Graspop Metal Meeting: Belgium's Cathedral of the Loud

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 09:00:00 +0000

Dessel is a village of about nine thousand people in the Antwerp Kempen, the flat sandy heathland where Belgium bleeds into the Dutch border, and for fifty weeks of the year it does very little that would interest anyone outside the region. There is a nuclear research site down the road, a canal, a lot of pine plantation. Then in mid-June the population of the field on Kastelsedijk multiplies by twenty and Dessel becomes, briefly, one of the loudest addresses in Europe. Graspop Metal Meeting is the reason, and it is one of the strangest success stories in continental metal.

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Graspop Metal Meeting: Belgium's Cathedral of the Loud