Milwaukee Metalfest: America's Best Metal Festival? 

Thanks for coming out!!

Glad you enjoyed the show!🤘

Thanks for the shoutout!! 😈 Would have loved to see Halo effect! 🙌🏼

As a younger metalhead I used to always wish to have gone to Milwaukee metal fest. All the older fliers had some of the best heavy bands in their prime. So great to have it finally come back!

I’m the guitar tech for Thrown Into Exile and believe me, no one was more upset about missing Halo Effect more than us 😂🤘

Would’ve loved to have seen Dark Angel. They fucking rule so hard.

Wow that looked like a great festival. Hell yeah for frozen soul one of my favourite newcomers cant wait to watch them again in bloodstock

Ended up going to Hell in the harbor that weekend. Nice to see the scene is actually healthy enough for two festivals to coexist without cannibalizing the sales. Merch was pretty lacking over there vendor wise as well but it is what it is

I can attest that The Rave/Eagles Ballroom is a very great venue for metal shows, deserving of its reputation and praise. I was there on the Sunday with my dad, my sister, and her boyfriend thanks to some complimentary tickets I shared with them. I wish my work schedule and monetary power let me go on Saturday to see Fear Factory, but I was glad to come in time to see Machine Head and Lamb of God. I saw a kid crowdsurf multiple times during the MH show, and I got a really nice, ethereal-looking pic of Robb Flynn singing and strumming under some blue lights during "Halo." LoG is on par with Gojira as one of the tightest, most professional and technical performances I saw at the Rave. They also ended up being the first band I moshed to, and I am so glad that it happened. I and my group were swept into it like a whirlpool when the first song came on, to the point I took a fall and was picked back up, instinctively moving towards the circle pit itself in order to flow with the current, as Bruce Lee would have wanted ("be water, my friend"). I got splashed with beer, took a couple headbutts, and fell again, knocking off my Strapping Young Lad face mask and my glasses-- both of which I thankfully held onto-- only for a couple guys, including a heavier-set one, to fall on my chest, blowing out some of my wind. I stumbled a bit back to the sound booth where my dad designated as a meetup spot, having just had the time of my goddamn life. It was cathartic controlled chaos, and a very good outlet for the stress and aggression I felt for the week beforehand. I was glad I had off work the following Monday so I could recover, still exhausted and in pain from surviving my first pit. Thanks, by the way, for teaching me, a native Wisconsinite, how to pronounce "Milwaukee." Shoutout to Jamey Jasta for bringing the festival back. Hopefully, I can attend next year's festival and enjoy it more fully.

def looking to hit up 2024 edition - line up just keeps getting better and better!

Best metal channel!! Love your content 🤘

That venue is cool as hell!

honestly at this point may is going to become a wicked month for metal fests in north america, that whole weekend this year there was Milwaukee metalfest, northwest terrorfest in seattle, hell in the harbor and then the week before was modified ghost festival up in vancouver BC which I went to and it was awesome!. post COVID metal and hardcore has never been better, even the shows are rowdier which is deadly!

I'm from Bismarck ND and in 1995 my band who lived and breathed death metal went to the Milwaukee Metalfest as fans. It was life changing as we came back to Bismarck and we were way heavier and faster and better than we were before. That summer I was waiting for Cannibal Corpse but what I saw at the Metalfest was the debut of Chris Barnes new band Six Feet Under. That was a highlight of that weekend. So cool that it has returned. Milwaukee!!!!!!

Maybe one day we'll get something like this down in South America, looks insane

I'm 57 been in several bands to include Marshall Law in Germany. Metalfest was the best place for bands to get recognition and launch a career. I just finished 4 days at Sonic Temple in Columbus Ohio. Danny Wimmer has the best organized Metal festivals in the country these days per bands and fans I interviewed. I have gone to Ink Carceration in Mansfield Ohio many times and Louder Than Life in Louisville as well. Love your vid man. Please come to Ohio and checkout Danny's shows!!! Love to hear your thoughts. CHEERS!!

THANKS FOR BEING THERE

Got to go on Saturday! So much fun!! Hopefully if it happens next year I’ll be able to go all the days .

Wow, i though this was held in a field or something. This fest sounded the best to me when Psycho cancled for 2023 but decided to just sit festivals out this year. If Psycho doesn't return next year i may consider this, the lineup is a bit more mainstream for my taste, but its still good. I would have to agree about Midnight, they are the best thing that has happend to metal in the last 20 years, I never miss an opportunity to catch them, the energy they have is insane.

Keep it up Wyatt! Great recap.

Hell yeah! I've been to this thing many times since I live a little over an hour away in Madison, WI And LMFAO @ your description of the stench during Warbringer!!

Thank you for this. Its brings back the memories of working and going too metal fest. It sucks I missed 11th hour....really sucks.

I live in Los Angeles California and it was the first time I went to this festival last month it was crazy 3 days of pure chaos.🤟🤟🤟

The review reminds me of the ones done by the Metal Maniacs magazine. Bands not sticking to the time slot and some bands only got to play three songs back in the 1990’s. I never went to this festival. Maybe I might go someday. I still need to make it to Maryland Deathfest as well.

I heard of this from RedletterMedia, Mike Stolaska should be the first film critic growler

My girlfriends dad is the bassist for the band Disinter. they played in Milwuakee last week and their logo is in their font on the lineup shirts, Check them out. really kick ass.

Obituary actually requested to play the Rave stage otherwise I don't think they were gonna play.

Great vid !

Love your videos. Greatings from Turkey 🤘

I was down there for night one and it was fucking badass as hell to see all the bands, i had to leave halfway through biohazard because my ride was outside but i was so drained from seeing so many killer bands that i couldn't stand anymore and it did smell like hardcore funk and weed during warbringer...lol

Biohazard was all over headbangers ball in the mid 90's.

The band is pronounced Sanguisugabogg btw

The Rave venue is in a shithole neighborhood but I've gone to countless shows there, including Milwaukee metal fest 07. Lots of good memories. Hopefully the return of MMF will convince bands to stop in Milwaukee again.

Im in Green Bay waiting on a buddy. Day 2 is fucking stacked im on the way!

Oldschool🤘🤘

I'm a big Frozen Soul fan. Great discription.

Maryland Deathfest is tops

Lamb of God as the final headliner of the festival was perfect. Cannot wait til next year

Almost made it there in 2001,me and some buddies rented a U-Haul here in Vegas and it caught fire half-way there.Sadly had to Greyhound home and couldn't continue.

Nah check out Blue Ridge Rock Fest. Fantastic massive lineup. Maryland Death Fest was good as shit too.

My tiny bragging rights is I personally know Shadow's Fall's drummer Jason Bittner ....known him (and his wife) since the 90's...😁

I was there it was so great I won't forget a single moment

Cool report!

Went every year and two stages was a dilemma what band to see

Was there in 87

Positive comment

My homies in MRSA said it was a blast to play. Would be nice if it could get bigger like Hellfest

3:53 J-dawg cameo on the left lol

Nice video, always great to learn about festivals on this channel. Are you going to Radar Festival in England this summer ?

Best American Metal fest? Hands down it’s Fire on the Mountain. Milwaukee Fest has its moments but compared to FotM, MD Deathfest or Stormbringer fest it doesn’t hold a candle.

Ngl I love Redlettermedia’s video of just naming the bands playing in that festival

I like Milwaukee.

It was an amazing show🤘🏻

Sanguisugabogg means "leech toilet" according to google translate

BOGG BABY!!!!!!

Did Morbid Saint play? I couldn't tell if one of the clips showed them.

i was at barrier for phobo

Shedding from the VAX is what today's concerts are about.

Was Jesper paying with Halo Effect?

Brian of Shadows fall still has the best dreads in metal.

I had a dream where i fought off demons by shouting out "in the name of san miguel, st. Michel, i command you to face the light and divine of God, my last name is san miguel. Its was one of the most religous dream ever

I really want to know what the smell was during warbringer lol

Surprised Hatebreed wasn't in this one.

OBITUARY in mid stage ? WTF ?

This got tossed into my algorithm after the RedLetterMedia video about this. Watching whole video.

Phobophilic*

Maryland death fest is a close contender if not better imo

Allegaeon is pronounced uh-lee-juhn 🤘

I've never heard anyone say, "Biohazard is awesome." Uncultured af....

The old incarnations might have been the best fest but Jastas fucking isnt lmao

No way, MDF is way better, there was too much nu-metal/mall hardcore for my tastes at this one

Cool video. Never been to it. That awesome 👍👍 that still exists. Lead singer of BDM Trevor how come no one help him when he was suffering from serious Mental health issues his band mates ppl around him . Shame on them if they care about him they would have help. Not right. REST IN POWER TREVOR

milwaukee more like midwaucky

12:26 Incase you care its pronounced, "sane-gwa-sue-ga-bog"

RLM

Is the 1st metal fest, let's get the story straight, Milwaukee is a shit city, crime filled, though I would have loved to be at metal fest, it's been so long, last time I was there Enslaved and Naglafar played. And Goatwhore is black Thrash Metal, and are phenomenal live.

Total crap as far as im concerned. I played with one of the pioneers of Pop Metal in the sixties ,The Vagrants featuring guitar legend Leslie West.We played real music. Just check out The Geat Lost Album on Arista . Sorry guys. Maybe im just getting old ROGER MANSOUR former Leslie West Vagrants Drummer

F Machine Head Rappin Robbo is the definition of a poser

The Rave is such a awesome concert complex, just wish it had some A/C. I have seen some amazing shows there, from Mudvayne playing the 200 person capacity rave bar, to Slayer playing the huge ballroom

This was my first metal fest I attended and I was super satisfied about everything, walked out bloody with no regrets. Love to go back to it again next year.🤘

My band played this fest many times in the 90s. Plus we played the Rave years later as a normal gig. Always rocknroll debauchery to be had in Milwaukee. Best times of my life.

Man I wish I could have gone. This sounds like such a good time

Back in 1990 (I think) I was in 10th grade and my first show was the first show of Broken Hope. A few older kids in my high school were in the band. It was at the Libertyville, IL VFW and I didn't really consider it a big deal. They opened for a couple of bands, one of which was "Prisoner." According to Wikipedia, they eventually morphed into Jungle Rot. Hard to believe that all these years later these bands still exist and getting great reviews. I live on the other side of the planet where metal shows are very rare (we have Vader in Bangkok this week however). I would have loved to see the return of the Milwaukee Metalfest!

Whoah, nice coverage and seemingly a great, nice festival! 🤩 Truth be told, this may be the first festival in the US that makes me think about flying from Germany to Milwaukee. Yes, we have tons of metal festivals here in Germany (Europe in general), but that 3-stage indoor concept in Milwaukee and the line-up is pretty awesome. I just think they could mix a bit more Metal genres in, not just Death Metal but some bits of Black Metal, too...😅

This festival in 2000 was Children of Bodom's first American appearance so it is definitely great

lol it's PhobophiLIC

I was also the Fest and made video on it too! It's great to see this festival return and offer a great metal fest experience on U.S. soil

Great video Wyatt and yes I remember the smell during warbringer

Bruh, that guy with cluttered patch table is chill af. Ran into him at 4 other US fests.

I took my non metal head girlfriend to see Dark tranquillity and her biggest takeaway was how happy Mikeal stanne looked and how much he was smiling. 😄

This lineup kinda reminds me of the metal shows and one festival I went to last year. I'm from Philadelphia, so every year, they have the Decibel Metal & Beer Festival. It was two days and had a lineup very similar to this, but they like to throw in black metal and more avant-garde metal bands. I saw Frozen Soul, Undeath, Phobophilic, Incantation, Gorguts, Mizmor, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Suicidal Tendencies were the two headliners. And on separate tours later that year, I saw Obituary with Immolation and Unearth with Revocation (my favorite extreme metal band.)

Isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?

I love your Videos

Thank you for the coverage! I saw The Halo Effect in Montréal a few days before MMF, and they were spectacular!

This would have been killer to attend!!!! Thanks for the doc vid man!!!!!! HORNZ UP ALWAYZ!!! CHEERZ!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🍺🍺🍺🍺☠☠🔥🔥☠☠🍺🍺🍺🍺🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎶🎶🖤🖤🎶🎶💯💯

I was there all 3 days and my god was it a great time. Getting to see Dying Fetus, Napalm Death, Lamb Of God, Misery Index, and many more was a dream come true. This vid is a great summery of my experience. I think a good way to fix the set-time probably is to have a few less bands next year. In any case, that weekend was fire

Biohazard is awesome. Seeing them in 2 weeks in NY. First time original line up has been together since 01

Jeffery was my brother in law We listened to metal and smoked weed

Definitely the best 🤘

very enjoyable to watch thanks wish i could go to something like this