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Brazilian Heavy/Thrash Metal act Tiberius Project has released a brand new single entitled “Starvation”. This is extracted from the band’s new EP “T – ProjecT”. You can watch it below. “T – ProjecT” (EP) contains six songs in the same composition and production style that the band has launched into the world. “The initial idea [...]

Italian masters of Stoner/Doom metal Ufomammut have visited Copenhagen on their fall tour to spread the stoner sound and promote the new record called simply ‘8’. Copenhagen was one of the 18 dates on the route and the concert took place in KB18, which totally suits this type of music with its underground presentation. Ufomammut [...]

We here at The Black Planet had the opportunity to interview the iconic black metal band Satyricon about their new full lenght release, “Deep Calleth Upon Deep”. This was the result. You are back with a new album 4 years after the release of your self-title record. What has changed since? Quite a lot. Satyricon [...]

Under The Doom will take place at RCA Club and Lisboa Ao Vivo and starts on November 30th until December 2nd. Once again, Notredame Productions organizes the Under The Doom fest. It usually takes place in early December and this year will not be an exception. The final band bill lists the following bands: Lacuna [...]

SWR is scheduled for 27-29 April 2018 at Barroselas, northwest Portugal. SWR Barroselas Metalfest is one of the oldest European festivals of extreme music and it returns for its 21st edition, in 2018. The first round of announcements includes 15 selected names from a wide variety of styles: Suffocation, the leaders of american Death Metal; the [...]

Soen finished their European tour with two dates in Portugal. On the 21st of October, the band played at Hard Club (Porto) with Madder Mortem and Heavenwood as opening bands. It was exactly nine o’clock when the Portuguese band Heavenwood entered Hard Club’s stage. This time the band was lead by Miguel Inglês (Equaleft‘s vocalist), [...]

Swedish black metal veterans Dark Funeral parted ways with Dominator, the drummer for the past 6 years. Founding guitarist Lord Ahriman commented about Nils Fjellström departure: We must sadly inform you that we have agreed to let Nils “Dominator” Fjellström take a much needed timeout from the band to handle personal matters. We of course wish [...]

After a very convincing performance at VOA 2017 past August, Epica will be returning to Portugal before the end of the year. This time, the band comes to perform as headlining act on a double date, where the legion of followers will be able to see Simone Simons and Co more closely, on the stages [...]

Norwegian Mayhem set foot on Portuguese soil in April early this year as headliners of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest. Six months later, they were back, but this time in a closed dedicated venue, not in a festival format. After a few minutes in line, we were able to witness the first concert: The Portuguese The [...]

North American band Dying Fetus will be returning to Portugal on the next November 12th. This show is part of the tour promoting their brand new album “Wrong One To Fuck With”, released last June 23rd, via Relapse Records. Supporting this tour are Australian Psycroptic, Canadian Beyond Creation and Brutal Death Metal Disentomb, also coming from Australia. [...]

“Egocidal Path” is the title of the upcoming The 3rd Attempt album. They shared today the lyric video for the first single “I’ll do it now”. Album is set for release on December 1st via Dark Essence Records. The 3rd Attempt was formed in 2014 by Tchort (Green Carnation, ex-Carpathian Forest, ex-Emperor, ex-Blood Red Throne) and BloodPervertor (Apostasy, [...]

One of the best Thrash nights of all time is coming. The Testament, Annihilator and Death Angel trio will meet in Madrid on December 4th for an unique and exclusive date that promises to be memorable. With a career spanning over three decades, Californian Testament led by Chuck Billy return to Madrid a year later [...]

Portugal will host the “Arctic Circle Alliance – Chapter One” tour on November 2nd & 3rd featuring 3 fantastic Scandinavian bands: Omnium Gatherum, Skálmöld and Stam1na. Finnish Omnium Gatherum return to play their melodic death metal and present their 2016 “Gray Heavens” album. Icelandic Skálmöld will join in, coming back with their latest work “Vögguvísur Yggdrasils” also released [...]

What is coming can be considered a dream come true for all fans of Helloween. The much sought after meeting of the founders of German melodic speed metal is a reality. Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen join Helloween for a tour bringing together the band’s legendary original lineup. Michael Weikath, Michael Kiske, Kai Hansen and [...]