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Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is one of the many leading summer open air Heavy Metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 music festivals. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the Northern Germany of the sixteen States of Germany of Germany. Its capital city is Kiel, other notable cities are L?beck and Flensburg....
, northern Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. With 70,000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total of over 72,000 attendees in 2007, it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black metal
Black metal

Black metal is an extreme metal subgenre of Heavy metal music. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....
, death metal
Death metal

Death metal is an extreme metal subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs fast tempos, heavily distorted guitars, deep death growl vocals, morbid lyrics, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
, power metal
Power metal

Power metal is a style of heavy metal music combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with thrash metal or speed metal, often within symphonic context....
, thrash metal
Thrash metal

Thrash metal , is an extreme metal subgenre of heavy metal music that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with Shred guitar-style lead work....
, gothic metal
Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. It combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock....
 and also folk metal
Folk metal

Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with folk music....
, from around the world.

The festival was first held in 1990 as a small event for local German bands.






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Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is one of the many leading summer open air Heavy Metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 music festivals. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the Northern Germany of the sixteen States of Germany of Germany. Its capital city is Kiel, other notable cities are L?beck and Flensburg....
, northern Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. With 70,000 festival visitors, and including personnel a total of over 72,000 attendees in 2007, it attracts all kinds of metal music fans, such as fans of black metal
Black metal

Black metal is an extreme metal subgenre of Heavy metal music. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....
, death metal
Death metal

Death metal is an extreme metal subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs fast tempos, heavily distorted guitars, deep death growl vocals, morbid lyrics, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
, power metal
Power metal

Power metal is a style of heavy metal music combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with thrash metal or speed metal, often within symphonic context....
, thrash metal
Thrash metal

Thrash metal , is an extreme metal subgenre of heavy metal music that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with Shred guitar-style lead work....
, gothic metal
Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. It combines the aggression of heavy metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock....
 and also folk metal
Folk metal

Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with folk music....
, from around the world.

The festival was first held in 1990 as a small event for local German bands. By 1998 the event had become the major festival on the European metal calendar and one of the most important in the world and included over 70 bands from all over Europe, North America and Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. W:O:A is usually held at the beginning of August and lasts three days, during which the festival-goers camp on several large camping grounds surrounding the actual festival area. The 70 or more bands perform across four separate stages over the course of the event.

The 2009 edition set a sales record. It sold out on December 30 2008. All 70,000 tickets were sold over 200 days before the festival starts... A first time record where 2 Wacken festivals were sold out in the same year (2008 & 2009 both sold out in 2008)

Lineups


1990
August 24 - August 25 1990: 5th Avenue, Axe 'n Sex, Motoslug, Sacret Season, Skyline, Wizzard

1991
August 21 - August 22 1991: Bon Scott (HH), Gypsy Kyss, Kilgore, Life Artist, Ruby Red, Shanghai'd Guts, Skyline

1992
August 22 - August 23 1992: 5th Avenue, Asmodis, Ax'n Sex, Bad Sister, Bai Bang, Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian

Blind Guardian is a Germany heavy metal music band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. The band is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in power metal and speed metal subgenres, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , Sinne...
, De La Cruz, Doc Eisenhauer, Dr. Hörp, Eddie E., Highlander, Ides of March, Incubator, Jolly Hangman, Mama's Boys
Mama's Boys

Mama's Boys were a 1980s hard rock/heavy metal music group from County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland featuring the three McManus brothers Pat, a.k.a....
, Morbid Mind, Motoslug, Pagan Spell, Paradise, Play'n'Bleed, Saitensprünge, Saxon
Saxon (band)

Saxon are an England heavy metal music band, formed in 1977 in music in Burnley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums....
, Störspatzen of Des, STS 8 Mission, The Waltons
The Waltons (band)

The Waltons may refer to:* The Waltons, an American television series which ran from 1972 to 1981* The Waltons , an anarcho-punk band from the Isle of Wight...
, Vivian

1993
August 20 - August 22 1993: 5th Avenue, Abi Wallenstein, Ax'n Sex, Blue Velvet, Bon Scott (HH), Buddy Lackey, Châlice, Doro, Fast Lover, Fates Warning
Fates Warning

Fates Warning is a progressive metal band, formed in 1983 by John Arch, Jim Matheos, Victor Arduini, Joe DiBiase, and Steve Zimmerman in Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States...
, Gary Hughes, Gorefest
Gorefest

Gorefest is a Netherlands band from the Zeeland region of the Netherlands which was founded in 1989 as a death metal outfit by De Koeyer, Harthoorn, van Schaik and Hoogendoorn....
, Häwi Mädels, Heavenward, Highlander, Holocaust
Holocaust (band)

Holocaust were a progressive heavy metal music band based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded in 1977 while still at high school, the original lineup became part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement....
, Jacks Hammer, Jingo de Lunch, Michael Dickes, Noisy Act of Protest, Plan B, Railway, RAX
Rax

The Rax is a mountain range at the border of the Austrian federal provinces Lower Austria and Styria, situated in the Northern Limestone Alps....
, Riverdogs
Riverdogs

The Riverdogs is a rock band, founded in Los Angeles in the early 1990s....
, Samael
Samael (band)

Samael is a heavy metal music band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland....
, Sahara, Skew Siskin
Skew Siskin

Skew Siskin are a german hard rock band best known for their 1992 song If The Walls Could Talk, which was a minor hit on MTV.Fronted by Nina C....
, Torment, Toy, Trespass, Vivian, Warpath

1994
August 19 - August 20 1994: Ace Öf Spades, Atrocity
Atrocity (band)

Atrocity is a Germany Heavy metal music band formed in Ludwigsburg....
, Chemical Breath, Deceased
Deceased (band)

Deceased is a death metal/thrash metal band from Virginia, that has attained a dedicated, though cult following throughout a lengthy recording and live career....
, Decision D, Dixi Gunworks, Easy Livin' (Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep (band)

Uriah Heep are an English people rock music band, formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice , a band signed to his own Bronze Records label....
 feat. Markus Grosskopf from Helloween
Helloween

Helloween are a Germany power metal/speed metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands, being part of the German Heavy metal music/speed/power metal scene that included Accept, Running Wild , Blind Guardian, Grave Digger , Sinner , and Rage ....
), Gamma Ray
Gamma Ray (band)

Gamma Ray is a power metal band from north Germany, founded by former Helloween guitarist, singer, and songwriter Kai Hansen....
, Hannes Bauer & Orchester, Gnadenlos, Ken Templin, Many Acts Of Maniacs, Moray, Pagandom, Paul Di'Anno's Killers
Paul Di'Anno

Paul Andrews , better known as Paul Di'Anno, was the first prominent singer in the band Iron Maiden from 1978 to 1981.In his post-Maiden career, Di'Anno has issued numerous albums over the years, as both a solo artist and as a member of such bands as Gogmagog , Di'Anno's Battlezone, Praying Mantis , and Killers....
, Prollhead, Rausch, Riff Raff, Riverdogs
Riverdogs

The Riverdogs is a rock band, founded in Los Angeles in the early 1990s....
, Roan, Saintcatee, Skyclad
Skyclad (band)

Skyclad are a United Kingdom heavy metal band with heavy Traditional music influences in their music. They are considered one of the pioneers of folk metal....
, Stoney Rudolph & The Happy Mc Cardies, Suiciety, Tears for Beers, The Tea Party
The Tea Party

The Tea Party were a Canada rock and roll band with blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed "Moroccan roll" by the media....
, The Waltons
The Waltons (UK band)

The Waltons were an anarchic band from the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. The socio-political post-Punk rock/Rock 5-piece fronted by Tony Gregson , had one minor hit with Brown Rice in the mid-eighties and starred in an early Colin Nutley movie shot on the island called about an Island boy falling in love with a Swedish exchange stu...
, Torment, U.K. Subs

1995
August 19 - August 20 1995: 5th Avenue, Amentia, Angra
Angra (band)

Angra is a heavy metal music band from S?o Paulo , Brazil known for its use of symphonic interludes, highly technical guitar playing, and regional elements in their songs....
, Bad Sister, Châlice, Creep, D:A:D
D-A-D

D-A-D is a Denmark rock band previously known as Disneyland After Dark, a name that had to be changed after a threatening lawsuit from The Walt Disney Company....
, Dark At Down, Das Auge Gottes, Depressive Age, Dixie Gunworks, Ghosts of Dawn, Graue Zellen, Hate Squad, Laberinto, More About Dogs, Morgoth
Morgoth (band)

Morgoth was a Germany death metal band that was formed in 1987 R?diger Hennecke and Carsten Otterbach in Meschede. Originally the name Cadaverous Smell was used and the band played grindcore / noise style....
, Paragon
Paragon (band)

Paragon is a Speed metal/power metal band from Hamburg, Germany....
, Phantoms of Future, Pothead, Power of Expression, Pretty Maids
Pretty Maids

Pretty Maids is a heavy metal music/Album-oriented rock band formed in Horsens, Denmark, by Ronnie Atkins and Ken Hammer in 1981 in music. Their sound can be defined as something between Europe and Running Wild....
, Prime, Rape, Revelation, Schweisser
Schweisser

Schweisser was a Germany heavy metal music band that formed in 1990. They produced five albums before breaking up in 2001.In 2006, lead singer Tommi B?ck revived the band, although he is the only remaining original member....
, Solitude Aeturnus
Solitude Aeturnus

Solitude Aeturnus is an American doom metal band that was started in spring 1987 as Solitude, in Arlington, Texas. Their vocalist, Robert Lowe, is also the current singer for the influential doom metal band Candlemass....
, Temple of the Absurd, Tiamat
Tiamat (band)

Tiamat is a heavy metal music band that formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1988. Their music has been the subject of debate, utilizing subgenres like black metal, Progressive metal, Doom metal/Death metal and Gothic metal, but more recently they have focused on what has been described as "rock music"...
, Trauma, Trieb, Vanden Plas
Vanden Plas (band)

Vanden Plas is a Germany progressive metal band, based in Kaiserslautern and founded in the mid 1980s. In 1991 they recorded the song "Keep On Running" as an anthem for the local national league football club 1....
, Vocation

1996
August 9 - August 10 1996: Asylum, Atrocity
Atrocity (band)

Atrocity is a Germany Heavy metal music band formed in Ludwigsburg....
, Bad Sister, Big Nothing, Böhse Onkelz
Böhse Onkelz

The B?hse Onkelz were a Germany Rock band....
, Crematory
Crematory (band)

Crematory is a gothic metal/death metal band formed in Mannheim, Germany in 1991.The band received its earliest recognition in the mid-1990s by touring with My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity ....
, Desert Storm, Dice, Dimple Minds, Dritte Wahl, Gorefest
Gorefest

Gorefest is a Netherlands band from the Zeeland region of the Netherlands which was founded in 1989 as a death metal outfit by De Koeyer, Harthoorn, van Schaik and Hoogendoorn....
, Gorn
Gorn

In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Gorn are intelligent reptilian humanoids from the Gorn Hegemony....
, Grave Digger
Grave Digger (band)

Grave Digger are a Germany Heavy metal music/power metal band formed in 1980. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Rage ....
, Grind Machine, Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come (band)

Kingdom Come is a hard rock band fronted by Hamburg-born vocalist Lenny Wolf. The group's first album, Kingdom Come was that band's only international hit....
, Kreator
Kreator

Kreator are a Germany thrash metal band from Essen, Germany. They started their career in 1982, under the name Tormentor. They originally played thrash metal with Venom influences....
, Manos, Oomph!
Oomph!

OOMPH! is a Germany Neue Deutsche H?rte band that was formed in Wolfsburg, Germany in 1989 and is often considered to be the original NDH band....
, Pyogenesis
Pyogenesis

Pyogenesis is alternative rock band from Hamburg, Germany.Formed as Immortal Hate by Tim Eiermann, Joe Proell and Pit Muley, they recorded their demo Pyogenesis of a Festered Corpse in September 1990....
, Ramones Mania
Ramones Mania

Ramones Mania is the first compilation by the American punk band the Ramones. It includes thirty Ramones songs, including some single versions, namely "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker," "Needles and Pins ," and "Howling at the Moon", a A-side and B-side, "Indian Giver" and one previously- unissued song version, the stereo movie mix of "Rock 'n' R...
, Randalica, Ricochet
Ricochet (band)

Ricochet is an American country music band whose members hail from the state of Oklahoma. The band was founded in 1993 by brothers Jeff Bryant and Junior Bryant , along with Greg Cook , Teddy Carr , Eddie Kilgallon , and Heath Wright ....
, Schweisser
Schweisser

Schweisser was a Germany heavy metal music band that formed in 1990. They produced five albums before breaking up in 2001.In 2006, lead singer Tommi B?ck revived the band, although he is the only remaining original member....
, Secret Discovery, Sieges Even
Sieges Even

Sieges Even was a progressive rock/Progressive metal band from Munich, Germany. The band was originally formed under the name Sodom in the early 80s and released their first demo in 1983 before becoming Sieges Even in 1985....
, Temple of the Absurd, Theatre of Tragedy
Theatre of Tragedy

Theatre of Tragedy is a Norway band from Stavanger, originally assembled in 1992 and best known for their earlier albums, which provided a great deal of influence to the gothic metal genre....
, The Exploited
The Exploited

The Exploited are a Scotland punk band from the UK82, formed in 1979.They started out as an Oi! band, before transforming into a faster street punk and hardcore punk band....
, The Gathering
The Gathering (band)

The Gathering is a Netherlands band which came to fame in the second half of 1990s with vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen.Their first two albums, Always... and Almost a Dance , which played a part in the formation of gothic metal, were recorded with four different vocalists....
, Tom Angelripper
Tom Angelripper

Tom Angelripper is the founding member and main songwriter of the Germany thrash metal band Sodom . In this band he plays the bass guitar and handles the vocals....
, Vicki Vomit, Whils

1997
August 8 - August 9 1997: Aion
Aion (band)

Aion is a Poland gothic metal band formed in 1996....
, Alastis
Alastis

Alastis are a dark metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland....
, Amorphis
Amorphis

Amorphis is a Finland heavy metal music band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a straightforward death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other types of genres....
, Birth Control, Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian symphonic black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. "Dimmu Borgir" means "Dark Cities" or "Dark Fortresses" in Icelandic language and Old Norse....
, Dismember
Dismember (band)

Dismember is a Sweden death metal band that formed from members of Carnage in 1988. They are well known in the extreme metal underground....
, Dissection
Dissection (band)

Dissection was a black/death metal band from Str?mstad, Sweden. The band was formed in 1989 by Jon N?dtveidt, and released its first EP in 1991....
, Don Bosco, Entrust, Fox Force Five, Gainsay, Grave Digger
Grave Digger (band)

Grave Digger are a Germany Heavy metal music/power metal band formed in 1980. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Rage ....
, Grinning Sinner, Hammerfall
HammerFall

HammerFall is a heavy metal music/power metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed in 1993 by ex-Ceremonial Oath's guitarist Oscar Dronjak....
, Hassmütz, In Flames
In Flames

In Flames is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1990. The band is considered to be a pioneer and major influence to the melodic death metal music genre....
, Iron Savior
Iron Savior

Iron Savior is a Germany power metal band formed by Piet Sielck, Kai Hansen, and Thomas "Thomen" Stauch. The band has a science fiction theme to their writing....
, Late September Dogs, Lake of Tears
Lake of Tears

Lake of Tears is a Sweden band, generally considered to play Gothic metal and Doom metal. However, their sound has evolved considerably over the course of their career, expanding to include psychedelic rock and progressive metal....
, Love Gun
Love Gun

Love Gun is an album by the United States hard rock band Kiss . It was certified Platinum album on June 30, 1977 when it sold 1,000,000 copies....
, Motörhead
Motörhead

Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
, Mummlox, Overkill
Overkill (band)

Overkill is an United States thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. The band has been recording since 1984, releasing 14 studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums and a "cover version" album....
, Paunch, Rage & Lingua Mortis Orchester
Rage (band)

Rage are a Germany Heavy metal music band, formed in 1984. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Grave Digger ....
, Raven
Raven (band)

Raven are an England Heavy metal music band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. They had a hit with the single "On and On", and refer to their music as "athletic rock"....
, Rock Bitch, Samael
Samael (band)

Samael is a heavy metal music band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland....
, Saviour Machine
Saviour Machine

Saviour Machine is a neoclassical metal Christian metal gothic metal symphonic metal band from California, United States, formed in 1989. The band is known for its epic music and lyrics that deal with the End Times....
, Scanner, Sceptic Acceptance, Sinner
Sinner (band)

Sinner are a Germany Heavy metal music band formed by vocalist and bassist Mat Sinner in 1982 . They were part of the German heavy/speed metal/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , and Rage ....
, Sodom
Sodom (band)

Sodom is a Germany thrash metal band from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1982.Along with Kreator and Destruction , Sodom are considered one of the "big three" of Teutonic thrash metal....
, Steiger, Subway to Sally
Subway to Sally

Subway to Sally was founded in Potsdam, Germany, in the early 1990s. It is a rock band with clear folk and medieval influences, later also with gothic and metal elements added to the mix....
, Tank
Tank (band)

Tank is a United Kingdom Heavy metal music band, formed in 1980 by Algy Ward, a former member of The Damned. The band is considered to be part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement....
, Theatre Of Tragedy
Theatre of Tragedy

Theatre of Tragedy is a Norway band from Stavanger, originally assembled in 1992 and best known for their earlier albums, which provided a great deal of influence to the gothic metal genre....
, The Automanic, Therion
Therion (band)

Therion is a Swedish Heavy metal music band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek language therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christianity Book of Revelation....
, Tom Angelripper
Tom Angelripper

Tom Angelripper is the founding member and main songwriter of the Germany thrash metal band Sodom . In this band he plays the bass guitar and handles the vocals....
, Torment, Totenmond
Totenmond

Totenmond is a German people Heavy metal music-band with its own combination of Punk rock, Black metal and thrash metal.The music made by Totenmond is hard to define....
, U.D.O.
U.D.O.

U.D.O. is a Germany Heavy metal music band founded by lead singer Udo Dirkschneider in 1987. Closely tied to the name U.D.O. is Accept, founded by Udo Dirkschneider and Michael Wagener in Solingen, which was the predecessor of U.D.O....
, Umbra Et Imago, Undish
Undish

Undish is a gothic metal band from Oborniki, Poland, formed in 1991. The band is notable for its unique music and the fact that they are one of the more well-known Christian gothic metal groups active in the 1990s....
, Virgin Steele
Virgin Steele

Virgin Steele is a Heavy metal music band from New York. Originally formed in 1981, the band is worldwide considered one of the founders of Epic metal music....
, Waltari
Waltari

Waltari is a band from Finland, known for their diversity and combination of music styles, frequently combining death metal, hard rock, heavy metal music, hip hop music, industrial music, pop music, progressive metal, punk rock, rap, symphonic metal, techno and thrash metal....
, Zed Yago

1998
August 7 - August 8 1998: Am I Blood
Am I Blood

Am I Blood, formerly named St. Mucus, is a heavy metal music/thrash metal band from Kerava, Finland. The band was formed in 1992 with later to be Amorphis front-man Pasi Koskinen, who was originally the singer of the band....
, Angel Dust
Angel Dust (band)

Angel Dust are a power metal band originating from Dortmund, Germany that started off as a typical garage band. Taking their name from a song title off the black metal band Venom debut album Welcome To Hell, Angel Dust was founded in 1981....
, Anvil
Anvil (band)

Anvil are a Canadian Heavy Metal music band.The roots of Anvil began in April 1973 in Toronto, Ontario, when high school friends Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner began playing music together....
, Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy (band)

Arch Enemy is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 1996 by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan Liiva, both originally from the influential death metal band Carnage ....
, Atrocity
Atrocity (band)

Atrocity is a Germany Heavy metal music band formed in Ludwigsburg....
, Benediction
Benediction (band)

Benediction is a United Kingdom death metal band from Birmingham, England. They were formed in February 1989....
, Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian

Blind Guardian is a Germany heavy metal music band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. The band is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in power metal and speed metal subgenres, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , Sinne...
, Blind Passenger, Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg (band)

Blitzkrieg are a heavy metal music band from Leicester formed in 1980, consisting of Brian Ross , Ken Johnson , Guy Laverick , Paul Brewis and Phil Brewis ....
, Bonfire
Bonfire (band)

Bonfire is a Germany heavy metal music band, founded in Ingolstadt, Germany in 1972....
, Borknagar
Borknagar

Borknagar is a Progressive metal black metal band from Bergen, Norway, Norway, founded in 1995 by ?ystein Garnes Brun. The band's style combines folk metal and black metal with progressive and melodic elements....
, Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom

Children of Bodom is a Finland melodic death metal and power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 1993. As of 2009, the band consists of guitarist and vocalist Alexi Laiho, guitarist Roope Latvala, keyboardist Janne Wirman, bassist Henkka Sepp?l?, and drummer Jaska Raatikainen....
, Covenant
Covenant (band)

Covenant is a band from Sweden that has composed electronic music. They have been releasing their music since the 1990s....
, Crack Up, Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth

Cradle of Filth are an extreme metal band from Suffolk, England, formed in 1991. They have been embraced and disowned with equal fervour by various metal communities, and their particular subgenre has provoked a Cradle of Filth#Genre....
, Crematory
Crematory (band)

Crematory is a gothic metal/death metal band formed in Mannheim, Germany in 1991.The band received its earliest recognition in the mid-1990s by touring with My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity ....
, Darkseed
Darkseed (German band)

Darkseed was a Germany gothic metal band, active from 1992 to 2006. Lead vocalist Stefan Hertrich left the band in 2003, only to return in 2004 to make "Ultimate Darkness", which was released in 2005....
, Dew-Scented
Dew-Scented

Dew-Scented is a Germany thrash metal band. They have released 7 studio albums so far and are currently signed to Nuclear Blast Records. Their name is inspired by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe....
, Disbelief, Doro, Dritte Wahl
Dritte Wahl

Dritte Wahl [] is a Germany Punk rock Group from Rostock in Germany.Dritte Wahl first performed in 1988. Back then Holm was on the bass, but he left the band in 1991....
, Edguy
Edguy

Edguy is a power metal band from Fulda, Germany that was formed in 1992....
, Gamma Ray
Gamma Ray (band)

Gamma Ray is a power metal band from north Germany, founded by former Helloween guitarist, singer, and songwriter Kai Hansen....
, Goddess Of Desire, Gorgoroth, Hades Almighty
Hades Almighty

Hades Almighty are a black metal band hailing from Bergen, Norway. They were formed in 1992, originally under the moniker Hades. They were forced to change their name to Hades Almighty in 1998, following complaints from an American band with a prior claim to the name....
, Haggard
Haggard (band)

Haggard is a Germany symphonic metal musical group founded in 1991. The group combines folk, classical music, Renaissance music and medieval music music with modern heavy metal music....
, Heavenwood, Hollow, Holy Mother, Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy (band)

Hypocrisy is a death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter T?gtgren.Musically, the band's style has drifted from a traditional death metal sound on their early albums, to a more melodic death metal sound....
, Iced Earth
Iced Earth

Iced Earth is an United States Heavy metal music band from Tampa, Florida, Florida that combines influences from thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal, opera, speed metal and New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
, Iron Savior
Iron Savior

Iron Savior is a Germany power metal band formed by Piet Sielck, Kai Hansen, and Thomas "Thomen" Stauch. The band has a science fiction theme to their writing....
, In Extremo
In Extremo

"In Extremo" is a Germany medieval metal band originating from Berlin. The band's musical style combines metal with medieval traditional songs, blending the sound of the standard rock/metal instruments with historical instruments ....
, J.B.O.
J.B.O.

J.B.O. is a Heavy metal music band from Erlangen, Germany. J.B.O. was founded in 1989 by Vito C. and Hannes "G.Laber" Holzmann and is known for parody of rock and pop songs....
, Krabathor
Krabathor

Krabathor is a death metal band from Uhersk? Hradi?te, Czech Republic that was founded by Christopher in 1984. The name of the band is inspired by Krabat, the main character of German fairy tale The Satanic Mill....
, Kreator
Kreator

Kreator are a Germany thrash metal band from Essen, Germany. They started their career in 1982, under the name Tormentor. They originally played thrash metal with Venom influences....
, Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil is an Italy gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of Gothic aesthetics imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlaid with prominent key...
, Manos, Nevermore
Nevermore

Nevermore is an United States Heavy metal music band from Seattle, Washington assembled in 1991 from the ashes of the power metal band Sanctuary ....
, Night In Gales, Nocturnal Rites
Nocturnal Rites

Nocturnal Rites is a Sweden power metal band formed in 1990....
, Old Man's Child
Old Man's Child

Old Man's Child is a melodic black metal band from Norway....
, Pegazus
Pegazus

Pegazus are an Australian heavy metal music band from Melbourne. The band came to international notice after being signed by Nuclear blast records in 1997 and toured Europe the following year but since then the band has faded....
, Postmortem, Primal Fear
Primal Fear (band)

Primal Fear is a Germany power metal/Heavy metal music band formed in 1997 by Ralf Scheepers , Mat Sinner , Stefan Leibing and Tom Naumann . Their style is a heavy power metal sound with the Rob Halford type vocals of Ralf Scheepers....
, Raise Hell, Rough Silk, Ryker's, Sacred Steel, Sadist
Sadist (band)

Sadist is a Death metal#Technical death metal/Progressive death metal band from Genoa, Italy, founded in 1991. The band split up in 2000 after releasing their Lego album, but reunited in 2005 and released their Sadist in 2007....
, Savatage
Savatage

Savatage is a progressive metal band founded by the brothers Jon Oliva and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Although they were known mainly as a progressive metal band, their origins could be attributed to classic Heavy metal music, as expressed by their debut album, Sirens ....
, Sentenced, Skyclad
Skyclad (band)

Skyclad are a United Kingdom heavy metal band with heavy Traditional music influences in their music. They are considered one of the pioneers of folk metal....
, Soulburn, Sons Of Damnation, Stahlhammer, Stigmata IV, Stratovarius
Stratovarius

Stratovarius is a Finland power metal band that formed in 1983. Their material contains elements of power metal and symphonic metal....
, Sundown
Sundown (band)

Sundown was a gothic metal band formed by Mathias Lodmalm and Johnny Hagel, after disbanding their previous band, Cemetary. It was itself disbanded again when Mathias Lodmalm reformed Cemetary together with Christian Silver and Herman Engstr?m....
, Sweet Noise
Sweet Noise

Sweet Noise is a Poland alternative metal/hard rock band, using also synthetisers and turntables. The band released several CD and appeared at the Przystanek Woodstock festival....
, Sweet Savage
Sweet Savage

Musical Style Sweet Savage's music is a mixture of hard rock & heavy metal, with its heaviness of two guitars, thundering bass & powerhouse drums....
, Tom Angelripper
Tom Angelripper

Tom Angelripper is the founding member and main songwriter of the Germany thrash metal band Sodom . In this band he plays the bass guitar and handles the vocals....
, Tankard
Tankard (band)

Tankard is a thrash metal band from Frankfurt, Germany, founded in 1982. After losing their guitarist because of their image as a bunch of drunks, they moved on to issue their first record in 1986....
, Temple Of The Absurd, Devin Townsend
Devin Townsend

Devin Garret Townsend is a Canada multi-instrumentalist musician, vocalist and record producer. He was the founding member and driving force of the extreme metal outfit Strapping Young Lad, and has released a multitude of solo albums....
, Unrest
Unrest (band)

Unrest is an indie rock band from the Washington, D.C. area. It was one of Mark Robinson projects for what would eventually become the TeenBeat Records label, also created by Mark while in high school....
, Vader
Vader (band)

Vader is a death metal band from Olsztyn, Poland, founded in 1983. According to Piotr Wiwczarek, the band's founding singer and guitar player, the band's name was inspired by Darth Vader from the Star Wars film series....
, Virgin Steele
Virgin Steele

Virgin Steele is a Heavy metal music band from New York. Originally formed in 1981, the band is worldwide considered one of the founders of Epic metal music....
, Voivod
Voivod (band)

Voivod are a Canada Heavy metal music band from Jonqui?re, Quebec, Quebec, Canada. Their musical style has changed several times since the band's origin in the early 1980s....
, Warrior
Warrior (band)

Warrior is an United States Heavy metal music band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1983....


1999
August 6 - August 7 1999: Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth (band)

Amon Amarth is a Viking-themed melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden, Sweden, founded in 1988 , and named after an alternative name for Mount Doom, a location in J....
, Angra
Angra (band)

Angra is a heavy metal music band from S?o Paulo , Brazil known for its use of symphonic interludes, highly technical guitar playing, and regional elements in their songs....
, Agent Steel
Agent Steel

Agent Steel is an United States speed metal band from Los Angeles, California that was formed in 1984 by the Brazilian singer John Cyriis and drummer Chuck Profus....
, Atrocity
Atrocity (band)

Atrocity is a Germany Heavy metal music band formed in Ludwigsburg....
, Axel Rudi Pell
Axel Rudi Pell

Axel Rudi Pell is a Germany guitar player, playing melodic heavy metal. He started off with the band Steeler before leaving to start his solo career in 1989 with the eponymous band Axel Rudi Pell....
, Axxis
Axxis

Axxis is a Germany power metal band which was founded in 1988. Their debut album "Kingdom of the Night", became the best ever selling debut album by a hard rock band in Germany in 1989....
, Blind Passenger, Bewitched
Bewitched (Swedish band)

Bewitched is a Swedish retro thrash metal band with black metal elements.The Devil's most favorite band mission began in 1995, when VARGHER and BLACKHEIM decided that something drastic had to be done....
, Brainstorm, Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band, formed in Buffalo, New York in 1988. The band has released eleven studio albums, one boxed set, and one live album....
, Crematory
Crematory (band)

Crematory is a gothic metal/death metal band formed in Mannheim, Germany in 1991.The band received its earliest recognition in the mid-1990s by touring with My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity ....
, The Cult
The Cult

The Cult are an England Rock music band which gained a dedicated following in their native Britain with mid-1980s singles like "She Sells Sanctuary" before breaking into the American metal market in the late '80s with "Love Removal Machine"....
, Death SS, Destiny's End, Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian symphonic black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. "Dimmu Borgir" means "Dark Cities" or "Dark Fortresses" in Icelandic language and Old Norse....
, Destruction
Destruction (band)

Destruction are a Germany thrash metal band from L?rrach, in southern Germany. They are considered one of the "three kings" of the Teutonic thrash metal scene; the others being Kreator and Sodom ....
, Eisregen, Eläkeläiset
Eläkeläiset

El?kel?iset are a Finnish humppa band founded in 1993. They specialise in humppa and jenkka music and have been successful in Germany, Finland and elsewhere....
, Enslaved
Enslaved (band)

Enslaved is a progressive metal black metal Band formed in 1991 in Haugesund, Norway, Norway, and currently based out of Bergen, Norway, Norway....
, Edguy
Edguy

Edguy is a power metal band from Fulda, Germany that was formed in 1992....
, Europe
Europe (band)

Europe is a Sweden Rock music band formed in Upplands V?sby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum. Although widely associated with glam metal, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal music and hard rock elements....
, Fates Warning
Fates Warning

Fates Warning is a progressive metal band, formed in 1983 by John Arch, Jim Matheos, Victor Arduini, Joe DiBiase, and Steve Zimmerman in Hartford, Connecticut, Connecticut, United States...
, God Dethroned
God Dethroned

God Dethroned is a melodic death metal band from the Netherlands....
, Graveworm
Graveworm

Graveworm is a melodic black metal band with strong influences from gothic metal and death metal . Originating from Bruneck, Italy, they formed in 1992....
, HammerFall
HammerFall

HammerFall is a heavy metal music/power metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed in 1993 by ex-Ceremonial Oath's guitarist Oscar Dronjak....
, Immortal
Immortal (band)

Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway, Norway. The band was formed by Abbathand Demonaz Doom Occulta after their previous band, Amputation, did not take off....
, In Aeternum, In Extremo
In Extremo

"In Extremo" is a Germany medieval metal band originating from Berlin. The band's musical style combines metal with medieval traditional songs, blending the sound of the standard rock/metal instruments with historical instruments ....
, Jaguar, Jag Panzer
Jag Panzer

Jag Panzer is a heavy metal music band from the United States....
, Killer, Leatherwolf
Leatherwolf

Leatherwolf is an Orange County, California and Los Angeles-based hard rock and heavy metal music band known for their triple lead guitar approach....
, Labyrinth
Labyrinth (band)

Labyrinth is a power metal band formed in 1991 in Massa, Italy. The band underwent a change in style and themes after the departure of Olaf Thorsen in 2002....
, Lefay, Marduk
Marduk (band)

Marduk is a black metal band from Norrk?ping, Sweden. The band formed in 1991 and released their first record that year, placing them among the pioneers of Swedish black metal....
, Marshall Law
Marshall Law

Marshall Law was an Australian television series, which aired for one season in 2002....
, Mayhem, Memory Garden, Metal Church
Metal Church

Metal Church is an United States heavy metal music band from Aberdeen, Washington. They formed as Shrapnel in 1981, their first album was released in 1984, and the band's most recent work, This Present Wasteland, was released in 2008 in heavy metal music....
, Metalium
Metalium

Metalium is a power metal band from Hamburg, Germany, Germany. Their style of music is that of the traditional power metal sound which was pioneered in Hamburg by bands such as Helloween and Blind Guardian....
, Mindfeed, Mystic Circle
Mystic Circle

Mystic Circle is a German melodic black metal band....
, Napalm Death
Napalm Death

Napalm Death are an English death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. They are noted for being the first band to play the style known as grindcore....
, Nevermore
Nevermore

Nevermore is an United States Heavy metal music band from Seattle, Washington assembled in 1991 from the ashes of the power metal band Sanctuary ....
, Paradox, Paragon
Paragon (band)

Paragon is a Speed metal/power metal band from Hamburg, Germany....
, Pariah, Powergod, Pretty Maids
Pretty Maids

Pretty Maids is a heavy metal music/Album-oriented rock band formed in Horsens, Denmark, by Ronnie Atkins and Ken Hammer in 1981 in music. Their sound can be defined as something between Europe and Running Wild....
, Primal Fear
Primal Fear (band)

Primal Fear is a Germany power metal/Heavy metal music band formed in 1997 by Ralf Scheepers , Mat Sinner , Stefan Leibing and Tom Naumann . Their style is a heavy power metal sound with the Rob Halford type vocals of Ralf Scheepers....
, Rage
Rage (band)

Rage are a Germany Heavy metal music band, formed in 1984. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Grave Digger ....
, Razor
Razor (band)

Razor is a Canada speed metal/thrash metal band formed in 1984 at Guelph, Ontario. The group shot music videos for songs such as "Evil Invaders", "Shotgun Justice", "American Luck", and "Sucker for Punishment"....
, Reverend Jürgen & Igor, Richthofen, Roland Grapow & Band
Roland Grapow

Roland Grapow, born 30 August 1959 in Hamburg, Germany is a professional guitarist. Roland is most well known for his time in the power metal band Helloween, who he played with for 12 years after replacing founding member Kai Hansen....
, Saxon
Saxon (band)

Saxon are an England heavy metal music band, formed in 1977 in music in Burnley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums....
, Sinner
Sinner (band)

Sinner are a Germany Heavy metal music band formed by vocalist and bassist Mat Sinner in 1982 . They were part of the German heavy/speed metal/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , and Rage ....
, Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under (band)

Six Feet Under is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 1993. The band was originally a side project by Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes with guitarist Allen West of Obituary ....
, Solitude Aeturnus
Solitude Aeturnus

Solitude Aeturnus is an American doom metal band that was started in spring 1987 as Solitude, in Arlington, Texas. Their vocalist, Robert Lowe, is also the current singer for the influential doom metal band Candlemass....
, Spock's Beard
Spock's Beard

Spock's Beard is a progressive rock band formed in 1992 in Los Angeles, California by brothers Neal Morse and Alan Morse. Neal played keyboards and was the lead singer, as well as being the primary songwriter before leaving the band in 2002 to pursue a solo career....
, Steel Prophet
Steel Prophet

Steel Prophet is an United States power metal band led by the founder and main writer Steve Kachinsky....
, Subway to Sally
Subway to Sally

Subway to Sally was founded in Potsdam, Germany, in the early 1990s. It is a rock band with clear folk and medieval influences, later also with gothic and metal elements added to the mix....
, The Crown
The Crown

Throughout the Commonwealth realms, the Crown is an abstract metonymy concept which represents the legal authority for the existence of any government....
, Temple of the Absurd, Therion
Therion (band)

Therion is a Swedish Heavy metal music band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek language therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christianity Book of Revelation....
, Threshold
Threshold (band)

Threshold is a progressive metal band, formed in Surrey, UK in the late 1980s....
, Torment, Totenmond
Totenmond

Totenmond is a German people Heavy metal music-band with its own combination of Punk rock, Black metal and thrash metal.The music made by Totenmond is hard to define....
, Tristania
Tristania (band)

Tristania is a gothic metal band from Norway, formed in the end of 1996 by Morten Veland, Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson....
, Tygers of Pan Tang
Tygers Of Pan Tang

Tygers of Pan Tang are a Heavy metal music band originating from Whitley Bay in the North-East of England, formed in 1978. They are a notable band of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement....
, The Gathering
The Gathering (band)

The Gathering is a Netherlands band which came to fame in the second half of 1990s with vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen.Their first two albums, Always... and Almost a Dance , which played a part in the formation of gothic metal, were recorded with four different vocalists....
, The Sygnet, Tom Angelripper
Tom Angelripper

Tom Angelripper is the founding member and main songwriter of the Germany thrash metal band Sodom . In this band he plays the bass guitar and handles the vocals....
, U.D.O.
U.D.O.

U.D.O. is a Germany Heavy metal music band founded by lead singer Udo Dirkschneider in 1987. Closely tied to the name U.D.O. is Accept, founded by Udo Dirkschneider and Michael Wagener in Solingen, which was the predecessor of U.D.O....
, Uli Jon Roth, Umbra et Imago, Warrant, Wardog, Warhammer, Witchery, Whiplash
Whiplash (band)

Whiplash is an American thrash metal/speed metal band. The band was founded in 1984 in Passaic, New Jersey by the three Tonys: Tony Portaro , Tony Scaglione and Tony Bono ....


2000
August 4 - August 5 2000: Agathodaimon
Agathodaimon (band)

Agathodaimon is a gothic metal/black metal band from Mainz, Germany....
, Ancient
Ancient (band)

Ancient is a Norway melodic black metal formed in 1992. The band has released six full-length albums and is currently signed to Metal Blade Records....
, Angel Witch
Angel Witch

Angel Witch is a United Kingdom heavy metal music band which formed in London, England in 1977 in music as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement....
, Annihilator
Annihilator (band)

Annihilator is a Canadian thrash metal band formed in 1984. They debuted with the critically-acclaimed album, Alice in Hell in 1989....
, Artillery
Artillery (band)

Artillery is a Denmark technical thrash metal musical band. They participated in the early development of the genre, and their highly energetic, riff-centric and often fast-paced music is similar in style to that of Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica from the same era....
, Black Sweden, Black Label Society
Black Label Society

Black Label Society is a Heavy metal music band formed by Zakk Wylde, with seven studio albums released to date....
, Blaze Bayley
Blaze Bayley

Blaze Bayley is the Singer for the Heavy metal music band Blaze . He was also the lead singer of Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999....
, Breaker, Chantal Chevalier, Dark At Dawn, Dark Age, Dark Funeral
Dark Funeral

Dark Funeral is a black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. They are one of the bands to have emerged in Sweden during the Second wave of black metal....
, Dee Snider
Dee Snider

Daniel Dee Snider is an United States of America musician, DJ, and actor. Snider is most famous for his role as the frontman of the Heavy metal music band Twisted Sister....
, Demon
Demon (band)

Demon are an England heavy metal music musical ensemble, formed in 1980 by singing Dave Hill and guitarist Mal Spooner, both hailing from Leek, Staffordshire, Staffordshire....
, Doro, Deranged, Desperados, Engine, Entombed
Entombed (band)

Entombed is a Sweden death metal band which formed in 1987 under the name of Nihilist . Though Entombed began their career as an early pioneer of Scandinavian death metal, by the early 1990s their sound had broadened to include hardcore punk and other influences....
, Freedom Call
Freedom Call

Freedom Call is a Germany power metal band formed in 1998....
, Gamma Ray
Gamma Ray (band)

Gamma Ray is a power metal band from north Germany, founded by former Helloween guitarist, singer, and songwriter Kai Hansen....
, Gaskin
Gaskin

Gaskin may refer to the following:People* Barbara Gaskin - British singer* Edward Gaskin - educator and labor leader* Stephen Gaskin - U.S. counterculture hippie icon...
, Grim Reaper
Grim Reaper (band)

Grim Reaper are a United Kingdom heavy metal music band from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era. The band were formed in 1979 in Droitwich Spa, England, by guitarist Nick Bowcott....
, Hades, Heir Apparent
Heir apparent

An heir apparent is an heir who cannot be displaced from inheriting; the term is used in contrast to heir presumptive, the term for a conditional heir who is currently in line to inherit but could be displaced at any time in the future....
, Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy (band)

Hypocrisy is a death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter T?gtgren.Musically, the band's style has drifted from a traditional death metal sound on their early albums, to a more melodic death metal sound....
, Iced Earth
Iced Earth

Iced Earth is an United States Heavy metal music band from Tampa, Florida, Florida that combines influences from thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal, opera, speed metal and New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
, Immolation
Immolation (band)

Immolation is a death metal band from Yonkers, New York....
, Jacob's Dream, Knorkator
Knorkator

Knorkator was a Germany band from Berlin that combined Heavy metal music with comical elements. They proclaimed themselves to be "Germany's most band in the world" , as the title "The best band in the world" was already taken by Die ?rzte....
, Labyrinth
Labyrinth (band)

Labyrinth is a power metal band formed in 1991 in Massa, Italy. The band underwent a change in style and themes after the departure of Olaf Thorsen in 2002....
, Late Nite Romeo, Liege Lord
Liege Lord

Liege Lord Formed by Matt Vinci, Anthony Truglio and Frank Cortese legendary American Speed metal/power metal band, active in the 1980s and considered to be one of the true pioneers of the genre....
, Lizzy Borden
Lizzy Borden (band)

Lizzy Borden is an United States Heavy metal music band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. Lizzy Borden is also the name of the band's lead vocalist....
, Lock Up
Lock Up (UK band)

Lock Up is a, currently on hold, deathgrind side project created by bassist Shane Embury, with the late Jesse Pintado on guitar, and Nicholas Barker on drums....
, Marduk
Marduk (band)

Marduk is a black metal band from Norrk?ping, Sweden. The band formed in 1991 and released their first record that year, placing them among the pioneers of Swedish black metal....
, Molly Hatchet
Molly Hatchet

Molly Hatchet is an United States southern rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1971. They are widely known for their hit song "Flirtin' with Disaster " from the Flirtin' with Disaster....
, Morbid Angel
Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel is an United States death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. They, along with Death , Possessed , Obituary , Massacre , Deicide , Cannibal Corpse, and a handful of others were crucial in the development of the death metal genre and its standards, separating it from the thrash metal genre completely....
, Mob Rules
Mob Rules (band)

Mob Rules are a Germany power metal band. They were founded in 1994 by erstwhile Van Blanc guitarist Matthias Mineur and bassist Thorsten Plorin....
, Nightmare, Nightwish
Nightwish

Nightwish is a Finns symphonic metal power metal band, formed in 1996 in Kitee, Finland. The band has sold more than 4 million CDs, DVDs and online material internationally....
, October 31, Overkill
Overkill (band)

Overkill is an United States thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. The band has been recording since 1984, releasing 14 studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums and a "cover version" album....
, Pain
Pain (band)

Pain is an United States rock music band from Mobile and Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Alabama. The main songwriters Dan and Pose, grew up in Mobile and graduated from Mcgill Toolen High school in midtown Mobile....
, Pink Cream 69
Pink Cream 69

Pink Cream 69 is a German Hard rock band founded in 1987 in Karlsruhe, Germany by Andi Deris, Dennis Ward , Kosta Zafiriou and Alfred Koffler. The band gained their first contract by winning music magazine Metal Hammer's newcomer competition in Ludwigsburg one year after forming....
, Praying Mantis, Raise Hell, Rhapsody
Rhapsody of Fire

Rhapsody of Fire is an Italy Symphonic metal power metal band led by Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli. Since forming in 1993, the band has released seven studio albums, one live album, one EP, and a live DVD....
, Rose Tattoo
Rose Tattoo

Rose Tattoo is an Australian hard rock band, led by Angry Anderson. Their sound is mixed with blues rock influences. Among their best known songs are "We Can't Be Beaten", "Scarred for Life", "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw" and "Bad Boy for Love"....
, Royal Hunt
Royal Hunt

Royal Hunt is a progressive metal band based in Denmark, founded in 1989 by keyboardist Andre Andersen. The band is known for creating melodic music with a progressive and symphonic flair....
, Samson
Samson (band)

Samson was a British hard rock band formed in 1977 by guitarist and vocalist Paul Samson. They are best known for their first three albums with future Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson, then known as "Bruce Bruce", and drummer Thunderstick , who wore a leather mask and performed on stage in a metal cage....
, Savage, Sentenced, Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under (band)

Six Feet Under is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 1993. The band was originally a side project by Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes with guitarist Allen West of Obituary ....
, Skew Siskin
Skew Siskin

Skew Siskin are a german hard rock band best known for their 1992 song If The Walls Could Talk, which was a minor hit on MTV.Fronted by Nina C....
, Solstice, Spiritual Beggars
Spiritual Beggars

Spiritual Beggars is a stoner metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed by Michael Amott, who is known from Arch Enemy, Carcass and Carnage ....
, Squealer, Steel Attack
Steel Attack

Steel Attack is a Heavy metal music band from Sala, Sweden. The band started out with the style of European power metal bands, with lyrical content about epic battles, dragons and swords mixed with high-pitched vocals....
, Stratovarius
Stratovarius

Stratovarius is a Finland power metal band that formed in 1983. Their material contains elements of power metal and symphonic metal....
, Testament
Testament (band)

Testament is an American thrash metal band from San Francisco, formed in 1983. Testament has two Top 40 albums and one Top 50 album to its credit in the UK....
, Tom Angelripper
Tom Angelripper

Tom Angelripper is the founding member and main songwriter of the Germany thrash metal band Sodom . In this band he plays the bass guitar and handles the vocals....
, Twisted Tower Dire
Twisted Tower Dire

Twisted Tower Dire is an American Heavy metal music band. Formed in Chantilly, Virginia in 1995 and are currently signed to Remedy Records.The band stated their aim as "resurrecting True Heavy Metal", drawing strong influence from Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Manowar and alike....
, Umbra Et Imago, Vader
Vader (band)

Vader is a death metal band from Olsztyn, Poland, founded in 1983. According to Piotr Wiwczarek, the band's founding singer and guitar player, the band's name was inspired by Darth Vader from the Star Wars film series....
, Vanishing Point
Vanishing point

A vanishing point is a point in a Perspective drawing to which parallel lines appear to converge. The number and placement of the vanishing points determines which perspective technique is being used....
, Vaxination, Venom
Venom (band)

Venom are an English extreme metal band, formed in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne.Considered a seminal influence for thrash metal and coming to prominence towards the end of the 'New Wave of British Heavy Metal', Venom have found little mainstream success or critical acclaim, but are widely regarded as highly influential, particularly for thei...
, Zakk Wylde
Zakk Wylde

Zakk Wylde is an American musician, who is best known for his roles as a guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and founder of heavy metal music band Black Label Society....


2001
August 3 - August 4 2001: 16 Hell Ventiler, Annihilator
Annihilator (band)

Annihilator is a Canadian thrash metal band formed in 1984. They debuted with the critically-acclaimed album, Alice in Hell in 1989....
, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter is a Weimar, Germany based heavy metal music band signed to the Nuclear Blast label. Their name translates to Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse....
, Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy (band)

Arch Enemy is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 1996 by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan Liiva, both originally from the influential death metal band Carnage ....
, Artch, Behemoth
Behemoth (band)

Behemoth is a Poland blackened death metal band. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader , Decapitated, Vesania and Hate ....
, Bionix
Bionix

Bionix is a program block on the Canadian television channel YTV . It airs Saturday nights from 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm North American Eastern Time Zone and Pacific Time Zone....
, Blackshine, Brainstorm, Cage
Cage (band)

Cage is an American Heavy metal music band from San Diego, California. Playing classic '80s heavy metal similar with bands like Judas Priest and Metal Church....
, Carnal Forge
Carnal Forge

Carnal Forge are a Sweden band formed in 1997 by Stefan Westerberg and Jari Kuusist. Lateron Johan Magnusson, Dennis Vestman and Jonas Kjellgren joined the band and Carnal Forge was formed....
, Chinchilla, Circle Of Grief, Crematory
Crematory (band)

Crematory is a gothic metal/death metal band formed in Mannheim, Germany in 1991.The band received its earliest recognition in the mid-1990s by touring with My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity ....
, Cryptopsy
Cryptopsy

Cryptopsy is a death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada that was formed in 1988....
, Crystal Shark, Culprit
Culprit

A culprit, under England law properly the prisoner at the bar, is one accused of a crime. The term is used, generally, of one guilty of an Offense....
, Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity

Dark Tranquillity is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Scandinavian death metal and one of the pioneers of the melodic death metal genre, along with In Flames and At the Gates....
, Death SS
Death SS

Death SS is an Italian Heavy metal band. Throughout their career they have played thrash metal, early black metal, and on more recent albums, industrial metal....
, Deceased, Disaster, Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian symphonic black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. "Dimmu Borgir" means "Dark Cities" or "Dark Fortresses" in Icelandic language and Old Norse....
, Exciter
Exciter

The word Exciter can be:* The low-power RF stages of a radio transmitter* A component of an electrical generator* Exciter bulb, a light source for reading the optical soundtrack on motion picture film...
, Exhumed
Exhumed (band)

Exhumed is an American deathgrind band from San Jose, California. They were most recently signed to Relapse Records. Formed in 1992, when sole remaining founding member Matt Harvey was at the age of 15....
, Exumer, Finntroll
Finntroll

Finntroll is a folk metal band from Finland. They combine elements of black metal with Finnish polka, called humppa. Finntroll's lyrics are in Swedish language, one of Finland's two national languages, because "Swedish just sounds damn trollish", according to the band's first vocalist, Katla ....
, Grave Digger
Grave Digger (band)

Grave Digger are a Germany Heavy metal music/power metal band formed in 1980. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Rage ....
, HammerFall
HammerFall

HammerFall is a heavy metal music/power metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed in 1993 by ex-Ceremonial Oath's guitarist Oscar Dronjak....
, Helloween
Helloween

Helloween are a Germany power metal/speed metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands, being part of the German Heavy metal music/speed/power metal scene that included Accept, Running Wild , Blind Guardian, Grave Digger , Sinner , and Rage ....
, Holy Moses
Holy Moses

Holy Moses is a Germany thrash metal band. They are well noted for being fronted by Sabina Classen and for being one of the very first German thrash metal bands....
, In Flames
In Flames

In Flames is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1990. The band is considered to be a pioneer and major influence to the melodic death metal music genre....
, Jag Panzer
Jag Panzer

Jag Panzer is a heavy metal music band from the United States....
, Kamelot
Kamelot

Kamelot is an United States progressive metal band from Tampa, Florida. They incorporate many elements of symphonic metal and progressive metal into their music....
, Kju, Knight Errant, Krisiun
Krisiun

Krisiun is a Brazilian death metal band, founded by brothers Alex Camargo , Moyses Kolesne , and Max Kolesne . Since its formation, in 1990, the group recorded two Demo , Evil Age in 1991, and Curse of the Evil One in 1992, and self-released an extended play titled Unmerciful Order in 1993....
, Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil is an Italy gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of Gothic aesthetics imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlaid with prominent key...
, Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon (band)

Lost Horizon are a power metal / progressive metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. They went under the name Highlander from 1990 until 1994 before the band was put on hold....
, Metalium
Metalium

Metalium is a power metal band from Hamburg, Germany, Germany. Their style of music is that of the traditional power metal sound which was pioneered in Hamburg by bands such as Helloween and Blind Guardian....
, Mortician
Mortician (band)

Mortician is a brutal death metal / deathgrind two piece band from Yonkers, New York, New York founded in 1989. They have released most of their albums since the House by the Cemetery EP on Relapse Records but have released their latest album on their own label, Mortician Records....
, Motörhead
Motörhead

Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
, Mago de Oz, Naglfar
Naglfar (band)

Naglfar is a Sweden black metal band formed in 1992. The group was formed by Jens Ryd?n and Kristoffer Olivius, originally under the name Uninterred....
, Napalm Death
Napalm Death

Napalm Death are an English death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. They are noted for being the first band to play the style known as grindcore....
, Nasum
Nasum

Nasum was a political Swedish band that played a mixture of grindcore and death metal. The band's name, meaning 'nose', was taken from the horror film Flesh for Frankenstein....
, Nevermore
Nevermore

Nevermore is an United States Heavy metal music band from Seattle, Washington assembled in 1991 from the ashes of the power metal band Sanctuary ....
, Night in Gales, Nightfall
Nightfall (band)

Nightfall was a melodic death metal/gothic metal band from Greece, formed by vocalist/bassist Efthimis Karadimas in 1991. In 2005, Drummer George Kollias left to join American death metal band Nile and guitarist would be recruited to fill in as guitarist for Rotting Christ....
, Nightwish
Nightwish

Nightwish is a Finns symphonic metal power metal band, formed in 1996 in Kitee, Finland. The band has sold more than 4 million CDs, DVDs and online material internationally....
, Nostradameus, Opeth
Opeth

Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal music band founded in Stockholm, in 1990. While the band has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael ?kerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force since joining shortly after its inception....
, Overkill
Overkill (band)

Overkill is an United States thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. The band has been recording since 1984, releasing 14 studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums and a "cover version" album....
, Paragon
Paragon (band)

Paragon is a Speed metal/power metal band from Hamburg, Germany....
, Paul Dianno & Killers, Primal Fear
Primal Fear (band)

Primal Fear is a Germany power metal/Heavy metal music band formed in 1997 by Ralf Scheepers , Mat Sinner , Stefan Leibing and Tom Naumann . Their style is a heavy power metal sound with the Rob Halford type vocals of Ralf Scheepers....
, Rage
Rage (band)

Rage are a Germany Heavy metal music band, formed in 1984. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Grave Digger ....
, Rawhead Rexx
Rawhead Rexx

Rawhead Rexx are a Germany power metal/Heavy metal music band. The current members are guitarist and vocalist Juergen Volk, and bass player "Face"....
, Sacraphyx, Saxon
Saxon (band)

Saxon are an England heavy metal music band, formed in 1977 in music in Burnley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums....
, Silent Force
Silent Force

Silent Force is a Germany power metal band with neo-classical metal and progressive metal influences, fronted by Germany guitarist Alex Beyrodt....
, Sins Of Thy Beloved, Smoke Blow, Sodom
Sodom (band)

Sodom is a Germany thrash metal band from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1982.Along with Kreator and Destruction , Sodom are considered one of the "big three" of Teutonic thrash metal....
, Soilwork
Soilwork

Soilwork is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork ....
, Sonata Arctica
Sonata Arctica

Sonata Arctica is a Finland power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1996. Their later works contain some elements typical of progressive metal....
, Soul Doctor, Stigma IV, Subway to Sally
Subway to Sally

Subway to Sally was founded in Potsdam, Germany, in the early 1990s. It is a rock band with clear folk and medieval influences, later also with gothic and metal elements added to the mix....
, Tad Morose
Tad Morose

Tad Morose is a Sweden heavy metal music / power metal band formed in 1991 and led by guitarist Christer Andersson. Their full-length debut was Leaving the Past Behind, a minor hit that established the band within the continental European heavy metal community....
, Tankard
Tankard (band)

Tankard is a thrash metal band from Frankfurt, Germany, founded in 1982. After losing their guitarist because of their image as a bunch of drunks, they moved on to issue their first record in 1986....
, Therion
Therion (band)

Therion is a Swedish Heavy metal music band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek language therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christianity Book of Revelation....
, Deströyer 666, The Haunted
The Haunted

The Haunted is a Sweden Thrash metal band, formed in 1996 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The original members were Patrik Jensen , Jonas Bj?rler , Adrian Erlandsson , Anders Bj?rler , and Peter Dolving ....
, Impotent Sea Snakes
Impotent Sea Snakes

The Impotent Sea Snakes were an American Rock'n'Roll band from Atlanta, Georgia known for their sexually explicit lyrics and performances and probably best known for their most high profile, publicized, and prolific touring period which lasted roughly from 1998-2004....
, The Traceelords, Therion mit Chor
Therion (band)

Therion is a Swedish Heavy metal music band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek language therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christianity Book of Revelation....
, Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears (band)

Trail of Tears is a Norway Gothic metal/symphonic black metal band originally formed in 1994 under the name of Natt. Through most of their career the band emphasised the use of contrasting soprano and death grunt vocals, but with the release of Free Fall into Fear in 2005, the band switched this contrast mostly to tenor and death grow...
, Vintersorg
Vintersorg

Vintersorg is a Swedish language folk metal/viking metal black metal band from Skellefte?, Sweden, formed in 1994 under the name Vargatron ....
, Warhammer, W.A.S.P.

2002
August 1 - August 3 2002: Alabama Thunderpussy
Alabama Thunderpussy

Alabama Thunderpussy was a Southern metal band from Richmond, Virginia....
, Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth (band)

Amon Amarth is a Viking-themed melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden, Sweden, founded in 1988 , and named after an alternative name for Mount Doom, a location in J....
, Angel Dust
Angel Dust (band)

Angel Dust are a power metal band originating from Dortmund, Germany that started off as a typical garage band. Taking their name from a song title off the black metal band Venom debut album Welcome To Hell, Angel Dust was founded in 1981....
, Angra
Angra (band)

Angra is a heavy metal music band from S?o Paulo , Brazil known for its use of symphonic interludes, highly technical guitar playing, and regional elements in their songs....
, Avalanch
Avalanch

Avalanch is a Spain heavy metal musicpower metal band formed in Asturias in 1993.Led by composer, producer and guitar player Alberto Rionda, the band has released 5 studio albums, plus a handful of compilations, DVDs and English versions of their works....
, Blaze
Blaze Bayley

Blaze Bayley is the Singer for the Heavy metal music band Blaze . He was also the lead singer of Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999....
, Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian

Blind Guardian is a Germany heavy metal music band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. The band is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in power metal and speed metal subgenres, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , Sinne...
, Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg (band)

Blitzkrieg are a heavy metal music band from Leicester formed in 1980, consisting of Brian Ross , Ken Johnson , Guy Laverick , Paul Brewis and Phil Brewis ....
, Borknagar
Borknagar

Borknagar is a Progressive metal black metal band from Bergen, Norway, Norway, founded in 1995 by ?ystein Garnes Brun. The band's style combines folk metal and black metal with progressive and melodic elements....
, Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson

Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English singer, airline Aviator, radio show host, DJ, historian, Presenter#Television presenters, diver, Fencing, record producer, novelist, and songwriter best known as the vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden....
, Candlemass (Reunion)
Candlemass

Candlemass is a Sweden Doom metal#Epic doom band established in the 1980s by Leif Edling , its leader and songwriter. The band is originally from Stockholm....
, Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band, formed in Buffalo, New York in 1988. The band has released eleven studio albums, one boxed set, and one live album....
, Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom

Children of Bodom is a Finland melodic death metal and power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 1993. As of 2009, the band consists of guitarist and vocalist Alexi Laiho, guitarist Roope Latvala, keyboardist Janne Wirman, bassist Henkka Sepp?l?, and drummer Jaska Raatikainen....
, Criminal, Debris Inc., Destruction
Destruction (band)

Destruction are a Germany thrash metal band from L?rrach, in southern Germany. They are considered one of the "three kings" of the Teutonic thrash metal scene; the others being Kreator and Sodom ....
, Dimple Minds, Domine
Domine

Biography Domine is an epic power metal band started in the mid-1980s in Florence, Italy. Founded by the Paoli brothers, Enrico and Riccardo, the band recorded four demo tapes, and had many reviews and interviews in a lot of fanzines and magazines around the world before they released their first full-length album, Champion Eternal....
, Dornenreich, Doro, Dream Evil
Dream Evil

Dream Evil is a power metal band from Sweden, assembled and integrated by renowned musical producer Fredrik Nordstr?m in 1999....
, Dying Fetus
Dying Fetus

Dying Fetus are an United States death metal band, known for their outspoken political views, and for being one of the few death metal bands who follow a political nature....
, Edguy
Edguy

Edguy is a power metal band from Fulda, Germany that was formed in 1992....
, Eisregen
Eisregen

Eisregen is a Germany black metal band which was founded in 1995. The members are from Tambach-Dietharz, a village in Thuringia.History ...
, Evergrey
Evergrey

Evergrey is a progressive metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was founded in 1996 and released its debut album The Dark Discovery in 1998....
, Exodus
Exodus (band)

Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in San Francisco, California by guitarist Gary Holt , current Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, and singer/drummer Tom Hunting....
, Falconer
Falconer (band)

Falconer is a distinctive Sweden folk metal/power metal band, formed by the former guitarist of Mithotyn Stefan Weinerhall. Falconer carry on many of the traditions set by Weinerhall's previous band and play a style of power metal that utilises folk instrumentation and melody to create a more medieval sound....
, Fleshcrawl
Fleshcrawl

Fleshcrawl is a death metal band formed in 1987 in Illertissen, Bavaria, Germany. Their most recent album, Structures Of Death, was released in 2007, under Metal Blade Records....
, Green Carnation
Green Carnation

Green Carnation is a band from Kristiansand, Norway formed in 1990 that has created songs from both the progressive rock and progressive metal genres....
, Haggard
Haggard (band)

Haggard is a Germany symphonic metal musical group founded in 1991. The group combines folk, classical music, Renaissance music and medieval music music with modern heavy metal music....
, Heathen
Heathen (band)

Heathen is a North American thrash metal band originating from the Bay Area California, founded in 1984 by guitarist Lee Altus and drummer Carl Sacco....
, Heavenly
Heavenly

Heavenly may refer to:In music:* Heavenly , a twee pop band from Oxford, England* Heavenly , a power metal band from Paris, France* Heavenly , the third album by Japanese rock band L'Arc~en~Ciel, released in 1995...
, Hollenthon
Hollenthon

Hollenthon is a melodic death metal band from Austria. The band includes many symphonic metal elements in their work, while their earlier material contains some black metal influence....
, Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy (band)

Hypocrisy is a death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter T?gtgren.Musically, the band's style has drifted from a traditional death metal sound on their early albums, to a more melodic death metal sound....
, Immortal
Immortal (band)

Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway, Norway. The band was formed by Abbathand Demonaz Doom Occulta after their previous band, Amputation, did not take off....
, In Extremo
In Extremo

"In Extremo" is a Germany medieval metal band originating from Berlin. The band's musical style combines metal with medieval traditional songs, blending the sound of the standard rock/metal instruments with historical instruments ....
, Iron Savior
Iron Savior

Iron Savior is a Germany power metal band formed by Piet Sielck, Kai Hansen, and Thomas "Thomen" Stauch. The band has a science fiction theme to their writing....
, J.B.O.
J.B.O.

J.B.O. is a Heavy metal music band from Erlangen, Germany. J.B.O. was founded in 1989 by Vito C. and Hannes "G.Laber" Holzmann and is known for parody of rock and pop songs....
, Justice
Justice (German band)

Justice is a thrash metal band from D?rrbrunn, Germany, formed in 1989 by Ian Finlay , Wolfgang Ott and Uli Friedel . Later Hannes Holzmann joined the band for a while before getting famous singer of J.B.O.....
, Kalmah
Kalmah

Kalmah is a melodic death metal band from Oulu, Finland that formed in 1998. In less than a year after its formation, Kalmah was signed by Spinefarm Records, a Finland record label....
, Kotipelto
Kotipelto

Kotipelto is a Finland Power metal#European.2Fmelodic power metal self-named band by Timo Kotipelto created during a hiatus in activity for power metal band Stratovarius....
, Kreator
Kreator

Kreator are a Germany thrash metal band from Essen, Germany. They started their career in 1982, under the name Tormentor. They originally played thrash metal with Venom influences....
, Lock Up
Lock Up (UK band)

Lock Up is a, currently on hold, deathgrind side project created by bassist Shane Embury, with the late Jesse Pintado on guitar, and Nicholas Barker on drums....
, Macabre
Macabre (band)

Macabre is an extreme metal band from the USA. They were formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, Illinois, and have never had a line-up change. They blend thrash metal, death metal, and grindcore to form their own unique style dubbed murder metal....
, Metalucifer
Metalucifer

Metalucifer is a Japanese Heavy metal music band, formed by Gezolucifer in 1995. Adopting the musical style of early NWOBHM and building upon it, they achieved underground celebrity, especially in Scandinavia....
, Mezarkabul
Mezarkabul

Mezarkabul is a Turkey Heavy metal music and speed metal band formed by Murat Ilkan , Hakan Utanga?, Metin T?rkcan , Tarkan G?z?b?y?k, and Cenk ?nn?....
, Mob Rules
Mob Rules (band)

Mob Rules are a Germany power metal band. They were founded in 1994 by erstwhile Van Blanc guitarist Matthias Mineur and bassist Thorsten Plorin....
, Mörk Gryning, My Dying Bride
My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride is a United Kingdom Doom metal band formed in 1990. My Dying Bride is one of the three bands responsible for the formation of death/doom metal, along with Anathema and Paradise Lost ....
, Necrophobic
Necrophobic

For the medical condition, see NecrophobiaNecrophobic is a Sweden Blackened death metal band formed in 1989 by drummer Joakim Sterner and guitarist David Parland....
, Nightmare, Nocturnal Rites
Nocturnal Rites

Nocturnal Rites is a Sweden power metal band formed in 1990....
, Nuclear Assault (Reunion)
Nuclear Assault

Nuclear Assault is an American thrash metal/crossover thrash band formed in 1984....
, Onkel Tom
Tom Angelripper

Tom Angelripper is the founding member and main songwriter of the Germany thrash metal band Sodom . In this band he plays the bass guitar and handles the vocals....
, Pretty Maids
Pretty Maids

Pretty Maids is a heavy metal music/Album-oriented rock band formed in Horsens, Denmark, by Ronnie Atkins and Ken Hammer in 1981 in music. Their sound can be defined as something between Europe and Running Wild....
, Primordial
Primordial (band)

Primordial is a black metal band formed in 1991 in Skerries, Dublin, Ireland, by P?l MacAmlaigh and Ciar?n MacUiliam . The band's roots stretch back to 1987 when P?l and Ciar?n first began playing together with P?l's brother, Derek....
, Pungent Stench
Pungent Stench

Pungent Stench was a black humor death metal band from Vienna, Austria, which formed in 1988. Their last known lineup consists of Martin Schirenc , El Gore , and Alex Wank ....
, Raven
Raven (band)

Raven are an England Heavy metal music band associated with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. They had a hit with the single "On and On", and refer to their music as "athletic rock"....
, Rebellion
Rebellion (band)

Rebellion is a Germany Heavy metal music Band . It was formed when guitarist Uwe Lulis left Grave Digger , taking ex-Grave Digger bassist Tomi G?ttlich with him....
, Red Aim, Rose Tattoo
Rose Tattoo

Rose Tattoo is an Australian hard rock band, led by Angry Anderson. Their sound is mixed with blues rock influences. Among their best known songs are "We Can't Be Beaten", "Scarred for Life", "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw" and "Bad Boy for Love"....
, Rottweiler Sabbat
Sabbat (band)

Sabbat is a thrash metal band from Nottingham, England....
, Savatage
Savatage

Savatage is a progressive metal band founded by the brothers Jon Oliva and Criss Oliva in 1978 at Astro Skate in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Although they were known mainly as a progressive metal band, their origins could be attributed to classic Heavy metal music, as expressed by their debut album, Sirens ....
, Shakra, Sinergy
Sinergy

Sinergy is a Finns power metal band, formed in an effort to present a "balls-out female-fronted metal band" to the world, by United States of America vocalist Kimberly Goss, who was keyboarding for Dimmu Borgir at the time, and In Flames rhythm guitarist Jesper Str?mblad in 1998....
, Stormwarrior, Stormwitch
Stormwitch

Stormwitch was a Germany heavy metal music band from the 1980s. They were also known as "TheMasters of Black Romantic." The band's song lyrics often focused on fantasy, occult or historical themes, anticipating power metal along with their contemporaries and countrymen Helloween....
, Suidakra
Suidakra

SuidAkrA is a melodic death metal band from Germany with Celtic metal folk metal influences....
, Thunderstone
Thunderstone (band)

Thunderstone is a power metal band from Helsinki, Finland. The band was formed in 2000 by guitarist Nino Laurenne, and the line-up became full the following year....
, Torfrock
Torfrock

Torfrock [] is a Germany rock group founded by Klaus B?chner and Raymond Vo? in 1976....
, U.D.O.
U.D.O.

U.D.O. is a Germany Heavy metal music band founded by lead singer Udo Dirkschneider in 1987. Closely tied to the name U.D.O. is Accept, founded by Udo Dirkschneider and Michael Wagener in Solingen, which was the predecessor of U.D.O....
, Unleashed
Unleashed (band)

Unleashed is a Sweden death metal band that was formed in 1989 by Johnny Hedlund after he left Nihilist . Viking culture, recollection of a pre-Christian world, and Norse mythology folklore are common themes found in the band's songs....
, Vanden Plas
Vanden Plas

Vanden Plas is the name of a company of coachbuilders for specialist and up-market automobile manufacturers. It originated in Belgium in 1870 as Carrosserie Vanden Plas....
, Vicious Rumors
Vicious Rumors

Vicious Rumors is an USA power metal band founded in 1979 in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. The brainchild of Geoff Thorpe, the band has been active on the metal scene since its inception in 1979....
, Vision Divine
Vision Divine

Vision Divine is a progressive metal power metal band formed in Italy in 1998....
, Vomitory
Vomitory

Vomitory can refer to:*Vomitorium, an architectural feature in Ancient Roman amphitheatres.*Vomitory, the entrance to Hell.*Vomitory , a death metal band from Sweden....
, Warlord
Warlord (band)

Warlord is an 1980s epic metal band from Los Angeles, California. Warlord should not to be confused with Warlord UK. Warlord was mostly active in the 80's, and it is unclear if the remaining members have plans for any future releases....
, Wizard
Wizard (German band)

Wizard is a Germany power metal band, formed in 1989 by the drummer S?ren van Heek.The band is often called "Germany's answer to Manowar ". The lyrics are similar: which often are about battles, metal, war, steel and such subjects....
, Wolf
Wolf (band)

Wolf is a heavy metal music band from ?rebro, Sweden. Formed in 1995, and has since then released four albums and has toured with Saxon , Tankard and, more recently, Trivium ....


2003
July 31 - August 2 2003: Ancient Rites
Ancient Rites

Ancient Rites is a Belgium black metal / folk metal band formed in 1989. Initially, the line- up consisted of guitar players Johan and Phillip, drummer Stefan, and Gunther Theys on bass and vocals....
, Annihilator
Annihilator (band)

Annihilator is a Canadian thrash metal band formed in 1984. They debuted with the critically-acclaimed album, Alice in Hell in 1989....
, Assassin, Bai Bang, Callenish Circle
Callenish Circle

Callenish Circle was a melodic death metal band from the Netherlands. They recorded three of their albums for Metal Blade Records, and broke up in February 2007....
, Carpathian Forest
Carpathian Forest

Carpathian Forest is a Norway black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990.Carpathian Forest's lyrics deal with themes such as Satanism, evil, criticism of Christianity, sodomy, sadism and masochism, sexual depravity and suicide....
, Circle II Circle, Dark Age, Dark Angel
Dark Angel (band)

Dark Angel was a thrash metal band from Los Angeles. Their over-the-top style earned them the nickname "the L.A. Caffeine Machine" and the motto "too fast, my ass"....
, Dark Funeral
Dark Funeral

Dark Funeral is a black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. They are one of the bands to have emerged in Sweden during the Second wave of black metal....
, Darkane
Darkane

Darkane is a melodic death metal/thrash metal band that originated in Helsingborg, Sweden in 1998. Their music contains ample thrash elements interspersed with acoustic interludes and symphonic features, such as the in studio use of synthesizers and occasionally full orchestras and choir singing....
, Dew-Scented
Dew-Scented

Dew-Scented is a Germany thrash metal band. They have released 7 studio albums so far and are currently signed to Nuclear Blast Records. Their name is inspired by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe....
, Diamond Head
Diamond Head (band)

Diamond Head are a United Kingdom heavy metal music band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. They were one of the leading members of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and are acknowledged by later bands like Metallica and Megadeth as an important early influence....
, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter is a Weimar, Germany based heavy metal music band signed to the Nuclear Blast label. Their name translates to Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse....
, Dismember
Dismember (band)

Dismember is a Sweden death metal band that formed from members of Carnage in 1988. They are well known in the extreme metal underground....
, Eidolon
Eidolon (band)

Eidolon is a Canada power metal band formed in 1993 by brothers Shawn Drover and Glen Drover . The band has released seven studio albums to date....
, Evidence One, Extreme Noise Terror
Extreme Noise Terror

Extreme Noise Terror are an England crust punk and deathgrind band originally formed in Ipswich in 1985 in music. The band are one of the key early UK grindcore bands, and are still together today....
, Freedom Call
Freedom Call

Freedom Call is a Germany power metal band formed in 1998....
, Gamma Ray
Gamma Ray (band)

Gamma Ray is a power metal band from north Germany, founded by former Helloween guitarist, singer, and songwriter Kai Hansen....
, Graveworm
Graveworm

Graveworm is a melodic black metal band with strong influences from gothic metal and death metal . Originating from Bruneck, Italy, they formed in 1992....
, Heaven Shall Burn, Human Fortress, In Flames
In Flames

In Flames is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1990. The band is considered to be a pioneer and major influence to the melodic death metal music genre....
, Kataklysm
Kataklysm

Kataklysm is a Canada death metal band. They call their musical style "northern hyperblast" after an advertisement in M.E.A.T. magazine describing another band, Fear Factory, as "hyperblast"....
, Lordi
Lordi

Lordi is a Glam rock/Hard rock/heavy metal music band from Finland. The concept for Lordi was devised in 1992, however, the band was not formed until 1996 in music by Tomi Putaansuu of Helsinki, Finland....
, Lotto King Karl, Malevolent Creation
Malevolent Creation

Malevolent Creation is a death metal band originally hailing from Buffalo, New York, New York. Moving to Florida in 1988, they became a part of the emergent local death metal scene, landing a deal with Roadrunner Records....
, Masterplan
Masterplan

Masterplan is a Germany power metal band founded by Uli Kusch and Roland Grapow upon leaving Helloween....
, Metalium
Metalium

Metalium is a power metal band from Hamburg, Germany, Germany. Their style of music is that of the traditional power metal sound which was pioneered in Hamburg by bands such as Helloween and Blind Guardian....
, Nile
Nile (band)

Nile is an American death metal band from Greenville, South Carolina, South Carolina, formed in 1993. Their music and lyrics are inspired by Ancient Egyptian mysticism, history, religion, art, and stories by H....
, Obscenity, Onkel Tom
Tom Angelripper

Tom Angelripper is the founding member and main songwriter of the Germany thrash metal band Sodom . In this band he plays the bass guitar and handles the vocals....
, Oratory, Primal Fear
Primal Fear (band)

Primal Fear is a Germany power metal/Heavy metal music band formed in 1997 by Ralf Scheepers , Mat Sinner , Stefan Leibing and Tom Naumann . Their style is a heavy power metal sound with the Rob Halford type vocals of Ralf Scheepers....
, Psychopunch, Rage
Rage (band)

Rage are a Germany Heavy metal music band, formed in 1984. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Grave Digger ....
, Raise Hell, Raunchy, Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ

Rotting Christ is a Greeks melodic black metal band formed in 1987. They are noted for being one of the first bands of the genre within this region, as well as a premier act within the European underground metal scene....
, Running Wild
Running Wild

Running Wild may refer to:Film* Running Wild , Duncan McLachlan's 1992 South African animal adventure film, starring Brooke Shields and Martin Sheen...
, Sentenced, Seventh One, Sinister
Sinister (band)

Sinister is a death metal band from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, assembled in 1988, disassembled in 2004, and reassembled in 2005 by Adrie Kloosterwaard on vocals and Bas van den Bogaard on bass....
, Sinner
Sinner (band)

Sinner are a Germany Heavy metal music band formed by vocalist and bassist Mat Sinner in 1982 . They were part of the German heavy/speed metal/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , and Rage ....
, Slayer
Slayer

Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
, Soilwork
Soilwork

Soilwork is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork ....
, Sonata Arctica
Sonata Arctica

Sonata Arctica is a Finland power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1996. Their later works contain some elements typical of progressive metal....
, Stratovarius
Stratovarius

Stratovarius is a Finland power metal band that formed in 1983. Their material contains elements of power metal and symphonic metal....
, Subway to Sally
Subway to Sally

Subway to Sally was founded in Potsdam, Germany, in the early 1990s. It is a rock band with clear folk and medieval influences, later also with gothic and metal elements added to the mix....
, Symphorce
Symphorce

Symphorce is a Germany progressive metal power metal band, originally assembled in 1998....
, Testament
Testament (band)

Testament is an American thrash metal band from San Francisco, formed in 1983. Testament has two Top 40 albums and one Top 50 album to its credit in the UK....
, The Almighty Punchdrunk, The Crown
The Crown

Throughout the Commonwealth realms, the Crown is an abstract metonymy concept which represents the legal authority for the existence of any government....
, Thyrfing
Thyrfing

Thyrfing is a viking metal band from Sweden. The band is named after the royal sword Tyrfing from Norse mythology....
, Twisted Sister
Twisted Sister

Twisted Sister is an United States Heavy metal music band from New York City. Their work fuses the shock rock tactics of Alice Cooper, the rebellious mood of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and the extravagant image of glam rock bands such as New York Dolls notably for the makeup....
, Twisted Tower Dire
Twisted Tower Dire

Twisted Tower Dire is an American Heavy metal music band. Formed in Chantilly, Virginia in 1995 and are currently signed to Remedy Records.The band stated their aim as "resurrecting True Heavy Metal", drawing strong influence from Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Manowar and alike....
, V8 Wankers, Vader
Vader (band)

Vader is a death metal band from Olsztyn, Poland, founded in 1983. According to Piotr Wiwczarek, the band's founding singer and guitar player, the band's name was inspired by Darth Vader from the Star Wars film series....
, Victims Of Madness, Victory, Stormlord

2004
August 5 - August 7 2004: After Forever
After Forever

After Forever was a Netherlands symphonic power metal band which relied on the use of both soprano vocals and death grunts. Their music was influenced by progressive metal and gothic metal....
, Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth (band)

Amon Amarth is a Viking-themed melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden, Sweden, founded in 1988 , and named after an alternative name for Mount Doom, a location in J....
, Anthrax
Anthrax (band)

Anthrax is a New York City-based Heavy metal music band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for being the first to combine heavy metal with Hip hop music music....
, Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy (band)

Arch Enemy is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 1996 by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan Liiva, both originally from the influential death metal band Carnage ....
, Artefact
Artefact (band)

Artefact is a melodic black metal band from Nice, France, France. According to the band itself, its name is taken from the medieval fantasy universe, and evokes a magical item....
, Astral Doors
Astral Doors

Astral Doors is a Sweden Heavy metal music band formed in 2002. It has released four studio albums and an extended play. Their latest work is New Revelation, released in September 2007....
, Bal-Sagoth
Bal-Sagoth

Bal-Sagoth are a symphonic black metal band from Yorkshire, England, formed in 1993.Originally formed as an epic/symphonic black metal band with strong death metal elements, vocalist/lyricist Byron Roberts took the name 'Bal-Sagoth' from the Robert E....
, Brainstorm, Böhse Onkelz
Böhse Onkelz

The B?hse Onkelz were a Germany Rock band....
, Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band, formed in Buffalo, New York in 1988. The band has released eleven studio albums, one boxed set, and one live album....
, Cathedral
Cathedral (band)

Cathedral are a doom metal band from Coventry, England. The group forged a link between 1980s doom metal and a 1990s extreme metal aesthetic, making doom slower and heavier....
, Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom

Children of Bodom is a Finland melodic death metal and power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 1993. As of 2009, the band consists of guitarist and vocalist Alexi Laiho, guitarist Roope Latvala, keyboardist Janne Wirman, bassist Henkka Sepp?l?, and drummer Jaska Raatikainen....
, Death Angel
Death Angel

Death Angel is a Filipino-American thrash metal band from Concord, California, California. Initially active from 1982 to 1991, the band reformed at the Thrash of the Titans benefit concert for Chuck Billy in 2001....
, Destruction
Destruction (band)

Destruction are a Germany thrash metal band from L?rrach, in southern Germany. They are considered one of the "three kings" of the Teutonic thrash metal scene; the others being Kreator and Sodom ....
, Dio
Ronnie James Dio

Ronnie James Dio , is an American heavy metal music vocalist and singer-songwriter who has performed with Elf , Rainbow , Black Sabbath, and his own band Dio....
, Dionysus, Disbelief
Disbelief

Disbelief is a Heavy metal music band from Hesse, Germany. Their music is rooted in death metal, but has an unusually melancholic tone....
, Doro Pesch & Warlock
Warlock (band)

Warlock was a Germany Heavy metal music band, assembled in 1982. They also could be described as hard rock or even glam metal. The band gained some commercial success in the mid 1980s....
, Dr. Rock
Dr. Rock

Dr. Rock a*k*a Cleophus Turner, began his career as one of the original Disc jockey in Lonzo's World Class Wreckin Cru during the early 80s. This group included Dr....
, Ektomorf
Ektomorf

Ektomorf is a thrash metal band from Hungary. ...
, Eläkeläiset
Eläkeläiset

El?kel?iset are a Finnish humppa band founded in 1993. They specialise in humppa and jenkka music and have been successful in Germany, Finland and elsewhere....
, Engine of Pain, Everfest, Feinstein, Grave Digger
Grave Digger (band)

Grave Digger are a Germany Heavy metal music/power metal band formed in 1980. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Rage ....
, Griffin
Griffin (band)

Griffin is a thrash metal band from Norway. Griffin was founded by Kai Nergaard during 1998....
, Gun Barrel
Gun barrel

A gun barrel is the tube, usually metal, through which a controlled explosion or rapid expansion of gases is released in order to propel a projectile out of the end at great speed....
, Gutbucket, Helloween
Helloween

Helloween are a Germany power metal/speed metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands, being part of the German Heavy metal music/speed/power metal scene that included Accept, Running Wild , Blind Guardian, Grave Digger , Sinner , and Rage ....
, Hobbs Angel of Death, Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy (band)

Hypocrisy is a death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter T?gtgren.Musically, the band's style has drifted from a traditional death metal sound on their early albums, to a more melodic death metal sound....
, J.B.O.
J.B.O.

J.B.O. is a Heavy metal music band from Erlangen, Germany. J.B.O. was founded in 1989 by Vito C. and Hannes "G.Laber" Holzmann and is known for parody of rock and pop songs....
, Knorkator
Knorkator

Knorkator was a Germany band from Berlin that combined Heavy metal music with comical elements. They proclaimed themselves to be "Germany's most band in the world" , as the title "The best band in the world" was already taken by Die ?rzte....
, Kotipelto
Kotipelto

Kotipelto is a Finland Power metal#European.2Fmelodic power metal self-named band by Timo Kotipelto created during a hiatus in activity for power metal band Stratovarius....
, Mambo Kurt
Mambo Kurt

Mambo Kurt is a German artist who does covers of various mainstream and classical/modern rock hits. More than just a comedy and novelty act, Mambo has played The Wacken Open Air festival and provides music for a German television show called Verona's World....
, Mayhem, Methedras, Misery Index
Misery Index (band)

Misery Index is a deathgrind band formed in 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, by Jason Netherton , Mike Harrison and Kevin Talley . As of 2006, its line-up consists of Jason Netherton , Sparky Voyles , Mark Kloeppel and Adam Jarvis ....
, Mnemic
Mnemic

Mnemic is a Denmark metal band, formed in Aalborg, Denmark in 1998. Their music can be described as a fusion between melodic industrial metal and progressive metal, although their latest album, Passenger, has seen a significant metalcore and alternative metal influence....
, Motörhead
Motörhead

Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
, Mystic Prophecy
Mystic Prophecy

Mystic Prophecy is a power metal band from Germany. They have been described as sounding like US-power metal, similar to bands such as Iced Earth , but still without losing the melodies found in European power metal....
, Nevermore
Nevermore

Nevermore is an United States Heavy metal music band from Seattle, Washington assembled in 1991 from the ashes of the power metal band Sanctuary ....
, Nocturno Culto
Nocturno Culto

Nocturno Culto is a Norway musician, best known as the vocalist, electric guitar and partial bass guitar of the influential black metal band Darkthrone....
, Onkel Tom
Tom Angelripper

Tom Angelripper is the founding member and main songwriter of the Germany thrash metal band Sodom . In this band he plays the bass guitar and handles the vocals....
, Orphanage
Orphanage (band)

Orphanage were a gothic metal from the Netherlands. They released 4 full albums on the Nuclear Blast and DSFA Records labels. In October 2005 the band announced that they had disbanded....
, Paragon
Paragon (band)

Paragon is a Speed metal/power metal band from Hamburg, Germany....
, Quireboys, Raunchy, Reckless Tide, Satan
Satan (band)

Satan are a heavy metal band originated from Newcastle, England; they are regarded as a Traditional/NWOBHM.They are well known for their line-up which has changed a lot in the years and has featured members from many other NWOBHM and heavy metal groups such as Blitzkrieg, Rough Edge, Pariah, Atomkraft, Avenger, Persian Risk, Cronos and Batt...
, Satyricon
Satyricon (band)

Satyricon is a Norway black metal band, formerly known as Eczema....
, Saxon
Saxon (band)

Saxon are an England heavy metal music band, formed in 1977 in music in Burnley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums....
, Schandmaul
Schandmaul

Schandmaul is a Germany medieval folk rock band from the vicinity of Munich.As well as using modern instruments like the bass guitar or e-guitar, the band utilizes instruments typically used in Medieval folk songs, such as the bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy or shawm, to produce their trademark folk rock sound....
, Sufferage, Supersoma, The Rods
The Rods

The Rods is an United States Heavy metal music band formed by David Feinstein , Gary Bordonaro and Carl Canedy .Feinstein had first come to mainstream attention after playing in Elf , with his cousin Ronnie James Dio....
, Thora, Thunderstone
Thunderstone (band)

Thunderstone is a power metal band from Helsinki, Finland. The band was formed in 2000 by guitarist Nino Laurenne, and the line-up became full the following year....
, Unleashed
Unleashed (band)

Unleashed is a Sweden death metal band that was formed in 1989 by Johnny Hedlund after he left Nihilist . Viking culture, recollection of a pre-Christian world, and Norse mythology folklore are common themes found in the band's songs....
, Vanguard, Voodoma, Weinhold, Zodiac Mindwarp
Zodiac Mindwarp

Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction are a United Kingdom hard rock group....


2005
August 4 - August 6 2005: Accept, Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica

Apocalyptica is a Finland Cello rock band, composed of classically trained cellists and, since 2005, a drummer. Three of the cellists are graduates of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland....
, Axel Rudi Pell
Axel Rudi Pell

Axel Rudi Pell is a Germany guitar player, playing melodic heavy metal. He started off with the band Steeler before leaving to start his solo career in 1989 with the eponymous band Axel Rudi Pell....
, Bloodbath
Bloodbath

Bloodbath is a Swedish death metal supergroup from Stockholm formed in 1999....
, Candlemass
Candlemass

Candlemass is a Sweden Doom metal#Epic doom band established in the 1980s by Leif Edling , its leader and songwriter. The band is originally from Stockholm....
, Cataract
Cataract (band)

Cataract is a Switzerland metalcore Band , signed to Metal Blade Records....
, Contradiction, Corvus Corax
Corvus Corax (band)

Corvus Corax is a German band known for playing medieval music using an abundance of authentic instruments. Their name is the scientific name for the Common Raven....
, Count Raven
Count Raven

Count Raven is a Swedish doom metal band....
, Dissection
Dissection (band)

Dissection was a black/death metal band from Str?mstad, Sweden. The band was formed in 1989 by Jon N?dtveidt, and released its first EP in 1991....
, Doomfoxx, DragonForce
DragonForce

DragonForce is an English Grammy-nominated power metal band formed in 1999 in London. They are known for fast guitar solos, fantasy-based lyrics, and electronic sounds in their music to add to their retro video game influenced sound....
, Edguy
Edguy

Edguy is a power metal band from Fulda, Germany that was formed in 1992....
, Eisregen
Eisregen

Eisregen is a Germany black metal band which was founded in 1995. The members are from Tambach-Dietharz, a village in Thuringia.History ...
, EmKay, Endhammer, Endstille
Endstille

Endstille is a black metal band from Germany. It was founded in 2000 by L Wachtfels , Mayhemic Destructor , Iblis and Cruor in Kiel. L. Wachtfels and Mayhemic Destructor had previously played in the band Tauthr, while Iblis and Cruor came from the band Octoria....
, Ensiferum
Ensiferum

Ensiferum are a heavy metal music band from Helsinki, Finland. The band label themselves as "heroic folk metal." Since their formation, Ensiferum have released three full-length albums, one EP, one compilation, two singles, and three demo albums....
, Equilibrium
Equilibrium (band)

Equilibrium is a folk metal band from Germany. The band contains various elements of folk metal and symphonic black metal, combining instruments such as electric guitars, strings and flutes, as well as riffs which reflect traditional Germanic melodies....
, Finntroll
Finntroll

Finntroll is a folk metal band from Finland. They combine elements of black metal with Finnish polka, called humppa. Finntroll's lyrics are in Swedish language, one of Finland's two national languages, because "Swedish just sounds damn trollish", according to the band's first vocalist, Katla ....
, Goddess of Desire
Goddess of Desire

Goddess of Desire is a Dutch people heavy metal music band founded in 1995. Their debut album, Let Us Win This War, was released in 1996, and their fourth and latest is Awaken Pagan Gods, released in 2005....
, Gorefest
Gorefest

Gorefest is a Netherlands band from the Zeeland region of the Netherlands which was founded in 1989 as a death metal outfit by De Koeyer, Harthoorn, van Schaik and Hoogendoorn....
, HammerFall
HammerFall

HammerFall is a heavy metal music/power metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed in 1993 by ex-Ceremonial Oath's guitarist Oscar Dronjak....
, Hard Time, Hatesphere
Hatesphere

Hatesphere is a Danish melodic death metal band . They released their self-titled album in 2001.They are currently signed to SPV GmbH with whom they just released the album Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes....
, Holy Moses
Holy Moses

Holy Moses is a Germany thrash metal band. They are well noted for being fronted by Sabina Classen and for being one of the very first German thrash metal bands....
, Illdisposed
Illdisposed

Illdisposed is a death metal band from Aarhus, Denmark that was formed in 1991. As of 2008, the band consists of vocalist Bo Summer, guitarists Jakob "Batten" Hansen, and Franz Hellboss, bassist Jonas "Kloge" Mikkelsen, and drummer Thomas "Muskelbux" Jensen....
, Kreator
Kreator

Kreator are a Germany thrash metal band from Essen, Germany. They started their career in 1982, under the name Tormentor. They originally played thrash metal with Venom influences....
, Machine Head
Machine Head (band)

Machine Head is an American heavy metal music band, formed in 1992 in Oakland, California, California. Founded by singer and guitarist Robert Flynn and bassist Adam Duce, and has only had 3 personnel changes since its inception 17 years ago....
, Machine Men
Machine Men

Originally starting life as an Iron Maiden cover band, Machine Men are a Finland band who specialise in playing traditional, melodic Heavy metal music and Power metal....
, Mambo Kurt
Mambo Kurt

Mambo Kurt is a German artist who does covers of various mainstream and classical/modern rock hits. More than just a comedy and novelty act, Mambo has played The Wacken Open Air festival and provides music for a German television show called Verona's World....
, Marduk
Marduk (band)

Marduk is a black metal band from Norrk?ping, Sweden. The band formed in 1991 and released their first record that year, placing them among the pioneers of Swedish black metal....
, Marky Ramone, Mercenary
Mercenary (band)

Mercenary is a six-piece Heavy metal music band from Denmark that was formed in 1991. Although they are usually labelled as a melodic death metal band, they use aspects of power metal in their music, as well as thrash metal in their earlier work....
, Metal Church
Metal Church

Metal Church is an United States heavy metal music band from Aberdeen, Washington. They formed as Shrapnel in 1981, their first album was released in 1984, and the band's most recent work, This Present Wasteland, was released in 2008 in heavy metal music....
, Metalium
Metalium

Metalium is a power metal band from Hamburg, Germany, Germany. Their style of music is that of the traditional power metal sound which was pioneered in Hamburg by bands such as Helloween and Blind Guardian....
, Mob Rules
Mob Rules (band)

Mob Rules are a Germany power metal band. They were founded in 1994 by erstwhile Van Blanc guitarist Matthias Mineur and bassist Thorsten Plorin....
, Morgana Lefay
Morgana Lefay

Morgana Lefay is a power metal/thrash metal band from the town Bolln?s in Sweden. Sounding like a mixture of bands such as Savatage, Pantera and Iron Maiden with the crunch of early Metallica albums....
, Mucc
MUCC

is a Japanese Rock music band formed in 1997. Named after a character from the Japanese children's TV show Ponkickies, the band is also known by the name 69 since "sixnine" can be pronounced "muku" in Japanese language....
, Naglfar
Naglfar (band)

Naglfar is a Sweden black metal band formed in 1992. The group was formed by Jens Ryd?n and Kristoffer Olivius, originally under the name Uninterred....
, Nightwish
Nightwish

Nightwish is a Finns symphonic metal power metal band, formed in 1996 in Kitee, Finland. The band has sold more than 4 million CDs, DVDs and online material internationally....
, Noise Forest, Obituary
Obituary (band)

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, Oomph!
Oomph!

OOMPH! is a Germany Neue Deutsche H?rte band that was formed in Wolfsburg, Germany in 1989 and is often considered to be the original NDH band....
, Overkill
Overkill (band)

Overkill is an United States thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. The band has been recording since 1984, releasing 14 studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums and a "cover version" album....
, Panic Cell, Potentia Animi, Primordial
Primordial (band)

Primordial is a black metal band formed in 1991 in Skerries, Dublin, Ireland, by P?l MacAmlaigh and Ciar?n MacUiliam . The band's roots stretch back to 1987 when P?l and Ciar?n first began playing together with P?l's brother, Derek....
, Reckless Tide, Regicide, , Samael
Samael (band)

Samael is a heavy metal music band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland....
, Sentenced, Sonata Arctica
Sonata Arctica

Sonata Arctica is a Finland power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1996. Their later works contain some elements typical of progressive metal....
, Stratovarius
Stratovarius

Stratovarius is a Finland power metal band that formed in 1983. Their material contains elements of power metal and symphonic metal....
, Suffocation
Suffocation (band)

Suffocation is an United States brutal death metal band. The band was formed in 1990 and has since released five studio albums....
, Suidakra
Suidakra

SuidAkrA is a melodic death metal band from Germany with Celtic metal folk metal influences....
, Teräsbetoni
Teräsbetoni

Ter?sbetoni is a Finland heavy metal band. Their first album, Metallitotuus , was released in 2005 and has so far sold more than 32,000 copies....
, Torfrock
Torfrock

Torfrock [] is a Germany rock group founded by Klaus B?chner and Raymond Vo? in 1976....
, Tristania
Tristania (band)

Tristania is a gothic metal band from Norway, formed in the end of 1996 by Morten Veland, Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson....
, Turisas
Turisas

Turisas are a Finland viking metal band from H?meenlinna. They were founded in 1997 by Mathias Nyg?rd and Jussi Wickstr?m and named after an Iku-Turso....
, Unleash the Fury, Vanguard, W:O:A Firefighters, Within Temptation
Within Temptation

Within Temptation is a Netherlands heavy metal music band. The band was founded in 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt....
, Zyklon
Zyklon (band)

Zyklon is a Norway blackened death metal band formed in 1998 by Samoth and Trym Torson of Emperor , along with former members of Myrkskog. Their style has been defined as modern death metal with black metal and industrial metal undertones....


2006
Carnivore At Woa 2006 3
August 3 - August 5 2006: Aborted
Aborted

Aborted, formed in 1995, is a Belgium death metal band. Founded by vocalist Sven de Caluw?, Aborted released a demo tape and eventually were signed to Uxicon Records....
, Amon Amarth
Amon Amarth (band)

Amon Amarth is a Viking-themed melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden, Sweden, founded in 1988 , and named after an alternative name for Mount Doom, a location in J....
, Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy (band)

Arch Enemy is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 1996 by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan Liiva, both originally from the influential death metal band Carnage ....
, Atheist
Atheist (band)

Atheist are a technical death metal band from Florida, founded in 1984, whose music combined brutal riffs with subtle latin music arrangements and jazz fusion....
, Battlelore
Battlelore

Battlelore is a band from Lappeenranta, Finland. Their style takes elements from gothic metal, power metal, folk metal, death metal, and, to a lesser extent, industrial music....
, Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian

Blind Guardian is a Germany heavy metal music band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. The band is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in power metal and speed metal subgenres, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , Sinne...
 (signing only), Bloodthorn
Bloodthorn

'Bloodthorn' is a Norway death metal band from Trondheim. Founded in 1992, they have gone through a number of musical developments, from the doomy, cold tunes of the Natteskyggen demo, to the atmospheric sounds of their debut In The Shadow Of Your Black Wings and their second album Onwards Into Battle, up to the aggression of Unde...
, Born From Pain
Born From Pain

Born from Pain is a The Netherlands hardcore punk band from the Oostelijke Mijnstreek which formed in 1997. Since they formed they have achieved fame through energetic shows and grew out to become the international band they are today....
, Caliban
Caliban (band)

Caliban are a five-piece metalcore band from Germany. They have released six studio albums to-date. Although the band's sound is "metalcore", the band has stated that they have come from a hardcore scene and are a hardcore punk band....
, Carnivore
Carnivore (band)

Carnivore is a thrash metal band formed by Peter Steele , and was formed out of the ruins of the Brooklyn hard rock group Fallout in 1982....
, Celtic Frost
Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost was an influential avant-garde metal band from Z?rich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal and gothic metal genres....
, Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom

Children of Bodom is a Finland melodic death metal and power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 1993. As of 2009, the band consists of guitarist and vocalist Alexi Laiho, guitarist Roope Latvala, keyboardist Janne Wirman, bassist Henkka Sepp?l?, and drummer Jaska Raatikainen....
, D'espairsRay, Danko Jones
Danko Jones

Danko Jones is a three-piece hard rock band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.The band consists of Danko Jones , JC , and Dan Cornelius ....
, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter is a Weimar, Germany based heavy metal music band signed to the Nuclear Blast label. Their name translates to Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse....
, Ektomorf
Ektomorf

Ektomorf is a thrash metal band from Hungary. ...
, Emperor
Emperor (band)

Emperor were a Norway symphonic black metal band formed in 1991. Over the years, the band's music changed to what can be called "extreme metal symphonic metal" in their later days They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours....
, End of Green
End of Green

"End of Green" is a song by Kerbdog and their second single released in 1993, taken from their Kerbdog . The single was released on Compact disc and vinyl record and features three songs on both formats....
, Fear Factory
Fear Factory

Fear Factory is an American heavy metal music band. The band formed in 1989 and have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes....
, Finntroll
Finntroll

Finntroll is a folk metal band from Finland. They combine elements of black metal with Finnish polka, called humppa. Finntroll's lyrics are in Swedish language, one of Finland's two national languages, because "Swedish just sounds damn trollish", according to the band's first vocalist, Katla ....
, Fleshgore
Fleshgore

Fleshgore is a death metal band from Kiev, Ukraine. As of 2008, they have released three full-length albums, Killing Absorption in 2003, May God Strike Me Dead in 2005, and Wake Up For Freedom in 2008....
, Forever Slave
Forever Slave

Forever Slave is a Spain symphonic metal-gothic metal band founded by Servalath and vocalist Lady Angellyca in 2000.They recorded two demos, Hate and Schwarzer Engel, in 2000 and 2001 respectively, returning with another demo in 2004, Resurrection....
, Gamma Ray
Gamma ray

Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation produced by atom particle interactions, such as electron-positron annihilation or radioactive decay....
, In Extremo
In Extremo

"In Extremo" is a Germany medieval metal band originating from Berlin. The band's musical style combines metal with medieval traditional songs, blending the sound of the standard rock/metal instruments with historical instruments ....
, Korpiklaani
Korpiklaani

Korpiklaani is a folk metal band from Finland who are formerly known as Shaman . The name Korpiklaani means "Forest Clan" in the Finnish language....
, Krieger, Krypteria
Krypteria

Krypteria is a power metal band from Germany. Founded in 2001, the band is now fronted by Germany-Korean singer Ji-In Cho. In the beginning, the idea was to use different vocalists, though Ji-In assumed the role of lead vocalist in 2004....
, Lake of Tears
Lake of Tears

Lake of Tears is a Sweden band, generally considered to play Gothic metal and Doom metal. However, their sound has evolved considerably over the course of their career, expanding to include psychedelic rock and progressive metal....
, Legion of the Damned
Legion of the Damned (band)

Legion of the Damned is a thrash metal/death metal band from the Netherlands. The band was formed in 2004 following the demise of Occult and the departure of former singer Rachel Heyzer....
, Mambo Kurt
Mambo Kurt

Mambo Kurt is a German artist who does covers of various mainstream and classical/modern rock hits. More than just a comedy and novelty act, Mambo has played The Wacken Open Air festival and provides music for a German television show called Verona's World....
, Metal Church
Metal Church

Metal Church is an United States heavy metal music band from Aberdeen, Washington. They formed as Shrapnel in 1981, their first album was released in 1984, and the band's most recent work, This Present Wasteland, was released in 2008 in heavy metal music....
, Metal Inquisitor, Ministry
Ministry (band)

Ministry was an United States industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s....
, Morbid Angel
Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel is an United States death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. They, along with Death , Possessed , Obituary , Massacre , Deicide , Cannibal Corpse, and a handful of others were crucial in the development of the death metal genre and its standards, separating it from the thrash metal genre completely....
, Mortal Sin
Mortal sin

Mortal sin, according to the beliefs of Roman Catholicism, and some Protestant denominations, is a sin that, unless confessed and absolved , condemns a person's soul to Hell after death....
, Motörhead
Motörhead

Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
, MSG
MSG

MSG or msg can mean:* A common abbreviation for message.* Madison Square Garden, a sports arena in New York City* Monosodium glutamate, a common food additive...
, Mystic Circle
Mystic Circle

Mystic Circle is a German melodic black metal band....
, Nevermore
Nevermore

Nevermore is an United States Heavy metal music band from Seattle, Washington assembled in 1991 from the ashes of the power metal band Sanctuary ....
, Nocturnal Rites
Nocturnal Rites

Nocturnal Rites is a Sweden power metal band formed in 1990....
, Opeth
Opeth

Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal music band founded in Stockholm, in 1990. While the band has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael ?kerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force since joining shortly after its inception....
, Orphaned Land
Orphaned Land

Orphaned Land is an Israeli progressive metal band that formed in 1991. Its music contains Middle East influences....
, Primal Fear
Primal Fear (band)

Primal Fear is a Germany power metal/Heavy metal music band formed in 1997 by Ralf Scheepers , Mat Sinner , Stefan Leibing and Tom Naumann . Their style is a heavy power metal sound with the Rob Halford type vocals of Ralf Scheepers....
, Rose Tattoo
Rose Tattoo

Rose Tattoo is an Australian hard rock band, led by Angry Anderson. Their sound is mixed with blues rock influences. Among their best known songs are "We Can't Be Beaten", "Scarred for Life", "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw" and "Bad Boy for Love"....
, Scorpions
Scorpions (band)

Scorpions are a heavy metal music/hard rock band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change "....
, Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under (band)

Six Feet Under is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 1993. The band was originally a side project by Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes with guitarist Allen West of Obituary ....
, Soilwork
Soilwork

Soilwork is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork ....
, Soulfly
Soulfly

Soulfly is a Heavy metal music band formed in 1997 in Arizona. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura guitarist and frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the influential Brazilian group in 1997....
, Subway to Sally
Subway to Sally

Subway to Sally was founded in Potsdam, Germany, in the early 1990s. It is a rock band with clear folk and medieval influences, later also with gothic and metal elements added to the mix....
, Suidakra
Suidakra

SuidAkrA is a melodic death metal band from Germany with Celtic metal folk metal influences....
, Tribe After Tribe, Transilvanian Beat Club, Tourettes
Tourettes (band)

Tourettes is a Heavy metal music band from Sydney, Australia founded in January, 2000. Their style has been described as "a mixture of hardcore, nu-metal and other elements to create an apoplectic and eclectic noise"....
, Uli Jon Roth, Victory
Victory (band)

Victory is a German heavy metal music Band from Hannover, most successful in the 1980s. With extensive tours and radio airplay, the band also made a breakthrough in North America....
, Vreid
Vreid

Vreid is a black metal band that was formed after Windir broke up, following the death of lead singer and founder Valfar. The band was formed in 2004 by three former Windir members and a new guitarist; Ese....
, WE
WE (band)

WE is a Norway rock band from Oslo founded in 1992. ...
, Whitesnake
Whitesnake

Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
, Wintersun
Wintersun

Wintersun is a Finland heavy metal music band, founded by ex-Ensiferum frontman Jari M?enp??. The band's genre is hard to define, as their music has many influences from different genres, such as power metal, folk metal, progressive metal, melodic death metal and melodic black metal....


2007
August 2 - August 4 2007: 1349
1349 (band)

1349 is a black metal band hailing from Oslo, Norway. The band's musical style and songwriting is modeled after that of bands from the Second Wave of Norwegian black metal of the early 1990s, and notably does not incorporate synthesizers....
, All That Remains
All That Remains (band)

All That Remains is an American melodic metalcore band from Springfield, Massachusetts, Massachusetts which formed in 1998.. They have released four studio albums and have sold over 393,000 albums in the U.S....
, Amorphis
Amorphis

Amorphis is a Finland heavy metal music band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a straightforward death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other types of genres....
, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter is a Weimar, Germany based heavy metal music band signed to the Nuclear Blast label. Their name translates to Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse....
, Animal Alpha
Animal Alpha

Animal Alpha is a five-piece Norwegian rock music group formed in 2002.The band spent much of 2004 playing shows around Norway. This, alongside performances at Oslo?s prestigious ?ya Festival , combined with an appearance on the national TV program ?Lydverket?, created a buzz around the band that led to two sold-out nights at Oslo?s 500-cro...
, Belphegor
Belphegor (band)

Belphegor is an Austria blackened death metal band from Salzburg, originally formed in 1991 under the name Betrayer before changing their name in 1993....
, Benedictum
Benedictum

Benedictum is an United States Heavy metal music band formed in 2005 in San Diego, California, California. Their current line-up consists of vocalist Veronica Freeman, guitarist Pete Wells, bassist Jesse Wright, keyboardist Chris Morgan, and drummer Paul Courtois....
, The Black Dahlia Murder
The Black Dahlia Murder

The Black Dahlia Murder is a band from Waterford Township, Michigan, Michigan. The Black Dahlia Murder is named after the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, often referred to as Black Dahlia....
, Black Majesty
Black Majesty

Black Majesty is a power metal band from Melbourne, Australia. The band was formed in 2001 by ex-members of prominent bands on the Australian metal scene and after the release of a three track sampler album they were signed to a 5-album contract with Germany-based label Limb Music....
, Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian

Blind Guardian is a Germany heavy metal music band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. The band is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in power metal and speed metal subgenres, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , Sinne...
, Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg (band)

Blitzkrieg are a heavy metal music band from Leicester formed in 1980, consisting of Brian Ross , Ken Johnson , Guy Laverick , Paul Brewis and Phil Brewis ....
, Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band, formed in Buffalo, New York in 1988. The band has released eleven studio albums, one boxed set, and one live album....
, Chthonic
Chthonic (band)

Chthonic is a Taiwanese symphonic black metal band, formed in 1995 in Taipei. The group incorporates influences from traditional Taiwanese music including instruments such as the erhu ....
, Communic
Communic

Communic is a progressive metal band from Kristiansand, Norway. The band was founded in 2003 and has released three albums. The first two have received good reviews from magazines and critics....
, Destruction
Destruction (band)

Destruction are a Germany thrash metal band from L?rrach, in southern Germany. They are considered one of the "three kings" of the Teutonic thrash metal scene; the others being Kreator and Sodom ....
, Dimension Zero, Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian symphonic black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. "Dimmu Borgir" means "Dark Cities" or "Dark Fortresses" in Icelandic language and Old Norse....
, Dir en grey
Dir en grey

Dir en grey is a Japanese band formed in 1997 and currently signed to Firewall Div., a sub-division of Free-Will. As of 2008, they have recorded seven Album and while the group's lineup has remained consistent since its inception, numerous stylistic changes have made its music's genre difficult to determine ....
, Disillusion
Disillusion

Disillusion is a German people Heavy metal music band....
, Drone
Drone

Drone may refer to:...
, Electric Eel Shock
Electric Eel Shock

Electric Eel Shock are a three-piece Garage rock Heavy metal music band, formed in Tokyo in the late 1990s. They first toured the United States in 1999 and have been touring the world ever since....
, Enslaved
Enslaved (band)

Enslaved is a progressive metal black metal Band formed in 1991 in Haugesund, Norway, Norway, and currently based out of Bergen, Norway, Norway....
, Fair to Midland
Fair to Midland

Fair to Midland is an United States art rock band formed in 1998. They are currently signed to Serj Tankian's Serjical Strike Records label. According to the band's official website, their name comes from "...an old Texan play on the term 'fair to middling'." The group has released three albums and an Extended play....
, Falconer
Falconer (band)

Falconer is a distinctive Sweden folk metal/power metal band, formed by the former guitarist of Mithotyn Stefan Weinerhall. Falconer carry on many of the traditions set by Weinerhall's previous band and play a style of power metal that utilises folk instrumentation and melody to create a more medieval sound....
, Fastway
Fastway

Fastway can mean:*Crawley Fastway, a guided bus transport service in the UK*Fastway , a heavy metal band*Fastway , a eurobeat artist*Fastway , a worldwide franchised courier network...
, Gutbucket, Grave Digger
Grave Digger (band)

Grave Digger are a Germany Heavy metal music/power metal band formed in 1980. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Rage ....
, Haggard
Haggard (band)

Haggard is a Germany symphonic metal musical group founded in 1991. The group combines folk, classical music, Renaissance music and medieval music music with modern heavy metal music....
, Hatesphere
Hatesphere

Hatesphere is a Danish melodic death metal band . They released their self-titled album in 2001.They are currently signed to SPV GmbH with whom they just released the album Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes....
, Heaven Shall Burn
Heaven Shall Burn

Heaven Shall Burn is a Deathcore band from Saalfeld, Germany. They combine an aggressive metal sound with lyrics that show a militant support of anti-racism and fighting social injustice....
, Immortal
Immortal (band)

Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway, Norway. The band was formed by Abbathand Demonaz Doom Occulta after their previous band, Amputation, did not take off....
, In Flames
In Flames

In Flames is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1990. The band is considered to be a pioneer and major influence to the melodic death metal music genre....
, Iced Earth
Iced Earth

Iced Earth is an United States Heavy metal music band from Tampa, Florida, Florida that combines influences from thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal, opera, speed metal and New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
, J.B.O.
J.B.O.

J.B.O. is a Heavy metal music band from Erlangen, Germany. J.B.O. was founded in 1989 by Vito C. and Hannes "G.Laber" Holzmann and is known for parody of rock and pop songs....
, Kampfar
Kampfar

Kampfar is a pagan folk metal/black metal band from Fredrikstad, Norway. According to vocalist Dolk, their name is an ancient Norse battle cry which means Odin or Wotan....
, Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil is an Italy gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of Gothic aesthetics imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlaid with prominent key...
, Letzte Instanz
Letzte Instanz

Letzte Instanz, founded in Dresden in 1996, is a Germany Neue Deutsche H?rte/medieval metal band particularly noted for their use of the violin and cello....
, Mambo Kurt
Mambo Kurt

Mambo Kurt is a German artist who does covers of various mainstream and classical/modern rock hits. More than just a comedy and novelty act, Mambo has played The Wacken Open Air festival and provides music for a German television show called Verona's World....
, Maroon
Maroon (band)

Maroon is a vegan straight edge metalcore band from Nordhausen, in Germany which formed in 1998.Maroon released a demo cassette in 1999 entitled The Initiate although all 4 songs can be found on later releases....
, Mennen
Mennen

Mennen is a brand of the Colgate-Palmolive Company. Its most notable product, Mennen Speed Stick, with its fougere perfume and green wide stick, was the market leader among deodorants and antiperspirants for men for many years....
, Moonsorrow
Moonsorrow

Moonsorrow is a folk metal/pagan metal band formed in Helsinki, Finland, in 1995. They are known for their epic, organic composition. The band call their sound "Epic heathen metal" and try to distance themselves from the term "Viking metal" as much as possible, as the vast majority of their lyrics do not concern Vikings....
, Moonspell
Moonspell

Moonspell is a Portugal black metal/gothic metal band with death/doom metal elements, formed in 1989 as Morbid God. After renaming themselves Moonspell in 1992, they released their first Extended play Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before of the release of their first album Wolfheart....
, Municipal Waste
Municipal Waste (band)

Municipal Waste is a thrash metal/crossover thrash band from Richmond, Virginia, USA. They are known for their loud, drunk, party atmosphere and rowdy show attendees....
, Napalm Death
Napalm Death

Napalm Death are an English death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. They are noted for being the first band to play the style known as grindcore....
, Narziss, Neaera
Neaera (band)

Neaera is a metalcore band from M?nster, Germany, currently signed to Metal Blade Records. Recently, they have completed their third album, Armamentarium , which was released on August 24, 2007 in Europe and on September 4, 2007 for the rest of the world....
, Norther
Norther

Norther is a melodic death metal band from Espoo and Helsinki, Finland whose style incorporates elements of power metal. Many compare Norther's sound to that of Children of Bodom....
, Overkill
Overkill (band)

Overkill is an United States thrash metal band, formed in 1980 in New Jersey. The band has been recording since 1984, releasing 14 studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums and a "cover version" album....
, Pharao
Pharao

Pharao was a German Eurodance act produced by Alexander Hawking and DJ Stevie Steve. The project was fronted by the exotic singer Kyra Pharao and the USA Rapping Deon Blue....
, Possessed
Possessed (band)

Possessed is an influential United States death metal band, formed in 1983 in San Francisco, California. Noted for their fast style of playing and Becerra's guttural vocals, they have been cited as a great influence on the death metal genre....
, Rage
Rage (band)

Rage are a Germany Heavy metal music band, formed in 1984. They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s, along with bands such as Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Sinner , and Grave Digger ....
 & Lingua Mortis Orchestra, Rose Tattoo
Rose Tattoo

Rose Tattoo is an Australian hard rock band, led by Angry Anderson. Their sound is mixed with blues rock influences. Among their best known songs are "We Can't Be Beaten", "Scarred for Life", "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw" and "Bad Boy for Love"....
, Sabbat
Sabbat (band)

Sabbat is a thrash metal band from Nottingham, England....
, Sacred Reich
Sacred Reich

Sacred Reich is a Phoenix, Arizona based thrash metal Musical band that formed in 1985. Singer/songwriter Phil Rind's interest was in socially-conscious and political speed metal....
, Sahg
Sahg

Sahg is a four-piece Norway metal band formed in the summer of 2004. After years of involvement on different ends of the Norwegian rock and metal scene, four hard rock devotees teamed up under the name Sahg....
, Samael
Samael (band)

Samael is a heavy metal music band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland....
, Saxon
Saxon (band)

Saxon are an England heavy metal music band, formed in 1977 in music in Burnley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums....
, Schandmaul
Schandmaul

Schandmaul is a Germany medieval folk rock band from the vicinity of Munich.As well as using modern instruments like the bass guitar or e-guitar, the band utilizes instruments typically used in Medieval folk songs, such as the bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy or shawm, to produce their trademark folk rock sound....
, Secrets of the Moon
Secrets of the Moon

Secrets of the Moon is a black metal band from Osnabrueck, Germany, founded in 1995. They played at the Summer Breeze Open Air in August 2007 and at the Hellfest Summer Open Air in June 2007....
, Sodom
Sodom (band)

Sodom is a Germany thrash metal band from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1982.Along with Kreator and Destruction , Sodom are considered one of the "big three" of Teutonic thrash metal....
, Sonic Syndicate
Sonic Syndicate

Sonic Syndicate is a Metalcore band from Falkenberg, Sweden. The band was formed in 2002 under the name "Fallen Angels." In 2005, they changed their name to Sonic Syndicate....
, The Answer
The Answer (band)

The Answer are an Irish people hard rock and blues rock band from Newcastle, County Down and Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. They have achieved success with their debut album Rise selling in excess of 30,000 copies in the UK & Europe, 10,000 on day one in Japan and 100,000 worldwide on the whole....
, The Sorrow
The Sorrow

The Sorrow is a metalcore band from Austria. They were formed in 2005 by Mathias Schlegl and Andreas M?ser from the band Disconnected and Dominik Immler and Tobias Sch?dler from Distance....
, Stormwarrior
Stormwarrior

Stormwarrior is a speed metal band from Germany that was formed in 1998 by vocalist and guitar player Lars Ramcke and drummer Andre Schumann, adding later in the same year guitarist Scott Bolter and bass player Tim Zienert....
 featuring Kai Hansen
Kai Hansen

Kai Michael Hansen is a power metal guitarist and vocalist.Serving as founding member, lead guitarist, and vocalist of power metal band Helloween, and his own formed band Gamma Ray, Kai Hansen has been proven to be one of the most influential figures in power metal, and has sold millions of albums worldwide....
, Stratovarius
Stratovarius

Stratovarius is a Finland power metal band that formed in 1983. Their material contains elements of power metal and symphonic metal....
, Subway to Sally
Subway to Sally

Subway to Sally was founded in Potsdam, Germany, in the early 1990s. It is a rock band with clear folk and medieval influences, later also with gothic and metal elements added to the mix....
, Suidakra
Suidakra

SuidAkrA is a melodic death metal band from Germany with Celtic metal folk metal influences....
, Swallow the Sun
Swallow the Sun

Swallow the Sun is a Finland melodic death metal/doom metal band....
, Therion
Therion (band)

Therion is a Swedish Heavy metal music band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek language therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christianity Book of Revelation....
, Torture Squad
Torture Squad

Torture Squad is a Brazilian death metal/thrash metal Band , founded in 1990 which has released five studio albums and one live album. The band released their newest album, Hellbound, in 2008....
, Turbonegro
Turbonegro

Turbonegro is a Norway punk rock band that combines hard rock and punk music into a style the band describes as "deathpunk".Among the band's main influences are Black Flag , Rolling Stones, Kiss , Venom , Radio Birdman, AC/DC, Kill City, Circle Jerks, Ramones, Alice Cooper, Negazione, The Dictators and The Stooges, as well as Norwegian roc...
, Turisas
Turisas

Turisas are a Finland viking metal band from H?meenlinna. They were founded in 1997 by Mathias Nyg?rd and Jussi Wickstr?m and named after an Iku-Turso....
, Type O Negative
Type O Negative

Type O Negative is a Heavy metal music band from Brooklyn, New York City. Although commonly viewed as a gothic metal band, Type O has also incorporated elements of doom metal, thrash metal, blues, punk rock/hardcore punk, alternative rock and, progressive rock into their work, and often describe their sound as Black Sabbath-meets-The Beatles,...
, Týr
Týr (band)

T?r is a band from the Faroe Islands which plays a combination of heavy metal and folk music, with strong progressive metal elements. Their subject matter revolves almost entirely around old Nordic lore, mythology, and history....
, Unheilig
Unheilig

Unheilig is a Germany Neue Deutsche H?rte Band . The band was formed in 1999 and now consists of principally Der Graf, with his live musicians Licky and Henning Verlage....
, The Vision Bleak
The Vision Bleak

The Vision Bleak is a Gothic metal band from Germany formed in 2000, consisting of former Empyrium member Ulf Theodor Schwadorf and former Nox Mortis member Allen B Konstanz....
, Vital Remains
Vital Remains

Vital Remains are an United States death metal band from Providence, Rhode Island formed in 1989....
, Volbeat
Volbeat (band)

Volbeat is a Denmark rock band formed in Copenhagen in 2001. They play a fusion of Heavy metal music and rockabilly. They are inspired by the rock 'n' roll legends Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash....
.

2008
July 31 - August 2 2008: 3 Inches of Blood
3 Inches of Blood

3 Inches of Blood is a Canada Heavy Metal music band formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2000.The band was heavily influenced by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s....
, Airbourne
Airbourne (band)

Airbourne is an Australian rock and roll band originating from Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, where they gained a steady following with their Pub rock sound....
, Alestorm
Alestorm

Alestorm is a band from Perth, Scotland, Scotland, formed under the name Battleheart in 2004. Their music is characterised by a Pirates in popular culture, for which reason they describe their style as "True Scottish Pirate Metal"....
, At the Gates
At the Gates

At the Gates are a Sweden melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, progenitor of the Melodic_death_metal#Gothenburg_sound of Death_metal. Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007....
, Autumn, Avantasia
Avantasia

Avantasia is a symphonic metal/power metal project created by Tobias Sammet, Singer and frontman of the power metal group Edguy. The project's title is a portmanteau of the words "avalon" and "fantasia" and describes "a world beyond human imagination" ....
, Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold

Avenged Sevenfold is an American rock music band from Orange County, California, formed in 1999. The band has achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album City of Evil, which included singles such as "Burn It Down ", "Bat Country," "Beast and the Harlot" and "Seize the Day ." The band's success followed with their Avenged Sevenfold...
, Axxis
Axxis

Axxis is a Germany power metal band which was founded in 1988. Their debut album "Kingdom of the Night", became the best ever selling debut album by a hard rock band in Germany in 1989....
, Before the Dawn
Before the Dawn (band)

Before the Dawn is a Melodic death metal/gothic metal band from Finland, started in 1999 by Tuomas Saukkonen....
, Carcass
Carcass (band)

Carcass are an English grindcore / death metal band from Liverpool. They formed in 1985 and disbanded a decade later. A reunion was enacted in 2008 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen....
, Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom

Children of Bodom is a Finland melodic death metal and power metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 1993. As of 2009, the band consists of guitarist and vocalist Alexi Laiho, guitarist Roope Latvala, keyboardist Janne Wirman, bassist Henkka Sepp?l?, and drummer Jaska Raatikainen....
, Concept Insomnia, Corvus Corax
Corvus Corax (band)

Corvus Corax is a German band known for playing medieval music using an abundance of authentic instruments. Their name is the scientific name for the Common Raven....
, Crematory
Crematory (band)

Crematory is a gothic metal/death metal band formed in Mannheim, Germany in 1991.The band received its earliest recognition in the mid-1990s by touring with My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity ....
, Cynic
Cynic (band)

Cynic is a progressive metal band with incorporated jazz fusion elements, founded in Miami, Florida, US. Their first album, Focus released in 1993 , is widely regarded as a landmark release of the genre....
, Destructor, Dream of an Opium Eater
Dream of an Opium Eater

Dream of an Opium Eater are an instrumental Metal music band, originally commissioned by Roskilde Festival in Denmark to play a one-off set in 2007....
, Enemy of the Sun
Enemy of the Sun (band)

Enemy of the Sun is a German Metal music music ensemble....
, Ensiferum
Ensiferum

Ensiferum are a heavy metal music band from Helsinki, Finland. The band label themselves as "heroic folk metal." Since their formation, Ensiferum have released three full-length albums, one EP, one compilation, two singles, and three demo albums....
, Evocation
Evocation

Evocation is the act of calling or summoning a spirit, demon, god or other supernatural agent, in the Western mystery tradition. Comparable practices exist in many religions and Magic al traditions....
, Excrementory Grindfuckers, Exodus
Exodus (band)

Exodus is an American thrash metal band formed in 1980 in San Francisco, California by guitarist Gary Holt , current Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, and singer/drummer Tom Hunting....
, Girlschool
Girlschool

Girlschool are a long-running United Kingdom all-female Heavy metal music band originating out of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene.Though enjoying little commercial success beyond the early 1980s, they maintain a worldwide cult following and were inspirational for many succeeding female bands....
, Girugamesh
Girugamesh

is a Japanese Heavy metal music band, formed in 2003....
, Grave
Grave

Grave may refer to:*Grave *Grave accent*Grave *Tempo#Basic_tempo_markings*Grave, NetherlandsGrave might also refer to:*Peter Graves, an American film and television actor known for his starring role in the television series...
, Gorgoroth, Hatebreed
Hatebreed

Hatebreed is a Grammy Award-nominated quintet from Bridgeport, Connecticut and New Haven, Connecticut, Connecticut. The band was founded in November 1994 by Jamey Jasta, Dave Russo, Larry Dwyer, and Chris Beattie....
, Headhunter, Holy Moses
Holy Moses

Holy Moses is a Germany thrash metal band. They are well noted for being fronted by Sabina Classen and for being one of the very first German thrash metal bands....
, Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
, Job For a Cowboy
Job for a Cowboy

Job for a Cowboy is an American death metal band, formed in Glendale, Arizona, Arizona in 2003. They released their second extended play, Doom in 2005, and later that year signed with the Metal Blade Records label....
, Kamelot
Kamelot

Kamelot is an United States progressive metal band from Tampa, Florida. They incorporate many elements of symphonic metal and progressive metal into their music....
, Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage

Killswitch Engage is an American melodic metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts. Formed following the disbandment of the bands Overcast and Aftershock in 1999, Killswitch Engage's lineup consists of vocalist Howard Jones , bassist Mike D'Antonio, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz, and drummer Justin Foley....
, Kreator
Kreator

Kreator are a Germany thrash metal band from Essen, Germany. They started their career in 1982, under the name Tormentor. They originally played thrash metal with Venom influences....
, Krypteria
Krypteria

Krypteria is a power metal band from Germany. Founded in 2001, the band is now fronted by Germany-Korean singer Ji-In Cho. In the beginning, the idea was to use different vocalists, though Ji-In assumed the role of lead vocalist in 2004....
, Leaves' Eyes
Leaves' Eyes

Leaves' Eyes is a symphonic metal gothic metal band with folk music elements from Norway and Germany assembled in 2003 in music, shortly before singer Liv Kristine was fired from Theatre of Tragedy....
, Lord Belial
Lord Belial

Lord Belial is a Sweden black metal band that has incorporated traits of death metal and doom metal at times. The band formed in 1992 and released their debut album in 1994; placing them among the pioneers of Swedish black metal....
, Lordi
Lordi

Lordi is a Glam rock/Hard rock/heavy metal music band from Finland. The concept for Lordi was devised in 1992, however, the band was not formed until 1996 in music by Tomi Putaansuu of Helsinki, Finland....
, Massacre
Massacre (band)

Massacre was an United States death metal band. They were formed in 1983 by Allen West and Bill Andrews and soon joined by Kam Lee, best known for his vocal contributions to an early incarnation of Death , and Rick Rozz....
, Machine Men
Machine Men

Originally starting life as an Iron Maiden cover band, Machine Men are a Finland band who specialise in playing traditional, melodic Heavy metal music and Power metal....
, Mercenary
Mercenary (band)

Mercenary is a six-piece Heavy metal music band from Denmark that was formed in 1991. Although they are usually labelled as a melodic death metal band, they use aspects of power metal in their music, as well as thrash metal in their earlier work....
, Mustasch, Nashville Pussy
Nashville Pussy

Nashville Pussy is an American hard rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia . Many of their songs are about sex, drugs, drinking, fighting, and rock & roll....
, Negura Bunget
Negura Bunget

Negura Bunget is a black metal band from Timisoara, Romania....
, Nifelheim
Nifelheim

Nifelheim is a Sweden black metal band. They formed in 1990 and released their debut album in 1994. It consists of twin brothers Erik and Per Gustavsson, who use stagename Tyrant and Hellbutcher....
, Nightwish
Nightwish

Nightwish is a Finns symphonic metal power metal band, formed in 1996 in Kitee, Finland. The band has sold more than 4 million CDs, DVDs and online material internationally....
, Obituary
Obituary (band)

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, Opeth
Opeth

Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal music band founded in Stockholm, in 1990. While the band has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael ?kerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force since joining shortly after its inception....
, Powerwolf
Powerwolf

Powerwolf is a Germany/Romania power metal band created in 2003 by Charles and Matthew Greywolf....
, Primordial
Primordial (band)

Primordial is a black metal band formed in 1991 in Skerries, Dublin, Ireland, by P?l MacAmlaigh and Ciar?n MacUiliam . The band's roots stretch back to 1987 when P?l and Ciar?n first began playing together with P?l's brother, Derek....
, Psychopunch, Sabaton
Sabaton (band)

Sabaton are a grammis-nominated power metal band from Falun, Sweden formed in 1999. The band's main lyrical theme is that of historical wars. This can be heard on the albums Primo Victoria and Attero Dominatus where all of the songs, except the final tracks, take inspiration from a historical battle or war and the two first mentioned...
, Saltatio Mortis, Soilwork
Soilwork

Soilwork is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork ....
, Sonata Arctica
Sonata Arctica

Sonata Arctica is a Finland power metal band from the town of Kemi, originally assembled in 1996. Their later works contain some elements typical of progressive metal....
, Stam1na
Stam1na

Stam1na is a Finland Heavy metal music musical group native of Lemi, South Karelia. Their music is arguably best described as progressive metal with some thrash metal, death metal and Alternative metal influences, and is sung in Finnish language....
, Stone Gods
Stone Gods

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, Sturm und Drang
Sturm und Drang (band)

Sturm und Drang are a five-member heavy metal music music ensemble with power metal and hard rock influences from Vaasa, Finland. Sturm und Drang have released two studio albums and toured places like Europe, Scandinavia and Japan....
, The Bones, The Fading
The Fading

The Fading is an Israeli Based Melodic death metal/thrash metal band, founded in 2000 under the name Excessum. The band released an EP Instruction for Self Destruction in 2006, and another promotional 5-track EP Chaos in Flesh in 2007 that was mixed and mastered by Jonas Kjellgren at Black Lounge Studios, Sweden....
, The Haunted
The Haunted

The Haunted is a Sweden Thrash metal band, formed in 1996 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The original members were Patrik Jensen , Jonas Bj?rler , Adrian Erlandsson , Anders Bj?rler , and Peter Dolving ....
, The Rotted
The Rotted

The Rotted are a death metal band formed in England in early 2008....
, Torture Squad
Torture Squad

Torture Squad is a Brazilian death metal/thrash metal Band , founded in 1990 which has released five studio albums and one live album. The band released their newest album, Hellbound, in 2008....
, Unearth
Unearth

Unearth is an American metalcore band from Winthrop, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, formed in 1998. They are also known for playing seven-stringed guitars, while the bass player plays a five-stringed bass....
, van Canto
Van Canto

van Canto is an a cappella heavy metal music band from Germany, founded in 2006. It is composed of five singers and a drummer.van Canto fuses a cappella with heavy metal music/speed metal, creating what they call "a capella metal"....
, Warbringer
Warbringer

Warbringer is an United States thrash metal band. The band formed in 2004 as Onslaught but changed their name after learning that a UK thrash metal band was already using the name....
, Watain
Watain

Watain is a Sweden black metal band from Uppsala, formed in 1998....
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2009 (confirmed so far)

July 30 - August 1 2009: Amon Amarth, Axel Rudi Pell
Axel Rudi Pell

Axel Rudi Pell is a Germany guitar player, playing melodic heavy metal. He started off with the band Steeler before leaving to start his solo career in 1989 with the eponymous band Axel Rudi Pell....
, Borknagar
Borknagar

Borknagar is a Progressive metal black metal band from Bergen, Norway, Norway, founded in 1995 by ?ystein Garnes Brun. The band's style combines folk metal and black metal with progressive and melodic elements....
, Bullet for my Valentine
Bullet for My Valentine

Bullet for My Valentine are a Welsh fagcore band from Bridgend, Wales, formed in 1998.The band started their music career by covering songs by Metallica and Nirvana under the band name "Jeff Killed John"....
, Cathedral
Cathedral (band)

Cathedral are a doom metal band from Coventry, England. The group forged a link between 1980s doom metal and a 1990s extreme metal aesthetic, making doom slower and heavier....
, Callejon, DragonForce
DragonForce

DragonForce is an English Grammy-nominated power metal band formed in 1999 in London. They are known for fast guitar solos, fantasy-based lyrics, and electronic sounds in their music to add to their retro video game influenced sound....
, Einherjer
Einherjer

Einherjer is a Viking metal band from Haugesund, Norway, founded in 1993. Some of their albums are heavily Traditional music influenced, while other albums feature a more traditional black metal sound....
, Epica
EPICA

The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica is a multinational European project for deep ice core drilling in Antarctica. Its main objective is to obtain full documentation of the climatic and atmospheric record archived in Antarctic ice by drilling and analyzing two ice cores and comparing these with their Greenland counterparts ....
, GWAR
GWAR

Gwar is an American and Grammy nominated rock music band formed in 1985. The band is best known for their elaborate sci-fi/horror film inspired costumes; raunchy, obscene lyrics; and graphic stage performances, which consist of humorous re-enactments of political and moral taboo themes....
, Hammerfall
HammerFall

HammerFall is a heavy metal music/power metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed in 1993 by ex-Ceremonial Oath's guitarist Oscar Dronjak....
, Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell (band)

Heaven and Hell is a musical collaboration featuring Black Sabbath members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler along with former members Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice....
, In Extremo
In Extremo

"In Extremo" is a Germany medieval metal band originating from Berlin. The band's musical style combines metal with medieval traditional songs, blending the sound of the standard rock/metal instruments with historical instruments ....
, In Flames
In Flames

In Flames is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1990. The band is considered to be a pioneer and major influence to the melodic death metal music genre....
, Kampfar
Kampfar

Kampfar is a pagan folk metal/black metal band from Fredrikstad, Norway. According to vocalist Dolk, their name is an ancient Norse battle cry which means Odin or Wotan....
, Kingdom Of Sorrow
Kingdom of Sorrow

Kingdom of Sorrow, sometimes abbreviated to KoS, is an American sludge metal band formed in February 2005 in music as a side project. It features Kirk Windstein of Crowbar and Down and Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed....
, Korpiklaani
Korpiklaani

Korpiklaani is a folk metal band from Finland who are formerly known as Shaman . The name Korpiklaani means "Forest Clan" in the Finnish language....
, Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil is an Italy gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of Gothic aesthetics imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlaid with prominent key...
, Machine Head
Machine head

A Machine Head, also called a tuner, gear head, or tuning machine, is part of a string instrument ranging from guitars to double basses, a geared apparatus for tensioning and thereby tuning a string, usually located at the headstock....
, Motörhead
Motörhead

Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
, Napalm Death
Napalm Death

Napalm Death are an English death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. They are noted for being the first band to play the style known as grindcore....
, Nevermore
Nevermore

Nevermore is an United States Heavy metal music band from Seattle, Washington assembled in 1991 from the ashes of the power metal band Sanctuary ....
, Sarke, Testament
Testament

A testament is a document that the author has sworn to be true.Testament can refer to:* Full Testament,* Old Testament, also known as the Tanakh, the holy scriptures of Judaism and Christianity....
, Tracedawn, Tristania
Tristania

Tristania is a monotypic genus in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, native to New South Wales, Australia, closely related to bottlebrush. The genus had a number of species, but some have been reclassified as Lophostemon and Tristaniopsis....
, Turisas
Turisas

Turisas are a Finland viking metal band from H?meenlinna. They were founded in 1997 by Mathias Nyg?rd and Jussi Wickstr?m and named after an Iku-Turso....
, UFO
UFO (band)

UFO is a British hard rock/heavy metal music band formed in 1969. UFO became a transitional group between early hard rock and heavy metal music and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
, Volbeat, Walls of Jericho
Walls of Jericho

Walls of Jericho is a metalcore band formed in 1998 from Detroit, Michigan....
, Whiplash
Whiplash

Whiplash may refer to:* Whiplash , an injury...


See also

  • Full Metal Village
    Full Metal Village

    The 2007 documentary Full Metal Village examines the lives of the residents of a small German village in the Schleswig-Holstein region, Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, in a series of interviews and visual tableaux as it prepares for the annual Wacken Open Air....
    , a 2007 documentary by Sung Hyung Cho about the village of Wacken
    Wacken (town)

    Wacken is a municipality near the city of Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Wacken was first mentioned in 1148, but there were probably some settlements before, which is proven by the trove of Germanic tribes artifacts....
     and the influence of the festival on it.


  • Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

    Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is a 2005 in film documentary film directed by Sam Dunn with Scot McFadyen and Jessica Wise. The film follows 31-year-old Sam Dunn, a Canadian anthropologist, who has been a heavy metal fan since the age of 12....
    , and Global Metal
    Global Metal

    Global Metal is a 2008 in film documentary film directed by Canada anthropologist Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen. It is a followup to their successful 2005 documentary, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey....
    , documentaries by anthropologist Sam Dunn which feature the festival.


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