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Report: SWR Feast 2022

Report: SWR Feast 2022

The SWR Feast 2022 was the return of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest after a 2-year hiatus due to the Covid pandemic. Read out report here! [...]

May 7, 2022 Filipe Gomes Festivals, Reports Comments Off on Report: SWR Feast 2022

A personal preview of SWR Feast 2022

A personal preview of SWR Feast 2022

The last 2 years have been hard for all of us. We ran out of concerts, out of events, out of (almost) everything. But the underground didn’t stop, because to stop is to die. Lots of albums came out, bands were created and dismantled, besides other initiatives such as online festivals, something that until then [...]

April 25, 2022 Filipe Gomes Previews Comments Off on A personal preview of SWR Feast 2022

Preview: SWR Feast 2022

Preview: SWR Feast 2022

SWR Barroselas Metalfest is finally returning after a 2-year hiatus forced by the Covid-19 pandemic. Autopsy, Mgla, Sijjin, Skeletal Remains and many more will return on April 29th to the peaceful town in the north of Portugal! [...]

April 14, 2022 Filipe Gomes Previews Comments Off on Preview: SWR Feast 2022

Preview: Beyond Creation + Gorod + Entheos + Brought By Pain @ Hard Club

Preview: Beyond Creation + Gorod + Entheos + Brought By Pain @ Hard Club

On the next November 15th, Canadian tech-death metal pillars Beyond Creation will return to Portugal! One of the freshest and most modern acts in the recent years, Beyond Creation have released 3 very solid full-length albums: “The Aura” (2011), “Earthborn Evolution” (2014) and the most recent “Algorythm” (2018), showing a strong career path. The band [...]

November 7, 2018 Filipe Gomes Previews Comments Off on Preview: Beyond Creation + Gorod + Entheos + Brought By Pain @ Hard Club

SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms Malignant Tumor & more

SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms Malignant Tumor & more

SWR is scheduled for 27-29 April 2018 at Barroselas, northwest Portugal. SWR Barroselas Metalfest is one of the oldest European festivals of extreme music and it returns for its 21st edition, in 2018. Cock and Ball Torture will be replaced by Malignant Tumour. The festival has announced another lot of band confirmations: MALIGNANT TUMOUR | Czech Republic [...]

March 1, 2018 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms Malignant Tumor & more

SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms Exhorder & more

SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms Exhorder & more

SWR is scheduled for 27-29 April 2018 at Barroselas, northwest Portugal. SWR Barroselas Metalfest is one of the oldest European festivals of extreme music and it returns for its 21st edition, in 2018. The festival has announced another lot of band confirmations: Exhorder, Master’s Hammer, Church of Misery, Mortiis- Era 1, Agathocles, Mortuary Drape, SUMA, Obliteration, [...]

December 22, 2017 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms Exhorder & more

SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms Suffocation and Carpathian Forest & more

SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms Suffocation and Carpathian Forest & more

SWR is scheduled for 27-29 April 2018 at Barroselas, northwest Portugal. SWR Barroselas Metalfest is one of the oldest European festivals of extreme music and it returns for its 21st edition, in 2018. The first round of announcements includes 15 selected names from a wide variety of styles: Suffocation, the leaders of american Death Metal; the [...]

November 16, 2017 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on SWR Barroselas Metalfest confirms Suffocation and Carpathian Forest & more

Report: Mayhem + Dragged Into Sunlight + The Ominous Circle @ LAV

Report: Mayhem + Dragged Into Sunlight + The Ominous Circle @ LAV

Norwegian Mayhem set foot on Portuguese soil in April early this year as headliners of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest. Six months later, they were back, but this time in a closed dedicated venue, not in a festival format. After a few minutes in line, we were able to witness the first concert: The Portuguese The [...]

November 4, 2017 Filipe Gomes Concerts, Reports Comments Off on Report: Mayhem + Dragged Into Sunlight + The Ominous Circle @ LAV

Report: Blood Red Throne + Pestifer + Corpsia @ Cave 45

Report: Blood Red Throne + Pestifer + Corpsia @ Cave 45

Norwegian Death Metal beasts Blood Red Throne have made an Iberian tour in the past month, playing 5 dates in Spain and 1 in Portugal. This tour happened to promote their latest record “Union of Flesh and Machine” and to early celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band. The Portuguese date took place at Cave [...]

October 17, 2017 Filipe Gomes Concerts, Reports Comments Off on Report: Blood Red Throne + Pestifer + Corpsia @ Cave 45

Preview: Mayhem + Dragged Into Sunlight + The Ominous Circle @ Lisboa ao Vivo

Preview: Mayhem + Dragged Into Sunlight + The Ominous Circle @ Lisboa ao Vivo

After a grim and mystical show at this year’s edition of SWR Barroselas Metalfest, black metal legends Mayhem are back to Portugal. Still celebrating the 23rd anniversary of their critically acclaimed album “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas” with a special set, this has every ingredients to become an unforgetable night. Accompanied by the british blackened doom [...]

October 8, 2017 Rita Limede Previews Comments Off on Preview: Mayhem + Dragged Into Sunlight + The Ominous Circle @ Lisboa ao Vivo

SWR Barroselas Metalfest announces MARDUK, ABORTED, GRAVE, DOOM, and others for 2016.

SWR Barroselas Metalfest announces MARDUK, ABORTED, GRAVE, DOOM, and others for 2016.

The organizers of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest have started to announce the first bands for the 2016 edition of the festival. So, the 19th edition will feature (confirmed so far): MARDUK | Sweden | www.facebook.com/Mardukofficial ABORTED | Belgium | www.facebook.com/Abortedofficial GRAVE | Sweden | www.facebook.com/GraveOfficial DOOM | UK | www.facebook.com/doomcrustpunk MIDNIGHT | USA | https://www.facebook.com/Midnight-87909491643/ [...]

November 17, 2015 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on SWR Barroselas Metalfest announces MARDUK, ABORTED, GRAVE, DOOM, and others for 2016.

Report: SWR BARROSELAS Metalfest 2015

Report: SWR BARROSELAS Metalfest 2015

(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 [...]

May 27, 2015 Filipe Gomes Festivals, Reports Comments Off on Report: SWR BARROSELAS Metalfest 2015

SWR BARROSELAS FEST final schedules

SWR BARROSELAS FEST final schedules

Less than a month before the next edition of SWR Barroselas Metalfest , times tables of the event are now revealed along with the celebration of 18th birthday of the festival.. The roster has historical bands like Primordial , Entombed AD , Shining , Impaled Nazarene , Fleshgod Apocalypse and Enthroned between forty-six acts that will [...]

April 14, 2015 Filipe Gomes News Comments Off on SWR BARROSELAS FEST final schedules

SWR Barroselas Metalfest – More bands confirmed

SWR Barroselas Metalfest – More bands confirmed

SWR Barroselas Metalfest added Enthroned, Skyforger, Skull Fist, Nightbringer, Lvcifyre, Claustrofobia and Emptiness, to next year’s line up. The organization also announced that their special X-mas packs are now for sale, and you can purchase them in here! More news coming soon. [...]

November 24, 2014 Rita Limede News Comments Off on SWR Barroselas Metalfest – More bands confirmed