Dark Tranquillity headline the Saturday of Luppolo in Rock, which runs from 16 to 18 July next year at the Colonie Padane in Cremona.
They played the second edition of this festival in 2019, so the return is not a first visit but a bigger slot. The ninth edition keeps the format that built the thing: a free park area with food and a market, and a paid concert area next to it, which is how an Italian festival gets a town on its side.
What the band are being billed as is fair rather than inflated. Alongside At The Gates and In Flames they built the Gothenburg sound from 1989 onwards, putting guitar harmonies, keyboards and real melancholy on top of death metal speed. The Gallery, Damage Done and Fiction are the records the whole genre still argues about.
Tickets are on sale at sixty nine euro for a day and a hundred and seventy nine for all three, plus fees. More names for the Friday and the Sunday are still to come.