Festivals

On September 23rd, metal lovers gathered once again in Penafiel, for the seventh edition of River Stone Fest! It was just after 4:25 pm when Blind The Eye arrived, to present us with their Melodic Death Metal and promote their second album “The Lion Of Lions”, released in September 2022. This band was born in [...]

It was on September 2nd that Bajonca – Associação Cultural e Recreativa presented us with the first edition of the Bajonca Rock Fest. The day began in Valadares, São Pedro do Sul, with threatening rain and a strong approaching thunderstorm could be heard in the distance. Fortunately, shortly after 4 pm, the weather calmed down [...]

2023 marked the return of the Vagos Metal Fest after a line-up as powerful as that of 2022. This year proved to be more eclectic with the inclusion of bands such as Ugly Kid Joe”, which showed the organisation’s courage in its bid to reach wider audiences. Dragon’s Kiss opened the Vagos Metal Fest 2023. [...]

On this second report Marco Manzi gives us a detailed overview of the second day of the festival, that took place on Friday the 21st of April 2023. Not having slept too much, and after failing to adjust to the dutch weather (not even close to the temperatures and sunny days of the last edition), [...]

Tondela Rocks: The festival rocked the region with its 6th Edition On May 6th 2023, the city of Tondela received the 6th Edition of the well-established Tondela Rocks festival. Although it was not an event with overwhelming affluence at first, the warm and pleasant environment made it possible for the attendees to enjoy to its [...]

On this first report Marco Manzi focus on introducing the festival and on the first day of the festival, that took place on Thursday the 20th of April 2023. From the moment the first announcements started to spread through the internet, it was clear that this year’s edition of Roadburn was going to be different. [...]

Turku Saatanalle X took place at Utopia venue in Turku on 3 – 4 of March, 2023 This time we provide you a complete photo report of Turku Saatanalle 10th anniversary celebration. Hopefully the galleries will allow you to absorb the atmosphere of the event and the quality of the performances that took place – [...]

Black Matter Productions organized a two-day festival called Madrid Invasion Fest. Here is our photo report of the event! Day #1 The first band to take the stage was Painstorm, a death metal act playing “at home” as they’re from Madrid. Opening is never easy, but Painstorm showed that they mean business and someone has [...]

(Disclaimer: due to force majeure commitments, it was impossible for us to capture images of some concerts that started in the afternoon) The Vagos Metal Fest returned after an interregnum caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Expectations were high, the hype was immense and there was an atmosphere of excitement in the air. The venue turned [...]

As always the last day of a festival feels somewhat bittersweet. It has this greatness of having seen (and waiting to see) some amazing performances, and the blues coming with the realization that everything will come to an end in a mere few hours. Everyone will have to get back to their daily lives and [...]

The third day began with Midwife, the slow melodies and velvety voice helping to gently transition into festival mood while watching the artist plays her guitar and sing attached to a phone handset mic that gives this distinct vocal sound. Later Divide And Dissolve provided a different kind of ambience. The instrumental music created by [...]

Friday’s expectations were mostly directed towards this year’s curators’ band GGGOLDDD and their performance of “This Shame Should Not Be Mine”. For the first time in front of a live audience after the incredibly emotional, goose-bump inducing show at last year’s Roadburn Redux (I am not gonna lie, I have watched that performance 4 times [...]

Being a first-time roadburner I had only heard the stories and overwhelmingly positive feedback from fellow music enthusiasts who have been there previously. So when I finally had the occasion to reserve time in Spring to set out towards the Netherlands and be on my way to Tilburg, I left home with quite high expectations [...]

Another year in which The Black Planet Magazine was present at Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig. As always, we will focus on our target audience and report on events that our readers most identify with. Interestingly, almost all the reasons for our report this year were located in the same place (Heidnisches Dorf), with a [...]