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The Black Planet had the opportunity to meet Guillermo Izquierdo, the man behind the vocals of the spanish thrash metal band Angelus Apatrida, when they last played in Portugal at Mosher Fest – Chapter V. Check below the result of this meeting. Special thanks to Angelus Apatrida and Mosher Fest.   [...]

Hallatar is the new Finnish band formed by Juha Ravio. This is a tribute project to Aleah Liane Starbridge work and life, which unfortunately succumbed to cancer last year after the recording of Trees Of Eternity debut album. With the intention to immortalise her work, “Carry the flame of Aleah”, her partner Juha invited  Tomi Joutsen [...]

Be Prog! My Friend 2017 will happen at Poble Espanyol, Barcelona, Spain on the 30th of June and 1st of July. Moving to the 4th edition, Be Prog! My Friend stands firmly by its name. The festival brings the best of the progressive music in metal and rock. Two days listening to the finest progressive [...]

Sala Tejo of Meo Arena, in Lisbon. Ticket’s cost is 28€ and can be purchased at Worten, Fnac, El Corte Inglês, Unkind, Blueticket and Masqueticket (Spain) It’s been five years since the American band Mastodon don’t play in Portugal. Between that time, the quartet from Atlanta, Georgia have released two new albums, 2014’s ”Once More ‘Round [...]

Australian metalcore band Northlane released official video for the song ”Solar”. The song is part of the recent released album ”Mesmer”. ‘Mesmer” is the follow-up to their 2015’s ”Node” album and Northlane’s 4th studio album. The album the album comprises eleven tracks and was launched on March 24th by UNFD records. Production by David Benneth [...]

Frontiers Music Srl announced the release of Circus Maximus “Havoc In Oslo”. The hotly anticipated live album is due to be released on August 4, 2017 and it will be available on 2CD/DVD and 2CD/BluRay. Ever since Circus Maximus released “Live In Japan” via YouTube, and have been eager to make a proper live release in a physical format. [...]

“Days Go By – London” will be part of the band’s debut studio album. VUUR is a group founded by Anneke Van Giersbergen (Gentle Storm, ex-The Gathering) and its a project that represents her heavy metal side. In the band’s official bio, it says: In early 2016, Anneke decided for the sake of clarity to [...]

Striker is a speed metal band from Edmonton, Canada who recently played in Lisbon with Triosphere and Sonata Arctica. The Black Planet Zine had the amazing opportunity to interview the guitarist Tim and get to know a little bit more about this smashing band. TBP – Hey Tim, first of all we appreciate that you [...]

Portuguese thrashers Terror Empire will release their new album ”Obscurity Rising” on July 14th through Mosher Records. ”Obscurity Rising” was recorded at Golden Jack Studios (studios of Terror Empire‘s drummer João Dourado). About the album the band says: “Songs range from Terror Empire’s modern sounding thrash metal to skin-pounding brutal death metal, however, this doesn’t stop [...]

The portuguese death/grind XXXicken Party festival has closed it’s band billing for their 2017 edition. The event will take place at Rex Bowling Club in Cantanhede. French death/grindcore band Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition (S.C.D.) are returning to Portugal and they are part of the latest confirmations for this year’s XXXicken Party festival billing. The Spanish bands Gruesome [...]

A few days ago, Tribulation revealed that their drummer had left. Now, they took their Facebook page to announce their new member who will take care of the drumming duties. Here’s what the band had to say: After this period of silence, renewal and contemplation the time has now come to give you the new [...]

Already known are the bands that fill the center of Villhena with melody and good mood. Leyendas del Rock announced acoustic shows. The honors of the acoustic concerts in Villena Square will be for the Asturian band  Avalanch represented by Albert Rionda (guitar leads and back vocals) and Israel Ramos (vocals) and the ex-White Lion [...]

The Swedish modern Metal act dEmotional new album “Discovery” was released on May 27th via Art Gates Records. The music of the band is characterized by the combination of hard riffs and full of emotions melody, praised by Jesper Stromblad itself (Cyhra, Ex In Flames) and other recognised musicians of the Swedish Metal scene. “Discovery” is their [...]

The concert will take place at Coliseu de Lisboa on June 5th. Tickets cost €32. Slayer, the mighty Thrash Metal legends are back in Portugal right after playing in Spain at the Primavera Sound festival on June 1st. The band is currently still promoting their latest album “Repentless”, released in 2015. It took 6 years [...]