All posts by Rita Limede

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. Here are the choices [...]

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. Here are the choices [...]

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. To start, these are [...]

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 [...]

After a grim and mystical show at this year’s edition of SWR Barroselas Metalfest, black metal legends Mayhem are back to Portugal. Still celebrating the 23rd anniversary of their critically acclaimed album “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas” with a special set, this has every ingredients to become an unforgetable night. Accompanied by the british blackened doom [...]

The 10th edition of the extreme festival Sublime Torture will take place next Saturday, the 23rd of September, in Castelo Branco. This year’s edition of the Sublime Torture Fest counts with the special presence of the German technical brutal death metal band Cytotoxin. Making their debut in Portugal they will be presenting “Gammageddon”, their most recent [...]

The 4th edition of the Reverence Santarém festival is coming. This year’s edition will happen on the 8th and 9th of September, in Parque da Ribeira, Santarém. Moonspell, Portugal’s most well-known metal act, will be headlining the first day of the event alongside the Belgians Amenra and Oathbreaker. They will be joined on stage for [...]

VOA – Heavy Rock Festival will once again return to the Quinta de Marialva Urban Park, in Corroios. The event will take place on August 4, 5 and 6, and the 2017 edition has its billing closed with the adding of Carcass and Venom to the poster. Both bands will join the previously announced names [...]

The Black Planet had the opportunity to meet Guillermo Izquierdo, the man behind the vocals of the spanish thrash metal band Angelus Apatrida, when they last played in Portugal at Mosher Fest – Chapter V. Check below the result of this meeting. Special thanks to Angelus Apatrida and Mosher Fest.   [...]

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 [...]

VOA – Heavy Rock Festival will once again return to the Quinta de Marialva Urban Park, in Corroios. The event will take place on August 4, 5 and 6, and the 2017 edition has several new features in their billing. Among the main events in VOA Fest, for the first time and to enjoy the [...]

Florida death metal legends OBITUARY have shared the first single off their forthcoming, self-titled album. You can listen to the new Obituary’s track “Sentence Day”, while watching its video, below. Obituary is due out March 17th, 2017 on CD/LP/Digital. Physical and digital pre-orders are available now via Relapse Records. Additionally, OBITUARY are touring as part [...]

In the past few days we have presented you our staff choices for best albums of 2016. Now we bring you our final and oficial list for best releases from that year, to close that chapter. Here are our top 20 choices : 1 – Bolzer – Hero 2 – Animals As Leaders – The [...]

Norwegian folk metal masters Trollfest, icelandic black Misthyrming and Nadra, and thrashers Ranger and Rankor are new aditions to the billing for 2017 of SMSF – Santa Maria Summer Fest. The festival has already announced the names Exodus, Orphaned Land, Mão Morta to headline the festival billing. The groups Wolfbrigade, Urfaust, Hypothermia, Fuse, Process Of [...]