On Friday and Saturday, April 3rd-4th, 2020, Decibel Magazine will bring the loudest, heaviest, two-day craft beer festival in the world back to The Fillmore Philadelphia for a fourth round!
The Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest has today announced its first wave of bands, including Napalm Death, who will perform a special one-time-only set consisting of exclusively Harmony Corruption and Utopia Banished songs! Converge will play their metallic hardcore landmark album Jane Doe in its entirely for their first time ever in North America. If that wasn’t enough, grinding heroes Pig Destroyer will help presenting sponsors Relapse Records celebrate their 30th anniversary with the first-ever performance of their game-changing record Prowler in the Yard!
The already-stacked lineup also includes Norwegian black metal godfathers Mayhem, with first-time appearances from New Wave of British Heavy Metal heroes Satan, heavy metal revivalists Night Demon, quickly rising old-schoolers Haunt, New England doom lords Magic Circle and Seattle funeral doom crushers Un, who round out the first wave of bands on the bill with many more major acts to be announced in November!
The beer lineup is again presented by Broken Goblet (PA) with an appearance from featured brewery Wake (IL). Three Floyds (IN), Hammerheart (MN), Tired Hands (PA), Adroit Theory (VA), Blake’s Hard Cider (MI) and Yards (PA), will also join us in Philly, with nearly a dozen more attending breweries to be announced throughout November!
"We are excited to be back sponsoring Metal & Beer Fest 2020 in Philadelphia and partnering with Decibel to represent our city, our love of metal and our passion for beer," says Mike LaCouture, co-owner of Broken Goblet Brewing. "We’ve held the belief for several years that this is the best beer fest we’ve ever been a part of, and we can’t wait to spend another weekend with several thousand metalheads who love craft beer."
Special discounted early-bird weekend "Metal & Beer" tickets, entitling attendees to pours from each of the attending breweries all weekend long, are on sale this Friday, October 18th at 10am EST via Live Nation.
And if you're on the west coast, Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles will take place on December 13th-14th, 2019, and features performances from Carcass, Possessed, Nails, Vio-lence, Gatecreeper, Schammasch and more. Tickets are still available, but going fast!
