Last April the extreme sounds of Can Rock Ibiza Festival resumed after a last year’s online meeting due to the pandemic, in a two-day meeting with eight bands. Now it raises the stakes and celebrates its second meeting in the same year with two more groups to make ten, five from Ibiza and five from abroad, this weekend. It will be on Friday and Saturday, October 21st and 22 in Es Birra de es Canar.

Double the line-up at Can Rock Ibiza Festival

The Can Rock Ibiza Festival will have two line-ups, one dedicated to punk rock on Friday and the other on Saturday will be open to the whole range of metal sounds. The line-up for the first offering is made up of the Ibizan bands Seisdientes and Stone Corners together with the Mallorcan bands Yoko Factor and Toxic Army and the Barcelona band The Lizards. On Saturday the locals Badak, Vitrol and Apotropaico, the Catalans Always My Fault will play and the Madrid Eternal Psycho will close.

Toxic Army Toxic Army. Can Rock Ibiza Festival

It so happens that a good number of the bands this weekend are led by women, something increasingly common in hard rock. “The truth is that we didn’t think about it when we were putting together the line-up, but it turned out like this and we are very happy and proud of it”, says Pablo Kiaro, who is once again organizing the festival together with Matteo Mochen, both members of Apotropaico.

“When we started doing the metal festival in 2018 we didn’t have many expectations, but the reception was great, people really like the format and we have even exported it to Mallorca,” explains Kiaro, who emphasizes that one of the objectives of the meeting is to provide a stage for groups from the island, from the islands, who don’t have many opportunities to play in the more conventional circuit.

The Lizards, Desde Barcelona

The Lizards, from Barcelona

“We want bands from Ibiza to play because on the island it is very complicated for most and at Can Rock Festival they can do it with bands of a good level from the underground scene and so the wheel turns.” “We ourselves (Apotropaico) have been playing in Portugal. On Ibiza there is little space for punk and extreme metal and we want to make up for this”, says Kiaro.

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