Belgium’s Graspop activates emergency weather plan

"Let’s stay positive," say promoters after the festival site was hit by torrential rain ahead of tomorrow's opening day

Powerwolf at Graspop © TheFoxxo

Belgium’s Graspop Metal Meeting has activated its emergency weather plan after the festival site was hit by torrential rain ahead of the event. Taking place in Dessel, the 55,000-cap heavy metal festival is scheduled to start tomorrow (20 June) and run until Sunday.

The four-day festival will be headlined by Tool, Alice Cooper, Five Finger Death Punch, Judas Priest, Bring Me The Horizon, Avenged Sevenfold, Scorpions and Machine Head.

However, organisers have cancelled their entire Wednesday evening programme, including the…

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