Amazing Events, the organizers of Vagos Metal Fest have announced that the festival will be postponed to 2022. Quoting the festival’s Facebook page: Amazing Events and the Municipality of Vagos, along with the competent authorities, have been working so far to create conditions to bring you in 2021 the Vagos Metal Fest. However, given the [...]
June 23, 2021
Filipe Gomes
News
EMPEROR join the already confirmed BEHEMOTH, TESTAMENT, ELUVEITIE and D.R.I. in Vagos Metal Fest 2020. The last headliner for the next edition of Vagos Metal Fest is revealed. On this Christmas morning, the Norwegian EMPEROR will join the poster of the festival that will take place on 30, 31 July and 1 August 2020, in [...]
December 25, 2019
Filipe Gomes
News
The Vagos Metal Fest is returning in 2019 once again! More than 30 bands will pass by the stage of the festival that takes place from 8th to th 11th of August at Quinta do Ega, Vagos. This year the festival brings you big names like Satyricon, Six Feet Under (a group founded in 1993 [...]
August 2, 2019
Filipe Gomes
Previews
The landscape of black metal is morphing into something else entirely. As it happens with all artistic movements and their respective subdivisions, experimentation as a statement of healthy aversion to the status quo has proved itself to be inevitable in inducing the magic of conceptual and artistic evolution. Both Batushka and Gaerea are fine examples [...]
September 28, 2018
Rita Limede
Concerts, Reports
After the first day of concerts, which had a good amount of audience, came the second day, with more bands, more Metal and more beer! It was up to the northern In Vein to start the concerts. The quintet had a good amount of audience that quickly adhered to the groovy themes that these guys [...]
August 26, 2018
Filipe Gomes
Festivals, Reports
Once again, the month of August sees the return of one of the biggest Heavy Metal festivals in the country: the Vagos Metal Fest. The 2018 edition brought some news, such as the fact that it is now a 4-day festival, and the addition of one more stage (Stairway Stage). Having the responsibility and honor [...]
August 25, 2018
Filipe Gomes
Festivals, Reports
Vagos will happen in August 9th until 12th. Portuguese Vagos Metal fest have confirmed another set of bands for this year’s edition. Sonata Arctica Orphaned Land Ross The Boss Feed The Rhino Simbiose Dollar Llama Dark Embrace These bands join the previously confirmed acts: Cradle of Filth Moonspell Ensiferum Converge Sinister MasterPlan Carach Angren Bölzer [...]
February 6, 2018
Filipe Gomes
News
Once again, the town of Vagos hosted the anual Vagos Metal Fest, which already became a Meca for metalheads in Portugal. Three days of good concerts, a lot of beer and meeting friends in a relaxed place. Day #1 Tales For The Unspoken received the responsibility of opening the first day of concerts. The band [...]
September 3, 2017
Filipe Gomes
Festivals, Reports
Once again the small town of Vagos becomes a real “Metal Meca” to most metalheads in Portugal. The festival takes takes place at Quinta do Ega, Vagos, Aveiro that has been upgraded along the years. Repeating the 3 day format, the festival starts on August 11th and stretches until Sunday the 13th. This special festival [...]
August 7, 2017
Filipe Gomes
Previews
Once again, RCA hosted a beastly Vagos Metal Fest warm-up last May 27 in Portugal. This time around, Amazing Events invited the Dutch death metal band Asphyx, which was supported by the Portuguese The Ominous Circle and Besta. Portuguese grindsters Besta took the stage in front of an almost empty room, something that didn’t compromise [...]
June 17, 2017
Melissa Poseyydon
Concerts
Asphyx + The Ominous Circle + Besta – May 27th at RCA Lisboa Asphyxia, masters of death metal with a touch of doom, created a genre that only they can perfectly perform. After 5 years they return to Portugal to bring the death hammer over Lisboa, along with their last high acclaimed album “Incoming Death”. [...]
May 9, 2017
Elsa Marques
Previews
Interview by Renata Lino. TBP: Hi! Thanks for taking the time to talk with us! Let’s start with the new album. How do you feel about the final product that the fans can listen now? This certainly is our most heavy and epic release yet, we opened it all up to let all the instruments breathe individually instead [...]
May 9, 2017
RenataLino
Interviews
Soulfly is the last headliner announced by the organizers of Vagos Metal Fest. Max Cavalera & co will join Arch Enemy, Hammerfall, Wintersun, Korpiklaani, Powerwolf, Rhapsody Reunion, Therion, Primordial, Whitechapel, Batushka, Metal Church, Chelsea Grin, Havok, Gorguts, Hills Have Eyes, Gama Bomb, Cough, Grunt, And Then She Came, Tales For The Unspoken, Miss Lava, Brutality Will Prevail, [...]
March 9, 2017
Filipe Gomes
News
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