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SWR Barroselas Metalfest, one of the oldest, most respected festivals dedicated to extreme sonorities in the old continent, will return to Vila de Barroselas, Viana do Castelo, Portugal on April 29th until May 2nd 2020. The organizers have announced oldschool death metal act Autopsy as their first confirmation! The official Facebook event is already online: [...]

Once again, Laurus Nobilis Festival took place in Louro, Famalicão from July 25th to the 28th 2019. Unfortunately, we were only able to attend to some of the shows on the last day of the festival, so without further due, here it is! Simbiose [metaslider id=”31479″] Sugiru [metaslider id=”31452″] Analepsy [metaslider id=”31427″] Soilwork [metaslider id=”31405″] [...]

Norwegian black metal masters 1349 have announced the release date of their new album. The record, titled ‘The Infernal Pathway’ was recorded in Amper Tone studios and Studio Nyhagen with engineer Jarrett Pritchard earlier this year. ‘The Infernal Pathway’ will see a worldwide release via Season of Mist on October 18, 2019. Norwegian black metal [...]

The Vagos Metal Fest is returning in 2019 once again! More than 30 bands will pass by the stage of the festival that takes place from 8th to th 11th of August at Quinta do Ega, Vagos. This year the festival brings you big names like Satyricon, Six Feet Under (a group founded in 1993 [...]

UK Doomsters ESOTERIC have unveiled the cover artwork and track list of their new album ‘A Pyrrhic Existence’. The record is set for worldwide release  on November 8, via Season of Mist. The long-awaited follow up to 2011’s ‘Paragon of Dissonance’ was recorded earlier this year at vocalist/guitarist Greg Chandler’s Priory Recording Studios in Birmingham. [...]

Following up on their successful tour “The Book of Souls” which was a celebration of the 16th and latest album in Iron Maiden’s discography, the beast is unleashed again! Iron Maiden is back two years after their last show in Québec City for “The Legacy Of The Beast World Tour ‘19. This tour started in [...]

DAY 3: Day number three was opened by Matt Heafy and Trivium on the main stage, and the chaos around it. The inflow of crowd surfers during their show was the highest until that moment at Copenhell. Trivium delivered a high-quality performance as they always do. Matt is an amazing performer, he has this ease [...]

Occurring for ten years— the second part of June in Copenhagen equals the biggest metal event in Denmark: Copenhell. The 10th edition of this metal event took place as always, in Copenhagen’s Refshaleøn. Counting with tens of thousands of fans invading the place eager to listen to some good music. DAY 1: The whole event [...]

Greek progressive death metal act Desolate Plains released their brand new video “A Final Thought”. This is the first single extracted from the band’s new album “The Face of the Earth”, out now in digital format via Molon Lave Records. Just two years after the release of Desolate Plains’ debut album “Practicing the Inner Arts”, [...]

Portuguese festival Under The Doom has just revealed the first confirmations for this year’s edition. Alcest (Fr), Daylight Dies (Usa), Disillusion (Ger), Darkher (UK), Ardours (Pt), Wells Valley (Pt) and Pântano (Pt) are the first confirmations. The Festival will be held on 6, 7 and 8 December in Lisbon, RCA Club and LAV-Lisboa ao Vivo [...]

The Municipality of Barcelos and Lovers & Lollypops, partners and co-producers of the Milhões de Festa festival since 2010, agreed not to hold the festival in 2019, deferring to 2020 the tenth edition of this collaboration. This decision has been announced today. Here is what the organizers have to say: “After nine uninterrupted editions, the [...]

International controversial collective The Way Of Purity premiere today their new single and official video “Spectral”, taken from the band’s upcoming album “Schwarz Oder Rot”. You can watch it below. Here is the band statement concerning the new release: “We are so proud to announce that, after a long silence, we are back with a [...]

Sonic Blast Moledo is back! The 9th edition of Sonic Blast Moledo presents itself in 2019 with a new proposal – three days of music instead of two, taking place in Moledo from the 8th to the 10th of August. The festival located in the Cultural Center of Moledo continues to assert itself as a [...]

HEILUNG ‘s “Futha” album was released on 28th of June, 2019 and can be streamed via the official Season of Mist youtube channel. HEILUNG comments: “‘felleg er fuþ sin bylli Fuþorglbasm’ Ofnir was a masculine album about combat, anger and rage, Futha is the counterpart, the balance point, the feminine side. The great healing power of [...]