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Carpathian Alliance Metal Festival has announced the second confirmed band for the 2015 edition. Finnish horde HORNA joins already confirmed compatriots SATANIC WARMASTER, for the band bill of the vent that will take place in Volosyanka, near the Western border of Ukraine. Meanwhile the 2014 edition took place this weekend, featuring some strong names as [...]

Drone doom masters  SUNN O)))  and experimental musician Scott Walker recently announced a collaboration album, that now has a name: “Soused”. This new effort from the north American duo is set to be released on the 22nd of September. Soused will be a 5-track release. According to a press release, when approached Scott Walker about appearing on their [...]

Back at Bornicke woods for another edition of the mature UNDER THE BLACK SUN FESTIVAL. This year the organisers planned the largest band bill version of the festival history, joining also some none black metal bands. 25 acts from 16 different countries that were embraced by the black feelings of hundreds of headbangers, proving once [...]

Drone doom providers EARTH confirmed a set of European summer tour dates, which can be found below. Additionally the band has also announced a full US tour in support of their upcoming new effort, “Primitive And Deadly”, to be released on September 2nd via Southern Lord Recordings. Opening act on all dates will be King Dude. [...]

Bathory’s first album “Bathory” will celebrate its 30 years this Fall, and BLOOD FIRE DEATH, Bathory’s tribute band will perform this timeless classic in a 30 minutes set, to close perfectly Sinister Howling fest. Here’s the final list of bands: Nargaroth (De) “Black Metal ist Krieg Show” Horna (Fin) “Exclusice Epic Material Show” Acherontas (Gr) [...]

Dutch ritual atmospheric black metalers URFAUST are the last band confirmed for this year edition of Amplifest. The duo returns to the North of Portugal after their debut last year in SWR Barroselas. Be ready for an intense ritual, created by hypnotic and minimalist riffs, and monastery shouts. Urfaust join Ben Frost and headliners Cult [...]

GOODLIFE HQ will embark   on a two days acid journey next 7th and 8th February 2015. After promoting some well succeeded gigs with Celeste or Monarch, the organisers have already announced a significant list of bands to their major project – Burning Light Fest 2015. With Italian post black grinders THE SECRET headlining the band [...]

The 2014 edition of Oporto’s alternative festival AMPLIFEST is taking shape, already with 11 bands confirmed. From the last five aditions to the band bill, we find harsh sonorities coming from Germany, with drone doomsters BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS, as well as Celeste’s Danish incarnation HEXIS, carrying their demolishing 2014 effort “Abalam”. Like before, the [...]

German old school trashers TANKARD have recently premiered the music video for the track “R.I.B. (Rest In Beer)” and now you can watch the video here. The song is taken from the upcoming new album R.I.B., coming on June 20th, 2014 via Nuclear Blast Records. The clip was filmed in March 2014 under the direction of [...]

French black/death metalers SVART CROWN have announced that their drummer Nicolas “Ranko” Muller is leaving the band three years after joining the french black horde. The band has just completed their “Profane Tour 2014” and has also announced some cancellations for this summer. Below follows the comments of the band’s members regarding these latest developments:  Ranko [...]

Psychotic doom metalers ESOTERIC are looking for a new keyboardist once Jan Krause decided to part ways with the band after their last “European Dissonance 2014 Tour”. Krause has been with the band since 2012. The band from Birmingham has already announced the skills necessary for the future candidates as posted on their facebook page: [...]

American / Colombian black metal institution INQUISITION will have a date in lisbon on their next european tour. Notredame Productions announced that the show will take place on friday, the 25th July 2014, and also, that hellish black metalers IRAE e newcomers O CERCO will take charge of the oppening ceremonies. RCA Club will be [...]

The Portuguese festival AMPLIFEST as started the construction of the band bill, already confirming a quite significant list of names. With psychadelic post rock veterans SWANS as headlinners, their stoner compatriots YOB, doomsters PALLBEARER, dark drone project WOLVSERPENT and WOOVENHAND rockers will continue the North American quota. Last but not the least, PHARMAKON project will [...]

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 [...]