Heavy Montréal, formerly Heavy MTL, is a two-day summer hard rock music festival held at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Canada. It also features events at other venues around the city. "MTL" in its former name stood for both "Montreal" and "Metal". The festival was renamed "Heavy Montréal" in 2014, but in 2023, it brought back the "Heavy MTL" name in its logo.
Since it began in 2008, Heavy Montréal has featured top heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Slipknot. In 2011, a sister event called Heavy T.O. was launched in Toronto, where bands played on different days in both cities. However, Heavy T.O. ended after 2012.
The festival skipped 2017 due to renovations at Parc Jean-Drapeau and Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations. In November 2019, it was announced that Heavy Montréal would not take place in 2020, partly because many metal and rock concerts were scheduled for that year.
Every year heavy-weight bands are brought to the festival like Evanescence, Ghost, Skillet, and other giants.
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Festival was scheduled from 28 Jul to 29 Jul 2018 (1 day(s)).
Heavy MTL takes place in Montréal, Canada. Here is the full address of the festival: Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal
Gojira, Bad Omens, Trivium, Asking Alexandria, Jinjer.
The most popular genres and subgenres of the past edition were:
rock
heavy metal
electronic
metal
hardcore
metalcore
death metal
deathcore
progressive metal
thrash metal
melodic death metal
alternative
doom metal
hard rock
stoner metal
alternative metal
black metal
grindcore
melodic metalcore