El Molí Rocks is not what a tourist expects from Ibiza. The setting, in effect, is postcard-perfect: the Molí point, in the bay of Sant Antoni de Portmany, an idyllic place for the longest day of the year – the festival takes place on June 20th. But the music is not chill at all. If the hardest thing you've ever heard in your life is an Aerosmith ballad, this might take you by surprise. The audience at Molí Rocks also doesn't resemble the average clubber or tourist at all; they tend to wear black, have long hair, and wear t-shirts with names as optimistic as Sepultura, Black Sabbath, and Megadeth. The audience reacts to the music in two ways: either they headbang (shake their heads up and down to the rhythm of the music) or they pogo, a much more animated form of dancing than waltzing, common at rock or punk concerts, which consists – very briefly – of pushing each other in a group.

Fraguel Rock was open for 23 years. It closed in a disastrous 2018, at the height of the decline of the party scene in Gomila, but for two decades it remained Palma's legendary heavy metal bar. Thundering music, walls painted with skulls and scythes, sticky floors, and a family atmosphere. Every heavy metal band that was needed played on its stage. "Anyone who didn't play didn't want to," says José Miguel Flores. the Beard, who with Marisa Márquez were the owners of the premises.