All posts by Filipe Gomes

The highly awaited Vagos Open Air has now a closed bill. Evergrey has been announced as the final band for this year’s edition! The other bands already confirmed are the following: SONATA ARCTICA | Fin | http://www.sonataarctica.info/ TESTAMENT | US | http://www.testamentlegions.com/ SAXON | UK | http://www.saxon747.com/ ICED EARTH | US | http://www.icedearth.com/ MOONSORROW | [...]

Vagos Open Air have announced 2 new bands to appear at this year’s edition. Well known Finnish Power Metal Sonata Arctica, and Portuguese Industrial Metal act Bizarra Locomotiva. The other bands already confirmed are the following: TESTAMENT | US | http://www.testamentlegions.com/ SAXON | UK | http://www.saxon747.com/ ICED EARTH | US | http://www.icedearth.com/ MOONSORROW | Fin | http://www.moonsorrow.com/ ROTTING CHRIST | Gre | http://www.rotting-christ.com/ LACUNA COIL | [...]

Last week, everyone in the Metal community got the shocking news of the passing away of one of the most influential guitarists around, legendary Jeff Hanneman from Slayer. A lot of speculation was going on regarding the cause of death, most people pointed the finger to his medical issue regarding an infection called necrotizing fasciitis [...]

It’s already been one year since the release of one of the best Post Black Metal albums: “Al Azif” by French underground act The Great Old Ones, via Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. In order to celebrate the anniversary, the band has released a single containing a cover of Björk’s “Bachelorette”, which you can listen at  http://www.lesacteursdelombre.net/productions/ . [...]

Barroselas, a quiet town during the whole year, except for the last weekend of April… For the past 16 years, all hell breaks loose thanks to the SWR Barroselas Metalfest. Last year the organizers celebrated the 15th anniversary of the most extreme festival in the country. Day #0 The festival started on Wednesday, 24th with [...]

Slayer has annouced the death of legendary Jeff Hanneman. The band issued the following statement on their Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/slayer/posts/10151624018260390 ):   [...]

Worldwide musical phenomenon Ghost have shown a rather kinky special edition box of their latest opus “Infestissumam”. This bible-shaped box is called “Phallos Mortuus Ritual Box Set”. The box contains the following items: 1 x Exclusive Papa Emeritus II Dildo Puppet-master T-Shirt (only available with this item) 1 x Bible box case with Gold embossed [...]

Swedish Black metallers Watain announced that the new album is finished. Three years after the release of “Lawless Darkness”, the band returned to the famous Necromorbus Studio in Sweden and begun working on what is to become their 5th full-length album, which is now fully done. The band commented: “After 120 nights of iron will [...]

Finnish metallers Children Of Bodom have released the first song off their upcoming album, Halo Of Blood, via iTunes. Alexi Laiho states: ‘Transference’ is a straight up Children Of Bodom to the core type song and therefore was a good pick for a video and obviously is one of our favorite tracks. It always had [...]

After recently releasing their first official DVD/Blu-Ray, “Live In Ancient Kourion”, ICED EARTH leader Jon Schaffer issued some new about their new album: “The new ICED EARTH studio album is expected to have a late 2013 release date. It will be titled ‘Plagues Of Babylon’ and we are very excited about how killer things are [...]

Porcupine Tree are on indefinite hiatus, according to band leader Steven Wilson, and it could be another 10 years before they record together again. He wants to focus on his solo project which recently released the album “The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)”, which means Porcupine Tree and his other band Blackfield [...]

  Polish highly acclaimed extreme act Behemoth have recently updated the fans with some news regarding the new album. Nergal published: Every piece of art is born in pain…and so is ours. We’ve spent last couple of months on pre-production and tracking down the songs in Hertz studio. We are producing the album collectively with [...]

Frontman Blake Judd has published a statement in which he clarifies the band’s current situation: “Apparently, some metal news sites have reported today that Nachtmystium has either ‘broken up’ or is on ‘indefinite hiatus.’ Neither of these things are true. The band has gone through some personnel changes in the last few months and I’ve [...]

Last April 6th, Slawek “Mortifer” died during his sleep in the middle of the tour. In a recent news update, after the end of the autopsy, Hate have announced the confirmed cause of death was a cardiac arrhythmia. Here’s what the band issued about this matter: “Last night our friend’s body arrived in Warsaw. Autopsy report [...]