Milagre Metaleiro Open Air 2024: An Unmissable Festival in São Pedro do Sul The Milagre Metaleiro Open Air, one of Portugal’s most anticipated metal music festivals, is set to return to São Pedro do Sul for another electrifying edition. Scheduled for August 23-25, 2024, the festival promises to deliver a stellar lineup that will not [...]
August 9, 2024
Filipe Gomes
Previews
ROTTING CHRIST, who were originally set to perform at the festival taking place from August 23rd to 25th in Pindelo dos Milagres, São Pedro do Sul, have rescheduled their appearance to the 2025 edition. In a brief statement, the festival’s organizers communicated the change: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Rotting Christ has been rescheduled for 2025. [...]
July 30, 2024
Filipe Gomes
News
German thrash metal legends SODOM are confirmed to perform at the MILAGRE METALEIRO OPEN AIR festival, scheduled to take place from August 23rd to 25th in Pindelo dos Milagres, São Pedro do Sul. Other confirmed acts for the event include the American KAMELOT, Finnish bands AMORPHIS and KORPIKLAANI, Greek ROTTING CHRIST, German METALIUM, AXXIS, FREEDOM [...]
January 31, 2024
Filipe Gomes
News
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 [...]
October 30, 2023
Rui Pereira
Festivals, Reports
Moita Metal Fest returns for its 15th edition on the 6th and 7th of April. The festival will take place at Largo do Pavilhão Municipal de Exposições, in Moita – Setúbal. Moita Metal Fest started back in 2004 and soon became a reference for the Portuguese underground scene. Now, currently on their 15th edition and after [...]
March 26, 2018
Rita Limede
Previews
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, [...]
January 28, 2017
Melissa Poseyydon
Concerts, Reports
Suidakra is a germanic melodic death band with influences of celtic mythology and one pionner band to mix death metal with folk. Later the release of Realms of Odoric in last year, Suidakra returns to Portugal for the first warm-up from Vagos Metal Fest 2017, and brings with them the spanish death metal band Vendetta [...]
January 14, 2017
Melissa Poseyydon
Previews
With 2016 coming to its end, its time to choose the best albums of the year. These are the choices of Rita Limede: 1-BOLZER – Hero 2- Hail Spirit Noir – Mayhem In Blue 3-Deathspell Omega – Synarchy Of Molten Bones 4-Ulcerate – Shrine Of Paralysis 5-Animals As Leaders –The Madness Of Many 6-Colosso – [...]
December 22, 2016
Rita Limede
Tops
VOA Fest returned under a new name and venue, the chosen place was Quinta da Marialva in Corroios. At first this change was heavily criticized by many Portuguese fans, however, given the flux of people in there we might say all was forgotten and a chance was given to this reborn festival on its new [...]
August 18, 2016
Rita Limede
Festivals, Reports
It’s that time of the year, festival season, and one of the biggest metal festivals in Portugal is back, for its 8 consecutive year, although it comes with a different name and location. The event previously known as Vagos Open Air, moved to Quinta da Marialva in Corroios, and change its name to VOA Fest. [...]
July 25, 2016
Rita Limede
Previews
After having revealed its location and name change earlier this year, VOA Fest has closed its band billing for this year’s edition. The newly confirmed groups Equaleft, Abbath, Schammasch, Admiron and Soldier. These will join the previously announced bands Anthrax, Opeth, Kreator, Anathema, Katatonia, Mantar and Dark Oath. The event will take place in Corroios [...]
April 13, 2016
Rita Limede
News
Portuguse melodic death act DARK OATH have made their new track “The Tree of Life” available on streaming, which you can listen to bellow. The song was taken from their upcoming debut record “When Fire Engulfs The Earth” that is set to come out on the 15th of April via WormHoleDeath Records. [...]
February 24, 2016
Rita Limede
News
The long-awaited full-length debut of DARK OATH is finally here (or almost). The portuguese melodic death group is releasing the album “When Fire Engulfs The Earth”, later this year, via WormHoleDeath Records, with whom they’ve signed a worldwide deal. Bellow you can see the tracklist for the record, and their oficial video trailer for the [...]
January 13, 2016
Rita Limede
News