All posts by Filipe Gomes

Swedish Black Metal band Shining will be releasing their eighth full length album on the 29th of October. This will be their second album to be released through Spinefarm Records, a sub-label of Universal Music Group. A trailer for “Redefining Darkness”, the eighth full-length album from Swedish extreme metallers Shining, can be seen below. Kvarforth commented on the fact that this [...]

  Infernus from the Norwegian legendary band Gorgoroth has fired Pest, the vocalist. The band commented: “Out of respect for and loyalty to Gorgoroth’s audience and collaborators, Infernus has kicked Pest out of the band, effective immediately. This after Pest informed the band that he would not be prioritizing doing the upcoming Latin American tour [...]

Three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot have been found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in a prison colony. Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, were handed the sentence by a judge in Moscow amid a wave of protests around the world. The three [...]

    If you missed the report of Day 1, you can read it here. Day 2 So the first day was gone, and there wasn’t much time to rest, either. Since the festival only opens it’s gates at 15:00, there was time to have a walk around the village, eat something, or for some [...]

  Every year usually on the first weekend of August, thousands of metalheads travel to the small town of Vagos, near Aveiro for the Vagos Open Air metal festival. 2012 is the year of the 4th edition, and in just 4 years, this festival has already become a mark in the Heavy Metal scene in [...]

During a show in Indianapolis, while the band was playing the initial riff of the song “Wasted Years”, Bruce Dickinson lost his patience with a fan. Bruce shouted: “Oh, for fuck’s sake, the baldguy in the white shirt, you’ve been texting for the last fucking three songs… you’re a wanker!” You can watch this scene [...]

Swedish Katatonia have a sample of their song “Lethean” streaming on the video teaser for their upcoming tour. “Dead Ends Of Europe” tour is scheduled to present the band’s latest album “Dead End Kings” which is scheduled to be released on August 27/28. Previously there has been released a lyrics video for the song “Dead Letters“. [...]

Vagos Open Air 2012 has published the time schedule for the artists that will play in this year’s edition: Ticket store opening – 14H00 Opening of the gates – 15H00 August 3rd: 17H00 – DISAFFECTED 17H45 – NORTHLAND 18H45 – ELUVEITIE 20H15 – ENSLAVED 22H00 – ARCTURUS 00H00 – AT THE GATES 01H30 – NASUM August 4th: 17H00 – MINDLOCK 17H45 – CHTHONIC 18H45 [...]

 Jon Lord passed away on Monday (July 16) at age 71 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Lord, who was known for his keyboard virtuosity and his reinvention of the Hammond B-3 organ sound, co-wrote such PURPLE classics as “Smoke On The Water” and “Child In Time”, among others. Lord and drummer Ian Paice [...]

After the first day of concerts and partying, and also surviving the first night in the camping, after having some breakfast and other necessities, we started our second day quite early by going to the Temple to see GLORIOR BELLI at 11:00 . Another underrated French band, who put up a good show, playing some [...]

After the pre-festival partying on the night before, some people were already wasted on the ground when the sun came up.   Time for some breakfast, and head to the festival site, to see the decoration for this year. Rusty metal shaped artifacts could be found on the site, like the big Hellfest tree with [...]

Clisson, a small town part of Brittany in western France is usually quiet for almost an entire year, but when June arrives it is invaded by dozens of thousands of metalheads anxious for a good time and to watch some of their favorite bands in one of the biggest metal festivals all around Europe: Hellfest. [...]

Swedish Black Metallers Marduk will join forces with Immolation for a tour covering the European continent. Named “Serpent Sermon Tour”, name taken from Marduk’s latest album, it will start in August and will extend until October. There is one date scheduled for Portugal, in Lisbon, at September 20th. You can view the flyer below:   [...]

New Zealand death metal stars Ulcerate have been robbed during their first US tour. The band published the following update on their facebook page: “We had our van broken into in New York last night at our accom. We’ve lost all our guitar gear (preamps, effects units), some drum equipment, stage banner and all of [...]