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“Days Go By – London” will be part of the band’s debut studio album. VUUR is a group founded by Anneke Van Giersbergen (Gentle Storm, ex-The Gathering) and its a project that represents her heavy metal side. In the band’s official bio, it says: In early 2016, Anneke decided for the sake of clarity to [...]

Striker is a speed metal band from Edmonton, Canada who recently played in Lisbon with Triosphere and Sonata Arctica. The Black Planet Zine had the amazing opportunity to interview the guitarist Tim and get to know a little bit more about this smashing band. TBP – Hey Tim, first of all we appreciate that you [...]

Portuguese thrashers Terror Empire will release their new album ”Obscurity Rising” on July 14th through Mosher Records. ”Obscurity Rising” was recorded at Golden Jack Studios (studios of Terror Empire‘s drummer João Dourado). About the album the band says: “Songs range from Terror Empire’s modern sounding thrash metal to skin-pounding brutal death metal, however, this doesn’t stop [...]

The portuguese death/grind XXXicken Party festival has closed it’s band billing for their 2017 edition. The event will take place at Rex Bowling Club in Cantanhede. French death/grindcore band Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition (S.C.D.) are returning to Portugal and they are part of the latest confirmations for this year’s XXXicken Party festival billing. The Spanish bands Gruesome [...]

A few days ago, Tribulation revealed that their drummer had left. Now, they took their Facebook page to announce their new member who will take care of the drumming duties. Here’s what the band had to say: After this period of silence, renewal and contemplation the time has now come to give you the new [...]

Already known are the bands that fill the center of Villhena with melody and good mood. Leyendas del Rock announced acoustic shows. The honors of the acoustic concerts in Villena Square will be for the Asturian band  Avalanch represented by Albert Rionda (guitar leads and back vocals) and Israel Ramos (vocals) and the ex-White Lion [...]

The Swedish modern Metal act dEmotional new album “Discovery” was released on May 27th via Art Gates Records. The music of the band is characterized by the combination of hard riffs and full of emotions melody, praised by Jesper Stromblad itself (Cyhra, Ex In Flames) and other recognised musicians of the Swedish Metal scene. “Discovery” is their [...]

The concert will take place at Coliseu de Lisboa on June 5th. Tickets cost €32. Slayer, the mighty Thrash Metal legends are back in Portugal right after playing in Spain at the Primavera Sound festival on June 1st. The band is currently still promoting their latest album “Repentless”, released in 2015. It took 6 years [...]

Portuguese rock band Second Lash are releasing their debut work via Raising Legends Records. The record, “Tabula Rasa” will be officially released on the 10th of June. To celebrate that fact, the band will put toghether a special release show, featuring Projecto Sem Nome and Legacy Of Cynthia as special guests. The event will take [...]

Pre-orders of “Prophecies” are now available here. Two years after their last EP, released digitally only, and 4 years after their debut album (the band members were busy with other projects including Deathcode Society), DEAD SEASON (Dark Progressive Metal) has just released “Prophecies”. The first video clip from this album is for the song “Prohibition Of God” [...]

“Anticult” will come out via Nuclear Blast on July 7th, 2017. The Polish metal extremists from Decapitated will drop their seventh album soon. Ahead of that release, today the band premieres the throttling new song “Never” as a drum playthrough featuring kit minder Michal Lysejko showing off his astounding chops. Vogg commented: “Anticult” represents the legacy [...]

Swedish melodeath band Arch Enemy announced a new album called ”Will To Power” scheduled to be launched on September 8th through Century Media Records and via Trooper Entertainment in Japan. After the 2014 release of ”War Eternal”, the first album with the new vocalist Alissa White-Gluz (ex-The Agonist) and the addition of Jeff Loomis (Conquering [...]

“Malina” is set to be released on August 25th through InsideOut Music Records. A new European tour was also revealed. Norwegian prog metallers Leprous have announced a new album called ”Malina”. The new album was produced by David Castillo (Katatonia, Bloodbath, Amorphis…), who also produced ”The Congregation”, and mixed by Jens Bogren (Amon Amarth, Devin Townsend, [...]

After an absence of eleven years from playing concerts in Portugal, hailing from Finland, the so-called love metal pioneers HIM, are back to Portugal. This unique show will take place at Hard Club, Porto, on next June 17th. For sure it will be a special and emotional concert, but sadly, the last one, as the band has recently [...]