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North American black metal legends VON are currently streaming online the first sounds from their future album “Dark Gods: Birth Of The Architects”, to be released through VON Records next March. The lyric video for the track “Mother” unveils a somehow expected tendency  towards a more intimate aproach to dark music, taking the concept from “Dark [...]

Danish one-woman black metal project MYRKUR is advancing online its new demo track “Skaði”. The song is a part of the impending full-length debut which is due out next year on Relapse Records. MYRKUR has also just confirmed its first ever live performance at the Roskilde Festival 2015, choosing this way a safer home debut [...]

The next year’s edition of the festival Vagos Open Air will take place on the 7th, 8th and 9th of August, in Quinta do Ega, in Vagos. The first bands announced were Bloodbath, Amorphis (special tour of the 20th anniversary of the album “Tales from the Thousand Lakes”), Vildhjarta and Moonshade. More bands and news [...]

Goodlife HQ organisers have published the daily line-up for each one of the days of the promising first edition of Burning Light Fest, that will take place next February, at RCA Club, Lisbon. Besides the 19 bands already confirmed, eight more are still expected. In other news, daily tickets will be available at the price [...]

Norwegian epic black metalers BORKNAGAR are currently hard at work recording their new album to follow Urd. Today, however, guitarist Øystein Garnes Brun shared some bad news. Vocalist Vintersorg (also in Vintersorg and Cronian) injured himself in a fall resulting in fractures to the skull, and brain hemorrhage. The Norwegian melodic black metallers say that the [...]

Swedish leading black metal band MARDUK have released a new song online called “Rope of Regret” from their future album “Frontschwein”, that is coming out on January 2015 through Century Media Records. As you can comprove by listening to it below, expect nothing but hatred and filthiness in another direct black metal attack that will break [...]

UK black/death metallers LVCIFYRE have revealed today the official music video for the title track from their second full-length album “Svn Eater”, released earlier this year by Dark Descent Records. You can watch the devilish clip, shot and edited by Blackout Multimedia Studio/A Thousand Lost Civilizations, via the player below. LVCIFYRE have been recently confirmed as [...]

Side B hosted a sincere Doom metal night last Friday, joining Portuguese newcomers AGONIA to Belgium quick ascension band MARCHE FUNÉBRE. We were not expecting a full venue and our expectations got confirmed, even if the space available would eventually become flooded when full with dark thoughts. Firstly with AGONIA, a new project by the [...]

Only hours after it was revealed that drummer Shawn Drover had exited Megadeth, guitarist Chris Broderick announced he has quit the legendary metal band, too! Broderick had been with the band for 7 years. Megadeth are now left with just frontman Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson following the back to back exits of Shawn [...]

SWR Barroselas Metalfest added Enthroned, Skyforger, Skull Fist, Nightbringer, Lvcifyre, Claustrofobia and Emptiness, to next year’s line up. The organization also announced that their special X-mas packs are now for sale, and you can purchase them in here! More news coming soon. [...]

Santa Maria Summer Fest has confirmed five more bands. Necro Deathmort, Quinteto Explosivo, Infra, Jibóia and Mordaça, have joined the festival’s line up. More news about the event should be disclosed soon. [...]

At The Gates have released a new video for the track “Heroes and Tombs”, which can be seen bellow. This track is a part of the band’s most recent comeback record, “At War With Reality”, that came out only a few weeks ago. This is the second video released for a track of their new [...]

  North American death Metalers VITAL REMAINS have a new drummer in their line-up: James Payne of Hour Of Penance. The musician  will stick with the band at least for some new album writing sessions in January. The following was said of Payne‘s addition: I’m happy to announce our New Drummer James Payne from the band Hour Of Penance!!! He will be joining us [...]

Steven Wilson has announced that he will embark on a UK and European tour in March and April 2015 to coincide with the release of his awaited fourth solo album that we now know will be called “Hand. Cannot. Erase.” and is due for release in March 2015 on Kscope. Full details about the upcoming [...]