Reports

The Underground is not dead! That could be the main idea retained from last weekend double dose of Extreme Metal Attack, at Side B, Benavente. On their 10th anniversary the Portuguese festival putted out a considerable quality bill for this year edition, joining some established well known underground bands to other new out coming acts.  [...]

  After one first successful night in Porto, the Lisbon concert arrived for the second act of the Swedish in Lusitanian lands this year. It was the second time they played in the Lisbon area, and the affluence to the gig was higher this time. In fact, we may consider Cult of Luna as the [...]

Amplifest returned in 2012 for the third edition, putting Porto again as the Portuguese capital of dark alternative arts. Even if you think at this event as a “post intelectual” festival, Amplifest 2012 was much more than that. First of all because Hard Club is probably the best Portuguese venue for the moment; In second [...]

Krakow it’s probably the polish city with more metal concerts, and on the 17th November, Schizofrenia hosted one of them for us. This is where the old Kazamaty venue was settled, now transformed into an underground multi room venue, with a particularly good taste in terms of decoration, and reasonable beer prices. Being a Saturday [...]

  Progresja is Warsaw’s underground venue for underground acts. Located in a military academia, the people that you see around it make you confuse whether there are going to the concert as well or are just passing by….. . With two stages and affordable beer prices, the distance from the city center makes you believe [...]

Saturday night in central Lisbon. Rain falls over the Lusitanian capital, blackening the skies for Rosa Crux’s second year appearance in Portugal. The dark medieval group came from old Rouen (Normandie, France), to cover our souls with their dark and frightening anthems, putting on stage much more than a simple concert. It was a state [...]

Haloween night in Almada with Phantasticus – Festival Internacional de Artes e Cinema II, hosted by Cine Incrível – Incrível Almadense’s smaller room. There where four days of rock, dark movies, … and witches, on the 31st October. Portuguese industrial masters Bizarra Locomotiva gave another intense show before a full venue. Dark anthems like Cavalo [...]

Saturday night. Anathema plays in Lisbon, but we preferred drive to Benavente for our third experience with Tides From Nebula. I knew this polish group almost by chance, in a middle of the week concert in Lisbon’s downtown, early 2010. That time the first impressions were great and the polish youngsters gathered our admiration due [...]

And after all Decayed didn’t play last Saturday in Benavente… Seemed that founder J.A. woke up with no felling for live concerts that day… Well, nevertheless, the fest went great only with second line underground acts, but still with solid performances and good general ambience. The night started with new black metalers Frost Legion, presenting [...]

    If you missed the report of Day 1, you can read it here. Day 2 So the first day was gone, and there wasn’t much time to rest, either. Since the festival only opens it’s gates at 15:00, there was time to have a walk around the village, eat something, or for some [...]

  Every year usually on the first weekend of August, thousands of metalheads travel to the small town of Vagos, near Aveiro for the Vagos Open Air metal festival. 2012 is the year of the 4th edition, and in just 4 years, this festival has already become a mark in the Heavy Metal scene in [...]

Side B Lounge Live Club hosted the second edition of the peculiar Sardinha de Ferro Metal Fest, this year with ten bands from new alternative local acts to well known satanic thrashers Omission or Portuguese black metalers Corpus Christii. The name of the fest is linked to the popular festivities that take place in the [...]

After the first day of concerts and partying, and also surviving the first night in the camping, after having some breakfast and other necessities, we started our second day quite early by going to the Temple to see GLORIOR BELLI at 11:00 . Another underrated French band, who put up a good show, playing some [...]

After the pre-festival partying on the night before, some people were already wasted on the ground when the sun came up.   Time for some breakfast, and head to the festival site, to see the decoration for this year. Rusty metal shaped artifacts could be found on the site, like the big Hellfest tree with [...]