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SWR Barroselas Metalfest, one of the oldest european festivals focused entirely on extreme music, returns in 2017 for its 20th anniversary, scheduled for 28, 29 and 30 of April at the Village of Barroselas, northern Portugal. Confirmed so far are black metal legends Mayhem playing their magnum opus “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas”, Belgium death metal [...]

Read what you can expect from this exceptional event, held at Nosturi venue in Helsinki (Finland) already this week wednesday (October 12th). Highlighting the come back to Helsinki of the acclaimed Australian band Ne Obliviscaris, currently touring in Europe with Enslaved. The event counts also with the presence of the Finnish bands Brymir and Oddland.  ODDLAND With a [...]

A one-of-a-kind album release by the almost forgotten SCUM band is expected by the end of 2016. The five elements band is a classic Finnish death metal band that was formed in 1990 in Parikkala (East Finland). Their start coincided with the onset of the Finnish death metal scene. Quickly discovered and  started working with [...]

French black metal titans DEATHSPELL OMEGA will release a new EP this November! “The Synarchy of Molten Bones” is scheduled to become available on November 8th, released via Norma Evangelium Diaboli. “The Synarchy of Molten Bones” will be Deathspell’s sixth EP. The work will feature four new songs and pre-order is already available via bands Bandcamp. Fans [...]

Loud Rage Music proudly announces its recent agreement with one of the most well-known Romanian Metal bands, GOTHIC! Established back in 1992 by Alin Petrut in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains of Transilvania, Romania, the band became in a short period of time one of the most respected Metal bands in the country and kept the same status [...]

Italian Thrash/Death Killing Machine METHEDRAS have released a live video of the band performing “Dead Memories,” a track from 2014 Pavement Entertainment release “System Subversion”. The video was filmed in December 2015 at Sentrum (Kiev, Ukraine) during a performance in support of KREATOR. View the video at the following link: Order “System Subversion” from Pavement [...]

Godz Ov War Productions is proud to present Misanthropic Rage‘s highly anticipated debut album, ‘Gates No Longer Shut’. A duo hailing from Poland, Misanthropic Rage are a literal whirlwind of avant-garde black metal. Aptly titled, ‘Gates No Longer Shut’ is a 40-minute firestorm of frayed logic, feverish frequencies, and ceremonial magick. With dissonant riffing colliding [...]

At a Sunday evening, took place on the usual spot another great night of heavy metal, counting on the bill with the Portuguese acts Inner Blast and Cruz de Ferro, opening for one of the major viking forces in metal music nowadays, Tyr. Portuguese new comer act Inner Blast opened the night with a melodic [...]

Osmose Productions sets November 25th as the international release date for Liber Null‘s highly anticipated debut album, I – The Serpent. Unrelenting and unrepenting black metal in the vein of Marduk and Watain, Liber Null features members of Acherontas, Fides Inversa, Blut Aus Nord, and Frostmoon Eclipse. Liber Null embodies the dogma-shattering will to oppose the denigration of [...]

Uppsala’s death metal quartet, USURPRESS, are streaming their new studio album in full, prior to its September 23rd release date on Agonia Records. Touted as “forward thinking swedish death metal” by Metal Hammer UK, the record is available for streaming below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF03vIvNVDc “The Regal Tribe” was recorded under the supervision of rising star producer Lawrence Mackrory (FKÜ, Darkane) while [...]

Cult Swedish death metallers DERANGED have revealed the first song from their upcoming new album, “Struck By A Murderous Siege”, due out on October 28th via Agonia Records. Listen to the track “Reverent Decomposition” at: The band’s first studio album in five years (and their ninth altogether) was recorded at Berno Studio (Amon Amarth, The Crown, Witchery) in Malmö, Sweden. The album’s [...]

ROOT, one of the original pre-second-wave black metal bands (formed in 1987 by iconic vocalist Jiri ‘Big Boss’ Valter), from Czech Republic, are going to release a new studio album, “Kärgeräs – Return From Oblivion”, on November 25th via Agonia Records. In contrast to Bathory and Venom, ROOT took the black metal genre in a more refined direction, featuring Big Boss‘ characteristic clean [...]

HARRI KAUPPINEN is releasing TODAY (September 30th, 2016) his debut solo album “Helvetin Laulut” in CD, cassette and digital formats through Concorde Music Company. Made in collaboration with producer/mixing engineer Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, Sentenced, KYPCK, …), the album wanders on in a singer-songwriter-style, set in a melancholic and gloomy Finnish Rock scenery, every once in a while stepping in depths [...]

In about three weeks, the world will know “Confessions”, the sixth studio album by swedish group Sonic Syndicate. We had a nice little chat with guitarist Robin Sjunnesson about it and some other music-related stuff. TBP: Hi Robin! Thanks for taking a little time for this. Hi! Thanks for having me! The Black Planet and [...]