All posts by Filipe Gomes

Hailing from Portugal, Serrabulho were crafted in 2010, and with just one album entitled “Ass Troubles” (which was released via Vomit Your Shirt & Rotten Roll Rex on 2013), they have become one of the most active bands in the scene and now they’re back with their sophomore album “Star Whores”. Like a very personal interpretation [...]

American drone/doom/extreme metal legends Sunn O))) announces that their live, cathartic reverberations have been documented and can now be accessed via their live Bandcamp page. Compiled of taper and fan recordings, spanning from their 2002 show at the Blackbird in Portland up to their recent headlining show at Temples Festival 2015, these documents are presented [...]

In a hot summer night the darkness and grim have descended into Hard Club (Porto) for a ritualistic night of black metal. NEVOA, the Portuguese newcomers in the black metal scene, opened the night. They presented their debut record “Absence of Void”, released earlier this year, with a very atmospheric and intense ambiance. Although live the band is [...]

Portuguese Heavenwood are tracking their upcoming record “The Tarot Of The Bohemians” and have recently revealed another guest musician that will take part in the full-length. Sandra Oliveira, front-woman of Blame Zeus participated with vocal lines for the song “The High Priestess”, and expressed her excitement by saying “… it was a pleasure and an honor to participate in this.” [...]

Coimbra’s States Club is a small venue which has become a landmark when it comes to Metal concerts in the city of Students. This time three northern bands came to destroy the small stage of this club. The first band to play was THE LAST OF THEM from Aveiro, a Groove/Thrash metal band. In the [...]

Tim Yeung has officially left MORBID ANGEL, five years after he joined the band as the replacement for the group’s longtime drummer, Pedro “Pete” Sandoval. “I’ve been waiting to break the news for a while about this. Now seems like the proper time to do so. As some of you know, there have been some [...]

Bizarre act Maïeutiste have revealed a videoclip which showcases the first single of their upcoming album. “Absolution” can be heard below. “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 or doom. Maïeutiste delivers an unclassifiable yet universal [...]

Guðmundur Óli Pálmason, now ex-drummer of Iceland’s icons Sólstafir has released a public statement about his departure from the band. You can read it below and keep up with any updates at this location. Statement about my forced absence from Sólstafir “When I woke up on the morning of 20. January and looked at my [...]

MOONREICH will strike again in September with a new album. 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 through its dark and muggy atmospheres. “Pillars Of Detest” will [...]

The upcoming Regarde les Hommes Tomber album is called EXILE and will be released on September 19th and will be available in gatefold LP version (limited to 500 copies) as well as digipak and cassette tape. A collector box set limited to 200 copies is also available for preorder. It will contain: A gatefold color LP and a [...]

Polish black metallers, BLAZE OF PERDITION, have revealed a new track in anticipation of their third studio album, “Near Death Revelations” (set to be released on June 26th worldwide via Agonia Records). The song is called “Królestwo Niczyje” and can be listened below. Agonia Records recent signess, BLAZE OF PERDITION, have managed to built up [...]

Ia Pazuzu (The Abyss Of The Shadows) is the impending new long player from Swedish industrial black metal misery makers, Diabolicum. Now boasting the ill-omened vocal tidings of Shining’s Niklas Kvarforth, the record breaks the band’s 14-year slumber and boasts nine harrowing psalms of disease and torment. The record will see release on July 7th [...]

Swedish classic heavy metal band Ghost have released a stream of “Cirice”, the first new track from their upcoming album “Meliora”, which will be released on August 21st. You can stream the song below. The track moves between crunchy low chugging to melodic harmonizations, a pleasant piano interlude making an appearance. Vocalist Papa Emeritus III [...]

(Picture gallery below) Day 0 The SWR festival has completed 18 years of existence. Over time the festival has grown at a huge pace gaining a considerable notoriety among the European festivals and placed at the top of the metal festivals in Portugal, by its own effort and merit. So, once again, the pilgrimage to the [...]