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Extremely surprising news from the Arch Enemy camp. Highly celebrated, longtime vocalist Angela Gossow has left the band! Along with a statement announcing Gossow’s departure, Arch Enemy have also revealed the Agonist‘s Alissa White-Gluz as the group’s new frontwoman. A publicity photo of the band’s new lineup can be seen above. Angela Gossow took over for [...]

On Monday, Mar. 10, Decapitated entered Hertz Studio in Bialystok, Poland to begin recording their sixth album. The untitled album will be out sometime in September via Nuclear Blast and will feature their new drummer Michal Lysejko, who toured with the band earlier this year in support of Lamb of God. It’s also worth noting [...]

Guitarist/vocalist Luc Lemay of Canadian technical death metallers GORGUTS has released the following statement: “I’m writing today to share with you that we will now have a new drummer sitting behind the kit for GORGUTS. Unfortunately, John [Longstreth] won’t be playing with us anymore. When I first asked John, Colin [Marston, bass] and Kevin [Hufnagel, guitar] [...]

It’s always good news when central Lisbon offers you an underground concert evening, and we sure are glad to have whiteness the surprising last Thursday at Sabotage Club, in Cais do Sodré. Confirmed at the last hour, nationals BICHO DO MATO  were not a bad start, even if in a significantly different sound orientation. Portuguese blues [...]

  Portuguese black metal band LUX FERRE have announced that their new album will be entitled “Excaecatio Lux Veritatis”. The new effort from the creators of “Antichristian War Propaganda” and “Atrae Materiae Monumentum” have also estimated the release date till the end of this year. Below follows the band’s update through their Facebook page: We have [...]

Icelandic obscure black metalers SVARTIDAUDI have recently revealed some news about their forthcoming work, to be entitled “The Synthesis of Whore and Beast “, has shown in the band’s announcement in their Facebook page: Transmission: Vibrating from the centre of a dead sun and manifested in the terrible shadow cast by the sect’s debut offering, [...]

Nexilva have released a new track from their upcoming album, Eschatologies, which is out April 7th. [...]

French post-hardcore / black metalers CELESTE have recently announced a two weeks tour in France, Spain and Portugal, and the kick-off will take place in Paris, the 30th April. Today we’ve been notified that the tour will hit Lisbon, on the 7th May, in República da Música. The event is presented by Goodlife HQ and will include the [...]

According to NBC San Diego, Lambesis entered a change of plea and admitted to attempting to hire a hitman to murder his wife. He will be charged with one count of solicitation of another to commit murder and conspiracy to commit a crime, a felony! According to a court clerk, Lambesis will reportedly serve serve [...]

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 [...]