Israeli musician Yossi Sassi announced that he will record a new album but for the first time it will be with a crowdfunding campaign. Former Orphaned Land co-founder and guitarist Yossi Sassi and his band have recently launched a crowdfunding campaign (Headstart) to fund the 4th album. The target is set at 70,000 ILS (Israeli [...]
September 17, 2017
Zé Serôdio
News
You can pre-order “Obscurity Rising” at Mosher Records. Coming on September 23rd. 2017 sets the release of “Obscurity Rising” (Mosher Records), the brand new album from Portugal’s thrash metallers TERROR EMPIRE, in which the always-present political tone goes up a notch, and the result is a crushing record blending thrash metal hooks with death metal [...]
September 16, 2017
Filipe Gomes
News
Skyforger are one of the original bands belonging to the Pagan Metal movement, and for the first time in Lisboa, they will present their latest album “Senprūsija” (2015). With a conscious mix of black metal, folk elements, and lyrics in Latvian about their traditions, war stories and other Latvian myths, Skyforger is one of those [...]
September 16, 2017
Daniel Lemminkainen
Previews
“Raging Light” will be available on all digital shops on the 6th of October 2017. Portuguese dark metal combo Painted Black have signed a distribution deal with Wormholedeath for the worldwide release of their album “Raging Light”. The physical and release dates in Japan are still to be defined. Below you can listen an album advance [...]
September 15, 2017
Filipe Gomes
News
Dianne van Giersbergen is no longer the lead singer of the German Metal Symphony band Xandria. According to the band, Dianne could not attend the concerts already scheduled by the end of the year. The concerts from September to October were all canceled and currently await rescheduling. For the presentations of November and December, the group [...]
September 15, 2017
Filipe Gomes
News
The Portuguese band Moonspell premiered today “Todos Os Santos”, one of the tracks from their upcoming special album “1755”. This concept album focused on 1755 Lisbon Earthquake tragedy and it mainly differs from their previous releases as it will be entirely sung in their mother tongue. The lyric video released today for “Todos Os Santos” [...]
September 14, 2017
Elsa Marques
News
You can pre-order “Two Paths” here. This Friday (September 15th), Ensiferum will unleash their seventh full-length “Two Paths”, worldwide via Metal Blade Records. In preparation for its release, the band has now launched a new single, “King of Storms”, which can be streamed below. The previous singles from Two Paths (“For Those About to Fight [...]
September 14, 2017
Filipe Gomes
News
Sweden’s sovereign avantgarde/melo-death act Loch Vostok have announced the worldwide release date of their seventh album “Strife”, through Vicisolum Records. The release date was set for November 24th, but don’t despair before that on September 29th they will released the 1st single entitled “Summer”! An excellent 4 minute tracker, which makes Mike Patton almost seem normal, [...]
September 8, 2017
Elsa Marques
News
American supergroup Good Tiger released a new single called “The Devil Thinks I’m Sinking”. The song is part of the band’s upcoming album ”We Will All Be Gone”, to be released on February 9th, 2018 by Metal Blade Records. Good Tiger released their first album ”A Head Full Of Moonlight” in 2015, receiving positive feedback. [...]
September 7, 2017
Zé Serôdio
News
”La caída de Tonatiuh” is to be released on November 10th by Season Of Mist. French death metal band Impureza launched a new song called ”Sangre para los dioses”. This song is part of the upcoming album ”La caída de Tonatiuh”. You can check the lyric video here: ”La caída de Tonatiuh” its the second album [...]
September 6, 2017
Zé Serôdio
News
The single will be part of an upcoming album, yet to be named. British metalcore act Architects released an official video for a new song called ”Doomsday”. This is the first time Architects release new music following the death of guitarist and founding member Tom Searle, who died in 2016, victim of cancer. The latest release [...]
September 6, 2017
Zé Serôdio
News
Boris, the legendary Japanese three-piece sonic entity, is celebrating its 25th anniversary by making a thank-you record to fans and bringing it to life with an extensive world tour, which ended its European portion on a Friday night in Helsinki, after an intense showcase of doom and gloom. Even though the group has reached a very [...]
September 5, 2017
Elsa Marques
Concerts, Reports
Finnish melodic death metal band Wolfheart have launched a new single called ”The Black Light”. This song is the first acoustic release of the band, contrasting with the band’s previous releases. You can listen to the song in different online platforms here. Wolfheart also announced new tour dates to promote their latest album ”Tyhjyys” (Released by [...]
September 4, 2017
Zé Serôdio
News
Once again, the town of Vagos hosted the anual Vagos Metal Fest, which already became a Meca for metalheads in Portugal. Three days of good concerts, a lot of beer and meeting friends in a relaxed place. Day #1 Tales For The Unspoken received the responsibility of opening the first day of concerts. The band [...]
September 3, 2017
Filipe Gomes
Festivals, Reports