Posts Tagged ‘Metal Town 2012’

METAL VETERANS CANDLEMASS AND OZ JOIN LINE UP! With only one month left to the festival, organisers continue to fill the line up with artists. Confirmed today are the Swedish doom metal kings of Candlemass who in the summer make their first Metaltown appearance in five years. In addition, the legendary Finnish band OZ are [...]

HAMMERFALL, DEATH DESTRUCTION AND MORE FOR METAL TOWN 2012! From being a gang in the mid 90′s, harrowed at various places in Gothenburg, has been HAMMERFALL Sweden’s biggest heavy metal band. As is now kicking the doors to arenas Scandinavium. The story began sometime in 1993 when Oscar Dronjac left the death metal gang Ceremonial [...]

METAL TOWN ADDS 20 BANDS TO THE NEMIS CAMPING STAGE Festival organisers have added ten bands per day who will play at the Metal Towns camping scene on Friday and Saturday. A total of 20 bands will perform at the NEMIS CAMPING STAGE, “We have selected bands from our musical activities and from across the [...]

SOULFLY AND ADEPT ADDED TO METAL TOWN LINE UP With two months left until this year’s festival, organisers have added two new names to the line up – The former Sepultura member Max Cavalera returns to Sweden with his band Soulfly, joined by Swedish metalcore band Adept! If you haven’t already purchased your tickets you [...]

METAL TOWN PRESENTS SIX NEW BANDS! The summer promises to be darker than ever. Death and black metal cubed when we today present six new acts coming to this year’s Metal Town in Gothenburg on 15th – 16th June. From Gothenburg, world-renowned metal scene, we give you Dark Tranquillity and Avatar. In addition, four names [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

SLAYER READY FOR 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 [...]