Held in the desert between Las Vegas and Lake Mead, the Metal of Nowhere series of festivals that ran annually for several years in the mid-2000's was noteworthy for being a very successful, 100% grassroots underground scene-driven festival, with numerous heavyweights in the Sin City thrash and death metal scenes anchoring the shows every year. Notable bands anchoring the festivals included Avenge
r of Blood, Postmortom, Angryhead, Cities Burn Away, with appearances by such bands as Inhuman and Casket Born, among others. shows, as he provided the stage, generator, lights, porta-pottys, and the flatbed truck to move it all. The bands and fans in the scene would assist with setup, cleanup, beverage/snack purchasing and sales, promotions, administration duties, etc. The cheap cost of entry was used to reimburse the initial expenses of putting the shows on. These festivals were unique and special times in the history of Vegas music, providing a harmonic and peaceful grassroots anarchistic experience to contrast with the often shallow, repetitive, overbearing, and glitzy mainstream music scene in Sin City. The festivals were subject to no authority except the scene's own behavioral tendencies, and never became a negative experience despite hundreds of fans, musicians, and other partygoers in attendance with no actual security presence. The scene took care of its own.
