Festivals

TUSKA Open Air 2015 Day #1 – 26.06.2015 The festival’s ground is open space and has 3 stages, two in open space (Radio Rock Main Stage and Stage Hell, more or less in opposite each other but slightly skewed to the left side of the room) and another in enclosed space (Club Stage more into the [...]

It was under what you could call an infernal heat that the first few metalheads started their march towards Side B, in Benavente, Portugal, to attend the fifth edition of Sardinha de Ferro (or, as one of the bands of the day – Ravensire – had written on their set list, “Iron Sardine of Hell”!). An [...]

(Picture gallery below) Day 0 The SWR festival has completed 18 years of existence. Over time the festival has grown at a huge pace gaining a considerable notoriety among the European festivals and placed at the top of the metal festivals in Portugal, by its own effort and merit. So, once again, the pilgrimage to the [...]

Day 2 The second day had its kick start with BORDERLANDS, a young metalcore group. The room was still half empty, but that didn’t stop them to give their best.  Next up was ANALEPSY. The group never disappoints when playing live, and their unique style of slam/brutal death metal caused the first chaotic moshpit of [...]

The 12th edition of Moita Metal Fest took place on the 27th and 28th of March, where 17 bands left their mark on the festival stage. Day 1 Only a few minutes after the due time, JACKIE D. played the first musical notes of the night, the party had officially begun. Despite being in a [...]

  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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

Saturday promised 30 bands, 9 dj’s and, of course, the late hours of the first night meant that it would have consequences on the second day. But, with exactly one hour delay, we all could still be well organized. Starting with one of the biggest festival revelations for us: nationals ASIMOV. One drum, one distorted [...]

You are certainly familiarised with the city of Speyer, in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany. At least you’ve heard about it, right? If you haven’t it means that you’ve been passing far away from some of the best European black metal. As for us, we returned to that historic city six months after the SPEYER [...]

Valada is a quiet place located 60 kms North from Lisbon, thus offering an interesting location to gather rockers from different latitudes. On top of that, this small town is not strange to loud and fast live shows, once it held, many years ago, the dead Festival Tejo, where bands as Moonspell and Ramp played [...]

Back at Bornicke woods for another edition of the mature UNDER THE BLACK SUN FESTIVAL. This year the organisers planned the largest band bill version of the festival history, joining also some none black metal bands. 25 acts from 16 different countries that were embraced by the black feelings of hundreds of headbangers, proving once [...]

Hellfest 2014 – Day #1 Every year, by the month of June, metalheads from around the world gather in the small town of Clisson for 3 crazy days of Metal and everything related to it. 2014 saw the 9th edition of Hellfest take place this last weekend. Once again with a killer artist roster, a [...]

Day 3 Stage 1 The last day started with an excellent show from BONDED BY  BLOOD. This revival thrash metal band from California (USA), has great stage presence. In spite of not having a big audience, the performance was fast, straight to the point and exciting. The crowd went wild and there was mosh everywhere. Their [...]