Metal Blast Festival

History

Founded in 2010 by a group of youths metal heads to support local independent rock and metal bands through the middle east, the festival has been organized annually in Egypt

In two years the festival became one of the leading festivals that supports this music locally and then it has developed to be not just the only national festival in Egypt but also the only festival in Middle East that supports rock and metal music as it provides a full music project that supports musicians through workshops that is given by musicians that come with a bigger background and experience in addition to allowing the opportunity for the small bands to share the stage and be under the scope of the audience.

The festival has been bringing independent bands from outside the Arab world (such as Poland, Greece, Russia and Finland) for more culture exchange as we receive a lot of bands’ requests to come and play in the metal blast festival.

With a plan to bring the metal scene back to life and reunion it all once again and to work to deliver new clean image for the metal music and scene in the Arabic society, and create loyal fans to the festival itself providing them good quality experience and also introduce new bands and talents from the local scene and to provide new blood and open new challenges to the local scene to exchange the experience with and foreign bands as they did the Polish scene and bands in good cultural exchange and branding metal blast in new shape and different scale putting Egypt name and festival name in festivals worldwide map.

Venue and locations

So far the festival took place only in El Sawy Culture Wheel located on Gezira Island in the Zamalek district, central Cairo, Egypt.

Metal Blast Vol .1

Held on the 11 February 2011

Line Up (ALL FROM EGYPT):

1- Karma

2- Massive Scar Era (Band) ( Mascara)

3- Enraged

4- Beyond East

A two-day Rock and Metal festival, held on 25 and 26 July.

Day 1 Line up (ALL FROM EGYPT):

ELECTRIFIED

BLUE NOTES

THE JOKERS

FOREST

Day 2 Line up:

Origin

Varden

Tides of septum

Destiny in Chains

Metal Blast - Brain Slash

Held on the 15 October

Line Up:

Bilocate (Jordan)

Perversion (Dubai, UAE)

Scarab (Egypt)

Metal Blast first Anniversary

Held on the 10 March 2012

Line Up(ALL FROM EGYPT):

DJ MARZ

ORIGIN

Enraged

Karma

Sinprophecy

Ahl Sina

Varden

Destiny In chains

Metal Blast: Heavy Dose

Held on 6 April

Line up:

Karma (Egypt)

Wyvern (Egypt)

Blaakyum (Lebanon)

Metal Blast: second anniversary

Held on 16 March 2013

Lineup:

Anarchy (Egypt)

Crescent (Egypt)

Wyvern (Egypt)

Medic (Egypt)

Exile (Jordan)

Depopulate (Poland)

Metal Blast: third anniversary

Held on the 22 March 2014, co-organised by the Embassy.

Line Up:

Devour (Egypt)

Divine (Egypt)

Medic (Egypt)

Destiny in Chains (Egypt)

Banisher (Poland)

Metal Blast: third anniversary

Held on the 28 March 2014

Line Up:

Black Swan Theory (Egypt)

Medic (Egypt)

Crescent (Egypt) (Egypt)

Mephostophilis (Egypt)

Materia (Poland)

Held on the 23 April

Line up:

Medic (Egypt)

Odious (Egypt)

Inner Missing (Russia)

Dimlight (band) (Greece)

Swallow The Sun (Finland)