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SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms MAYHEM, ABORTED and others…

SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms MAYHEM, ABORTED and others…

SWR Barroselas Metalfest, one of the oldest european festivals focused entirely on extreme music, returns in 2017 for its 20th anniversary, scheduled for 28, 29 and 30 of April at the Village of Barroselas, northern Portugal. Confirmed so far are black metal legends Mayhem playing their magnum opus “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas”, Belgium death metal [...]

October 13, 2016 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms MAYHEM, ABORTED and others…

SCUM will release 1996 unpublished album

SCUM will release 1996 unpublished album

A one-of-a-kind album release by the almost forgotten SCUM band is expected by the end of 2016. The five elements band is a classic Finnish death metal band that was formed in 1990 in Parikkala (East Finland). Their start coincided with the onset of the Finnish death metal scene. Quickly discovered and  started working with [...]

October 8, 2016 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on SCUM will release 1996 unpublished album

DEATHSPELL OMEGA announce “The Synarchy of Molten Bones” EP

DEATHSPELL OMEGA announce “The Synarchy of Molten Bones” EP

French black metal titans DEATHSPELL OMEGA will release a new EP this November! “The Synarchy of Molten Bones” is scheduled to become available on November 8th, released via Norma Evangelium Diaboli. “The Synarchy of Molten Bones” will be Deathspell’s sixth EP. The work will feature four new songs and pre-order is already available via bands Bandcamp. Fans [...]

October 7, 2016 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on DEATHSPELL OMEGA announce “The Synarchy of Molten Bones” EP

GOTHIC signs with Loud Rage Music

GOTHIC signs with Loud Rage Music

Loud Rage Music proudly announces its recent agreement with one of the most well-known Romanian Metal bands, GOTHIC! Established back in 1992 by Alin Petrut in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains of Transilvania, Romania, the band became in a short period of time one of the most respected Metal bands in the country and kept the same status [...]

October 7, 2016 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on GOTHIC signs with Loud Rage Music

METHEDRAS release live video “Dead Memories”

METHEDRAS release live video “Dead Memories”

Italian Thrash/Death Killing Machine METHEDRAS have released a live video of the band performing “Dead Memories,” a track from 2014 Pavement Entertainment release “System Subversion”. The video was filmed in December 2015 at Sentrum (Kiev, Ukraine) during a performance in support of KREATOR. View the video at the following link: Order “System Subversion” from Pavement [...]

October 6, 2016 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on METHEDRAS release live video “Dead Memories”

MISANTHROPIC RAGE reveal debut album details

MISANTHROPIC RAGE reveal debut album details

Godz Ov War Productions is proud to present Misanthropic Rage‘s highly anticipated debut album, ‘Gates No Longer Shut’. A duo hailing from Poland, Misanthropic Rage are a literal whirlwind of avant-garde black metal. Aptly titled, ‘Gates No Longer Shut’ is a 40-minute firestorm of frayed logic, feverish frequencies, and ceremonial magick. With dissonant riffing colliding [...]

October 6, 2016 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on MISANTHROPIC RAGE reveal debut album details

LIBER NULL sets release date for debut album

LIBER NULL sets release date for debut album

Osmose Productions sets November 25th as the international release date for Liber Null‘s highly anticipated debut album, I – The Serpent. Unrelenting and unrepenting black metal in the vein of Marduk and Watain, Liber Null features members of Acherontas, Fides Inversa, Blut Aus Nord, and Frostmoon Eclipse. Liber Null embodies the dogma-shattering will to oppose the denigration of [...]

October 4, 2016 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on LIBER NULL sets release date for debut album

USURPRESS stream new album “The Regal Tribe”

USURPRESS stream new album “The Regal Tribe”

Uppsala’s death metal quartet, USURPRESS, are streaming their new studio album in full, prior to its September 23rd release date on Agonia Records. Touted as “forward thinking swedish death metal” by Metal Hammer UK, the record is available for streaming below: “The Regal Tribe” was recorded under the supervision of rising star producer Lawrence Mackrory (FKÜ, Darkane) while the [...]

October 4, 2016 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on USURPRESS stream new album “The Regal Tribe”

DERANGED debut first song from new album

DERANGED debut first song from new album

Cult Swedish death metallers DERANGED have revealed the first song from their upcoming new album, “Struck By A Murderous Siege”, due out on October 28th via Agonia Records. Listen to the track “Reverent Decomposition” at: The band’s first studio album in five years (and their ninth altogether) was recorded at Berno Studio (Amon Amarth, The Crown, Witchery) in Malmö, Sweden. The album’s [...]

October 3, 2016 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on DERANGED debut first song from new album

ROOT announce details about new album

ROOT announce details about new album

ROOT, one of the original pre-second-wave black metal bands (formed in 1987 by iconic vocalist Jiri ‘Big Boss’ Valter), from Czech Republic, are going to release a new studio album, “Kärgeräs – Return From Oblivion”, on November 25th via Agonia Records. In contrast to Bathory and Venom, ROOT took the black metal genre in a more refined direction, featuring Big Boss‘ characteristic clean [...]

September 30, 2016 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on ROOT announce details about new album

HARRI KAUPPINEN is releasing his debut album

HARRI KAUPPINEN is releasing his debut album

HARRI KAUPPINEN is releasing TODAY (September 30th, 2016) his debut solo album “Helvetin Laulut” in CD, cassette and digital formats through Concorde Music Company. Made in collaboration with producer/mixing engineer Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, Sentenced, KYPCK, …), the album wanders on in a singer-songwriter-style, set in a melancholic and gloomy Finnish Rock scenery, every once in a while stepping in depths [...]

September 30, 2016 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on HARRI KAUPPINEN is releasing his debut album

SAHG releases “Memento Mori”

SAHG releases “Memento Mori”

SAHG is a Norwegian band formed in Bergen in 2004. Their first released was the EP entitled “Godless” in 2005 that was quickly followed by the full-lengh “I” (2006). Their next full-length “II” (2008) was still released under Regain Records. After which they moved till the current day to Indie Recordings, releasing the full length “III” (2010) and “Delusions of [...]

September 23, 2016 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on SAHG releases “Memento Mori”

FORÇA MACABRA celebrates their 25th anniversary

FORÇA MACABRA celebrates their 25th anniversary

FORÇA MACABRA was formed in 1991 in Punkaharju and currently moved to Helsinki area, Finland. This is an unique band since all band members are Finnish with no obvious connection to Brazil or Portugal, but they adopted a band name and write all lyrics in Portuguese. They explain this fact with the the founding members passion [...]

September 20, 2016 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on FORÇA MACABRA celebrates their 25th anniversary

AEPHANEMER release video for “Unstoppable”

AEPHANEMER release video for “Unstoppable”

French melodic death metal group Aephanemer have released a video for their track “Unstoppable” that is available bellow. This song was taken from the band’s much anticipated debut album ‘Memento Mori’, scheduled for a release on September 16th, 2016 via Primeval Records. This video was shot by director Cédric Gleyal of Uriprod Video. ‘Memento Mori’ was [...]

September 9, 2016 Rita Limede News Comments Off on AEPHANEMER release video for “Unstoppable”