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Greek progressive death metal act Desolate Plains released their brand new video “A Final Thought”. This is the first single extracted from the band’s new album “The Face of the Earth”, out now in digital format via Molon Lave Records. Just two years after the release of Desolate Plains’ debut album “Practicing the Inner Arts”, [...]

Portuguese festival Under The Doom has just revealed the first confirmations for this year’s edition. Alcest (Fr), Daylight Dies (Usa), Disillusion (Ger), Darkher (UK), Ardours (Pt), Wells Valley (Pt) and Pântano (Pt) are the first confirmations. The Festival will be held on 6, 7 and 8 December in Lisbon, RCA Club and LAV-Lisboa ao Vivo [...]

The Municipality of Barcelos and Lovers & Lollypops, partners and co-producers of the Milhões de Festa festival since 2010, agreed not to hold the festival in 2019, deferring to 2020 the tenth edition of this collaboration. This decision has been announced today. Here is what the organizers have to say: “After nine uninterrupted editions, the [...]

International controversial collective The Way Of Purity premiere today their new single and official video “Spectral”, taken from the band’s upcoming album “Schwarz Oder Rot”. You can watch it below. Here is the band statement concerning the new release: “We are so proud to announce that, after a long silence, we are back with a [...]

HEILUNG ‘s “Futha” album was released on 28th of June, 2019 and can be streamed via the official Season of Mist youtube channel. HEILUNG comments: “‘felleg er fuþ sin bylli Fuþorglbasm’ Ofnir was a masculine album about combat, anger and rage, Futha is the counterpart, the balance point, the feminine side. The great healing power of [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]