This is a list of heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 festivals

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

 ordered by country.

Australia

• Soundwave festival
• No Sleep Til Festival
  No Sleep Til Festival
  The No Sleep Til Festival was a music festival that was held across Australia and New Zealand in December 2010. The Festival was headlined by Megadeth, who played their album Rust in Peace in its entirety. Other bands included were NOFX, Dropkick Murphys, and Parkway Drive...
  
  

Belgium

• Graspop Metal Meeting
  Graspop Metal Meeting
  Graspop Metal Meeting is an annual metal festival in Dessel, Belgium that has taken place each year since 1996. Despite the small size of the festival grounds the festival draws a large number of international spectators, with a total of 142,000 visitors in the course of the 2011 edition...
  
  
• Metal Female Voices Fest
  Metal Female Voices Fest
  Metal Female Voices Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Belgium since 2003. It is organized by the Metal Organisation agency. The seventh edition took place at Oktoberhallen in Wieze in the municipality of Lebbeke on October 17 and October 18, 2009.-October 22:*Doro* Leaves' Eyes*...
  
  
• Pestpop
  Pestpop
  Pestpop is a heavy metal festival held annually at Oktoberhallen in Wieze, Belgium since 2006. The 2007 edition will take place on April 20 – April 21.-2007 lineup:*My Dying Bride*Mortiis*Jon Oliva's Pain*Kotipelto*Chris Caffery*Heimat*Kludde...
  
  
• Alcatraz Metal Fest
• Metal Méan
• Huginns Awakening Fest
• Power Prog & Metal Fest (PPM)

Czech Republic

• Obscene Extreme
  Obscene Extreme
  Obscene Extreme is an extreme metal and grindcore open-air music festival taking place in Trutnov, Czech Republic each summer since 1999. To date, 490 bands have performed at Obscene Extreme.- Obscene Extreme 1999 :...
  
  
• Brutal Assault
  Brutal assault
  Brutal Assault is an extreme metal open-air music festival taking place in the 18th century army Fortress Josefov in Jaroměř, Czech Republic. It takes place each August traditionally on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the beginning of the month. The festival was started in 1995 featuring mostly...
  
  
• Masters of Rock
  Masters of Rock (festival)
  Masters of Rock is a large heavy metal festival in Czech Republic. The main styles represented on this festival are power, speed and heavy metal, though the production tries to make the fest more open for other rock and metal styles as progressive rock/metal, hardcore, death metal or even ska...
  
  
• Metalfest

Denmark

• Copenhell
• Kill-Town Death Fest (Copenhagen)
• Aalborg Metal Festival
  Aalborg Metal Festival
  Aalborg Metal Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Aalborg, Denmark since 2002. The 2008 festival took place on November 6-8 at Studenterhuset in Aalborg.-2008:In 2008, the festival was held from November 6 to 8....
  
  
• Day of decay
  Day of decay
  Day of Decay is an annual metal festival held in Aalborg, Denmark. It first time took place on 14 August 2010 at Baghuset, in Aalborg, and consisted of 16 bands from Denmark and abroad...
  
  

• Metalstone
  Metalstone
  Metalstone is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Denmark since 2007. The 2007 edition will take place at The Rock in Copenhagen on February 2 and February 3.-February 2:*Dørene åbner*Vira*Nvlvs*Downward Candidate*Melted*Black Succubi...
  
  

• Roskilde Festival
  Roskilde Festival
  Roskilde Festival is a festival held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the six biggest annual music festivals in Europe . It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer...
  
  
• Royal Metal Fest
  Royal Metal Fest
  Royal Metal Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually by Metal Royale in Denmark since 2008. The 2011 edition will toke place at VoxHall in Århus on April 1-2.-2011:The following bands played at the 2011 edition:* Obituary* Malevolent Creation...
  
  

Egypt

• HeavyTune Open Air
• Metal Blast
• Rock Nation
• Metal Accord
• Metal Gigs & Metal Gates
• Alex Headbangers

Finland

• Finnish Metal Expo
  Finnish Metal Expo
  Finnish Metal Expo is a heavy metal fair and festival held annually at Kaapelitehdas in Ruoholahti, Helsinki, Finland since 2005. The Finnish Metal Awards, different kind of clinics, interview sessions, signing sessions and competitions are also part of the happening.-2009...
  
  
• Jalometalli Metal Music Festival
  Jalometalli Metal Music Festival
  Jalometalli Metal Music Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Finland since 2002. The festival has mainly old school thrash metal and death and black metal bands.-2004:Held on August 20 and August 21 at Kuusisaari in Oulu.August 20:...
  
  
• Jalometalli Winterfest
  Jalometalli Winterfest
  Jalometalli Winterfest is a heavy metal festival held annually in Finland. It was created in 2005 as an offshoot of Jalometalli Metal Music Festival.-2007:Held on February 24 at Club Teatria in Oulu.*Moonsorrow*MyGRAIN*Wrathage*Impish*Hebosagil...
  
  

• Sauna Open Air Metal Festival
  Sauna Open Air Metal Festival
  Sauna Open Air Metal Festival, shortly Sauna Open Air or just Sauna, has become one of the largest music festivals dedicated only to metal and related styles of music in the Nordic countries. It was first arranged in 2004 and takes place in the Ratinanniemi park in Tampere, Finland...
  
  
• Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
  Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
  Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, shortly Tuska , is the largest music festival dedicated only to metal and related styles of music in the Nordic countries. The history of Tuska began in 1998 and it has grown larger every year. The location of the festival has been in Kaisaniemi park in the middle of...
  
  
• Hammer Open Air Metal Festival
• Deathroit

France

• Hellfest Summer Open Air
  Hellfest Summer Open Air
  Hellfest is an annual music festival which takes place in Clisson, France in mid-June. It is held within the Val de Moine sport complex in Clisson, approximately 35 km south-east of the city of Nantes, and approximately 400 km south-west of the nation's capital Paris. Billed as an "extreme music...
  
  

• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• Motocultor Festival
  Motocultor Festival
  Motocultor Festival is an annual music festival which takes place in Brittany, north-west France, in mid-August. The programme features a variety of heavy metal and hardcore acts. Notable artists that have performed at previous festivals include Pestilence, Destruction, Sodom, Entombed,...
  
  
• Raismes Fest
  Raismes Fest
  Raismes Fest is a metal festival held annually in Raismes, France since 1998. The 2007 edition took place at Château de la Princesse d'Arenberg on September 8 and September 9....
  
  

Germany

• Bang Your Head!!!

• Battle of Metal
  Battle of Metal
  Battle of Metal is a metal festival held annually in Geiselwind, Germany since 2006. The 2007 edition took place at Autohof Strohofer on July 5 – July 7....
  
  
• Chronical Moshers Open Air
  Chronical Moshers Open Air
  Chronical Moshers Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually at Chronical Moshers in Hauptmannsgrün, Germany since 2003. The 2007 edition took place on June 8 and June 9.-2011:*Hatesphere*Eisregen*Iron Kobra*Debauchery*Dawn Of Fate*End Of Green...
  
  

• Dong Open Air
  Dong Open Air
  Dong Open Air is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany since 2001. The 2009 edition will take place on July 17 and July 18.-2001:...
  
  
• Doom Shall Rise
  Doom Shall Rise
  Doom Shall Rise is the world's biggest doom metal festival. It is held annually at the Chapel in Göppingen, Germany since 2003.-2003 lineup:*Dawn of Winter*Doomshine*Dreaming*Forsaken*Revelation*Reverend Bizarre*Semlah*Mirror of Deception*Subversion...
  
  
• Earthshaker Fest
  Earthshaker Fest
  Earthshaker Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Germany since 2003. The 2007 edition took place on July 19 – July 21, 2007 in Kreuth, Bavaria.-2007:*Motörhead*Within Temptation*Cradle of Filth*Testament*Kreator*Sepultura*J.B.O....
  
  
• Force Attack
  Force Attack
  Force Attack is a music festival, which is organized every year on the last July weekend in Behnkenhagen in the municipality Süderholz near Rostock. Approximately 50 bands mainly from the genres Punk, Ska, Oi!, Hardcore, Psychobilly and Metal are performing for three days on two stages. As...
  
  
• Fuck the Commerce
  Fuck the Commerce
  Fuck the Commerce is a metal music festival in Germany. It took place annually in Neiden, Saxony, till 2008 and it was first held in 1997. The 2007 edition was held on May 16, May 17, May 18 and May 19, 2007.-2007 lineup:*Ars Mortis*Blasphemer...
  
  
• Headbangers Open Air
  Headbangers Open Air
  Headbangers Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 1998. The 2007 edition will take place in Brande-Hörnerkirchen on July 12 - July 14.-1999:...
  
  
• Hellflame Festival
  Hellflame Festival
  Hellflame Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2005. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on September 8 at N8 in Osnabrück.-2007:*Shining*Destruction*Secrets of the Moon*Belphegor...
  
  
• Hellflame Festival - The South Side of Hell
  Hellflame Festival - The South Side of Hell
  Hellflame Festival – The South Side of Hell is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2007. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on September 22 at Stadthalle in Lichtenfels.-2007:*Grave...
  
  
• Hellraiser Open Air
  Hellraiser Open Air
  Hellraiser Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually at Hellraiser in Wurzen near Leipzig, Germany since 1993.The 2007 edition took place on May 25-27, with a warm up party on May 12.-2007 lineup:*Dark Funeral*Kataklysm*Behemoth*Graveworm...
  
  
• Keep It True
  Keep It True
  Keep It True is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2003.-I:"The Traditional Heavy Metal Festival": July 19, 2003 Lauda-Königshofen, Tauberfrankenhalle*Omen*Brocas Helm*Majesty*Doomsword*Solitaire*Killers*Killer*Malediction*Gunfire...
  
  
• Magic Circle Festival
  Magic Circle Festival
  Magic Circle Festival is an annual heavy metal festival organized by Magic Circle Music, it first took place in Bad Arolsen, Germany in 2007-2008 but moved to the Lorelei in 2009 .The first festival took place on July 6 and 7 2007....
  
  
• Metal Forces Festival
  Metal Forces Festival
  Metal Forces Festival is the name of an independent concert organization from the South-West of Germany. It is organizing and managing concerts since 2001...
  
  
• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• Heavy Metal Marder Festival
• Party.San Open Air
  Party.San Open Air
  Party.San Open Air is a metal festival held annually in Bad Berka, Germany since 1996. The 2012 edition will took place on August 9 - August 11.-History:The festival was founded in 1996 as an open air birthday party with a few local bands...
  
  
• Queens of Metal
  Queens of Metal
  Queens of Metal is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Germany since 2006. The 2007 edition will be take place in Kleinwenkheim on June 14-June 16.Full coverage of the festivities will be available to view, and read, Sunday, 24 June 2007...
  
  
• Ragnarök Festival
  Ragnarök Festival
  Ragnarök Festival is a pagan metal festival held annually in Germany since 2004 founded by Ivo Raab. It started out as a small one night festival with only regional bands in the town hall of Hollfeld. In 2005 it was decided to go for a festival featuring mostly Viking and pagan metal with the...
  
  
• Rock am Ring and Rock im Park
• Rock Hard Festival
  Rock Hard Festival
  Rock Hard Festival is a metal festival sponsored by the Rock Hard magazine. It is held annually in Gelsenkirchen, Germany since 2003. Its seventh edition will take place on June 10 – June 12, 2011....
  
  
• RockHarz
• Summer Breeze Open Air
  Summer Breeze Open Air
  Summer Breeze Open Air is a heavy metal music festival in Germany. It takes place annually in Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria. It was first held in 1997. The festival had been held in Abtsgmünd until 2006 when it was moved to its new location of Dinkelsbühl. The festival draws around 40,000 attendees annually...
  
  
• Tomahawk Festival
  Tomahawk Festival
  Tomahawk Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2007. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on March 31 at N8 in Osnabrück.-2007:*Pain*Die Apokalyptischen Reiter*Taake*Koldbrann*Ensiferum...
  
  
• Under the Black Sun
• United Metal Maniacs
  United Metal Maniacs
  United Metal Maniacs is an Extreme metal festival held annually since 2003 in Bitterfeld, Germany.-2006:* June 3 - June 4, 2006: Decayed, Desaster, Deströyer 666, Dekapitator, Helrunar, Infernal War, Mental Horror, Nebular Mystic, Primordial, Secrets of the Moon, Warhammer.-2007:* May 26 - May 27,...
  
  
• Up from the Ground
  Up from the Ground
  Up from the Ground was an extreme metal festival held annually in August in Gemünden am Main/Steinwiesen, Germany from 2000. The 2007 edition took place on August 24-August 25 and was the last edition of the festival...
  
  
• Wacken Open Air
  Wacken Open Air
  Wacken Open Air is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany...
  
  
• Walpurgis Metal Days
  Walpurgis Metal Days
  Walpurgis Metal Days is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2001. The 2007 edition took place in Passau on April 27 and April 28.-2007 lineup:*Demonical*Deranged*Ensiferum*Epicedium*Exotoxin*Master...
  
  
• Winternoise Festival
  Winternoise Festival
  Winternoise Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2006. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on January 13 at Eventcenter B 51 in Georgsmarienhütte.-2007:*Moonspell*Endstille*Primordial...
  
  
• With Full Force
  With Full Force
  With Full Force is a metal, hardcore and punk festival held annually in Germany since 1994. The 2011 edition took place on July 1 and July 3 at the Roitzschjora airport in Löbnitz near Leipzig in the Saxon county of Delitzsch.-2010:...
  
  

Israel

• Haleluja festival
• Death fest
• Heavy Metal Tel Aviv
• Summer carnage
• Metallist (2003-2005)
• OzzFest Tel Aviv (2010)

Italy

• Agglutination Metal Festival
  Agglutination Metal Festival
  Agglutination Metal Festival is a metal festival held annually in Italy since 1995. The 2007 edition will take place on August 11 in Sant'Arcangelo.-2009:Held on 10 August 2010 at Campo Sportivo, Sant'Arcangelo *U.D.O.*Vader*Extrema*Fabio Lione...
  
  
• Evolution Festival
  Evolution Festival
  The Evolution Festival is an Italian metal festival, held annually since 2005. It is organized by the Loud Session agency. The 2007 edition took place on July 7.-July 11:*Cavalera Conspiracy*Sonata Arctica*Dark Tranquillity*Evergrey*Korpiklaani...
  
  
• Gods of Metal
  Gods of Metal
  Gods of Metal is the biggest Italian metal festival, held annually since 1997. It takes place in early summer, usually on the first or second weekend of June...
  
  
• Heineken Jammin' Festival
  Heineken Jammin' Festival
  Heineken Jammin' Festival is a large live rock festival in Venice, Italy featuring international and Italian rock acts.It started in mid-June 1998 at the Imola Autodrome and has attracted attendances of more than 100,000 over the course of the three day event...
  
  
• Maximum Rock Fest
• Metal Valley Open Air
• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• Play It Loud! Festival
  Play It Loud! Festival
  Play It Loud! Festival was a heavy metal festival held annually in Orzinuovi, Italy since 2007. It is organized by the My Graveyard Productions independent record label...
  
  

Lebanon

• Beirut Rock Festival
  Beirut Rock Festival
  Beirut Rock Festival is the biggest rock/metal concert in Lebanon, gathering some of the major international bands.- Beirut Rock Festival 2009 :...
  
  
• Rockin' The Woods
  Rockin' The Woods
  Rockin' The Woods was a 3-day local music festival in Lebanon featuring 30 local bands in the woods of Chbanieh on August 27-29, 2010.Musical styles included Reggae, Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic, Experimental, Trip Hop, Metal and Extreme...
  
  

This is a list of heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 festivals

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

 ordered by country.

Armenia

• MetalFront Fest
  MetalFront Fest
  The MetalFront Fest is a two day event celebrating the different styles of rock and metal music in the world on one stage in Yerevan, Armenia. It is the only festival of its kind in Armenia....
  
  

Argentina

• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  

Australia

• Soundwave festival
• No Sleep Til Festival
  No Sleep Til Festival
  The No Sleep Til Festival was a music festival that was held across Australia and New Zealand in December 2010. The Festival was headlined by Megadeth, who played their album Rust in Peace in its entirety. Other bands included were NOFX, Dropkick Murphys, and Parkway Drive...
  
  

Austria

• Kaltenbach Open Air
  Kaltenbach Open Air
  Kaltenbach Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually in Austria since 2003. Its sixth edition will take place in Spital am Semmering on July 18 and July 19.-2008:To be held on July 18 and July 19 in Spital am Semmering, Austria.*Asathor*Bereavment...
  
  
• Nova Rock Festival
  Nova Rock Festival
  The Nova Rock Festival, also just Nova Rock, is a music festival that has existed since 2005 and takes place each year in June. It is Austria's biggest rock music festivals, and also one of the largest in Europe. It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria, near...
  
  

Belgium

• Graspop Metal Meeting
  Graspop Metal Meeting
  Graspop Metal Meeting is an annual metal festival in Dessel, Belgium that has taken place each year since 1996. Despite the small size of the festival grounds the festival draws a large number of international spectators, with a total of 142,000 visitors in the course of the 2011 edition...
  
  
• Metal Female Voices Fest
  Metal Female Voices Fest
  Metal Female Voices Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Belgium since 2003. It is organized by the Metal Organisation agency. The seventh edition took place at Oktoberhallen in Wieze in the municipality of Lebbeke on October 17 and October 18, 2009.-October 22:*Doro* Leaves' Eyes*...
  
  
• Pestpop
  Pestpop
  Pestpop is a heavy metal festival held annually at Oktoberhallen in Wieze, Belgium since 2006. The 2007 edition will take place on April 20 – April 21.-2007 lineup:*My Dying Bride*Mortiis*Jon Oliva's Pain*Kotipelto*Chris Caffery*Heimat*Kludde...
  
  
• Alcatraz Metal Fest
• Metal Méan
• Huginns Awakening Fest
• Power Prog & Metal Fest (PPM)

Canada

• Heavy MTL
  Heavy MTL
  Heavy MTL is a two-day heavy metal and hard rock festival in Montreal, Quebec, at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène held in the summer. The 2008 edition attracted a crowd of around 36,000 people....
  
  
• Noctis Valkyries Metal Festival
  Noctis Valkyries Metal Festival
  The Noctis Valkyries Metal Festival is an annual metal festival held in Calgary, Canada. It is organized by Scarab Metal Productions....
  
  
• AOA - Armstrong Open Air

Czech Republic

• Obscene Extreme
  Obscene Extreme
  Obscene Extreme is an extreme metal and grindcore open-air music festival taking place in Trutnov, Czech Republic each summer since 1999. To date, 490 bands have performed at Obscene Extreme.- Obscene Extreme 1999 :...
  
  
• Brutal Assault
  Brutal assault
  Brutal Assault is an extreme metal open-air music festival taking place in the 18th century army Fortress Josefov in Jaroměř, Czech Republic. It takes place each August traditionally on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the beginning of the month. The festival was started in 1995 featuring mostly...
  
  
• Masters of Rock
  Masters of Rock (festival)
  Masters of Rock is a large heavy metal festival in Czech Republic. The main styles represented on this festival are power, speed and heavy metal, though the production tries to make the fest more open for other rock and metal styles as progressive rock/metal, hardcore, death metal or even ska...
  
  
• Metalfest

Denmark

• Copenhell
• Kill-Town Death Fest (Copenhagen)
• Aalborg Metal Festival
  Aalborg Metal Festival
  Aalborg Metal Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Aalborg, Denmark since 2002. The 2008 festival took place on November 6-8 at Studenterhuset in Aalborg.-2008:In 2008, the festival was held from November 6 to 8....
  
  
• Day of decay
  Day of decay
  Day of Decay is an annual metal festival held in Aalborg, Denmark. It first time took place on 14 August 2010 at Baghuset, in Aalborg, and consisted of 16 bands from Denmark and abroad...
  
  

• Metalstone
  Metalstone
  Metalstone is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Denmark since 2007. The 2007 edition will take place at The Rock in Copenhagen on February 2 and February 3.-February 2:*Dørene åbner*Vira*Nvlvs*Downward Candidate*Melted*Black Succubi...
  
  

• Roskilde Festival
  Roskilde Festival
  Roskilde Festival is a festival held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the six biggest annual music festivals in Europe . It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer...
  
  
• Royal Metal Fest
  Royal Metal Fest
  Royal Metal Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually by Metal Royale in Denmark since 2008. The 2011 edition will toke place at VoxHall in Århus on April 1-2.-2011:The following bands played at the 2011 edition:* Obituary* Malevolent Creation...
  
  

Egypt

• HeavyTune Open Air
• Metal Blast
• Rock Nation
• Metal Accord
• Metal Gigs & Metal Gates
• Alex Headbangers

Estonia

• Hard Rock Laager
  Hard Rock Laager
  Hard Rock Laager is a two day rock and metal festival held annually in a field in the small Estonian village of Vana-Vigala. It is the largest alternative music festival in Estonia and draws a crowd of approximately 2000 people each year....
  
  
• Rabarock
  Rabarock
  Rabarock is a rock festival held annually in Järvakandi, Estonia since 2005. It takes place in the first half of June.-2011 festival:The 2011 festival will take place on 17–18 June 2011...
  
  

Finland

• Finnish Metal Expo
  Finnish Metal Expo
  Finnish Metal Expo is a heavy metal fair and festival held annually at Kaapelitehdas in Ruoholahti, Helsinki, Finland since 2005. The Finnish Metal Awards, different kind of clinics, interview sessions, signing sessions and competitions are also part of the happening.-2009...
  
  
• Jalometalli Metal Music Festival
  Jalometalli Metal Music Festival
  Jalometalli Metal Music Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Finland since 2002. The festival has mainly old school thrash metal and death and black metal bands.-2004:Held on August 20 and August 21 at Kuusisaari in Oulu.August 20:...
  
  
• Jalometalli Winterfest
  Jalometalli Winterfest
  Jalometalli Winterfest is a heavy metal festival held annually in Finland. It was created in 2005 as an offshoot of Jalometalli Metal Music Festival.-2007:Held on February 24 at Club Teatria in Oulu.*Moonsorrow*MyGRAIN*Wrathage*Impish*Hebosagil...
  
  

• Sauna Open Air Metal Festival
  Sauna Open Air Metal Festival
  Sauna Open Air Metal Festival, shortly Sauna Open Air or just Sauna, has become one of the largest music festivals dedicated only to metal and related styles of music in the Nordic countries. It was first arranged in 2004 and takes place in the Ratinanniemi park in Tampere, Finland...
  
  
• Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
  Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
  Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, shortly Tuska , is the largest music festival dedicated only to metal and related styles of music in the Nordic countries. The history of Tuska began in 1998 and it has grown larger every year. The location of the festival has been in Kaisaniemi park in the middle of...
  
  
• Hammer Open Air Metal Festival
• Deathroit

France

• Hellfest Summer Open Air
  Hellfest Summer Open Air
  Hellfest is an annual music festival which takes place in Clisson, France in mid-June. It is held within the Val de Moine sport complex in Clisson, approximately 35 km south-east of the city of Nantes, and approximately 400 km south-west of the nation's capital Paris. Billed as an "extreme music...
  
  

• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• Motocultor Festival
  Motocultor Festival
  Motocultor Festival is an annual music festival which takes place in Brittany, north-west France, in mid-August. The programme features a variety of heavy metal and hardcore acts. Notable artists that have performed at previous festivals include Pestilence, Destruction, Sodom, Entombed,...
  
  
• Raismes Fest
  Raismes Fest
  Raismes Fest is a metal festival held annually in Raismes, France since 1998. The 2007 edition took place at Château de la Princesse d'Arenberg on September 8 and September 9....
  
  

Germany

• Bang Your Head!!!

• Battle of Metal
  Battle of Metal
  Battle of Metal is a metal festival held annually in Geiselwind, Germany since 2006. The 2007 edition took place at Autohof Strohofer on July 5 – July 7....
  
  
• Chronical Moshers Open Air
  Chronical Moshers Open Air
  Chronical Moshers Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually at Chronical Moshers in Hauptmannsgrün, Germany since 2003. The 2007 edition took place on June 8 and June 9.-2011:*Hatesphere*Eisregen*Iron Kobra*Debauchery*Dawn Of Fate*End Of Green...
  
  

• Dong Open Air
  Dong Open Air
  Dong Open Air is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany since 2001. The 2009 edition will take place on July 17 and July 18.-2001:...
  
  
• Doom Shall Rise
  Doom Shall Rise
  Doom Shall Rise is the world's biggest doom metal festival. It is held annually at the Chapel in Göppingen, Germany since 2003.-2003 lineup:*Dawn of Winter*Doomshine*Dreaming*Forsaken*Revelation*Reverend Bizarre*Semlah*Mirror of Deception*Subversion...
  
  
• Earthshaker Fest
  Earthshaker Fest
  Earthshaker Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Germany since 2003. The 2007 edition took place on July 19 – July 21, 2007 in Kreuth, Bavaria.-2007:*Motörhead*Within Temptation*Cradle of Filth*Testament*Kreator*Sepultura*J.B.O....
  
  
• Force Attack
  Force Attack
  Force Attack is a music festival, which is organized every year on the last July weekend in Behnkenhagen in the municipality Süderholz near Rostock. Approximately 50 bands mainly from the genres Punk, Ska, Oi!, Hardcore, Psychobilly and Metal are performing for three days on two stages. As...
  
  
• Fuck the Commerce
  Fuck the Commerce
  Fuck the Commerce is a metal music festival in Germany. It took place annually in Neiden, Saxony, till 2008 and it was first held in 1997. The 2007 edition was held on May 16, May 17, May 18 and May 19, 2007.-2007 lineup:*Ars Mortis*Blasphemer...
  
  
• Headbangers Open Air
  Headbangers Open Air
  Headbangers Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 1998. The 2007 edition will take place in Brande-Hörnerkirchen on July 12 - July 14.-1999:...
  
  
• Hellflame Festival
  Hellflame Festival
  Hellflame Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2005. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on September 8 at N8 in Osnabrück.-2007:*Shining*Destruction*Secrets of the Moon*Belphegor...
  
  
• Hellflame Festival - The South Side of Hell
  Hellflame Festival - The South Side of Hell
  Hellflame Festival – The South Side of Hell is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2007. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on September 22 at Stadthalle in Lichtenfels.-2007:*Grave...
  
  
• Hellraiser Open Air
  Hellraiser Open Air
  Hellraiser Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually at Hellraiser in Wurzen near Leipzig, Germany since 1993.The 2007 edition took place on May 25-27, with a warm up party on May 12.-2007 lineup:*Dark Funeral*Kataklysm*Behemoth*Graveworm...
  
  
• Keep It True
  Keep It True
  Keep It True is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2003.-I:"The Traditional Heavy Metal Festival": July 19, 2003 Lauda-Königshofen, Tauberfrankenhalle*Omen*Brocas Helm*Majesty*Doomsword*Solitaire*Killers*Killer*Malediction*Gunfire...
  
  
• Magic Circle Festival
  Magic Circle Festival
  Magic Circle Festival is an annual heavy metal festival organized by Magic Circle Music, it first took place in Bad Arolsen, Germany in 2007-2008 but moved to the Lorelei in 2009 .The first festival took place on July 6 and 7 2007....
  
  
• Metal Forces Festival
  Metal Forces Festival
  Metal Forces Festival is the name of an independent concert organization from the South-West of Germany. It is organizing and managing concerts since 2001...
  
  
• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• Heavy Metal Marder Festival
• Party.San Open Air
  Party.San Open Air
  Party.San Open Air is a metal festival held annually in Bad Berka, Germany since 1996. The 2012 edition will took place on August 9 - August 11.-History:The festival was founded in 1996 as an open air birthday party with a few local bands...
  
  
• Queens of Metal
  Queens of Metal
  Queens of Metal is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Germany since 2006. The 2007 edition will be take place in Kleinwenkheim on June 14-June 16.Full coverage of the festivities will be available to view, and read, Sunday, 24 June 2007...
  
  
• Ragnarök Festival
  Ragnarök Festival
  Ragnarök Festival is a pagan metal festival held annually in Germany since 2004 founded by Ivo Raab. It started out as a small one night festival with only regional bands in the town hall of Hollfeld. In 2005 it was decided to go for a festival featuring mostly Viking and pagan metal with the...
  
  
• Rock am Ring and Rock im Park
• Rock Hard Festival
  Rock Hard Festival
  Rock Hard Festival is a metal festival sponsored by the Rock Hard magazine. It is held annually in Gelsenkirchen, Germany since 2003. Its seventh edition will take place on June 10 – June 12, 2011....
  
  
• RockHarz
• Summer Breeze Open Air
  Summer Breeze Open Air
  Summer Breeze Open Air is a heavy metal music festival in Germany. It takes place annually in Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria. It was first held in 1997. The festival had been held in Abtsgmünd until 2006 when it was moved to its new location of Dinkelsbühl. The festival draws around 40,000 attendees annually...
  
  
• Tomahawk Festival
  Tomahawk Festival
  Tomahawk Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2007. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on March 31 at N8 in Osnabrück.-2007:*Pain*Die Apokalyptischen Reiter*Taake*Koldbrann*Ensiferum...
  
  
• Under the Black Sun
• United Metal Maniacs
  United Metal Maniacs
  United Metal Maniacs is an Extreme metal festival held annually since 2003 in Bitterfeld, Germany.-2006:* June 3 - June 4, 2006: Decayed, Desaster, Deströyer 666, Dekapitator, Helrunar, Infernal War, Mental Horror, Nebular Mystic, Primordial, Secrets of the Moon, Warhammer.-2007:* May 26 - May 27,...
  
  
• Up from the Ground
  Up from the Ground
  Up from the Ground was an extreme metal festival held annually in August in Gemünden am Main/Steinwiesen, Germany from 2000. The 2007 edition took place on August 24-August 25 and was the last edition of the festival...
  
  
• Wacken Open Air
  Wacken Open Air
  Wacken Open Air is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany...
  
  
• Walpurgis Metal Days
  Walpurgis Metal Days
  Walpurgis Metal Days is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2001. The 2007 edition took place in Passau on April 27 and April 28.-2007 lineup:*Demonical*Deranged*Ensiferum*Epicedium*Exotoxin*Master...
  
  
• Winternoise Festival
  Winternoise Festival
  Winternoise Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2006. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on January 13 at Eventcenter B 51 in Georgsmarienhütte.-2007:*Moonspell*Endstille*Primordial...
  
  
• With Full Force
  With Full Force
  With Full Force is a metal, hardcore and punk festival held annually in Germany since 1994. The 2011 edition took place on July 1 and July 3 at the Roitzschjora airport in Löbnitz near Leipzig in the Saxon county of Delitzsch.-2010:...
  
  

Ireland

• Day of Darkness
  Day of Darkness
  Day of Darkness is the original name of Ireland's D.O.D. Festival. It happens annually in Ballylinan since 2002 as a metal music festival.The 2002 line-up was headlined by Primordial and was enough of a success to be run for a second year in 2003. Numbers however dwindled that year and a number of...
  
  
• Download Festival Ireland (2006)

Israel

• Haleluja festival
• Death fest
• Heavy Metal Tel Aviv
• Summer carnage
• Metallist (2003-2005)
• OzzFest Tel Aviv (2010)

Italy

• Agglutination Metal Festival
  Agglutination Metal Festival
  Agglutination Metal Festival is a metal festival held annually in Italy since 1995. The 2007 edition will take place on August 11 in Sant'Arcangelo.-2009:Held on 10 August 2010 at Campo Sportivo, Sant'Arcangelo *U.D.O.*Vader*Extrema*Fabio Lione...
  
  
• Evolution Festival
  Evolution Festival
  The Evolution Festival is an Italian metal festival, held annually since 2005. It is organized by the Loud Session agency. The 2007 edition took place on July 7.-July 11:*Cavalera Conspiracy*Sonata Arctica*Dark Tranquillity*Evergrey*Korpiklaani...
  
  
• Gods of Metal
  Gods of Metal
  Gods of Metal is the biggest Italian metal festival, held annually since 1997. It takes place in early summer, usually on the first or second weekend of June...
  
  
• Heineken Jammin' Festival
  Heineken Jammin' Festival
  Heineken Jammin' Festival is a large live rock festival in Venice, Italy featuring international and Italian rock acts.It started in mid-June 1998 at the Imola Autodrome and has attracted attendances of more than 100,000 over the course of the three day event...
  
  
• Maximum Rock Fest
• Metal Valley Open Air
• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• Play It Loud! Festival
  Play It Loud! Festival
  Play It Loud! Festival was a heavy metal festival held annually in Orzinuovi, Italy since 2007. It is organized by the My Graveyard Productions independent record label...
  
  

Lebanon

• Beirut Rock Festival
  Beirut Rock Festival
  Beirut Rock Festival is the biggest rock/metal concert in Lebanon, gathering some of the major international bands.- Beirut Rock Festival 2009 :...
  
  
• Rockin' The Woods
  Rockin' The Woods
  Rockin' The Woods was a 3-day local music festival in Lebanon featuring 30 local bands in the woods of Chbanieh on August 27-29, 2010.Musical styles included Reggae, Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic, Experimental, Trip Hop, Metal and Extreme...
  
  

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Armenia

• MetalFront Fest
  MetalFront Fest
  The MetalFront Fest is a two day event celebrating the different styles of rock and metal music in the world on one stage in Yerevan, Armenia. It is the only festival of its kind in Armenia....
  
  

Argentina

• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  

Australia

• Soundwave festival
• No Sleep Til Festival
  No Sleep Til Festival
  The No Sleep Til Festival was a music festival that was held across Australia and New Zealand in December 2010. The Festival was headlined by Megadeth, who played their album Rust in Peace in its entirety. Other bands included were NOFX, Dropkick Murphys, and Parkway Drive...
  
  

Austria

• Kaltenbach Open Air
  Kaltenbach Open Air
  Kaltenbach Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually in Austria since 2003. Its sixth edition will take place in Spital am Semmering on July 18 and July 19.-2008:To be held on July 18 and July 19 in Spital am Semmering, Austria.*Asathor*Bereavment...
  
  
• Nova Rock Festival
  Nova Rock Festival
  The Nova Rock Festival, also just Nova Rock, is a music festival that has existed since 2005 and takes place each year in June. It is Austria's biggest rock music festivals, and also one of the largest in Europe. It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria, near...
  
  

Belgium

• Graspop Metal Meeting
  Graspop Metal Meeting
  Graspop Metal Meeting is an annual metal festival in Dessel, Belgium that has taken place each year since 1996. Despite the small size of the festival grounds the festival draws a large number of international spectators, with a total of 142,000 visitors in the course of the 2011 edition...
  
  
• Metal Female Voices Fest
  Metal Female Voices Fest
  Metal Female Voices Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Belgium since 2003. It is organized by the Metal Organisation agency. The seventh edition took place at Oktoberhallen in Wieze in the municipality of Lebbeke on October 17 and October 18, 2009.-October 22:*Doro* Leaves' Eyes*...
  
  
• Pestpop
  Pestpop
  Pestpop is a heavy metal festival held annually at Oktoberhallen in Wieze, Belgium since 2006. The 2007 edition will take place on April 20 – April 21.-2007 lineup:*My Dying Bride*Mortiis*Jon Oliva's Pain*Kotipelto*Chris Caffery*Heimat*Kludde...
  
  
• Alcatraz Metal Fest
• Metal Méan
• Huginns Awakening Fest
• Power Prog & Metal Fest (PPM)

Canada

• Heavy MTL
  Heavy MTL
  Heavy MTL is a two-day heavy metal and hard rock festival in Montreal, Quebec, at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène held in the summer. The 2008 edition attracted a crowd of around 36,000 people....
  
  
• Noctis Valkyries Metal Festival
  Noctis Valkyries Metal Festival
  The Noctis Valkyries Metal Festival is an annual metal festival held in Calgary, Canada. It is organized by Scarab Metal Productions....
  
  
• AOA - Armstrong Open Air

Czech Republic

• Obscene Extreme
  Obscene Extreme
  Obscene Extreme is an extreme metal and grindcore open-air music festival taking place in Trutnov, Czech Republic each summer since 1999. To date, 490 bands have performed at Obscene Extreme.- Obscene Extreme 1999 :...
  
  
• Brutal Assault
  Brutal assault
  Brutal Assault is an extreme metal open-air music festival taking place in the 18th century army Fortress Josefov in Jaroměř, Czech Republic. It takes place each August traditionally on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the beginning of the month. The festival was started in 1995 featuring mostly...
  
  
• Masters of Rock
  Masters of Rock (festival)
  Masters of Rock is a large heavy metal festival in Czech Republic. The main styles represented on this festival are power, speed and heavy metal, though the production tries to make the fest more open for other rock and metal styles as progressive rock/metal, hardcore, death metal or even ska...
  
  
• Metalfest

Denmark

• Copenhell
• Kill-Town Death Fest (Copenhagen)
• Aalborg Metal Festival
  Aalborg Metal Festival
  Aalborg Metal Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Aalborg, Denmark since 2002. The 2008 festival took place on November 6-8 at Studenterhuset in Aalborg.-2008:In 2008, the festival was held from November 6 to 8....
  
  
• Day of decay
  Day of decay
  Day of Decay is an annual metal festival held in Aalborg, Denmark. It first time took place on 14 August 2010 at Baghuset, in Aalborg, and consisted of 16 bands from Denmark and abroad...
  
  

• Metalstone
  Metalstone
  Metalstone is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Denmark since 2007. The 2007 edition will take place at The Rock in Copenhagen on February 2 and February 3.-February 2:*Dørene åbner*Vira*Nvlvs*Downward Candidate*Melted*Black Succubi...
  
  

• Roskilde Festival
  Roskilde Festival
  Roskilde Festival is a festival held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the six biggest annual music festivals in Europe . It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer...
  
  
• Royal Metal Fest
  Royal Metal Fest
  Royal Metal Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually by Metal Royale in Denmark since 2008. The 2011 edition will toke place at VoxHall in Århus on April 1-2.-2011:The following bands played at the 2011 edition:* Obituary* Malevolent Creation...
  
  

Egypt

• HeavyTune Open Air
• Metal Blast
• Rock Nation
• Metal Accord
• Metal Gigs & Metal Gates
• Alex Headbangers

Estonia

• Hard Rock Laager
  Hard Rock Laager
  Hard Rock Laager is a two day rock and metal festival held annually in a field in the small Estonian village of Vana-Vigala. It is the largest alternative music festival in Estonia and draws a crowd of approximately 2000 people each year....
  
  
• Rabarock
  Rabarock
  Rabarock is a rock festival held annually in Järvakandi, Estonia since 2005. It takes place in the first half of June.-2011 festival:The 2011 festival will take place on 17–18 June 2011...
  
  

Finland

• Finnish Metal Expo
  Finnish Metal Expo
  Finnish Metal Expo is a heavy metal fair and festival held annually at Kaapelitehdas in Ruoholahti, Helsinki, Finland since 2005. The Finnish Metal Awards, different kind of clinics, interview sessions, signing sessions and competitions are also part of the happening.-2009...
  
  
• Jalometalli Metal Music Festival
  Jalometalli Metal Music Festival
  Jalometalli Metal Music Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Finland since 2002. The festival has mainly old school thrash metal and death and black metal bands.-2004:Held on August 20 and August 21 at Kuusisaari in Oulu.August 20:...
  
  
• Jalometalli Winterfest
  Jalometalli Winterfest
  Jalometalli Winterfest is a heavy metal festival held annually in Finland. It was created in 2005 as an offshoot of Jalometalli Metal Music Festival.-2007:Held on February 24 at Club Teatria in Oulu.*Moonsorrow*MyGRAIN*Wrathage*Impish*Hebosagil...
  
  

• Sauna Open Air Metal Festival
  Sauna Open Air Metal Festival
  Sauna Open Air Metal Festival, shortly Sauna Open Air or just Sauna, has become one of the largest music festivals dedicated only to metal and related styles of music in the Nordic countries. It was first arranged in 2004 and takes place in the Ratinanniemi park in Tampere, Finland...
  
  
• Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
  Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
  Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, shortly Tuska , is the largest music festival dedicated only to metal and related styles of music in the Nordic countries. The history of Tuska began in 1998 and it has grown larger every year. The location of the festival has been in Kaisaniemi park in the middle of...
  
  
• Hammer Open Air Metal Festival
• Deathroit

France

• Hellfest Summer Open Air
  Hellfest Summer Open Air
  Hellfest is an annual music festival which takes place in Clisson, France in mid-June. It is held within the Val de Moine sport complex in Clisson, approximately 35 km south-east of the city of Nantes, and approximately 400 km south-west of the nation's capital Paris. Billed as an "extreme music...
  
  

• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• Motocultor Festival
  Motocultor Festival
  Motocultor Festival is an annual music festival which takes place in Brittany, north-west France, in mid-August. The programme features a variety of heavy metal and hardcore acts. Notable artists that have performed at previous festivals include Pestilence, Destruction, Sodom, Entombed,...
  
  
• Raismes Fest
  Raismes Fest
  Raismes Fest is a metal festival held annually in Raismes, France since 1998. The 2007 edition took place at Château de la Princesse d'Arenberg on September 8 and September 9....
  
  

Germany

• Bang Your Head!!!

• Battle of Metal
  Battle of Metal
  Battle of Metal is a metal festival held annually in Geiselwind, Germany since 2006. The 2007 edition took place at Autohof Strohofer on July 5 – July 7....
  
  
• Chronical Moshers Open Air
  Chronical Moshers Open Air
  Chronical Moshers Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually at Chronical Moshers in Hauptmannsgrün, Germany since 2003. The 2007 edition took place on June 8 and June 9.-2011:*Hatesphere*Eisregen*Iron Kobra*Debauchery*Dawn Of Fate*End Of Green...
  
  

• Dong Open Air
  Dong Open Air
  Dong Open Air is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany since 2001. The 2009 edition will take place on July 17 and July 18.-2001:...
  
  
• Doom Shall Rise
  Doom Shall Rise
  Doom Shall Rise is the world's biggest doom metal festival. It is held annually at the Chapel in Göppingen, Germany since 2003.-2003 lineup:*Dawn of Winter*Doomshine*Dreaming*Forsaken*Revelation*Reverend Bizarre*Semlah*Mirror of Deception*Subversion...
  
  
• Earthshaker Fest
  Earthshaker Fest
  Earthshaker Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Germany since 2003. The 2007 edition took place on July 19 – July 21, 2007 in Kreuth, Bavaria.-2007:*Motörhead*Within Temptation*Cradle of Filth*Testament*Kreator*Sepultura*J.B.O....
  
  
• Force Attack
  Force Attack
  Force Attack is a music festival, which is organized every year on the last July weekend in Behnkenhagen in the municipality Süderholz near Rostock. Approximately 50 bands mainly from the genres Punk, Ska, Oi!, Hardcore, Psychobilly and Metal are performing for three days on two stages. As...
  
  
• Fuck the Commerce
  Fuck the Commerce
  Fuck the Commerce is a metal music festival in Germany. It took place annually in Neiden, Saxony, till 2008 and it was first held in 1997. The 2007 edition was held on May 16, May 17, May 18 and May 19, 2007.-2007 lineup:*Ars Mortis*Blasphemer...
  
  
• Headbangers Open Air
  Headbangers Open Air
  Headbangers Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 1998. The 2007 edition will take place in Brande-Hörnerkirchen on July 12 - July 14.-1999:...
  
  
• Hellflame Festival
  Hellflame Festival
  Hellflame Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2005. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on September 8 at N8 in Osnabrück.-2007:*Shining*Destruction*Secrets of the Moon*Belphegor...
  
  
• Hellflame Festival - The South Side of Hell
  Hellflame Festival - The South Side of Hell
  Hellflame Festival – The South Side of Hell is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2007. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on September 22 at Stadthalle in Lichtenfels.-2007:*Grave...
  
  
• Hellraiser Open Air
  Hellraiser Open Air
  Hellraiser Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually at Hellraiser in Wurzen near Leipzig, Germany since 1993.The 2007 edition took place on May 25-27, with a warm up party on May 12.-2007 lineup:*Dark Funeral*Kataklysm*Behemoth*Graveworm...
  
  
• Keep It True
  Keep It True
  Keep It True is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2003.-I:"The Traditional Heavy Metal Festival": July 19, 2003 Lauda-Königshofen, Tauberfrankenhalle*Omen*Brocas Helm*Majesty*Doomsword*Solitaire*Killers*Killer*Malediction*Gunfire...
  
  
• Magic Circle Festival
  Magic Circle Festival
  Magic Circle Festival is an annual heavy metal festival organized by Magic Circle Music, it first took place in Bad Arolsen, Germany in 2007-2008 but moved to the Lorelei in 2009 .The first festival took place on July 6 and 7 2007....
  
  
• Metal Forces Festival
  Metal Forces Festival
  Metal Forces Festival is the name of an independent concert organization from the South-West of Germany. It is organizing and managing concerts since 2001...
  
  
• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• Heavy Metal Marder Festival
• Party.San Open Air
  Party.San Open Air
  Party.San Open Air is a metal festival held annually in Bad Berka, Germany since 1996. The 2012 edition will took place on August 9 - August 11.-History:The festival was founded in 1996 as an open air birthday party with a few local bands...
  
  
• Queens of Metal
  Queens of Metal
  Queens of Metal is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Germany since 2006. The 2007 edition will be take place in Kleinwenkheim on June 14-June 16.Full coverage of the festivities will be available to view, and read, Sunday, 24 June 2007...
  
  
• Ragnarök Festival
  Ragnarök Festival
  Ragnarök Festival is a pagan metal festival held annually in Germany since 2004 founded by Ivo Raab. It started out as a small one night festival with only regional bands in the town hall of Hollfeld. In 2005 it was decided to go for a festival featuring mostly Viking and pagan metal with the...
  
  
• Rock am Ring and Rock im Park
• Rock Hard Festival
  Rock Hard Festival
  Rock Hard Festival is a metal festival sponsored by the Rock Hard magazine. It is held annually in Gelsenkirchen, Germany since 2003. Its seventh edition will take place on June 10 – June 12, 2011....
  
  
• RockHarz
• Summer Breeze Open Air
  Summer Breeze Open Air
  Summer Breeze Open Air is a heavy metal music festival in Germany. It takes place annually in Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria. It was first held in 1997. The festival had been held in Abtsgmünd until 2006 when it was moved to its new location of Dinkelsbühl. The festival draws around 40,000 attendees annually...
  
  
• Tomahawk Festival
  Tomahawk Festival
  Tomahawk Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2007. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on March 31 at N8 in Osnabrück.-2007:*Pain*Die Apokalyptischen Reiter*Taake*Koldbrann*Ensiferum...
  
  
• Under the Black Sun
• United Metal Maniacs
  United Metal Maniacs
  United Metal Maniacs is an Extreme metal festival held annually since 2003 in Bitterfeld, Germany.-2006:* June 3 - June 4, 2006: Decayed, Desaster, Deströyer 666, Dekapitator, Helrunar, Infernal War, Mental Horror, Nebular Mystic, Primordial, Secrets of the Moon, Warhammer.-2007:* May 26 - May 27,...
  
  
• Up from the Ground
  Up from the Ground
  Up from the Ground was an extreme metal festival held annually in August in Gemünden am Main/Steinwiesen, Germany from 2000. The 2007 edition took place on August 24-August 25 and was the last edition of the festival...
  
  
• Wacken Open Air
  Wacken Open Air
  Wacken Open Air is a summer open air heavy metal music festival. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany...
  
  
• Walpurgis Metal Days
  Walpurgis Metal Days
  Walpurgis Metal Days is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2001. The 2007 edition took place in Passau on April 27 and April 28.-2007 lineup:*Demonical*Deranged*Ensiferum*Epicedium*Exotoxin*Master...
  
  
• Winternoise Festival
  Winternoise Festival
  Winternoise Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually in Germany since 2006. It is organized by the BurningStage agency. The 2007 edition will take place on January 13 at Eventcenter B 51 in Georgsmarienhütte.-2007:*Moonspell*Endstille*Primordial...
  
  
• With Full Force
  With Full Force
  With Full Force is a metal, hardcore and punk festival held annually in Germany since 1994. The 2011 edition took place on July 1 and July 3 at the Roitzschjora airport in Löbnitz near Leipzig in the Saxon county of Delitzsch.-2010:...
  
  

Ireland

• Day of Darkness
  Day of Darkness
  Day of Darkness is the original name of Ireland's D.O.D. Festival. It happens annually in Ballylinan since 2002 as a metal music festival.The 2002 line-up was headlined by Primordial and was enough of a success to be run for a second year in 2003. Numbers however dwindled that year and a number of...
  
  
• Download Festival Ireland (2006)

Israel

• Haleluja festival
• Death fest
• Heavy Metal Tel Aviv
• Summer carnage
• Metallist (2003-2005)
• OzzFest Tel Aviv (2010)

Italy

• Agglutination Metal Festival
  Agglutination Metal Festival
  Agglutination Metal Festival is a metal festival held annually in Italy since 1995. The 2007 edition will take place on August 11 in Sant'Arcangelo.-2009:Held on 10 August 2010 at Campo Sportivo, Sant'Arcangelo *U.D.O.*Vader*Extrema*Fabio Lione...
  
  
• Evolution Festival
  Evolution Festival
  The Evolution Festival is an Italian metal festival, held annually since 2005. It is organized by the Loud Session agency. The 2007 edition took place on July 7.-July 11:*Cavalera Conspiracy*Sonata Arctica*Dark Tranquillity*Evergrey*Korpiklaani...
  
  
• Gods of Metal
  Gods of Metal
  Gods of Metal is the biggest Italian metal festival, held annually since 1997. It takes place in early summer, usually on the first or second weekend of June...
  
  
• Heineken Jammin' Festival
  Heineken Jammin' Festival
  Heineken Jammin' Festival is a large live rock festival in Venice, Italy featuring international and Italian rock acts.It started in mid-June 1998 at the Imola Autodrome and has attracted attendances of more than 100,000 over the course of the three day event...
  
  
• Maximum Rock Fest
• Metal Valley Open Air
• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• Play It Loud! Festival
  Play It Loud! Festival
  Play It Loud! Festival was a heavy metal festival held annually in Orzinuovi, Italy since 2007. It is organized by the My Graveyard Productions independent record label...
  
  

Lebanon

• Beirut Rock Festival
  Beirut Rock Festival
  Beirut Rock Festival is the biggest rock/metal concert in Lebanon, gathering some of the major international bands.- Beirut Rock Festival 2009 :...
  
  
• Rockin' The Woods
  Rockin' The Woods
  Rockin' The Woods was a 3-day local music festival in Lebanon featuring 30 local bands in the woods of Chbanieh on August 27-29, 2010.Musical styles included Reggae, Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic, Experimental, Trip Hop, Metal and Extreme...
  
  

Nepal

• Silence Festival
• Ides Of March

Netherlands

• Arnhem Metal Meeting
  Arnhem Metal Meeting
  Arnhem Metal Meeting was a heavy metal festival held in Arnhem, the Netherlands in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. It was booked by TMR Music Promotions and took place at the Musis Sacrum in Arnhem....
  
  
• Dokk'em Open Air
  Dokk'em Open Air
  Dokk'em Open Air is a heavy metal music festival held biennially in Raard near Dokkum, Netherlands since 2002. The fifth edition will take place on June 11&12, 2010.-2008:*Blaze Bayley*Diamond Head*Trail of Tears*Tankard*Vengeance*The Monolith Deathcult...
  
  
• Dutch Metal Fest
  Dutch Metal Fest
  Dutch Metal Fest is a heavy metal festival held annually in December at Lucky & Co. in Rijssen, Netherlands since 2007. The 2007 edition took take place on April 9....
  
  
• Dykbreuk RockMetal Event
• Dynamo Open Air
  Dynamo Open Air
  Dynamo Open Air was a festival in the Netherlands held every year since 1986, until 2005. Originally held to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Dynamo rock club in Eindhoven, it has grown exponentially since then, and from a 5,000-person attendance in the Dynamo parking lot, it had grown to...
  
  
• Elsrock
• Fields of Rock
  Fields of Rock
  Fields of Rock is a Dutch rock music festival. It was first conceived in 2002. Metallica's agent called, announcing that the band was planning to tour the Netherlands, and Metallica wanted to do a festival. At that point in time there really was not a suitable festival. And so Fields Of Rock was...
  
  
• Headway Festival
  Headway Festival
  Headway Festival was a progressive metal/progressive rock festival held annually in the Netherlands since 2003. The 2007 edition took place on April 7 and April 8 at P60 in Amstelveen.-2007:*Into Eternity*Sleepytime Gorilla Museum*Zero Hour*Last Crack...
  
  
• Metal Meltdown
  Metal Meltdown
  For the Judas Priest Song, see Metal Meltdown Metal Meltdown is a heavy metal festival held annually at Lucky & Co in Rijssen, Netherlands, since 2007. The 2007 edition took place on March 30.-2007 lineup:*Suffocation*Ensiferum...
  
  
• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• ProgPower Europe
  ProgPower Europe
  ProgPower Europe is a progressive and power metal festival held annually in the Netherlands since 1999. The last edition, the 13th, was held at Sjiwa in Baarlo on September 30 – October 2, 2011...
  
  

Norway

• Hole in the Sky
  Hole in the Sky
  Hole in the Sky was a metal festival located in Bergen, Norway that was arranged in the end of August each year from 2000 to 2011.It was arranged for the first time in 2000, in honor of the then recently deceased Erik "Grim" Brødreskift - ex-member of Borknagar, Gorgoroth and Immortal...
  
  
• Hove Festival
  Hove Festival
  The Hove Festival is a music festival held on the island Tromøy outside of Arendal in southern Norway. It was held for the first time from 26–30 June 2007. Since 2007 Hove festival has been the largest music festival in Norway....
  
  
• Inferno Metal Festival
  Inferno Metal Festival
  Inferno Metal Festival is an annual extreme metal festival in Oslo, Norway. The festival was founded by Borknagar guitarist Jens F. Ryland in cooperation with Radar Booking in 2001 and take place at Rockefeller Music Hall.-2011:...
  
  
• Norway Rock Festival
• Metalmania
  Metalmania
  Metalmania is one of the biggest heavy metal music festivals in Central Europe. It has been held annually since 1986. The 2008 edition was held on the 8th of March at Spodek in Katowice, Poland.-Large stage:*Sepultura*Paradise Lost*Testament...
  
  
• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  

• Festival Paredes de Coura
• Ilha do Ermal
• Barreiro Metal Fest
• Moita Metal Fest
• Metal GDL Festival
• SWR Barroselas
• Velha Guarda Metalfest
• Blindagem Metal Fest

Spain

Monsters of Rock

Monsters of Rock

Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....

Via de la Plata Festival

Via de la Plata Festival

The rock festival Vía de la Plata was held in 2008 in the city of Mérida, Spain.On its first edition, that was the 11 July 2008, the headliner and first announced band of the show is the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden...

Sweden

• Forlorn Fest
  Forlorn Fest
  Forlorn Fest is a Swedish Black Metal festival organized by Ume-Metal that started the last weekend of november 2010 in Umeå, Sweden. The festival concentrates mainly on underground bands.The 2010 billing includes:*Shining*Ondskapt*Valkyrja*Hypothermia...
  
  
• Getaway Rock Festival
• House of Metal
• Metaltown Festival
  Metaltown Festival
  The Metaltown Festival is a two day festival featuring heavy metal music bands, held in Gothenburg, Sweden. It has been arranged annually since 2004, taking place at the Frihamnen venue...
  
  
• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• Muskelrock
• Sweden Rock Festival
  Sweden Rock Festival
  Sweden Rock Festival is an annual rock/metal festival held in Sweden since 6 June 1992. While having a clear rock/metal focus, the festival is noted for its diversity across these genres, having featured southern rock bands such as Molly Hatchet to death metal legends like Obituary.The first...
  
  

Switzerland

• Greenfield Festival
  Greenfield Festival
  The Greenfield Festival is an annual music festival on the outskirts of the Swiss city, Interlaken.- 2005 :* Date: 24. – 26. June 2005* Visitors: 25'500Line-up:* Adam Green* Aereogramme* Alter Bridge* Boss Martians* Breed 77* Bright Eyes...
  
  
• Meh Suff!
• Metal Assault Festival
• Metalfest
• Mountains of Death
• Sonisphere

Turkey

• Barışarock
  Barisarock
  Barışarock is an annual rock festival organized in Istanbul, Turkey....
  
  
• H2000 Music Festival
  H2000 Music Festival
  The H2000 Music Festival is a large-scale open-air rock and alternative music festival series annually held in Turkey. The first event was held in 2000. Former participant artists or bands include: Muse, the Gathering, HIM, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Starsailor, Suedu, Mor ve Ötesi, and...
  
  

• Rock'n Coke
  Rock'n Coke
  Rock'n Coke is a Turkish rock festival sponsored by Coca-Cola. It is traditionally held at the Hezarfen Airfield in Istanbul, Turkey.- Festival :Rock'n Coke is a member of the . The festival is organized by the Turkish concert organizer...
  
  
• RockIstanbul
  RockIstanbul
  RockIstanbul is the name of an old large scale open air rock festival series annually had been organized in Istanbul, Turkey. Highlights from recent performers include Kraftwerk, Garbage, Megadeth, Faithless, Queensrÿche, Starsailor, and Anathema.-2005:...
  
  
• Unirock Open Air Festival
  Unirock Open Air Festival
  Unirock Open Air Festival is one of the summer open air heavy metal music festivals in İstanbul. It takes place annually in İstanbul, Turkey. Total 40,000 attendees at first two years....
  
  

• Sonisphere

Ukraine

• Global East Rock Festival
• Metal Heads Mission
  Metal Heads Mission
  Metal Heads Mission is an annual music Metal Fest near Yevpatoria, Crimea, in Ukraine. In 2009 the fest reached its tenth year. It is organized by Iofik Sergey bassist of Ukrainian brutal death metal band Mental Demise. It usually takes place in the beginning of August, in Crimea peninsula and...
  
  

United Arab Emirates

• Shamal
• Dubai Desert Rock Festival
  Dubai Desert Rock Festival
  The Dubai Desert Rock Festival was an event celebrating various styles of rock and metal music on one stage in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At the time, it was the only festival of its kind in the Middle East. As well as live music, extreme sports were also featured as crowd attractions...
  
  

United Kingdom

• Bloodstock
  Bloodstock
  Bloodstock was an annual metal music festival held from 2001 to 2006 over two days in The Assembly Rooms, Derby, England. The event featured big-name mainstream, underground and new bands split between two stages, as well as a 'Metal Market' offering general genre merchandise and CDs...
  
  
• Bloodstock Open Air
  Bloodstock Open Air
  Bloodstock Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually at Catton Hall in Walton-upon-Trent, England, since 2005. Previous line-ups have included bands such as Opeth , Children of Bodom , Nightwish , Cradle of Filth , Testament , Arch Enemy , Europe and Twisted Sister .Originally on one stage...
  
  
• Butserfest
  Butserfest
  Butserfest is a festival created by East Hampshire District Council. This music festival is targeted at young people aged 14-20 and is an alcohol/drug free event. It has become an annual event due to its success in 2007. It is held on Butser Hill opposite Queen Elizabeth's Country Park near...
  
  
• Damnation Festival
  Damnation Festival
  The Damnation Festival is a one day music festival currently held annually at Leeds University, Leeds, England and organised by Gavin McInally. The 2011 edition of the festival will be held on November 5...
  
  
• Download Festival
  Download Festival
  The Download Festival is a three day rock music festival held annually at Donington Park, England . It usually takes place in June...
  
  
• Full Moon Dog Festival
• Hammerfest
  Hammerfest (festival)
  Hammerfest is an indoor music festival held annually at Pontin's Holiday Village, Prestatyn, Wales. The festival is owned by emc3i Ltd, sponsored by their music magazine Metal Hammer and run by the orgnisers of the Hard Rock Hell festival...
  
  
• Hard Rock Hell
  Hard Rock Hell
  Hard Rock Hell is a three day music festival currently held at Pontin's Holiday Village, Prestatyn, Wales. The idea of holding the festival at in a holiday camp gives the organisers pre-built venues and stages and because of the on-site accommodation allows them to hold a multi day festival over...
  
  
• Hellfire Festival
  Hellfire Festival
  The Hellfire Festival is a three day music festival currently held at National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England. The next edition of the festival will be held on November 6 to 8 2009...
  
  
• In-Fest
  In-Fest
  In-Fest is a mini indoor music festival in the UK.In-Fest is short for "Indoor Festival" it is known to feature up and coming rock bands from all over the UK.The festival features metal, punk, and rock bands....
  
  

• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• ProgPower UK
  ProgPower UK
  ProgPower UK is a progressive and power metal festival held annually in the United Kingdom since 2006. Its latest edition, which would have taken place in the Anson Rooms at the University of Bristol on 28 March – 29 March 2008, headlined by Evergrey and Vanden Plas, was cancelled due to...
  
  
• Sonisphere

• Butserfest
  Butserfest
  Butserfest is a festival created by East Hampshire District Council. This music festival is targeted at young people aged 14-20 and is an alcohol/drug free event. It has become an annual event due to its success in 2007. It is held on Butser Hill opposite Queen Elizabeth's Country Park near...
  
  

United States

• 70000 Tons of Metal
  70000 Tons of Metal
  70000 Tons of Metal is a heavy metal festival that takes place annually aboard the cruise ship the MS Majesty of the Seas. It first took place between January 24 and January 28 of 2011, departing from Miami, docking at Cozumel and returning to Miami. 2038 fans of 49 countries, 42 bands each...
  
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• Alehorn of Power
  Alehorn of Power
  Alehorn of Power is an independently organized metal festival held annually in Chicago, Illinois since 2006.-History:The festival is organized by Greg Spalding, who is the drummer of Bible of the Devil and who worked for the Tone Deaf Touring booking agency.-2009:Held on August 5 at Cobra Lounge in...
  
  
• Bay Area Rock Fest
  Bay Area Rock Fest
  Bay Area Rock Fest is an annual progressive rock and metal festival that was held for the first time in 2007 at The Independent in San Francisco, California.The 2009 edition was cancelled.-2007:...
  
  
• Crue Fest
  Crüe Fest
  Crüe Fest was a summer 2008 tour by Mötley Crüe, which commenced on July 1, 2008 and concluded on August 31, 2008. It featured Mötley Crüe themselves, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Sixx:A.M., and Trapt. Crüe Fest was said to be "the Loudest Show on Earth"...
  
  
• Chicago Powerfest
  Chicago Powerfest
  Chicago Powerfest is a heavy metal festival held annually in Illinois since 2000. The 2008 edition took place on May 1-3 at The Pearl Room in Mokena.-May 7 :*Korpiklaani*Eluveitie*Moonsorrow*Primordial*Blackguard*Swashbuckle...
  
  
• Dame-Nation
  Dame-Nation
  Dame-Nation is an annual rock and metal music festival with editions held in Chicago, Illinois. The music festival is dedicated to rock and metal bands with female lead vocalists. Dame-Nation is a registered trademark of Deadcenter Entertainment...
  
  
• Emissions from the Monolith
  Emissions from the Monolith
  Emissions from the Monolith is an annual heavy metal festival that showcases mainly doom metal and sludge metal bands, considered to be the premiere heavy/doom/sludge metal festival in the US...
  
  

• Flight of the Valkyries
  Flight of the Valkyries
  Flight of the Valkyries is an annual metal festival with editions held St. Paul, MN and recently Baltimore, MD. The music festival is dedicated to metal bands with female lead vocalists....
  
  
• Gigantour
  Gigantour
  Gigantour is the name of a sporadically organised traveling heavy metal music festival organized by Megadeth's Dave Mustaine. The tour was founded in 2005 with dates across North America, and the 2006 and 2007 line-ups also traveled to Australia...
  
  
• Goth Stock
• Hostile City Death Fest
  Hostile City Death Fest
  Hostile City Deathfest is an annual extreme music festival held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The festival mostly features death metal and black metal bands. It occurs on the third weekend in August each year...
  
  
• Jägermeister Music Tour
  Jägermeister Music Tour
  The Jägermeister Music Tour is a hard rock, hardcore punk, and heavy metal music tour that has been held twice a year in the United States since 2002. It is owned by the American importer of Jägermeister, Sidney Frank Importing.-History:...
  
  

• Mayhem Festival
  Mayhem festival
  The Mayhem Festival is a touring metal festival that takes place during the summer. The inaugural iteration took place in 2008; the festival has since become an annual event across the United States and Quebec, Canada. The tour has been sponsored by the Rockstar Energy Company since the time of its...
  
  
• Maryland Deathfest
  Maryland Deathfest
  Maryland Deathfest is an annual extreme music festival held in or near Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The festival mostly features death metal and grindcore bands. It has always occurred during Memorial Day weekend each year....
  
  
• Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  
• New England Metal and Hardcore Festival
  New England Metal and Hardcore Festival
  The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival is an annual festival held in Worcester, Massachusetts. It is a weekend-long concert of heavy metal and hardcore bands along with a merchandising and promotional area for record labels and other vendors...
  
  

• Ozzfest
  Ozzfest
  Ozzfest is an annual festival tour of the United States featuring performances by many heavy metal and hard rock musical groups. It was founded by Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon Osbourne, both of whom also organize each yearly tour with their son Jack Osbourne...
  
  

• ProgPower USA
  ProgPower USA
  ProgPower USA is a progressive and power metal festival held annually in the United States since 2001. Its twelfth edition will be held at Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia on September 14 – September 17, 2011, with Sanctuary and Therion as headliners....
  
  
• Ragnarökkr Metal Apocalypse
  Ragnarökkr Metal Apocalypse
  Ragnarökkr Metal Apocalypse is a heavy metal and power metal festival held annually in the United States since 2011. Its 2nd edition will be held at Mojoes in Joliet, Illinois on May 18 – May 19, 2012, with Wizard and Brocas Helm as headliners.-History:...
  
  
• Robot Mosh Fest
  Robot Mosh Fest
  Robot Mosh Fest is a Metal/Hardcore music Festival that originated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2002 and takes place in or near Milwaukee annually....
  
  
• Rock on the Range
  Rock on the Range
  Rock on the Range is an annual rock festival featuring mostly mainstream rock bands, with a classic band usually headlining the show. The festival is held at two venues; Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio and Canad Inns Stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
  
• Saints & Sinners Festival
  Saints & Sinners Festival
  Saints & Sinners Festival is a two-day hardcore and heavy metal music festival held yearly in New Jersey. It started in 2006 at the Asbury Park Convention Hall on October 28 and October 29. The first day had emo/screamo/post hardcore bands and Atreyu headlined. The second day had metal/hardcore...
  
  
• Seattle Metal Fest
  Seattle Metal Fest
  Seattle Metal Fest is a heavy metal festival held annually in Seattle, Washington since 2004. It is organized by Howitzer Productions. The 2007 edition took place on January 20.-2007 Lineup:*Overkill*God Forbid*Destruction*Into Eternity*Goatwhore...
  
  
• Slaughter By The Water
• Sounds Of The Underground
  Sounds of the Underground
  The Sounds of the Underground tour was a festival-like tour that rivaled Ozzfest in its first year of existence .The tour features extreme metal and metalcore, and hardcore bands. The existence of this tour, which was held in national arenas, was to attract the rising interest of metal, hardcore,...
  
  
• Summer Slaughter
• Taste Of Chaos
  Taste of Chaos
  Taste of Chaos is a hardcore tour that was started in the winter of 2005 by Kevin Lyman, the creator of the successful Warped Tour along with friend and business partner, John Reese. The Taste Of Chaos tour caters for fans of the post-hardcore, screamo, and metal genres, while offering the same...
  
  
• Tidal Wave