Against the Grain (festival)
Established
2005
Venue (s)
Website
History
Against the Grain is a heavy metal music festival held in Adelaide in Spring. The festival began as a small gathering local bands organised by Lee Gardiner from Double Dragon and Jason North of Truth Corroded but the event has now grown to include over 20 acts from around the country. Singaporean death metal band Bhelliom became the first foreign band to play the show in 2009.
Line up history
- September 15, 2007 - Fuck... I'm Dead, Pathogen, Double Dragon, Terrorust, Truth Corroded, Lynchmada, Switchblade, Black Like Vengeance, Five Star Prison Cell, A Red Dawn, Closed Casket, This Side of the Massacre, In the Burial, Saeturnum
- September 13, 2008 - Psycroptic, Blood Duster, Double Dragon, Daysend, Picture the End, Truth Corroded, Dyscord, The Ocularis Infernum, Diatribe, State of Integrity, Skintilla, A Red Dawn, Se Bon Ki Ra, Asphyxia
- September 19, 2009 - Alchemist, The Amenta, Mournful Congregation, Captain Cleanoff, Alarum, LORD, Double Dragon, Truth Corroded, Ne Obliviscaris, Separatist, Lynchmada, Empyrean, Claim the Throne, Gallows for Grace, 'neath, Octanic, Bhelliom, Infiltraitor, In Death, Taunt, Arcadia