MANTAR

Resurrection Fest annouced today new names to the bill. Big Four thrashers Anthrax, brazillian legends Sepultura, german death metal Deserted Fear, American punk rock The Menzingers, Italian ska band Talco, Dutch punk rock band Undeclinable Ambuscade, CJ Ramone (Ramones), Canadian metalcore Obey The Brave, Deathcore mexicans Here Comes The Kraken, Galicians Aphonnic, Display of Power [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Not everyone is familiar with this fact, but absolutely worth mentioning: Tuska 20th anniversary happens in 2017 and to celebrate the occasion the organisers announced that a book, with the attempted title ”Tuska 20-vuotta”, will be written by the rock journalist Jone Nikula (involved in the festival organization since its origins). Tuska Festival book will be [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

“Pas pleine, mais surtout pas vide”, República da Música hosted Goodlife HQ’s most daring event: CELESTE headlining tour. The sound was pretty accurate during the whole night where it became clear since very soon that almost everyone was there with one main purpose: to be washed away by the French chaotic anthems. But before that, [...]

French post-hardcore / black metalers CELESTE have recently announced a two weeks tour in France, Spain and Portugal, and the kick-off will take place in Paris, the 30th April. Today we’ve been notified that the tour will hit Lisbon, on the 7th May, in República da Música. The event is presented by Goodlife HQ and will include the [...]