Metal Town Gothenburg

News - 25th January - OPETH, NASUM AND KYUSS LIVES HEADING TO METAL TOWN IN GOTHENBURG!
Three absolute favorites for this summer's Metal Town have been announced - Swedish band Opeth has become one of the most influential metal bands, and with her latest album debuted on the U.S. Billboard chart nineteenth place.

Joining them are originators of stoner-rock, the reunited Kyuss Lives! And lastly but not least, Nasum.  Seven years after the Mieszko Talarczyks death the remaining members have now decided to make a proper farewell tour with a few selected gigs around the world. Including Metaltown.

Close-Up Magazine also presents its first hand-picked booking with death metal band dethrone.

News - 22nd December - MACHINE HEAD CONFIRMED FOR SWEDEN'S METAL TOWN FESTIVAL!
The American West Coast band MACHINE HEAD began their career back in 1992. The debut "Burn My Eyes" was hailed as one of the 90th century's most important metal albums by the UK magazine Metal Hammer . The album was for many years their record company Roadrunners biggest commercial success of a debut band. The success took the band on a two year long world tour. Among other things, along with Slayer.

Last fall they followed up with their seventh album, "Unto the Locust." The album became the band's biggest success to date list in the U.S.. In Sweden, it went straight in to the sales list fourteenth place. When the Close-Up Magazine recently summed up the 2011, placed the album as one of the year's top five.

News - 14th December - SLAYER HEADING TO METAL TOWN 2012!
Last summer, SLAYER almost overturned the Ullevi Stadium with its already legendary gig as part of the "Big 4". A 30-anniversary Slayer in overall great form. Now the thrash metal kings return to Gothenburg for their first gig at the Metal Center in five years!

Eleven albums, thousands of gigs and 30 years together. That is what has made Slayer one of the world's largest and most important metal bands, ever. While others are forced to live in nostalgia and old memories, Slayer continued to constantly persuade and never lose their grip as the world's hardest band. Always beautifully brutal.

Since one of the best and most influential metal album, "Reign in Blood", was released 25 years ago, they had a demo producer Rick Rubin at his side. A winning partnership which also led them to the latest album "World Painted Blood," which came a few years ago.

News - 8th December - METALTOWN ANNOUNCES FIRST ACTS FOR 2012!
Metaltown organisers can now present the 2012 first bookings! As one of the festival visitors' most wanted band does in summer, Lamb of God their very first gig at the Metal Center. In addition, long-awaited appointments of both Marilyn Manson & Killswitch Engage. Add to this legendary thrash-pioneers Anthrax, who last summer was at Ullevi Stadium with the "big four". Just to name a few.

MetalTown is back for its 9th year from the 15th - 16th June next year. Scandinavia's toughest festival in the world's metal capital of Gothenburg. From a one day event with 4000 visitors in 2004, the festival has evolved into a two-day festival last year invaded by 25,000 metal fans. New for summer 2012 is to the campsite to be substantially increased to accommodate at least 8,000 people.

On Monday 12 December at 09:00 released tickets to this summer's festival. The first 2000 tickets are sold at a discounted price and also includes an exclusive t-shirt.

2012 Line Up

Slayer
Lamb of God
Marilyn Manson
Mastodon
Machine Head
Killswitch Engage
Within Temptation
Anthrax
Sabaton
Trivium
Vader
DevilDriver
Skeletonwitch
Opeth
Nasum
Kyuss Lives


Close Up Magazine picks:
dethrone

HISTORY

Often described as the world capital of Metal, Gothenburg couldn't be more fitting host for Metaltown. 15,000 metalheads rocking out on the city's old banana pier, plenty of food and drink and stalls as well as city sites and sounds just outside the festival gates, this is one not to be missed.

The Metaltown festival saw its first light in the summer of 2004 as one-day event with 5,000 visitors the opening year and 14 playing bands in total, including Alice Cooper, Turbonegro, Edguy and In Flames.

Since then Metaltown has been growing constantly, hosting bands like Tool, Motörhead, Cradle Of Filth, Slayer, Machine Head, Rammstein, Mastodon and many more.

In summer of 2008 Metaltown turned into a two-day festival with 30 bands in total, on two big stages and one in-door stage. Day two was completely sold out, with 15 000 people at the pier.

The 2008 festival included bands such as Cavalera Conspiracy, Monster Magnet, Bullet for My Valentine, Killswitch Engage, and In Flames.

The most recent festival, 26-27 June 2009, included bands such as Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Opeth, Napalm Death, and Disturbed.

Metal Town 2011 - Line Up
System of a Down (US), Volbeat (DK), Korn (US), Avenged Sevenfold (US), At the Gates (S), Bring Me the Horizon (UK), Anvil (CAN), Watain (S), Cavalera Conspiracy (US), Soilwork (S), Deicide (US), Cradle of Filth (UK), All That Remains (US), Escape the Fate (US), Meshuggah (S), Arch Enemy (S), Devin Townsend Project (CAN), Ghost (S), Madball (US), Parkway Drive (AU), The Black Dahlia Murder (US), The Damned Things (US), Raubtier (S), Baptized in Blood (CAN), Graveyard (S), Bullet (S), Khoma (S), Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult (NO/US), Evergrey (S), Corroded (S), StillWell (US), Insense (NO), Sparzanza (S), Torture Division (S), DeathDestruction (S), F.K.Ü. (S), Yersinia (S), Amaranthe (S), Avenir (S), Human Desolation (S), Humanity’s Last Breath (S), Last View (S), Hellzapoppin Sideshow (US)

Metal Town 2010 - Line Up
Rammstein, Coheed & Cambria, Sonic Syndicate, Katatonia, Skindred, Sabaton, Nile, Kreator, Brian 'Head' Welch, 69 Eyes, Garcia Plays Kyuss, Cynic, Bleeding Through, Raubtier, Walking with Strangers, From This Moment, In Flames, Hell Yeah, Amon Amarth, Sodom, Adept, Bullet For My Valentine, Soulfly, Finntroll, Withchery, Hatebreed, Dark Tranquillity, Dream Evil, Between The Buried and Me, Raunchy, Eldrimner, Lednote

METAL TOWN FESTIVAL PICTURE GALLERIES

Check out our Metal Town Festival 2009 Photo Gallery courtesy of JenHell