All posts by Filipe Gomes

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 [...]

Legendary Norwegian duo, Darkthrone, will release their new album, “Arctic Thunder”, on October 14th via Peaceville records. “Arctic Thunder” marks the band’s first new studio material since 2013’s “The Underground Resistance”. The album’s opening track, “Tundra Leach”, is streaming below, along with commentary from Fenriz himself. The album was recorded in the band’s old rehearsal [...]

Once again, the town of Vagos became a place of pilgrimage. Vagos Metal Fest brought thousands of people for another Metal Festival. With a totally different promoter in charge of the arrangements, there was great curiosity to see how it would be. The festival structure was well arranged, while the placing of the stage, merch [...]

Maximus Festival – new Brazilian Heavy Metal Festival arises Brazil is gonna hold a brand new Heavy Metal festival in 2016. Maximus Festival is taking place in São Paulo on September 7th, the Brazilian Independence Day. The festival’s first edition is also happening in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 10th. The headliners for this first [...]

Check out our report of the awesome performances at Laurus Nobilis Famalicão by Moonspell, Bizarra Locomotiva and Quinteto Explosivo, last July 22th. Special thanks: Laurus Nobilis organization [...]

The organizers of the new Vagos Metal Fest have announced the last band as well as all the information regarding the festival. Correia is the last band confirmed for this year’s edition. The first edition of the festival will take place at Quinta do Ega, Vagos, Portugal on August 13th and 14th. VAGOS METAL FEST: Website | [...]

French Melodic Death metallers AEPHANEMER have released a new track called “The Call Of The Wild”, taken from the band’s much anticipated debut album “Memento Mori”, scheduled for a release on September 16th, 2016 via Primeval Records. Listen to ‘The Call Of The Wild’ below. Previously the band released the single “Unstoppable” which you can [...]

Advent of Bedlam released their brand new single “Creatures of Yore”, after more than 4 years since releasing their last album “Flesh Over God”. The single was recorded at Cavan Studio in Heredia, Costa Rica, by the band’s guitarists Isak Arroyo and Max Gutiérrez, this last one also mixed and produced the song “Creatures of [...]

Opening a great night of heavy metal, in the hot and sunny Portugal, The Raven Age, band of George Harris (Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris’ son), made the first impact. Bringing with them the self-titled EP “The Raven Age”, playing it in its entirely, but bringing also new songs like “Promised Land”, “The Merciful One”, and [...]

Check out our report of the awesome Gojira show that took place at Hard Club, Porto, last July 7th. Opening band: Equaleft Special thanks: Prime Artists [...]

Spanish Melodic Death metallers JOTNAR unveils the cover artwork and track list of their sophomore album. The new album will be titled “Connected/Condemned” and will have 14 tracks of melodic death metal with old-school and modern influences blended together. As on previous album “Giant”, the mixes are being done by Sacha Laskow on “Perfect Fifth [...]

An epic night at RCA Club in Lisbon started with great performances of the chaotic punk rockers Scum Liquor, the epicness of the Lusitanian warriors Ironsword and a rare comeback of the more than epic heavy – metal band from the States, Manilla Road, to our country that we wouldn’t like to miss, (yes we [...]