title: Beyond the Gates (music festival)
text: # Beyond the Gates (music festival)
  
  Beyond the Gates is an annual extreme metal festival that takes place every year in August in Bergen, Norway. The main stage is at USF Verftet, a refurbished sardine factory transformed into a venue.
  
  The festival took place after Hole in the Sky, a predecessor extreme metal festival which took place also in Bergen in August, ended. The first edition of the festival took place in 2013.
  
  ## 2020 edition and COVID-19 pandemic
  
  On 25 April 2020, the festival organization announced that the 2020 edition of the festival would be cancelled because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
  
  