Heavy MONTRÉAL

Heavy MONTRÉAL

Dates	August 6 & 7 (2016 dates)
Location(s)	Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Years active	2008, 2010–present
Website
Official website

HEAVY MONTRÉAL (formerly known as Heavy MTL) is a two-day, summer heavy metal and hard rock music festival held annually at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It also includes various other events at different venues across the city. It is one of the largest heavy metal festivals in the world, with usually around 70,000 people attending each year. The "MTL" in the former name, Heavy MTL, served as both an abbreviation for "Montreal" and "Metal." In 2014, the festival was officially renamed as "HEAVY MONTRÉAL."^[1]

History

Former Heavy MTL logo

Since the festival's first edition in 2008, HEAVY MONTRÉAL, known until 2014 as "Heavy MTL," has seen some of the world's biggest and most successful heavy metal acts, such as Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe, Disturbed, Dethklok, Rob Zombie, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Alice Cooper, KISS, Motörhead, Godsmack, In Flames, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Deftones, System of a Down, Five Finger Death Punch and Children Of Bodom, as well as many others.

In 2011, a sister event, Heavy T.O., was created for Downsview Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Both events were held during the same weekends, with most bands playing one day in Montreal and the other in Toronto. Despite the Toronto event's popularity, however, promoters ceased operations there after the festival's 2012 incarnation.

For the 2014 festival, Heavy MTL was officially rebranded as "HEAVY MONTRÉAL." This was done as an "evolution" of the festival, with efforts made to include a wide array of styles in its programming.

2016 Edition

The 2016 edition of HEAVY MONTRÉAL will take place on August 6–7, 2016.^[2] Headliners will be Five Finger Death Punch and Disturbed.

Past Editions

2015

The 2015 edition of HEAVY MONTRÉAL took place over three days from August 7 to August 9, 2015.^[3]

The lineup included:^[4]

**Friday, August 7, 2015**
Molson Canadian Stage	Heavy Stage	Apocalypse Stage	Forest Stage
The Flatliners Anonymus Extreme Meshuggah Korn	Gorguts Venom Arch Enemy Lagwagon Alexisonfire	Brothers of the Sonic Cloth Revocation The Acacia Strain Veil of Maya Lofofora Neurosis	toyGuitar Beyond Creation Cattle Decapitation Nothing More .moneen. Augury

**Saturday, August 8, 2015**
Molson Canadian Stage	Heavy Stage	Apocalypse Stage	Forest Stage
Slaves on Dope Rocket from the Crypt Abbath Testament NOFX Faith No More	Deafheaven Lita Ford Gojira Billy Talent Iggy Pop	The Brains Glassjaw Swingin' Utters B.A.R.F. Devin Townsend Project Dying Fetus	Mass Murder Messiah Ion Dissonance Masked Intruder Dig It Up The Agonist Battlecross

**Sunday, August 9, 2015**
Molson Canadian Stage	Heavy Stage	Apocalypse Stage	Forest Stage
Fozzy Coal Chamber Dokken Asking Alexandria Bullet For My Valentine Slipknot	Motionless in White Warrant Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg Within Temptation Lamb of God	Omnium Gatherum Insomnium Jasta Pig Destroyer Sanctuary Ihsahn Nuclear Assault	Exes for Eyes Sandveiss Dead Tired Small Brown Bike Upon a Burning Body Wilson

2014

The lineup included:^[5]

**Saturday, August 9, 2014**
Molson Canadian Stage	Heavy Stage	Apocalypse Stage	Forest Stage
Monster Truck Overkill Apocalyptica Dropkick Murphys Anthrax Metallica	BABYMETAL Pennywise Three Days Grace Voivod The Offspring	Eagle Tears Mass Hysteria Municipal Waste Whitechapel Protest the Hero The Vandals Madball	Kublai Khan Biblical Unlocking the Truth Whores. Nekrogoblikon Beyond Creation

**Sunday, August 10, 2014**
Molson Canadian Stage	Heavy Stage	Apocalypse Stage	Forest Stage
GrimSkunk Exodus Symphony X Hatebreed Twisted Sister Slayer	Bat Sabbath Death Angel¹ Epica Body Count Bad Religion Lamb of God	La Corriveau Nashville Pussy Cynic We Came as Romans Alestorm Unearth Fucked Up	Beheading of a King Sworn In Gideon Stick to Your Guns The Motorleague Nepentes (banda) Truckfighters

Replaced Dirty Rotten Imbeciles

2013

For the 2013 edition, Heavy MTL also featured a live pro wrestling event showcasing men and women of the Montreal independent wrestling scene.

**Saturday August 10, 2013**
Molson Canadian stage	Jägermeister stage	Galaxy stage	Ring Heavy Mania
Obey the Brave Hellyeah Gwar Steel Panther At the Gates Danzig with Doyle Avenged Sevenfold	Device Halestorm Sick Of It All Black Label Society A Day to Remember Megadeth	Death Lullaby Within the Ruins Blackguard Baroness Oceano Newsted All Shall Perish Motionless in White Wintersun	Wall of Death - Battle Royal Buxx vs. Franky 3.0 vs. TDT Green Phantom vs. Sexxxy Eddy

**Sunday August 11, 2013**
Molson Canadian stage	Jägermeister stage	Galaxy stage	Ring Heavy Mania
Huntress Finntroll Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals Machine Head Mastodon Rob Zombie	Augury The Acacia Strain Amon Amarth August Burns Red Children of Bodom Godsmack	Of Temples Slaves on Dope Indian Handcrafts Structures Unexpect Pallbearer Havok Cryptopsy	Wall of Death - Battle Royal 6 Way Scramble Kickin n' Stompin+Green Phantom vs. TDT+ Buxx Belmar Player Uno vs. Franky the Mobster

2012

**Saturday August 11, 2012**
Heavy MTL stage	Jägermeister stage	Apocalypse stage
Diemonds Veil of Maya Between the Buried and Me Cannibal Corpse Deftones System of a Down	Job for a Cowboy Periphery Kataklysm Killswitch Engage Five Finger Death Punch	Bookakee Dark Century Rose Funeral Exhumed Fleshgod Apocalypse Goatwhore Origin The Faceless Battlecross

**Sunday August 12, 2012**
Heavy MTL stage	Jägermeister stage	Apocalypse stage
Dance Laury Dance Protest the Hero Gojira The Dillinger Escape Plan¹ In Flames² Slipknot	Blind Witness Overkill Trivium Suicidal Tendencies Marilyn Manson	Hollow The Agonist Iwrestledabearonce B.A.R.F. Emmure Cancer Bats Sword Voivod

Replaced Dethklok
Replaced Lamb of God
Replaced High on Fire

2011

**Saturday July 23, 2011**
Heavy MTL stage	Jägermeister stage	Budweiser stage
Slaves on Dope Red Fang Suicide Silence Machine Head In Flames Godsmack Disturbed	Dead and Divine All Shall Perish Death Angel Unearth Trivium Billy Talent	Mass Murder Messiah Straight Line Stitch Blackguard Kingdom of Sorrow GrimSkunk Necronomicon Dissension Cryptopsy

**Sunday July 24, 2011**
Heavy MTL stage	Jägermeister stage	Budweiser stage
Lazarus A.D. Girlschool As I Lay Dying Morbid Angel Opeth KISS	Endast Times of Grace Annihilator Children of Bodom Anthrax Motörhead	Les Guenilles Anonymus Slaves on Dope¹ Diamond Head DevilDriver The Catalyst Gorguts

Replaced The Sword

2010

**Saturday July 24, 2010**
Heavy MTL stage	Jägermeister stage
Skeletonwitch High on Fire Kataklysm Anvil Rob Halford Slayer Megadeth	36 Crazyfists Baptized in Blood Melissa Auf der Maur Fear Factory Testament Mastodon Alice Cooper

**Sunday July 25, 2010**
Rockstar Mayhem Festival stage	Jägermeister stage	Silver Star stage
Hail the Villain Despised Icon Airbourne Winds of Plague Five Finger Death Punch Lamb of God Rob Zombie Korn	Beneath the Massacre Shadows Fall Chimaira Hatebreed Alexisonfire Avenged Sevenfold	Deadly Apples Les Ékorchés Norma Jean Diamond Head 3 Inches of Blood In This Moment Atreyu

2009

Due to the high number of metal live shows performed in Montreal during the year (Metallica, AC/DC, KISS, Dream Theater, Marilyn Manson, Motörhead and many more) it was announced that the festival would not take place in 2009 and return in 2010.^[6]

2008

**Saturday June 21, 2008**
Black stage	Red stage
Lauren Harris 3 Inches of Blood Hatebreed Mastodon Iron Maiden	Unexpect Overkill Symphony X Hammerfall Type O Negative Mastodon Dethklok

**Sunday June 22, 2008**
Black stage	Red stage
Death Boat Priestess Drowning Pool Voivod Three Days Grace Mötley Crüe	Your Favorite Enemies Warrant Shadows Fall Anthrax Disturbed

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