SWR Barroselas Metalfest is one of the oldest extreme music festivals in Europe. Located since the first edition in the quiet village of Barroselas, Northeast Portugal, the festival has two indoor stages, whose entrance is allowed only to ticket holders, and one outside stage with free access. Through the years the festival has seen some of heavy metal's biggest names rise on the stage, bands such as Venom, Immortal, Kreator, Possessed, Sodom, Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower, Dying Fetus, Primordial, Metal Church, Watain, Hypocrisy, Candlemass, Ratos de Porão, Immolation, Triptykon, The Haunted, Brujeria, Enslaved, Carpathian Forest, Shining, Entombed A.D., Impaled Nazarene, Gut, Agalloch, Katatonia and many more.