The fourth edition of Portugal’s Amplifest is fast approaching and packs a mighty, mighty line-up. The Quietus recommends Amplifest 2014!

Escolhidos pelos próprios Future Islands, os conterrâneos Celebration vão acompanhá-los em tour e apresentarem-se assim em Portugal, primeiro no Musicbox e no dia seguinte no Hard Club. Celebremos! Site · Facebook · + info/ Bilhetes

Falta um mês para recebermos os Anathema no Hard Club, no Porto, para a apresentação do novo Distante Satellites. Ao décimo longa-duração e mais de duas décadas depois de se terem juntado, os ANATHEMA mostram que o seu génio não pára de cre

A corrosive snarl and tense mechanical whine open Process of Guilt’s side of their new split with Swiss bruisers Rorcal, and that inhuman noise proves to be a blood-curdling preview of what’s to come. The Portuguese mainstays joined forces with B

Ever since Geist Ist Teufel came out, more than a decade ago, Dutch duo Urfaust have been taking black metal a step further, employing it as a means to spiritual enlightenment. Every component in Urfaust’s music plays a part in the exorcism: IX’s

  Like their name, they leave things simple, their boots firmly planted in the roots of the hardcore punk genre, but nevertheless taking it to its (il)logical extreme point, adding powerviolence and blackened sludgy sonic hatred to form a par

YOB has never put out a bad record, but this new one is a marked step up from Atma, and very much on par with 2009’s triumphant The Great Cessation. Scheidt and YOB are masters of the form, and they’re sounding particularly inspired here. I hope

Today’s track of the day is not for the faint of heart. If you’re plugged in with headphones, prepare for the f-cking abrasive onslaught of industrial apocalypse that is Pharmakon’s “Body Betrays Itself”. The first 45 seconds sound like the

YOB’s latest record stands as one of their densest, so it’s good that the band’s greatest asset, their impeccable pacing, remains intact. “Unmask the Spectre” plays out as a masterclass in dramatic tension, its punishing core buffer

Muitos de nós já o vimos sem saber, já lhe estudamos os pormenores sem querer. Ele é designer, comunicador, artista e, dizemos nós, um precioso melómano, com uma predilecção por ambientes negros e universos obsessivamente intrincados. Nos seu