SWR Barroselas Metalfest

The organizers of the annual Meca of extreme Metal that is the SWR Barroselas Metalfest have started to announce the first bands that will be present at the 18th edition of the festival. Entombed A.D., Impaled Nazarene, Shining (Swe), Minsk, Zatokrev, Ahab (Ger), Incinerate (US/Can), Internal Suffering (Col), Killimanjaro (PT), Neuroma (UK), Midnight Priest, Equaleft. Ticket [...]

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 [...]

Day 2 Stage 1 On the second day, the opening of the main stage was the responsibility of THE QUARTET OF WOAH. This new sensation Portuguese stoner band, introduced their latest record, “Ultrabomb”. The band gave their best, and played with heart and soul. It was a great show to watch, with a good ambiance, despite [...]

Day 1 Stage #1 The festival’s first official day started with ETERNAL  STORM. It was a nice show, of good melodic death metal, very interesting musical details, although they were playing for a very small audience. They were supposed to play on the secondary stage, but there was a line up change due to the cancellation [...]

Day 0 This year’s edition of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest started on the 23rd of April. This day 0, with free entrance, was the stage for the W:O:A Metal Battle Portugal. The four bands that disputed this final were NEBULOUS, REVOLUTION WITHIN, DESTROYERS OF ALL and DEMENTIA 13. All bands played their part really well, and [...]

Barroselas will once again dress in black between 23 and 26 April for 17th Edition of Barroselas SWR Metalfest. At first glance , the small village of Barroselas Minho looks like a village like any other. Four thousand , one coffee every two corners , a supermarket and a sports complex would make it similar [...]

Yesterday the organizers of the W:O:A Metal Battle Portugal have announced the 4 bands that will give all they got at the SWR Barroselas Metalfest, hoping to win the spot to play at Wacken Open Air. We finally present you the final four of this year’s W:O:A Metal Battle Portugal, competing at the SWR final [...]

Barroselas, a quiet town during the whole year, except for the last weekend of April… For the past 16 years, all hell breaks loose thanks to the SWR Barroselas Metalfest. Last year the organizers celebrated the 15th anniversary of the most extreme festival in the country. Day #0 The festival started on Wednesday, 24th with [...]

Grinders UTOPIUM have won the national final of Wacken Open Air warm up contest. The Portuguese act is going to present their grind/sludge next August at the world’s biggest metal festival. They follow last year countrymen Midnight Priest. The final took place at SWR Barroselas Metal Fest stage 3#, also with BESTA, SKINNING and WASTE. [...]

Following last years tradition, the portuguese organisation is making all concerts from stages 1# and 2# available online. You can follow this mythical festival through the link under: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/swr-16       [...]

Romanian folk black metalers Negura Bunget have just cancelled their show scheduled for the 26th of April in this year’s SWR Barroselas festival. About the cancellation, original drummer Nigru stated: “Because of the recent line-up changes we had in the band, we are sadly forced to cancel our performance at SWR Barroselas Metalfest XVI. We are [...]

The biggest Metal festival in Portugal has announced almost all the bands scheduled for the 16th edition. SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST XVI 24-27 APRIL 2013 | BARROSELAS | PORTUGAL DAY 0 – wednesday 24 april – 19:00 – free entrance STRONG INTENTION | USA | www.facebook.com/STRONGINTENTION DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION | France | www.facebook.com/departmentofcorrection W:O:A METAL BATTLE [...]

The next edition of the mythical portuguese fest is going to take place on the days 24 to 27 of April 2013.  The bands that have been announced so far are the following: POSSESSED | USA BELPHEGOR | Austria AGALLOCH | USA MANILLA ROAD | USA NEGURA BUNGET | Romania SCD | France MISS LAVA [...]

Just one week before the festival, the organizers of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest have issued the following press release: SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST XV | 26-30 APRIL 2012 | BARROSELAS | PORTUGAL SWR barroselas metalfest XV, set to take place from April 26th to 30th 2012 at the small village of Barroselas, in the north of [...]