All posts by Lucifer

You are certainly familiarised with the city of Speyer, in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany. At least you’ve heard about it, right? If you haven’t it means that you’ve been passing far away from some of the best European black metal. As for us, we returned to that historic city six months after the SPEYER [...]

Valada is a quiet place located 60 kms North from Lisbon, thus offering an interesting location to gather rockers from different latitudes. On top of that, this small town is not strange to loud and fast live shows, once it held, many years ago, the dead Festival Tejo, where bands as Moonspell and Ramp played [...]

Stoner/doom metal maniacs ELECTRIC WIZARD have unleashed their new video, featuring “SadioWitch”, the second single advance off their upcoming new album “Time To Die”. The footage was directed by Shazzula Vultura and its content can be considered NSFW. About the concept behind this video, nothing better than  the band itself to describe it: the film is [...]

Exactly one month before the first riff is played and the first frame is screened, Amplifest announced the complete running order for this year Porto’s dark arts festival. And it couldn’t start better with YOB opening the hostilities on Saturday, at Hard Club’s main Stage. Even if the option between PALLBEARER OR PHARMAKON will not [...]

If you’re a Death Metal fan you certainly remember that mighty death metalers CENTINEX have disbanded in April 2, 2006. Even if they had a live show already scheduled for the 13th of May that year they eventually cancelled it and disappear. The good news came with the announcement that Centinex have reformed in January [...]

Czech black metallers CULT OF FIRE will release their 4th studio output entitled “Čtvrtá Symfonie Ohně” (The Fourth Symphony of Fire) on the 8th of December 2014. According to the band, It was originally planned to be released after Triumvirát, but since the fascination with India was so strong, everything else was put aside. Take a look at the [...]

A few weeks after the 2014 edition, UNDER THE BLACK SUN bill for the next year is already taking shape with the first five bands already confirmed. After the start with Swedish cult band CRAFT, profiting from their recently announced wave of first live shows ever, also soon announced was the name of ISVIND: a band [...]

ISIS is highly regarded as one of the most influential bands of the sludge/doom movement. It’s publically known that they disbanded in 2010, but they still have released some compitations as well as they maintain their online activity. A couple of days ago, the metal community was informed that the band has changed their facebook [...]

German black metal event SINISTER HOWLING IV has now the time table running order available. The desecration is set to begin at 13:00 hours, with Italian obscure act DEATHROW starting a very promising black metal day. Tickets still available at www.drohende-schatten.de RUNNING ORDER SINISTER HOWLING IV SATURDAY 20.09.2014 12:30 EINLASS/ DOORS 13:00 – 13:30 DEATHROW [...]

Portuguese doom metal maniacs PROCESS OF GUILT have just announced through Amplificasom page that they will embark on a European tour with mighty RORCAL from Switzerland next November. The journey takes shape after an established solid friendship between both bands, signed after the latest Rorcal full length “Live in Geneve”, where Process of Guilt appear in [...]

North American doomsters YOB have just streamed their new song “Unmask the Spectre”. The song is part of the band’s upcoming album, “Clearing The Path To Ascend”, which will be released on September 1st in the UK and Europe and in the US on September 2nd via Neurot Recordings. It’s a 15 minute epic song, which after [...]

  Iceland black metal band SINMARA have announced that “Aphotic Womb” will be revealed to the public at an official premiere at Garage Bergen (Bergen, Norway),  16 pm,  the 28th of August. The release will take place the same weekend of  BEYOND THE GATES III festival. The first full length of this band will see [...]

What do Black Metal, Lisbon and Saturday night have in common? Not much you might think. But things changed, at least last weekend, with INQUISITION’s return to the Portuguese capital. Notre Damme Productions achieved almost 200 persons at RCA, in this venue’s first black metal gig ever. We believe that everybody involved had a positive [...]

Portuguese based psych doom festival REVERENCE FESTIVAL VALADA has just announced the running order for the first edition of this event. A massive festival has been programmed, joining stunning bands such as ELECTRIC WIZARD, HAWKWIND, RED FANG, MÃO MORTA and others.  There are still some reduced price ticktes available acording to the organisers statement on [...]