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Invictus Productions has set March 13th as the international release date for the Apostate Viaticum highly anticipated debut album, “Before the Gates of Gomorrah”. One of the most exciting new bands Invictus has come across lately, Apostate Viaticum feature in their ranks a number of Irish metal veterans, largely evolving out of the band Morphosis, whose roots stretch [...]

Portuguese blasphemous Death Metal act Pestifer have revelead a new song “Mars Exult”. “Mars Exult” is the first single taken from the band’s debut album “Execration Diatribes”. The album is scheduled to be released on February 14th by Lavadome Productions. Execration Diatribes by PESTIFER “Execration Diatribes” (Lavadome Productions) 1. March of the Dead Orchestra 2. [...]

Experimental New York death metal band Pyrrhon (pronounced “peer-on”) have partnered up with Willowtip records (North America) and Throatruiner (Europe) to release new material. “We’re absolutely thrilled to be working with these two fantastic labels, as clichéd as that might be. Willowtip has been the foremost name in weirdo death metal mutations since we were [...]

Florida death metal legends OBITUARY have shared the first single off their forthcoming, self-titled album. You can listen to the new Obituary’s track “Sentence Day”, while watching its video, below. Obituary is due out March 17th, 2017 on CD/LP/Digital. Physical and digital pre-orders are available now via Relapse Records. Additionally, OBITUARY are touring as part [...]

Nowegian Symphonic Black Metal kings Dimmu Borgir have recently announced the release of “Forces of the Northern Night” DVD. The release date is scheduled to April 14th and will be distributed via Nuclear Blast. The package includes a pair of Dimmu Borgir live performances. The first one is a 2011 concert recorded in Oslo, Norway. [...]

Norwegian folk metal masters Trollfest, icelandic black Misthyrming and Nadra, and thrashers Ranger and Rankor are new aditions to the billing for 2017 of SMSF – Santa Maria Summer Fest. The festival has already announced the names Exodus, Orphaned Land, Mão Morta to headline the festival billing. The groups Wolfbrigade, Urfaust, Hypothermia, Fuse, Process Of [...]

Death metal legends Morbid Angel’s guitarist Trey Azagthoth has checked in at his Facebook page with the following update on the band’s upcoming ninth studio album. After announcing last year that they have signed with UDR Music for all territories exclusively outside Japan. “We have all the drums recorded for the new record, performed by Scott [...]

It’s another historical and major event in portuguese underground history. “Simbióticos” celebrates Simbiose’s 25th anniversary in a CD compilation featuring 23 bands, not only portuguese ones, but also from Spain, Belgium and specially from Brazil. The CD will be out in stores in early January via Raging Planet Records . The idea of making a [...]

PULVIS ET UMBRA is an Italian death metal band formed in 2001. The band name derives from Horace’s (Roman poet) quotation and literally translates from the latin to “Dust and shadow”. With two demos and two full length album released: Reaching the End (2012) and Implosion of Pain (2014) they still remain relatively unknown. They have [...]

Historical US based thrash band EXODUS have joined the billing for next year’s edition of SMSF – Santa Maria Summer Fest as their healiner. The festival has already announced names such as Orphaned Land, Mão Morta, Wolfbrigade, Urfaust, Hypothermia, Fuse, Process Of Guilt, Malthusian, Clitgore and Tales For The Unspoken. The 2017 edition of the [...]

Death metal veterans DEICIDE have parted ways with guitarist Jack Owen. A replacement has been announced as Mark English (MONSTROSITY). One of the founding members of CANNIBAL CORPSE, Owen joined DEICIDE in 2004 and played on the latter band’s last four studio albums: “The Stench Of Redemption” (2006), “Till Death Do Us Part” (2008), “To Hell [...]

London-based shapeshifters CODE will release a new EP titled “Lost Signal” on January 25th via Agonia Records. Watch a video trailer for this release at: “Lost Signal” is a meeting of ages and a blurring of lines. In the Summer of 2015, CODE spent some time in a studio in England to experiment with tracks [...]

With Orphaned Land and Wolfbrigade already confirmed for 2017’s edition of Santa Maria Summer Fest, Mão Morta, Urfaust, Malthusian, Clitgore and Tales For The Unspoken have been announced as new additions to the festival roster. The even will happen on June 8 to the 10th. €20 tickets are already sold out. Until January 31st, tickets [...]

French satanic black metallers ANTAEUS are back after almost a decade of inactivity. The band that has brought us works like “Cut Your Flesh and Worship Satan” or “De Principii Evangelikum”are now starting a new chapter in their career with “Condemnation”. The album is set to come out on the 18th of November, via Norma [...]