Reports

For the first time ever in Portugal, one of the most underground and underrated black metal bands from Norway, Kampfar, made a triumphant debut in Portugal. Kampfar gave a great performance showing the audience how black metal should sound. As support bands for this event two bands from Portugal were invited: Pestifer and Morte Incandescente. [...]

Once again, the Moita Metal Fest took place and we couldn’t miss it. Two nights of great concerts, partying, drinking and meeting people. The festival is getting bigger and bigger and everything seems in place for it to become even bigger in the future. But enough with words, let the video tell you the story [...]

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 [...]

The past March 25th, was the day when Grimlet released their third album ”Theia: Aesthetics Of A Lie”.  In order to celebrate such event, they had a special release party, in their hometown Figueira da Foz. To support them on that night of gigs,  they invited the bands Trepid Elucidation, In Vein and Infraktor. To warm up [...]

On the first weekend of March, Évora hosted for the sixth time the heavy music festival inserted in the youth month commemorations by the city hall of  Évora. This event was supported by the “Associação Jovem Cultural e Artistica de Évora”. With rain and some hail, the festival was held in a pavilion assembled near [...]

After the debut opening for Swallow the Sun last year, Wolfheart have returned to Portugal for a show as headliners, bringing with them the new album “Tyhjyys”. Under a rainy night, the crowd started gathering around the venue to witness, a fantastic performance by the wolves from Finland. Before them, we had Eternal Storm, from [...]

Last Tuesday, March 7th, Lisbon hosted a great Power metal show: Sonata Arctica + Striker + Triosphere. It took place in the new venue Lisboa ao Vivo. Around 300 people welcomed the three bands. Each one of them with their own style while sharing something in common: their passion and devotion. A detail which made [...]

The first Galena of 2017 was dressed in black and with a veil of nostalgia. Eterna Saudade started the evening with its environmental rock combined with dark folk influences sound, creating a cosy romantic ambience in the venue. Sadly, the audience remained apathetic, even with the dancer Cris Aysel complementing the band’s show with her [...]

Battle Beast together with  Majesty, Gyze and Fantasy Opus were on stage on March  12th, 2017 at the RCA Club Lisboa venue. These four heavy metal bands played on a Sunday evening, closing that weekend. Two of these band played for the first time in Portugal, the Finnish Battle Beast and the Japanese Gyze. This [...]

Devin Townsend visited Madrid in a very cold but people were anxious to enter in La Riviera, the first of two Spanish shows of this tour. Still the fans calmly entered the venue and the first concert started at the precise time with the majority of the public entering after the beginning of the gig. [...]

On the afternoon of Saturday, December 17, occurred in the “Another Place” in Almada the third edition of Galena. A small celebration of the winter solstice, in the familiar and cozy atmosphere the visitors could experience a workshop of traditional bagpipes and percussion while the room prepared for the concerts of Inner Blast, Falcatra de Fogo [...]

With an extensive career of over 23 years and 12 studio albums, Suidakra have prospered under the comand of Arkadius Antonik, and have returned to Portugal with their most recent work “Realms of Odoric”. The group, together with Dark Oath and Vendetta FM, performed at the Stairway Club in Cascais, for the first, of many, [...]

20 years have passed since the release of the breakthrough album “Irreligious” by Moonspell. Compared to the previous album “Wolfheart”, this was an album that featured a musical approach more orientated towards Gothic Metal that established the band in the highlights of the Metal community and showed that after “Wolfheart”, the band had amazing work [...]

The first edition of Oeste Underground Fest took place in Malveira, and the festival started on the right foot, as a benefit event for the local voluntary firefighters. A noble cause wrapped up in a day-long event represented by some of the most prominent acts of the Portuguese underground scene and with a familiar ambience. [...]