Santa Maria Summer Fest

Santa Maria Summer Fest (SMSF) is an extreme music festival located in Beja, Southern Portugal. It’s been happening since 2010. To promote this year’s edition, a ”warm-up” event took place at Cave 45, Porto with the bands Humanart, Psychonaut 4 and Nocturnal Depression. Portuguese black metallers Humanart opened the evening with only a few people on [...]

Historical US based thrash band EXODUS have joined the billing for next year’s edition of SMSF – Santa Maria Summer Fest as their healiner. The festival has already announced names such as Orphaned Land, Mão Morta, Wolfbrigade, Urfaust, Hypothermia, Fuse, Process Of Guilt, Malthusian, Clitgore and Tales For The Unspoken. The 2017 edition of the [...]

With Orphaned Land and Wolfbrigade already confirmed for 2017’s edition of Santa Maria Summer Fest, Mão Morta, Urfaust, Malthusian, Clitgore and Tales For The Unspoken have been announced as new additions to the festival roster. The even will happen on June 8 to the 10th. €20 tickets are already sold out. Until January 31st, tickets [...]

In the heart of Alentejo, arose in a new venue the 7th edition of SMSF – Santa Maria Summer Fest, in Beja. 3 days of extreme music, some other exotic and different events, but all with one thing in common: diversity and a long wish to triumph. Day 1 The band who had the honors [...]

In two days, it’s time to pack up our tents and head to the beautiful city of Beja, in the middle of Alentejo, for the 7th edition of SMSF – Santa Maria Summer Fest, a festival that has been gathering more and more followers each year. Althought the peacefull and warm plain of Alentejo it [...]

Santa Maria Summer Fest (SMSF) has added Forgotten Tomb, among others, to their band billing for this year’s edition. The other acts added to the poster were OvO, Phantom Vision, Celtibeerian, Bleeding Display, Extirpatin, Vizir and M.I.L.F. We remind you that the festival this year will take place between the 9th and 11th of June, [...]

Portuguese festival Santa Maria Summer Fest has announce that the bands Sinister, Mata Ratos, Harakiri For The Sky, Atilla and Trepid Elucidation will be joining the billing of this year’s edition. They join the already confirmed bands Rotting Christ, Bizarra Locomotiva, Cripple Bastards, Allen Halloween, Spiritual Front, IXXI, Decayed, Caronte, Amulet, Empty and Aramaic. This [...]

The SMSF’s organization has announced the british group THE VARUKERS as one of the headliners of the festival’s next edition. The portuguese groups CORPUS CHRISTII and REVOLUTION WITHIN have also been added to the billing. More news about the event should be disclosed soon. [...]

Santa Maria Summer Fest has confirmed five more bands. Necro Deathmort, Quinteto Explosivo, Infra, Jibóia and Mordaça, have joined the festival’s line up. More news about the event should be disclosed soon. [...]

The organization of Santa Maria Summer Fest has announced the fest’s first bands confirmations and the dates. The festival will take place between 12 and 14 of June in Beja, and the line up, so far, consists of Satanize, Terror Empire, Sedna, Marvel Lima, and Children of Technology. More information will be released soon. [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]