# MetalDays

MetalDays is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Lake Velenje, Velenje, Slovenia. The festival has been more popular every year with more media coverage, and has seen bands like Megadeth, Slayer, Amon Amarth, Volbeat and Sabaton and many more play at the festival. MetalDays is also known for its sustainability and ecology initiatives and has won a greener future award 5 years in a row.
From 2004 till 2022, it was held in Sotočje, Tolmin, Slovenia. In 2010, the tickets were limited to 12,000, but with the new location, the limit has been increased to 25,000. 2012 was the last year when the name Metalcamp was used. Since 2013, the festival was called MetalDays. In 2023, the location changed from Sotočje, Tolmin, Slovenia, to Lake Velenje, Velenje, Slovenia.

## Location

The festival was located at Sotočje, Tolmin, Slovenia, which lies in between the two mountain rivers called Tolminka and Soča. MetalDays had two festival-reserved beaches and a camping area.
As of 2023, the location for MetalDays has moved to Lake Velenje, Velenje, Slovenia. The festival offers a large camping area, with glamping and pre-pitched tent options. The location is easily accessible by train, bus, or car.

## Lineups

The lineups for each year are the following:

### 2004

When: 20–21 August 2004
Lineup: Danzig, Apocalyptica, Hypocrisy, Sentenced, Primal Fear, Katatonia, Dew-Scented, Dead Soul Tribe, Fleshcrawl, Mnemic, Prospect, Belphegor, Ancient, Destruction, Brainstorm, Dark Funeral, Vintersorg, Finntroll, Green Carnation, Ektomorf, Noctiferia, Negligence, Rising Dream

### 2005

When: 24–26 June 2005 Lineup: Slayer, HammerFall, Yngwie Malmsteen, In Extremo, Noctiferia, Betzefer, Suidakra, Soulfly, Obituary, JBO, Kataklysm, Ektomorf, Morgana Lefay, Graveworm, Hatesphere, Belphegor, Anthrax, Children of Bodom, Therion, Dissection, Disbelief, Exciter, The Duskfall, Reapers, Prospect

### 2006

When: 21–23 July 2006
Lineup: Amon Amarth, Hypocrisy, Jon Oliva's Pain, Nevermore, Deathstars, Decapitated, Scaffold, Dimmu Borgir, Testament, My Dying Bride, Soilwork, Wintersun, Evergrey, Heaven Shall Burn, Excelsis, Opeth, Kreator, Edguy, Kataklysm, Gorefest, Cataract, Mystic Prophecy, Mely

### 2007

When: 16–22 July 2007 Lineup: Motörhead, Blind Guardian, Cradle of Filth, Immortal, Sepultura, Satyricon, Pain, The Exploited, Sodom, Doro, Grave Digger, Threshold, Unleashed, Converge, Dismember, Ensiferum, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Dew-Scented, Graveworm, The Vision Bleak, Disillusion, Born from Pain, Krypteria, Eluveitie, Aborted, Vreid, Korpiklaani, Sadist, Full Blown Chaos, Animosity, Prospect, Noctiferia, Eventide, Ars Moriendi, Sardonic, Nervecell, Herfst, Alltheniko

### 2008

When: 4–8 July 2008 Lineup: Meshuggah, Carcass, Amon Amarth, Kataklysm, Behemoth, Tankard, Brainstorm, Rage, Skyforger, Ministry, Wintersun, Iced Earth, Helloween, Mystic Prophecy, Apocalyptica, Mercenary, In Flames, Finntroll, Subway to Sally, Drone, The Sorrow, Gorilla Monsoon, Alestorm, Sahg, Hate, Morbid Angel, Onslaught, Korpiklaani, Evergrey, Opeth, Six Feet Under, October file, In Extremo, S.A. Sanctuary, Exterminator, At the Lake, ArseA, Planet Rain

### 2009

When: 2–7 July 2009
Lineup: Hatebreed, Blind Guardian, Lamb of God, Nightwish, Dimmu Borgir, Edguy, Kataklysm, Destruction, My Dying Bride, Sodom, Legion of the Damned, Graveworm, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Sonic Syndicate, Keep of Kalessin, Hollenthon, Hackneyed, Deathstars, Kreator, Vader, DragonForce, A New Dawn, Arsames, D-Swoon, Disease Illusion

### 2010

When: 5–10 July 2010 Lineup: Immortal, Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Sonata Arctica, Obituary, Sabaton, Overkill, Finntroll, Korpiklaani, Leaves' Eyes, Ensiferum, Equilibrium, The Exploited, Decapitated, Epica, Insomnium, Kalmah, The Devil's Blood, Ex Deo, Rotting Christ, Trail of Tears, Suicidal Angels, Demonical, Metsatoll, Insision, Heidevolk, Dornenreich, Omega Lithium, Enochian Theory, Abstinenz, All Seasons Remain, Ashes You Leave, D-Swoon, S.A. Sanctuary

### 2011

When: 11–17 July 2011 Lineup: Accept, Achren, Airbourne, Alestorm, Algebra, Amorphis, Arch Enemy, Ava Inferi, Avatar, Beholder, Blind Guardian, Brainstorm, Brujeria, Bulldozer, Cold Snap, Death Angel, Deicide, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Hate, Imperium Dekadenz, In Extremo, In Solitude, Kalmah, Obscura, October File, Rising Dream, Ritam Nereda, Serenity, Slayer, Suicidal Angels, Taake, Thaurorod, The Ocean, Trollfest, Vanderbuyst, Visions of Atlantis, Vulture Industries, Watain, Winterfylleth, Wintersun, Virgin Steele, Zonaria, Eternal Death

### 2012

When: 5–11 August 2012 Lineup:Amon Amarth, At the Gates, Ava Inferi, Avven, Before the Dawn, The Black Dahlia Murder, Brezno, Cattle Decapitation, Dark Funeral, Doomed, Dust Bolt, Edguy, From the Depth, Eluveitie, Epica, Finntroll, The Furious Horde, Gorguts, Grand Magus, Hatebreed, Hatesphere, Heathen, Heidevolk, Incantation, Inmate, Kataklysm, Korn, Korpiklaani, Krampus, Madball, Machine Head, Metalsteel, Milking the Goatmachine, Morana, Municipal Waste, Napalm Death, Nexus Inferis, Nile, Noctiferia, Nominal Abuse, Pain, Paradise Lost, Purify, Sabaton, Sanctuary, Septicflesh, Sin Deadly Sin, Sodom, Steelwing, Testament, Trollfest, Vicious Rumors, Warbringer, Wisdom, ArseA

### 2013

When: 21–28 July 2013 Lineup: 4ARM, Acid Death, Agan, Alestorm, Anaal Nathrakh, Annihilator, Arkona, ArseA, Attick Demons, Aura Noir, Avicularia, Benediction, Blaakyum, Bleed from Within, Bliksem, Bloodshot Dawn, Blynd, Brutal Truth, Calderah, Calling of Lorme, Candlemass, Chained Pistons, Chronosphere, Cold Snap, Coma, Cripper, Dark Salvation, Darkest Horizon, Dickless Tracy, Drakum, Dying Fetus, Emergency Gate, Ensiferum, Enslaved, Eternal Deformity, Exhumed, Extreme Smoke 57, Eyehategod, From the Depth, Gloryhammer, Gonoba, Graveworm, Hammercult, Herfst, Hypocrisy, Iced Earth, Ihsahn, Imperium, In Flames, Incinery, Inverted Pussyfix, Karlahan, Karnak, King Diamond, Kissin Dynamite, Last Day Here, Legion of the Damned, Leprous, Lock Up, Mayhem, Meshuggah, Meta-stasis, Metal Church, Mouth of the Architect, Mustasch, Mystery, Nemesis My Enemy, Neurotech, Nightmare, Nya, Onslaught, Orange Goblin, Otargos, Overkill, Parasol Caravan, Pentagram, Pet the Preacher, Phantasmagoria, Powerwolf, Primordial, Ravenblood, Rest in Fear, Rising Dream, Sabbath Judas Sabbath, Samael, Shining, Soilwork, Sólstafir, Sonata Arctica, Space Unicorn on Fire, SpitFire, Steel Engraved, Stormcast, Subway to Sally, Svart Crown, Taake, The Canyon Observer, The Loudest Silence, The Rotted, Torche, Tsjuder, Turisas, Under the Abyss, Unleashed, Vallorch, Vicious Rumors, Wintersun, Within Destruction

### 2014

When: 20–26 July 2014 Lineup: Abinchova, Aborted, African Corpse, Alcest, Alogia, Alpha Tiger, Amorphis, Armaroth, Artillery, As It Comes, Asphyx, Benighted, Black Diamond, Borknagar, Brutality Will Prevail, Chain of Dogs, Children of Bodom, Condemnatio Cristi, Cripper, Cruel Humanity, Darkfall, Dead Territory, Deadend in Venice, Downfall of Gaia, Drakum, Duirvir, Fallen Utopia, From the Depth, Ghost Brigade, GOLD, Grave, Havok, Heaven Shall Burn, Helslave, Immolation, In Solitude, Inciter, Inquisition, Kadavar, Lord Shades, Manilla Road, Megadeth, Mephistophelian, Metalsteel, Moonsorrow, My Dying Bride, Nocturnal Depression, Obituary, Opeth, Possessed, Prong, Pyrexia, Rest in Fear, Rising Storm, Roxin Palace, Sabaton, Saltatio Mortis, Sapiency, Satyricon, Scarab, Skelfir, Soen, Space Unicorn on Fire, Suffocation, Tiamat, Torture Pit, Total Annihilation, Turning Golem, Vader, Valient Thorr, Vanderbuyst, Volbeat, Weeping Silence, Within Destruction, Zanthropya Ex, Zaria

### 2015

When: 19–25 July 2015 (bands 20–24 July)
Lineup: Accept, Altair, Anvil, Arch Enemy, Avatar, Behemoth, Black Label Society, Blues Pills, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Carnifex, Crowbar, Deadlock, Death Angel, Demonic Resurrection, Devin Townsend Project, Diablo Blvd, Dr. Living Dead, Dream Theater, Eluveitie, Emil Bulls, Fear Factory, Hardcore Superstar, Hatebreed, Kataklysm, Krokodil, Manntra, Mephistophelian, Moonspell, Nuclear Chaos, Panikk, Profane Omen, Queensryche, Rest In Fear, Saxon, Sepultura, Skindred, Slomind, Suicide Silence, The Devil, Total Annihilation, Unearth, Vreid, Abandon Hope, Adam Bomb, Aeons Confer, Athropofago, Archgoat, Audrey Horne, Betraying The Martyrs, Blitzkrieg, Blutmond, Broken Mirrors, Chronic Hate, Conorach, Consecration, Daedric Tales, Dark Fortress, Desolate Fields, Dickless Tracy, DIS.AGREE, Divided Multitude, Emergency Gate, Eruption, ETECC, Ever-Frost, Flesh, Hirax, Infestus, Kampfar, Klamm, Kryn, M.A.I.M., Malevolence, Mass Hypnosis, Minotauro, Mist, Mooncry, Morana, Ne Obliviscaris, Nervosa, Noctiferia, Paragoria, Psykosis, Reek Of Insanity, Rotting Christ, Sacred Steel, Schirenc Plays Pungent Stench, SiliuS, Striker, Suborned, Sunchair, The Black Dahlia Murder, TomCat, Toxic Holocaust, War-Head, Year Of No Light, Zombie Rodeo

### 2016

When: 24–30 July 2016
Lineup: At the Gates, Blind Guardian, Testament, DevilDriver, Between the Buried and Me, Cattle Decapitation, Dark Funeral, Delain, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Dragonforce, Dying Fetus, Electric Wizard, Exodus, Gloryhammer, Graveyard, Immolation, Incantation, Marduk, Melechesh, Obscura, Skálmöld, Skindred, Bury Tomorrow, Gama Bomb, Gutalax, Horna, Jess Cox (Tygers of Pan Tang), Monolithe, Orphaned Land, Rise of the Northstar, Rosetta, Septicflesh, Skyforger, The Stone, Valkyrja, Cryptex, Dead Label, Dirge, Double Crush Syndrome, Drakum, Gloryful, Hackneyed, Infernal Tenebra, Larceny, Little Dead Bertha, Nameless Day Ritual, Nightmare, Obscurity, Painful, Penitenziagite, Sarcasm, The Canyon Observer, Victims of Creation, Weeping Silence, Blaze of Sorrow, Dead End, Deserted Fear, Elferya, Enthrope, Eruption, Fleshdoll, Fogalord, Halo Creation, Howling in the Fog, Jioda, Kain, Layment, Mist, Morana, Morywa, Mynded, Na Cruithne, Nemost, Nolentia, Retrace My Fragments, Sabaium, Sanity’s Rage, Sarcom, Scarred, Seduced, Zix, Bloodrocuted.

### 2017

When: 23–29 July 2017
Lineup: Abbath, Absu, Amon Amarth, Angelus Apatrida, Architects, Aversions Crown, Avven, Battlesword, Batushka, Beheaded, Bloodbath, Blues Pills, Bömbers, Burn Fuse, Cancer, Carnage Calligraphy, Carrion, Chontaraz, Crisix, Dead End, Death Angel, Dool, Dordeduh, Doro, Ebony Archways, Equilibrium, Evil Invaders, Fallen Tyrant, Fir Bolg, Firespawn, Firtan, Fit For An Autopsy, For I Am King, Fractal Universe, Grand Magus, Grave Digger, Greybeards, Grime, Gust, Gutalax, Heaven Shall Burn, Hell, Hellcrawler, Iced Earth, Immorgon, Implore, In The Crossfire, Infected Chaos, Kadavar, Katana, Katatonia, Kobra And The Lotus, Krisiun, Lik, Loathe, Lost Society, Loudness, Lacabre, Marilyn Manson, MGLA, Moros, Morywa, Mynded, Myriad Lights, Na Cruithne, Nemost, Nord, Novacrow, Omophagia, Opeth, Ortega, Overtures, Pain, Pain Is, Pantaleon, Persefone, PIJN, Pikes Edge, Rapid Force, Raven, Rectal Smegma, Reverend Hound, Sanctuary, Sasquatch, Selfmachine, Seven Spires, Shining, Shotdown, Sinister, Sleepers' Guilt, Snake Eater, Sober Assault, Sólstafir, Spasm, Srd, Stortregn, Suicidal Angels, Tears Of Martyr, The Black Court, The Crawling, The Foreshadowing, The Great Discord, Transceatla, Triosphere, Turbowarrior Of Steel, Tyrmfar, Tytus, Vasectomy, Venom Inc., Vexevoid, Visions Of Atlantis, Warbringer, Whorion, Witchfynde, Zayn, Zora

### 2018

When: 21–27 July 2018
Lineup: Accept, Alestorm, And there will be blood, Asomvel, Ater era, Behemoth, Belphegor, Birdflesh, Cannibal Corpse, Caronte, Carpathian forest, Children Of Bodom, Cold snap, Coroner, Dekadent, Diamond Head, Dreamspirit, Ensiferum, Epica, Firtan, Girlschool, Goathwore, Hate, Hatebreed, Hate Eternal, Hecate enthroned, Igorrr, Jig ai, Jinjer, Judas Priest, Kataklysm, Leprous, Loudness, The Lurking Fear, Master, Metal Allegiance, Mantar, Moros, Municipal Waste, Myrkur, Nordjevel, Obituary, Orcus o dis, Pallbearer, Pillorian, Primordial, Rage, Rotten Sound, Saille, Schammasch, Shining, Sinistro, Sober assault, Sorcerer, Storm seeker, Tesseract, Vuur, Watain, Wiegedood

### 2019

When: 20–26 July 2019
Lineup: Akercocke, Alien Weaponry, Alkaloid, Altair, Animae Silentes, Arcanus, Arch Enemy, Athiria, Architects, Atrexial, Autopsy Night, Bel O Kan, Big Bad Wolf, Bloodshot Dawn, Bullet, Captain Morgan's Revenge, Circle Of Execution, Cliteater, Coexistence, Convictive, Countless Skies, Critical Mess, Dead Label, Decapitated, Decaying Days, Demons & Wizards, Desdemonia, Dimmu Borgir, Distruzione, Doctor Cyclops, Dopelord, Dornenreich, Dream Theater, Esodic, Eternal Delyria, Fallen Arise, Fearancy, Finntroll, Fleshless, Ghaal's Wyrd, Glista, God Is An Astronaut, Heart Of A Coward, Heathenspawn, Hellavista, Helstar, Hexa Mera, Hour Of Penance, Hydra, Hypocrisy, Immortal Shadow, Impaled Nazarene, In The Woods, Incursed, Infected Rain, Infinitas, Inmate, Islay, Kairos, Kalmah, Klynt, Korpiklaani, Kvelertak, Leave Scars, Leeched, Liquid Graveyard, Lucifer, Lurking, Molybaron, Moonskin, Morost, Necrophobic, Neurosis, Noctiferia, Nox Vorago, Obsolete Incarnation, October Tide, Orcus O Dis, Procreation, Pyroxene, Reject The Sickness, Richthammer, Rise Of The Northstar, Ritam Nereda, Rolo Tomassi, Rotting Christ, Saturnus, Scardust, Shade Of Hatered, Signs Of Algorithm, Siska, Skeletal Remains, Slave Pit, Soilwork, Stoned Jesus, Supreme Carnage, Svart Crown, Swarm Of Serpents, Tarja, Teleport, Ten Ton Slug, The Bearded Batards, The Privateer, The Ruins Of Beverast, The Vintage Caravan, Tiamat, Tribulation, Une Misere, Inhuman Insurrection, Voice Of Ruin, W.E.B., While She Sleeps, Winterhorde

### 2020

When: 26 July–1 August 2020
Lineup: 1914, Amon Amarth, Anthrax, As I Lay Dying, Asphyx, At the Gates, Baest, Benediction, Beyond Creation, Cattle Decapitation, Clutch, Cradle of Filth, Cro-Mags, Death Angel, Despised Icon, Devin Townsend, Hellripper, Jinjer, Malevolent Creation, Napalm Death, Official Darkest Hour, Paradise Lost, Rotting Christ, Sick of it all, Testament, Toxic Holocaust,

### 2021 (The Weekend of Solace)

When: 29 July–1 August 2021
Lineup: Moonspell, Decapitated, Igorrr, SkyEye, Noctiferia, Metalsteel, Brutal Sphincter, Srd, Morost, Manntra, Inmate, Mist

### 2022

When: 24–30 July 2022
Lineup: Amenra, Angelus Apatrida, Britof, Brutal Sphincter, Cabal, Carnal Diafragma, Carnation, Celeste, Chains, Cold Snap, Convictive, Countless Skies, Cypecore, Darkfall, Darvaza, Death Angel, Deathchant, Decapitated, Deez Nuts, Doodseskader, Evoken, Fleshcrawl, Groza, Gutalax, Hangman's Chair, Hegemone, In Twilight's Embrace, Incantation, Incursed, James Rivera's Metal Asylum, Jinjer, Manntra, Mercyful Fate, Meshuggah, Metalsteel, Mist, Moonspell, Morost, Nanowar of Steel, Noctiferia, Orange Goblin, Panzerfaust, Party Cannon, Pilgrimage, Rotting Christ, Srd, Saor, Shores of Null, Sick of It All, Siderean, Signs of Algorithm, Skindred, SkyEye, Stallion, Stamina, Striker, Suffocation, Sylvaine, Testament, The Devil's Trade, The Great Old Ones, The Halo Effect, The Privateer, Truchło Strzygi, Uada, Unearth, Visions of Atlantis, Voices, Vulture Industries, Whiskey Ritual, Year of the Goat