Metalstock

Established

2005

Website

metalstockfestival.com

Venue (s)

• Scone, NSW 2005 - 2007
• Manning Bar, Sydney Uni 2008

History

Metalstock was an open-air metal festival established in 2005. It played across the Easter Weekend and was held on a farm near Scone, NSW. The organiser and promoter was Dalkhu Records for the first three events; Soundworks Touring will be assisting them in 2008.

The inaugural event in 2005 was reasonably low-key and featured mainly bands from Sydney and Newcastle. In 2006 the bill was extended to 40 bands including Germany's Profanation. The following year's event featured Mortal Sin and Dubai band Nervecell as headliners but diminshed attendances threatened the future of the festival. For the 2008 event, the organisers have decided on a smaller, indoors affair at the Manning Bar at Sydney Uni. Canadian death metal band Kataklysm has been booked as the headlining act.

Line up history

• 26 & 27 March 2005 - Vaticide, Switchblade, Inane Eminence, Kania, Celestial, Chambers of Insanity, Transfix, Osmium Grid, Isgahaatt, Punisher, Dissension, Transcending Mortality, Aeturnus Dominion, Darker Half, Way of the Extreme, Black Reign, Child of Stone, Leicohtica

• 15 & 16 April 2006 - Profanation, Pathogen, Vaticide, Dissension, Hades Valley, Infernal Method, The Furor, Anarazel, Switchblade, Pod People, Excarnated, Inane Eminence, Aeturnus Dominion, The Ocularis Infernum, Moredhel, Darker Half, Black Like Vengeance, Murder Hill, Inslain, Rather Be Dead, Syphilis, Isgahaatt, Reign of Terror, MurderWorld, Way of the Extreme, Black Asylum, Invocation, Repture, Friar Rush, Beyond Terror Beyond Grace, Fouldearth, Osmium Grid, Child of Stone, Chambers of Insanity, Acriesand

• 7 & 8 April 2007 - Nervecell, Mortal Sin, The Furor, Vaticide, Truth Corroded, Infernal Method, Lynchmada, Switchblade, Double Dragon, Antonamasia, Darker Half, MurderWorld, Aeturnus Dominion, Western Decay, Inslain, Mythyca, Mytile Vey Lorth, Clagg, Beyond Terror Beyond Grace, Moredhel, Anarchsphere, Requiem of the Damned, Chapel, Inane Eminence, Black Like Vengeance, Function Cease, Rather Be Dead, The Omen, Rake Sodomy, Augur, Obsidian Aspect, Head Hammer, Dressed in Flesh, Black Asylum, Enlightened by Darkness, Guild of Destruction

• 22 & 23 March 2008 - Kataklysm, Dawn of Azazel, Psycroptic, Pathogen, Daysend, The Furor, Terrorust, Fuck... I'm Dead, Ulcerate, Five Star Prison Cell, Ebolie, Kill for Satan, Norse, Double Dragon, Grotesque