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Marduk is currently in the studio. According to the group, the effort has been titled “FrontSchwein” and will tentatively be released in January 2015. http://www.facebook.com/Mardukofficial [...]

Saturday promised 30 bands, 9 dj’s and, of course, the late hours of the first night meant that it would have consequences on the second day. But, with exactly one hour delay, we all could still be well organized. Starting with one of the biggest festival revelations for us: nationals ASIMOV. One drum, one distorted [...]

You are certainly familiarised with the city of Speyer, in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany. At least you’ve heard about it, right? If you haven’t it means that you’ve been passing far away from some of the best European black metal. As for us, we returned to that historic city six months after the SPEYER [...]

Valada is a quiet place located 60 kms North from Lisbon, thus offering an interesting location to gather rockers from different latitudes. On top of that, this small town is not strange to loud and fast live shows, once it held, many years ago, the dead Festival Tejo, where bands as Moonspell and Ramp played [...]

The band has teamed up with No Clean Singing to premiere the track “Paien”, which can be heard below. This is the first song made available from the upcoming album “Memoria Vetusta III – Saturnian Poetry” 01. Prelude 02. Paien 03. Tellus Mater 04. Forhist 05. Henosis 06. Metaphor Of The Moon 07. Clarissima Mundi [...]

Swedish Horror Death Metal super group Bloodbath have finally revealed the identity of their new singer after a few months of secrecy and speculation. Paradise Lost’s Nick Holmes is the new frontman! Jonas Renkse commented: “Ever since I got into Lost Paradise back in 1990, Nick Holmes has been one of my favourite growling vocalists [...]

Stoner/doom metal maniacs ELECTRIC WIZARD have unleashed their new video, featuring “SadioWitch”, the second single advance off their upcoming new album “Time To Die”. The footage was directed by Shazzula Vultura and its content can be considered NSFW. About the concept behind this video, nothing better than  the band itself to describe it: the film is [...]

Exactly one month before the first riff is played and the first frame is screened, Amplifest announced the complete running order for this year Porto’s dark arts festival. And it couldn’t start better with YOB opening the hostilities on Saturday, at Hard Club’s main Stage. Even if the option between PALLBEARER OR PHARMAKON will not [...]

If you’re a Death Metal fan you certainly remember that mighty death metalers CENTINEX have disbanded in April 2, 2006. Even if they had a live show already scheduled for the 13th of May that year they eventually cancelled it and disappear. The good news came with the announcement that Centinex have reformed in January [...]

The highly awaited new album by Drone/Stoner pioneers Earth has been officially published online for everyone to listen via streaming. Listen below: Primitive And Deadly by Earth [...]

Czech black metallers CULT OF FIRE will release their 4th studio output entitled “Čtvrtá Symfonie Ohně” (The Fourth Symphony of Fire) on the 8th of December 2014. According to the band, It was originally planned to be released after Triumvirát, but since the fascination with India was so strong, everything else was put aside. Take a look at the [...]

Obscure Swiss cosmic entity known in the terrestrial world as Darkspace have revealed a teaser of what their next album will sound like. You can listen to this exclusive stream below. Darkspace will  perform one of their rare live appearances in Switzerland, on October 8, included in the lineup of the Helvete Underground festival. [...]

A few weeks after the 2014 edition, UNDER THE BLACK SUN bill for the next year is already taking shape with the first five bands already confirmed. After the start with Swedish cult band CRAFT, profiting from their recently announced wave of first live shows ever, also soon announced was the name of ISVIND: a band [...]

THE HAUNTED are now launching the video clip for the album’s opening track “Cutting Teeth.” The album, “Exit Wounds”, has already been released in Europe (August 25) and on September 2nd it will be unleashed in North America via Century Media Records. [...]