We have once again been nominated for an award recognising the best European festivals. We need your support now, our guests and friends. You can cast your vote using the link below in the second category, i.e. the Best Medium-Sized Festival.
Metal is a very broad category, a multilayered musical genre within which there’s space for rock’n’roll hits and sonic apocalypse of death metal, for all aesthetic extremes, for different worldviews and, above all, for different cultures, as metal’s particularly absorbent when it comes to local cultures of all latitudes. It is also, lest we forget, a resilient, self-reliant music industry – with excellent record labels, dedicated media, booking agencies and festivals.
Metalheads scarcely need to be explained this, but it’s worthwhile to make sure that others know better than to believe the stereotypical understanding of metal as only a homogenous margin. Which is why we’re asking you once again to cast your vote in support of our festival – though we may compete against bigger, more mainstream events, we have a fighting chance still as metal audiences are among the most loyal out there… as we’ve come to find out, year in, year out, welcoming you back to the Gdańsk Shipyard.
We’d like to win this award to show everyone that metal festivals are not to be brushed off, including in our part of the world. Thank you and see you in Gdańsk!
Voting poll: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/publicvoting25