By Matt Kiernan

WFCS 107.7 will host Metal Fest this Wednesday in support of the station and to promote local metal bands from around the Connecticut area.

The free concert, which will run from 7:30 until close in Alumni Hall, will feature headliner The Breathing Process and Engraved, Attentat and Age of Deception.

“The whole reason we’re doing this is to draw more listeners to our radio,” said PR Director of WFCS Nicholas Menapace, who put the festival together.

There are connections between the bands and the radio station, with a few members of Attentat attending CCSU and a member of Engraved being a member of the radio station.

The concert is expected to have a large audience at Metal Fest, whose Facebook event page indicates that almost 100 people will attend. The last time the concert was held was two years ago.

Original planning for this year’s Metal Fest started in spring of last year and was expected to be put on during Nov. or Dec., but there were scheduling problems of bands that were supposed to perform.

There were many other bands that asked to be on the bill to perform, but there wasn’t enough room for all of them, so the bands were cut down to four.

“If I wanted I could have eight of these concerts,” said Menapace because of the number of bands he knows in the local area who’d be happy to perform.

Many of the bands that asked to be put on the bill weren’t doing it for the money, but for their music to be heard. The amount of money it took to book the bands wasn’t much because Menapace knew members of the them.

“We’ve been excited about doing this for a while,” said Menapace.

Tickets to heavy metal concerts at the Palladium and Webster will be given away at the concert.