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Norway’s Atrox, whose sixth full-length album “Monocle” was released on Dark Essence Records last year, have announced that they will be adding guitarist Steffen Berg to their lineup of Rune Folgerø on Vocals, Eivind on Guitars, Rune Sørgård on Guitars & Technology, Erik Paulsen on Bass, and Andreas Kjøl Berg on drums. Although this won’t [...]

With their debut full-length album “Mother Culture” having hit the streets on Dark Essence Records last month, Norwegian Blackgazers Avast have now premiered a video from the album. Hailing from Stavanger, Norway, Avast consists of Hans Olaf Myrvang (Agenda) on bass and vocals, Trond Salte (Agenda),  Ørjan Lund (Nag) on guitars, and Stian Steensnæs (Lik) [...]

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 26, 27 and 28, 2019. After the first batch of confirmations including Godlfesh, Benediction, The Black Dahlia Murder, Midnight, Venenum and more, the organizers have [...]

The Russian band Pilot played their traditional Autumn concerts in October 20th in St. Petersburg and on October 27th in Moscow. This time, the program was called “Osennee pora” (play on words, means “Autumn time” in English), that is a direct reference to the eponymous composition and EP from 2003. Pilot is a multi-genre band [...]

In a warm October evening (18.10.2018) one of the best power metal bands, Hammerfall, visited the capital of Denmark to shake its ground with their hammer. Hammerfall with the support of Armored Dawn played a sold out show organised by Pumpehuset together with Live Nation Denmark. The concert was opened by Brazilian band called Armored Dawn. The band [...]

A Perfect Circle is on tour again! On the 12th of December 2018 thanks to Beatbox Entertainment they will visit one of the Copenhagen’s biggest venues, Forum. In April 2018 A Perfect Circle has released a long await album, since their last release was in 2004. “Eat the Elephant” was a great success, landing high in the [...]

This event took place on the 9th of November at The Circus venue, organised by Live Nation Finland. This report is a collaborative effort with Enslain magazine. Unfortunately, Lady Enslain missed the opening act and I arrived to the venue just by the end of the opening act “The Spirit”. There was only enough time to [...]

Five tickets. Before Moonspell entered the stage at the Arts and Entertainment Center of Figueira da Foz five tickets remained unsold for this leg of the tour. At some point in the event, Fernando Ribeiro stated that ‘As we were informed in California that more and more tickets were being sold for this concert, we [...]

The first Friday of November (2.11.2018) brought the belated Halloween horror to one of Copenhagen venues, Pumpehuset. Together with Live Nation the club presented the black metal monsters, Watain, supported by two other extreme metal acts – Rotting Christ and Profanatica. The evening started quite early for the metal fans, with Profanatica hitting the stage [...]

French electro outfit THE SACRIFICE are premiering the second track of their upcoming self-titled album ‘The Sacrifice’. The debut record is set for release on December 7th, 2018 via Season of Mist. THE SACRIFICE was born out of French electronic group PANZER FLOWER from Occitanie, consisting of Patrice Duthoo and Raphaël Glatz. Back then, PANZER FLOWER [...]

On the next November 15th, Canadian tech-death metal pillars Beyond Creation will return to Portugal! One of the freshest and most modern acts in the recent years, Beyond Creation have released 3 very solid full-length albums: “The Aura” (2011), “Earthborn Evolution” (2014) and the most recent “Algorythm” (2018), showing a strong career path. The band [...]

Slayer is touring for the last time! Live nation brings Slayer’s FINAL WORLD TOUR to Copenhagen’s Royal Arena on the 3rd of December, 2018. Since this is a goodbye tour for Slayer, the fans can only expect this to be done with a loud bang. Surely, no one is disappointed with the special guests chosen by the [...]

It seems the wait is over. Here comes the pumpkin hurricane: Helloween! Helloween are coming to Portugal for a special concert on December 6th. The show will take at Sala Tejo, Altice Arena, Lisbon. Mikael Kiske, Kay Hansen & Cº once again choose Portugal for another classic showcase! After they filled the already extinct and [...]

NORWEGIAN BLACK METALLERS RAGNAROK BEGIN WORK ON THEIR NINTH FULL-LENGTH ALBUM Twenty five years after having been formed by the iconic drummer Jontho, veteran Norwegian Black Metallers Ragnarok have entered the studio to begin work on what will be the band’s ninth full-length album. The, as yet unnamed,  album is expected to be released during late [...]