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According to the Devin Townsend Twitter account, Z2 will be a double album: “So check it: Z2 is going to be a double record, one Ziltoid, one dTP, and the theme it’s ‘Ziltoid against the world’ ….so…” Devin added some info about the album saying: “When we post choir songs, you can choose to either belt it out [...]

After two years of touring and propagate their last full-length L’Enfant Sauvage, Gojira is currently writing new material for a yet-untitled new album. At this point, there are no more details available, but you can check two photos from their official Facebook page. Outside working on a new album, the band will also be putting [...]

Wattie Buchan has been transferred to the Hospital of Santa Marta , specialized in cardiology. The leader of punk band The Exploited remains hospitalized in Portugal after suffering a heart attack during a concert at República da Música in the Alvalade quarter, Lisbon, and it is not known when he will be discharged from the [...]

TAAKE, AETERNUS and SLEGEST will tour Europe in May 2014. The three bands from Dark Essence Records will cover France, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany, featuring 10 shows. Both Aeternus & Slegest released new albums in 2013, namely …and the Seventh His Soul Detesteth and Løyndom while Taake released the compilation Gravkamre, Kroner og Troner, celebrating [...]

Norwegian cult band MAYHEM has unveiled yesterday their new lyric video, “Psywar”, that was spread through several media around the globe. “Psywar” is also available for pre-orders has 7” EP format, through Season of Mist. The release date for the single is April 25th. The 7″ also features “From Beyond Event Horizon”, an unreleased track [...]

HELL FAST ATTACK has announced the main headliner for this year edition of the Czech underground festival. So swedish orthodox black metallers ONDSKAPT will lead this year lineup has stated by the organizers: The last confirmed band is the headliner of the festival – ONDSKAPT from Sweden. They come back to the Czech Republic two [...]

British punk band THE EXPLOITED attacked the stage of the Republica da Musica, in Lisbon last night (February 13) with HATEBREED, NAPALM DEATH, and PRIMAL ATTACK in the Portuguese stage of RESURRECTION OF CHAOS TOUR 2014, however, the concert was interrupted because the vocalist Wattie was clearly not able to continue on stage. According to [...]

French post black metallers THE GREAT OLD ONES, have recently announced that their second album, entitled “Tekeli-Li”, will be released on April 16th, 2014 by Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions. It was recorded and mixed by Cyril Gachet (Year of No Light), and mastered by Alan Douches (Cannibal Corpse). The new album is entirely based [...]

Yesterday the organizers of the W:O:A Metal Battle Portugal have announced the 4 bands that will give all they got at the SWR Barroselas Metalfest, hoping to win the spot to play at Wacken Open Air. We finally present you the final four of this year’s W:O:A Metal Battle Portugal, competing at the SWR final [...]

Biggest Metal festival in Portugal, SWR Barroselas Metalfest have started announcing bands in the past weeks, and recently another handful of names have been announced, check the list below. For more info, please check the promoter’s website: http://www.swr-inc.net 23-26 APRIL 2014 | SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST XVII METAL CHURCH | USA | www.facebook.com/OfficialMetalChurch DISCHARGE | UK [...]

Extreme Metal Attack has been announcing almost one band per day, since our last article about the event. Recently, Portuguese raw black metal band WAR MASTER has been announced as one of the highlights of this year edition. To headline the festival, Italian black/death outfit DEMONOMANCY are also joining the lineup, which also counts with Spanish [...]

Yesterday, besides the impressive death metal line up at Immolation’s concert in Lisbon, we were surprised by Side B’s announcement regarding the next edition of Sardinha de Ferro Festival: North American death metal veterans INCANTATION will return to Portuguese soil almost 10 years after their last appearance. They will headline the Benavente’s event, this year [...]

Recording sessions for Septicflesh‘s as-yet untitled new album have wrapped up with the group currently looking at a tentative summer release. Ten songs were tracked for the effort, including a collaboration with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. Logan Mader (Gojira, Fear Factory) mixed and mastered. The band stated: “We are really exhausted from the [...]

The yet untitled new album from Tales For The Unspoken should be out before the end of the first semester of this year. Vocalist Marco Fresco commented: “Our new album is scheduled to be released within the first semester of 2014, via Raising Legends / Raging Planet. We are currently in the studio, recording.” You [...]