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Report: Roadburn 2022 (Day 2)

Report: Roadburn 2022 (Day 2)

Friday’s expectations were mostly directed towards this year’s curators’ band GGGOLDDD and their performance of “This Shame Should Not Be Mine”. For the first time in front of a live audience after the incredibly emotional, goose-bump inducing show at last year’s Roadburn Redux (I am not gonna lie, I have watched that performance 4 times [...]

June 25, 2022 Elsa Marques Festivals, Reports Comments Off on Report: Roadburn 2022 (Day 2)

Preview: Roadburn 2022

Preview: Roadburn 2022

Roadburn 2022 will take place on April 21st – 24th in Tilburg (NL) at different venues! (Poster artwork by Valreza Collective) Last year the organizers set up an incredible streaming experience with Roadburn Redux – a virtual version of the festival with live streamming, recordings, interviews, chat and online hangouts that still managed to provide [...]

March 20, 2022 Elsa Marques Previews Comments Off on Preview: Roadburn 2022

Report: Alcest + Birds in Row + Kaelan Mikla @ Täubchenthal, Leipzig

Report: Alcest + Birds in Row + Kaelan Mikla @ Täubchenthal, Leipzig

Alcest + Birds in Row + Kaelan Mikla – 12.02.2020 –  Täubchenthal On February 12th, the public that went to Täubchenthal, in Leipzig, attended a concert with three bands of very diverse styles. At first, one could consider that three different bands might turn off people’s interest in the event, but the exact opposite happened. And whoever went to [...]

February 18, 2020 João Osório Concerts, Reports Comments Off on Report: Alcest + Birds in Row + Kaelan Mikla @ Täubchenthal, Leipzig

TOP 20 – 2019: The Staff’s Choices – Ricardo Pereira

TOP 20 – 2019: The Staff’s Choices – Ricardo Pereira

It’s that time of the year again! Since 2019 is coming to an end really soon, it’s about time for our staff to publish their lists regarding the best albums for the year. So here they are, the choices for the best releases of this past year in the opinion of one of our writers [...]

December 31, 2019 Ricardo Pereira Tops Comments Off on TOP 20 – 2019: The Staff’s Choices – Ricardo Pereira

Under The Doom fest announces Alcest, Daylight Dies & more

Under The Doom fest announces Alcest, Daylight Dies & more

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 [...]

July 17, 2019 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on Under The Doom fest announces Alcest, Daylight Dies & more

Report: Anathema + Alcest @ Amager Bio, Copenhagen

Report: Anathema + Alcest @ Amager Bio, Copenhagen

Anathema came to Denmark to promote their new album ’The Optimist’. This record, which won ‘Album the year’ award during ‘Progressive Music Awards’ in September 2017, promotes itself. Anathema were accompanied by the French band Alcest,  as an opening act for them in this European tour. Alcest, the shoegaze black metal act was the opener of [...]

December 5, 2017 Kasper Pasinski Concerts, Reports Comments Off on Report: Anathema + Alcest @ Amager Bio, Copenhagen

Anthrax, Sepultura and others added to Resurrection Fest

Anthrax, Sepultura and others added to Resurrection Fest

Resurrection Fest annouced today new names to the bill. Big Four thrashers Anthrax, brazillian legends Sepultura, german death metal Deserted Fear, American punk rock The Menzingers, Italian ska band Talco, Dutch punk rock band Undeclinable Ambuscade, CJ Ramone (Ramones), Canadian metalcore Obey The Brave, Deathcore mexicans Here Comes The Kraken, Galicians Aphonnic, Display of Power [...]

February 28, 2017 Zé Serôdio News Comments Off on Anthrax, Sepultura and others added to Resurrection Fest

ALCEST premiered song from upcoming album

ALCEST premiered song from upcoming album

ALCEST is a French band formed in 1999 by Neige. The solo project started as pure black metal but soon post-rock and shoegaze influences took over. With four full-length albums released, being the latest “Shelter” (2014). Their forthcoming album entitled “Kodama” (Meaning “tree spirit” and “echo” in Japanese) is to be released on September 30th by [...]

August 11, 2016 Elsa Marques News Comments Off on ALCEST premiered song from upcoming album

ALCEST stream new song “Délivrance”

ALCEST stream new song “Délivrance”

French unique act Alcest have released a song called “Délivrance” from their next full length “Shelter”. Shelter will be out January 21st through Prophecy Productions. [...]

January 13, 2014 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on ALCEST stream new song “Délivrance”

Alcest – New Album and European Tour Dates

Alcest – New Album and European Tour Dates

The french band Alcest is going to release their new album Les Voyages De L’âme on January the 6th. This is the band’s 3rd album. They will also go on an european tour in order to promote the album, during the month of February. The tour has the following dates: 09.02.2012 AT – Vienna / Viper Room [...]

December 29, 2011 Rita Limede News Comments Off on Alcest – New Album and European Tour Dates