Ghostfest is a metal/hardcore festival that first took place in the Leeds Cockpit across 2 days in August 2005, returning in 2006. It brought together the best of the UK’s underground hardcore and metal crop along with metal and hardcore bands from Europe and America. There was no Ghostfest in 2007, but it has returned every year since 2008, and has now become a household name on the European indoor metal & hardcore scene growing to ten times its original capacity since its inception in 2005.