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The first big death metal names in 2018 are brought to Copenhagen by 3rd Tsunami Agency, for a show at club Vega. Cannibal Corpse is coming back to Denmark to deal some brutal power among their fans! New York based death metal titans this time are coming at us with strong support from The Black [...]

This February will be extreme, dark and uncanny. Brought by the Promoter Ritos Nocturnos (or Nocturnal Rites, the perfect promoter to gift us with this tour), the black metal monsters Carach Angren (Netherlands) and Rotting Christ (Greece) will haunt the stages of Porto (Hard Club, February 9th) and Lisbon (RCA Club, February 10th). Albeit both [...]

Slayer, the mythical big 4 thrash metal group have announced a farewell tour to take place in 2018. Although no dates or any other details have been revealed yet, the band has promised this is going to be a world tour. Tom Araya has been giving some clues about this possibility, like this statement taken [...]

Simon Girard, frontman and main songwriter of technical death metal band Beyond Creation has posted in his social media that the writing and composing process for the band’s 3rd album has been finished. Here’s what Simon had to say: More details coming soon. About Beyond Creation Facebook / Bandcamp / Twitter / YouTube [...]

Obscura “Diluvium” is set for a Summer 2018 release via Relapse Records. Technical death metal masters Obscura have completed their fifth full-length album entitled “Diluvium”. “Diluvium” was recorded with longtime producer V. Santura (Triptykon, Pestilence) at Woodshed Studios in Landshut, Germany. Some special contributors were involved with the making of “Diluvium” including Linus Klausenitzer’s father, [...]

“Aqua Vitae” is The Voynich Code ‘s latest album, released in 2017. Portuguese The Voynich Code will be supporting tech-death The Faceless on their European tour. 10-Feb Paris (FR) at Backstage 11-Feb Bordaux (FR) at BT59 12-Feb Madrid (ES) at Caracol 13-Feb Barcelona (ES) at Razz3 14-Feb Lyon (FR) at Warm Audio 15-Feb Brescia (IT) [...]

“Abrogation” is taken from the latest Ulcerate album “Shrines of Paralysis”. Ulcerate have released a live video for their song “Abrogation“. The footage was captured by director Woda I Pustka during the band’s set at a show in Krakow, Poland this past November. Ulcerate live dates: Februay 10 – Kings Arms Tavern – Auckland, New [...]

“Humanoid” is Cynic’s first song in 4 years. Cynic has released a new song called “Humanoid”. You can listen to it below. “Humanoid” was recorded by frontman Paul Masvidal, bassist Sean Malone and the band’s new drummer Matt Lynch. Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood was in charge of mixing. Paul Masvidal commented: “Humanoid is a portrait of [...]

Glasya have released their debut video entitled “Heaven’s Demise”. You can watch it below. Glasya is a Portuguese symphonic metal band consisting of several members of the portuguese metal scene: Eduarda Soeiro (also on Nightdream), Davon Van Dave (former Urban Tales, former Shadowsphere), Bruno Prates (former Enchantya), Manuel Pinto (former Enchantya), Bruno Ramos (former My [...]

“Call Of The Wild” is scheduled to be released on Feb. 23 via Season of Mist. Deströyer 666 have released a stream of the song “Call of the Wild,” taken from their new EP of the same name. The album features three new songs as well as a re-recorded version of their cult classic, “Trialed [...]

Immortal’s 9th album is scheduled to be released this year via Nuclear Blast. Legendary Black Metal act Immortal have announced that they have finished the work in their highly-awaited upcoming album. Still untitled, this will be the first album without Abbath, who left the band in 2015. The album was produced by Peter Tägtgren (Abyss Studio), [...]

After publishing our staff’s lists for the best albums of 2017, we have come to a final decision. So here is The Black Planet zine’s official top albums list for the past year! 1 – Septicflesh – Codex Omega 2 – Akercocke – Renaissance in Extremis 3 – Mastodon – Emperor of Sand 4 – [...]

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. Here are the choices [...]

With the year of 2017 coming to an end, it is time to choose the best releases of the year. Like in previous years, we will be publishing our staff’s choices daily as well as a final Top 20 for the zine of the best albums that were released in 2017. Here are the choices [...]