All posts by Filipe Gomes

SWR is scheduled for 27-29 April 2018 at Barroselas, northwest Portugal. SWR Barroselas Metalfest is one of the oldest European festivals of extreme music and it returns for its 21st edition, in 2018. The festival has announced another lot of band confirmations: Exhorder, Master’s Hammer, Church of Misery, Mortiis- Era 1, Agathocles, Mortuary Drape, SUMA, Obliteration, [...]

Italian female fronted Rock Trio Black Mamba have released a new video for the song “Loop”. The song is taken from “Heritage”, the band’s debut album released on December 14th, 2017. The lyrics talk about a person who is trapped in an eternal loop, living each day the same day. The band said: “For us [...]

Oriental metal pioneers, Orphaned Land, have just released a video and digital single for their new song “Like Orpheus”. Taken from their upcoming album “Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs”, which will be released on January 26th, 2018. “Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs” features a guest appearance of guitar virtuoso Steve Hackett as well as guest [...]

Laurus Nobilis will take place at V. N. de Famalicão on July 26th~28th of 2018. Portuguese festival Laurus Nobilis Music Famalicão has just announced that the Swedish band Dark Tranquility will also be part of the poster of the 2018 edition. They will be joining Greek SepticFlesh, Spaniards Crisix and other Portuguese bands already announced: [...]

“The Lyricist” by Susperia will be released on March 16th via Agonia Records. Susperia will return with their long-awaited first full-length studio album since 2009, titled “The Lyricist”, on March 16th via Agonia Records. Watch a video trailer for the album at this link: “The Lyricist” was recorded at three different studios in Norway between [...]

“A Time Will Come” is available now! “A Time Will Come” is the second EP of Noydem. It reflects the will of the band to get back to a more rock approach, compared to its previous album. This EP expresses the feeling of people struck with ostracism in today’s society. The track « Bring Me [...]

Brazilian Heavy/Thrash Metal act Tiberius Project has released a brand new single entitled “Starvation”. This is extracted from the band’s new EP “T – ProjecT”. You can watch it below. “T – ProjecT” (EP) contains six songs in the same composition and production style that the band has launched into the world. “The initial idea [...]

Under The Doom will take place at RCA Club and Lisboa Ao Vivo and starts on November 30th until December 2nd. Once again, Notredame Productions organizes the Under The Doom fest. It usually takes place in early December and this year will not be an exception. The final band bill lists the following bands: Lacuna [...]

SWR is scheduled for 27-29 April 2018 at Barroselas, northwest Portugal. SWR Barroselas Metalfest is one of the oldest European festivals of extreme music and it returns for its 21st edition, in 2018. The first round of announcements includes 15 selected names from a wide variety of styles: Suffocation, the leaders of american Death Metal; the [...]

Swedish black metal veterans Dark Funeral parted ways with Dominator, the drummer for the past 6 years. Founding guitarist Lord Ahriman commented about Nils Fjellström departure: We must sadly inform you that we have agreed to let Nils “Dominator” Fjellström take a much needed timeout from the band to handle personal matters. We of course wish [...]

After a very convincing performance at VOA 2017 past August, Epica will be returning to Portugal before the end of the year. This time, the band comes to perform as headlining act on a double date, where the legion of followers will be able to see Simone Simons and Co more closely, on the stages [...]

Norwegian Mayhem set foot on Portuguese soil in April early this year as headliners of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest. Six months later, they were back, but this time in a closed dedicated venue, not in a festival format. After a few minutes in line, we were able to witness the first concert: The Portuguese The [...]

North American band Dying Fetus will be returning to Portugal on the next November 12th. This show is part of the tour promoting their brand new album “Wrong One To Fuck With”, released last June 23rd, via Relapse Records. Supporting this tour are Australian Psycroptic, Canadian Beyond Creation and Brutal Death Metal Disentomb, also coming from Australia. [...]

Norwegian Death Metal beasts Blood Red Throne have made an Iberian tour in the past month, playing 5 dates in Spain and 1 in Portugal. This tour happened to promote their latest record “Union of Flesh and Machine” and to early celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band. The Portuguese date took place at Cave [...]