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Glastonbury Festival is set to host its first Heavy Metal Stage this year. Earache Records are currently creating a stage at Glastonbury's Shangri-La area, featuring big acts such as Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror and Worm Rot.
Meanwhile, Shangri-La has revealed its line-up for this year and a revamp, which sees its Heaven and Hell stages ditched for The Giant Towers of Trash, and The Truth Stage. The legendary Shangri-La area has shared their line-up for 2017, with the area adopting the theme: ‘recycle, re-use, resist’.
Glastonbury describe the new area which explains that “Giant Towers of Trash now dominate the Shangri-La skyline. Structures have formed from the scrap, dwellings made of detritus, art from the embers.
“A GAS TOWER looms over the site – harnessing the creative energy around it. A symbol of a bygone industrial era, it has reformed here, at the epicentre of the Digital Revolution. 360 degrees of awe-inspiring audio visual action. From the ashes of Hell rises the TRUTH STAGE, where the sounds of the revolution resonate all night long. The container walls of the CLASH throb in a cacophony of chaos, as the biggest names in underground music collide. Shangri-La International Television Centre SHITV – triples its transmission by opening all day long for debates and discourse in DIY culture, documentary making and Activism. By night, it broadcasts the best in UK comedy and live art. The truth will take over your TV.”
They also added: “Shelter is sought inside towers of textiles, pillars of plastic and columns of consumerism. The rubbish is a refuge. Every space becomes a place to party or ponder, be it a tube train, a bus, a skip or a bin. Keep it real, Keep it tidy.”
Glastonbury Festival 2017 will be headlined by Radiohead, Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran, who will play on the Pyramid Stage on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
