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Psychotic doom metalers ESOTERIC are looking for a new keyboardist once Jan Krause decided to part ways with the band after their last “European Dissonance 2014 Tour”. Krause has been with the band since 2012. The band from Birmingham has already announced the skills necessary for the future candidates as posted on their facebook page: [...]

American / Colombian black metal institution INQUISITION will have a date in lisbon on their next european tour. Notredame Productions announced that the show will take place on friday, the 25th July 2014, and also, that hellish black metalers IRAE e newcomers O CERCO will take charge of the oppening ceremonies. RCA Club will be [...]

Day 3 Stage 1 The last day started with an excellent show from BONDED BY  BLOOD. This revival thrash metal band from California (USA), has great stage presence. In spite of not having a big audience, the performance was fast, straight to the point and exciting. The crowd went wild and there was mosh everywhere. Their [...]

Day 2 Stage 1 On the second day, the opening of the main stage was the responsibility of THE QUARTET OF WOAH. This new sensation Portuguese stoner band, introduced their latest record, “Ultrabomb”. The band gave their best, and played with heart and soul. It was a great show to watch, with a good ambiance, despite [...]

The Portuguese festival AMPLIFEST as started the construction of the band bill, already confirming a quite significant list of names. With psychadelic post rock veterans SWANS as headlinners, their stoner compatriots YOB, doomsters PALLBEARER, dark drone project WOLVSERPENT and WOOVENHAND rockers will continue the North American quota. Last but not the least, PHARMAKON project will [...]

Day 1 Stage #1 The festival’s first official day started with ETERNAL  STORM. It was a nice show, of good melodic death metal, very interesting musical details, although they were playing for a very small audience. They were supposed to play on the secondary stage, but there was a line up change due to the cancellation [...]

Day 0 This year’s edition of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest started on the 23rd of April. This day 0, with free entrance, was the stage for the W:O:A Metal Battle Portugal. The four bands that disputed this final were NEBULOUS, REVOLUTION WITHIN, DESTROYERS OF ALL and DEMENTIA 13. All bands played their part really well, and [...]

Well known Swedish Black Metallers Craft, who have always been a “studio” band, have been confirmed to play live for the first time ever. Even after highly public acclaimed 1 demo and 4 albums, the band has always avoided playing live, but it seems that things have changed. So far there aren’t any other dates [...]

American blackened sludge metal band WOLVHAMMER has revealed new details about their third studio album. It will be entitled Clawing Into Black Sun. In this new work, Wolvhammer mix “black metal, death rock, and punk into even more lethal volatile territory,” according to their label Profound Lore Records. The band also released the new single “Death [...]

“Pas pleine, mais surtout pas vide”, República da Música hosted Goodlife HQ’s most daring event: CELESTE headlining tour. The sound was pretty accurate during the whole night where it became clear since very soon that almost everyone was there with one main purpose: to be washed away by the French chaotic anthems. But before that, [...]

  Canadian sludge doomsters DOPETHRONE will embark on a European three weeks tour starting the 23rd of June. The support band will be GURT, from United Kingdom. There are still some locations to be confirmed as shown below: Tour dates: 23.06.2014 – GBR, Birmingham – Asylum 2                 [...]

UNDER THE BLACK SUN festival has announced the full running order for the 2014th edition. The event will take place in the woods of Bornicke, at Bernau bei Berlin, in Germany, from 3 to 5 July 2014. This year, the German organisers present a festival with two stages and some non black metal bands that [...]

REVERENCE FESTIVAL is threatening to leave a strong mark in our 2014 festivals calendar.  Already counting with strong names such as Electric Wizard, Hawkind, Graveyard and more, the Portuguese organizers have recently confirmed six more bands to the band bill. According to Portuguese magazine Blitz, North Americans BARDO POND, WOODEN WAND, SLEEPY SUN, CAVE, DAUGHTERS [...]

American technical death metallers ORIGIN have revealed the details of their new album, “Omnipresent”. Due out on July 4th in Europe through Agonia Records (July 8th in North America via Nuclear Blast), the opus features a cover artwork crafted by Colin Marks (Nevermore, Kataklysm, Exodus) which can be seen below. As for new music, you will have [...]