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GOODLIFE HQ will embark   on a two days acid journey next 7th and 8th February 2015. After promoting some well succeeded gigs with Celeste or Monarch, the organisers have already announced a significant list of bands to their major project – Burning Light Fest 2015. With Italian post black grinders THE SECRET headlining the band [...]

After starting to work on the new record in March, introducing the new drummer Michał Łysejko and publishing a news update informing that they were already recording the new record, the band announced this week that they will release their next album, “Blood Mantra” on September 6th. Founding guitar Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka commented: “Extreme and groove – [...]

Cattle Decapitation have announced that they have canceled their upcoming European tour, which included dates with Possessed as well as several music festivals. The band did not point out a precise reason for the cancellation: “We regret to inform our fans that due to unforeseen circumstances that are beyond our control, Cattle Decapitation will not be performing [...]

The 2014 edition of Oporto’s alternative festival AMPLIFEST is taking shape, already with 11 bands confirmed. From the last five aditions to the band bill, we find harsh sonorities coming from Germany, with drone doomsters BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS, as well as Celeste’s Danish incarnation HEXIS, carrying their demolishing 2014 effort “Abalam”. Like before, the [...]

German old school trashers TANKARD have recently premiered the music video for the track “R.I.B. (Rest In Beer)” and now you can watch the video here. The song is taken from the upcoming new album R.I.B., coming on June 20th, 2014 via Nuclear Blast Records. The clip was filmed in March 2014 under the direction of [...]

French black/death metalers SVART CROWN have announced that their drummer Nicolas “Ranko” Muller is leaving the band three years after joining the french black horde. The band has just completed their “Profane Tour 2014” and has also announced some cancellations for this summer. Below follows the comments of the band’s members regarding these latest developments:  Ranko [...]

Psychotic doom metalers ESOTERIC are looking for a new keyboardist once Jan Krause decided to part ways with the band after their last “European Dissonance 2014 Tour”. Krause has been with the band since 2012. The band from Birmingham has already announced the skills necessary for the future candidates as posted on their facebook page: [...]

American / Colombian black metal institution INQUISITION will have a date in lisbon on their next european tour. Notredame Productions announced that the show will take place on friday, the 25th July 2014, and also, that hellish black metalers IRAE e newcomers O CERCO will take charge of the oppening ceremonies. RCA Club will be [...]

The Portuguese festival AMPLIFEST as started the construction of the band bill, already confirming a quite significant list of names. With psychadelic post rock veterans SWANS as headlinners, their stoner compatriots YOB, doomsters PALLBEARER, dark drone project WOLVSERPENT and WOOVENHAND rockers will continue the North American quota. Last but not the least, PHARMAKON project will [...]

Well known Swedish Black Metallers Craft, who have always been a “studio” band, have been confirmed to play live for the first time ever. Even after highly public acclaimed 1 demo and 4 albums, the band has always avoided playing live, but it seems that things have changed. So far there aren’t any other dates [...]

American blackened sludge metal band WOLVHAMMER has revealed new details about their third studio album. It will be entitled Clawing Into Black Sun. In this new work, Wolvhammer mix “black metal, death rock, and punk into even more lethal volatile territory,” according to their label Profound Lore Records. The band also released the new single “Death [...]

  Canadian sludge doomsters DOPETHRONE will embark on a European three weeks tour starting the 23rd of June. The support band will be GURT, from United Kingdom. There are still some locations to be confirmed as shown below: Tour dates: 23.06.2014 – GBR, Birmingham – Asylum 2                 [...]

UNDER THE BLACK SUN festival has announced the full running order for the 2014th edition. The event will take place in the woods of Bornicke, at Bernau bei Berlin, in Germany, from 3 to 5 July 2014. This year, the German organisers present a festival with two stages and some non black metal bands that [...]

REVERENCE FESTIVAL is threatening to leave a strong mark in our 2014 festivals calendar.  Already counting with strong names such as Electric Wizard, Hawkind, Graveyard and more, the Portuguese organizers have recently confirmed six more bands to the band bill. According to Portuguese magazine Blitz, North Americans BARDO POND, WOODEN WAND, SLEEPY SUN, CAVE, DAUGHTERS [...]