Original Portuguese version here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4523-20110913-in-flames-noctiferia-hard-club, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » Hard Club was yet pretty abandoned when the evening started – not only NOCTIFERIA are little known around here, as FCP played at home and the match was … Continue reading
I’d seen EUROPE in 2008, at Kobeta Sonik festival (Bilbao, ES). It was a great show, but it took place precisely one month after John Norum‘s wife, Michelle Meldrum (R.I.P.), had died. So the fun was somewhat refrained. This year, it was … Continue reading
Yeah, Samantha Fox… She played before EUROPE on this little fest, promoted in order to celebrate a new waterpark in Vila Real, so I had to endure it. I didn’t know she had any more songs besides “Touch Me”, let … Continue reading
Original text here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4475-reportagem-20110806-vagos-open-air-2-dia, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » To close down the festival’s 3rd edition, the organization chose another kind of legend: old school death metal from America’s MORBID ANGEL. Although their latest work “Illud Divinum Insanus” … Continue reading
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Original text here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4475-reportagem-20110806-vagos-open-air-2-dia, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » While the giant screens played a slideshow of “Townsendish” satires to several movie posters and famous images, Ziltoid Radio (frequency 93.5) turned the place into a ’90s disco, with … Continue reading
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Original text here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4475-reportagem-20110806-vagos-open-air-2-dia, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » IHSAHN, the band, is formed by the man with the same name plus LEPROUS, a progressive metal band from the same city, Notodden. “The Barren Lands” kicked off an excellent … Continue reading
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Original text here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4475-reportagem-20110806-vagos-open-air-2-dia, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » Also for the first time in our country were the Finns KALMAH. The “Swamplords” started shredding right away with “Hook The Monster” and “They Will Return”. Pekka Kokko said … Continue reading
Original text here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4475-reportagem-20110806-vagos-open-air-2-dia, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » Up next was MALEVOLENCE‘s death/doom. The band from Leiria hasn’t released anything new since 2005 (“Celebration Of Dysfunctional Becoming”), but they’re working on it at the moment – a … Continue reading
Original text here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4475-reportagem-20110806-vagos-open-air-2-dia, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » After the delay the previous night, the first band of day two, WE ARE THE DAMNED, started 5 minutes earlier. Crust punk from Lisbon, full of attitude and determination. … Continue reading
Original text here: http://backstageforum.hot-me.com/t4474-reportagem-20110805-vagos-open-air-1-dia, with pictures by Sandra Manuel (www.sandramanuel.com) » When the first chords of “The Great Conjuration” echoed, a choir of “oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” in the same tones made itself heard across all corners. Mikael Åkerfeldt was pretty amused, making … Continue reading
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