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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 [...]

Once again, a heavy night awaited those who did not mind the rain to go support the underground bands. Starting quite late (~1.30AM), Blame The Skies couldn’t make it, so the first band to step on stage was THIRDSPHERE from Castelo Branco. The band delivered their melodic Death/Heavy metal to the few people in the [...]

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 [...]

Norsk melodic Black metalers SUBLIRITUM have recently unveiled a new trailer for the upcoming new album “Downfall”, containing the full “Choir of Blasphemy” track. The band has also announced the release date for this new effort, which is hitting stores at March 3rd, via Battlegod Productions. Their third full length contains eight tracks, focusing on [...]

Legendary Florida death metalers MASSACRE have recently revealed some updates concerning their future album, which marks the return of the American band to official activities. “Back From Beyond”, will be in stores on March 24th in Europe and April 1st in North America via Century Media Records. The band is said to be returning to the [...]

American atmospheric doom metalers AGALLOCH have recently announced the name of their future album, which will be entitled “The Serpent & The Sphere”. The album was recorded at Cloud City and mixed at Everything Hz by Billy Anderson. The Americans will be working with an European partner for their new album release. The Serpent & [...]

Portuguese death/grind outfit HOLOCAUSTO CANIBAL has inked a worldwide deal with Bizarre Leprous Production for the worldwide release of their new EP, named “Larvas” with the exact release date yet to be announced. This new effort was recorded at 213 Studios in Portugal by producer Bruno Silva (Hevaenwood, Grunt) and was mixed and mastered at Hertz Studio (Behemoth, Vader and others) [...]

The bastards are almost leaving the primary school! Yes, Colhões de Ferro is moving towards the 10th edition, after the well succeed 9th one. Caldas da Rainha welcomed another successful event, this year (again) more focused on the grind sonorities, with the usual full house. We went there only for the night concerts, which started [...]

Norway black metal band SVARTTJERN have just revealed the first track of their upcoming new álbum entitled “Ultimatum Necrophilia”. The track is titled “Shallow Preacher”, and you can  listen to it below. The álbum will be released on the 7th February, by NoiseArt Records. The band will embarque in an European tour supporting Behemoth and Cradle of [...]