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Astarte frontwoman Maria ‘Tristessa’ Kolokouri has passed away after a battle with leukemia cancer at the young age of 37. A pioneer for female musicians in black and death metal, the Greek songstress played bass, guitar, keyboards and handled vocal duties for Astarte for well over a decade. The band released five full-length albums, the [...]

1349 have premiered a  new track “Cauldron” from their coming album “Massive Cauldron Of Chaos”. You can listen to it below. The new album will be released through Season Of Mist on September 30th. 1349 “Massive Cauldron of Chaos” 1. Cauldron 2. Slaves 3. Exorcism 4. Postmortem 5. Mengele’s 6. Golem 7. Chained 8. Godslayer [...]

  Iceland black metal band SINMARA have announced that “Aphotic Womb” will be revealed to the public at an official premiere at Garage Bergen (Bergen, Norway),  16 pm,  the 28th of August. The release will take place the same weekend of  BEYOND THE GATES III festival. The first full length of this band will see [...]

What do Black Metal, Lisbon and Saturday night have in common? Not much you might think. But things changed, at least last weekend, with INQUISITION’s return to the Portuguese capital. Notre Damme Productions achieved almost 200 persons at RCA, in this venue’s first black metal gig ever. We believe that everybody involved had a positive [...]

Dutch death metal outfit Pestilence broke up in 1994 and reunited back in 2008 to release a succession of three full-length albums: “Resurrection Macabre”, “Doctrine” and “Obsideo”. After that three album run, band leader Patrick Mameli has now announced Pestilence is once again disbanding. He comments: “As of now, Pestilence is no longer active in [...]

Tech-death band Beyond Creation is now revealing the first track taken from forthcoming new album “Earthborn Evolution.” Check out the song “Elusive Reverence” in the player below, hosted by Zero Tolerance. Pre-order info for “Earthborn Evolution” can be found at the Season of Mist shop here, and the album is due out October 24th, 2014. [...]

After escaping charges last year for allegedly attempting to incite a massacre, Varg Vikernes has now been sentenced for inciting racial hatred in France. TheLocal.no reports Vikernes has been fined the equivalent of ten thousand dollars and given a suspended prison sentence. Excerpts from the article and video footage are available below, courtesy of Ruptly TV. [...]

Portuguese based psych doom festival REVERENCE FESTIVAL VALADA has just announced the running order for the first edition of this event. A massive festival has been programmed, joining stunning bands such as ELECTRIC WIZARD, HAWKWIND, RED FANG, MÃO MORTA and others.  There are still some reduced price ticktes available acording to the organisers statement on [...]

Carpathian Alliance Metal Festival has announced the second confirmed band for the 2015 edition. Finnish horde HORNA joins already confirmed compatriots SATANIC WARMASTER, for the band bill of the vent that will take place in Volosyanka, near the Western border of Ukraine. Meanwhile the 2014 edition took place this weekend, featuring some strong names as [...]

Drone doom masters  SUNN O)))  and experimental musician Scott Walker recently announced a collaboration album, that now has a name: “Soused”. This new effort from the north American duo is set to be released on the 22nd of September. Soused will be a 5-track release. According to a press release, when approached Scott Walker about appearing on their [...]

Back at Bornicke woods for another edition of the mature UNDER THE BLACK SUN FESTIVAL. This year the organisers planned the largest band bill version of the festival history, joining also some none black metal bands. 25 acts from 16 different countries that were embraced by the black feelings of hundreds of headbangers, proving once [...]

Drone doom providers EARTH confirmed a set of European summer tour dates, which can be found below. Additionally the band has also announced a full US tour in support of their upcoming new effort, “Primitive And Deadly”, to be released on September 2nd via Southern Lord Recordings. Opening act on all dates will be King Dude. [...]

Bathory’s first album “Bathory” will celebrate its 30 years this Fall, and BLOOD FIRE DEATH, Bathory’s tribute band will perform this timeless classic in a 30 minutes set, to close perfectly Sinister Howling fest. Here’s the final list of bands: Nargaroth (De) “Black Metal ist Krieg Show” Horna (Fin) “Exclusice Epic Material Show” Acherontas (Gr) [...]

Dutch ritual atmospheric black metalers URFAUST are the last band confirmed for this year edition of Amplifest. The duo returns to the North of Portugal after their debut last year in SWR Barroselas. Be ready for an intense ritual, created by hypnotic and minimalist riffs, and monastery shouts. Urfaust join Ben Frost and headliners Cult [...]