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Sweden's GATES OF METAL Festival: Dates For Next Year's Event Announced

September 5, 2006

The organizers of the Gates of Metal festival, which took place August 4-5, 2006 at Folkets Park in Hultsfred, Sweden, have confirmed that next yer's edition of the festival will take place August 3-4, 2007. No further details are currently available.

The Gates of Metal festival made headlines in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers last month after the organizers were threatened with prosecution by Swedish authorities over the stage show put on by the Norwegian black metal band MAYHEM. Pig heads and other animal parts decorated the stage during the band's performance (Photo#1, Photo#2) — a violation of the Swedish animal by-product regulation.

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