Side B Benavente

In a weekend with an other event claiming the spotlights of the media attention, we kept faithful to our convictions and drove to Benavente for a night where an appealing line-up was ahead of us. INFRA were the ones with opening credits and started not much after the scheduled hour. They occupy an unparallel seat [...]

  Sardinha de Ferro promoters have declared closed the band roster for this year edition. Porno metalers VIZIR are the last band confirmed, promising a very infamous event at Side B Benavente. Hellish SATANIC WARMASTER are the awaited headlinner, starring a chart with some other interesting and experienced collectives. The fest will take place next 27th [...]

March is usually booked for one hellish weekend in Lusitanian lands for over a decade. This year EXTREME METAL ATTACK will come back to hit us hard, as they’ve just announced the 2015 headliner: infamous Norwegian act AURA NOIR. The Black/Thrash trio will return to Portugal six years after their debut in SWR Barroselas, to play [...]

Side B hosted a sincere Doom metal night last Friday, joining Portuguese newcomers AGONIA to Belgium quick ascension band MARCHE FUNÉBRE. We were not expecting a full venue and our expectations got confirmed, even if the space available would eventually become flooded when full with dark thoughts. Firstly with AGONIA, a new project by the [...]

Still in a cold April night, Side B hosted an honest black metal event, which finished the sequence of three black metal nights (with Morte Incandescente and Corpus Christii playing before) in the Lisbon area. Apparently with a less strong band bill, State of Warfare joined a significant mass of people at Benavente, with 11TH [...]

The XIth edition of the Extreme Metal Attack took place last month, for the third time at Side B Club, in Benavente. Another intense weekend of pure blasphemy was carved by dedicated underground performers alongside with a quite numerous audience, fact that somewhat surprised us once the band bill was less appealing than in recent [...]

Yesterday, besides the impressive death metal line up at Immolation’s concert in Lisbon, we were surprised by Side B’s announcement regarding the next edition of Sardinha de Ferro Festival: North American death metal veterans INCANTATION will return to Portuguese soil almost 10 years after their last appearance. They will headline the Benavente’s event, this year [...]

Cold and grim night at Benavente to host the special Christmas edition of the Extreme Agression Fest. We were one of the few to go there the first night, to presence three bands with different sonorities. First, Alentejo’s newcomers KAPITALISTAS DA PODRIDÃO surprised us with a technically well executed death metal concert, instead of the [...]

Portuguese black metal maniacs CORPUS CHRISTII will headline the next edition of Extreme Agression Fest, set to take place at Side B, Benavente, the 20 and 21 December 2013. Along them, prog death metalers DISAFFECTED and death metalers COLOSSO are already confirmed. There are still seven bands to be announced. [...]

SIDE B Lounge Live Club in Benavente, as announced the final bill for the two weeks of their 5th anniversary celebration, featuring some of the most highlighted Portuguese bands of recent years. Here is the complete program: DIA 6/ Sexta Feira: ACROMANÍACOS + PORTA VOZ + TABERNA + BUTE & FARRA Portas 21h30 / Início [...]

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 [...]

Italian black/doom metalers FORGOTTEN TOMB  have returned to Portugal and to Side B, Benavente, this time accompanied by two Swedish acts. Notredame Productions added the fourth (national) element. The affluence was pretty good considering both the moment and date of the gig, which started with EREB ALTOR performance. This Swedish collective mixtures old school classic [...]

In a weekend marked by the XVI edition of the mythical SWR Barroselas Metal Fest, Side B profited the presence of some international bands to host one parallel gig at Benavente. No one expected a full venue, so the few people present that night build the right atmosphere for an uncompromising metal night. Firstly with [...]

Brazilian post-rock band LABIRINTO played last week at Side B, Benavente, under their first European tour. The instrumental textures that they created filled an empty room with imaginary quiet sets, where we could chose the whole story of each one of the four short movies they presented. But yet, here and then, between the seductively [...]