The heavy metal international music festival Metalcamp has been held annually since 2004 in July at Tolmin, in the beautiful surroundings of the Alps. Metalcamp is one of the central metal events in this part of Europe and certainly has the most international character among music festivals in Slovenia. Every year it attracts massive international audience in thousands of fans from Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Mediterranean countries and Slovenia. Every genre and sub-genre of metal with addition of some hardcore influenced styles is well represented in five days gathering and bands performances on a few stages.
Programme
The festival site Sotočje is located on a peninsula between the turquoise mountain rivers Soča and Tolminka. The programme of the 2007 festival (17-21 July) hosted 40 bands on the main Metal Stage and 44 young bands on the Talent Forum Stage, with a line-up which included Blind Guardian, Motörhead, Cradle of Filth, Sepultura, Hatebreed, Converge, Ensiferum, Kreator, Satyricon, Immortal, Korpiklaani, Pain, The Exploited, Graveworm and Die Apokalyptischen Reiter.
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