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Grinders UTOPIUM have won the national final of Wacken Open Air warm up contest. The Portuguese act is going to present their grind/sludge next August at the world’s biggest metal festival. They follow last year countrymen Midnight Priest. The final took place at SWR Barroselas Metal Fest stage 3#, also with BESTA, SKINNING and WASTE. [...]

Following last years tradition, the portuguese organisation is making all concerts from stages 1# and 2# available online. You can follow this mythical festival through the link under: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/swr-16       [...]

North American death metal masters AUTOPSY will return with their sixth studio album titled ‘The Headless Ritual’, to be launched through  Peaceville Records, on June 2nd. Their new effort features the returning quartet of Chris Reifert, Eric Cutler, Danny Coralles, and Joe Trevisano, The album was recorded and mixed in April 2013 at Fantasy Studios in [...]

Irish post-black metal band ALTAR OF PLAGUES  has announced that their newest album, “Teethed Glory And Injury”, is now available for streaming, advancing the CD release programmed for April 30th, in North America via Profound Lore and in Europe through Candlelight Records. This is the third effort of the Irish group that promisses, once again, to break the [...]

North American grind masters PIG DESTROYER have announced that they will play some select European shows for next May and June. The band will be presenting their latest album “Book Burner”. European tour dates: 5/3 – Hasselt, Belgium – Muziekodroom 5/4 – Tilburg, The Netherlands – Neurotic Death Fest 6/22 – Essen, Germany – Turock (with MiseryIndex) [...]

French black/death metal horde SVART CROWN have recently streamed their full new “Profane “album online. This third work will be available in stores through Listenable Records on May 21st in the US, after beeing launched in Europe yesterday. You can ear the album through the link under: http://www.vs-webzine.com/InfoVS-Streaming+SVART+CROWNVS+webzine+et+Listenable+recrods+sont+heu-62344.html The band has also commented: Guys, the [...]

Doom metal legends BLACK SABBATH have streamed “God is Dead?”, the single from the upcoming album “13”, expected to be released on June 11th in the U.S. and June 10th in Europe. This is the first Black Sabbath album in 35 years to feature bassist Geeezer Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi and singer Ozzy Osbourne. The work  was [...]

Porcupine Tree are on indefinite hiatus, according to band leader Steven Wilson, and it could be another 10 years before they record together again. He wants to focus on his solo project which recently released the album “The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)”, which means Porcupine Tree and his other band Blackfield [...]

North American blackened sludge act DEAFHEAVEN have released via Facebook  a eight minute video preview of their forthcoming album “Sunbather”, that is expected in stores next June 2013. Their new effort will be available through Deathwish Inc. and you can take a glance at the video teaser below. Sunbather tracklist: 01. Dream House 02. Irresistible [...]

  Polish highly acclaimed extreme act Behemoth have recently updated the fans with some news regarding the new album. Nergal published: Every piece of art is born in pain…and so is ours. We’ve spent last couple of months on pre-production and tracking down the songs in Hertz studio. We are producing the album collectively with [...]

Canadian death metalers KATAKLYSM have announced Oli Beaudoin as their new drummer. The former Neuraxis member will sit behind the kit during the recording sessions for their new album, “Waiting For The End To Come” that should be released in late 2013/early 2014 via Nuclear Blast Records. Guitarist Jean-François Dagenais commented: Oli played with KATAKLYSM [...]

Frontman Blake Judd has published a statement in which he clarifies the band’s current situation: “Apparently, some metal news sites have reported today that Nachtmystium has either ‘broken up’ or is on ‘indefinite hiatus.’ Neither of these things are true. The band has gone through some personnel changes in the last few months and I’ve [...]

Last April 6th, Slawek “Mortifer” died during his sleep in the middle of the tour. In a recent news update, after the end of the autopsy, Hate have announced the confirmed cause of death was a cardiac arrhythmia. Here’s what the band issued about this matter: “Last night our friend’s body arrived in Warsaw. Autopsy report [...]

Portuguese band Heavenwood have parted ways with their guitarist Bruno Silva. A replacement has been found in Vitor Carvalho, known for his work in Demon Dagger. The band is currently working on their fifth album which, according to the group will be entitled “The Tarot Of The Bohemians – Part. 1”. The release date is scheduled [...]