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The first chapter of the Mosher Fest will take place in the States Club, in Coimbra, on December 6th. The line-up for this fest is Analepsy, Primal Attack, WAKO and Switchtense. The shows are set to start at 9:30 pm, and afterwards there’s an after-party until 4 am.The tickets are on sale and cost 10 [...]

Bloodbath have released a new video for the track “Church of Vastitas”, which can be seen below,  from their upcoming record “Grand Morbid Funeral”. This is the band’s first album with Nick Holmes (Paradise Lost), and it is set to be released on November 17th, via Peaceville Records. [...]

The organization of Santa Maria Summer Fest has announced the fest’s first bands confirmations and the dates. The festival will take place between 12 and 14 of June in Beja, and the line up, so far, consists of Satanize, Terror Empire, Sedna, Marvel Lima, and Children of Technology. More information will be released soon. [...]

The swedish group Centinex have realsed a new track , which can be streamed below. The song is called “Rotting Below” and is featured on the group’s new long play relase, “Redeeming Filth”, the first one in nine years. The album is set to be released on November 21st via Agonia Records.   [...]

HATE ETERNAL have announced the addition of drummer Chason Westmoreland to the group’s ranks. The native of Las Vegas, Nevada has already laid down drum tracks for the band’s forthcoming album, the title and release date of which have yet to be revealed. Westmoreland will also join the band on the upcoming tour, which is [...]

FEAR FACTORY have hit the studio to begin tracking their new album. Guitarist Dino Cazares shared the following tweet from the sessions, which are taking place under longtime cohort Rhys Fulber and engineer Mike Plotnikoff. Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Killswitch Engage) will mix the affair, which will receive a release next year on Nuclear Blast. Day [...]

The organizers of the annual Meca of extreme Metal that is the SWR Barroselas Metalfest have started to announce the first bands that will be present at the 18th edition of the festival. Entombed A.D., Impaled Nazarene, Shining (Swe), Minsk, Zatokrev, Ahab (Ger), Incinerate (US/Can), Internal Suffering (Col), Killimanjaro (PT), Neuroma (UK), Midnight Priest, Equaleft. Ticket [...]

French black metallers HELL MILITIA have announced a small European tour for the second half of November, still promoting their 2012 album “Jacob’s Ladder”. The French quartet will be joined by Swedish black metal band KILL and Slovenians progressive black metalers ATER ERA.  The expedition will kick off in Germany on November 21st and continue in the [...]

Portuguese obscure Death metal outfit INFRA will release their debut studio work through North American infamous label Nuclear War Now!. The 7″ will arise by the title of “Initiation On The Ordeals Of Lower Vibrations” and is expected in early 2015. After three well succeeded live shows earlier this year, the Lusitanian collective has made an [...]

Lisbon’s Burning Light Festival has enlarged it’s band line up, adding again some important underground acts to the band roster. Portuguese black metalers MORTE INCANDESCENTE and new project REDEMPTION that will premiere their debut EP “We All Die The Same”, expected soon. Also confirmed last week were British death grinders OBLIVIONIZED and German outstanding duo [...]

Lisbon will receive one of the most important doom metal gatherings of recent years, as Notre Damme Productions have confirmed Italian black doomsters FORGOTTEN TOMB and Irish doom metal veterans MOURNING BELOVETH as part of the next UNDER THE DOOM FESTIVAL. The event will occupy the RCA club during two days, next February, and will [...]

After the announcement of a Finnish day at Under the Black Sun next year, soon some rumours started about the hypothetical headliners, the confirmation came today, with the organisers announcing IMPALED NAZARENE as the Finnish headliner. Mika Luttinen’s sick squad will command a night where HORNA, BAPTISM and TOTALSELFHATRED were already confirmed. In other news, [...]

Poland’s Vesania have released a new song from their forthcoming album, “Deus Ex Machina”. The track, “Dismay”, can be listened to below. “Innocence”, a second track can also be found below in this article. Orion comments on “Dismay“: “I often hear the opinion, and I agree with it – this album has no “single,” each track [...]

AMON AMARTH will tour Europe in January/February for a month long tour in regional UK, regional France and Spain/Portugal. The band commented: “UK, Portugal, Spain, France and UK… get ready this January for a Viking invasion! We’ll be making an extensive UK expedition where we’ll be pillaging smaller clubs in virtually every nook and cranny [...]