Graspop Metal Meeting

Graspop Metal Meeting
In Flames performing at Graspop 2008
Genre	Performing arts festival
Frequency	Annually
Location(s)	Dessel, Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
Coordinates	51°13′48.15″N 5°05′2.36″E / 51.2300417°N 5.0839889°E / 51.2300417; 5.0839889
Years active	1996–2019, 2022–present
Inaugurated	30 July 1996 (1996-07-30)
Founder	Peter Van Geel
Participants	See lineups
Attendance	220,000[1]
Capacity	55,000[2]
Area	Festivalterrein Stenehei
Website	www.graspop.be

Graspop Metal Meeting is a Belgian heavy metal festival held in Dessel each year since 1996, excluding 2020 and 2021 due to covid restrictions. Despite the small size of the festival grounds (upholding a perimeter of only ~4 km) the festival draws a large number of spectators from around the world, with a total of 220,000 visitors in 2022 and 2023,^[1][3] up from 200,000 visitors over the course of the 2019 edition,^[4] and 152,000 in 2015.^[5]

Graspop was not originally a heavy metal festival; rather, it was conceived as a local family rock festival, first organised in 1986. In 1995, the headliners were Joe Cocker and Simple Minds. However, due to the public being oversaturated with family festivals, the number of visitors had dropped to an all-time low.

Founder Peter Van Geel realized that mainstream rock music held insufficient appeal to festival visitors. Reflecting on the most memorable acts of the preceding years (Motörhead, Ramones, Paradise Lost, and so forth) and on his own musical preferences, he decided in favour of a drastic reorientation.

After discussions with Werchter festival promoter Herman Schueremans, Van Geel contacted Bob Schoenmaekers, the owner of the Biebob concert venue and metal club in nearby Vosselaar. A couple of years earlier, Schoenmaekers had set up his "Midsummer Metal Meeting" in Vosselaar and because of space limits, he was considering an open-air festival. The initial contact soon led to close collaboration. The duo decided to launch a brand-new metal festival under the name of "Graspop Metal Meeting". The date of choice was to be the last weekend of June.

The new direction proved to be a successful one. The festival has seen a continually rising number of visitors over the years, and has been able to attract the most popular international bands in the genre. Since the festival's inception in 1996, Iron Maiden has been the most frequent headliner with 10 appearances. Other bands which have prominently been featured are Hatebreed (9), Saxon (9), Sick of it All (9), Slayer (9), Cradle Of Filth (8), Epica (8), In Flames (8), Moonspell (8), My Dying Bride (8) and Within Temptation (8).

The current stages are :

• Main Stage 1 & 2 : The two main stages, host important bands and headlining acts. Before 2014, there was only one main stage.
• Marquee : A tent stage, which hosts mostly thrash metal, death metal, black metal or even stoner rock bands.
• Metal Dome : Host more intimist bands and local acts.
• Jupiler Stage : First held in 2014, it is a small open air stage, mostly dedicated to metalcore, hardcore and deathcore music.

The festival is located in Kastelsedijk, in Dessel and is situated about 60 km away from Antwerp, 99 km from Brussels and 35 km from Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

Dessel is a municipality with 9103 inhabitants in the province of Antwerp in Belgium.^[6] The 27.03 km ² comprehensive community lies in the Flemish Region, also known as Flanders, this is the officially Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. The distance to the Netherlands is less than 10 km. The largest part of the economy of Dessel is determined by different regions of the nuclear power industry. Dessel is the twin town of Hesse-Lichtenau.

Combination tickets for the Graspop Metal Meeting include camping from Thursday to Monday, parking for a vehicle (until 2022) and entry to the festival site. Day tickets are available, and before 2013 they did not include camping; camping tickets could be purchased separately. Camping tickets allowed day ticket holders to spend the night on the camping site. A camping ticket was valid on the same day as the festival ticket. From 2013 onwards, a day ticket included admission to the campsite.

In 2009 Graspop Metal Meeting introduced a VIP ticket. The VIP package consists of: parking space in the VIP car park; which is nearer the festival ground, access to the VIP lounge, and separate entrances to the campsite and the festival arena.

Ticket Prices
Year	Combi Ticket	Day Ticket	Camping Ticket
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2023 2024	€50[7] €65[8] €90[9] €105[10] €108[11] €125[12] €130[13] €135[14] €145[15] €146[16] €150[17] €160[18] €165[19] €189[19] €195 €299 €309	€40 (Sat) €35 (Fri) €50 (Sat) €35 (Sat) €50 (Sat & Sun) €50 (Fri & Sat) €55 (Sun) €50 (Fri& Sun) €60 (Sat) €69 €69 (Fri & Sat) €75 (Sun) €69 €75 €76 €80 €80 €85 €89 €95 €119	€15 (First year) €15 €15 €15 included in day ticket

Most people who stay at Graspop Metal Meeting will camp in a tent. Campsite accommodation is provided in the cost of a combi ticket but festival-goers must bring their own tents.

Caravans and trailer tents are not allowed onto the camp site. However attendees can book a pitch in addition to the main ticket which allows access to Graspop Metal Town.

Graspop Metal Town is located at just 1 km from the festival site and is a veritable open air hotel with its proper sanitary facilities, breakfast tent, bar and reception desk. Attendees can either spend the night in a Festihut or can book a pitch for their motorhome, caravan or tent.

Introduced in 2008 the Festihut is a wooden cottage equipped with beds or bunk beds and mattresses.

Festihut details:

• Four people per Festihut, equipped with (bunk) beds and mattresses
• Dimensions: 3 m x 2.5 m (7.5 m²)
• Lockable door and insulated roof
• One window as a minimum
• Wooden floor at least 10 cm above the ground
• 1 rechargeable lantern per hut (to be charged at the reception desk)
• All huts have electricity (max. 300W)
• Guests must bring their own sheets
• Smoking inside the Festihut is prohibited

Festihut Prices
Year	1 Person	2 People	4 People	6 People
2012[20] 2013[18]	€525	€550 €550	€575 €600	€600

Metal Town has space for 250 standard pitches and 50 XL pitches, for people who want to bring a caravan, mobile home, or tent.

Pitch details:

• 1 pitch = max. 6 persons
• Pitch standard: 8m x 4m / pitch XL: 12m x 4m
• Every pitch has electricity (max. 300W). Electricity will be available but attendees still need to bring their own extension leads.
• (Folding) caravan owners must return their car to the car park after leaving their caravan at the pitch.
• Each pitch is rented for 4 nights.
• Owners who leave their vehicle behind will be fined €500/vehicle.
• Cars are not allowed to park next to the Festihut or pitch. Guests must return their car to the car park after leaving their belongings in the Festihut or at the pitch (except for mobile homes).

Pitch Prices
Year	1 Person	2 People	3 People	4 People	5 People	6 People
	Standard/XL	Standard/XL	Standard/XL	Standard/XL	Standard/XL	Standard/XL
2012[20] 2013[21]	€150	€175 €175/€225	€200	€225 €225/€275	€250	€275 €275/€320

Sunday June 30
Mainstage	Marquee
Iron Maiden Slayer Life of Agony Channel Zero Sick of It All Fear Factory Tiamat Skin Gorefest	Type O Negative Morbid Angel Downset. Shelter Drain STH Manhole Revoker

• Helloween was announced, but had to cancel and were replaced by Skin

Sunday June 29
Mainstage	Marquee	Skate Stage
Megadeth Alice Cooper Biohazard Saxon Napalm Death Grip Inc. Samael Entombed Pist.On	Tiamat Moonspell Cradle of Filth The Gathering Dimmu Borgir	Madball Lagwagon Ryker's Millencolin Deviate Handsome

My Dying Bride was announced as headliner in the Marquee but they had to cancel because of the illness of their drummer.
Obituary was replaced by Napalm Death.

Sunday June 28
Mainstage	Marquee I	Marquee II
Black Sabbath Dream Theater Deftones Soulfly Iced Earth Coal Chamber Obituary Spiritual Beggars	Paradise Lost Moonspell Dimmu Borgir In Flames Within Temptation	Primus Madball Pro-Pain The Misfits Congress

Sunday June 27[22]
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marque II
Manowar Sepultura Motörhead Stormtroopers of Death The Gathering Kreator Primal Fear Darkane Ancient Rites	Cradle of Filth Mercyful Fate Immortal Anathema Children of Bodom Hypocrisy	Danzig Slapshot Ryker's Pitchshifter Ignite Out

Saturday June 24
Mainstage	Marque I	Marque II
Iron Maiden Slayer Machine Head Rollins Band Saxon Testament Gamma Ray Entombed Dirty Deeds	My Dying Bride Anathema Tristania Samael Apocalyptica Cannibal Corpse God Dethroned Oceans of Sadness	Cro-Mags Madball Skarhead No Fun at All 59 Times the Pain Liberator Bombshell Rocks Voice of a Generation

Friday June 22[23]
Marquee 1/Campfest
Action in DC Nevermore Rose Tattoo Destruction Devin Townsend Ancient Rites Metalium

Saturday June 23
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II
Judas Priest Cradle of Filth Megadeth Motörhead Savatage Primal Fear Farmer Boys Kill II This Pist.On	Marduk Within Temptation Six Feet Under Macabre The Haunted Orphanage Unleashed	Suicidal Tendencies Dropkick Murphys Sick of It All Shelter Backfire Awkward Thought

Friday July 5[24]
Marquee I	Marquee II
Saxon Anathema Kreator Moonspell Doro Rage Manic Movement	Agnostic Front After Forever Less Than Jake In Extremo Massif Skarhead Xeah

Saturday July 6
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II
Slayer Dream Theater Machine Head Bruce Dickinson Halford Tristania Edguy Calibre Evergrey	My Dying Bride Immortal Cannibal Corpse Hypocrisy Arch Enemy Dismember	Biohazard Slapshot The Vandals D.R.I. Deviate Subzero

Friday July 4[25]
Marquee I	Marquee II
Type O Negative Sepultura Opeth Samael Mastodon Oceans of Sadness	Stratovarius Apocalyptica Overkill Masterplan Atreyu Aborted

Saturday July 5
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II
Iron Maiden Alice Cooper Within Temptation Anthrax Murderdolls Arch Enemy Doro Pro-Pain Killer	Ministry Lacuna Coil Six Feet Under Finntroll The Haunted Deströyer 666	Stone Sour Sick of It All Hatebreed Prong Youth of Today Convict

Friday June 25[26]
Main Stage	Marquee I
Iced Earth Anathema In Extremo Circle II Circle Action in DC Cowboys & Aliens	Exodus Hypocrisy After Forever Suffocation Dillinger Escape Plan Epica

Saturday June 26
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II
Alice Cooper Slipknot Motörhead Soulfly Queensrÿche Pleymo Brides of Destruction Evergrey	Cradle of Filth My Dying Bride Anthrax Morbid Angel Oomph! Scarve	Agnostic Front Terror Blood for Blood Discipline Backfire Do or Die

Sunday June 27
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II
Judas Priest Life of Agony Fear Factory Saxon Testament Destruction Seven Witches	Dimmu Borgir Children of Bodom Therion Death Angel Dying Fetus Malevolent Creation	Hatebreed Ill Niño Ignite Chimaira Killswitch Engage Shadows Fall

Friday June 24
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
System of a Down Within Temptation Papa Roach Helmet Alter Bridge The Ga*Ga*s	Nevermore Megadeth Metal Church Grave Digger Enslaved Immolation	Kreator Dillinger Escape Plan Madball H2O Caliban The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster	In-Quest Autumn Axamenta Judasville Cowboys and Aliens Chimaira Sengir

Saturday June 25
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II
Slipknot Slayer Accept Hatebreed Kamelot Epica Soilwork Skitsoy	In Flames Sirenia Samael Amon Amarth Gorefest Behemoth	Anthrax Sick of It All Mastodon Rose Tattoo Pro-Pain Peter Pan Speedrock

Sunday June 26
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II
Iron Maiden Dream Theater Dio Yngwie Malmsteen Primal Fear Axel Rudi Pell DragonForce	Lacuna Coil Dark Tranquillity Nuclear Assault Aborted Oceans of Sadness	Terror Amen Walls of Jericho Murphy's Law Hatesphere

Friday June 23[27]
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Whitesnake Lacuna Coil Michael Schenker Group Edguy Trivium Y&T Anvil	Satyricon Moonspell The Gathering Stream of Passion Leaves' Eyes Sengir	Die Krupps Evergrey Soilwork 36 Crazyfists Gojira Darkane	Axamenta Leng Tch'e Callenish Circle Panchrysia Iconoclasm Battalion The Maple Room

Saturday June 24
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Guns N' Roses Soulfly Alice in Chains Stone Sour Avenged Sevenfold Bullet for My Valentine Bloodsimple	Opeth My Dying Bride Nile Obituary Ancient Rites Akercocke	Death Angel Ill Niño Jon Oliva's 'Pain' The New York Dolls The Datsuns Caliban	Action in Dc Up the Irons Ozzy Oz Purple Strangers Nutellica

Sunday June 25
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II
Motörhead Saxon Helloween In Flames Armored Saint DragonForce Machine Men	Cradle of Filth After Forever Exodus Enthroned Ensiferum In-Quest	Arch Enemy Agnostic Front Ignite DevilDriver Beyond Fear As I Lay Dying

Friday June 22[28]
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Aerosmith Chris Cornell Within Temptation Static-X Thin Lizzy Fastway	Blind Guardian Joe Satriani Pain of Salvation Grave Digger Epica Sabaton	Therion Type O Negative Celtic Frost Amorphis Vader 1349	Volbeat Belphegor Textures Crimson Falls TAB

Saturday June 23
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Iron Maiden Korn Heaven & Hell Life of Agony Stone Sour Lamb of God Lauren Harris	Dimmu Borgir Tiamat Cannibal Corpse Atheist Sirenia Brutal Truth	Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Drowning Pool Less Than Jake Legion of the Damned Rose Hill Drive Spiralarms	Bloodsimple Scarve Thurisaz Suhrim Spoiler NYC

Sunday June 24
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Ozzy Osbourne Slayer Children of Bodom Papa Roach HammerFall Black Label Society Chimaira DevilDriver	Amon Amarth Finntroll Korpiklaani Moonsorrow Turisas Eluveitie	Mastodon As I Lay Dying Unearth Cynic Mercenary In This Moment	Stormrider Oceans of Sadness El Guapo Stuntteam Spoil Engine Asrai Welkin

Friday June 27
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Judas Priest Whitesnake Def Leppard Saxon Yngwie Malmsteen Tesla	Ministry Testament Symphony X MoonSpell Black Stone Cherry	Morbid Angel Nile Obituary Deathstars Behemoth	Firewind Damn Your Idols The Lucifer Principle Steak Number Eight Dedicted

Saturday June 28
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Kiss Cavalera Conspiracy Iced Earth Sonata Arctica Forbidden Sabaton	My Dying Bride Immortal Korpiklaani Dying Fetus Hollenthon Novembers Doom	Helmet Bring Me the Horizon 36 Crazyfists Agent Steel Bleeding Through Throwdown	Delain Valient Thorr Alestorm Die Mannequin Hacride

Sunday June 29
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Iron Maiden In Flames Avenged Sevenfold Bullet for My Valentine Apocalyptica Rose Tattoo Lauren Harris	At the Gates Primordial Soilwork Alchemist Rotting Christ	Arch Enemy Madball Converge Comeback Kid Skindred Disfear	Action in DC Shai Hulud The Seventh Witchsmeller Pursuivant After All Black Tide

Friday June 26[29]
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Mötley Crüe Heaven & Hell Soulfly Papa Roach DragonForce Buckcherry	Dream Theater Blind Guardian W.A.S.P. Jon Oliva's Pain Firewind	Down Static-X Exodus Pestilence Lȧȧz Rockit	The Gathering Samael Taake Lauren Harris

Saturday June 27
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Slipknot Korn Journey Hatebreed Mastodon Black Stone Cherry In-Quest	Lacuna Coil Death Angel Gojira Legion of the Damned Kataklysm Keep of Kalessin	Volbeat Monster Magnet Duff McKagan's Loaded Parkway Drive No Use for a Name All Shall Perish	Wolves in the Throne Room Dagoba Delain Negură Bunget Manic Movement

Sunday June 28
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Marilyn Manson Nightwish Disturbed Chickenfoot Trivium Lamb of God UFO	Children of Bodom Epica Sacred Reich Candlemass Scar Symmetry Warbringer	Sick of It All Anthrax DevilDriver Suicidal Tendencies God Forbid Flyleaf	Karma to Burn All That Remains Eths August Burns Red The Reckoning

Friday June 25[30]
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Aerosmith Motörhead Stone Temple Pilots Slayer Billy Talent ReVamp	My Dying Bride Tarja Therion Anathema Krypteria Ghost Brigade	Saxon Doro U.D.O. The Poodles Anvil Raven	Nile Sepultura Devin Townsend Project The Devil's Blood Bleeding Through Oceans of Sadness

Saturday June 26
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Soulfly Channel Zero Slash Carcass Bullet For My Valentine Sabaton Killing Machine	Immortal Paradise Lost Obituary Cannibal Corpse Dark Funeral Hail of Bullets	Airbourne Sick of It All Fear Factory Walls of Jericho Death by Stereo Sylosis	Eluveitie Tankard 3 Inches of Blood Spoil Engine Dear Superstar Iron Mask

Sunday June 27
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Kiss Hatebreed Killswitch Engage Jon Oliva's Pain Exodus Evergrey Atreyu	Amon Amarth Bloodbath Behemoth Alestorm Katatonia Necrophobic	DevilDriver Unearth A Day to Remember As I Lay Dying Mucky Pup Job for a Cowboy	Finntroll Korpiklaani 36 Crazyfists The Faceless Deadlock Between the Buried and Me

Friday June 24
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Scorpions Volbeat Korn Journey Foreigner Dio Disciples FM	Iced Earth Epica Watain Corrosion of Conformity The Black Dahlia Murder Arkona	Parkway Drive The Damned Things Heaven Shall Burn Sepultura The Dwarves Protest the Hero	Duff McKagan's Loaded Angel Witch The Rods Sweet Savage Endless Dark Revoker

Saturday June 25
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Judas Priest Whitesnake Channel Zero Black Label Society Firewind Lacuna Coil Diablo Blvd	Cradle of Filth Arch Enemy Moonspell Triptykon Suicide Silence Kvelertak	Bullet for My Valentine Monster Magnet Times of Grace Bleed from Within Kylesa Adept	Pain Electric Wizard Spiritual Beggars Ghost Black Spiders After the Burial

Sunday June 26
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Slipknot Rob Zombie Avenged Sevenfold Mastodon Kreator Anvil Pagan's Mind	Cavalera Conspiracy Opeth Legion of the Damned Moonsorrow Amorphis Baptized in Blood	Bring Me the Horizon Dublin Death Patrol Terror Pro pain D.R.I. Rise to Remain	Soilwork Escape the Fate Architects Gwar While She Sleeps Steak Number Eight [31]

Friday June 22[32]
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Ozzy and Friends Slayer Sabaton Slash Black Label Society Godsmack Tracer	Lamb of God Amon Amarth Paradise Lost Sacred Reich Ensiferum Skeletonwitch	Kyuss Lives! Sick of It All DevilDriver August Burns Red Unearth I Killed the Prom Queen	Cannibal Corpse Obituary Aborted Possessed Winterfylleth Saille

Saturday June 23
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Limp Bizkit Twisted Sister Megadeth Trivium Thin Lizzy Primal Fear Adrenaline Mob Powerwolf	Dimmu Borgir My Dying Bride Exodus Eluveitie Death Angel Alestorm	Pennywise Fear Factory Comeback Kid All Shall Perish The Spudmonsters While She Sleeps	Ihsahn & Leprous Nasum Brutal Truth Suicidal Angels Dear Superstar Heidevolk Kobra and the Lotus

Sunday June 24
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Guns N' Roses Motörhead Machine Head Killswitch Engage Europe Sebastian Bach Six Hour Sundown	Children of Bodom Behemoth Jon Oliva's Pain Gotthard Ugly Kid Joe MaYaN	Hatebreed Gojira AxeWound H2O Emmure Cancer Bats	Texas in July Betraying the Martyrs Rival Sons Spoil Engine Black Spiders The Treatment

Friday June 28[33]
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Twisted Sister Korn Coal Chamber[34] Papa Roach Helloween Grave Digger Heathen Crucified Barbara	Kreator Mayhem Dark Funeral Korpiklaani Unleashed Varg	Soulfly Heaven Shall Burn Prong All That Remains Asking Alexandria Veil of Maya	Katatonia Rotting Christ Entombed Love and Death Bliksem The Monolith Deathcult Generation Kill

Saturday June 29[35]
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Slipknot Saxon Within Temptation Bullet for My Valentine The Devil Wears Prada Rockstar Brainstorm Vanderbuyst	Iced Earth Hypocrisy U.D.O. Steak Number Eight Tankard Amaranthe	P.O.D Down Agnostic Front Caliban Thy Art Is Murder After the Burial	Absu Lock Up Aura Noir Dunderbeist Between the Buried and Me Sylosis Hacktivist

Sunday June 30[36]
Main Stage	Marquee I	Marquee II	Metal Dome
Iron Maiden In Flames Stone Sour Parkway Drive Hellyeah Pretty Maids Voodoo Six	King Diamond Epica Ghost God Seed Moonspell Winterfylleth	Testament Newsted Unearth The Ghost Inside Deez Nuts Every Time I Die	The Sword Karma to Burn Red Fang Bullet Heaven's Basement King Hiss

Megadeth had to cancel their show. They used to be the headliner on Mainstage 2 on Sunday.

Thursday June 26[37]
Jupiler Stage	Metal Dome
Diablo Blvd Evil Invaders Ostrogoth Dyscordia	Knives to a Gunfight Temptations for the Weak Atmospheres

Friday June 27[37]
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Avenged Sevenfold Slayer Steel Panther Ghost Seether Jeff Scott Soto	Sabaton Behemoth Sepultura Doro Annihilator Lynch Mob Alestorm	Opeth Watain Triptykon Candlemass Napalm Death Solstafir Novembers Doom	Graveyard Unida Orange Goblin Walking Papers Of Mice & Men Miss May I Suicidal Angels The Treatment High Voltage	Emmure Buckcherry Blessthefall Huntress Battlecross

Saturday June 28
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Volbeat Alter Bridge Mastodon Gamma Ray Skillet Prime Circle Civil War	Limp Bizkit Trivium WASP Gojira Powerwolf Dagoba	Carcass Neurosis Satyricon Eluveitie Legion of the Damned Nile Necrophobic In Solitude	Dark Tranquility The Dillinger Escape Plan Cult of Luna Amplifier Enslaved Amenra Nails Carach Angren Stahlzeit	Kylesa Pro Pain Walls of Jericho Protest the Hero Skyharbor

Sunday June 29
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Black Sabbath Soundgarden Alice in Chains Anthrax Black Label Society The Black Dahlia Murder	"Diablo Radio" (covers by Diablo Blvd) Rob Zombie Hatebreed Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Silence Comeback Kid Powerman 5000	Meshuggah Paradise Lost Death: DTA Tiamat The Church of Pungent Stench Cynic Glorior Belli	Metal Church Sebastian Bach Vandenberg's Moonkings Rhapsody of Fire Gloryhammer Scorpion Child Collibus	Architects We Came as Romans Thy Art Is Murder letlive Crossfaith

Thursday June 18
Marquee	Jupiler Stage	Metal Dome
Present Danger Up the Irons The Art of Pantera Diolegacy	Wolves Scream Age of Torment Powerstroke	Bliksem Oceans of Sadness Your Highness Hell City

Friday June 19
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
KISS Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators Cavalera Conspiracy Epica Thunder H.E.A.T	Marilyn Manson In Flames Body Count Life of Agony Asking Alexandria Butcher Babies The Dead Daisies	My Dying Bride Marduk Cannibal Corpse God Seed Sigh Aborted Der Weg Einer Freiheit	Ihsahn Samael Evergrey Sarke Ne Obliviscaris Blues Pills Avatarium King Hiss	Stray from the Path Heidevolk Set Things Right Snot In Hearts Wake

Saturday June 20
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Slipknot Korn Five Finger Death Punch Godsmack A Day to Remember Hollywood Undead Lower Than Atlantis	Judas Priest Alice Cooper Sonata Arctica Exodus Danko Jones Orchid	At the Gates Arch Enemy Korpiklaani Vallenfyre Kataklysm Morgoth Orphaned Land	Alcest Primordial Lacuna Coil The Ocean Shining The Haunted Hawk Eyes	Every Time I Die We Are Harlot Code Orange Chelsea Grin Upon a Burning Body

Sunday June 21
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Scorpions Motörhead Airbourne Black Stone Cherry Tremonti Pop Evil	Faith No More Within Temptation Lamb of God Papa Roach Parkway Drive Betraying the Martyrs Like a Storm	Cradle of Filth Children of Bodom Amorphis Septicflesh Sylosis Winterfylleth Den Saakaldte	DragonForce FM Equilibrium Devilment Evil Invaders Battle Beast Kobra and the Lotus	Terror Texas in July Counterparts Motionless in White The Charm The Fury

Thursday June 16
Marquee	Jupiler Stage	Metal Dome
Dirkschneider Primal Fear Trivium	Eurostars Wrestling Spoil Engine Killer Fleddy Melculy Reject the Sickness	Your Highness Bark Knives to a Gunfight

Friday June 17
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Black Sabbath Megadeth Foreigner Bad Religion The Winery Dogs Monster Truck	King Diamond Amon Amarth Disturbed Heaven Shall Burn Sixx:A.M. Soilwork Firewind	Apocalyptica Dark Funeral Moonspell Arcturus Fleshgod Apocalypse Carach Angren Myrkur	Zakk Wylde Amaranthe Loudness Virgin Steele Grand Magus Raven Bloodbound	August Burns Red Atreyu Norma Jean Turnstile Monuments

Saturday June 18
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Volbeat Slayer Bullet for My Valentine Testament Skillet Halestorm Bliksem	Nightwish Ghost Dropkick Murphys Killswitch Engage Pennywise Municipal Waste	Abbath Gojira Satyricon Obituary Paradise Lost Shining God Dethroned Secrets of the Moon	Rival Sons Tesseract Kadavar Slaves Collibus The Shrine	Anti-Flag Beartooth Skindred Burning Down Alaska

Sunday June 19
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Iron Maiden Anthrax Saxon Tremonti Shinedown The Raven Age	Twisted Sister Trivium Powerwolf Sick of It All Overkill Delain	Behemoth Sacred Reich Steak Number Eight Legion of the Damned Moonsorrow Enthroned In the Woods... Sikth	La Muerte Oomph! Obscura Crobot The Algorithm The Midnight Ghost Train	The Amity Affliction We Came as Romans Bury Tomorrow Thy Art Is Murder Wild Lies

Thursday June 15
Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Brides of Lucifer Slayensemble The Covering Pawns of Christ	Thurisaz King Hiss Wolves Scream Hexa Mera	Born from Pain Off the Cross Bear Carnation

Friday June 16
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Rammstein Europe Dee Snider Black Star Riders Blue Öyster Cult Battle Beast Slydigs	Emperor Epica Sepultura Metal Church Comeback Kid Evil Invaders	Brides of Lucifer Tarja Amenra Sólstafir Rotting Christ Melechesh Decapitated Tribulation	The Dillinger Escape Plan Alcest Prong Psychotic Waltz King's X Sinistro MaYaN	The Devil Wears Prada Motionless in White Northlane Every Time I Die As It Is Shvpes

• Dee Snider replaced W.A.S.P

Saturday June 17
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Deep Purple Alter Bridge Gojira Danko Jones Rhapsody Axel Rudi Pell	In Flames Five Finger Death Punch A Day to Remember Max & Iggor Cavalera: Return to Roots Architects DevilDriver Avatar	Ministry Amorphis Mayhem Devin Townsend Project Sanctuary Subrosa	Helmet Monster Magnet Clutch Red Fang Coheed and Cambria Baroness Toseland	Of Mice & Men While She Sleeps Code Orange Crown the Empire As Lions

Sunday June 18
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Scorpions Evanescence Steel Panther Airbourne Ugly Kid Joe The Raven Age	Sabaton Rob Zombie Mastodon Hatebreed Alestorm The Charm The Fury	Primus Opeth Anathema Graveyard Kvelertak The Black Dahlia Murder Memoriam The Monolith Deathcult	Queensrÿche Gotthard The Dead Daisies Hardline Grave Digger Like a Storm Inglorious	Sum 41 Suicidal Tendencies Suicide Silence Chelsea Grin Touché Amoré Hacktivist

In 2018 the Festival will have 4 full days and was completely sold out for the first time in its existence. ^[38]

Thursday June 21[39]
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Guns N' Roses Jonathan Davis Black Stone Cherry The Pink Slips	Ghost Iced Earth Doro Pesch	-	Kataklysm Dool Heilung Toxic Shock Moments Signs of Algorithm	Madball Fleddy Melculy Bury Tomorrow Cancer Bats Follow the Cipher

Friday June 22
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Iron Maiden Killswitch Engage Powerwolf Shinedown Avatar Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown	Parkway Drive Avenged Sevenfold Hollywood Undead Tremonti Stick to Your Guns Diablo Blvd	Ayreon Watain Vader Septicflesh Carach Angren Arkona Akercocke Galactic Empire	Neurosis Wolves in the Throne Room The Darkness Pist.On In This Moment Zeal & Ardor The Raven Age Savage Messiah	Less Than Jake Anti-Flag L7 Silverstein Culture Abuse

Saturday June 23
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Volbeat Rise Against Arch Enemy Skillet Vixen Backyard Babies	Marilyn Manson Megadeth Kreator Accept Asking Alexandria Seether Stray from the Path	Bloodbath At the Gates Marduk Exodus Amaranthe Asphyx Batushka Bölzer	Baroness Sons of Apollo Kadavar Planet of Zeus The Vintage Caravan Thundermother Stone Broken	Underoath Miss May I Crossfaith Boston Manor Our Hollow, Our Home*

Sunday June 24
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Ozzy Osbourne Hollywood Vampires Limp Bizkit Billy Talent Eisbrecher Vandenberg's Moonkings	A Perfect Circle Judas Priest Bullet for My Valentine Body Count feat. Ice-T Powerflo Pro-Pain	Meshuggah Dead Cross Corrosion of Conformity Lacuna Coil Carnivore A.D. Shining (SE) Týr Mantar	The Bloody Beetroots Perturbator Skindred Tesseract The Contortionist Eskimo Callboy Ego Kill Talent	Thy Art Is Murder Emmure Blessthefall Knocked Loose Modern Life Is War Employed to Serve

(*) Replacing P.O.D.

Thursday June 20
Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Philip Anselmo & The Illegals Sonata Arctica Aborted Raven	Off the Cross Concealed Reality Hemelbestormer	The Amity Affliction Beartooth Nasty Black Peaks

Friday June 21
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Within Temptation Lynyrd Skynyrd Architects Glenn Hughes Eisbrecher Like a Storm	Slayer Amon Amarth Anthrax Testament Hatebreed Death Angel	Stone Temple Pilots Eagles of Death Metal Children of Bodom Cult of Luna Candlemass Crowbar Whitechapel Wiegedood	Mysticum Starset Carpenter Brut Deathstars Combichrist Candlebox The Hu	Discharge Fever 333 Municipal Waste Bleed from Within To the Rats and Wolves

Saturday June 22
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Slipknot Disturbed Slash ft. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators Behemoth Three Days Grace Bad Wolves	Lamb of God Godsmack Trivium Halestorm HammerFall Gloryhammer	King Diamond Ministry Clutch Legion of the Damned Borknagar Immolation Ne Obliviscaris Cellar Darling	Demons and Wizards Krokus UFO Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons Grand Magus Beast in Black Lovebites	Refused No Fun at All Agnostic Front Taking Back Sunday State Champs

Sunday June 23
Main Stage 01	Main Stage 02	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
KISS Def Leppard Whitesnake Gojira Deadland Ritual FM	Sabaton Rob Zombie In Flames Delain Inglorious	Carcass Cradle of Filth Eluveitie Possessed Insomnium Fleshgod Apocalypse Equilibrium Skálmöld	Hawkwind Kvelertak Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats Living Colour Nashville Pussy Orange Goblin Crisix	Sick of It All While She Sleeps Terror Born from Pain Power Trip

In 2020 the festival planned to organise the 25th edition. Therefore, they would have celebrated it as a full 4-day festival. Bands intended to perform included Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Aerosmith, Mercyful Fate, Disturbed, Faith No More, Killing Joke, The Offspring, Korn, Airbourne and others. On 15 April 2020, the festival announced on its Facebook page that the 2020 edition would be cancelled because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The festival was rescheduled to 2021, and then again rescheduled to 2022 because of the ongoing pandemic in 2021.

Thursday June 16
South Stage	North Stage	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Iron Maiden Powerwolf Tremonti Battle Beast	Volbeat Dropkick Murphys Mastodon Beartooth While She Sleeps	Mercyful Fate Stake Death To All In Extremo Flotsam And Jetsam Vltimas MysÞyrming	Baroness High On Fire Enthroned Celeste Lalma Toxic Shock Strains The Curse Of Millhaven	Suicidal Tendencies Slapshot Deez Nuts Ego Kill Talent Creeper Trash Boat Dana Dentata

Friday June 17
South Stage	North Stage	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Scorpions Whitesnake A Day To Remember Bullet For My Valentine Steel Panther Beyond The Black	Within Temptation Megadeth Heaven Shall Burn Black Label Society Gloryhammer Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons Plays Motörhead	Heilung Amenra Paradise Lost Alcest Angelus Apatrida Gaahls Wyrd Dool Disillusion	Perturbator Zeal & Ardor Twin Temple The Vintage Caravan Sloper British Lion Tempt	Stick To Your Guns Jinjer Employed To Serve Our Hollow, Our Home Ghøstkid As Everything Unfolds

Saturday June 18
South Stage	North Stage	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Judas Priest Saxon Foreigner Europe Michael Schenker Majestica	Korn Five Finger Death Punch Shinedown Eisbrecher Blues Pills Kontrust	Opeth Devin Townsend Down Ihsahn Decapitated Dying Fetus Tribulation Imminence	Myles Kennedy And Company Red Fang Ugly Kid Joe Fleddy Melculy Smash Into Pieces Massive Wagons Killthelogo	Lagwagon Good Riddance Walls Of Jericho Counterparts Boston Manor Cemetery Sun

Sunday June 19
South Stage	North Stage	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Sabaton Deep Purple Alice Cooper Skillet Rival Sons Thunder	Deftones The Offspring Alestorm Evil Invaders Crossfaith	Dimmu Borgir Amorphis Sepultura Tiamat Destruction The Great Old Ones Bütcher Naglfar	Fu Manchu Kadavar Me And That Man Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown Wayward Sons Dirty Honey	Dog Eat Dog Suicide Silence Bury Tomorrow Fire From The Gods Spiritbox InVisions

Thursday June 15
South Stage	North Stage	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Guns N' Roses Alter Bridge Papa Roach Tom Morello Mammoth WVH	Ghost Arch Enemy Epica Spiritbox Beast In Black	Cradle Of Filth My Dying Bride At The Gates Septicflesh Marduk Butcher Babies Orbit Culture	Carpenter Brut The Winery Dogs Symphony X Evergrey The Raven Age Escape The Fate Haken Molybaron	As I Lay Dying Sick Of It All Motionless In White Agnostic Front Unearth Stray From The Path Cancer Bats End

Friday June 16
South Stage	North Stage	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Machine Head Disturbed Behemoth Airbourne Fever 333 Thundermother	Gojira Amon Amarth Hatebreed Asking Alexandria Pro-Pain Blind Channel	Meshuggah Watain Delain Municipal Waste Finntroll Heidevolk Crowbar Vanaheim	VV Clutch Orange Goblin The Answer Planet of Zeus Legion of Doom Any Given Day Black Mirrors	Hollywood Undead Ice Nine Kills The Amity Affliction Palaye Royale Landmvrks Blackgold Loathe Fatal Move

Saturday June 17
South Stage	North Stage	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Slipknot Pantera Architects Halestorm I Prevail Nothing More	Parkway Drive Rancid In Flames The Ghost Inside Skindred Vended	Testament Korpiklaani Dark Angel Legion of the Damned Suicidal Angels Cyclone Schizophrenia Noctem	Solstafir Eivor Soen Sleep Token Infected Rain Antimatter Heriot Oceans	Life Of Agony Less Than Jake The Chats Code Orange Danko Jones The Menzingers Cane Hill Mini Barks

Sunday June 18
South Stage	North Stage	Marquee	Metal Dome	Jupiler Stage
Def Leppard Hollywood Vampires Three Days Grace Dirkschneider Elegant Weapons Eclipse	Mötley Crüe Generation Sex Avatar Skid Row Kissin' Dynamite	Kreator Eluveitie The Halo Effect Katatonia Insomnium Carnation Dieth Hippotraktor	Monster Magnet Lorna Shore Voivod Hellmut Lotti Goes Metal Deathstars Greg Puciato Polaris Paledusk	Billy Talent Enter Shikari Anti-Flag Lionheart Chelsea Grin Bloodywood Stand Atlantic The Luka State

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