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Os Lusíadas: portuguese heavy metal


Back in the 2nd half of the 70's and beginning of the 80's, Heavy Metal wasn't a common expression amongst the portuguese. Portugal had just discovered that there was a real world behind the invisible wall built by the dictatorship that had fallen a few years earlier.

"Beatnicks", "Aqui De'l Rock", or "TNT" were some of the bands who had been releasing some singles and EP's of Hard-Rock at the very beginning of the 80's. They paved the rising of other bands that would work that sound, and release the first studio albums of Hard-Rock and Heavy Metal.

It was a critical decade for heavy rock in Portugal. This chronologic list of studio albums features the ones, that I believe, are the most important portuguese Hard-Rock and metal albums until today: the best and the pioneering ones. I excluded Punk-Rock but added Hardcore and Alternative Hard-Rock albums as well.

Either you're interested in portuguese music, or if you're just curious about it, or even if you are just passing by, this list will work out for you all. This list will grow bigger as the years go by of course, so if you have any suggestions, just let me know. Enjoy!

Created by: Tiago Rocha | 04.03.2010



1. Roxigénio - Roxigénio
1980 Blues Hard-Rock
2. Ferro & Fogo - Vidas
1982 Hard-Rock
3. NZZN - Forte E Feio
1982 Hard-Rock
4. Vasco Da Gama - Vasco Da Gama
1983 Hard-Rock
5. Xeque Mate - Em Nome Do Pai Do Filho ... E Do Rock'n'Roll
1985 Hard-Rock
6. Tarantula - Tarantula
1987 Heavy Metal ★1st Heavy & Power Metal LP
7. Ibéria - Ibéria
1988 Heavy/Glam Metal
8. Mão Morta - Mão Morta
1988 Alternative ★1st Alternative Metal LP
9. Casablanca - Tanto
1989 Hard-Rock
10. Santa Maria, Gasolina Em Teu Ventre! - Free-Terminator/Falcão Solitário Sem Ser Distorção
1989 Noise/Intrumental Hard-Rock
11. Ibéria - Heroes Of The Wasteland
1990 Heavy/Glam Metal
12. Mão Morta - Corações Felpudos
1990 Alternative
13. Tarantula - Kingdom Of Lusitania
1990 Heavy/Power Metal
14. V12 - V12
1990 Hard-Rock/Heavy Metal
15. Joker - Ecstasy
1992 Heavy Metal
16. Mão Morta - Mutantes s.21
1992 Alternative
17. W.C. Noise - Loud & Mad
1992 Thrash Metal ★1st Thrash Metal LP
18. Decayed - The Conjuration Of The Southern Circle
1993 Black Metal ★1st Black Metal LP
19. Sacred Sin - Darkside
1993 Death Metal ★1st Death Metal LP
20. Bizarra Locomotiva - Bizarra Locomotiva
1994 Industrial Metal ★1st Industrial Metal LP
21. Corrosão Caótica - Corrosão Caótica
1994 Thrash Metal
22. Evisceration - Hymn To The Monstrous
1994 Grindcore ★1st Grindcore LP
23. Exiled (POR) - Ascencion Of Grace
1994 Death Thrash
24. Gangrena - Infected Ideologies
1994 Death Metal
25. Genocide (POR) - Genocide
1994 Death Metal
26. Shrine - Perspective
1994 Thrash Metal
27. Thormenthor - Abstract Divinity
1994 Progressive Death Metal ★1st Progressive Metal LP
28. Afterdeath - Backwords
1995 Death Metal
29. Blind Zero - Trigger
1995 Alternative/Grunge ★1st Grunge LP
30. Candle Serenade - Nosferatu's Passion
1995 Gothic Metal
31. Disaffected - Vast
1995 Progressive Death Metal
32. Extreme Unction - In Limine Mortis
1995 Melodeath ★1st Melodic Death Metal LP
33. Sacred Sin - Eye M God
1995 Death Metal
34. Moonspell - Wolfheart
1995 Gothic Metal ★1st Gothic Metal LP
35. Ramp - Intersection
1995 Groove Metal
36. Desire - Infinity... A Timeless Journey Through An Emotional Dream
1996 Gothic Doom Metal ★1st Doom Metal LP
37. Grog - Macabre Requiems
1996 Death Metal
38. Heavenwood - Diva
1996 Gothic Metal
39. Inhuman (POR) - Strange Desire
1996 Gothic Metal
40. Malevolence (POR) - Dominium
1996 Melodeath
41. Moonspell - Irreligious
1996 Gothic Metal
42. Nameless - The Overcome Of The Portuguese Bastards
1996 Thrash Metal
43. Ciborium - Colossal Crags
1997 Prog Melodeath
44. In Darkness - Too Cold Inside
1997 Extreme Gothic
45. Morbid Death - Echoes Of Solitude
1997 Melodeath
46. Bizarra Locomotiva - Bestiário
1998 Industrial Metal
47. Celtic Dance - Ancient Battlecry
1998 Black Metal
48. Dæmonarch - Hermeticum
1998 Black Metal
49. Firstborn Evil - Rebirth Of Evil
1998 Black Metal
50. Gonçalo Pereira - Tricot No Pais Das Maravilhas
1998 Instrumental Hard Rock
51. Heavenwood - Swallow
1998 Gothic Metal
52. In Tha Umbra - Descend Supreme Sunset
1998 Black Metal
53. Inhuman (POR) - Foreshadow
1998 Gothic Metal
54. Buried Alive - Spoils Of War
1999 Thrash Metal
55. Malevolence (POR) - Martyrialized
1999 Melodeath Metal
56. Sacred Sin - Anguish... I Harvest
1999 Death Metal
57. Alastor - Crushing Christendom
2000 Blackened Thrash Metal
58. In Tha Umbra - Midnight In The Garden Of Hell
2000 Blackened Death Metal
59. More República Masónica - Chemical Love Songs
2000 Alternative
60. Oratory - Illusion Dimensions
2000 Power Metal
61. Sirius - Aeons Of Magick
2000 Symphonic Black Metal
62. The Firstborn - From The Past Yet To Come
2000 Avant-garde Black Metal
63. Eternal Mourning - Delusion & Dementia
2001 Death Doom/Gothic Doom
64. Sirius - Spectral Transition - Dimension Sirius
2001 Symphonic Black Metal
65. ThanatoSchizo - Schizo Level
2001 Progressive Death Metal
66. Desire - Locus Horrendus - The Night Cries Of A Sullen Soul...
2002 Gothic Doom Metal
67. Holocausto Canibal - Sublime Massacre Corpóreo
2002 Gore/Grindcore
68. ThanatoSchizo - InsomniousNightLift
2002 Progressive/Death Doom Metal
69. Azagatel - Nautilus
2003 Melodic Black/Symphonic Black
70. Aenima - Sentient
2003 Atmospheric Gothic Metal
71. Alkateya - Replay
2003 Heavy Metal
72. Moonspell - The Antidote
2003 Gothic Metal
73. Shadowsphere - Darklands
2004 Melodeath
74. Icon & The Black Roses - Icon & The Black Roses
2004 Suomi Metal
75. Filii Nigrantium Infernalium - Fellatrix Discordia Pantokrator
2005 Blackened Heavy Metal
76. Hyubris - Hyubris
2005 Heavy/Folk Metal
77. If Lucy Fell - You Make Me Nervous
2005 Stoner/Math Metal ★1st Math Metal LP
78. In Tha Umbra - Nigrium Nigrius Nigro
2005 Black Metal
79. My Enchantment - SINpHONIC
2005 Symphonic Black Metal
80. The Firstborn - The Unclenching Of Fists
2005 Progressive Metalcore
81. Theriomorphic - Enter The Mighty Theriomorphic
2005 Death Metal
82. Linda Martini - Olhos De Mongol
2006 Post/Alternative Hard-Rock
83. Insaniae - Outros Temem Os Que Esperam Pelo Medo Da Eternidade
2006 Gothic Doom
84. Process Of Guilt - Renounce
2006 Death Doom Metal
85. Twentyinchburial - Radiovenom
2006 Melodic Hardcore/Metalcore
86. Before The Rain - ...One Day Less
2007 Doom Metal
87. Corpus Christii - Rising
2007 Black Metal
88. Men Eater - Hellstone
2007 Stoner Metal
89. Gwydion - Ynys Mön
2008 Folk Metal
90. Moonspell - Night Eternal
2008 Gothic
91. Riding Pânico - Lady Cobra
2008 Post/Hard-Rock
92. The Firstborn - The Noble Search
2008 Progressive Metalcore
93. Bosque - Passage
2009 Extreme Doom/Drone
94. Process Of Guilt - Erosion
2009 Death Doom Metal
95. Switchtense - Confrontation Of Souls
2009 Hardcore Thrash/Metalcore
96. Black Bombaim - Saturdays And Space Travels
2010 Instrumental Sludge/Stoner Metal
97. Linda Martini - Casa Ocupada
2010 Post/Alternative Hard-Rock
98. More Than A Thousand - Vol.4 Make Friends And Enemies
2010 Melodic Hardcore/Metalcore
99. Morte Incandescente - ...Relembrando Um Túmulo Esquecido
2010 Black Metal
100. Mourning Lenore - Loosely Bounded Infinities
2010 Death Doom Metal
101. Painted Black - Cold Comfort
2010 Gothic/Doom Metal
102. Storm Legion - Desolation Angels
2010 Black Metal
103. Why Angels Fall - The Unveiling
2010 Doom Metal
104. Before The Rain - Frail
2011 Doom Metal
105. Corpus Christii - Luciferian Frequencies
2011 Black Metal
106. Grog - Scooping The Cranial Insides
2011 Death Metal
107. Medo - Matéria Negra
2011 Black Metal
108. Midnight Priest - Midnight Priest
2011 Heavy Metal
109. Switchtense - Switchtense
2011 Hardcore Thrash
110. We Are The Damned - Holy Beast
2011 Crust/Thrash
111. Besta - Ajoelha-Te Perante A Besta
2012 Grindcore
112. Black Bombaim - Titans
2012 Instrumental Sludge/Stoner Metal
113. Process Of Guilt - Fæmin
2012 Death Sludge/Doom Metal
114. Sinistro - Sinistro
2012 Post/Sludge Metal
115. The Quartet Of Woah! - Ultrabomb
2012 Psychedelic Hard-Rock
116. Filii Nigrantium Infernalium - Pornokrates: Deo Gratias
2013 Blackened Heavy/Thrash Metal
117. Utopium - Vicious Consolation / Virtuous Totality
2013 Grindcore
118. Black Bombaim - Far Out
2014 Instrumental Sludge/Stoner Metal
119. Killimanjaro - Hook
2014 Stoner Metal
120. Perpetratör - Thermonuclear Epiphany
2014 Thrash Metal
121. We Are The Damned - Doomvirate
2014 Crust/Thrash
122. The Black Wizards - Lake Of Fire
2015 Stoner Metal
123. Vaee Solis - Adversarial Light
2015 Black/Doom Metal
124. Morte Incandescente - ...O Mundo Morreu!
2016 Black Metal
125. Névoa - Re Un
2016 Sludge/Black Metal
126. Irae - Crimes Against Humanity
2017 Black Metal
127. Rasgo - Ecos Da Selva Urbana
2017 Thrash Metal
128. The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
2017 Black/Death
129. Black Howling - Return Of Primordial Stillness
2018 Black Metal
130. Gaerea - Unsettling Whispers
2018 Black Metal
131. Greengo - Dabstep
2018 Stoner
132. Perpetratör - Altered Beast
2018 Thrash Metal
133. Sinistro - Sangue Cássia
2018 Sludge/Doom/Post-Metal
134. Summon - Parazv Il Zilittv
2018 Black/Death Metal
135. Besta - Eterno Rancor
2019 Grindcore
136. Manferior - Birth As Punishment
2019 Grindcore
137. Midnight Priest - Aggressive Hauntings
2019 Heavy Metal
138. Toxik Attack - Assassinos Em Série
2019 Thrash Metal
139. Toxikull - Cursed And Punished
2020 Speed Heavy/Thrash Metal
140. Bas Rotten - Surge
2020 Grindcore
141. Gaerea - Limbo
2020 Black Metal
142. Omitir - Ode
2020 Black Metal
143. ThrashWall - ThrashWall
2020 Thrash Metal
144. Animalesco, O Método - Animalesco, O Método
2021 Crust/Metalpunk/Death'n'Roll
145. Existence:Void - Anatman
2021 Black Metal
146. Nagasaki Sunrise - Distalgia
2021 Thrash Metal
147. Prayers Of Sanity - Doctrine Of Misanthropy
2021 Thrash Metal
148. Redemptus - Blackhearted
2021 Sludge
149. Sepulcros - Vazio
2021 Depressive Black/Funeral Doom



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Marcel Hubregtse
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This list is extremely helpful ! A lot of bands from there are very underrated, In That Umbra is a good example.
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