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
2004–2012: 2 days
2013–2016: 3 days

| genre = Heavy metal, hardcore punk

| website = [http://www.metaltown.se/in-english/ Metaltown In English]

}}

The Metaltown festival was a three-day festival featuring 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.{{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}} An indoor revival was held in 2016 at Trädgår'n.{{cite web|url=http://metaltown.se/|title=Metaltown Indoors|publisher=Metaltown|accessdate=7 January 2019}} An attempted revival in 2020 to be held at Frihamnen was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{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}}{{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}}

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 – Stonegard

=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=

File:Metaltown 2009, Slipknot.jpg performing at Metaltown Festival in 2009.]]

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=

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 –

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 –

Avenir

=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

=2013=

Slipknot –

Korn –

Motörhead –

Sabaton –

Danzig –

Ghost –

Meshuggah –

All That Remains –

Danko Jones –

Soilwork –

Turbonegro –

Asking Alexandria –

Clutch –

Graveyard –

Entombed –

Napalm Death –

Carcass –

The Dillinger Escape Plan –

Pentagram –

Marduk –

Kvelertak –

Cult of Luna –

The Devil Wears Prada –

The Ghost Inside –

Between the Buried and Me –

The Sword –

Witchcraft –

Hardcore Superstar –

Katatonia –

Amaranthe –

Love and Death –

Naglfar –

The Kristet Utseende –

The Resistance –

Thyrfing –

Terra Tenebrosa –

Bombus –

Thundermother –

Eldkraft –

Port Noir –

Undercroft –

Sister Sin –

Constrain –

Crunge –

Imber –

Nox Vorago –

Degial –

Tribulation –

Eldrimner –

Minora –

bravo metal –

bedeng metal

References

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)

Category:Heavy metal festivals in Sweden

Category:Music festivals in Sweden

Category:Music festivals established in 2004

Category:Summer in Sweden

Category:Music in Gothenburg

Category:2004 establishments in Sweden

Category:21st-century establishments in Västra Götaland County