Best Metal Festivals For Beginners
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3 factors actually: 1. proximity to you 2. what bands you want to see 3. how much money you have.
4) and how well you deal with long distance travel.
I can't recommend Tuska enough:
- A mall right next to the venue for cheaper food that also plays metal on the intercom during the festival
- Lovely people, some of the best pit etiquette I've seen
- A good mix of lineups
- Every major hotel is within a half hour distance of the festival with public transit
Edit: there's also gravel and concrete, so no mud!
Also something extremely important, Tuska takes place on concrete. I dont mind the rain but mud is in my eyes absolute aids some people love it, i despise it. Thats one of the reasons why I dont ever wanna go to Wacken.
not a multi day festival, but as a 105 pound 14 year old kid, sick new world was awesome. watched kublai khan, paleface, loathe, trash talk, baby metal, alice in chains, danny elfman, slipknot, and soad. i’d say about 70% of the time i was right on the edge of a mosh pit where proof would slam into me every few seconds, but everyone was super nice and i didn’t get hurt and i had a great time, especially for my first metal festival
Let's not forget about America's grand daddy fest Maryland Death Fest!
I was aware of it the first few years, had wanted to eventually go, ended up going on with life and got sidetracked with Summer Slaughter Tour, remembered about MDF and searched it up because of this video, and was shocked that not only are they still going, they've expanded to a global scale. Had a friend that lived out that way that I had planned on going with, though I doubt I'll ever talk to him again.
Just came back to say that I looked at Summer Slaughter Tour's line-up for this year, and holy shit did the quality of the line-up drop right the fuck off since the last one...
My first multi-day metal festival was Summer Breeze (Dinkelsbühl, Germany) last year and I really enjoyed it and I think it definitely works well as a "beginner" big festival because it got like 4 stages, 3 of them being on the actual festival ground and one in the caming area, which makes it quite easy to navigate but also gives it enough variety, would recommend :)
My daughter went to her first metal festival last year at Aftershock! We're going again this year!
Me too!
This is my first time hearing about it, and holy shit that's a strange clusterfuck of a line-up.
See people mentioning Copenhell in Denmark, but I would also also add Jailbreak to that, a smaller Festival on the other side of Denmark which is being hosted in former prison, it's usually quite well organized with smaller crowd and only lasting 2 days, but also very positive and welcoming which I think is great for beginners
Thanks for the shoutout to ProgPower USA. However, there is really only one stage so attendees don’t have to pick between bands. Some special shows use the upstairs venue during the day before the main event starts in the afternoon. But when I saw the topic of this video, ProgPower was my first thought. It is a remarkably comfortable event.
ProgPower in Atlanta is great! VERY friendly crowd and venue and always an awesome lineup. I've been 3 times, and can say it's absolutely perfect for the beginner!
COPENHELL in DK 👏🔥been there for 13 years in a row and this is an incredibly good start on the heavy metal journey
First festival I went to was Bloodstock, UK - highly recommended.
ALCATRAZ OPEN AIR 2024 Festival in Belgium anyone!!!
I'm going, great line up!
YES
I'm going to my first multi day festival this year at FUCKING WACKEN.
Straight into the deep end motherfuckers 🤘
Have fun ! I went last year and even through the crappy weather and knee deep mud I had the time of my life 🤘Don’t forget those rubber boots and bring a tarp to put under your tent
Haha that's definitely one way to do it!
ayooooooo fucken same here dude!
Same here as well
Fck it, we ball
Another fest on the power metal side of things that's good for beginners is mad with power in madison, WI. One stage, in doors, middle of major city and they give you a food/game break. Also surprised you didn't bring up any of the fests in vegas. If it ever come back, psycho, sick new world, when we were young( ok, wwwy not exactly metal but i'd consider it adjacent.) You can do those as cheap or extra as you want. I think this year is it's last year? Another fest on the metalcore/hardcore side of things furnace fest in Birmingham AL is a good one for beginners as well. Major city, easy to get to and not rediculous expensive.
I've been to several Mass Destruction fest, Maryland Doomfest, Decibel fest , Carolina Chainsaw fest. Just went to our first Hells Heroes and it was amazing. Headed to Blades of Steel later this year in Wisconsin. Taking our first trip to Europe this year for Keep it True Rising, cant wait for that🤘
Carolina chainsaw fest , is that a metal fest ?
@@Jerrid_8675yeah the past 2 years John from Incantation put on his own fest here in NC
Last year I took my daughter to her first festival, Summer Breeze in Germany. She had a blast, complained that I didn't go with her sooner, and wants to go this year again.
That one was my first one, too!!
My first metal festival was fire in the mountains and it was an incredible experience in the Tetons!
Tons of Rock in Oslo is also a beginner-friendly festival. Like Inferno it is in Oslo, but up on the Ekeberg field, a huge field that overlooks the city, but is a short bus-ride away from hotels and comforts. Or you can book a camping spot at the camping that is there all year round. Or you can do like me and just walk up the hill, since I live by it''s base.
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Tuska was the first metal festival I went to with my girlfriend (who btw didn't listened metal at all when we first met) and we absolutely love it! I highly recommend 😎
I have been to tolmin 10 times, last year we went to Velenje. But we are so excited to go back to tolmin. I can't wait for summer. Staying for to the full 7 days tho 😁
I was just talking with my brother about this last weekend! great timing!
Living in Europe belgium where there are 2 metal festival's alcatraz and graspop, thanks for showing me amazing american festival's!!! I might just come across the ocean to see it !!!
yes i live in the whahala of metal europe but these festival's seem fun !!! I might go to them.
If you're from Belgium asgaard festival is also worth going to a lot of local and smaller bands and thé best thing is that it's free
@@kennygeys2074 yeah i know it its in gent. There are so many things in belgium that are cool
My first was copenhell in Denmark! Ultra awesome!
To add a few festivals for fans of Doom, Sludge and Stoner Metal I'd recommend Maryland Doom Fest in Frederick, Desertfest (which has, I believe, four locations, NYC, Antwerp, London and Berlin) and for somehing that's a little more Multi-Genre (as in it's also a pretty good Punk and Country/Rockabilly Fest that just happens to have some great bands on it.) Muddy Roots down in Tennessee.
Stumpfest in Portland, OR is another to consider. It’s been solid for over a decade now. It’s nice and small, only one stage in a small club, and 3 full days of consistently excellent lineups. It’s in a great part of the city with plenty of good food and bars. Check it out next year.
Great suggestions, love how you had one for different genres
I'm going to my first ever festival in a few months, I'm excited!
been to a couple non metal festivals but I'm taking the plunge this October and decided to get tickets to aftershock, my favourite bands are all playing and it's pretty close to Canada. Biggest festival I've been to had 20,000 people, so 160,000 is a pretty big step up
Copenhell in Denmark is great for beginners!
Would definitely recommend New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. 2 days, Mix of established bands, up and coming bands, and underground bands. The lineup is usually more metalcore, deathcore and hardcore, but it has had Megadeth, Shadows Fall, and Anthrax in the past. It's in the city with plenty of hotels nearby and the food and drinks are Moderately priced. Definitely worth checking out.
I’m going to my first ever Milwaukee metal fest this year! Can’t wait!!! And it’s like 15 minutes away from me 😂
My recommendation is Rockstadt Extreme Fest in Romania with an insane lineup this year
Love this video -- also definitely planning on going to 70k Tons of Metal -- the Covenant and Emperor playing already has me sold.
Their lineup is already very good!
I'm going to Party.San Open Air for the first time this year. A medium sized festival in the centre of Germany with a banger lineup of extreme metal bands!
I am attending my first major multi day festival this year at Copenhell. I practically live right next to it and have wanted to attend for a couple of years, but haven’t been able to go all 4 days due to school. This year I promised myself that I was going all 4 days no matter what bands are playing and how many exams I have. I didn’t listen to any of the bands on the lineup when they got announced, but now I have several bands on the lineup I would consider myself a fan of and I can’t wait to see all of them. Thank you for making this video Wyatt and hope you get a chance to come to Copenhell with dark insanity in one of the upcoming years🤘🏼
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One thing you forgot to mention about hells heroes: there's a hotel less than a mile up the road, and every year during the fest it's full of metal heads. My personal favorite is legions of metal in Chicago, but that's underground as fuck, this yeR is being headlined by unleash the archers and watchtower
Also lol you posted this 24 hours before I fly out solo for my first European festival. I'm gonna be hitting keep it true this weekend. They're not headlining, but the biggest band is Pete Sandoval and David Vincent doing Altars of Madness in full
We unknowingly stayed at that hotel for HH. Pretty cool seeing Autopsy and Tank at the breakfast buffet
I guess I'm sort of a festival veteran after 6x Wacken, 4x Manitoba Metalfest and 1x Metal Magic and this year I went to Hell's Heroes. It was fucking excellent. 3 days of killer bands, great venue, decent food choices, and awesome people. I will definitely be going back. Heading to Metal Magic in Denmark for the 2nd time and it's a great, intimate festival. Like a big metal garden party!
Going to Knotfest this year. Hype for it.
I hope you make it out here to Houston for Hells Heroes eventually! It was 3 days this year, but actually, in a way, it was 4 day's because they have a pre-party show the day before the festival at the venue and also free after-party shows at the venue and local metal clubs. It's a fun weekend. I go every year
RIP Psycho Las Vegas. In a lot of ways the perfect beginner fest.
I went to Rockstadt in Romania last year, great line up, well organised smaller festival. And Romania is beautiful!
My first metal concert was beyond the black at kiel week. Free concerts for a week and an entire stage just for alternative music.
In my own experience a great choice is Rock for people in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. It's a small sized festival which is so welcoming for people. It introduces you to the culture while being chill. In addition it's not only metal music which is good to take some rest between metal bands, but also having other genres to listen to. Also it's open air and has camping next to the festival not even a minute walk.
I've gone to two -- Babyklok 2023 and Mutilation on A Spring Night '24
... Dethklok fan :)
My first festival was Leyendas del rock in Villena, Spain. It's not that big but the lineups are pretty solid and the people are always cool. The only downside is that it's really hot during the day, but if you can stand the heat, it's a very good choice
5:29 Vocalist rocking that battle vest with that Pokolgep backpatch. Awesome \m/
I am going to my first metal festival ever in June with Graspop in Belgium and i am a bundle of nerves.
Loved the Wayne's World joke lol
Alcatraz festival in Belgium is also a great one
I popped the festival cherry with brutal Assault and it was amazing. Would definitely recommend as a first one. Plenty of partner hotels with shuttle service for those who aren't ready for campsote debauchery and mud
Copenhell...another festival in the city. Extreme to Mainstream lineups...great fun.
You also have Beyond the Gates in Bergen, Norway.
DesertFest in Camden, London is usually a blast too. Basically primarily a local festival for fans of the Doom Genre \m/ I've been twice in the past and the people are very friendly there.
My wife and I are taking my 2 youngest siblings (14 and 16) to all of our first fests this year in Rocklahoma. Would have loved to go to something like Milwaukee but this one's only an hour away
I don't like crowds as a rule, but some of these I could get into.
2 years ago i met a guy at school who is a big fan of metal (me also ofc) and talked to him and he said lets go to into the grave (a metalfest in leeuwarden(netherlands) so i asked what is that, he said its a metal festival where really cool bands come to play their music so i thought that sounds really cool lets go, we went to the festival and i had the best time ever met the guitarist from municipal waste and got a guitar pick which im collecting now and that was my first experience at a metalfest really awesome💪💪💪🤘🤘🤘
I Recommend Summer Breeze Brazil for anyone in South America, solid lineup, inside the city within 100 m from one of the major subway/train/bus terminal in the city and 10/10 Organization
Adelaide's Froth and Fury. Perfect size, perfect layout, awesome mix of well-known and smaller bands.
Going to Rockville this year's first festival and got a good chunk of money invested so wish me luck
You got it! Last year was my first year going by myself and I had a blast! I recommend studying the map and know that there’s zero service there. The water lines were always short, I hope you have an awesome time!
@@punkybruster1084 hell yeah going with a buddy of mine and definitely didn't expect cell service and I'm glad to hear the water lines are short and it's plentiful and free unlike some horror stories of water at festivals . xD I bought collapsible water bottles to bring in plus I'm bringing my own food I'm camping as well plus my own case of water and energy drinks got a couple portable fans and phone battery chargers plus I'm going old school with a pint and shoot digital camera potatoes pics all day! Going to stay off my phone as much as possible.
@@sawftbunzzz you’re all set! Remember to have a meet up spot if you get separated from your group. It’s an awesome, sweaty time.
Now the long ass bus ride there only thing not looking forward to XD oh and lots of sunscreen
I also recommend Rockstadt Extreme Fest in Transylvania, Romania. It was my first ever festival and I also went solo, it was great and not too crowded. It's getting bigger and better each year with an amazing lineup this year!!! The guy who's behind it all already mentioned how next year it's going to be even better since he already has a couple of headliners confirmed. It's also pretty cheap compared to other European festivals. The festival position is also amazing in my opinion, it is in Rasnov which is a small city near Brasov in Transylvania it's truly great. And it's just a couple of train stops away from Dracula's castle! A few of the bands headlining this year are Behemoth, Amon Amarth, Kreator, Suicidal Tendencies, DEP, Saxon, Hatebreed, Exodus and many others.
I am going to this one. first time flying out to europe for a multi-day fest, so we'll see how that turns out
@@nandometal612 hope you have a great time? where are you flying from if you don’t mind saying?
@@venus2774 australia. its almost a day of travel in total i think
Brutal assult is an amazing one too
If you have no money you can always come to Rock al Parque in Bogota! 😆😆😆 I use to live a few streets away from it!
My last metal festival was Metaldays 2013 😃
Just got my ticket for the next 70K! See you there.
Anything by Loud Noise in the Netherlands is pretty good too
I haven't watched the whole thing but Mayhem fest definitely deserves a mention especially since it's supposedly making a comeback
I can’t wait for sonic temple should I go in the pit let me know!!!
I miss ozzfest. They were so fun!
wyatt when is dark insanity coming to detroit ive been waiting months bro i love ur band
Thank you! As soon as it's feasible we definitely will!
I didnt even see the progpower lineup this year. I wish I hadnt because now I want to die a slow and miserable death since almost the entire lineup is literraly in my dreams at night, and I adore them all.
my first metal festival was blue ridge last year😭😭😭
where is this bar show at 6:48 ?
😂😂bear must wrestle its first Russian 😂😂😂 hilarious dude
yooo i actually intended to go to sonic temple before even seeing this video, neat that i made a good choice i guess lol
what about metaldays? haha jokinggg congrats on your booking thats huge 🤘
Im going to all four days of aftershock
I have seen people camping near Tuska...
so far i've been to w.o.a(2017,2019)
part san open air(2022)
this year il be going to brutal assault and summer breeze
8:25 I think he broke his boat
I don’t like people enough to attend festivals full of them. That said, that Milwaukee Metal Fest has a hell of a lineup, especially day 1.
so jealous of everyone at Sick New World rn 😭
man it sucks that I've never been able to go to a single metal show in my 15 years of being a metalhead
Tuska was good back then!
Nowadays it's quite shitty! I alreaydy spent my precious ticket money on to Hellsinki Metal Fest
What no BlueRidge😂 well there were was some good years
Just a heads up to you all LGBTQ+ metalheads coming or already in Tuska this weekend, Helsinki Pride is on Saturday 29th so pay a visit there if interested, unless your favorite band is playing then that is. Tuska is always at the same time as Helsinki Pride so it's always worth it checking out both if attending
Going to brutal assault this year. My first festival and first time out of the country 🤘😅
UK 🇬🇧 Download, Sonisphere & Bloodstock 🇬🇧 For Europeans, Wacken in Germany 🇩🇪
Best beginner metal fest? YonderWays Metal Fest in Yatesville georgia
Nummirock in finland is better than tuska:;)
Here's a random epiphany I had a few months ago: Metallica is the only one of the big four who hasn't played at Wacken.
Loving the content but man that intro is corny
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Steelfest in Finland. I unfortunately won’t be there but a friend of mine is going and I’m jealous. That lineup consisting of Gorgoroth, Blasphemy, Ofermod, Dodheimsgard, etc, is one of the best if you like extreme metal. Plus several of those groups aren’t allowed in the US @wyattsmetal
ProgPower 🔥
I wish I had more time/money to go to multiple fests per year. This year was my first 70k and I had a BLAST despite getting sick as fuck and losing my phone. I really want to give it another go, but Tolminator also sounds right up my alley and I *still* haven't been to MDF. I wish I had money, I'd do a Tolminator in Pennsylvania, the Slovenia of the US.
What is a metal festival where you don't get beat up for not looking like a metalhead? I don't have long hair or tattoo's or anything, I kinda look like a nerd. I love metal, and hope to see some metal bands live once. But I don't want to get beaten up, for not looking like a metalhead.
That doesn't happen at any festival. Metalheads at festivals are extremely friendly.
My first was woodbunge. A tiny two day metal festival 30 min away from my home. I did not stay the night. There were maybe 40 people there. Excluding the bands and the workers. It was really nice and it's a nice way to meet local bands. I bought my first record there