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The bands MELECHESH, KEEP OF KALESSIN, TRIBULATION and EMBRYO have joined forces and will be on a european tour during the month of May. The tour starts in Berlin (Germany) on May 1st and ends in Erfurth (Germany) on May 30th. This tour has two dates in Portugal, one in Porto, Hard Club, on the [...]

The italian group Forgotten Tomb has released a video for their new song “Hurt Yourself and the Ones You Love”, which can be seen bellow. This song is the title track of the group’s new album, which is due on April 17th via Agonia Records. [...]

  Another dark weekend in central Lisbon, this time with the fifth edition of Under the Doom festival, in a two day format, congregating in our sunny shore some established and new dark collectives. Two days where two hundred metalheads have communed the obscure anthems of 10 bands, from Shoegaze to Black Metal, but with [...]

ENSLAVED have released a new lyric video for their track “One Thousand Years of Rain”, which is a part of their upcoming record “In Times”, that is set to come out on March 6th via Nuclear Blast Records. The lyric video is available bellow. [...]

2015 has just started and so many highlights of the year are already likely to be chosen.  Undoubtedly one of them happened last Saturday at RCA Club, with BIZARRA LOCOMOTIVA presenting exclusively their new album “Mortuário”.  The sold out expectations were no lie and there was not that much free space to move, making this [...]

Portuguese Black / Doom metalers VAEE SOLIS are the last confirmed band for next march Extreme Metal Attack Festival. This new national project will present their debut album “Adversarial Light”, to be released on tape format by both Signal Rex and Degradagem labels. You can listen to an advance sample here. The band roster is now [...]

Official press release: Norwegian Progsters Leprous have wrapped up work on their newest studio album, which follows 2013’s acclaimed Coal release. The album will be titled The Congregation and is to be released on May 25th, 2015 in Europe and June 2nd, 2015 in North America via InsideOut Music. Leprous vocalist and keyboard player Einar [...]

Beyond Creation has announced a replacement for departed bass player, Dominic Lapointe. Now joining the band is Hugo Doyon-Karout. Here’s the official word: “It is a great pleasure to announce that Hugo Doyon-Karout is now part of Beyond Creation as our new bass player! Being a very talented, forward thinking musician and a 6 string [...]

Official press release: German progressive metal masters Obscura will enter Dreamsound Studios this April to begin recording drums for their highly anticipated new album and first full-length in over four years. The band will work once again with long time producer V. Santura (Cosmogenesis, Omnivium). The album will see a late 2015 release via Relapse [...]

  DAY 2# The sunny (yet freezing) Sunday started with INFRA, the one and only corpse painted band of the weekend. Starting with the new “Communion”, this Lisbon trio showed again why they can no longer remain anonymous: their obscure death metal is too striking to be kept in the drawer. Cavernous vocals, demolishing drums [...]

English (versão Portuguesa abaixo) The musical metamorphosis from Braga known as Mão Morta visited Coimbra, City of the Students for a concert presentation of its latest work: “Pelo Meu Relógio São Horas De Matar”. The band began exactly by the new album, with the song “Irmão da solidão“, quickly going back in time to the record “O. D., Rainha [...]

  In a weekend marked by Burning Light Festival, Lisbon had another important event to offer, once British Vallenfyre came to visit our country for the first time. It was in a surprisingly well filled RCA that we entered by the sounds of Spanish FOSCOR, supporting band for the Iberian dates of the British headliners. [...]

And finally Lisbon had its own metal festival. An underground one. Goodlife HQ dared to dream this  event, while  RCA Club accepted the challenge, reveiving 24 bands in just two days. As you can imagine, it was only for the brave, once each day the concerts started at 14:30 h. DAY 1# On Saturday, still [...]

Canadian progressive death metal outfit BEYOND CREATION has announced the departure of bass player Dominic ‘Forest’ Lapointe. The band has issued the following statement: “Unfortunately, we have to announce that Dominic ‘Forest’ Lapointe is no longer part of Beyond Creation for personal reasons. We would like to thank him for his great work and dedication [...]