List of heavy metal festivals

This is an incomplete list of heavy metal festivals. The genre of heavy metal (or simply metal) is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Tours
The following is an incomplete list of traveling metal festivals, both active and defunct: • 70000 Tons of Metal

• Clash of the Titans

• Crüe Fest

• Family Values Tour

• Doomination

• G3

• Gigantour

• Headbangers Boat

• Jägermeister Music Tour

• Knotfest

• Magic Circle Festival

• Mayhem Festival

• Metal Masters Tour

• Monsters of Rock Cruise

• No Mercy Festival

• Ozzfest

• Sonisphere

• The Summer Slaughter Tour

• Taste Of Chaos

• The Unholy Alliance

• Uproar Festival

• X-Mass Festival