All posts by Filipe Gomes

With Orphaned Land and Wolfbrigade already confirmed for 2017’s edition of Santa Maria Summer Fest, Mão Morta, Urfaust, Malthusian, Clitgore and Tales For The Unspoken have been announced as new additions to the festival roster. The even will happen on June 8 to the 10th. €20 tickets are already sold out. Until January 31st, tickets [...]

After the huge successful show in 2014, Behemoth return for another concert as tour headliners. In the bag comes the critically acclaimed “The Satanist” album. Along came their compatriots MGŁA and the German band Secrets of the Moon, thereby filling the room at Paradise Garage. MGŁA – From the underground comes this formidable and fearful force, serving [...]

SWR Barroselas Metalfest, one of the oldest european festivals focused entirely on extreme music, returns in 2017 for its 20th anniversary, scheduled for 28, 29 and 30 of April at the Village of Barroselas, northern Portugal. Confirmed so far are black metal legends Mayhem playing their magnum opus “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas”, Belgium death metal [...]

French black metal titans DEATHSPELL OMEGA will release a new EP this November! “The Synarchy of Molten Bones” is scheduled to become available on November 8th, released via Norma Evangelium Diaboli. “The Synarchy of Molten Bones” will be Deathspell’s sixth EP. The work will feature four new songs and pre-order is already available via bands Bandcamp. Fans [...]

Loud Rage Music proudly announces its recent agreement with one of the most well-known Romanian Metal bands, GOTHIC! Established back in 1992 by Alin Petrut in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains of Transilvania, Romania, the band became in a short period of time one of the most respected Metal bands in the country and kept the same status [...]

Italian Thrash/Death Killing Machine METHEDRAS have released a live video of the band performing “Dead Memories,” a track from 2014 Pavement Entertainment release “System Subversion”. The video was filmed in December 2015 at Sentrum (Kiev, Ukraine) during a performance in support of KREATOR. View the video at the following link: Order “System Subversion” from Pavement [...]

Godz Ov War Productions is proud to present Misanthropic Rage‘s highly anticipated debut album, ‘Gates No Longer Shut’. A duo hailing from Poland, Misanthropic Rage are a literal whirlwind of avant-garde black metal. Aptly titled, ‘Gates No Longer Shut’ is a 40-minute firestorm of frayed logic, feverish frequencies, and ceremonial magick. With dissonant riffing colliding [...]

Osmose Productions sets November 25th as the international release date for Liber Null‘s highly anticipated debut album, I – The Serpent. Unrelenting and unrepenting black metal in the vein of Marduk and Watain, Liber Null features members of Acherontas, Fides Inversa, Blut Aus Nord, and Frostmoon Eclipse. Liber Null embodies the dogma-shattering will to oppose the denigration of [...]

Uppsala’s death metal quartet, USURPRESS, are streaming their new studio album in full, prior to its September 23rd release date on Agonia Records. Touted as “forward thinking swedish death metal” by Metal Hammer UK, the record is available for streaming below: “The Regal Tribe” was recorded under the supervision of rising star producer Lawrence Mackrory (FKÜ, Darkane) while the [...]

Cult Swedish death metallers DERANGED have revealed the first song from their upcoming new album, “Struck By A Murderous Siege”, due out on October 28th via Agonia Records. Listen to the track “Reverent Decomposition” at: The band’s first studio album in five years (and their ninth altogether) was recorded at Berno Studio (Amon Amarth, The Crown, Witchery) in Malmö, Sweden. The album’s [...]

ROOT, one of the original pre-second-wave black metal bands (formed in 1987 by iconic vocalist Jiri ‘Big Boss’ Valter), from Czech Republic, are going to release a new studio album, “Kärgeräs – Return From Oblivion”, on November 25th via Agonia Records. In contrast to Bathory and Venom, ROOT took the black metal genre in a more refined direction, featuring Big Boss‘ characteristic clean [...]

Legendary Norwegian duo, Darkthrone, will release their new album, “Arctic Thunder”, on October 14th via Peaceville records. “Arctic Thunder” marks the band’s first new studio material since 2013’s “The Underground Resistance”. The album’s opening track, “Tundra Leach”, is streaming below, along with commentary from Fenriz himself. The album was recorded in the band’s old rehearsal [...]

Once again, the town of Vagos became a place of pilgrimage. Vagos Metal Fest brought thousands of people for another Metal Festival. With a totally different promoter in charge of the arrangements, there was great curiosity to see how it would be. The festival structure was well arranged, while the placing of the stage, merch [...]

Maximus Festival – new Brazilian Heavy Metal Festival arises Brazil is gonna hold a brand new Heavy Metal festival in 2016. Maximus Festival is taking place in São Paulo on September 7th, the Brazilian Independence Day. The festival’s first edition is also happening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 10th. The headliners for this first [...]