Dynamo Open Air is a festival in the Netherlands that was held (almost) every year between 1986 and 2005. It was reborn in 2008 as Dynamo Outdoor and in 2015 as Dynamo Metal Fest.

History

thumb|[[Dweezil Zappa|Dweezil & Ahmet Zappa performing live at Dynamo Open Air in 1993]]Dynamo Open Air was originally held in 1986 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Dynamo rock club in Eindhoven. It began with 5,000 people in the Dynamo parking lot. From 1988 to 1992, it was held at a local ice rink with 22,000 capacity. In 1993, the festival was moved to the Eindhoven military airport (Vliegbasis Welschap). In 1994, it became a three-day festival.

In 1995, Dynamo Open Air reported 118,000 attendees. This caused too much pressure on the Dutch infrastructure, leading to some of the longest recorded traffic jams in the history of the Netherlands.

As a result, the municipality forced the festival to limit its capacity to 60,000 in 1996. In 1998, the festival site and the airport had to be moved in order to build 6,000 new houses. The Dynamo Metal Fest was again held in August 2022.

Live recordings

Testament recorded their Live at Eindhoven EP in 1987 at the last Dynamo Open Air held at its original location (the parking lot) before the festival moved to The IJsbaan. In 1995, Nailbomb had their performance recorded at the festival and it was released as Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide the same year it was recorded. It was released by Roadrunner Records In 2005, live footage of the performance was released on DVD and it was called Live at Dynamo. It was also released by Roadrunner Records. In May 1998, guest band Death recorded stock footage of their performance. Three years later, in an effort to raise money to pay for Chuck Schuldiner's cancer treatment, the footage was limitedly released in October 2001 by Nuclear Blast on CD and DVD formats under the name Live In Eindhoven, two months before Schuldiner's ultimate demise.

Line-ups and dates

Dynamo Open Air

1986

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Joshua

<br />Paul Di'Anno's Battlezone

<br />Satan

<br />Chariot

<br />Angel Witch

<br />Onslaught

<br />Avalon

|}

Cancelled shows : Lääz Rockit

1987

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| colspan="3" align="center" | Monday June 8

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Stryper

<br />Testament

<br />Destruction

<br />Vengeance

<br />Atomkraft

<br />Mad Max

|}

Cancelled shows : Agent Steel (replaced by Testament)

1988

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| colspan="3" align="center" | Monday May 23

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Exodus

<br />Lȧȧz Rockit

<br />Candlemass

<br />Toxik

<br />Sabbat

<br />Paradox

|}

1989

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| colspan="3" align="center" | Monday May 15

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Savatage

<br />Armored Saint

<br />Sacred Reich

<br />Forbidden

<br />Sleeze Beez

<br />Holy Moses

<br />Fatal Destiny

|}

1990

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| colspan="3" align="center" | Monday June 4

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Death Angel

<br />Sacred Reich

<br />Sepultura

<br />Vicious Rumors

<br />Trouble

<br />Mordred

|}

1991

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Monday May 20

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Metal Church

<br />Primus

<br />Armored Saint

<br />Morbid Angel

<br />Extreme

<br />Saigon Kick

<br />Obituary

<br />Ignorance

<br />Psychotic Waltz

|}

1992

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| colspan="3" align="center" | Sunday June 7

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Prong

<br />Corrosion of Conformity

<br />Mordred

<br />Paradise Lost

<br />The Organization

<br />My Sister's Machine

<br />Pestilence

<br />Skyclad

<br />Love on Ice

|}

1993

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Saturday May 29

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Anthrax

<br />Suicidal Tendencies

<br />Mind Funk

<br />Biohazard

<br />Monster Magnet

<br />Dweezil Zappa

<br />Freak of Nature

<br />Fear Factory

<br />Nudeswirl

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Sunday May 30

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Mercyful Fate

<br />Trouble

<br />Annihilator

<br />Gorefest

<br />Fudge Tunnel

<br />Kong

<br />Wool

<br />Z

|}

Cancelled shows: Therapy?, Tool (replaced by Z)

1994

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| colspan="3" align="center" | Friday May 20 (Warm-Up)

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Forbidden

<br />Gorefest

<br />Vicious Rumors

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Saturday May 21

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Prong

<br />Clawfinger

<br />Sick of It All

<br />Jackyl

<br />The Organization

<br />Skintrade

<br />Die Krupps

<br />Cynic

<br />Last Crack

<br />Nerve

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Sunday May 22

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Danzig

<br />Urban Dance Squad

<br />Kyuss

<br />Life of Agony

<br />Pride & Glory

<br />Skyclad

<br />Sleeze Beez

<br />The Obsessed

<br />B-Thong

<br />Skrew

|}

1995

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| colspan="3" align="center" | Friday June 2

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!Campsite

!Skatefest

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Tiamat

<br />My Dying Bride

<br />Skyclad

<br />Mary Beats Jane

<br />Sun

<br />Shihad

<br />Overdose

<br />Rape

<br />Waving Corn

<br />Hate Squad

<br />Schweisser

<br />Brotherhood Foundation

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Rich Kids on LSD

<br />Snapcase

<br />Earth Crisis

<br />Undeclinable Ambuscade

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" |Saturday June 3

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!Mainstage

!Skatefest

!Campsite

|-

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Paradise Lost

<br />Type O Negative

<br />Dog Eat Dog

<br />Grip Inc.

<br />Warrior Soul

<br />Fear Factory

<br />Nailbomb

<br />Mental Hippie Blood

<br />Madball

<br />Nevermore

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Absconded

<br />Horace Pinker

<br />NRA

<br />Blitz Babies

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Crash Worship

<br />35007

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" |Sunday June 4

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!Mainstage

!Skatefest

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Biohazard

<br />Machine Head

<br />Life of Agony

<br />Trouble

<br />Dub War

<br />Downset.

<br />Eleven Pictures

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Orange 9mm

<br />Burning Heads

<br />Strawman

<br />No Fun At All

|}

1996

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| colspan="3" align="center" | Friday May 24

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!Campsite

!Skatefest

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Neurosis

<br />Anathema

<br />Pitchshifter

<br />Orphanage

<br />Altar

<br />Skrew

<br />Transpunk

<br />Dearly Beheaded

<br />Dreamgrinder

<br />Spiritual Beggars

<br />Merauder

<br />Torque

<br />Gurd

<br />Thumb

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Slapshot

<br />Ryker's

<br />Skippies

<br />Unsane

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" |Saturday May 25

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!Mainstage

!Skatefest

|-

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Venom

<br />Gorefest

<br />Savatage

<br />The Gathering

<br />Pennywise

<br />Sacred Reich

<br />Shelter

<br />Voivod

<br />Galactic Cowboys

<br />White Devil

<br />Stuck Mojo

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Down by Law

<br />Millencolin

<br />Strung Out

<br />7Zuma7

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" |Sunday May 26

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!Mainstage

!Skatefest

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Slayer

<br />Kreatief Met Kirk

<br />Osdorp Possé & Nembrionic

<br />CIV

<br />Channel Zero

<br />Pro-Pain

<br />The Exploited

<br />Drain

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Shelter

<br />59 Times the Pain

<br />Satanic Surfers

<br />Cooper

<br />Bambix

|}

Cancelled shows : Halford (replaced by Sacred Reich)

1997

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| colspan="3" align="center" | Friday May 16

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!Campsite

!Skatefest

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Rockbitch

<br />Therion

<br />Samael

<br />Pist.On

<br />Sentenced

<br />Coal Chamber

<br />Skinlab

<br />Totenmond

<br />Within Temptation

<br />Keaton

<br />Sundown

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Ignite

<br />SNFU

<br />$400 Suits

<br />Ni Hao

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" |Saturday May 17

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!Mainstage

!Campsite

!Skatefest

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Type O Negative

<br />Machine Head

<br />Sick of It All

<br />Exodus

<br />Moonspell

<br />Orphanage

<br />Amorphis

<br />Entombed

<br />Thumb

<br />Slo Burn

<br />Limp Bizkit

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Rage

<br />Secret Discovery

The Black Stage

<br />Dissection

<br />Satyricon

<br />Dimmu Borgir

<br />Goddess of Desire

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Vision of Disorder

<br />Deviate

<br />Discipline

<br />I Against I

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" |Sunday May 18

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!Mainstage

!Skatefest

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Tiamat

<br />KoЯn

<br />Marilyn Manson

<br />Helmet

<br />Testament

<br />Cradle of Filth

<br />Karma to Burn

<br />Laberinto

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Voodoo Glow Skulls

<br />Backfire!

<br />Travoltas

<br />Slyce

|}

1998

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Friday May 29

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!The Gallery

!Skatefest

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Atrocity

<br />Theatre of Tragedy

<br />Masters of Reality

<br />The Hellacopters

<br />Transport League

<br />Sevendust

<br />Insane Clown Posse

<br />Tura Satana

<br />Deicide

<br />Six Feet Under

<br />Disbelief

<br />T-Nailed

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Pro-Pain

<br />Congress

<br />Refused

<br />Hard Resistance

<br />Janez Detd.

<br />Driven

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" |Saturday May 30

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!Mainstage

!The Gallery

!Skatefest

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Rammstein

<br />Deftones

<br />Soulfly

<br />Fates Warning

<br />Agnostic Front

<br />Fu Manchu

<br />Stuck Mojo

<br />HammerFall

<br />Within Temptation

<br />Zebrahead

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The Factory

<br />Strapping Young Lad

<br />Junkie XL

<br />Think About Mutation

<br />Misery Loves Co.

Black Stage

<br />Emperor

<br />Immortal

The Kovenant

<br />Bewitched

<br />Enslaved

In Flames

<br />Cold

<br />Oomph!

<br />Ultraspank

<br />The Black Symphony

<br />Form

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Brotherhood Foundation

<br />H<sub>2</sub>O

<br />25 ta Life

<br />Good Riddance

<br />Right Direction

<br />Psycore

<br />Fury of Five

<br />Tech-9

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" |Sunday May 31

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!Mainstage

!The Gallery

!Skatefest

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|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Pantera

<br />Death

<br />Life of Agony

<br />Coal Chamber

<br />Kreator

<br />Dimmu Borgir

<br />Incubus

<br />(həd) <sup>p.e.</sup>

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Power Pack

<br />Primal Fear

<br />Stratovarius

<br />Helloween

<br />Saxon

<br />Blind Guardian

<br />Iced Earth

<br />Tom Angelripper

Space Jam

<br />Far

<br />Cathedral

<br />Spiritual Beggars

<br />7Zuma7

<br />Sheavy

<br />Orange Goblin

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Misfits

<br />Undeclinable Ambuscade

<br />Hatebreed

<br />Battery

<br />Better Than a Thousand

<br />Maximum Penalty

|}

Cancelled shows : Fear Factory (replaced by Death), Human Waste Project (replaced by Ultraspank) and Limp Bizkit (replaced by Psycore).

1999

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| colspan="3" align="center" | Friday May 21

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!The Gallery

!Skatefest

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|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Dark Symphonies

<br />Therion

<br />Anathema

<br />Lacuna Coil

Sodom

<br />Static-X

<br />Spineshank

<br />Darkane

<br />One Minute Silence

<br />Angra

<br />Out

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Madball

<br />Hard-Ons

<br />Heideroosjes

<br />Violation of Trust

<br />Cold as Life

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" |Saturday May 22

|-

!Mainstage

!The Gallery

!Skatefest

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Manowar

<br />Cradle of Filth

<br />Stormtroopers of Death

<br />The Gathering

<br />Grip Inc.

<br />Nashville Pussy

<br />Black Label Society

<br />Meshuggah

<br />Loudness

<br />Skinlab

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The Factory

<br />Pitchshifter

<br />Atari Teenage Riot

<br />Cubanate

The Gore Zone

<br />Hypocrisy

<br />Cryptopsy

<br />Arch Enemy

<br />Nile

Trail of Tears

<br />Pulkas

<br />The Haunted

<br />Unjust

<br />CAGE

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Ryker's

<br />59 Times the Pain

<br />Merauder

<br />Murphy's Law

<br />Run Devil Run

<br />All Out War

<br />E.Town Concrete

<br />Troopers

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" |Sunday May 23

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!Mainstage

!The Gallery

!Maximum Overdrive

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Metallica

<br />Apocalyptica

<br />Fear Factory

<br />Biohazard

<br />Monster Magnet

<br />System of a Down

<br />Mercyful Fate

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The Power Pack

<br />Labyrinth

<br />Nevermore

<br />Overkill

<br />Gamma Ray

<br />Nocturnal Rites

The Black Stage

<br />Marduk

<br />Dimmu Borgir

<br />Thyrfing

<br />God Dethroned

<br />Ancient Rites

In Extremo

<br />Space Age Playboys

<br />Oceans of Sadness

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Gluecifer

<br />Unida

<br />Goatsnake

<br />Fatso Jetson

<br />Zeke

<br />Iron Monkey

<br />Nebula

<br />Peter Pan Speedrock

|}

Cancelled bands : Bolt Thrower, Morbid Angel, Speedealer, Skarhead and Blood for Blood. The three latter bands were replaced by Arch Enemy, Goatsnake, Merauder and E.Town Concrete respectively.

2000

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| colspan="3" align="center" | Saturday June 3

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!Main Stage

!Tent Stage

|-

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Iron Maiden

<br />Korn

<br />Slipknot

<br />Suicidal Tendencies

<br />P.O.D.

<br />Testament

<br />Methods of Mayhem

<br />Zeke

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Immortal

<br />Mayhem

<br />The Kovenant

<br />Destruction

<br />Spiritual Beggars

<br />Kittie

<br />Sentenced

<br />Engine

|}

Cancelled bands : Entombed (replaced by Destruction)

2001

Festival cancelled due to the threat of foot and mouth disease.

The announced bands were: After Forever, Amen, Backfire!, Behemoth, Brightside, Catastrophic, Cradle of Filth, Destiny's End, Destroÿer 666, Discipline, Disturbed, Dreadlock Pussy, Dropkick Murphys, Dying Fetus, Exhumed, Hed PE, Ignite, In Extremo, Krisiun, Length of Time, Liar, Lost Horizon, Macabre, Merauder, M.O.D., Motörhead, Mudvayne, Napalm Death, Nasum, Nevermore, Opeth, Pain of Salvation, Papa Roach, Savatage, Saxon, Severe Torture, Shelter, Slipknot, Soulfly, Spineshank, Static-X, Symphony X, Terra Firma, Tool, The Union Underground, Vader, Wicked Mystic, Within Temptation.

Tool scheduled a headlining show at 013 in Tilburg on the day they were supposed to play, while Slipknot and few other bands played a "mini-festival" at Maaspoort in Den Bosch on May 25. Soulfly played more club shows in the Netherlands.

2002

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Sunday July 14

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!Main Stage

!Tent Stage

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Soulfly

<br />Death Angel

<br />Dropkick Murphys

<br />Within Temptation

<br />Biohazard

<br />Pain of Salvation

<br />Deadsoul Tribe

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Children of Bodom

<br />Opeth

<br />Finntroll

<br />Strapping Young Lad

<br />Zimmers Hole

<br />Peter Pan Speedrock

<br />Hermano

<br />Autumn

|}

2003

Festival cancelled. No bands announced.

2004

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Saturday June 5

|-

!Stage 1

!Stage 2

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Slayer

<br />Nightwish

<br />Life of Agony

<br />Soulfly

<br />Children of Bodom

<br />Ill Nino

<br />Shadows Fall

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Dimmu Borgir

<br />Agent Steel

<br />After Forever

<br />Oomph!

<br />Deicide

<br />Mastodon

|}

2005

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Saturday May 7

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!Stage 1

!Stage 2

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Anthrax

<br />Jon Oliva's Pain

<br />Testament

<br />Obituary

<br />Gorefest

<br />Lȧȧz Rockit

<br />Masterplan

<br />Mercenary

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Evergrey

<br />Trivium

<br />3 Inches of Blood

<br />Still Remains

|}

Dynamo Metalfest

2015

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Saturday July 18

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Arch Enemy

<br />Death Angel

<br />Nuclear Assault

<br />Biohazard

<br />Alestorm

<br />Orange Goblin

<br />Bodyfarm

<br />Facelifter

|}

2016

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Saturday July 16

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Anthrax

<br />At the Gates

<br />Metal Church

<br />Obituary

<br /><s>Life of Agony</s>

<br />Powerwolf

<br />Sacred Reich

<br />Textures

<br />Audrey Horne

<br />Extremities

|}

2017

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Saturday July 15

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Gojira

<br />Testament

<br />Devin Townsend Project

<br />Exodus

<br />Entombed A.D.

<br />Prong

<br />Toxik

<br />Vuur

<br />White Boy Wasted

|}

2018

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Saturday July 14

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Ghost

<br />Ministry

<br />Overkill

<br />Annihilator

<br />Leprous

<br />I Am Morbid

<br />VUUR <small>(replacing Sons of Apollo)</small>

<br />Iron Reagan

<br />Elephant

|}

2019

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Friday July 19

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Airbourne

<br />Avatar

<br />Eluveitie

<br />Grand Magus

<br />Jungle Rot

<br />Bæst

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Saturday July 20

|-

|valign="top" align="center" width=200|

Arch Enemy

<br />Steel Panther

<br />Carcass

<br />Metal Church

<br />Soulfly

<br />Phil Anselmo & the Illegals

<br />Armored Saint

<br />Tribulation

<br />Alien Weaponry

|}

2020

Festival cancelled due to the threat of coronavirus. Bands that were supposed to play were Exodus, Obituary, Midnight, Flotsam and Jetsam, Heaven Shall Burn, Sepultura, Jinjer and Beast in Black.

2021

Festival cancelled due to coronavirus. Bands that were supposed to play were Heaven Shall Burn, Testament, Bay Area Interthrashional, Sacred Reich, The Black Dahlia Murder, Firewind, Rings of Saturn, Amon Amarth, Candlemass, Clutch, Jinjer, Municipal Waste, Unleash the Archers and Dress the Dead.

2022

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Saturday August 20

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| valign="top" align="center" width="200" |

Testament

Candlemass

Exodus

Death Angel

Cattle Decapitation

Firewind

Vended

Dress the Dead

TankZilla

|}

{| class="wikitable"

| colspan="3" align="center" | Sunday August 21

|-

| valign="top" align="center" width="200" |

Kreator

Heaven Shall Burn

Lamb of God

Bay Area Interthrashional

Jinjer

Cannibal Corpse

Angelus Apatrida

Lik

Urne

|}

References

  • Official website