Loud Park Festival in Japan Canceled for 2018
Well, this stinks: the Loud Park Festival, which has taken place in the Tokyo area since 2006 and is one of Japan’s biggest metal events, will not be coming back for 2018.
The festival’s organizers Creativeman made the announcement last week on their website. While a specific reason the festival won’t be held this year wasn’t given — as best as I can tell via Google Translate their explanation amounts to the standard “we couldn’t deliver the quality that our fans have come to expect” excuse — the possibility of a return in 2019 has been left open.
Here’s a Google Translate version of the announcement (pardon the broken English — I’m not even going to attempt to edit for clarification for fear of getting it wrong):
“Although we have received many inquiries about whether or not LOUD PARK is held , unfortunately LOUD PARK this year has decided not to hold.
“Continuous holding of annual events that have been continuing since the first opening will be interrupted, so it is very regrettable as the secretariat to provide such guidance. Based on various circumstances we have been discussing to hold a meeting on an annual scale, but we decided that it is difficult to provide content that can satisfy our customers, and finally decided not to hold this year’s holding It was.
“In order to make contents like LOUD PARK more satisfying to our customers in the future, we will consider the next event after the situation for it is prepared.
“We are very sorry for all of our fans who are looking forward to hosting LOUD PARK every year, but we also looked forward to the solitary Japan tour of HR / HM band which we are planning a lot in the creative world, I hope that you can support Japanese scenes together for the upcoming next time to be held.
“LOUD PARK secretariat”
In 2011, the festival was reduced from two days to one after the devastating Fukushima earthquake.
Hopefully the organizers make good on their word to evaluate the viability of bringing Loud Park back next year; it’s been a crucial component of the Japanese metal scene that provided metal fans there some of their only and best opportunities to see international metal acts.
Thanks: MS reader Brent W.
