Previews

Once again the small town of Vagos becomes a real “Metal Meca” to most metalheads in Portugal. The festival takes takes place at Quinta do Ega, Vagos, Aveiro that has been upgraded along the years. Repeating the 3 day format, the festival starts on August 11th and stretches until Sunday the 13th. This special festival [...]

On the 4th of August, Harakiri for the Sky will be performing in Finland for the first time. The event is organised by Nem Agency and it will take place at Elmun Baari, Helsinki. The Austrian post black metal band Harakiri for the Sky will arrive in Finland for the first time in the beginning [...]

Be Prog! My Friend 2017 will happen at Poble Espanyol, Barcelona, Spain on the 30th of June and 1st of July. Moving to the 4th edition, Be Prog! My Friend stands firmly by its name. The festival brings the best of the progressive music in metal and rock. Two days listening to the finest progressive [...]

Sala Tejo of Meo Arena, in Lisbon. Ticket’s cost is 28€ and can be purchased at Worten, Fnac, El Corte Inglês, Unkind, Blueticket and Masqueticket (Spain) It’s been five years since the American band Mastodon don’t play in Portugal. Between that time, the quartet from Atlanta, Georgia have released two new albums, 2014’s ”Once More ‘Round [...]

The concert will take place at Coliseu de Lisboa on June 5th. Tickets cost €32. Slayer, the mighty Thrash Metal legends are back in Portugal right after playing in Spain at the Primavera Sound festival on June 1st. The band is currently still promoting their latest album “Repentless”, released in 2015. It took 6 years [...]

After an absence of eleven years from playing concerts in Portugal, hailing from Finland, the so-called love metal pioneers HIM, are back to Portugal. This unique show will take place at Hard Club, Porto, on next June 17th. For sure it will be a special and emotional concert, but sadly, the last one, as the band has recently [...]

Between the 2nd and the 5th of June another Wave Gotik Treffen edition will be held in Leipzig, Germany. Wave Gotik Treffen is a festival which mobilizes an entire city, since the events spread through various locations around Leipzig. The events do not only focus in one place, but during these 4 days of festival, it’s always [...]

Vader and Decapitated deal death upon Finland! Their the “Crushing the north” Tour will be in Helsinki on May 16th. They will be accompanied by Thy Disease, Thrashred and Nox Vorago. Polish death metal commanders VADER are returning to Finland this May with brothers-in-arms Decapitated and Thy Disease, for three nights of merciless onslaught. Opening [...]

Hardline + Intuitive – May 28th at Paradise Garage, Lisbon Hardline, one of the biggest and most influent hard rock bands from the 90’s, are visiting Portugal for the first time! They come to present their most recent record “Human Nature” with their most recent formation (from 2011 onwards). Hardline is known for big hits [...]

Asphyx + The Ominous Circle + Besta – May 27th at RCA Lisboa Asphyxia, masters of death metal with a touch of doom, created a genre that only they can perfectly perform. After 5 years they return to Portugal to bring the death hammer over Lisboa, along with their last high acclaimed album “Incoming Death”. [...]

DREAM THEATER “Images, Words and Beyond 25th Anniversary tour” will visit Portugal today (April 30) at the Porto Coliseu. Doors will open at 20h30 and show will start at 21h30. After the unwelcome «The Astonishing» album, and a missing spot in its promoting tour, the galactic team of rock and prog metal finally returns to Portugal. [...]

Persefone has been currently touring with Poem in order to introduce their latest release “Aathma” The “Aathma” tour started on April 7th in Barcelona and will end on April 22 in Stockholm at the Kraken Sthlm venue. For the special end of tour date they invited the band Loch Vostok as opening band. Originally from Uppsala (Sweden) their latest [...]

After the successful first edition of Morbid Spring Fest last year, a second edition had to be mandatory. This time Stone the Crow Productions improved the festival by adding 5 more bands to the bill. Made entirely by portuguese bands, the bill counts with: Martelo Negro (black/thrash metal) – The quartet hailing from Lisbon released [...]

Kampfar will be in Portugal on the 8th of April at RCA club in Lisbon. Hailing from Norway, Kampfar is a band that many black metal fans in Portugal have been wishing to see live. Finally on the 8th of April, they will deliver the grim darkness of their black metal to Portugal. Their last two albums [...]