All posts by Filipe Gomes

The past weekend saw the debut show of one of the most groundbreaking bands that emerged in the recent past: Ghost. Hate them or love them, the fact is that they have settled their presence in the nowadays music scene by releasing excellent quality albums, filled with catchy songs and charming melodies that you can’t [...]

With the release of the “Nail Them To The Cross” single earlier this year, Swedish black metal masters Dark Funeral are now preparing the release of their next studio album. Mastermind Lord Ahriman comments: “Cold winds are blowing over Scandinavia and the winter will arrive very soon. The world is bleak and dark days await. [...]

Just like the clothing brand, the Mosher Fest sees it’s 2nd year of existence. Organized by the Mosher Clothing™ founder Rui Alexandre (also known for his guitar work in the Thrash squad Terror Empire), this year the fest took place in the Cascata Club. Cascata used to be known as Le Son, a venue dedicated [...]

The organizers of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest have started to announce the first bands for the 2016 edition of the festival. So, the 19th edition will feature (confirmed so far): MARDUK | Sweden | www.facebook.com/Mardukofficial ABORTED | Belgium | www.facebook.com/Abortedofficial GRAVE | Sweden | www.facebook.com/GraveOfficial DOOM | UK | www.facebook.com/doomcrustpunk MIDNIGHT | USA | https://www.facebook.com/Midnight-87909491643/ [...]

The Deathcrusher tour which is taking Europe by assault is coming to Portugal soon on November 27th. Tickets are already sold out! Organization: Hell Xis Agency 11/01 Gent, BEL – De Vooruit 11/02 Köln, GER – Live Music Hall 11/03 Geneva, SWI – L’Usine 11/04 Stuttgart, GER – LKA Longhorn 11/05 Prague, CZE – Folimanka [...]

Welcome again to The Black Planet! – First of all, we would like to ask you to introduce yourselves, for those who are not familiar with Tales For The Unspoken. Who are you, where you come from, what are your roles in the band… First of all we are very pleased to be back at [...]

Last night, Tool played their first (and probably last) show of 2015 at Tempe, Arizona’s Monster Mash Music Festival. Although they didn’t share any news about a new album, they did have have some special surprises in store for the audience. The band opened the show by playing a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “No Quarter” [...]

The Estudantino café, a venue known in the Metal underground for hosting a high number of concerts received the 2nd edition of the OMG Fest. An independent festival organized by Omega Som, an entity focused on featuring some of the best bands that the Portuguese underground hides within its ranks, but without losing its interest [...]

Spanish Death Metal act Neter have released a new video for the song “Idols”. “Idols” is not only the last song of their latest album, but it is also the track the gives title to the record. Released in April via Metallic Media, it is available in both jewelcase and digipak versions. Idols by NETER [...]

The avantgarde act Område has issued the following statement: [...]

We are sorry to inform that Gorgoroth and ex-Obituary bassist Frank Watkins has passed away, as consequence of his long battle with cancer. Watkins was 47 years old. Watkins started playing music at the age of 12 and joined OBITUARY in 1989, after the recording of the band’s debut album, “Slowly We Rot”. His first [...]

On October 8th the RCA Club in Lisbon received a true Norwegian night. The 3 bands that played all shared more than their nationality… they shared intricate and highly technical music too. Rendezvous Point opened up the series of concerts. This band seemed a bit unknown to most of the people, so maybe it felt [...]

Sigurd Wongraven, mostly known as Satyr, frontman of iconic Norwegian band Satyricon has recently revealed that he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. We hope we recovers quickly. I'm going home. I got extremely sick 8 days ago and was rushed to hospital. Scans have shown that there is a blind passenger in my head. [...]

A new indication of the bleak, black blood coursing through Enthrall To The Void Of Bliss — the forthcoming LP from US black/death outfit, Aevangelist — is now pouring forth below with “Gatekeeper’s Scroll.” The first Aevangelist album to be fully released in the United States, 20 Buck Spin will issue Enthrall To The Void [...]