All posts by Filipe Gomes

French Black Metal band Aosoth have recently announced that they are working on a new album, with a scheduled release for April 2013, marking their fourth full length and a follow-up to their previous album, “III – Violence & Variation”, from 2011. The title, tracklist and artwork of the new album are still unavailable, although [...]

Dave Grohl, has joined Queens Of The Stone Age to record drums for their next album. The band’s leader, Josh Homme, has confirmed the news to Radio 1’s Zane Lowe that Joey Castillo would be replaced on the band’s forthcoming album, their sixth. Apparent proof came with a picture on the band’s Facebook page, showing the name [...]

Anathema have announced that touring member Daniel Cardoso has joined the band full-time. The keyboardist will bring his additional talents as a producer and drummer into the fold, with mainman Daniel Cavanagh sure the results will create the “strongest incarnation” of the band. Cavanagh commented: “Anathema is delighted and proud to announce that Daniel Cardoso [...]

Cattle Decapitation have dropped off from the Autumn Apocalypse Tour that had Six Feet Under and Wretched as other filling bands on the bill. According to Cattle Decapitation frontman Travis Ryan, Chris Barnes who is the vocalist of Six Feet Under “sucker punched” him. Here’s what was you can read on his facebook page: “He couldn’t handle [...]

The vocalist may have an ally in the European Commission, who have weighed in on Poland’s national blasphemy law. Earlier this week it was reported that Behemoth frontman Adam “Nergal” Darski could be facing some jail time in Poland after ripping up a bible and calling the Catholic church “the most murderous cult on the planet” [...]

Mitch Lucker, the lead singer of Deathcore band Suicide Silence, died this Thursday of injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident in Huntington Beach, California, police said. Lucker, 28, was on a new Harley Davidson motorcycle driving in the Orange County city of Huntington Beach on Halloween night when he lost control and crashed into a [...]

Norwegian veterans Enslaved have finally released their latest album entitled “Riitiir”. The band’s 12th album is out today and is also one of the most anticipated releases of the second semester of this year. Ivar Bjørnson, guitarist and founder of Enslaved commented: “It has been only two years since we last released an album (“Axioma Ethica Odini“], and [...]

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“. [...]