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Amazing Events, the organizers of Vagos Metal Fest have announced that the festival will be postponed to 2022. Quoting the festival’s Facebook page: Amazing Events and the Municipality of Vagos, along with the competent authorities, have been working so far to create conditions to bring you in 2021 the Vagos Metal Fest. However, given the [...]

Portuguese melodic death metal titans Apotheus just released a new video for the track “Staring the Abyss”, taken from their latest full-length “The Far Star”. You can watch the video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGqUI_pEcVE “Staring the Abyss” is about despair and loss, but it also paves the way for a fallback plan in which everyone puts their [...]

The pandemic has taken a toll on us all. The cultural sector has seen countless shows and other activities getting canceled. Hopefully, the overall scenario seems to be taking a turn for the better. So it was an enormous delight to finally witness a concert again after such a long hiatus. Portuguese enigmatic black metal [...]

Portuguese metal magazine LOUD! has premiered the first single of avant-garde black metal act Existence:Void. “Sword of the Overman” is the first song to be extracted from the band’s promising upcoming debut album “Anatman”. The album is scheduled for release on July 30th, via Nox Liberatio Records and Gruesome Records. The band is composed of [...]

MOONSPELL are back in Lisbon for two exclusive concerts on June 18th and 19th at LAV – Lisboa ao Vivo which reopens its doors in this long-awaited return to concerts in a new space on Av. Marechal Gomes da Costa . The first show that takes place on June 18 is dedicated to IRRELIGIOUS , MOONSPELL’s second album, initially released by Century Media in [...]

Portuguese Heavy Metal veterans Tarantula have unveiled the cover art of their upcoming new album “Thunder Tunes From Lusitania”. The album is scheduled to be released on May 1st via Larvae Records, the exact same day the band commemorates 40 years of existence. The album will be released in digipak, starting pre-sales on April 16 [...]

Destroyers of All proudly presents the new music video for the song “Hellfall”. The single is extracted from the band’s latest album “The Vile Manifesto”. This is a fast-paced song with thrashy rhythms in which the lyrics were inspired by the “Death flights” events that took place during the second half of the 20th century. [...]

Born and raised in Portugal, the four elements that make up the Last Piss Before Death, share the same passion for Chaos and Metal. The band is now releasing their second single, “Tear Down the Walls”. An appeal to unity, which they consider to be fundamental in these difficult times that society in general, but [...]

Dutch death metal machine Phlebotomized return with songwriting originality and mesmerizing musicianship blended together in melodic Death Metal with hints of brutality! The band present “GPS”, the first lyric-video and single of Phlebotomized’s new album “Pain, Resistance, Suffering”. You can watch it below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnqxD4MVgG4 Pre-order now on CD/LP/MC/T-Shirt here: https://hammerheartstore.com/collections/vendors?q=Phlebotomized Phlebotomized were formed back in [...]

Finnish progressive metal act Fireproven come out with another catchy track. The band’s last single ‘The Addict’ was released in December 2020 and is already their most listened song on Spotify. ‘The Maze’ is written by Fireproven’s drummer Nuutti Hannula. “The lyrics are based on my teenage years when I got bullied in school. I’ve [...]

Dear fans, and friends of our festivals, “In Union We Stand” – the much-praised OVERKILL slogan is more relevant today than ever. The past weeks and months have once again shown how much the metal family stands together. The incredible support you show towards all of our festivals has given us strength and courage in [...]

Swedish death metal veterans Entombed A.D. announced through their Facebook page the passing of their vocalist Lars-Göran Petrov. The man was handling the microphone for Entombed A.D. since 2014. He was a member of the legendary Entombed, Firespawn, etc. He was recently diagnosed with cancer and passed away this morning.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbjwnr8pMaI [...]

“Sickness” is the title of the latest single and music video released by the Portuguese modern and alternative metal band, which thus anticipates the release of “Aurora”, the debut album prepared to come out next week. Watch the music video for the single “Sickness” below: https://youtu.be/zwqE3zMRWz4 By chance (or perhaps not), “Sickness” is the name [...]

Finnish traditional heavy metal act TYRANTTI releases their second album ”Orjaplaneetta” (”Planet of Slaves”) on 26th February through Playground Music Finland. Tyrantti released three singles ”Aja!”, ”Veritiikeri” and ”Toinen Maailma” in advance of the album released and all have already been released to great praise. Tyrantti’s second album ”Orjaplaneetta” follows the success story of the power trio’s [...]