Resurrection Fest: A Galician Village That Becomes Metal's Capital

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Viveiro is a fishing town on the north coast of Galicia, up in the green, rainy, Atlantic corner of Spain that most people never associate with the country at all. It has a medieval old town, an estuary, a few thousand permanent residents, and for one week every summer it becomes one of the biggest metal cities in Europe. Resurrection Fest is the reason, and its rise from a small local hardcore gig to a festival pulling tens of thousands a day is one of the great modern festival stories.

Las Fallas: Valencia Builds Giants for a Year, Then Burns Them in a Night

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Somewhere in Valencia right now, a workshop the size of an aircraft hangar holds a thirty-foot cartoon politician with the head of a pig, and the people who built him already know the exact hour they are going to set him on fire. That is the deal. That is the whole engine of Las Fallas, and once you understand it the festival stops looking like a party and starts looking like something closer to a religion with better pyrotechnics.

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Resurrection Fest: A Galician Village That Becomes Metal's Capital

Las Fallas: Valencia Builds Giants for a Year, Then Burns Them in a Night