All posts by Lucifer

Side B hosted a sincere Doom metal night last Friday, joining Portuguese newcomers AGONIA to Belgium quick ascension band MARCHE FUNÉBRE. We were not expecting a full venue and our expectations got confirmed, even if the space available would eventually become flooded when full with dark thoughts. Firstly with AGONIA, a new project by the [...]

  North American death Metalers VITAL REMAINS have a new drummer in their line-up: James Payne of Hour Of Penance. The musician  will stick with the band at least for some new album writing sessions in January. The following was said of Payne‘s addition: I’m happy to announce our New Drummer James Payne from the band Hour Of Penance!!! He will be joining us [...]

Swiss dark metallers TRIPTYKON have premiered a new video for the first song off their already  acclaimed second album “Melana Chasmata” – “Tree Of Suffocating Souls”. The video was again directed by Philipp Hirsch (who previously worked with them for the group’s “Shatter” and “Aurorae” video clips). Iconic frontman Tom Gabriel Warrior stated: In producing this footage, [...]

Under The Black Sun Festival band roster is getting a more formed shape as more bands are being confirmed. Among them,  Finnish raw black metalers KORGONTHURUS, a band with members from Totalselfhatred and some Horna ex-members. Also recently confirmed were Czech death metal veterans AVENGER and Portuguese old school rockers DECAYED. Here’s the list of the confirmed [...]

French black metallers HELL MILITIA have announced a small European tour for the second half of November, still promoting their 2012 album “Jacob’s Ladder”. The French quartet will be joined by Swedish black metal band KILL and Slovenians progressive black metalers ATER ERA.  The expedition will kick off in Germany on November 21st and continue in the [...]

Portuguese obscure Death metal outfit INFRA will release their debut studio work through North American infamous label Nuclear War Now!. The 7″ will arise by the title of “Initiation On The Ordeals Of Lower Vibrations” and is expected in early 2015. After three well succeeded live shows earlier this year, the Lusitanian collective has made an [...]

Lisbon’s Burning Light Festival has enlarged it’s band line up, adding again some important underground acts to the band roster. Portuguese black metalers MORTE INCANDESCENTE and new project REDEMPTION that will premiere their debut EP “We All Die The Same”, expected soon. Also confirmed last week were British death grinders OBLIVIONIZED and German outstanding duo [...]

Lisbon will receive one of the most important doom metal gatherings of recent years, as Notre Damme Productions have confirmed Italian black doomsters FORGOTTEN TOMB and Irish doom metal veterans MOURNING BELOVETH as part of the next UNDER THE DOOM FESTIVAL. The event will occupy the RCA club during two days, next February, and will [...]

After the announcement of a Finnish day at Under the Black Sun next year, soon some rumours started about the hypothetical headliners, the confirmation came today, with the organisers announcing IMPALED NAZARENE as the Finnish headliner. Mika Luttinen’s sick squad will command a night where HORNA, BAPTISM and TOTALSELFHATRED were already confirmed. In other news, [...]

  HATE ETERNAL technical death metalers have confirmed the release of a new full length album in early 2015, following their last “Phoenix Amongst The Ashes”. This will be the first release through Season of Mist, onde the band as just announced the signing for French label. Erik Rutan and J.J. Hrubovcak are currently in [...]

  North American death metal masters CANNIBAL CORPSE have released a full comment concerning three shows cancelled in Russia during their Russian tour with Revocation and Aeon: A message to our Russian fans: As you all are certainly aware by now, our concerts in Ufa, Moscow, and St. Petersburg were cancelled. We were present in these [...]

US sludge metallers INTER ARMA are currently streaming their 45-minute single track EP called “The Cavern” online. You can check it out right now via the Soundcloud player below, made available through Relapse Records page. The EP features guest vocals from Windhand’s vocalist Dorthia Cottrell. “The Cavern”, successor of the highly acclaimed second full length “Sky Burial”,  is [...]

British atmospheric post-black metallers FEN  have released a video for the track “Menhir – Supplicant”  taken from the album  “Carrion Skies”, which you can see below. It’s almost 12 minutes a brand new atmospheric passages that gives us an advance of the idea beyond their fourth-full length album, set to be released on the 22nd [...]

Saturday promised 30 bands, 9 dj’s and, of course, the late hours of the first night meant that it would have consequences on the second day. But, with exactly one hour delay, we all could still be well organized. Starting with one of the biggest festival revelations for us: nationals ASIMOV. One drum, one distorted [...]