The strength of metal: the schedule of ‘heavy’ concerts and festivals in Portugal

DOWNFALL OF GAIA + SYBERIA
Maus Hábitos (Porto), May 2
Musicbox (Lisbon), May 3

Tickets: €15

ALVALADE ARISE
Alvalade do Sado
May 3rd and 4th

Poster: Morbid Death, VIL, Devil In Me, Beast, Usual Suspects, Crab Monsters, Mercic, Web, Bizarra Locomotiva, Os Tiborna, Thirty & One

MASSACRE METAL FEST
UDCA (A-of-the-Mad)
may 4th

Poster: Cannibal Holocaust, Filli Nigrantium Infernalium, Toxikull, Speedemon, Dolmen Gate, Toxik Attack, Legacy of Payne

BLACK ALTAR
RCA (Lisbon)
May 10th

First parts: Ofermon and Corpus Christii

Hard Club (Porto)
may 11

First parts: ANZV and Sonneillon

THE SWITCHES
LAV (Lisbon)
may 31st

Tickets: €30

NOTHING – IN THE SOUL OF ALENTEJO
Fair and Exhibition Park, Beja
June 7th to 9th

With: Destruction, Taake, Impaled Nazarene, Saturnus, Atrocity, Spiritual Front, Serrabulho, Dark Oath, Ho Chi Minh, Enchantya, All Against, Voidwomb, Alpha Warhead, Baltum, Supercollider

Pass: €35

XAPADA SESSIONS
Breath of Bacchus (Loulé), June 13
RCA (Lisbon), June 14

With: Blood Red Throne, Shadowmare (Loulé), Visceral (Loulé), Ruttenskalle (Lisbon), Bleeding Display (Lisbon)

Loulé: €15 (on the day)
Lisbon: €17 (pre-sale) or €20 (on the day)

BLACK BOX FEST
Penselo, Guimarães
June 14th and 15th

Poster: Blood Red Throne, Yarotz, Checkmate, Godsin, Elitium, Icosandria, Ashes Reborn, Law of Contagion, Warout, Blòd, Aversio Humanitatis, Revolution Within

BEAUTIFUL OPEN AIR VIEW
Vila Maior, São Pedro do Sul
June 14th, 15th and 16th

June 14: Angra, DAD, Arion, Voodoo Gods, RAMP, Nailed to Obscurity, Dark Embrace
June 15: Candlemass, Pretty Maids, Deserted Fear, Varg, Illumi Shade, Seventh Storm
June 16: Dark Funeral, Feuerschwanz, Bizarra Locomotiva, Iron Allies

June 14th and 15th: €50
June 16th: €65
General pass (until February 29th): €65
General pass (from March 1st to May 31st): €75
General pass (single day): €85

COMENDATIO MUSIC FEST
Paço da Comenda (Tomar)
June 15th and 16th

Poster: Leprous, Textures, Long Distance Calling, Neobliviscaris, Heart of a Coward, Persephone, Hypno5e, The Voynich Code, Sullen, Corrosive, Fallen at Dawn, Nowhere to Be Found, Revenge of the Fallen, God Hates a Coward

Daily ticket: €45
General pass: €75

EVIL LIVE
MEO Arena (Lisbon)
June 29th and 30th

June 29
Machine Head
Jiluka
Wolfmother
Men Eater

June 30
Avenged Sevenfold
Megadeth
Suicidal Tendencies
Electric Callboy
Corrosion of Conformity

Daily ticket: €65
General pass: €115

A METAL WORKER ALSO CRIES
Roda Moinas Natural Park, Carqueijo, Mealhada
July 6

With: Frozen Shield, Destroyers Of All, Dark Oath, Glasya, Warout, All Against, Zurrapa

Tickets: €15

THE CULT
Porto Coliseum
July 16

Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon
July 17th

Tickets: Between €35 and €40

HELL OF A WEEKEND
Lisbon, July 20th and 21st

With: Descendents, Ratos de Porão, Thirty & One, Devil In Me, A Wilhelm Scream, Misconduct

Pass: €49

LAURUS NOBILIS
Louro, Famalicão
July 19th to 21st

July 19: Vader, Carach Angren, Vita Imana, Bloody Falls, Warside, Iron Will, All Kingdoms Fall
July 20: Septicflesh, Godiva, Albaluna, Human Vivisection, Faemine, Exit, Voidwomb, Apocalypse Conspiracy
July 21: Moonspell, Hideous Divinity, Calarook, Bleeding Display, Grande Fox, Three of Me, Dishonour

Daily ticket: €40
General pass: €70

VACANCY METAL FEST
Quinta do Ega (Vagos)
August 2nd to 4th

Poster: Epica, Blind Guardian, Insomnium, Samael, Primordial, Dynazty, Uada, Suffocation, Elvenking, God Dethroned, Mão Morta, Saor, Grog, Gwydion, NervoChaos, Terror Empire, Quinteto Explosivo, Toxikull, Injector, HochiminH, Morphium, Raxar , Thola

Daily ticket: €45
General pass: €85

SONIC BLAST
Duna dos Caldeirões Beach (Âncora)
August 8th to 10th

August 8
Viagra Boys
Graveyard
Black Mountain
Maruja
Poison Ruin
Home Front
Margarita Witch Cult
High Reeper
Earth Tongue
Machine
Silvershark

August 9
Brant Bjork Trio
Color Haze
1000mods
Truckfighters
Sacri Monti
Deathchant
Skemer
Tones

August 10
High On Fire
Wine Lips
Gaye Su Akyol
Night Beats
SLIFT
fugitive
The Obsessed
COFFIN
Jjuujjuu
Cobrafuma

Daily ticket: €45
General pass (until May 31st): €90
General pass (from June 1st): €100

METALLIC MIRACLE
Pindelo dos Milagres, São Pedro do Sul
August 23rd to 25th

August 23: Fleshgod Apocalypse, Freedom Call, Metalium, Vanaheim, Blasphemium, Axxis, Sodom
August 24: Kamelot, Korpiklaani, Rotting Christ, Onslaught, Stormlord, Avenger, Invoke, Speedemon
August 25: Amorphis, Skálmöld, Kissin’ Dynamite, Tierra Santa, Serrabulho, Troops of Doom, Glasya, Dark Oath

From December 1st to February 29th: €45
From March 1st to June 30th: €50
From July 1st to August 22nd: €55
Same day: €70

FEVER HELL
Casais Leisure Park (Lousada), August 30th and 31st

With: Process Of Guilt, HETTA

Free entry

LUNA FEST
Song Square (Coimbra)
September 6th to 8th

Poster: Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds, Johnny Throttle, Carrion Kids, Mão Morta, Club Makumba, Selma Uamusse, Twist Connection, M’as Foice, Birds Are Indie, So DeaD

Early bird: €66

CLAN OF XYMOX
RCA (Lisbon)
September 13th

Hard Club (Porto)
September 14th

Tickets: €22

SONIC FATELA
Fatela, Fundão
September 20th and 21st

Poster: Brutal Siegers, Hammerhead, Beads & Bones, Dishuman, Haren, Dr. Frankenstein, Drastiks, Horde, Iskanbila, Malo!o, Klasse Kriminale, Kapo Blod, Neallta Fola, Rancoeur, Revolution Within, Sikk, Sympos, The Faqs, Wakadelics

AMPLIFEST
Hard Club (Porto)
November 9th and 10th

Poster: Chelsea Wolfe, Russian Circles, Ufommamut, Oranssi Pazuzu, Cinder Well, Mizmor, Eihwar, UF, The Body with Dis Fig, Fvnerals, Insect Ark, Living Gate, LLNN, Mary Jane Dunphe, Menace Ruine, Spurv, Yoo Doo Right , Zombi, Avesso, Decline and Fall

Tickets (price to be paid is chosen by fans, plus fees): €119, €129, €139 or €149

DREAM THEATER
Meo Arena (Lisbon)
November 16

Golden Circle – €80
Standing audience – €50
Counter 1 – €60
Counter 2 – €42
Conditioned Mobility – €42

GUANO APES
Tejo Room at MEO Arena (Lisbon)
November 23

Tickets: €32

CRADLE OF FILTH
LAV – Lisbon Live
November 24th

Tickets: €35

WITHIN TEMPTATION
Tejo Room at MEO Arena (Lisbon)
November 26th

Tickets: €35

ORPHANED LAND + AZTECA + ROYAL RAGE + RING OF GYGES
Hard Club (Porto)
December 10th

LAV (Lisbon)
December 11th

Pre-sale: €25
Day itself: 30@