All posts by Filipe Gomes

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] [...]

Nexilva have released a new track from their upcoming album, Eschatologies, which is out April 7th. [...]

According to NBC San Diego, Lambesis entered a change of plea and admitted to attempting to hire a hitman to murder his wife. He will be charged with one count of solicitation of another to commit murder and conspiracy to commit a crime, a felony! According to a court clerk, Lambesis will reportedly serve serve [...]

According to the Devin Townsend Twitter account, Z2 will be a double album: “So check it: Z2 is going to be a double record, one Ziltoid, one dTP, and the theme it’s ‘Ziltoid against the world’ ….so…” Devin added some info about the album saying: “When we post choir songs, you can choose to either belt it out [...]

After two years of touring and propagate their last full-length L’Enfant Sauvage, Gojira is currently writing new material for a yet-untitled new album. At this point, there are no more details available, but you can check two photos from their official Facebook page. Outside working on a new album, the band will also be putting [...]

Wattie Buchan has been transferred to the Hospital of Santa Marta , specialized in cardiology. The leader of punk band The Exploited remains hospitalized in Portugal after suffering a heart attack during a concert at República da Música in the Alvalade quarter, Lisbon, and it is not known when he will be discharged from the [...]

Yesterday the organizers of the W:O:A Metal Battle Portugal have announced the 4 bands that will give all they got at the SWR Barroselas Metalfest, hoping to win the spot to play at Wacken Open Air. We finally present you the final four of this year’s W:O:A Metal Battle Portugal, competing at the SWR final [...]

Biggest Metal festival in Portugal, SWR Barroselas Metalfest have started announcing bands in the past weeks, and recently another handful of names have been announced, check the list below. For more info, please check the promoter’s website: http://www.swr-inc.net 23-26 APRIL 2014 | SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST XVII METAL CHURCH | USA | www.facebook.com/OfficialMetalChurch DISCHARGE | UK [...]

Once again, a heavy night awaited those who did not mind the rain to go support the underground bands. Starting quite late (~1.30AM), Blame The Skies couldn’t make it, so the first band to step on stage was THIRDSPHERE from Castelo Branco. The band delivered their melodic Death/Heavy metal to the few people in the [...]