Reports

It was under what you could call an infernal heat that the first few metalheads started their march towards Side B, in Benavente, Portugal, to attend the fifth edition of Sardinha de Ferro (or, as one of the bands of the day – Ravensire – had written on their set list, “Iron Sardine of Hell”!). An [...]

In a hot summer night the darkness and grim have descended into Hard Club (Porto) for a ritualistic night of black metal. NEVOA, the Portuguese newcomers in the black metal scene, opened the night. They presented their debut record “Absence of Void”, released earlier this year, with a very atmospheric and intense ambiance. Although live the band is [...]

Coimbra’s States Club is a small venue which has become a landmark when it comes to Metal concerts in the city of Students. This time three northern bands came to destroy the small stage of this club. The first band to play was THE LAST OF THEM from Aveiro, a Groove/Thrash metal band. In the [...]

(Picture gallery below) Day 0 The SWR festival has completed 18 years of existence. Over time the festival has grown at a huge pace gaining a considerable notoriety among the European festivals and placed at the top of the metal festivals in Portugal, by its own effort and merit. So, once again, the pilgrimage to the [...]

When the clock hit the 10.30pm mark, the set time for Music Box to open it’s doors, we could already find a long line, covering with black the infamous “pink street” in Cais do Sodré, Lisbon. Restless souls, expecting for King Dude’s luciferian blessing, anxiously awaiting for this much anticipated evening to start. With an [...]

Since their first appearance in Portuguese soil back in 2009, North Americans White Hills have established themselves as one of the main ambassadors of the new wave of psychedelic rock. Or space rock as the most daring minds prefer to call it. Last Thursday at Music Box, Lisbon was the track for another lift off [...]

Day 2 The second day had its kick start with BORDERLANDS, a young metalcore group. The room was still half empty, but that didn’t stop them to give their best.  Next up was ANALEPSY. The group never disappoints when playing live, and their unique style of slam/brutal death metal caused the first chaotic moshpit of [...]

The 12th edition of Moita Metal Fest took place on the 27th and 28th of March, where 17 bands left their mark on the festival stage. Day 1 Only a few minutes after the due time, JACKIE D. played the first musical notes of the night, the party had officially begun. Despite being in a [...]

If a year ago someone told us that Black Metal nights in central Lisbon would come to stay we would laugh about it. But now, after less than four months, 2015 has proved us differently. One of the main responsible is Notre Dame Prod. that took two veteran Polish bands to our shore for the [...]

Corpus Christii have a new album and, under the sign of Notre Dame Productions, Lisbon was the start point for the live presentations of “Palemoon”. But before the highlight of the night, two bands warmed the well filled room of RCA. About INFRA we’ve already wrote a lot over the past last year, but each [...]

  Another dark weekend in central Lisbon, this time with the fifth edition of Under the Doom festival, in a two day format, congregating in our sunny shore some established and new dark collectives. Two days where two hundred metalheads have communed the obscure anthems of 10 bands, from Shoegaze to Black Metal, but with [...]

2015 has just started and so many highlights of the year are already likely to be chosen.  Undoubtedly one of them happened last Saturday at RCA Club, with BIZARRA LOCOMOTIVA presenting exclusively their new album “Mortuário”.  The sold out expectations were no lie and there was not that much free space to move, making this [...]

  DAY 2# The sunny (yet freezing) Sunday started with INFRA, the one and only corpse painted band of the weekend. Starting with the new “Communion”, this Lisbon trio showed again why they can no longer remain anonymous: their obscure death metal is too striking to be kept in the drawer. Cavernous vocals, demolishing drums [...]

English (versão Portuguesa abaixo) The musical metamorphosis from Braga known as Mão Morta visited Coimbra, City of the Students for a concert presentation of its latest work: “Pelo Meu Relógio São Horas De Matar”. The band began exactly by the new album, with the song “Irmão da solidão“, quickly going back in time to the record “O. D., Rainha [...]