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The Vagos Metal Fest is returning in 2019 once again! More than 30 bands will pass by the stage of the festival that takes place from 8th to th 11th of August at Quinta do Ega, Vagos. This year the festival brings you big names like Satyricon, Six Feet Under (a group founded in 1993 [...]

Following up on their successful tour “The Book of Souls” which was a celebration of the 16th and latest album in Iron Maiden’s discography, the beast is unleashed again! Iron Maiden is back two years after their last show in Québec City for “The Legacy Of The Beast World Tour ‘19. This tour started in [...]

Sonic Blast Moledo is back! The 9th edition of Sonic Blast Moledo presents itself in 2019 with a new proposal – three days of music instead of two, taking place in Moledo from the 8th to the 10th of August. The festival located in the Cultural Center of Moledo continues to assert itself as a [...]

North american Red Fang are currently on an European tour, which will visit Lisbon on 30th of June. The stoner metal/rock quartet from Portland, Oregon are one of the most loved bands in the genre, specially due with songs like ”Wires” and ”Pre-historic Dog”. and many more hits. With 4 full-length albums in their pocket, [...]

VOA Fest is back and is celebrating 10 years! After one year of hiatus, one of the most important heavy festivals in Portugal will be returning with a colossal band roster on July 4th – 5th. Day #1 Featuring a 2-day format once again, on the first day (July 4) all the maggots will get [...]

Legendary North American band Tool returns to Portugal next month for a concert in Lisbon, as part of a European tour that started on June 2th in Berlin. The Portuguese concert is scheduled for July 2nd at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, closing the tour at the same venue where they performed 13 years ago, [...]

Another edition of the “In Flammen Open Air” will take place in the city of Torgau, about 60 kms from Leipzig on the next July 11th until the 13th. In Flammen Open Air is a music festival for all metal music lovers. This year bands like Unleashed, Dying Fetus, Pestilence, Necrophobic, Mgla, Conan, Misery Index, [...]

Another year in which the Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig will take place between 07th – 10th June 2019. This year, until now, 160 bands have been confirmed, some with special concerts that promise to please fans of alternative and gothic music: White Lies, Cradle of Filth, Still Corners, Tangerine Dream, The Soft Moon, Tamaryn, [...]

Swedish Black metal veterans Marduk have scheduled their return to Portugal for this upcoming May 3rd & 4th. On Friday the 3th, RCA Club in Lisbon will host the first hostile night. The next day (4th), the band will perform at Hard Club, Porto. Supporting this are Valkyrja, Attic and Survival is Suicide. Marduk are [...]

After having visited the Altice Arena in February last year, legendary Metallica resume the World Wired Tour in May. The date in Portugal at the Restelo Stadium on May 1 is the first show. The tour ends on August 25th at the Palastzelt Maimarktgelände in Mannheim, Germany. Special guests Ghost and Bokassa will be the [...]

Being around for more than two decades of existence, the SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST became more than an obligatory stopping point for all fans of heavy metal and its more extreme subgenres. This year’s edition, which runs from April 26 to 28, promises, as usual, to gather a legion of headbangers from all around the world [...]

The middle eastern band Orphaned Land is going to return to Portugal for two shows. They are currently promoting their most recent – and critically acclaimed – record “Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs”. The two shows of the band in Portuguese soil will take place on the 17th and 18th of April – in Porto [...]

After kicking-off the announcements with the strong confirmations of Tool and Slipknot as headliners, Copenhell has presented their final lineup for this year’s edition. Copenhell is considered the true metal holiday in Denmark. On top of the earlier presented bands Copenhell team managed to book additional names presenting mixture of music styles to please different taste [...]

What nicer thing can happen in the prog music scene than one of the best active prog bands supporting a society doing good in the fight against leukemia? This is going to happen on April 6, 2019 near Paris/France, when LEPROUS are going to perform a once-in-a-lifetime special gig for Heart Sound festival. The festival [...]