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Beirut Rock Festival

Katatonia took a lot of time to start, but the music was really worth it, they really made Beirut go wild, they have also let the people who bought regular tickets 45$ tickets approach to the 85$ zone so they could start mosh pits.

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The first Beirut Rock Festival took place in Forum de Beirut (Karantina) on the 11,13,14 of November 2009 with international bands such as Anathema, To/Die/For, Peter Murphy, Agua de Annique, Yann Tiersen and local bands such as Eileen Khatchadourian, Tristmoon and Weeping Willow.

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The second Beirut Rock Festival took place in the Zouk Mikael Amphitheater (Zouk Mikael) on the 2nd and 3rd of September 2011 with many international bands and musicians, such as Serj Tankian, Katatonia and Moonspell as headliners.

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Then Weeping Willow fired up the crowd with brutal growling, after that, the Lebanese Ambassadors of Doom Kimaera played some doom metal to get the crowd ready for Katatonia and Moonspell right before Lebanese-Syrian band The HourGlass performed.

Karantina

The southern part of the neighborhood adjacent to the highway is home to various commercial establishments, such as the Forum de Beyrouth, the multipurpose events center that hosted Beirut Rock Festival in 2009.

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