A dark road bridging doom, sludge and the vicious spew of hardcore is home for the power-trio Redemptus, one of the most lauded bands to come out of the Portuguese underground scene in the last few years. Punishing and tenebrous, but honest and emoti

​A household name in the Latvian underground, Tesa have been perfecting their forward-thinking brand of noise-tinged post-metal for more than ten years now, with several records, tours and festival appearances on their resume. Invited by Neurosis t

From modern classical to black metal, jazz, goth and many, many more – Kayo Dot has never treaded the same path twice throughout their kaleidoscopic and ambitious body of work. But the twists and turns through different genres and aesthetics are pa

Zatokrev’s singer, guitar player and songwriter Frederyk Rotter has found himself in a quieter place as The Leaving – the name of his solo project where the doom and the gloom of his main band are put aside in favor of and acoustic output that is

With a sound that’s none but their own, Sinistro masterfully add a melancholy that’s borrowed from fado and from the very Portuguese concept of saudade – in the form of singer’s Patrícia Andrade poignant wail – atop a barrage of monolithic

After the well-received debut The Absence of Void, Portugal’s best kept secret Névoa are setting up to release Re Un, a sophomore record that pushes their craft to much greater heights. Recently signed on Avantgarde Music, Névoa have expanded the

Oathbreaker aren’t ones to be afraid of experimentation; the Belgian band, affiliated with the Church of Ra artistic collective – along with Amenra, Hessian and others – have always tinted their vicious brand of hardcore with foreign elements s

The most infamous of all of Dominick Fernow’s many alter egos, Prurient is also the one that holds the most destructive power. Abrasive, confrontational and uncomfortable, Prurient’s artistic output has shifted from the raw waves of noise and sta

Hailing from the Basque Country, the mysterious quartet Altarage are already a whirlwind of all-encompassing darkness and unrestrained violence – and they have just finished unpacking their set of torture tools. Recently signed on cult label Iron B

Estávamos em 2013 e a Sala 2 do Hard Club não conseguia alojar mais uma única alma entre as suas paredes; ali, os Downfall of Gaia apresentavam em pleno Amplifest o seu então recente disco Suffocating in the Swarm of Cranes, num concerto que, par