The 2024 edition of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest is coming, and with it more sonic chaos will pour down upon the quiet town of Barroselas in the north of Portugal. :: BANDS :: I AM MORBID + BLASPHEMY + TERRORIZER + TANKARD + CANCER + BELL WITCH + SKITSYSTEM + SARGEIST + NOSTROMO + [...]
April 17, 2024
Filipe Gomes
Previews
The organizers of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest 2024 have revealed the complete lineup and daily schedules. :: Tickets :: Tickets are available at swrfest.bigcartel.com and in the Official Stores. To make your purchase, visit any of the Official Stores: – BIOHAZARD AREA (Braga) – BAZAR MODERNO (Guimarães) – PIRANHA (Porto) – LOUIE LOUIE (Porto) – [...]
January 16, 2024
Filipe Gomes
News
Set to take place from April 24th to 27th in the picturesque town of Barroselas, Portugal, this year’s festival promises an unforgettable experience for metal enthusiasts worldwide. Prepare your eardrums for a barrage of sonic devastation as SWR Barroselas Metalfest announces its lineup for the 2024 edition. None other than I AM MORBID will come [...]
December 21, 2023
Filipe Gomes
News
Metalheads around the world are preparing for the upcoming SWR Barroselas Metalfest as the first bands for the 2024 edition are announced. In a monumental announcement, SWR Barroselas Metalfest organizers have revealed the first part of a stellar lineup that promises to deliver an unparalleled sonic experience. Leading the charge are the legendary titans of [...]
October 28, 2023
Filipe Gomes
News
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 [...]
April 23, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Previews
SWR Barroselas Metalfest, one of the oldest, most respected festivals dedicated to extreme sonorities in the old continent, will return to Vila de Barroselas, Viana do Castelo, Portugal on April 26, 27 and 28, 2019. After the first batch of confirmations including Godlfesh, Benediction, The Black Dahlia Murder, Midnight, Venenum and more, the organizers have [...]
November 20, 2018
Filipe Gomes
News
For the first time ever in Portugal, one of the most underground and underrated black metal bands from Norway, Kampfar, made a triumphant debut in Portugal. Kampfar gave a great performance showing the audience how black metal should sound. As support bands for this event two bands from Portugal were invited: Pestifer and Morte Incandescente. [...]
April 24, 2017
Elsa Marques
Concerts, Reports
The new album of the portuguese black metal act MORTE INCANDESCENTE, “… o mundo morreu!” has been released today, via War Arts Production. To celebrate this fact, they’ve also premiered a new video, for the track “Disturbio absoluto”, which is available bellow. [...]
March 18, 2016
Rita Limede
News
Portuguese black metal cult act MORTE INCANDESCENTE have shared a new track on streaming, “Nas Esquinas da Alma”, which you can listen to bellow. This song is a part of their upcoming release “…o mundo morreu!”, that is set to come out on the 18th of March, via War Arts Productions. [...]
February 11, 2016
Rita Limede
News
DAY 2# The sunny (yet freezing) Sunday started with INFRA, the one and only corpse painted band of the weekend. Starting with the new “Communion”, this Lisbon trio showed again why they can no longer remain anonymous: their obscure death metal is too striking to be kept in the drawer. Cavernous vocals, demolishing drums [...]
February 21, 2015
Lucifer
Festivals, Reports
Lisbon’s Burning Light Festival has enlarged it’s band line up, adding again some important underground acts to the band roster. Portuguese black metalers MORTE INCANDESCENTE and new project REDEMPTION that will premiere their debut EP “We All Die The Same”, expected soon. Also confirmed last week were British death grinders OBLIVIONIZED and German outstanding duo [...]
October 26, 2014
Lucifer
News
You are certainly familiarised with the city of Speyer, in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany. At least you’ve heard about it, right? If you haven’t it means that you’ve been passing far away from some of the best European black metal. As for us, we returned to that historic city six months after the SPEYER [...]
October 7, 2014
Lucifer
Festivals, Reports
Back at Bornicke woods for another edition of the mature UNDER THE BLACK SUN FESTIVAL. This year the organisers planned the largest band bill version of the festival history, joining also some none black metal bands. 25 acts from 16 different countries that were embraced by the black feelings of hundreds of headbangers, proving once [...]
July 20, 2014
Lucifer
Festivals, Reports
Middle of the week underground night in central Lisbon, opening the ceremonies of Associação Fantasma Lusitano, in a dark and narrow alley at Cais do Sodré. Old building, recently renovated, with a concrete wall presentation that fools no one: here is where the conceivers of the Idea want to hold some infamous underground events in [...]
April 12, 2014
Lucifer
Concerts, Reports