Nova Rock Festival
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| Location(s) | Nickelsdorf, Austria |
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| Years active | 2005- present |
| Date(s) | June |
| Genre | Rock |
| Website | www.novarock.at |
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 festival, and also one of the largest in Europe. It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria, near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders. It is organized by Nova Music Entertainment, which is a cooperation of Musicnet, FKP Scorpio and several former employees/bookers of Wiesen, who left Wiesen in 2004 after ongoing internal misunderstandings. The event draws around 90,000 - 100,000 people over a 3 day period 150,000 in 2006, with an average of 30,000 - 35,000 fans per day.
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[edit] 2012 lineup
Date: 08. - 10. June 2012 Confirmed bands:
| Bands | ?Bands? | ||||
| 08. June | 09. June | 10. June | 08. June | 09. June | 10. June |
| DevilDriver | Billy Talent | Metallica | * | * | * |
| The Baseballs | Dimmu Borgir | Trivium | * | * | * |
| Refused | Schandmaul | Oomph! | * | * | * |
| Lamb of God | Unavoidable | Csomos | * | * | * |
| Killswitch Engage | Hatebreed | * | * | * | * |
| Marilyn Manson | Puddle Of Mudd | * | * | * | * |
| August Burns Red | Opeth | * | * | * | * |
| * | * | * | * | * | * |
| * | * | * | * | * | * |
As I Lay Dying, Cancer Bats, Devin Townsend Project, Gojira, Kasabian, Nightwish, Puddle Of Mudd, Lagwagon, Machine Head, Mastodon, Slayer, The Answer, Within Temptation
[edit] 2011 lineup
Date: 11. - 13. June 2011 Confirmed bands:
[A]Special Late Night Attraction
[edit] 2010 lineup
Date: 11. - 13. June 2010 Confirmed bands as of Nov 23, 2009:
[edit] 2009 lineup
Confirmed bands as of 4 April 2009:
[edit] 2008 lineup
Confirmed lineup:
[edit] 2007 lineup
Nova Rock Festival 2007 took place from the 15th to the 17th of June with the following lineup:
Headliners: Billy Talent, The Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, Pearl Jam, Slayer, The Killers,
The festival also consisted of bands including: Linkin Park, Machine Head, In Flames, Papa Roach, Reel Big Fish, Incubus, Mando Diao, The Hives, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Children of Bodom, Less Than Jake, Flogging Molly, Mastodon, 30 Seconds to Mars, Isis, Aiden, In Extremo, Ill Niño, Within Temptation, Hayseed Dixie, The BossHoss and Chimaira.
[edit] 2006 lineup
Last year there were two stages. The first bands officially announced on the Nova Rock homepage were: Guns N' Roses, Placebo, Metallica, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Massive Attack, Motörhead, Madsen, Billy Talent, Hard-Fi, Guadalajara, Seeed, Bodyrockers, She Male Trouble, Sportfreunde Stiller, Lagwagon, Subway to Sally and Julia.
| Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| Metallica | Placebo | Guns N' Roses |
| Motörhead | Massive Attack | Tool |
| Alice in Chains | Live | Bloodhound Gang |
| Alter Bridge | Starsailor | Oomph! |
| Avenged Sevenfold | The Datsuns | Apocalyptica |
| Stone Sour | The Sounds | Opeth |
| Bullet for My Valentine | Billy Talent | Die Krupps |
| Trivium | The Answer | Sebastian Bach |
| Bloodsimple | Tyler | |
| Unheilig |
Originally Korn were announced to play the festival, but had to cancel it, as well as the "Nova Rock Encore", a concert in Vienna which they were expected to play with Deftones, Soulfly and Devildriver.
[edit] 2005 lineup
Die Ärzte, Audioslave, Bad Acid Trip, Beatsteaks, Boysetsfire, Core, Green Day, In Extremo, La Vela Puerca, Mando Diao, Marilyn Manson, Moneybrother, Nightwish, The Prodigy, Soulfly, System of a Down, Weezer, Wir sind Helden
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