massif music
september 24-26, 2026
A carefully curated heavy music experience in Nelson BC. We sell out every year.
we’re not massive,
We’re massif.
There’s no festival like MASSiF. Because we’re not really a festival.
We’re more like a pretty big party with your newest best friends. It’s that time when a whole bunch of cool bands came to play hard and hang out, made possible by a small group of volunteers who love music as much as you do, all in a sweet town under mountains overlooking a lake. WTF is this paradise, anyway?
We don’t tolerate jerks. Everyone is here to have sweaty, loud and safe FUN.
Featuring a meticulously chosen lineup, Massif increases gender diversity in heavy music and fosters opportunities for underrepresented bands to play together.
We’re super good at it. Located in the nether regions of British Columbia’s mountainous interior, MASSiF has been blowing minds and eardrums in Nelson BC since 2016.
latest news…
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Alien Boys Are Playing Massif!
Descending from some uncharted corner of the musical cosmos, Alien Boys is a 4D sonic war machine disguised as a band, blasting through the Pacific Northwest like a neon meteor with a vendetta against silence. They are not merely loud. They are volcanically, cosmically, medically inadvisable. Their songs erupt like chrome-plated dinosaurs escaping from the…
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Hallowed Sound Supports Massif!
Hallowed Sound is a supporter of Massif! An integral part of our local music scene since he moved his studio to the Kootenays, Roger Swan has been at the board for many Massif alumni bands’ albums, including Toaster, Bath and Rad Dog. We are stoked to have this Juno Award-winning engineer and producer on board…
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Brass Is Playing Massif!
What is there to say about Brass—the band, the myth, the lore. The disappearing onstage drummer antics, a middle of the night seance that scared locals. Or the sweaty chaotic mosh pits rife with screaming thrashing kids ready to giver like there was no tomorrow. That’s Brass, a band that seems to never run out of…
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