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Portuguese group SULLEN have released a video of a live performance for their rendition of the song “Redondo Vocábulo”, by musician Zeca Afonso, featured on their debut record “Post Human” from last year. This video was filmed at their most recent show, that took place at the Teatro Helena Sá e Costa (Porto), and can [...]

Icelandic newspaper The Reykjavík Grapevine has issued an extended article covering the surpringly influent local Black metal scene. In a piece entitled “Welcome To The Circle – Meet The Men Behind Iceland’s Thriving Black Metal Scene”, several testimonies from the guys that are shaping new faces in the contemporary extreme musical panorama. Interviews with bands such as [...]

DESTROYERS OF ALL, portuguese death/progressive metal group, have announced a special gig to celebrate and present their debut record “Bleak Fragments”. The show will take place in Coimbra, their home town, at the venue States Club, on the 19th of March (saturday). The opening acts are Tales For The Unspoken and Terror Empire, also from [...]

Portuguese occult Doom act DEAD PROCESSION will see its debut full length hit international landscapes next 1st March, through Labyrinth Productions, a sub-label of Altare Productions. This first long-run effort is entitled “Rituais e Mantras do Medo”, and the advance first song (“Percorrendo os Caminhos da Noite”) is now available for free listening at this location. [...]

Grunt have unveiled a new video, in exclusive for the Rock n’Heavy zine, for their track “Teratoid Latex Feudalist”. Bellow you can see the video for this song, that was taken from their latest record, “Codex Bizarre” which came out last year on CD format via Bizarre Leprous, and on tape via Larvae Prod. Be [...]

The Black Planet had the opportunity to interview two members of Di.Soul.Ved, a newgrindcore supergroup that is taking the portuguese underground scene by storm, Pedro Pedra and Hugo Silva, the project mentor. This is what they had to say: For the ones who haven’t heard of you… Who are Di.Soul.Ved? Pedra – Well me and [...]

The second  day of party started with the Portuguese band Extreme Retaliation, now based in Braga, opened the afternoon with a nice gig. The drummer had a great performance, and the sound was very consistent as well. Condylomata Acuminata from Austria brought their party grind to the pit with band members coming of the stage [...]

Dutch black metal cult FOLTERAAR have premiere their new track “Mijn verlossing” at heavily trafficked web-portal InvisibleOranges.com. The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, “Vertellingen van een donkere eeuw”, set for international release on February 26th via Iron Bonehead Productions. You can listen to this track at this location. A rather primitive and bestial [...]

Just like last time, the RCA Club in Lisboa was the grinders stage for the second edition of the Xxxapada na Tromba. A festival organized with total devotion by Sérgio Páscoa and Carlos Guerra, to name a few, who put up an amazing event to promote the best in the grindcore scene, divided in 2 [...]

[Note]: This is the extended version of the interview given by Pedro Pedra, the frontman of Grog originaly published in the booklet for XXXAPADA Fest. Portuguese grind veterans Grog return to XXXAPADA after last year’s amazing gig in the fest. This is a special year for them, in which they celebrate their 25th birthday as [...]

Notre Damme productions has announced the support bands for next 2nd March DESTROYER 666 gig. They are Portuguese veterans NEOPLASMAH and national newcomers ORDEM SATANICA. This concert comes as a warm-up for the European tour the Australians will endure alongside bestial Swiss outfit Bolzer. The Black/Thrash attack is scheduled to start at 21.00 at RCA, [...]

Portuguese death metal group GRIMLET are back with their third work,”Theia: Aesthetics Of A Lie”. This is the follow-up work of their last record, “Grim Perceptions”, released in 2010. The date of the release is not yet set, but it is possible to come out later this year. So for now, enjoy the teaser trailer [...]

Italian metallers FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE have released a new lyric video, for “Gravity”, which can be seen bellow. Like the previous lyric video, for the song “The Fool”, this track was also taken from “King”, their upcoming studio album, that is set to be released on February 5th via Nuclear Blast Records.   [...]

AMON AMARTH are back with a video for their newst song “First Kill”, that you can see bellow. This track was taken from “Jomsviking”, their upcoming record, that is set to be released on the 25th of March. [...]