French label Debemur Morti Productions have announced that they have signed a deal with New Zealand death metal oppressors Ulcerate. Debemur Morti stated: “As huge fans for years, we are honoured and beyond proud to unveil ULCERATE have joined Debemur Morti Productions! Formed in 2000, the singular New Zealand-based band has evolved into an instantly [...]
April 30, 2019
Filipe Gomes
News
Swedish Black metal veterans Marduk have scheduled their return to Portugal for this upcoming May 3rd & 4th. On Friday the 3th, RCA Club in Lisbon will host the first hostile night. The next day (4th), the band will perform at Hard Club, Porto. Supporting this are Valkyrja, Attic and Survival is Suicide. Marduk are [...]
April 29, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Previews
After having visited the Altice Arena in February last year, legendary Metallica resume the World Wired Tour in May. The date in Portugal at the Restelo Stadium on May 1 is the first show. The tour ends on August 25th at the Palastzelt Maimarktgelände in Mannheim, Germany. Special guests Ghost and Bokassa will be the [...]
April 24, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Previews
Dublin’s most experimental and genre-blending quartet Svet Kant are proud to announce that they have signed a deal with WormHoleDeath for the release of their album “The Visage Unbiased”. “The Visage Unbiased” will be out on 31/05/2019 via Wormholedeath / The Orchard / Wormholedeath USA worldwide. “The Visage Unbiased” sees Svet Kant working for the [...]
April 23, 2019
Filipe Gomes
News
Toronto-based black metallers PANZERFAUST have premiered their bone-crunching first single, “The Day After Trinity”. Taken from the band’s upcoming album, The Suns of Perdition I: War, Horrid War, the track exemplifies the brutality that Panzerfaust will explore during the band’s full-length tetralogy. The title of “The Day After Trinity,” the album’s lead single and opening [...]
April 23, 2019
Filipe Gomes
News
Being around for more than two decades of existence, the SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST became more than an obligatory stopping point for all fans of heavy metal and its more extreme subgenres. This year’s edition, which runs from April 26 to 28, promises, as usual, to gather a legion of headbangers from all around the world [...]
April 23, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Previews
Soen is promoting their new album ”Lotus” with an European tour. With them are traveling the bands Wheel and Ghost Iris, as openers of the shows. On 30th of March, the tour passed by Hard Club in Porto, Portugal, for an amazing show. Wheel – a Finnish prog rock band – had the task of [...]
April 10, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Concerts, Reports
What nicer thing can happen in the prog music scene than one of the best active prog bands supporting a society doing good in the fight against leukemia? This is going to happen on April 6, 2019 near Paris/France, when LEPROUS are going to perform a once-in-a-lifetime special gig for Heart Sound festival. The festival [...]
April 2, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Previews
Moita Metal Fest returns for its 16th edition on the 5th and 6th of April. The festival will take place at Largo do Pavilhão Municipal de Exposições, in Moita – Setúbal. Moita Metal Fest started back in 2004 and soon became a reference for the Portuguese underground scene. Now, currently on their 16th edition, they [...]
March 27, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Previews
Swedish prog rock act Soen will return to Portugal to play live at 30 and 31 of March, at Hard Club (Porto) and RCA Club (Lisbon) respectively. Danish progressive metalcore Ghost Iris and Finnish prog rock band Wheel will be the opening acts. Tickets and schedule: 21:00 – Open doors 21:30 – Concerts beginning 23:00 [...]
March 26, 2019
Filipe Gomes
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
Italian orchestral-death metal and renaissance revivalists Fleshgod Apocalypse will make their return this year with the release of their 5th studio album, “Veleno”, on May 24th via Nuclear Blast Records. Today, the band has unveiled the record’s debut single, ‘Sugar,’ via a music video, the album artwork and track listing. Check it all out below. [...]
March 11, 2019
Filipe Gomes
News
Keith Flint, the iconic frontman of British electronic group The Prodigy, was found dead at his home in Essex on Monday morning. He was 49 years old. The Essex police confirmed it was called to the address in Dunmow, Essex, regarding “concerns for the welfare of a man,” but the 49-year-old was pronounced dead at the [...]
March 4, 2019
Filipe Gomes
News
AEPHANEMER have unveiled a first track-by-track trailer for their much anticipated album 'Prokopton'. [...]
February 21, 2019
Filipe Gomes
News