Heavy Montréal

Heavy Montréal is a two-day, summer heavy metal and hard rock music festival held annually at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It also includes various other events at different venues across the city. The "MTL" in the former name, Heavy MTL, served as both an abbreviation for "Montreal" and "Metal". In 2014, the festival was officially renamed as "Heavy Montréal". In 2023, the festival revived the "Heavy MTL" moniker once again through its logo.

History

Since the festival's first edition in 2008, Heavy Montréal, known until 2014 as "Heavy MTL", has seen some of the world's most successful heavy metal acts, such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, Kiss, Dethklok, Rob Zombie, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Slayer, Alice Cooper, Motörhead, Godsmack, In Flames, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Deftones, System of a Down, Five Finger Death Punch, Children of Bodom and Babymetal.
In 2011, a sister event, Heavy T.O., was created for Downsview Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Both events were held during the same weekends, with most bands playing one day in Montreal and the other in Toronto. Despite the Toronto event's popularity, however, promoters ceased operations there after the festival's 2012 incarnation.
For the 2014 festival, Heavy MTL was officially rebranded as "Heavy Montréal". This was done as an "evolution" of the festival, with efforts made to include a wide array of styles in its programming.
The festival took a one-year hiatus in 2017, citing the renovations taking place that year in Parc Jean-Drapeau and the increase in other cultural events due to Montreal celebrating its. In November 2019, event promotions company Evenko announced that Heavy Montreal would not occur in 2020, in part due to "the number of non-festival metal/rock concerts that will be announced over the next few months", said Evenko chief operating officer Jacques Aubé.

Past editions

2019

The lineup included:

Stage Heavy	Stage de l'Apocalypse	Stage de la Foret	Stage du Jardin
Fever 333 Kataklysm Beartooth Killswitch Engage Godsmack Ghost	Galactic Empire Anonymus Quiet Riot Hatebreed Steel Panther Evanescence	Harm's Way Devin Townsend All That Remains Cancer Bats Municipal Waste Watain	Brand of Sacrifice Lorna Shore Nekrogoblikon Rivers of Nihil The Faceless Carnifex Cattle Decapitation Dying Fetus

Stage Heavy	Stage de l'Apocalypse	Stage de la Foret	Stage du Jardin
Knocked Loose Despised Icon Skillet In This Moment Slash Slayer¹	Mountain Dust Beast in Black Atreyu Gamma Ray Clutch Anthrax	Dopethrone Skálmöld Fu Manchu Gloryhammer Terror Counterparts Stick to Your Guns	Junkowl Dirty Honey The Great Sabatini Metalachi 3Teeth Demolition Hammer

2018

Heavy Montreal returned in 2018 after a one-year hiatus.
The lineup included:

Stage Heavy	Stage de l'Apocalypse	Stage de la Foret	Stage du Jardin
Pallbearer Sword Tech N9ne I Prevail Marilyn Manson Rob Zombie	Born of Osiris Lee Aaron Baroness Alestorm Underoath Emperor	Veil of Maya The Black Dahlia Murder Witchcraft Napalm Death Red Fang Between the Buried and Me	Jungle Rot Entheos Soreption Allegaeon The Agony Scene Erra Jinjer

Stage Heavy	Stage de l'Apocalypse	Stage de la Foret	Stage du Jardin
Helix Demon Hunter Voivod Asking Alexandria Hollywood Undead Limp Bizkit¹	Intervals Emmure Ultra Vomit Sleep Trivium Gojira	Blind Witness Power Trip Warbringer Gloryhammer Eyehategod Perturbator	Nonhuman Era Get the Shot Bad Omens Havok Khemmis Necrotic Mutation

Replaced Avenged Sevenfold
2016

The 2016 edition of Heavy Montréal took place on 6–7 August 2016. For 2016 the festival was held on a new site in Parc Jean-Drapeau, la Plaine des Jeux.
The lineup included:

Molson Canadian stage	Heavy stage	Blabbermouth.NET stage
Pop Evil Escape the Fate Fear Factory Trivium Sabaton Mastodon Five Finger Death Punch	USA Out of Vietnam The Dillinger Escape Plan Carcass Sebastian Bach Black Label Society Nightwish	Inquisition Skeletonwitch Repulsion Attila Suicide Silence Cult of Luna

Molson Canadian stage	Heavy stage	Blabbermouth.NET stage
I Prevail Despised Icon Saint Asonia Blind Guardian Alter Bridge Breaking Benjamin Disturbed	We Came as Romans Animals as Leaders Kataklysm Zakk Wylde Killswitch Engage Volbeat	Mantar Beartooth Memphis May Fire B.A.R.F. Suffocation Napalm Death Candlemass

2015

The 2015 edition of Heavy Montréal took place over three days from 7 to 9 August 2015.
The lineup included:

Molson Canadian stage	Heavy stage	Apocalypse stage	Forest stage
The Flatliners Anonymus Extreme Meshuggah Korn	Gorguts Venom Arch Enemy Lagwagon Alexisonfire	Brothers of the Sonic Cloth Revocation The Acacia Strain Veil of Maya Lofofora Neurosis	toyGuitar Beyond Creation Cattle Decapitation Nothing More .moneen. Augury

Molson Canadian stage	Heavy stage	Apocalypse stage	Forest stage
Slaves on Dope Rocket from the Crypt Abbath Testament NOFX Faith No More	Deafheaven Lita Ford Gojira Billy Talent Iggy Pop	The Brains Glassjaw Swingin' Utters B.A.R.F. Devin Townsend Project Dying Fetus	Mass Murder Messiah Ion Dissonance Masked Intruder Dig It Up The Agonist Battlecross

Molson Canadian stage	Heavy stage	Apocalypse stage	Forest stage
Fozzy Coal Chamber Dokken Asking Alexandria Bullet for My Valentine Slipknot	Motionless in White Warrant Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg Within Temptation Lamb of God	Omnium Gatherum Insomnium Jasta Pig Destroyer Sanctuary Ihsahn Nuclear Assault	Exes for Eyes Sandveiss Dead Tired Small Brown Bike Upon a Burning Body Wilson

2014

The lineup included:

Molson Canadian stage	Heavy stage	Apocalypse stage	Forest stage
Monster Truck Overkill Apocalyptica Dropkick Murphys Anthrax Metallica	Babymetal Pennywise Three Days Grace Voivod The Offspring	Eagle Tears Mass Hysteria Municipal Waste Whitechapel Protest the Hero The Vandals Madball	Kublai Khan Biblical Unlocking the Truth Whores. Nekrogoblikon Beyond Creation

Molson Canadian stage	Heavy stage	Apocalypse stage	Forest stage
GrimSkunk Exodus Symphony X Hatebreed Twisted Sister Slayer	Bat Sabbath Death Angel¹ Epica Body Count Bad Religion Lamb of God	La Corriveau Nashville Pussy Cynic We Came as Romans Alestorm Unearth Fucked Up	Beheading of a King Sworn In Gideon Stick to Your Guns The Motorleague Nepentes Truckfighters

Replaced Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
2013

For the 2013 edition, Heavy MTL also featured a live pro wrestling event showcasing men and women of the Montreal independent wrestling scene.

Molson Canadian stage	Jägermeister stage	Galaxy stage	Ring Heavy Mania
Obey the Brave Hellyeah Gwar Steel Panther At the Gates Danzig with Doyle Avenged Sevenfold	Device Halestorm Sick of It All Black Label Society A Day to Remember Megadeth	Death Lullaby Within the Ruins Blackguard Baroness Oceano Newsted All Shall Perish Motionless in White Wintersun	Wall of Death – Battle Royal Buxx vs. Franky 3.0 vs. TDT Green Phantom vs. SeXXXy Eddy

Molson Canadian stage	Jägermeister stage	Galaxy stage	Ring Heavy Mania
Huntress Finntroll Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals Machine Head Mastodon Rob Zombie	Augury The Acacia Strain Amon Amarth August Burns Red Children of Bodom Godsmack	Of Temples Slaves on Dope Indian Handcrafts Structures Unexpect Pallbearer Havok Cryptopsy	Wall of Death – Battle Royal 6 Way Scramble Kickin n' Stompin+Green Phantom vs. TDT+ Buxx Belmar Player Uno vs. Franky the Mobster