80s/ 90s Portuguese Metal

rumblefist · Post by **rumblefist** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 9:03 pm

Never heard a bad comment and i mean personally and by any oldschooler portuguese metalhead about Xeque Mate. We all respect them a lot.
They had a not so good period around 1988 when they lost definitely Paulo Barros 2nd guitar to focus on his own band Tarantula, and by this time they had on stage only 1 guitar and keyboards and they tried some new songs which were more Hard Rock/AOR orientated but always professioanlly delivered.
The 7'' Rob mentions is for me pretty good !
The band is active right now and there are rumors "something" is coming out soon someday.

doomedplanet · Post by **doomedplanet** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:04 pm

yeah I was just commenting on what I read here about 'poor production':

http://portugal80smetal.blogspot.com/20 ... -mate.html

rumblefist · Post by **rumblefist** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:49 am

doomedplanet wrote:yeah I was just commenting on what I read here about 'poor production':

http://portugal80smetal.blogspot.com/20 ... -mate.html

Nah, he didn't really mean any bad thing on the band itself. He owns the 7'' and he is proud of having it in his shelves. It could had been released with even better sound and more professionally promoted but those were the dark days in Portugal for any band even the Rock or Pop ones. In those days only 10% of vinyl releases had a proper time in studio. It was a miracle to have a real heavy drum sound or really imposing guitars because of the almost non existent Rock sound engineers or producers. I think this is what he meant because he knows the story...

Cyrcka · Post by **Cyrcka** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:51 pm

Thats not my opinio but from the band, its in almost bios from back then.

doomedplanet · Post by **doomedplanet** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:02 pm

Interesting to know, you should probably note that this is reprints from old bios, I just took it as personal opinion since it isn't mentioned otherwise.

TheMetalMan wrote:Thats not my opinio but from the band, its in almost bios from back then.

Cyrcka · Post by **Cyrcka** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:49 pm

over 80 bands w/ bios, memorabilia, audio/ videos, fanzines etc etc

Cyrcka · Post by **Cyrcka** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 7:21 pm

many updates

http://portugal80smetal.blogspot.com/

rumblefist · Post by **rumblefist** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:48 pm

Great stuff bro !
No-one knows how hard is to find stuff from a so little scene.
Even for almost any portuguese metalhead half of the contempt there posted is
a discovery.

Cyrcka · Post by **Cyrcka** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:29 pm

lots of up dates:

http://portugal80smetal.blogspot.com/

Hans · Post by **Hans** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 1:47 am

great blog, thanks.

Cyrcka · Post by **Cyrcka** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 7:29 pm

Cyrcka wrote:lots of up dates:

http://portugal80smetal.blogspot.com/

Cyrcka · Post by **Cyrcka** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:26 pm

Cyrcka wrote:
Cyrcka wrote:lots of up dates:

http://portugal80smetal.blogspot.com/

Cyrcka · Post by **Cyrcka** » Sun May 13, 2012 5:40 pm

Cyrcka wrote:lots of up dates:

http://portugal80smetal.blogspot.com/

Cyrcka · Post by **Cyrcka** » Thu May 17, 2012 12:27 pm

added videos from Alkateya and Wild Shadow

Post by **DaN** » Thu Mar 10, 2022 6:37 pm

I noticed the Portuguese section in the review-archive is pitifully small, so I'll be adding a couple of reviews & rips there too in the coming weeks. We'll start with the rarest of them all(?) :

My own vinyl rip:

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