2. Leprous – The Congregation 3. TesseracT – Polaris 4. Sullen – Post Human 5. Swallow The Sun – Songs From The North I, II & III [...]
December 27, 2015
Rita Limede
Tops