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1. DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL
History
The Download Festival was conceived as a follow up to the
Monsters of Rock festivals which had been held at the
Donington Park circuit between 1980 and 1996. The first Download Festival was created by
Stuart Galbraith and Andy Copping in 2003 in the same location. Rather than run as a single day event Download was initially a two-day event, expanding to three days in 2005.
The name
Download was chosen for the festival for two reasons.
Downloading was a dirty word in the music industry at the time, due to
file sharing, and rock is seen as a rebellious genre of music. Also
Download was to be a Monsters of Rock for the 21st century and the
internet would provide connectivity with its audience.
The 2003 festival tickets had a code on them, which would allow
festival goers to download tracks from bands which had played. Although
this idea has been dropped in subsequent years, the festival organizers
have nurtured an online community through the Download Festival Forums.
Initially a sounding board for the fans (and critics) of the festival,
the boards have become an integral part of the festival organization
with regular contributions from Festival Director John Probyn and
Promoter Andy Copping. The forums also provide face to face feedback
through the Fan Forum meetings (started in 2006) and organise the
Boardie BBQ (2006 on) and the Boardie Takeover night (2009), football
tournaments and a pub quiz for the R.I.P. campers who arrive on a
Wednesday night.
When Download began, it took place on the Donington Park circuit
infield as had Monsters of Rock. However in 2008 developments for
Formula One
meant that the infield was no longer suitable as a festival site. 2008
saw a move to the "Sunday Markets" site to the west of the circuit.
Although adequate, numbers were limited and the location of the campsite
meant that getting from tents to the arena was quite a hike. 2009 saw
the festival move to a much more suitable location to the south of the
circuit. Security for the festival has constantly been undertaken by
professional crowd management specialists
Showsec, although the campsite area has had various contractors throughout.
Since 2009 there has been on-site radio broadcasting from
Rock Radio on 87.7FM. This
RSL
broadcast has aired music from festival bands, interviews and news to
the festival site and the surrounding area, with the signal reaching as
far as
Nottingham.
The Download Dog
The
Download Dog is the official
mascot of the Download Festival,
and appears on a wide range of material related to the festival, such as tickets, stage banners and merchandise.
Each year, the dog is changed to a different colour:
- 2005: Pink
- 2006: Red
- 2007: Green
- 2008: Pink/Yellow
- 2009: Blue/Green
- 2010: Pink/White
- 2011: Pink/Black
- 2012: Red
- 2013/2014: Flames
Download 2003
The first Download Festival was held on 31 May – 1 June 2003. The headliners were originally Iron Maiden and
Limp Bizkit, although Limp Bizkit pulled out and were replaced by
Audioslave. Metallica attempted to step in as headliners, but were unable to due to already being headliners at that year's
Reading and Leeds Festivals.
Instead, they played an unannounced "secret slot" in the afternoon on
the second stage, with no sound check and after playing an exclusive
club show in London the night before.
Chevelle
were scheduled to play the Scuzz stage on Sunday but pulled out at the
last minute. Instruction, playing their second set of the festival,
stepped in as the replacements.
Download 2004
The 2004 edition of the festival was held on 5–6 June. Another stage
was added to the festival, bringing the total to three. Seventy-two
bands played over the two days. The 2004 event was also notable for
several last minute hitches. First, Soil got lost on the way to
Donington and missed their main stage appearance on Saturday (they later
joined
Drowning Pool on stage to perform Drowning Pool's "Bodies" and their own song "Halo").
Static-X missed their slot due to a bus breakdown. On Sunday,
Slayer
arrived on time, but their equipment did not, leading to a slot change
from the middle of the afternoon on the main stage to a later slot (and
longer set) on the second stage. Slayer were replaced on the main stage
by
Damageplan, who were scheduled to play the second stage. Their setlist ended with a rendition of Damageplan founders
Vinnie Paul and
Dimebag Darrell's most recognisable song from
Pantera, "Walk."
The biggest news came from the headliners Metallica, when
Lars Ulrich was rushed to hospital.
Taking to the stage an hour and a half late,
James Hetfield explained the situation with Ulrich and the show then began with Slayer drummer
Dave Lombardo playing on "Battery" and "The Four Horsemen."
Slipknot's
Joey Jordison played the rest of the set apart from
Fade to Black which was played by Metallica's drum technician, Flemming Larsen.
The full line-up included:
Scotland
In June 2004 a two-day Download Festival was held on
Glasgow Green,
several days before the Donington event. This had a limited line up
with only nine bands performing over a two-day period. The bands which
did play included the headliners, Metallica and Linkin Park. Download
Scotland also saw an appearance from the Welsh rock band
Lostprophets who did not perform at Donington.
Acts which also appeared over the two days at Download Scotland were Korn, Slipknot,
Iggy and
The Stooges, Machine Head, The Distillers and HIM.
The running order went as follows:
Download 2005
A view of the Main stage at Download Festival 2005
Download 2005 was held again at Donington Park, on 10–12 June 2005.
This festival was different from previous years as the Saturday was
officially dubbed
Ozzfest 2005, as well as an "
Indie day" on the first day of the festival.
Billy Idol performed on the Snickers stage on the Friday night, his first UK gig after a lengthy hiatus, performing songs such as
White Wedding,
Rebel Yell and a cover version of
Van Halen's anthem,
Jump.
Feeder's frontman
Grant Nicholas
was so relieved the band won the crowd over (there were concerns that
they would be received badly by the traditional attendee to the
festival), he decided to smash his green
Fender
Jazzmaster guitar after "Descend" was performed. He later said that he
regretted it, but also said he kept the neck and the tremeloes, and
might use what was left to make a new guitar. In a July 2010 interview
with
Kerrang!,
it was suggested to Nicholas that destroyed the guitar as he was
frustrated at trying to win the crowd over, as their music was different
from the Download demographic, but claimed himself in reply to this
that he "Wanted to do the most rock and roll thing after eventually
winning over the crowd". In the same interview, Nicholas said that they
were "
Guineapigs"
at the festival as part of the organisers experiment to make it an
alternative festival, but said it was a moment of the band's career he
is still proud of.
Lemmy also took to the stage, with former
MC5 members, and
Gilby Clarke, to perform
Back in the USA.
Initially,
Bert McCracken of
The Used and
Gerard Way of
My Chemical Romance were asked to perform their cover of
Under Pressure by
Queen and
David Bowie, but the former friends refused the offer to perform the cover as they had recently fallen out.
[citation needed]
The official line-up included:
Download 2006
Alice in Chains at Download Festival 2006
The 2006 Download Festival was held at Donington Park, England on 9–11 June. The three days comprising the headlining acts (
Tool, Metallica and
Guns N' Roses) have sales of approximately 200–250 million albums between them, more than the entire line up of 2006's
V Festival.
2006 was the first time the festival was mirrored in the Republic of Ireland, as
Download Festival Ireland. 2006 was also by far the warmest year download has ever had.
[citation needed]
During the festival Korn vocalist
Jonathan Davis was rushed to hospital.
[15] Similar to 2004's Metallica set,
Munky,
Fieldy and
David Silveria arrived and explained to the fans why Davis could not make it and played with guest vocalists
Corey Taylor from Slipknot,
Dez Fafara from
DevilDriver,
Jesse Hasek from
10 Years,
Benji Webbe from
Skindred,
M. Shadows from
Avenged Sevenfold, and
Matt Heafy from Trivium. Lyrics from the song "Blind" were displayed on the screen for Matt Heafy. Metallica played the album
Master of Puppets in its entirety in honour of its twentieth anniversary. Guns N' Roses also performed material from the long forthcoming
Chinese Democracy album.
Main Stage The main stage was situated in the centre of the
arena with crowd control moving around it, and was the largest of all
three stages, the safety barriers used at this stage were in a T shape
so as to avoid crowd crush in the middle. The stage was open-air and
named in honour of the 25th anniversary of
Kerrang! magazine.
Down played an unannounced set on Saturday (With the laminates showing ??? in their time slot); opening up the Main Stage.
Snickers Stage The Snickers Stage was situated in a tent,
behind the main stage and was the second largest stage at the festival.
Access to the stage was via a one-way system which attempted to spread
people around the site, rather than all attempting to push through a
rather small space.
Soilwork were scheduled to play on Sunday, but were replaced by DevilDriver (playing their second set of the festival).
Gibson/Myspace Stage The Myspace stage was the smallest of the
three and under a smaller tent. It was positioned across from the front
of the main stage.
Down playing on the main stage
Controversy
During the Sunday headline set of Guns N' Roses, bottles were thrown
at the band. This caused problems after the band's lead singer,
Axl Rose, slipped on the wet surface and a bottle hit bassist
Tommy Stinson.
Stinson threw his bass, hitting one of the cameramen, and left the
stage. He returned after the song and apologised, but warned the crowd
that if this activity continued, he would leave for good. There were
some disturbances but they eventually died down, and later in the set
Rose commented "I'm actually having quite a good time now! I couldn't
have said that an hour ago!
On the final night, fires were started by some festival goers and police were called, arresting twelve people.
At around 4 am, the fire brigade arrived to put out a large fire at the
gold campsite. A number of people had taken the railings that had been
used to separate the campsite area from the path and used them to
barricade the road to prevent the fire engines from reaching the main
fire. At this point a number of police assembled in riot gear stormed
the campsite. The festival director, John Probyn, posted a message on
the official website stating that "About 150 people spoiled the end of
what had been a great weekend for over 75,000 of us."
Download 2007
Stone Sour playing the main stage at Download Festival 2007
The 2007 Download Festival took place on 8–10 June 2007.
The three bands that headlined the 2007 festival were My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park and Iron Maiden.
Through February, March and the beginning of April, more bands were announced in small groups of five or six,
and on 17 April this lineup was arranged into days and stages on the official website.
A further announcement of fifteen bands on 24 April added to this
lineup, and announced the names of the second and third stages – The
Dimebag Darrell Stage, and The Tuborg Stage.
Korn's Jonathan Davis stated that the reason for the band returning
this year was because of his absence due to illness last year. He stated
on the official Download Festival website, "I am so looking forward to
coming to the Download Festival this year. I was heartbroken to pull out
last time. So this time I am very happy to be coming back and we
promise to rock the place! I will definitely make-up for missing the
last one. You can expect an amazing Korn show!"
Download 2007 was
Dimmu Borgir's first ever festival appearance in England.
Hardcore Superstar
pulled out of their slot on the Tuborg stage on the Sunday because
their tour bus broke down in Germany. Download 2007 featured an Indian
band
Parikrama. They became the first band from India to make it to Donington.
Download 2007 also featured the first band to officially perform on
the Thursday of the festival. Scumface played on the Tuborg Stage during
the boardie barbecue.
Lamb of God's DVD
Walk With Me in Hell features the band's full performance at the festival.
Download 2008
The 2008 Download festival took place on 13–15 June. The 2008
festival had a significantly different layout to that of the previous
years in that the festival arena area was situated in land to the west
of the race track instead of the traditional venue of the race track
infield area. Notable amongst numerous changes is that the second stage
became larger and moved from a marquee to an open-air format, located on
a tarmac car park.
Chris Cornell was originally scheduled to play the festival, but he cancelled his European tour so he could focus on a new album.
Twin Method, and
Finger Eleven were announced to play but were removed from the official websites lineup. On the Friday of the festival,
Kid Rock was meant to appear between
Seether
and Disturbed on the Main Stage but pulled out at the last minute, much
to the pleasure of the festival crowd. At first it was announced that
this was due to illness. Rock later claimed he left the festival grounds after becoming dissatisfied with the amenities. But, the following year, Download's booker theorized that it had been due to a broken heart. Rock's no-show allowed the two bands following him on the bill, Motorhead and
Judas Priest, to have longer sets.
The 2008 Boardie BBQ took place on the Gibson stage on Thursday 12 June and included a performance by
Forever Never.
Download 2009
The 2009 Download Festival took place on 12–14 June at Donington Park
with an estimated attendance of 120,000 over 3 days. The arena had once
again changed location, this time to an open field area south of the
race track which was more suitable and less of a walk from the camping
areas than last year.
The headliners were
Faith No More (Friday), Slipknot (Saturday) and
Def Leppard (Sunday). A notable feature was that Sunday had a strong classic rock theme on the main stage which attracted many
Monsters of Rock
festival goers. Other notable performers included Limp Bizkit, who were
playing in the UK with their original line-up for the first time since
2001, Trivium returning for their third appearance and first head lining
spot,
Anvil, the band featured in the 2008 film
Anvil! The Story of Anvil, and
Steel Panther, who were making their first appearance in the UK on the Tuborg Stage. A fourth stage, the "
Red Bull
Bedroom Jam Stage", also made an appearance at this year's festival.
This stage was also present at other UK festivals, such as
T in the Park in
Balado, Scotland, and the
Underage Festival in
Victoria Park, London.
The 2009 Boardie BBQ took place in the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage on Thursday 11 June. This year the band was
Attica Rage.
The Thursday night of the 2009 festival also saw the
Boardie Takeover night. Four bands, three DJ's:
Cyst, Dave KC and Gabber Fox, two singers, a stand-up and a burlesque dancer – all members of the
Festival Forums
– performed to a full house in the End Tent. These bands were Scumface
(returning after a successful appearance at the Boardie BBQ in 2007),
Orestea, Echovirus and headliners,
Silent Descent.
[36]
On Monday 18 May the festival confirmed on its official website that Camping tickets had completely sold out.
On 19 May, it was revealed in an interview with Andy Copping on Music Channel
Scuzz that there would be secret sets. It was later revealed the bands would be Enter Shikari and
Thunder.
On Wednesday 3 June, one week before the campsite opened, Download
released a further 2,500 camping tickets. These limited tickets sold out
within 24 hours of being released.
The winners of the "Red Bull Bedroom Jam Competition" was
Gravesend-based band
After the Ordeal.
This set was a 'virtual gig', with the band playing live from their
bedroom and this footage being streamed live onto the Main Stage at
Download Festival, between Pendulum and Marilyn Manson.
The winners of the "
Tuborg Battle of the bands" was
Leeds punk band
Acid Drop and they opened the
Tuborg stage on Saturday 13 June.
The Ghost of a Thousand were scheduled to headline the Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage on Saturday but the band cancelled.
The Blackout stepped in to play their slot, thus giving them two slots on the festival's bill.
Slipknot's performance is available in their new
DVD (sic)nesses. It was released on 28 September 2010 and served as a tribute to their late
bassist Paul Gray. It was also Slipknot's last performance in the UK before his death.
Download 2010
The Download Festival was confirmed to return to Donington on the
weekend 11–13 June 2010, the campsites opening on 9 June. On 25 January,
nine bands were announced at the official Download website, including
AC/DC as one of the main stage headliners.
On 15 February
Rage Against the Machine and
Aerosmith were confirmed as the other two main stage headliners, as well as 5 more bands confirmed a few hours later.
22 bands were added on 22 March.
This announcement confirmed that Bullet for My Valentine, 30 Seconds to
Mars and Stone Sour would be the headliners of the Ronnie James Dio
Stage. Stage splits were also confirmed.
Saxon performed their '
Wheels of Steel' album in its entirety to commemorate its 30th anniversary. Download 2010 was also the 30th anniversary of rock festivals at
Donington Park, since the first one – which Saxon performed at – in
1980.
It was announced on 16 May that the second stage would be renamed "The
Ronnie James Dio Stage" in tribute to the singer who died of
stomach cancer on the same day.
It was also announced that the main stage would be called The Maurice
Jones Stage after the co-founder of Monsters of Rock who also died the
previous year.
28 May saw 15 more bands added, as well as the official announcement of the
Jägermeister-sponsored fifth stage, which would host acoustic acts including bands already performing usual sets at the festival.
Sum 41, who were initially announced, then cancelled their appearance due to drummer
Steve Jocz being involved in an accident.
On 30 May 2010 it was announced that Wolfmother had to cancel their set
due to illness and they were replaced by Killswitch Engage.
Aside from Ronnie James Dio, the year was also sadly memorable for other deaths.
Y&T
performed the Pepsi Max Stage to a jam-packed audience, marking the
band's long-anticipated return to Donington since performing at Monsters
of Rock, Castle Donington in 1984. Sadly, Download 2010 would be
bassist Phil Kennemore's last show in the UK, as he passed away from
lung cancer six months later. Killing For Company drummer
Stuart Cable, previously of
Stereophonics, died the week of the festival at which the band were scheduled to play.
Ratt were scheduled to play on Sunday, but cancelled due to illness of lead vocalist Stephen Pearcy. On 9 June,
FM were announced as Ratt's replacement.
The
Boardie Takeover ran for the second year in a row on Thursday 10 June. It featured the bands Silent Descent,
Fallen Fate,
Jacknife Holiday and
Cyster Scalpel, as well as singers, DJs and a burlesque dancer.
AC/DC played their set on an exclusive stage positioned next to the
Maurice Jones stage, allowing the band to bring their full stadium show
to the festival. As announced on 28 May. This marked the first time a
headlining band had brought their own stage to Donington. All of the
other headlining bands on the other stages had finished their sets
before AC/DC began their performance. The AC/DC stage was used only for
the actual band, the runway at the front was taken down the next day and
the stage remained empty and unused for the rest of the festival once
their headlining set was over.
Download 2011
Just before
Escape the Fate's set on the main stage at Download Festival 2011
The Download Festival was confirmed to return to Donington on the 10, 11, and 12 June 2011.
Linkin Park and
System of a Down
were the two main stage headliners officially announced, with Saturday
subheadliners Avenged Sevenfold and Sunday second stage headliner
Rob Zombie announced a short while later.
On 22 February, Def Leppard were announced as Friday's main stage headliner,
[47] with
Twisted Sister, Down, Duff McKagan's Loaded and
Trash Talk also added to the line-up.
15 March saw The Darkness unveiled as the widely-speculated Friday subheadliner, with Funeral for a Friend,
Plain White T's,
Framing Hanley and
Hyro Da Hero also added. In April, the Red Bull Bedroom Jam stage and Jägermeister Acoustic stage's acts were revealed.
Wayne Static was scheduled to open up the main stage on the Sunday, but he pulled out a month prior.
Masters of Reality were scheduled to perform but pulled out on 30 March and
Karma to Burn were to play the second stage on Sunday but were replaced by
Hyro Da Hero, thus giving him three sets over the course of the festival; the most in Download history.
Steward 0836 was manning the main stage at the festival, when he
caught the attention of fans waiting for Sunday's bands to appear. Some
friendly interaction led to cheers from the audience, then one of the
giant stage-screens showed him making the "
devil horns"
gesture, which was applauded by tens of thousands of rock fans. The
official Download Festival website even featured him as an artist on
their
site.
Download 2012
On 12 July 2011 it was confirmed via Twitter, and the Download
official website that the festival would be staged in 2012 between 8–10
June. Limited early-bird tickets were put on sale on 15 July. It was
announced on 10 November via
BBC Radio 1 that Metallica would headline the main stage on the Saturday and also that they would be playing their
self titled album in its entirety.
The next day Black Sabbath were announced to headline the main stage on Sunday 10 June, closing the festival.
On 18 November, The Prodigy was announced as the headliner for Friday 8 June.
On 12 April 2012, Download Festival announced on their website,
official Facebook page and official Twitter page that the main stage
will be named after
Jim Marshall who died a week earlier.
Due to the wet and windy conditions on the site, there was a delay in
opening the arena on the Friday, resulting in the
cancellation/postponement of certain performers.
American heavy metal band
Machine Head reportedly broke the festival record for the most
circle pits happening during one song, with a reported 29 pits happening at once.
Comedian Bob Slayer, who is a regular on the comedy stage at
Download, broke his neck doing a wheelie bin crowd surf stunt whilst
entertaining at the festival.
The line-up won an award in the 2012
UK Festival Awards, and festival director John Probyn won a "Lifetime achievement award".
Cancellations
Five Finger Death Punch were scheduled to perform on Sunday on the Main Stage between DevilDriver and
Kyuss Lives!
but on 5 April they pulled out due to "logistic difficulties". Anthrax,
who were initially set to play on the Zippo Encore Stage, were brought
up to the main stage (later dubbed the Jim Marshall stage) due to Five
Finger Death Punch's cancellation.
T. Mills was scheduled to perform on Saturday on the Red Bull stage but pulled out in May and also
Porter Robinson,
who was also set to play on the same stage on the Friday pulled out due
to the recording of a new album. He was replaced by Voodoo Six.
Due to the wet and windy weather, Download did not open its Arena
gates on Friday 8 June until 14:00 whilst laying down straw in the Arena
and removing potentially dangerous signs and banners which could prove
hazardous in high winds, meaning some of the bands were shifted around.
Cancer Bats were moved from second opening band on the Jim Marshall Stage to a headline slot on The Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage, with
Rise to Remain and Six Hour Sundown missing out on a slot entirely.
Fear Factory were also given an additional 10 minutes of performance time due
Cancer Bats being relocated to a different stage and
Rise to Remain being cancelled.
Europe
were scheduled to play the Zippo Encore stage on Friday before Little
Angels, but it was announced at the last minute that they will not be
able to perform due to traffic and transportation issues.
Download 2013
The eleventh annual Download festival was confirmed for 14–16 June
2013. Early bird tickets went on sale 15 June 2012, where a newly
implemented deposit scheme was introduced; which allowed customers to
pay for their ticket(s) over three payments rather than one.
Iron Maiden were announced as the Saturday headliner on 20 September 2012.
Rammstein let slip on the same day that they will be headlining Download on the Sunday,
which was confirmed by the festival organisers the following morning.
Seven days later it was confirmed via Andy Copping (festival promoter)
that
Slipknot would be the Friday headliner.
From 5 November, bands started to be announced sporadically via Facebook,
Scuzz TV,
BBC Radio 1,
Kerrang! Magazine and the personal Twitter account of Andy Copping.
Goldsboro were due to be playing at the festival, but on 19 February they confirmed they would not be able to perform.
After the Burial were scheduled to perform on the Red Bull Studios stage, but pulled out on 17 May in order to focus on their new album.
On 28 May,
Skin
and Red, White & Blues cancelled their appearances at the festival.
Both acts were to perform twice over the weekend, on the Zippo Encore
and Jägermeister Acoustic stages. On 3 June, Andy Copping confirmed that
Buckcherry would be pulling out of the festival and that they would be replaced by
Black Star Riders.
Download 2014
The twelfth annual festival will be held 13–15 June 2014. Earlybird
tickets went on sale 21 June 2013. Between 4–6 November, all three main
stage headliners were confirmed, along with all the sub-headliners.
Linkin Park will be performing their
Hybrid Theory album in its entirety.
Reactions to
Avenged Sevenfold being announced as headliners were very mixed. After a Facebook user suggested that
Dying Fetus
headline the festival instead, a social media trend titled
#WhyNotDyingFetus was started as a joke. However, this actually led to
the band being booked to play, although not in a headline slot, and they
were officially confirmed on 6 November.
To commemorate its twenty year anniversary,
The Offspring will perform their third studio album,
Smash,
in its entirety. Also, their appearance marks the first time in
Download history that a previous main stage headliner will return to
play a lower slot.
Joe Bonamassa was originally booked to play on the Zippo Encore Stage Saturday before
Status Quo but he was moved to the Sunday Main Stage due to a double booking.
Trivium
were initially confirmed to be headlining the Red Bull Studios Live
stage on the Sunday, but following a generally negative response from
fans due to the size and limited capacity of the tent, the band was
moved to Zippo Encore Stage headliner.
In Flames were scheduled to appear on the Zippo Encore stage on the Sunday between
The Pretty Reckless
and Trivium, but they were quietly removed from the line-up poster on
February 26. It was later revealed that they had cancelled all of their
Summer shows to finish recording their new album and that The Pretty
Reckless would be moved up into In Flames place. On March 22nd the
latest announcement was leaked by
Classic Rock Magazine. Shortly after the leak,
Defeater,
who were scheduled to play on the Pepsi Max Stage Sunday, were
confirmed to have pulled out due to their lead singer, Derek
Archambault, suffering an injury and having to undergo hip replacement
surgery.
Danger Danger were originally confirmed, but pulled out on 7 April, claiming that bookings had been erroneously made for various dates.
Unconfirmed Day |
Jägermeister Acoustic Stage |
Bowling for Soup
Sharon den Ade
2. HELL & HEAVEN
Hell & Heaven Metal Fest (H&H, el Hell, or Festival Hell and Heaven) is an open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually during Fall or Spring, near Mexico City in Texcoco, located in the State of Mexico, in the central part of the country. With over 30,000 festival visitors,[1] it attracts metal music fans of all subgenres including thrash metal, black metal, death metal, power metal, gothic metal, folk metal, and even metalcore, nu metal, hard rock
from all over the world. The festival is mostly attended by a Mexican
audience from all around the country, but attracts a large number of
visitors from Central and South America, as well as fans from Europe and
other parts of the world.
The festival was first held in 2010 as an attempt to create a large
scale Metal event for the Latin American community, known for its loyal
following to Metal resembling that of European Metal fans. By 2013 word
of the event had expanded beyond the region's limits, and has come to
include over 60 bands from Europe, Latin America, North America and
Australasia. H&H has been held in March and lasts two days, during
which the festival-goers camp on large camping grounds surrounding the
actual festival area, full amenities, security, first aid, and
handicapped access are provided, as well as a VIP lounge tent. Within
the limits of the festival, a fair is set up to provide fans with
amusement and entertainment rides between performances or to take a
break from the ongoing mosh pit. Other visitor activities include: Skatepark, Wrestling matches, cock fights, open restaurants, among others.
Currently the organizers are conceptualizing a regional "festival opening act", as is the case with Wacken's Firefighters at the famous German extreme music festival.
The event continues to attract bigger names in Metal with bands from
further distances traveling to perform here. Events of this magnitude
have demonstrated to provide economic benefits to the surrounding
communities and regional tourism, unfortunately the local government
failed to recognize such aspects for the 2014 edition, and voided the
permits to carry on, thus canceling the event. The 2014 edition was
expected to set a ticket sales record due to its expanding popularity.
2010
Hell & Heaven Metal Fest 2010, the first incarnation of the festival, was held on Sunday, 17 October.
Lineup |
Sunday |
Therion (Sweden)
Brujeria (Mexico)
Cage (U.S.)
Transmetal (Mexico)
Anabantha (Mexico)
Luzbel (Mexico)
Psicofonía (Mexico)
Anarchus (Mexico)
Thell Barrio (Mexico)
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2011
Hell & Heaven Metal Fest 2011, was held on Wednesday, 11 November.
2012
Suspended
2013
Hell & Heaven Metal Fest 2013 was held from Saturday, 18 May to Sunday, 19 May.
2014
Cancelled 2 days before the anticipated date
Hell & Heaven Metal Fest 2014 was scheduled from Saturday, 15
March to Sunday, 16 March. This event was officially canceled on
Thursday, 13 March.[2]
Before the event's cancellation, the announced line-up was as follows:
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