On a rainy Thursday night, Lisbon hosted a night of pure Thrash Metal with bands that rocked the audience from start to finish. To celebrate 40 years of career, the band Artillery presented in Lisbon, at RCA Club, the ‘Turn Up The Race Iberian Tour 2022’. As openers, Portuguese bands Alpha Warhead and ThrashWall warmed [...]
March 13, 2022
Filipe Gomes
Concerts, Reports
The fierce winds that Lisbon faced during the day didn’t affect the excitement and expectation that followers and fans of MGLA had to see the most recent cult brought by their new album “Age Of Excuse”. Judging by the amount of headbangers standing outside the venue, if the concert wasn’t sold out the day before, [...]
September 26, 2019
Ricardo Branco
Concerts, Reports
On the next Tuesday, September 10th, black metal fans will have the opportunity to see Mgła live. The mysterious band shared their new album on social platforms a couple of days ago. Logically, there is a big probability that some of the songs that compose it will be included in the line-up for this concert. [...]
September 7, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Previews
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 [...]
April 15, 2019
Rita Limede
Previews
Swedish prog rock act Soen will return to Portugal to play live at 30 and 31 of March, at Hard Club (Porto) and RCA Club (Lisbon) respectively. Danish progressive metalcore Ghost Iris and Finnish prog rock band Wheel will be the opening acts. Tickets and schedule: 21:00 – Open doors 21:30 – Concerts beginning 23:00 [...]
March 26, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Previews
All things, good and bad, inevitably meet their demise. As such, Batushka will storm Europe this autumn with the purpose of bringing the End Of Litourgiya to the faithless masses one last time. This tour, presents itself as the end of the promotion cycle for Litourgiya (2015). This is the band’s extremely successful debut record, [...]
September 9, 2018
Rita Limede
Previews
Under The Doom will take place at RCA Club and Lisboa Ao Vivo and starts on November 30th until December 2nd. Once again, Notredame Productions organizes the Under The Doom fest. It usually takes place in early December and this year will not be an exception. The final band bill lists the following bands: Lacuna [...]
November 24, 2017
Filipe Gomes
Previews
Portugal will host the “Arctic Circle Alliance – Chapter One” tour on November 2nd & 3rd featuring 3 fantastic Scandinavian bands: Omnium Gatherum, Skálmöld and Stam1na. Finnish Omnium Gatherum return to play their melodic death metal and present their 2016 “Gray Heavens” album. Icelandic Skálmöld will join in, coming back with their latest work “Vögguvísur Yggdrasils” also released [...]
October 31, 2017
Melissa Poseyydon
Previews
On the 14th of October, RCA club venue hosted five bands that integrate different metal scenes. An enthusiastic pack of people gathered around the stage, expecting to experience a great night of heavy metal. This can be defined not only by the bands delivering good performances but also by a crowd providing feedback to the [...]
October 25, 2017
Daniel Lemminkainen
Concerts, Reports
Swedish prog rock act Soen will return to Portugal to play live at 20 and 21 of October, in Hard Club (Porto) and RCA Club (Lisbon) respectively. Norwegian prog metal band Madder Mortem will be the opening act, and (Porto concert only) Portuguese Heavenwood will also play. Schedule: Open Doors: 20h Heavenwood: 21h Madder Mortem: [...]
October 6, 2017
Zé Serôdio
Previews
Skyforger are one of the original bands belonging to the Pagan Metal movement, and for the first time in Lisboa, they will present their latest album “Senprūsija” (2015). With a conscious mix of black metal, folk elements, and lyrics in Latvian about their traditions, war stories and other Latvian myths, Skyforger is one of those [...]
September 16, 2017
Daniel Lemminkainen
Previews
Once again, RCA hosted a beastly Vagos Metal Fest warm-up last May 27 in Portugal. This time around, Amazing Events invited the Dutch death metal band Asphyx, which was supported by the Portuguese The Ominous Circle and Besta. Portuguese grindsters Besta took the stage in front of an almost empty room, something that didn’t compromise [...]
June 17, 2017
Melissa Poseyydon
Concerts
Under The Doom V will take place at RCA Club (Lisbon) on December 1st&2nd, 2017 Notredame Productions have revealed the first bands for the Under The Doom V Festival. Novembers doom (USA), Acherontas (Greece/Germany), Gold (Netherlands), and Funeralium (France) are the first names announced. 6 more bands (3 headliners) will be revealed very soon. Ticket [...]
May 14, 2017
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