SWR Barroselas Metalfest

VAEE SOLIS, portuguese blacken doom metal act, have a new bass player. Joana Martins (Oniromant, ex-Ava Inferi and Mourning Lenore) was the woman chosen for the job. The band has also revealed that their working on a new record, “Hiraeth”, the follow-up from last year’s “Adversarial Light”. The live debut of this new formation will [...]

The team behind SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST have closed the band billing for this year’s edition. They have joined forces with Helldprod, Signal Rex and Milhões de Fest to bring us the remaining 13 bands that will preform on the outside free stage SWR Arena. The bands chosen were Simbiose, Plus Ultra, Hey Colossus, Miss Lava, [...]

SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST have closed the band billing for the two main stages for this year’s edition. The bands Taake, Severe Torture, Incantation, Possession, Nadra and Desalmado are the final additions to it. They’ve also revealed the name of the four finalists for the Wacken Metal Battle Portugal, that are Kapitalistas Podridão, Mindtaker, Monolyth and [...]

SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST has announced Violator, Monolord, Misþyrming, Dementia 13 and Infra to play in their next years edition of the festival. These bands join the billing where you can already find the following bands: MARDUK | Sweden | www.facebook.com/Mardukofficial ABORTED | Belgium | www.facebook.com/Abortedofficial GRAVE | Sweden | www.facebook.com/GraveOfficial DOOM | UK | www.facebook.com/doomcrustpunk [...]

The organizers of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest have started to announce the first bands for the 2016 edition of the festival. So, the 19th edition will feature (confirmed so far): MARDUK | Sweden | www.facebook.com/Mardukofficial ABORTED | Belgium | www.facebook.com/Abortedofficial GRAVE | Sweden | www.facebook.com/GraveOfficial DOOM | UK | www.facebook.com/doomcrustpunk MIDNIGHT | USA | https://www.facebook.com/Midnight-87909491643/ [...]

(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 [...]

Less than a month before the next edition of SWR Barroselas Metalfest , times tables of the event are now revealed along with the celebration of 18th birthday of the festival.. The roster has historical bands like Primordial , Entombed AD , Shining , Impaled Nazarene , Fleshgod Apocalypse and Enthroned between forty-six acts that will [...]

The billing for the stages 1 and 2 of the 18th edition of the SWR BARROSELAS METALFEST is now closed. The bands confirmed were Gutalax, Benighted, Crisix, Bong, Zom, Raw Decimating Brutality, Bleeding Display and Örök. The billing for the festival is not fully closed yet, because the bands for stage 3 have not yet [...]

SWR Barroselas Metalfest added Enthroned, Skyforger, Skull Fist, Nightbringer, Lvcifyre, Claustrofobia and Emptiness, to next year’s line up. The organization also announced that their special X-mas packs are now for sale, and you can purchase them in here! More news coming soon. [...]

The organizers of the annual Meca of extreme Metal that is the SWR Barroselas Metalfest have started to announce the first bands that will be present at the 18th edition of the festival. Entombed A.D., Impaled Nazarene, Shining (Swe), Minsk, Zatokrev, Ahab (Ger), Incinerate (US/Can), Internal Suffering (Col), Killimanjaro (PT), Neuroma (UK), Midnight Priest, Equaleft. Ticket [...]

Day 3 Stage 1 The last day started with an excellent show from BONDED BY  BLOOD. This revival thrash metal band from California (USA), has great stage presence. In spite of not having a big audience, the performance was fast, straight to the point and exciting. The crowd went wild and there was mosh everywhere. Their [...]

Day 2 Stage 1 On the second day, the opening of the main stage was the responsibility of THE QUARTET OF WOAH. This new sensation Portuguese stoner band, introduced their latest record, “Ultrabomb”. The band gave their best, and played with heart and soul. It was a great show to watch, with a good ambiance, despite [...]

Day 1 Stage #1 The festival’s first official day started with ETERNAL  STORM. It was a nice show, of good melodic death metal, very interesting musical details, although they were playing for a very small audience. They were supposed to play on the secondary stage, but there was a line up change due to the cancellation [...]

Day 0 This year’s edition of the SWR Barroselas Metalfest started on the 23rd of April. This day 0, with free entrance, was the stage for the W:O:A Metal Battle Portugal. The four bands that disputed this final were NEBULOUS, REVOLUTION WITHIN, DESTROYERS OF ALL and DEMENTIA 13. All bands played their part really well, and [...]