Why I Love Metal Festivals 

Going as a teenager to a metal festival, truly gave me sens of belonging to some culture, and it was life changing in the absolute best way!

6:19 - You had the PERFECT opportunity to say "When you're here, you're family"😂😂😂, which is legit how every metal show and metal fest feel!

Dude, you hit the nail on the head will all of these. It's just magic, crazy, loud, drunken, leather-clad magic.

This reminds me a ton of major sci-fi conventions like Dragon Con, where 80,000 people congregate for 5 days in a 4 block radius. Costumes, bands, art, community, comradeship... These aren't just people. They're YOUR people.

Metal festivals are a must for any metal fan. It's the only way we can feel truly immersed in our odd culture. Fans of more mainstream genres can usually feel like they're around others who share their tastes in everyday life. I live in quite a big city (Sydney) and it's a bit of a novelty to even pass another metalhead in the street. So going to a festival and being absolutely surrounded by the sights and sounds of metal for almost a week is an absolute blast!

You're a great story teller bro.

I hope that I'll be able to overcome my social anxiety and enjoy concerts/festivals again. When I first started going to concerts seven years ago I loved it, I went very early and would get to the barricade and it felt like there was no one there accept for the band and me. I think when covid happened the two years with no shows did a number on me. Now I'm self-concious about going alone, especially at a festival. Most of the people that talk to me always comment on it and I hate it. They always say it in a way that implies I should feel bad about being alone. I still go to festivals but it's just not the same anymore. And meeting people is so hard, even when I can chat with someone I feel like no one likes me enough to hang out later or spend the next day together. And the worst part is people talk to me ALL THE TIME, like I guess I have an approachable face but then I open my mouth and ruin it. I *really* want to go to Hellfest, Wacken, Slam Dunk, and many other festivals in Europe/UK because I know they'll be so much more fun than American festivals, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to spend the travel money if I'm not sure I'll be able to mingle properly. I hope I can get over this soon

This year is my first time going to Wacken. So excited and your videos are giving complete overview and great tips of what to prepare. Thanks alot

People don’t understand my love for this type of thing but you were spot on with why I love it, going to any rock or metal concert is like therapy for me. I’m a pretty big introvert so it’s hard to find people that want to go to festivals let alone a concert and I feel awkward if I was to go by myself because I’m not a social butterfly, but when I’m at a show or even driving to one it feels like I’m top of the world. I feel at peace, I feel like life can’t get any better, that’s why I try to make it to at least one show a year but that’s just not enough and what friends I do have aren’t into it as much as I am. So it’s just a “meh I’d rather spend my money doing something else” 🙁. I have yet to make it to one of those multi day festivals, my dream is going to hellfest but that’s overseas so who knows if that will ever happen. Anyways I love you all and keep rocking! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

Bruh you need wayy more subscribers

In a couple of weeks i will take a bunch of Portuguese friends, a caravan and we will travel through spain and france to my first hellfest. Such a dream for us.

I always used to go to Graspop solo, because most of my friends weren't metalheads. Everyone was always so shocked and scared for me "you dare to go there alone??", but I've never felt more comfortable and at ease than there. I then also met my now-husband there, so my solo days are over. No regret picking that up along the way.

I'm relatively new to your channel but I'm so glad I came across your videos. Been a longtime metalhead but never was able to go to any metal festivals just because I felt intimidated by all the options. You've inspired me to take some risks, rock on brother 🤟🏾

loving the videos wyatt!! clicked on this as soon as it popped up.

My band is playing with your band next month, can't wait to check y'all out!

Thanks I needed this! Heading to a festival this weekend

I can say the exact same thing about goth/industrial/dark wave festivals! Best of luck to your band!

I've been to Sweden Rock Festival every year since 2008, when I went first time with my dad when I was 11 years old. First 4 years were just 1 day tickets with dad, but when I hit 15 and went there first time alone with my friends for the entire festival, it completely changed me. Since 15, I've been there the entire week up til the current age of 26 with the same group of friends, it's a tradition now, we talk about the festival months before it's even due. The only thing that sucks about festivals is the last day when the depression starts hitting you knowing that you're going to pass out in the tent for the last time. I fucking love festivals, this video nails it all.

I need to go to one before I die, it’s literally on the top of my totally real bucket list

Im going to go to my first metal festival at graspop this year and I am so excited! I am already a seasoned european weekend festival goer( 2x Sziget, decibel,2x defqon 1, pinkpop) but im sure this will be the best experience of them all and I am planning to go to a lot of other metal festivals in the years to come! Thanks for giving me some insipration for my next destinations(hellfest, metal days, wacken) and i love your channel so far!

Damn.. amazing how listening to all of this, seems so familiar, so right.. I'm probably half the world a far from all of everyone here, yet so related.. Only Metal can deliver such an experience.. just amazing.. thanks for that.. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

I was lucky to go to a local metal festival in San Antonio and even 12 bands was huge i cant imagine 3 or more days of bands

Man I would really like to go to a metal festival one day, I don't go to a lot of local shows anymore because the people at my local scene never got along with me. It'll be really refreshing to go to a metal festival

That clip of Tirion made me actually spit out my drink laughing xD

I feel like the metal community is the strongest bonded community in the world. Nothing will ever tear us apart or bring us down because metal never dies, and because WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT!! Metal in the air, beer in the water, fire on the stage, and trembles through the earth

Hellyeah...Wacken is disneyworld for a Metalhead 🤘

It’s so beautiful to be in a metal environment!!!

My wife were never a metalhead, but have still been with me on around 20 metal festivals and loves the culture.

I always feel a sense of brotherhood when I am on a metal festival. Everyone is caring for each other and friendly all the time. You can go to a random camp full of strangers and have the time of your life. You can sing your favorite songs as loud as you can in a crowd of literal berserks and they will cheer you on. Every metal head will share everything they have with you and help you whenever you need it. Metal festivals are the kind of places where you can see the best in humanity, a glimpse of a better world and I love it.

I'm not a metalhead, and hate festivals personally, but I appreciate your channel, it makes good background noise despite me never going to a festival again after the disastrous experiences I've had with them. They weren't even metal festivals, they weren't hardcore at all, the problem was that I am just not built for cardio. If I am ever made to stand or walk in the sun for more than an hour I will die. I know certain fitness people hate that and go "Nooo you are built for cardio you just don't know how to run and walk properly." No Mr. Goggin's, I have flat feet, weak knees, and can't even squat or deadlift without pain, I am built for limited mobility and bursts of upper body energy not for endurance and walking/running, my legs are a bottleneck, my blood line bred out walking, if I lived in 10,000 bc when people walked 300 miles in a week to migrate for food, I'd be dead, period. I ended up losing out on a ton of money for a festival with a shitty "no re-entry" policy because my body could not hold up and I was basically either going to wait 4 hours doing nothing without dying, or just leaving, I ended up leaving and basically wasted money but would have probably died if I hadn't. This happened twice for the only 2 festivals I've been to, and the only memories I have of festivals are bad or not worth it. The other time I was indoors and got to sit for a bit, but still ended up leaving before even seeing who I paid to go listen to. Now I know better. Never going to a festival again. Only concerts for me from now on that last 3 hours maximum with 1 to 5 artists max playing. I am simply not built for festivals. Maybe I'd go to something like 70k tons if all the stages are in front of pools, because swimming is the universal human sport, no matter how disabled, or out of shape, or unbuilt for cardio you are, I can swim 12 hours straight, but good luck organizing a multi stage festival that's fully underwater with a line up I like. I will never understand how some people are able to do stuff like Tolminator. I can't stand around without collapsing for more than a while in the sun. That said the passion and love you have for festivals keeps me watching. More power to you and anyone who actually can enjoy music festivals. Your editing of clips and descriptions of the experiences are always fun to watch and put on in the background. I enjoy observing from afar, but not going within 500 meters of a festival myself ever again.

Im in my mid 20s and have been a metalhead since i was 14 and I've never been to a festval, I havent even been outside of the united states. At some point I know I will go to one, I hope it's not the last time I see one.

Been watching all your videos lately and you've fully brought the metalhead back in me

I think the metalheads are the kindest and sweetest human beings on earth. I have lived long enough to form such an opinion. The way I see it they are people with certain emotional and spiritual yearnings and desires that cannot be satisfied in any other way. They are people who want to experience intense passion, a rare commodity these days.

About to witness my first metal festival, Tuska in Helsinki (spotted the B-roll of last year’s event in this video, nice), in about 13 hours! Think it’s gonna be fucking amazing

I still dream of going to a metal festival but unfortunately i cant afford the prices of travel and the tickets 😢 but maybe one day i will be able to go!

This year was the first Wacken for me. Rain.....mud.... At first I thought, it'll going to be a bad experience. But now, every time I smell a cow field, it feels like I know that smell... and then all the great memories come to my mind.

Dynamo in the 90s was my first fest, it was also the largest, over 100,000. It was pretty amazing. I used to go to a lot over the years, including Inferno in Oslo, my favorite. They are so much fun!

This brought a tear to my eye. 😂 You’re a gem in the community. If you have a chance, I’m on eye Gee. The same name. You’ll appreciate it, thank you so much!🤘🙏

I went to my first fest this past August. Thanks for reminding me of that rush and how god-damn much I NEED to go back, and add another to my list!

Metal festivals are life, this year my first time going to Download festival and Bloodstock in August, will be 4 days of rock/metal, head banging, moshing and having the most fun days!! Cannot wait!

I love this channel, thank you for all the content so far, I look forward to my first festival wherever it is.

Woooooo, love your channel bro!!! 🤘🤘🤘

Metal Festivals ARE LIFE. Literally its what I live for. Thank you Wyatt for confirming im not the only werido out there!

I love your content dude!!

Metalhead hitting metalfestvals since the 80s, its all about the atmosphere, its one big family having a good time with great music, beer and moshpits maybe you come for the big names, but there can be unknown gems as well

When I was waiting in line to see carcass, municipal waste, sacred Reich and creeping death I had three different people come up to me and ask who was playing and ALL of them started walking away with a judgmental face before I even finished saying Carcass

Fuck yeah buddy, you said it perfectly. After traveling from Canada to Wacken 6x over the past dozen years, this summer I'm hitting up a smaller festival in Denmark called Metal Magic, and planning for a different one in 2024. Truly some of the very best times in my life.

So true! All your reasons to love them are spot on. Being there with all their unexpected moments is life memories that you can’t get by just listening to the music.

Went to a metal festival for the very first time this year, Summer Breeze in Dinkelsbühl, Germany, it was just such an amazing experience, so much amazing music, great people, amazing atmosphere, great experience :)

I do inkcarciration and louder than life every year and love it. It can be stressful at times but its the best moment to unwind.

Hey Wyatt, got the festival blues big time and found your channel, it's awesome and just the kind of thing a metal-head festival goer needs. Big Props for travelling all the way from across the world to European festivals. Cheers!

Finances have gotten in the way for a while, but I absolutely plan to make it to one of these festivals one day. I think your video on Hellfest has convinced me that I should be prioritizing it if I can make it happen. Metal is so much fun man. Just saw Goatwhore play at one of our local venues earlier this week, and all the openers were local bands. It's so cool how supportive this community is of each other. Long live metal!

Just saw Pantera last night for the first time in my life. I will forever be grateful that I was able to yel RE-SPECT, WALK, with a bunch of other people.

great vids dude

💯 spot on🤘metal festivals are a total stress free recharge...

You nailed it again🤘

Hey im one of the wasted longhairs that smells like dead dogs

Randomly finding these vids is like a divine intervention... my first download festival in less than 2 weeks and i cant fucking wait!!!!! Been to Amsterdam for sensation twice but this will be the first full on festival.

Download in 2 weeks my first time can’t wait.

you had me at shopping trolley demo derbies

Currently watching this video and I’m excited to be attending day one of Northwest Terrorfest here in Seattle. This 5th installment has one of my favorite lineups to date! 🤘🏾

I’m heading to my first large festival blue ridge this year is so stack I can’t wait!!!!

I'm going to the blue ridge festival in Virginia in September with my daughter and best friend .I can't wait 🤘

Going to sonic temple festival tomorrow can’t wait !!

In my mind a metal festival is heaven. Like you said it's spiritual

This guy gets it!

I went to aftershock for my first festival and it was so awesome, i made so many friends at the barricade and i got so beat up during the headliners set. Still, i had such a good time, i only wish i could’ve stayed all the days.

Man, I can't imagine traveling that much for festivals. I'm going overseas for a festival for the first time for Radar Festival in the UK, and I already thought that was wild. If the lineup next year looks anything like this one next year, I'll probably be going back there again

Hahahaha I love it, the force is metal!

Metal is a Attitude to Life. Forever Metal

Dude) I wanna buy you a beer on graspop)

Wyatt! I've been enjoying your content man, keep it up! I'd love to see a video from you about this years Blue Ridge festival. Will you be going?

come to Nova Rock in Austria, its usually a 4 days long metal festival with 3 stages

i live next to Ekebergsletta which helps a lot as they host Tons of Rock there which is a pretty big metal festival

I went to KnotFest and seen Gojira, Behemoth, Volbeat, and of course Slipknot. Great time

Slayer!!!!!!!!🤘

First time Wacken attendance 😅 Flying from Canada. Thanks for the advice 😁

I'm flying to The Netherlands to see Rammstein in 6 weeks from Florida for my 6th Rammstein show. Does that count??

welcome to Finland, ill buy you a beer at Tuska

METALLICAAA!! SO HYPED FOR DOWNLOAD 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Cant beat festivals. Went to monsters of rock at donnington from first to early 90s. Got to see lots of crap but still came away happy in end.

Try Obscene Extreme Festival, extremly good atmosphere!

Ik it might not be the same but i find punk festivals have similar experiences

too bad I have 0 friends that enjoy metal, id love to go to one of these.

I’m dying for the day I get to go to hell fest. I’m trying to make it out to psycho Las Vegas sometime but being broke in Ohio makes travel hard. I’d love to hear your opinions about the themed tours every year Like summer slaughter Chaos and carnage Bloodletting Devastation on the nation I went to a lot of these when I first listened to metal and i met some of my best friends at them. The line ups for a lot of them packed some heat too for like $15

I'm starting off my summer with nova rock in 2 weeks! but I never go to a festival for more than 1 day. call me old but that's how did it since I was a teen. this year I'm gonna get up at 9 and take 2 trains and a bus to get there between 12 and 1pm. and after it's over I take the train home and go to bed at 4am. that's more than enough for me. also the lineup is never good enough to stay for 3 or 4 days^^ also... shit's expensive lmao

Come to Tuska!

Some metal festivals sellout quick. Better get your ticket fast or get on the waitlist and hope you get that ticket. Research is important.

9th time Wacken for me this year! Just love it, best festival on the fcking world :)

I live near Download but always so hesitant to go because my buddies aren't into the music, so it would literally just be on my lonesome. No idea what that's like for a singular person, but this at least means I can get adopted by some random Norwegian if I'm lost.

Your first fest will be want to see these bands, your next metal fest will be I want to see these people also I get to see these bands.

this is how I feel about Dubstep/Bass festivals, bassheads and metalheads are one in the same (I fucking love metal too lol)

Q: Could Margot Robbie possibly be any more attractive? Robbie: "I genuinely like [metal music]." **Sharp inhale....**

This guy is 100 procent right😎🤘🎸on everyting he saying

Greatest video on YT? 🎸

Hi, loving your videos so far. Just curious what Mexican Festival have you being?

For me a Metal festival is rated in a specific order. 1. The People/Audience 2. The Toilets 3. The Food 4. The Bands 5. The Beer Sponsor

You are still pretty young just like me, but have you noticed any major changes other than fetivals getting bigger and more expenive. Personally I've notice a lot more families and kids these days. At least here in Finland. Also did you ever discover a smaller band that asbolutely blew your mind and you've been a huge fan ever since? These days it's just so easy to check out what kind of music everyone plays even before the festival through spotify or youtube. Old days you'd have to buy an album if it was available. Must of been really fun times when you had absolutely no idea what was ahead of you :)

Sadly, the free-of-judgement thing is rather new in my experience :/ People used to shame me for whistling e.g. in the 2000s. Also, Deathgasm!! \m/

Looking at the view count on this video compared to the view count on its more negative counterpart is kind of depressing