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Salão Brasil, the well known venue located downtown in Coimbra hosted a sold out show which brought once again the sensation alternative Rock band Linda Martini to the city that is know as the City of Students. Starting of with the progressive instrumental “Queluz Menos Luz”, which works great as an intro or interlude, the [...]

Black doomsters BETHLEHEM as recently announced that two of their members are quitting the band. So, vocals Guido Meyer de Voltaire and guitar player Olaf Eckhardt have left, under the following comment from the band: Bethlehem might need you! Unfortunately some musicians have things going on in their personal lives making them unable to commit [...]

The small city of Speyer, in western Germany hosted one of the darkest band bills of recent years. Underground and dedicated performers, allied with convict and extreme headbangers erected an event forged in three words: Obscurantism, Satanism and Death. The organisers, known by more than a dozen of prior extreme underground events (under the name [...]

Barroselas will once again dress in black between 23 and 26 April for 17th Edition of Barroselas SWR Metalfest. At first glance , the small village of Barroselas Minho looks like a village like any other. Four thousand , one coffee every two corners , a supermarket and a sports complex would make it similar [...]

According to various sources, GWAR frontman Dave ‘Oderus Urungus‘ Brockie was found dead on the evening of March 23. No cause of death has been reported so far, but a member of the Richmond Police Department claims that Brockie, 50, was found dead sometime between 3pm and 7pm on March 23. Former GWAR bassist Mike Bishop said: [...]

What about une matinee noir au centre ville? Well, we sure know that dark events such as Monarch’s appearance in Lisbon should deserve a more latter schedule. But, let’s be honest, everything went fine at RCA Club, Saturday, the 22th February. The first live ever appearance of ONIROMANT marked the birth of another interesting national [...]

Enslaved have announced via their Twitter page that they’re working on new material: Guess bands normally do this in press releases,why not a tweet:Ivar is writing-we’ll be rec’ing new album this fall! pic.twitter.com/5sZAqCDZB0 — Enslaved (@EnslavedBand) 16 março 2014 [...]

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. [...]