Vagos Open Air
VOA – Heavy Rock Festival is an open-air heavy metal/hard rock festival held annually in Lisbon, Portugal. The festival is being held since 2009 in four different locations: the first four editions, from 2009 to 2012, were held in Calvão, the next three were held in the town of Vagos, the following two editions were held in Corroios, a city in the municipality of Seixal, and after a year break the festival is scheduled to return in 2019 in Lisbon. It is organized by Prime Artists, a Portuguese event promoter.
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 biggest heavy metal festivals in Portugal.
In late 2015, it was then announced the festival would relocate from Vagos to the city of Corroios. The name of the festival was also changed from Vagos Open Air to VOA Fest. A few months later, the municipality of Vagos ensured the creation of a new heavy metal festival in the city, named Vagos Metal Fest. The new festival held the first edition in 2016, featuring Dark Funeral and Helloween as headliners.
In 2018, after a sabbatical year, Prime Artists announced on their Facebook page the return of the event for 2019. It will return to a two-day festival, in July 4 and 5, change name, change location and venue and have Slipknot – one of the biggest names to ever perform in the festival – as one of the headliners.
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 GD Calvão's football ground in the village of 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 | Mindlock Chthonic Textures Coroner Overkill Arch Enemy |
2013
The 2013 edition was held on Friday, 9 August and Saturday, 10 August. The festival was moved to 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 Testament |
2014
The 2014 edition saw Vagos Open Air became a three-day festival with the addition of Sunday. 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 | Midnight Priest Ne Obliviscaris Alestorm Orphaned Land Overkill Bloodbath Ironsword |
2016
The 2016 edition was held on Friday, 5 August and Saturday, 6 August, returning to a two-day lineup. The festival was renamed VOA Fest and moved to Quinta da Marialva, a place in the city of Corroios, Seixal. A new festival called Vagos Metal Fest was created exactly on the same location of the past editions.| Friday | Saturday |
Dark Oath Adimiron Mantar Katatonia Anathema Opeth | Soldier Equaleft Schammasch Abbath Paradise Lost Kreator |
2017
The 2017 edition returned to a three-day format. For the first time, the festival was held on two stages, as a new secondary stage was added. It was held on Friday, 4 August, Saturday, 5 August and Sunday, 6 August.2019
The 2019 edition will return once again to a two-day format. Renamed to VOA – Heavy Rock Festival, it will be held on Estádio do Restelo, in the city of Lisbon, on Thursday, 4 July and Friday, 5 July.| Thursday | Friday |
Rasgo While She Sleeps Thormentor Trivium Arch Enemy Slipknot | W.A.K.O. Cane Hill Moonspell Gojira Lamb of God Slayer |