The Drakk Metal Festival with Loudblast and Hyro The Hero arrives at Pit Dog in Lorient

Good news for metal and rock fans, the Drakk Metal Fest, the previous edition of which took place in March 2024 in Saint-Brieuc, is coming to Lorient. The festival will be held at the Pit Dog, the new associative hall opened on August 9, 2024, by Gurvan Morel, luthier and president of Morehell events, organizing association of the Morehell Open air festival, the last edition of which took place in the parking lot of the airport in Ploemeur, in June of this year. An open-air festival which will have “no edition in 2025,” specifies its president. “The objective was to open a concert venue in Lorient. It’s done. The room defends “played music”, with musicians and instruments, and is open to all types of music. “We don’t want to be in a niche,” comments Gurvan Morel. Rock, electro, afrobeat or even a bit of all that, as will be the case this Saturday, November 30, 2024, with Kafe Zibraltar, the Pit Dog also opens up to metal.

Festival born in Normandy

Gurvan Morel fell into metal while playing Black Label Society, an American heavy band, on Guitar Hero. “Metal accompanies me every day.” A piece of hard rock – “Antisocial”, Trust’s iconic title – made Laurent Levasseur, then 13 years old, fall in love with the genre. A mathematics teacher, the man says he is more punk than metalhead. President of Mad Breizh, a webzine dedicated to extreme music, he recognizes that “metal is cultural: it is an identity, a way of being”. A few years ago, he was contacted by the organizer of the Drakk Fest which was then being held in Normandy. “For artistic advice”. Before taking the reins and bringing him back to Brittany. After a first edition, over two days, in Saint-Brieuc, his merger with Pit Dog, of which he became vice-president, led him to Lorient for a second “more modest” edition. With six groups on the bill over one day.

With the Lorient people Chaussette

“We are in a year of transition,” assures Laurent Levasseur. With Loudblast, pioneer of French death metal and Hyro the Hero, a group led by American rapper Hyro Da Hero, headlining. The program is intended to be broad: Sweet Monsters, a group from Brest “in a rock spirit, Izia style, with an exceptional singer”; the Nantais of Attic of Temple, navigates between rap and metal; Martine offers “crazy punk”. As for the Lorient residents of Chaussette, “they are unclassifiable,” assures Laurent Levasseur. A “totally crazy duo to discover” with which this Lorient edition will end. A first which already calls for another.