MetalDays

The heavy metal international music festival MetalDays has been held annually from 2013. The festival that takes place at Sotočje at Tolmin, in the beautiful surroundings of the Alps, is the successor of the Metalcamp, one of the central metal events in this part of Europe, which attracted a massive international audience of thousands of fans from Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, the Mediterranean countries and Slovenia since 2004.

The programme represents a wide variety of genres and sub-genres of metal with the addition of hardcore influenced styles in the 7-day gathering of bands performing on a couple of stages.

Background

In the past the programme of the Metalcamp, a MetalDays predecessor, has hosted as many as 40 acclaimed bands on the main Metal Stage and 44 young bands on the Talent Forum Stage.

The line-up of bands in past editions of the festival has included: Danzig, Apocalyptica, Hypocrisy, Noctiferia, Primal Fear, Slayer, Anthrax, Obituary, Soulfly, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, Motörhead, Cradle of Filth, Sepultura, Kreator, Immortal, Korpiklaani, Pain, The Exploited, Ministry, In Flames, Morbid Angels, Nightwish, Down, Cannibal Corpse, Over Kill, Behemoth and Sabaton.

Programme

The 2013 programme included Annihilator, Hypocrisy, Iced Earth, In Flames, King Diamond, Mayhem, Sonata Arctica and Wintersun, while the 2014 line-up presented 50 bands, among them Children of Bodom , Amorphis (FI), Volbeat (DK), Opeth Sabaton (SE), Satyricon (NO), Heaven Shall Burn (D) and Megadeth (USA).

Venue

The festival site Sotočje is located on a peninsula between the turquoise mountain rivers Soča and Tolminka.

External links

MetaDays website
Metalcamp on Wikipedia
Metalcamp at Beat a go go, a webzine devoted to music, the arts and writing

MetalDays

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Background

Programme

Venue

External links

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