There have been numerous rock band competitions in Egypt over the past decade including the SOS rock musical festival, and Nile FM’s "Battle of the Bands," among others. Last week, the most popular live music venue in Cairo hosted the latest and largest Egyptian rock festival to date. Several hundred Egyptian youth converged on their favorite musical venue, Abdel Moneim el-Sawy’s Culture Wheel in Zamalek, to get their dose of hard ear-candy and to support their favorite homegrown rock and metal bands.