Evil Live Festival is a heavy music festival in Lisbon, Portugal. Launched in 2023 and organised by Prime Artists, it focuses on modern and classic heavy music across metal, hard rock, alternative metal, thrash, hardcore, progressive metal and related styles.
The festival has been closely associated with MEO Arena in Lisbon. The 2024 edition took place there with artists such as Kerry King, Machine Head, Katatonia, Wolfmother, Avenged Sevenfold, Megadeth, Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity and Electric Callboy. In 2025, Evil Live expanded into an open-air format at Estádio do Restelo, with three days headlined by Judas Priest, Korn and Slipknot.
The 2026 edition returned the festival to MEO Arena as a concentrated one-day indoor event, with Marilyn Manson, Megadeth, Mastodon, Converge, The Gathering, Imminence and Anneke van Giersbergen among the names connected to the line-up. Evil Live’s changing format, from arena event to open-air weekender and back to a one-day indoor festival, has made it one of Lisbon’s main contemporary heavy music events.
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Rossio dos Olivais, 1990-231 Lisbon, Portugal
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