All posts by Filipe Gomes

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 [...]

“We Defy” will be released by Raising Legends and Raging Planet labels on Feb 1st. Almost five years after the release of “Adapt & Survive”, Equaleft are back with a brand new album entitled “We Defy”! Scheduled for release on February 1st, Equaleft have premiered a single in advance. “Overcoming” is the title and you [...]

The Greek metal veterans of Rotting Christ are now premiering the second track of their upcoming record “The Heretics”. The new offering is slated for release on February 15th, 2019 via Season of Mist (pre order here). The song ”Heaven and Hell and Fire” is now streaming in the form of a lyric video. Front [...]

Brutal Assault will take place at in Fortress Josefov in August 7 ~ 10, 2019. Czech Republic’s iconic metal festival Brutal Assault has issued another number of confirmations. Dimmu Borgir and Godflesh are among the highlighted bands, but there are many more. Read the statement below: Let’s open this mega update with black metal stormblast! [...]

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 [...]

French electro outfit The Sacrifice are now streaming their upcoming self-titled album ‘The Sacrifice’ in full. The debut record is set for release on December 7th, 2018 via Season Of Mist. You can stream it below. The band comment: “These 11 tracks are the result of 11 months of messing around with a dozen of [...]

Italian Brutal Death Metal act Corpsefucking Art are now streaming their new album “Splatterphobia”! You can listen to it below. “Splatterphobia” was released by Comatose Music on November 23rd. You can buy it here. Tracklist: 1. Splatterphobia 2. Satanic Barbecue 3. Black Sheep Terror 4. Tomator 5. Nightmare City 6. Robocorpse II 7. Devouring By [...]

Norway’s Atrox, whose sixth full-length album “Monocle” was released on Dark Essence Records last year, have announced that they will be adding guitarist Steffen Berg to their lineup of Rune Folgerø on Vocals, Eivind on Guitars, Rune Sørgård on Guitars & Technology, Erik Paulsen on Bass, and Andreas Kjøl Berg on drums. Although this won’t [...]

SWR Barroselas Metalfest, one of the oldest, most respected festivals dedicated to extreme sonorities in the old continent, will return to Vila de Barroselas, Viana do Castelo, Portugal on April 26, 27 and 28, 2019. After the first batch of confirmations including Godlfesh, Benediction, The Black Dahlia Murder, Midnight, Venenum and more, the organizers have [...]

The Russian band Pilot played their traditional Autumn concerts in October 20th in St. Petersburg and on October 27th in Moscow. This time, the program was called “Osennee pora” (play on words, means “Autumn time” in English), that is a direct reference to the eponymous composition and EP from 2003. Pilot is a multi-genre band [...]

On the next November 15th, Canadian tech-death metal pillars Beyond Creation will return to Portugal! One of the freshest and most modern acts in the recent years, Beyond Creation have released 3 very solid full-length albums: “The Aura” (2011), “Earthborn Evolution” (2014) and the most recent “Algorythm” (2018), showing a strong career path. The band [...]

It seems the wait is over. Here comes the pumpkin hurricane: Helloween! Helloween are coming to Portugal for a special concert on December 6th. The show will take at Sala Tejo, Altice Arena, Lisbon. Mikael Kiske, Kay Hansen & Cº once again choose Portugal for another classic showcase! After they filled the already extinct and [...]

On the 3rd of December 2018, six years to the day after the apocalypse, Svartidauði will unleash their long awaited sophomore full length “Revelations of the Red Sword” upon the ashes of civilization. In the meantime, the band has released another single, this time “Wolves Of A Red Sun”. You can listen to it below. [...]

Archspire are now premiering a play-through video for the song “Involuntary Doppelgänger”. The track has been taken from the full-length, ‘Relentless Mutation’, which was released via Season of Mist on March 23rd, 2018. Archspire comment: “We wanted to film a new guitar play-through, now that we’ve had some time at home to ourselves between tours, [...]