Beyond the Gates is an annual
extreme metal
Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. It has been defined as a "cluster of metal subgenres characterized by sonic, verbal, and visual tran ...
festival that takes place every year in August in
Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
,
Norway
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. The main stage is at USF Verftet, a refurbished sardine factory transformed into a venue.
The festival took place after
Hole in the Sky, a predecessor extreme metal festival which took place also in Bergen in August, ended. The first edition of the festival took place in 2013.
2020 edition and COVID-19 pandemic
On 25 April 2020, the festival organization announced that the 2020 edition of the festival would be cancelled because of the ongoing
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
See also
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Inferno Metal Festival
Inferno Metal Festival is an annual extreme metal festival that takes place every year during Easter in Oslo, Norway. The festival was founded by Borknagar guitarist Jens F. Ryland in cooperation with Radar Booking in 2001 and takes place at Rockef ...
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Hole in the Sky
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Midgardsblot
Midgardsblot is an annual extreme metal and folk music festival organized in Borre, Norway. The festival has been organized since 2015 and takes place at the Midgard Viking Centre, museum in a former Viking settlement and the largest burial mound ...
References
External links
www.beyondthegates.no
Heavy metal festivals in Norway
Summer events in Norway
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