This summer has been a great for UK Festivals!
We have been to Hammerfest, Breaking Bands,
Download, Bloodstock... the list goes on. We did
however also venture out to a European festival!
We took a short flight over to Slovenia to attend
the beautiful MetalDays Festival.
Hell O ver Pa radi se!
indeed a path, but where else can you do that!?).
The sun was always shining for us this year, in the
35 degree heat.
There is something quite liberating about this
festival. We are surrounded by metal heads, yet
I also feel
at one with nature. Being
from the UK I was surprised
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never too far away from campers
from Dream Theater,
loaded up with Jägermeister. Each morning the
and the heavy metal
beach plays host to topless badminton, followed
thunder that is Saxon. Not to mention Suicide
by men in thongs volleyball. This even gets
Silence, Arch Enemy, Skindred, and Anvil - just to
advertised on the main stage «We are looking
name a few! There were also hundreds of bands
for big balls and hairy asses».
that we have never heard of before, them being
more prominent out in Europe. This is the beauty
MetalDays is 5 days of music, which means
of a festival like this. I know that when you attend
you could be camping out for 7 days - which I
a festival you expect to be able to stumble across
found fine! However if camping is not for you,
bands you haven’t seen before, however being
the town of Tolmin is just a short walk from
at a European festival, the diversity and range of
the festival site. Here there are
bands was something else.
of hotels and hostels, however
you will need to book in
Not only were the bands great, but MetalDays is
advance. Advance flights are
in a location like no other. The festival is located
cheap, food and drink is cheap,
at Sotočje, Tolmin, Slovenia, which lies inand tickets are very cheap!
between the two mountain rivers, Tolminka and
MetalDays is a festival worth
Soča. There is a beach in between the two rivers
looking into for next August
where the water runs crystal clear. People camp
2016. After all KREATOR have
out in the woodlands. Festival goers take their
been announced! Read our full
airbeds from their tents, place them in the river
festival review online at www.
next to the beach, and float on down to the next
RAMzine.co.uk.
beach, where they can buy a cocktails or a much
Words by Victoria Purcell.