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Another year has passed, and once again thanks to the organizer’s collaboration, we were given access to this very unique festival, in which various musical cultures (although the predominant is Gothic) coexist in a healthy way. Here is our report! [...]

French Lovecraftian black metal masters THE GREAT OLD ONES have unveiled the cover art, album title and tracklist of their upcoming new record, ‘Cosmicism’. The album is set for worldwide release in the fall of 2019 via Season of Mist. Vocalist and guitarist Benjamin Guerry comments: “’Cosmicism’ is a literary philosophy developed by H.P. Lovecraft. In [...]

Instrumental progressive metal band ESSENCE OF DATUM premiere the music video for the song “Pendulum”. The track has been taken from the band’s upcoming record “Spellcrying Machine”, to be released via Season of Mist on August 30th. ESSENCE OF DATUM comment: “One of the favorite buildings in our hometown is Minsk city crematorium! The comprehension [...]

Canadian extreme metal veterans NECRONOMICON have announced the release of their new full-length ‘UNUS’. The record will be released via Season of Mist on October 18. Vocalist Rob the Witch comments: “When all is said and done, one most return to the start and begin a new life. ‘UNUS’ is the first major Arcana that [...]

  In September 2015, after a season of relative musical inactivity this collective found the inspiration for a new band concept and for the first riffs for a project unnamed at that time. Their influences were mainly an abundant exposure to horror films and series and a trip into the retro world of that same genre. [...]

North american Red Fang are currently on an European tour, which will visit Lisbon on 30th of June. The stoner metal/rock quartet from Portland, Oregon are one of the most loved bands in the genre, specially due with songs like ”Wires” and ”Pre-historic Dog”. and many more hits. With 4 full-length albums in their pocket, [...]

VOA Fest is back and is celebrating 10 years! After one year of hiatus, one of the most important heavy festivals in Portugal will be returning with a colossal band roster on July 4th – 5th. Day #1 Featuring a 2-day format once again, on the first day (July 4) all the maggots will get [...]

Melancholy will sweep over the world at the end of August. Isole ‘s upcoming album “DYSTΩPIA” is scheduled for release on the 30th of August 2019 via Hammerheart Records ! ISOLE DYSTΩPIA (Hammerheart Records) 1. Beyond The Horizon 2. Written In The Sand 3. The Beholder 4. You Went Away 5. Forged By Fear 6. [...]

Legendary North American band Tool returns to Portugal next month for a concert in Lisbon, as part of a European tour that started on June 2th in Berlin. The Portuguese concert is scheduled for July 2nd at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, closing the tour at the same venue where they performed 13 years ago, [...]

Another edition of the “In Flammen Open Air” will take place in the city of Torgau, about 60 kms from Leipzig on the next July 11th until the 13th. In Flammen Open Air is a music festival for all metal music lovers. This year bands like Unleashed, Dying Fetus, Pestilence, Necrophobic, Mgla, Conan, Misery Index, [...]

US Deathmetallers Defixion have just released a lyric-video in the from the song “Mazacrium”. This is the 2nd advance single of their EP “Tabella Defixionis”, scheduled to be released on the 18th of June 2019 through Xtreem Music. You can watch the video below. Defixion (from the Greek: “Defixio”: synonym for curse tablet and binding [...]

Portuguese Symphonic death metallers Dallian have just released a new video of the song “The Nun from Azrael”. You can watch it below. The video was recorded by João Oliveira and Sofia Agostinho, and was edited by Carlos Amado. “The Nun From Azrael” is taken from their debut album “Automata”. Released last November via Nox [...]

Furia, a brand new project from Belgium has released its first single and very angry video “Digging My Grave”. You can watch it below. Furia is new band formed in Belgium in 2017 by the renowned producer Martin Furia (also guitarist in Bark, Marginal and Jesus Martyr). Along top class musicians like guitarist Toon Huet [...]

The past weeks have been very confusing regarding Batushka. The band’s original lineup suffered a split, resulting in two different versions of Batushka: Derph’s, aka Krzysztof Drabikowski (guitarist) and Bart’s, aka Bartłomiej Krysiuk (singer). While the dispute is in court, both bands have been active and have recently released new music. Krzysztof Drabikowski has came [...]