All posts by Filipe Gomes

The Crato festival was held once again in the beautiful Alentejo village near Portalegre. In a constantly evolving process, this year’s edition saw the exhibition areas as well as all the restaurants and, crafts tents open to the public, free of charge. Adding to this, there were musical performances taking place throughout the afternoon and [...]

Dragged Into Sunlight have recently published a video teaser of the collaboration record that they’re creating with macabre act Gnaw Their Tongues. “N.V.” – a five song exorcism due out via Prosthetic Records on November 13 – has been five years in the making and will be a 32-minute release produced by Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, [...]

After critically acclaimed “IV: Arrow In Heart” record took its toll on black metallers in 2013 and left an imprint on a great deal of year-end lists (inc. CVLT Nation, Stereogum, Popmatters, Heavy Magazine or Examiner.com), the French sewers of intelligent dark art, AOSOTH, are coming back with a new EP, “IV”, slated for anOctober 23rd release on Agonia Records. [...]

Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions (LADLO Prods) have published a videoclip for promoting another song by the bizarre act Maïeutiste. You can listen to “Lifeless Visions” below. “Maïeutiste is a complex and orchestral album masterfully executed. A journey through Black Metal and ambient music… an exploration of various musical territories, such as folk rock, jazz [...]

MOONREICH unveils a new song from their upcoming album. You can listen to “Pillars of Detest – World Shroud” below. The gloomy and harsh atmospheres combined with thundering blast beats and crushing mid-tempo sections so prevalent in MOONREICH’s music have evolved and reached higher spheres with this third full-length. This new album asserts the band’s identity [...]

Blabbermouth has recently announced that Immortal will continue without Abbath. Lyricist/guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta revealed some song titles (“Northern Chaos Gods”, “Called To Ice” and “Blacker Of Worlds”) that will appear in the next album which should be released by Nuclear Blast. Demonaz and Horgh said in a statement: “IMMORTAL never stopped. We just had [...]

Portuguese Death metal act Madame Violence have announced on their Facebook page that they have parted ways with singer Carlos Amado and guitarist Ricardo Carniça. The reason for this situation is musical diferences. [...]

The organizers of Amplifest have published the schedules for the festival, you can check them below, click for bigger picture:   [...]

Decapitated have issued the following statement: “Decapitated advises that they have resolved to take long-overdue action to redress various legal, copyright and financial disputes with their former label Earache Records. In response, Earache has removed from streaming sites the band’s entire catalogue of music released by Earache. Although it is not their doing, Decapitated apologises [...]

Fenriz of iconic Black Metal duo have recently published a Facebook post informing that they’ll enter the Necrohell 2 studios to record “something for the new album”. The last Darkthrone album is “The Underground Resistance” and was released in 2013. [...]

Classic Rock Russia has posted a 27-minute video report on Moonspell’s performance at Moscow’s DarkSide Festival on July 3rd. The footage, directed by Inna Ford, is streaming below: First they brought the dark flames to their native country – and then set the rest of the world aflame with milestone records such as Irreligious and [...]

1. What has changed with the release of your debut album? First of all, thank you for giving us, Terror Empire, the opportunity to divulge our work. And congrats for the persistence that you have reveled with The Black Planet over the years. With this new record we’re being seen as a more serious band, [...]

As we have previously published, Heavenwood are recording their upcoming album “The Tarot Of The Bohemians – Part. 1″. Recently, the band has announced another special guest which will be featured in the album, along with other guest such as Franky Constanza (Dagoba),  Daniel Cardoso (Anathema) or Sandra Oliveira (Blame Zeus). This time, it is [...]

French Technical Death Metal masters Gorod have released “Celestial Nature”, the first single from their upcoming record “A Maze Of Recycled Creeds”. The album is scheduled to be out on October 16 via Listenable records and Unique Leader in North America. You can listen to the track below. The band comments on “Celestial Nature”: “The [...]