Reports

Back in Porto to another dark, ritualistic experience at AMPLIFEST. Having again Hard Club as the perfect venue, the northern organization chose this time to add a third stage, at the bar “Mercedes”, at Ribeira, about 400 m from the main venue. Day #1 Again in a sunny weekend, the festival overture had Swiss ZATOKREV [...]

Many people don’t realise it but it took 7 long years for Satyricon to return to Portugal. The last time was in 2006, promoting “Now, Diabolical”. So it was no surprise to see a big queue of people at the entrance of the Paradise Garage in Lisbon. The opening band was Chthonic, a Taiwanese Melodic [...]

It was on a very rainy night of November 1st, that the Northern city of Braga, Portugal hosted what could later be considered “a night to remember”. Norwegian Avantgarde Progressive Metal act Leprous brought Polish Blindead along with them, and Nebulous, a Portuguese Djent collective was responsible to be the first band to play. Apparently unknown [...]

It was a long awaited event in a city that recently became to go back to its former glory as  an important point for the Portuguese underground scene. The first band of the night was playing home. The newcomers Destroyers of All, who recently had the honour of being the band of the day in [...]

In a rainy night, one year after playing on the 15th anniversary edition of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest, the mighty Hypocrisy returned to Portugal once again. This time the venue was the Hard Club, Room #2. Along came Danish Grooving Thrash Metal Hatesphere and the Portuguese Death Metallers Theriomorphic were responsible for starting the hostilities [...]

When Hipocrisy is playing in town maybe the best thing to do is to attend their show. But, at the same time, that’s when the real underground rises. And that’s why we have descended to one of Bucarest’s most infamous underground clubs: the Underworld. On Saturday 21th September German punk Hardcore group ANGSTBREAKER was headlining [...]

DAY #3 After two successful first nights, the last day of the festival was announcing some real interesting concerts to watch and follow. First, Bavarian NORDLYS opened the ceremonies with a competent show, in which they tried to spread their ancient black metal references, with some approaches to old school Mayhem themes. They are coming [...]

DAY #2 On Friday the concerts started already in the final festival site, now truly surrounded only by Nature, in total communion with Darkness. The forest creates it’s on perimeter, and so you won’t catch any physical artificial barriers to enter the festival. The metal market was also more expanded, with some good proposals. The [...]

Our first time into Deutschland’s toughest territory turned out to be a well succeed mission, where we were both conquers and conquered. The German organization celebrated it’s XVIth edition with an appealing line up that allowed the more than 300 persons present to mix the blasphemy of the concerts with the beauty and serenity of [...]

The third edition of this peculiar event took place again at Side B, Benavente, by the time of the commemorations of the city’s local festivities. This year the Side B crew designed an outdoor esplanade that set the perfect ambience to make this a real one day metal festival. Unfortunately we didn’t get there in [...]

DAY 2 Unfortunately we missed Lisbon’s powerviolence act REVENGEANCE, and so our night started with necro black metalers MORTE INCANDESCENTE. Now with Angel-0 replacing former member V-Kaos, they gave a competent concert. “NecroCulto” and “Black Crushing Metal”, where some of their main tracks. There’s nothing better than to start a festival day with a black [...]

DAY 3 And the last day of the festival started surprisingly on time, making us loose TERRORHAMMER overture show. We must say that we got so used to the Serbian schedules that this third day turned out to be a bit “overorganised” for us. But there was two more bands to play, and so the [...]

Less than a week after returning from Darkness Rising Festival, we shipped south, towards Santa Maria Summer Fest, in Beja, Alentejo. Besides the good line up that the organization was able to join, this event had another natural advantage: the entrance was for free, to everyone. So, naturally, you could see all genres of metalheads, [...]

DAY2 The afterhours of the first day, made the festival ground starting the second day avid for a cozy beginning. And it was SVARTGREN the first band to enter stage. Led by one of the festival organizers, this local black metal act proved to be worth of this second day ceremonies overture. It was still [...]