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

After curating ‘Beyond the Redshift’, then playing our remaining festival shows, we thought that would be it for Cult of Luna live in 2014; however, closing Amplifest 2014 was an offer too good to resist. It’s an honour to share the

Ben Frost tears down every possible limit in music, rebuilds them in places before unknown, and proceeds to destroy them again. Like a missing link between man and machine, the Australian born and Iceland-based visionary stacks a multitude of sound s

Flying over from their homeland Belgium for an exclusive show, VVOVNDS will unleash their whirlpool of sonic hatred, fast guitars and unconstrained violence all over Amplifest. Their first demo alone was impressive enough to grant them a slot at Holl

In this age we’re living, where we are constantly updated with information by our laptops and smartphones and our facebooks and twitters, the element of surprise has mostly been erased from our lives. Amplifest will give back to you a bit of that l

Portugal’s own Bosque won’t cheer you up in the very least. Their despair and dirge-laden funeral doom, crafted along almost a decade of existence, is a one way descent into a pit of nothingness and Nowhere, released last year, is their best and

Doom metal has been perfecting its genes for over forty years, and Conan are one of the most consistent bands to arise from that evolutionary lineage. Stripping down of any gimmicks or flourishes, Conan’s music is all about bare power. The batterin

Diluted as it might be, there is an African influence deeply ingrained in most of the western music of today – but at Amplifest, African music will be present in its purest state. Alhousseini Anivolla, guitarist and frontman for the Nigerien band

Exercendo uma influência contínua no free jazz durante uma carreira que abrange o último meio século, Peter Brötzmann tem no seu nome quase um sinónimo deste género musical – mais de uma centena de gravações no currículo (entre as quais o

Os Hexis cumprem eficaz e cirurgicamente a sua missão em palco: numa curta e destrutiva erupção de raiva e blasfémia, agredir-nos-ão violentamente com o seu enlace da fúria hardcore com a velocidade e a impiedade do black metal. Com o primeiro