Flammie’s metal travel guide
Metal travel guide used to be a website cataloguing all the worthwhile metal bars and music shops around the world. Then came social medias and Internet web sites weren’t used anymore. Here’s a list of metal bars I have visited and can recommend or warn about.
United Kingdom
Glasgow
- Rufus T Firefly, good bar, plays metal
Germany
Berlin
- Paule’s Metal Eck, good bar, plays metal, classic, avoid when football or sports
Hamburg
I lived in Hamburg 2014–2020, great metal scene, usually always concerts and bars.
- Night Light, great bar, plays metal, only opens on weekends but worth a visit
- Lunacy, ok bar, usually metal
- Bambi Galore, venue, usually metal
- Hörnerfest, festival, local train trip away around
- Indra Club, venue, sometimes metal
- Markthalle, venue, sometimes metal
- Knust, venue, sometimes metal
- Headcrash, venue, rarely metal, usually avoid
Grotte, great metal bar, unfortunately goneSummer Solstice
Turkey
Istanbul
Norway
Bergen
- Kraken, good bar, plays metal
Sweden
Gothenburg
- Rockbaren, decent bar, plays metal
Tromsø
- Bastard, good bar, every now and then metal (but probably best in town anyways)
Hungary
Budapest
- Paranoir, ok bar, plays metal-ish, odd opening times,
Czechia
Praha
- ERROR, great bar, plays metal, “speakeasy”
- Hells Bells, good bar, plays metal, mostly tourists
Ireland
Dublin
- Fibber Magees, good bar, usually metal,
Canada
Toronto
Belgium
Brussels
- La Porte Noire, good bar, sometimes metal
Finland
Helsinki
- Praha, good bar, plays metal
Nepal
Kathmandu
- Purple Haze good bar, plays metal
Spain
Madrid
- Sinner, good bar, plays metal