Vagos Open Air

Vagos Open Air
Genre Metal, gothic, rock
Dates August
Location(s) Vagos, Portugal
Years active 2009–2015

Vagos Open Air was an open-air heavy metal/rock festival held annually in Vagos, Portugal. The festival had been held there since 2009. It was organized by Prime Artists together with PEV Entertainment, two portuguese event promoters.

The origins of a music festival in the Aveiro region are traced to a small event, called Rock in Ria, featuring a few portuguese and international bands, but in 2009 that event gave way to a new full-fledged international festival which turned out to be one of the bigger heavy metal festivals in Portugal.

Since 2009 the festival was held in two locations: the village of Calvão and the city of Vagos itself, at Quinta do Ega.

In late 2015, it was announced the festival would relocate to Quinta da Marialva, in the city of Corroios, and change its name to VOA Fest. A successor, Vagos Metal Fest, was announced to take place in the same location as the previous incarnation of the festival a few months later. Both VOA Fest and Vagos Metal Fest held their first editions in 2016.

Lineups

2009

The year of 2009 saw the first incarnation of the festival, a two-day event held on Friday, 7 August and Saturday, 8 August at the football ground of a village named Calvão, near Vagos.

Friday Saturday

F.E.V.E.R.
Process of Guilt
Kathaarsys
Epica
Katatonia
The Gathering

Echidna
Thee Orakle
Dawn of Tears
Cynic
Dark Tranquillity
Amon Amarth

2010

The 2010 edition was held on Friday, 6 August and Saturday, 7 August.

Friday Saturday

Prayers of Sanity
Miss Lava
Gwydion
Ensiferum
My Dying Bride
Meshuggah

The Firstborn
Oblique Rain
Ghost Brigade
Amorphis
Kamelot
Carcass

2011

The 2011 edition was held on Friday, 5 August and Saturday, 6 August.

Friday Saturday

Revolution Within
Crushing Sun
Essence
Anathema
Tiamat
Opeth

We Are the Damned
Malevolence
Kalmah
Ihsahn
Devin Townsend Project
Morbid Angel

2012

The 2012 edition was held on Friday, 3 August and Saturday, 4 August.

Friday Saturday

Disaffected
Northland
Eluveitie
Enslaved
Arcturus
At the Gates
Nasum [Special guests]

Mindlock
Chthonic
Textures
Coroner
Overkill
Arch Enemy

2013

The 2013 edition was held on Friday, 9 August and Saturday, 10 August and marked a change of location. The festival was then moved to the Quinta do Ega, a place in the city of Vagos.

Friday Saturday

Secret Lie
Bizarra Locomotiva
Moonsorrow
Evergrey
Sonata Arctica
Lacuna Coil

Web
Tarantula
Rotting Christ
Iced Earth
Gamma Ray (replacing Saxon)
Testament

2014

The 2014 edition evolved into a three-day festival with the Sunday addition. It was held on Friday, 8 August, Saturday, 9 August and Sunday, 10 August.

Friday Saturday Sunday

Gates of Hell
Kandia
Sylosis
Soilwork
Epica
Kreator

Requiem Laus
Angelus Apatrida
The Haunted
Behemoth
Annihilator
Opeth

Opus Diabolicum
Murk
Vita Imana
The Quartet of Woah!
Paradise Lost
Gojira

2015

The 2015 edition was held on Friday, 7 August, Saturday, 8 August and Sunday, 9 August.

Friday Saturday Sunday

Scar for Life
Moonshade
Vildhjarta
Heaven Shall Burn
Amorphis
Within Temptation

W.A.K.O.
Mutant Squad
Destruction
Triptykon
Black Label Society
Venom
Filii Nigrantium Infernalium [Special guests]

Midnight Priest
Ne Obliviscaris
Alestorm
Orphaned Land
Overkill
Bloodbath
Ironsword [Special guests]

References

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