All posts by Filipe Gomes

Polish Death Metal veterans Decapitated have shared an advance track from their next album “Blood Mantra”. The song is entitled “The Blasphemous Psalm To The Dummy God Creation” and you can listen to it below. Recorded under the direction of Wojtek and Slawek Wiesawski at Hertz Studio in Bialystok, Poland, the new album is due out in [...]

Astarte frontwoman Maria ‘Tristessa’ Kolokouri has passed away after a battle with leukemia cancer at the young age of 37. A pioneer for female musicians in black and death metal, the Greek songstress played bass, guitar, keyboards and handled vocal duties for Astarte for well over a decade. The band released five full-length albums, the [...]

1349 have premiered a  new track “Cauldron” from their coming album “Massive Cauldron Of Chaos”. You can listen to it below. The new album will be released through Season Of Mist on September 30th. 1349 “Massive Cauldron of Chaos” 1. Cauldron 2. Slaves 3. Exorcism 4. Postmortem 5. Mengele’s 6. Golem 7. Chained 8. Godslayer [...]

Dutch death metal outfit Pestilence broke up in 1994 and reunited back in 2008 to release a succession of three full-length albums: “Resurrection Macabre”, “Doctrine” and “Obsideo”. After that three album run, band leader Patrick Mameli has now announced Pestilence is once again disbanding. He comments: “As of now, Pestilence is no longer active in [...]

Tech-death band Beyond Creation is now revealing the first track taken from forthcoming new album “Earthborn Evolution.” Check out the song “Elusive Reverence” in the player below, hosted by Zero Tolerance. Pre-order info for “Earthborn Evolution” can be found at the Season of Mist shop here, and the album is due out October 24th, 2014. [...]

After escaping charges last year for allegedly attempting to incite a massacre, Varg Vikernes has now been sentenced for inciting racial hatred in France. TheLocal.no reports Vikernes has been fined the equivalent of ten thousand dollars and given a suspended prison sentence. Excerpts from the article and video footage are available below, courtesy of Ruptly TV. [...]

After starting to work on the new record in March, introducing the new drummer Michał Łysejko and publishing a news update informing that they were already recording the new record, the band announced this week that they will release their next album, “Blood Mantra” on September 6th. Founding guitar Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka commented: “Extreme and groove – [...]

Cattle Decapitation have announced that they have canceled their upcoming European tour, which included dates with Possessed as well as several music festivals. The band did not point out a precise reason for the cancellation: “We regret to inform our fans that due to unforeseen circumstances that are beyond our control, Cattle Decapitation will not be performing [...]

Hellfest 2014 – Day #1 Every year, by the month of June, metalheads from around the world gather in the small town of Clisson for 3 crazy days of Metal and everything related to it. 2014 saw the 9th edition of Hellfest take place this last weekend. Once again with a killer artist roster, a [...]

Day 3 Stage 1 The last day started with an excellent show from BONDED BY  BLOOD. This revival thrash metal band from California (USA), has great stage presence. In spite of not having a big audience, the performance was fast, straight to the point and exciting. The crowd went wild and there was mosh everywhere. Their [...]

Day 2 Stage 1 On the second day, the opening of the main stage was the responsibility of THE QUARTET OF WOAH. This new sensation Portuguese stoner band, introduced their latest record, “Ultrabomb”. The band gave their best, and played with heart and soul. It was a great show to watch, with a good ambiance, despite [...]

Day 1 Stage #1 The festival’s first official day started with ETERNAL  STORM. It was a nice show, of good melodic death metal, very interesting musical details, although they were playing for a very small audience. They were supposed to play on the secondary stage, but there was a line up change due to the cancellation [...]

Day 0 This year’s edition of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest started on the 23rd of April. This day 0, with free entrance, was the stage for the W:O:A Metal Battle Portugal. The four bands that disputed this final were NEBULOUS, REVOLUTION WITHIN, DESTROYERS OF ALL and DEMENTIA 13. All bands played their part really well, and [...]

Well known Swedish Black Metallers Craft, who have always been a “studio” band, have been confirmed to play live for the first time ever. Even after highly public acclaimed 1 demo and 4 albums, the band has always avoided playing live, but it seems that things have changed. So far there aren’t any other dates [...]