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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

  1. Rufus T Firefly, good bar, plays metal

Germany

Berlin

  1. 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.

  1. Night Light, great bar, plays metal, only opens on weekends but worth a visit
  2. Lunacy, ok bar, usually metal
  3. Bambi Galore, venue, usually metal
  4. Hörnerfest, festival, local train trip away around
  5. Indra Club, venue, sometimes metal
  6. Markthalle, venue, sometimes metal
  7. Knust, venue, sometimes metal
  8. Headcrash, venue, rarely metal, usually avoid
  9. Grotte, great metal bar, unfortunately gone Summer Solstice

Turkey

Istanbul

  1. Wizard, great bar, plays metal,
  2. Dorock, good bar, concert venue, usually metal

Norway

Bergen

  1. Kraken, good bar, plays metal

Sweden

Gothenburg

  1. Rockbaren, decent bar, plays metal

Tromsø

  1. Bastard, good bar, every now and then metal (but probably best in town anyways)

Hungary

Budapest

  1. Paranoir, ok bar, plays metal-ish, odd opening times,

Czechia

Praha

  1. ERROR, great bar, plays metal, “speakeasy”
  2. Hells Bells, good bar, plays metal, mostly tourists

Ireland

Dublin

  1. Fibber Magees, good bar, usually metal,

Canada

Toronto

  1. Coalition

Belgium

Brussels

  1. La Porte Noire, good bar, sometimes metal

Finland

Helsinki

  1. Praha, good bar, plays metal

Nepal

Kathmandu

  1. Purple Haze good bar, plays metal

Spain

Madrid

  1. Sinner, good bar, plays metal