The festival helped promote many new hard rock and heavy metal acts of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

I think this Bay Area power trio is the best live metal act on the planet.

By 2001 the band left black metal and evolved to a more experimental, progressive death metal act.

He described Katedra as: "that is pure thrash metal act, strong both musically and technically.

Some of the prominent metal acts are:

Many Heavy metal acts have been influenced by Tolkien.

The group has morphed over the years from an acoustic blues unit to an electric boogie band to a rampaging metal act and back again.

Later, from the 1980s to the present day, many heavy metal acts have been influenced by Tolkien.

The band is the only official Albanian extreme metal act still performing.

It is a predominantly punk rock festival, though there are also a good number of indie rock, country, and metal acts.