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Kai Hansen and his band Gamma Ray have finally returned to Portugal, 2 years after their gig on Vagos Open Air, to celebrate 25 years of loud and fast power metal, and with them came as opening acts Serious Black and Neonfly. Neonfly a young band dress to impress with their exotic costumes, brought with [...]

Great evening in Paradise Garage for the long waited return of Ensiferum to Portugal. Invited to the show were Cruz de Ferro, classic heavy metal singed in Portuguese, proudly has the band said. It was a good warm up from a band with great muscled riffs and a strong voice but most unknown to the [...]

On October 8th the RCA Club in Lisbon received a true Norwegian night. The 3 bands that played all shared more than their nationality… they shared intricate and highly technical music too. Rendezvous Point opened up the series of concerts. This band seemed a bit unknown to most of the people, so maybe it felt [...]

Sunday isn’t anyone’s favorite day to attend a concert, but it’s a disadvantage of tours, you have to be flexible… The first band was DAGOBA, a french groovy band in charge of starting the hostilities. Apparently not very known to the Portuguese audience, a conclusion taken based on both the amount of people and reaction [...]

Porto’s well known Hard Club, received the most recent Sólstafir tour. Accompanied by Indie Rock group Esben and the Witch and extreme Progressive Metal band Obsidian Kingdom, we were assured to experience some pretty intense moments. Originally from Spain, OBSIDIAN KINGDOM came onstage first, started their show in front of a not so full room, [...]

Porto, April 22nd, Sunday… Not the best day for a metal show, but if you are a true fan, the day of the week doesn’t really matter. With a tolerable weather and after dining the traditional Francesinha (a must-eat in Porto), it was time to run off to the new Hard Club and enjoy an [...]

In order to promote their latest album “The Power Within” released this month, extreme Power Metal band Dragonforce have scheduled a show in Portugal. Three years later the band returns for a new event that will take place in Corroios, Lisbon, on November 17th, in the already known venue Cine-Teatro Corroios. Support act will be [...]

Vagos Open Air have announced the last bands for this year’s edition! Swiss oldschool technical Thrashers Coroner and Portuguese Death Metal band Disaffected are the last 2 names that close the 2012 edition of this high-awaited Summer festival. Now that the bill is closed, the band line-up will be as follows: 3 de AGOSTO AT [...]

Prime Artists, the organizer of the Portuguese metal festival Vagos Open Air, have confirmed two bands: Swiss Folk/Melodic Death Metal act ELUVEITIE and Melodic Black Metallers CHTHONIC from Taiwan. Bands already confirmed: ARCH-ENEMY, ARCTURUS, OVERKILL, ENSLAVED, TEXTURES, NORTHLAND [...]