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Aftershock Festival
The Aftershock Festival is a rock, punk, and metal festival held each year at Discovery Park in Sacramento, California, since 2012, billed as the West Coast's largest.
Bang Your Head!!!
Bang Your Head!!! (BYH) was a heavy metal festival in Balingen, southern Germany, first staged in 1996, drawing up to 12,000 fans daily before ending after Covid-era cancellations.
Copenhell
Copenhell is a heavy metal festival held annually since 2010 at Refshaleøen, a former shipyard area in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded by Jeppe Nissen, it draws about 39,000 guests per day.
Decibel Metal & Beer Fest
The Decibel Metal & Beer Fest is an annual two-day festival pairing extreme metal bands with craft breweries, organized by Decibel Magazine in Philadelphia since 2017.
Espaço das Américas
Espaço das Américas is a large concert and events venue in the Barra Funda district of São Paulo, Brazil, opened in 2002 with capacity for up to 8,000 people.
Heavy metal festivals in Asia and Africa
Heavy metal festivals in Asia and Africa are recurring metal events outside the genre's traditional circuit, from Indonesia's Hammersonic to Botswana's charity-founded Winter Metal Mania.
Heavy metal festivals in Australia and New Zealand
Heavy metal festivals in Australia and New Zealand are multi-band events and touring packages, running from the Big Day Out and Soundwave's collapse to Download Australia and Knotfest Australia.
Heavy metal festivals in Latin America
Heavy metal festivals in Latin America are recurring multi-band metal events, including Monsters of Rock Brazil, Monterrey Metal Fest, and Bogotá's free Rock al Parque.
Hole in the Sky (Bergen Metal Fest)
Hole in the Sky was a metal festival in Bergen, Norway, held annually from 2000 to 2011 and founded as a memorial to drummer Erik "Grim" Brødreskift.
Obscene Extreme
Obscene Extreme is an annual extreme-music festival focused chiefly on grindcore, held at the Bojiště ground in Trutnov, Czech Republic, and first staged in 1999 by Miloslav "Čurby" Urbanec.
Ozzfest
Ozzfest is a heavy metal festival founded in 1996 by Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne after Lollapalooza declined Ozzy a slot, held almost annually until 2018 and returning in 2027.
Ozzfest lineups by year
Ozzfest lineups by year: the touring heavy-metal festival founded by Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne in 1996 after Lollapalooza rejected Ozzy, with year-by-year headliners, second-stage breakthrough acts, Japan editions, and the 2016–2018 Knotfest revivals.
ProgPower USA
ProgPower USA is an annual progressive metal and power metal festival in Atlanta, Georgia, held since 2001 and known for hosting European bands' first US appearances.
Resurrection Fest
Resurrection Fest, known as Resurrection Fest Estrella Galicia, is an annual metal, punk, and hardcore festival held in Viveiro, Galicia, Spain, since 2006, called Spain's biggest rock festival.
Saint Vitus Bar
Saint Vitus Bar is a heavy metal and underground music venue in Brooklyn, New York, opened in Greenpoint in 2011 and reopened in Bushwick in 2026.
The Regent Theater (music)
The Regent Theater is a standing-room music venue in downtown Los Angeles's Bank District, reopened in 2014 in a restored 1914 movie palace and operated by Mitchell Frank's Spaceland.
Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is a heavy metal festival held each August in the village of Wacken in northern Germany, founded in 1990 and among the world's largest.