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2021 Metal Magic Festival (Part Three)

One last take on the 2021 Metal Magic Festival… After this, I won’t clog the MetalUnderground airwaves with anything more from the festival, but I will occasionally post a photo or two, and sometimes with a story, here going forward. Parts one and two are here and here.

Now that I have had a week to reflect on the festival, my biggest regret is that I didn’t watch more bands in their entirety. My other biggest regret is that I didn’t spend enough time talking to new and old friends. So, if I had to do it all over again, I would need this festival to happen twice more—once to see all of the bands from beginning to end and once to miss all of the bands and just sit and talk with the wonderful metalheads who visit this festival every year.

Next year’s festival dates have been announced as July 7-9, 2022. The 2022 Metal Magic Festival will be back at the place where it was held in 2017-2019. The ground has been improved so no more drunken trips over the holes in the ground made by cows. Also, it’s the week before the 2022 Gefle Metal Festival, another small metal festival that shouldn’t be missed. Some years they are on the same days.

And now for the promised "dozen photos or so"…

Illdisposed bassist Onkel Kusse


Crocell frontman Asbjörn Steffensen

Afsky’s sound check was enough to give me chills

Altar of Oblivion

Turbocharged giving a shout out to my home country

Wokeh’s Tiago Dias

Traditional humor and horror in the Metal Magic prop department

Ultra Silvam

Slaegt

Hadron

Helvetets Port providing the background music for someone’s dinner

Evil warning the crowd to “take care of your balls”

Drukner

Furious Trama

Denial of God

Dead Void


Gabestok


Dusk @ 2021 Metal Magic Festival

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2021 Metal Magic Festival

Yesterday, and for the next two days, perhaps the largest metal festival in the world for the past 16 months is taking place in Fredericia, Denmark. The 2021 Metal Magic Festival features two stages, 28 bands, and hundreds in attendance. All attendees must show proof of being fully vaccinated or a negative Covid test.

The venue is a new one this year, with a much larger indoor stage than either of the two prior locations. The lighting and sound indoors is really spectacular, but the audience members must be seated.

This quick overview will be expanded into a much more thorough review, with dozens of photos, when I have some downtime. For now, I must sleep and then get on to day two of the festival.

Metal Magic Festival organizer and guitarist of DemonGrinder, Martin Jørgensen

Wokeh on the indoor stage

Rob Coffinshaker conjurs up a sunset

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