Category Archives: Concerts

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 →

Originally posted in: http://valkyrianmusic.com/2012/08/09/vagos-open-air-2012-2nd-day/ » After a 14-year brake, Swiss technical thrash metal Coroner came back in 2010. So far, they haven’t recorded anything new in these last two years, so all the shows have been a walk down memory … Continue reading →