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Metal News for July 18, 2021

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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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