All posts by Filipe Gomes

SWR is scheduled for 27-29 April 2018 at Barroselas, northwest Portugal. SWR Barroselas Metalfest is one of the oldest European festivals of extreme music and it returns for its 21st edition, in 2018. The first round of announcements includes 15 selected names from a wide variety of styles: Suffocation, the leaders of american Death Metal; the [...]

Swedish black metal veterans Dark Funeral parted ways with Dominator, the drummer for the past 6 years. Founding guitarist Lord Ahriman commented about Nils Fjellström departure: We must sadly inform you that we have agreed to let Nils “Dominator” Fjellström take a much needed timeout from the band to handle personal matters. We of course wish [...]

After a very convincing performance at VOA 2017 past August, Epica will be returning to Portugal before the end of the year. This time, the band comes to perform as headlining act on a double date, where the legion of followers will be able to see Simone Simons and Co more closely, on the stages [...]

Norwegian Mayhem set foot on Portuguese soil in April early this year as headliners of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest. Six months later, they were back, but this time in a closed dedicated venue, not in a festival format. After a few minutes in line, we were able to witness the first concert: The Portuguese The [...]

North American band Dying Fetus will be returning to Portugal on the next November 12th. This show is part of the tour promoting their brand new album “Wrong One To Fuck With”, released last June 23rd, via Relapse Records. Supporting this tour are Australian Psycroptic, Canadian Beyond Creation and Brutal Death Metal Disentomb, also coming from Australia. [...]

Norwegian Death Metal beasts Blood Red Throne have made an Iberian tour in the past month, playing 5 dates in Spain and 1 in Portugal. This tour happened to promote their latest record “Union of Flesh and Machine” and to early celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band. The Portuguese date took place at Cave [...]

“Kingdoms Disdained” will be out on December 1st through Silver Lining Music. Death metal veterans Morbid Angel have released the first single of their upcoming album. The song is entitled, “Piles of Little Arms”. The new and upcoming record will be called “Kingdoms Disdained” and is due to be released on December 1st through Silver [...]

New album is due to be released on January 5th via Napalm Records. Since the release of their debut album “Lugburz” (1995), Austrian unique act Summoning have proven themselves to be the true guardians of Middle Earth! What started out as a project deeply rooted in traditional black metal took an epic turn in the [...]

You can pre-order “Obscurity Rising” at Mosher Records. Coming on September 22nd. Portuguese thrashers Terror Empire have presented their brand new music video, in an exclusive premiere via Ultraje magazine. Yet, you can watch below. “Obscurity Rising” comes out on September the 22nd via Mosher Records, and can be purchased at www.mosherrecords.com. Pre-orders will include [...]

You can pre-order “Obscurity Rising” at Mosher Records. Coming on September 23rd. 2017 sets the release of “Obscurity Rising” (Mosher Records), the brand new album from Portugal’s thrash metallers TERROR EMPIRE, in which the always-present political tone goes up a notch, and the result is a crushing record blending thrash metal hooks with death metal [...]

“Raging Light” will be available on all digital shops on the 6th of October 2017. Portuguese dark metal combo Painted Black have signed a distribution deal with Wormholedeath for the worldwide release of their album “Raging Light”. The physical and release dates in Japan are still to be defined. Below you can listen an album advance [...]

Dianne van Giersbergen is no longer the lead singer of the German Metal Symphony band Xandria. According to the band, Dianne could not attend the concerts already scheduled by the end of the year. The concerts from September to October were all canceled and currently await rescheduling. For the presentations of November and December, the group [...]

You can pre-order “Two Paths” here. This Friday (September 15th), Ensiferum will unleash their seventh full-length “Two Paths”, worldwide via Metal Blade Records. In preparation for its release, the band has now launched a new single, “King of Storms”, which can be streamed below. The previous singles from Two Paths (“For Those About to Fight [...]

Once again, the town of Vagos hosted the anual Vagos Metal Fest, which already became a Meca for metalheads in Portugal. Three days of good concerts, a lot of beer and meeting friends in a relaxed place. Day #1 Tales For The Unspoken received the responsibility of opening the first day of concerts. The band [...]