All posts by Filipe Gomes

Greetings! Thank you for having this interview with us! 1 – To start, please introduce yourself and the band. Hey, readers of The Black Planet. It’s a pleasure to have our band featured on this website. I used to come to your Orbit Fest events, years ago! My name is Rui Alexandre, and I play [...]

The mysterious Swedish band Ghost have leaked a new song from their highly awaited upcoming album “Infestissumam”. “Monstrance Clock” is the name of the track, featured on their second album, due to be released on April 16 via Loma Vista Recordings. “Infestissumam” track listing: 01. Infestissumam 02. Per Aspera Ad Inferi 03. Secular Haze 04. [...]

Slawek ‘Mortifer’ Archangielskij of Polish death metal giants Hate has suddenly passed away. The band issued the following statement: “At night 5th/6th April near a German town of Munchberg, our friend, best comrade and longtime bass player unexpectedly passed away. After the show in Stuttgart last night he went to sleep and never woke up. [...]

Once more, the Vagos Open Air organizers have announced new additions to this year’s band line-up. The new bands are the Thrash metal legends Testament, Greek Rotting Christ, and the Portuguese oldschool Power/Thrash Metal band WEB. Already confirmed are the following acts: 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 [...]

Swedish Tech Death Metal icons Meshuggah have released a video for the song “I am Colossus” from their latest album “Koloss”. Visually resembling the works of Tool, the video is an eerie journey, Produced by Owe Lingvall and directed / animated by Magnus Jonsson… [...]

  Guitarist David Parland, also known as Blackmoon passed away last week (March 19th) at the age of 42. The news came from the Facebook profile of fellow Swedish guitarist and life-long friend Lord Ahriman, who co-founded Dark Funeral with David Parland in 1993. He commented: “A couple of days ago I was reached by [...]

  The already established Vagos Open Air has announced 3 new addictions to this year’s edition. Coming from Portugal there’s Secret Lie, followed by well-known Finnish band Moonsorrow and hailing from the UK come the oldschool heavy metal act Saxon. So far, the following bands are confirmed for the 2013 edition of the festival: Saxon [...]

The legendary MOTÖRHEAD have entered the studio to record their new album. The album is scheduled to be released in the late summer weeks. The successor of 2010’s “The Wörld Is Yours” should include songs such as “Outsider” and “Silence When You Speak to Me”. Cameron Webb, longtime producer is again selected to record the new [...]

  Even though Behemoth haven’t published much information regarding the successor of “Evangelion”, the band has been posting small updates in the shape of picture on the official Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/behemoth ). The band posted a picture and commented “Magick is happening…”, sharing the information that they’re recording at Hertz Studios, which has a web-page [...]

Jon Schaffer himself has published the news about the band. Schaffer wrote on the band’s Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/OfficialIcedEarth ): Hello friends! I want to thank you very much for the Happy Birthday wishes! Myself and the band are blessed to have fans like you guys. As you can see in the photo, Stu and I [...]

French dissonant black metal act AOSOTH has released a second song from the new full-length album entitled “IV: Arrow In Heart”. The album is scheduled to be coming out in April 16th, worldwide distribution by Agonia Records. You can listen to the song “Temple Of Knowledge” below. The album’s track listing is as follows: “IV [...]

Finnish folk metal act Korpiklaani have parted ways with Juho Kauppinen. Juho himself stated: “I have decided to set my goals elsewhere, as a result of which Korpiklaani will go on without me from now on. The band was a prominent part of my life for long, but after these eight and a half years [...]

Former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr has died at the age of 56. The legendary musician had been suffering from multiple sclerosis for many years, and although an official cause of death has not yet been revealed, the band reports that Burr passed away in his sleep last night at his home. Clive Burr joined [...]

Greetings guys, and welcome to The Black Planet! First of all, thanks for accepting to do this interview, we appreciate it. 1 – Let’s start with a brief introduction, to those who don’t know this project, Who and what is Cognizance? Henry: Essentially, its a fat guy and a small Chinaman writing some metal!   [...]