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Following up on their successful tour “The Book of Souls” which was a celebration of the 16th album in Iron Maiden’s discography, the beast is unleashed again! Iron Maiden will drag heavy metal fans all around the world to attend the tour called “The Legacy Of The Beast World Tour” starting on May 26th in Tallin [...]

Akercocke, the celebrated masters of dark & twisted British extreme metal made their triumphant return in 2017 with their long awaited new new studio album “Renaissance in Extremis” and have released a new video for the track ‘Insentience’ from the acclaimed release. You can watch below. Jason Mendonça explains the songs creation, development and the [...]

Norwegian Black Metal titans Immortal have finally premiered the highly-awaited first single of their upcoming album. The single is the title track “Northern Chaos Gods”. You can listen to it below. The band commented: “We are eternally dedicated to Immortal and our own musical past. The album is conceptual, and the first step in the [...]

Copenhell is the biggest metal and rock festival in Denmark, hosted in Copenhagen, usualy in the second half of June. Since 2010 the metal fans in Copenhagen have had the chance to see many stars of heavy music performing on the Copenhell stages. The list is very long including big names as Black Sabbath, Iron [...]

Swiss metal titans Samael have announced the departure of their guitarist Mak. A replacement has already been announced as well. Samael stated on their Facebook page: “Mak is leaving S A M A E L. The band regrets this, but accepts his decision and we wish him all the best for his future endeavors. From [...]

The show started with a previously announced half an hour delay. Miracle Flair, a Swiss melodic metal band, was the first to rise onstage. The 7 song set that they played was focused on their second album “Angels Cast Shadows” released back in 2016. With the venue half full, they tried their best, but maybe the [...]

We are a little more than a month way, and some the anxiety over the arrival of another edition of Wave Gotik Treffen is already felt in the air. Not only in social media, but also in conversations at the underground places in Leipzig, we can see that an event like this has become a [...]

Swedish unique act Ghost has been promising heavier material ever since a fourth album started to be mentioned. Now the band has premiered a brand new song entitled “Rats”. A cinematic video has also been released, very inspired by the 80’s film style. You can watch it below. Ghost also announced that their new album will [...]

  Krowos is an Italian black metal band formed by: Tsade – Screaming and Clean Vocals Bheltregus – Choirs and Clean Vocals Frozen – Drums and Guitars Imbris – Bass Krowos was created by Frozen and Tsade in 2011. After the first release, Imbris and Mescun joined the band in 2012, and later on by [...]

We here at the Black Planet had the opportunity to interview the Australian metalcore band A Breach Of Silence regarding their new record “Secrets”. Their vocalist and bass player Blair Layt was kind enough to take some time to answer our questions. Can you tell us a little bit about A Breach Of Silence’s history and [...]

Italian symphonic death metal kings Fleshgod Apocalypse have been robbed in Sweden. Leader Francesco Paoli has posted a video mentioning what happened and announcing that the rest of the tour is now cancelled due to the loss of indispensable gear and equipment. You can watch the video below, as well as a list of the [...]

French band Birds In Row have started touring recently after 6 months without playing live. Coilguns, from Switzerland, however were on the final stops of their European tour. So, for 5 dates both bands played together. One of those dates was the 28th of March at The Underworld, one of London’s most popular spots for [...]

“Unsettling Whispers” will be out on June 22, 2018 via Transcending Obscurity Records. Portuguese Black Metal act Gaerea have released a single extracted from the band’s upcoming album “Unsettling Whispers”. You can listen to it below. Transcending Obscurity commented: “Gaerea have turned the genre of black metal on its head. While most rehash the classic sound, [...]

You can pre-order “Messe Noire” here. Polish black/death titans Behemoth have released a new trailer video for their new upcoming live DVD/Blu-ray, which will be entitled “Messe Noire”. This new live release is due to be out on April 13th. You can watch it below: Messe Noire includes the band’s shows in Warsaw, Poland on [...]