Taking influence from Europe’s music festival circuit, Armstrong MetalFest (occurring in Armstrong, B.C.) is a heavy metal celebration that encourages metal heads from across Canada and the globe to mosh and camp with the backdrop of great outdoors of British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley.
What started as a backyard party in 2009 with nothing but eleven local metal bands such as Terrifier, Xul, and Odinfist, to name a few, has grown into a huge success admired by the Western Canadian Metal scene.
Previous years of the festival have seen line ups with Cattle Decapitation, Suffocation, Beyond Creation, Dayglo Abortions, Rivers of Nihil, The Zenith Passage, Anciients, Bison BC, Striker, Crimson Shadows, Holy Grail, Archspire, Cryptopsy, Unleash The Archers, Divinity, Into Eternity, Ninjaspy, Vesperia, XUL, Odinfist, Death Toll Rising, and Gomorrah, among many others.
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