Metaltown

{{Infobox music festival | | music_festival_name = Metaltown | image = Metaltown 2011-Black Stage.jpg | image_size = 300 | caption = The Black Stage, one of the two main stages, in 2011 | location = [[Gothenburg]], Sweden | years_active = 2004–2016 | dates = June–July<br> 2004–2012: 2 days<br> 2013–2016: 3 days | genre = [[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]], [[hardcore punk]] | website = [http://www.metaltown.se/in-english/ Metaltown In English] }}

{{Coord|57.71751|N|11.95825|E|display=title}} The '''Metaltown''' festival was a three-day festival featuring [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] bands, held in [[Gothenburg]], Sweden. It was arranged annually from 2004 to 2013.

The original Metaltown venue was at [[Frihamnen]], but was moved in 2011 to Göteborg Galopp close to [[Gothenburg City Airport]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Strage |first=Fredrik |date=19 June 2011 |title=Metaltown del 1 |url=https://www.dn.se/blogg/pa-stan/2011/06/19/metaltown-del-1-3638/ |access-date=19 May 2025 |work=[[Dagens Nyheter]] |language=sv}}</ref> An indoor revival was held in 2016 at Trädgår'n.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://metaltown.se/|title=Metaltown Indoors|publisher=Metaltown|accessdate=7 January 2019}}</ref> An attempted revival in 2020 to be held at Frihamnen was canceled due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Risenfors |first=Kristian |date=24 February 2020 |title=Metaltown återuppstår från det döda |url=https://www.mitti.se/nyheter/metaltown-ateruppstar-fran-det-doda-6.96.27974.6367df4827 |access-date=19 May 2025 |work=Mitt i Göteborg}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rosenström |first=Anna |date=8 August 2020 |title=Metaltowns uppgång, fall och inställda comeback |url=https://www.gp.se/kultur/metaltowns-uppgang-fall-och-installda-comeback.12291076-35de-4337-9d95-4fa4f960899c |access-date=19 May 2025 |work=[[Göteborgs-Posten]] |language=sv}}</ref>

== 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 (band)|Debase]] – [[Notre Dame (band)|Notre Dame]]

===2005=== [[Apocalyptica]] – [[Dark Tranquillity]] – [[Hanoi Rocks]] – [[HammerFall]] – [[Rammstein]] – [[Beseech]] – [[Enter the Hunt]] – [[Tiamat (band)|Tiamat]] – [[Sentenced]] – [[Nine (band)|Nine]] – [[All Ends]] – [[Kakaphonia]] – [[Hell N' Diesel]]

===2006=== [[Cradle of Filth]] – [[Danko Jones]] – [[Electric Earth]] – [[Engel (band)|Engel]] – [[Enter the Hunt]] – [[Entombed (band)|Entombed]] – [[Evergrey]] – [[Fingerspitzengefühl]] – [[Khoma]] – [[Manimal (band)|Manimal]] – [[Motörhead]] – [[Opeth]] – [[Satyricon (band)|Satyricon]] – [[Soilwork]] – [[Sparzanza]] – [[The Haunted (Swedish band)|The Haunted]] – [[Tool (band)|Tool]] – Stonegard

===2007=== [[Slayer]] – [[Mastodon (band)|Mastodon]] – [[Machine Head (band)|Machine Head]] – [[Meshuggah]] – [[Raised Fist]] – [[Nine (band)|Nine]] – [[Cult of Luna]] – [[Hardcore Superstar]] – [[Sturm und Drang]] – [[Sonic Syndicate]] – [[Marduk (band)|Marduk]] – [[Ill Niño]] – [[Candlemass (band)|Candlemass]] – [[Entombed (band)|Entombed]]

===2008=== [[In Flames]] – [[Cavalera Conspiracy]] – [[Nightwish]] – [[Chris Cornell]] (cancelled) – [[Monster Magnet]] – [[Dimmu Borgir]] – [[Danko Jones]] – [[Bullet for My Valentine]] – [[Converge (band)|Converge]] – [[Dark Tranquillity]] – [[Finntroll]] – [[Hardcore Superstar]] – [[Sabaton (band)|Sabaton]] – [[Soilwork]] – [[Tiamat (band)|Tiamat]] – [[Amon Amarth]] – [[Clutch (band)|Clutch]] – [[Job for a Cowboy]] (cancelled) – [[Opeth]] (cancelled) – [[Killswitch Engage]] – [[Nifelheim]] – [[Die Mannequin]] – [[Graveyard (band)|Graveyard]] – [[Sonic Syndicate]] – [[Lillasyster]] – [[Path of No Return]] – [[Sic (band)|Sic]] – [[Witchcraft (band)|Witchcraft]] – [[Cimmerian Dome]] – [[Dr. Livingdead]] – [[Keld (band)|Keld]] – [[Torture Division]] – [[Dead by April]] – [[Avatar (Swedish band)|Avatar]] – [[Marionette (band)|Marionette]] – [[Satyricon (band)|Satyricon]] – The Brother Grim Side Show

===2009=== [[File:Metaltown 2009, Slipknot.jpg|thumb|400px|right|[[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]] performing at Metaltown Festival in 2009.]] [[All Hell (band)|All Hell]] – [[All That Remains (band)|All That Remains]] – [[August Burns Red]] – [[Bring Me the Horizon]] – [[Bullet (Swedish band)|Bullet]] – [[Children of Bodom]] – [[Cult of Luna]] – [[Dead by April]] – [[Dir En Grey]] – [[Disturbed (band)|Disturbed]] – [[DragonForce]] – [[Evergrey]] – [[Girugamesh]] – [[Hatesphere]] – [[Hellzapoppin' (band)|Hellzapoppin']] – [[Illfigure]] – [[Marilyn Manson]] – [[Meshuggah]] – [[Mucc]] – [[Municipal Waste (band)|Municipal Waste]] – [[Mustasch]] – [[My Dying Bride]] – [[Napalm Death]] – [[Opeth]] – [[Pain (musical project)|Pain]] – [[Pilgrimz]] – [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]] – [[Sterbhaus]] – [[Trivium (band)|Trivium]] – [[The Haunted (Swedish band)|The Haunted]] – [[Volbeat]]

===2010=== [[69 Eyes]] – [[Adept (band)|Adept]] – [[Amon Amarth]] – [[Between the Buried and Me]] – [[Bleeding Through]] – [[Brian Welch|Brian "Head" Welch]] – [[Bullet for My Valentine]] – [[Coheed & Cambria]] – [[Cynic (band)|Cynic]] – [[Dark Tranquillity]] – [[Dream Evil]] – [[Finntroll]] – [[From This Moment]] – [[John Garcia (singer)|Garcia Plays Kyuss]] – [[Hatebreed]] – [[Hellyeah]] – [[In Flames]] – [[Katatonia]] – [[Kreator]] – [[Nile (band)|Nile]] – [[Rammstein]] – [[Raunchy (band)|Raunchy]] – [[Raubtier]] – [[Sabaton (band)|Sabaton]] – [[Skindred]] – [[Sodom (band)|Sodom]] – [[Sonic Syndicate]] – [[Soulfly]] – [[Walking with Strangers (band)|Walking with Strangers]]

===2011=== [[Meshuggah]] – [[Humanity's Last Breath]] – [[Cradle of Filth]] – [[Raubtier]] – [[Parkway Drive]] – [[Escape the Fate]] – [[System of a Down]] – [[At the Gates]] – [[The Black Dahlia Murder (band)|The Black Dahlia Murder]] – [[Graveyard (band)|Graveyard]] – [[Soilwork]] – [[Ghost (Swedish band)|Ghost]] – [[Volbeat]] – [[Watain]] – [[Korn]] – [[Khoma]] – [[Cavalera Conspiracy]] – [[All That Remains (band)|All That Remains]] – [[Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult]] – [[F.K.Ü]] – [[Deicide (band)|Deicide]] – [[Bring Me the Horizon]] – [[Arch Enemy]] – [[Avenged Sevenfold]] – [[Anvil (band)|Anvil]] – Bullet – Human Desolation – [[Madball]] – Corroded- Yersinia – Last View – Stillwell – Avenir

===2012=== [[In Flames]] – [[Slayer]] – [[Marilyn Manson]] – [[Machine Head (band)|Machine Head]] – [[Lamb of God (band)|Lamb of God]] – [[Mastodon (band)|Mastodon]] – [[Killswitch Engage]] – [[Opeth]] – [[Within Temptation]] – [[Sabaton (band)|Sabaton]] – [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]] – [[Kyuss|Kyuss Lives!]] – [[HammerFall]] – [[Nasum]] – [[Dark Tranquility]] – [[Mayhem (band)|Mayhem]] – [[Soulfly]] – [[Candlemass (band)|Candlemass]] – [[Hypocrisy (band)|Hypocrisy]] – [[Vader (band)|Vader]] – [[Gojira (band)|Gojira]] – [[Trivium (band)|Trivium]] – [[Pain (musical project)|Pain]] – [[DevilDriver]] – [[Pain of Salvation]] – [[Oz (Finnish band)|Oz]] – [[Darkest Hour (band)|Darkest Hour]] – [[Adept (band)|Adept]] – [[Skeletonwitch]] – [[Engel (band)|Engel]] – [[Avatar (Swedish band)|Avatar]] – [[Vildhjarta]] – Skitarg – [[Unleashed (band)|Unleashed]] – [[Primordial (band)|Primordial]] – Death Destruction – [[Shining (Swedish band)|Shining]] – [[Aura Noir]] – Descend – Unpure – Year of the [[Goat (zodiac)|Goat]] – Sectu – [[Kobra and the Lotus]] – Seventribe – Dethrone – Who Torched Cinderella – Alenah – Voiceless Location – Start a Fire – [[Imminence_(band)|Imminence]] – [[Jason Rouse]]

===2013=== [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]] – [[Korn]] – [[Motörhead]] – [[Sabaton (band)|Sabaton]] – [[Danzig (band)|Danzig]] – [[Ghost (Swedish band)|Ghost]] – [[Meshuggah]] – [[All That Remains (band)|All That Remains]] – [[Danko Jones]] – [[Soilwork]] – [[Turbonegro]] – [[Asking Alexandria]] – [[Clutch (band)|Clutch]] – [[Graveyard (band)|Graveyard]] – [[Entombed (band)|Entombed]] – [[Napalm Death]] – [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]] – [[The Dillinger Escape Plan]] – [[Pentagram (band)|Pentagram]] – [[Marduk (band)|Marduk]] – [[Kvelertak]] – [[Cult of Luna]] – [[The Devil Wears Prada (band)|The Devil Wears Prada]] – [[The Ghost Inside (band)|The Ghost Inside]] – [[Between the Buried and Me]] – [[The Sword]] – [[Witchcraft (band)|Witchcraft]] – [[Hardcore Superstar]] – [[Katatonia]] – [[Amaranthe]] – [[Love and Death (band)|Love and Death]] – [[Naglfar (band)|Naglfar]] – [[The Kristet Utseende]] – The Resistance – [[Thyrfing]] – Terra Tenebrosa – Bombus – [[Thundermother]] – Eldkraft – Port Noir – Undercroft – [[Sister Sin]] – Constrain – Crunge – Imber – Nox Vorago – Degial – [[Tribulation (band)|Tribulation]] – Eldrimner – Minora – bravo metal – bedeng metal

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.metaltown.se Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626203420/http://metaltown.se/ |date=26 June 2019 }} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110723125430/http://festivalinfo.net/?page=gallery&gid=501 Photos from Metaltown 2006] *[http://www.metalobsession.net/metaltown-day1-2010-sweden Review from Metaltown 2010 – Day 1] (English) *[http://www.metalobsession.net/metaltown-day2-2010-sweden Review from Metaltown 2010 – Day 2] (English)

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