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MetalGate began as a mid-sized Czech festival project focused on the heavy metal genre. Our goal is to fill the space between small events of this type of music in the Czech Republic and large summer festivals. The main idea of MetalGate is to concentrate solely on heavy metal in all its forms, for it is our opinion that the Czech metal, as well as the general music scene, needs more space for presentation of this particular hard type of music. The dramaturgy of our concerts gives primacy to Czech metal bands, whose performance is embellished on some occasions by foreign guests. We thereby would like to contribute to the enrichment of Czech metal landscape. We furthermore hope that in the future our events organized under MetalGate brand (small club festivals and MetalGate OpenAir) will be established as traditional and important gigs in this music community.
Facing an absence of any kind of official support from Czech cultural institutions, we also want to support, via our other projects within the MetalGate portfolio (MetalGate Massacre band contest, or record publishing activities), the Czech metal bands as such and trough them the Czech metal in general. We hope that our activities will aid in the cultivation of the Czech metal environment, as well as in establishing the Czech metal as a proper and respected genre of music on the Czech music scene and not as a fringe phenomenon, although we understand that to change the perception of metal by the Czech society, very negative mostly, is indeed a long-run enterprise, which cannot be undertaken by us alone. We therefore will gladly cooperate with other metal promoters and subjects on the Czech metal scene, who share our need to change the unfortunate status quo of Czech metal. In any case, it would be shame not to at least try.
The MetalGate project is organized by the company MMMC Praha ltd.
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