All posts by Filipe Gomes

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 [...]

The organizers of the Vagos Open Air festival has announced that this year’s edition will have a 3rd day of concerts. There will be a pricing update, but all the people who buy tickets until April 23rd will be able to see 3 days for the price of 2. Vagos Open Air 2014 will take [...]

Montreal based death metallers KATAKLYSM have issued the following statement: “We are here today to announce that Oli Beaudoin will remain behind the throne as the drummer for KATAKLYSM on the next album and future tours. Max has informed that he cannot continue or return to the ranks at this time due to physical health [...]

This year’s edition of the well-known Vagos Open Air festival is almost taking it’s final shape. The organizers have recently announced Behemoth and Quartet Of Woah as new additions to the roster. Other bands previously revealed include: Kreator, Opeth, The Haunted, Annihilator, Soilwork, Epica, Sylosis, Angelus Apatrida, Gates Of Hell, Kandia, Requiem Laus and Murk. Vagos Open [...]

“The Edge Of Agony” is the title of the third new song to be revealed off ENTHRONED’s upcoming album, “Sovereigns” (out April 15th worldwide on Agonia Records). The follow up to the critically acclaimed “Obsidium” (2012) drifts from sonic blast beats to oppressive slower parts, melds together aggressive shredding with forceful riffs, and blends satanic [...]

Salão Brasil, the well known venue located downtown in Coimbra hosted a sold out show which brought once again the sensation alternative Rock band Linda Martini to the city that is know as the City of Students. Starting of with the progressive instrumental “Queluz Menos Luz”, which works great as an intro or interlude, the [...]

Barroselas will once again dress in black between 23 and 26 April for 17th Edition of Barroselas SWR Metalfest. At first glance , the small village of Barroselas Minho looks like a village like any other. Four thousand , one coffee every two corners , a supermarket and a sports complex would make it similar [...]

According to various sources, GWAR frontman Dave ‘Oderus Urungus‘ Brockie was found dead on the evening of March 23. No cause of death has been reported so far, but a member of the Richmond Police Department claims that Brockie, 50, was found dead sometime between 3pm and 7pm on March 23. Former GWAR bassist Mike Bishop said: [...]

Enslaved have announced via their Twitter page that they’re working on new material: Guess bands normally do this in press releases,why not a tweet:Ivar is writing-we’ll be rec’ing new album this fall! pic.twitter.com/5sZAqCDZB0 — Enslaved (@EnslavedBand) 16 março 2014 [...]

Extremely surprising news from the Arch Enemy camp. Highly celebrated, longtime vocalist Angela Gossow has left the band! Along with a statement announcing Gossow’s departure, Arch Enemy have also revealed the Agonist‘s Alissa White-Gluz as the group’s new frontwoman. A publicity photo of the band’s new lineup can be seen above. Angela Gossow took over for [...]

On Monday, Mar. 10, Decapitated entered Hertz Studio in Bialystok, Poland to begin recording their sixth album. The untitled album will be out sometime in September via Nuclear Blast and will feature their new drummer Michal Lysejko, who toured with the band earlier this year in support of Lamb of God. It’s also worth noting [...]

Guitarist/vocalist Luc Lemay of Canadian technical death metallers GORGUTS has released the following statement: “I’m writing today to share with you that we will now have a new drummer sitting behind the kit for GORGUTS. Unfortunately, John [Longstreth] won’t be playing with us anymore. When I first asked John, Colin [Marston, bass] and Kevin [Hufnagel, guitar] [...]