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Originally posted in: http://valkyrianmusic.com/2012/09/24/straight-from-within-release-party/ » Equaleft got on stage at 21:30, which is somewhat early for an underground concert around here. So the band was quite surprised to see how many people were there already, raising hell right from the first song, “Alone In … Continue reading
Music Box, Lisbon, is exactly that – a box. But I like the rock vibe in it. Plus, for bands that aren’t very big around here – or not big enough to make loads of people get out of the house … Continue reading
Even though JUDAS PRIEST + MEGADETH + TESTAMENT was quite a classy line-up, I still think it wasn’t fair that such a successful 23-year-old (at the time) band as TESTAMENT got to play for just 45 minutes. It was an … Continue reading
Closing the evening was, obviously, HEAVENWOOD, Bruno Silva‘s own band and promoter of the event. Also, the only band with international recognition and 4 albums out, none of them self-released. So they played song from all those albums, songs like … Continue reading
Veterans WEB couldn’t miss this, of course. The t-shirt Nando is holding up in the air, in pic #20, is one of the band’s, the one which reads “PERSISTENCE” in the back. And that was the key word that night: … Continue reading
THE ENDGATE is another band that I’ve seen a few times, but the last one had been loooooong before. Back then, the singer was still Tiago. I don’t know when Vítor joined in, but I know Mariana was the original … Continue reading
Next on the bill was happy-drinkers-thrashers WARCHITECTT. The fans/friends gathered in the first lines and it was a hell of a party up front. An IRON MAIDEN cover seems mandatory – last time I’d seen them, a couple of years … Continue reading
Stop Shopping Centre should have changed its name a long time ago as it holds, nowadays, no more than a couple of stores. Then there’s one or two coffee shops, the famous bar/metal venue Metalpoint… and the rest is rehearsal … Continue reading
Originally posted in: http://valkyrianmusic.com/2012/08/09/vagos-open-air-2012-2nd-day/ » Like the night before, a Swedish melodic death metal band was headlining – Arch Enemy. “Yesterday Is Dead And Gone”, despite being a recent song, was welcomed with a roar. And then with “Ravenous”, probably … Continue reading
Originally posted in: http://valkyrianmusic.com/2012/08/09/vagos-open-air-2012-2nd-day/ » Now old school for real was on the way: Overkill! It had been a decade since the New Jersey thrashers visited Portugal for the last time, as Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth recalled, but he could see … Continue reading
Front Row Forever 