Metaltown Festival
57°43′03″N 11°57′30″E / 57.71751°N 11.95825°E
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The Metaltown Festival is a two day festival featuring heavy metal music bands, held in Gothenburg, Sweden. It has been arranged annually since 2004, taking place at the Frihamnen venue. The 2011 edition of the festival took place on June 17-18, 2011 at the new venue Göteborg Galopp close to Gothenburg City Airport.
Participating acts
2004
Alice Cooper - Totalt Jävla Mörker - Turbonegro - Dimmu Borgir - Brides of Destruction - In Flames - Kee Marcello's K2 - Evergrey - Mustasch - Edguy - Within Y - Debase - Notre Dame
2005
Apocalyptica - Dark Tranquillity - Hanoi Rocks - HammerFall - Rammstein - Beseech - Enter the Hunt - Tiamat - Sentenced - Nine - All Ends - Kakaphonia - Hell N' Diesel
2006
Cradle of Filth - Danko Jones - Electric Earth - Engel - Enter the Hunt - Entombed - Evergrey - Fingerspitzengefühl - Khoma - Manimal - Motörhead - Opeth - Satyricon - Soilwork - Sparzanza - The Haunted - Tool
2007
Slayer - Mastodon - Machine Head - Meshuggah - Raised Fist - Nine - Cult of Luna - Hardcore Superstar - Sturm und Drang - Sonic Syndicate - Marduk - Ill Niño - Candlemass - Entombed
2008
In Flames - Cavalera Conspiracy - Nightwish - Chris Cornell (cancelled) - Monster Magnet - Dimmu Borgir - Danko Jones - Bullet for My Valentine - Converge - Dark Tranquillity - Finntroll - Hardcore Superstar - Sabaton - Soilwork - Tiamat - Amon Amarth - Clutch - Job for a Cowboy (cancelled) - Opeth (cancelled) - Killswitch Engage - Nifelheim - Die Mannequin - Graveyard - Sonic Syndicate - Lillasyster - Path of No Return - Sic - Witchcraft - Cimmerian Dome - Dr. Livingdead - Keld - Torture Division - Dead by April (cancelled) - Avatar - Marionette - Satyricon - The Brother Grim Side Show
2009
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All Hell - All That Remains - August Burns Red - Bring Me the Horizon - Bullet - Children of Bodom - Cult of Luna - Dead by April - Dir En Grey - Disturbed - DragonForce - Evergrey - Girugamesh - Hatesphere - Hellzapoppin' - Illfigure - Marilyn Manson - Meshuggah - Mucc - Municipal Waste - Mustasch - My Dying Bride - Napalm Death - Opeth - Pain - Pilgrimz - Slipknot - Sterbhaus - Trivium - The Haunted - Volbeat
2010
69 Eyes - Adept - Amon Amarth - Between the Buried and Me - Bleeding Through - Brian "Head" Welch - Bullet for My Valentine - Coheed & Cambria - Cynic - Dark Tranquillity - Dream Evil - Finntroll - From This Moment - Garcia Plays Kyuss - Hatebreed - Hellyeah - In Flames - Katatonia - Kreator - Nile - Rammstein - Raunchy - Raubtier - Sabaton - Skindred - Sodom - Sonic Syndicate - Soulfly - Walking with Strangers
2011
Cradle of Filth - Raubtier - Parkway Drive - Escape the Fate - System of a Down - At the Gates - The Black Dahlia Murder - Graveyard - Soilwork - Ghost - Volbeat - Watain - Korn - Khoma - Cavalera Conspiracy - All That Remains - Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult - F.K.Ü - Deicide - Bring Me the Horizon - Arch Enemy - Avenged Sevenfold - Anvil - Bullet - Human Desolation - Madball - Corroded- Yersinia - Last View - Stillwell
2012
In Flames - Slayer - Marilyn Manson - Machine Head - Lamb of God - Mastodon - Killswitch Engage - Opeth - Within Temptation - Sabaton - Anthrax - Kyuss Lives! - HammerFall - Nasum - Dark Tranquility - Mayhem - Soulfly - Candlemass - Hypocrisy - Vader - Gojira - Trivium - Pain - DevilDriver - Pain of Salvation - Oz - Darkest Hour - Adept - Skeletonwitch - Engel - Avatar - Vildhjarta - Skitarg - Unleashed - Primordial - Death Destruction - Shining - Aura Noir - Descend - Unpure - Year of the Goat - Sectu - Kobra and the Lotus - Seventribe - Dethrone - Who Torched Cinderella - Alenah - Voiceless Location - Start a Fire - Imminence - Jason Rouse