Dynamo Open Air

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

Dweezil & Ahmet Zappa performing live at Dynamo Open Air in 1993

History

Originally held to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Dynamo rock club in Eindhoven, it grew from 5,000 people in the Dynamo parking lot up to 118,000 attendees in 1995. Until this day, the 1995 edition still is the largest multi-day open air festival ever held in the Netherlands. This caused too much pressure on the Dutch infrastructure and the festival had to shrink to a maximum of 60,000 visitors for 1996. From there it went downhill, mostly because the festival could not find a permanent venue. In 1999 Dynamo Open Air was held on a former rubbish dump in Mierlo, and the following year it went to the Goffertpark in Nijmegen. That was the first time DOA was held outside the province of North Brabant, and it was the first time in years that the festival had to shrink down to only one day. The previous years it had always been a two- or three-day festival.

In 2001, the organisation thought they had found a site where the festival could return on a yearly basis, near the town of Lichtenvoorde. However, the threat of foot-and-mouth disease caused trouble, and Dynamo Open Air had to be cancelled. In 2002 it returned, at the site of the Bospop festival, but 2003 was another year without a Dynamo festival, because it would violate a recently passed law about animal protection during breeding season. For 2004, the festival returned to Nijmegen, at the same location where it took place in 2000. In 2005, the festival used the site of the Dauwpop festival, and the reunited Anthrax headlined the stage.

In an attempt to revitalise the festival, the current organization of the Dynamo youth center decided to change the festival's name from Dynamo Open Air to Dynamo Outdoor. In 2008, the first Dynamo Outdoor festival was held in the centre of Eindhoven, with bands such as Mad Sin, Anathema and Born From Pain performing. The festival was once again held in Eindhoven in the following year, with Destine, Stahlzeit, Asphyx, Textures, The Butcher and Municipal Waste on the bill.

The revival of the festival occurred with a new name as Dynamo Metal Fest, which has taken place every year since 2015. The festival had taken place traditionally on the second or third Saturday in July from 2015 to 2018; for the 2019 edition, it was converted into a two-day festival. After the 2020 edition was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dynamo Metal Fest was scheduled to return in August 2021, however again cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Dynamo Metal Fest was again held in August 2022.

Live recordings

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

Line-ups and dates

Dynamo Open Air

1986

Sunday September 7

Joshua Paul Di'Anno's Battlezone Satan Chariot Angel Witch Onslaught Avalon

Cancelled shows : Lääz Rockit

1987

Monday June 8

Stryper Testament Destruction Vengeance Atomkraft Mad Max

Cancelled shows : Agent Steel (replaced by Testament)

1988

Monday May 23

Exodus Lȧȧz Rockit Candlemass Toxik Sabbat Paradox

1989

Monday May 15

Savatage Armored Saint Sacred Reich Forbidden Sleeze Beez Holy Moses Fatal Destiny

1990

Monday June 4

Death Angel Sacred Reich Sepultura Vicious Rumors Trouble Mordred

1991

Monday May 20

Metal Church Primus Armored Saint Morbid Angel Extreme Saigon Kick Obituary Ignorance Psychotic Waltz

1992

Sunday June 7

Prong Corrosion of Conformity Mordred Paradise Lost The Organization My Sister's Machine Pestilence Skyclad Love on Ice

1993

Saturday May 29

Anthrax Suicidal Tendencies Mind Funk Biohazard Monster Magnet Dweezil Zappa Freak of Nature Fear Factory Nudeswirl

Sunday May 30

Mercyful Fate Trouble Annihilator Gorefest Fudge Tunnel Kong Wool Z

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

1994

Friday May 20 (Warm-Up)

Forbidden Gorefest Vicious Rumors

Saturday May 21

Prong Clawfinger Sick of It All Jackyl The Organization Skintrade Die Krupps Cynic Last Crack Nerve

Sunday May 22

Danzig Urban Dance Squad Kyuss Life of Agony Pride & Glory Skyclad Sleeze Beez The Obsessed B-Thong Skrew

1995

Friday June 2
Campsite	Skatefest
Tiamat My Dying Bride Skyclad Mary Beats Jane Sun Shihad Overdose Rape Waving Corn Hate Squad Schweisser Brotherhood Foundation	Undeclinable Ambuscade Earth Crisis Snapcase Rich Kids on LSD Propaghandi

Saturday June 3
Mainstage	Skatefest	Campsite
Paradise Lost Type O Negative Dog Eat Dog Grip Inc. Warrior Soul Fear Factory Nailbomb Mental Hippie Blood Madball Nevermore	Absconded Horace Pinker NRA Blitz Babies	Crash Worship 35007

Sunday June 4
Mainstage	Skatefest
Biohazard Machine Head Life of Agony Trouble Dub War Downset. Eleven Pictures	No Fun at All Strawman Burning Heads Orange 9mm

1996

Friday May 24
Campsite	Skatefest
Neurosis Anathema Pitchshifter Orphanage Altar Skrew Transpunk Dearly Beheaded Dreamgrinder Spiritual Beggars Merauder Torque Gurd Thumb	Slapshot Ryker's Skippies Unsane

Saturday May 25
Mainstage	Skatefest
Venom Gorefest Savatage The Gathering Pennywise Sacred Reich Shelter Voivod Galactic Cowboys White Devil Stuck Mojo	Down by Law Millencolin Strung Out 7Zuma7

Sunday May 26
Mainstage	Skatefest
Slayer Kreatief Met Kirk Osdorp Possé & Nembrionic CIV Channel Zero Pro-Pain The Exploited Drain	Shelter 59 Times the Pain Satanic Surfers Cooper Bambix

Cancelled shows : Halford (replaced by Sacred Reich)

1997

Friday May 16
Campsite	Skatefest
Rockbitch Therion Samael Pist.On Sentenced Coal Chamber Skinlab Totenmond Within Temptation Keaton Sundown	Ignite SNFU $400 Suits Ni Hao

Saturday May 17
Mainstage	Campsite	Skatefest
Type O Negative Machine Head Sick of It All Exodus Moonspell Orphanage Amorphis Entombed Thumb Slo Burn Limp Bizkit	Rage Secret Discovery The Black Stage Dissection Satyricon Dimmu Borgir Goddess of Desire	Vision of Disorder Deviate Discipline I Against I

Sunday May 18
Mainstage	Skatefest
Tiamat KoЯn Marilyn Manson Helmet Testament Cradle of Filth Karma to Burn Laberinto	Voodoo Glow Skulls Backfire! Travoltas Slyce

1998

Friday May 29
The Gallery	Skatefest
Atrocity Theatre of Tragedy Masters of Reality The Hellacopters Transport League Sevendust Insane Clown Posse Tura Satana Deicide Six Feet Under Disbelief T-Nailed	Pro-Pain Congress Maximum Penalty Refused Hard Resistance Driven

Saturday May 30
Mainstage	The Gallery	Skatefest
Rammstein Deftones Soulfly Fates Warning Agnostic Front Fu Manchu Stuck Mojo HammerFall Within Temptation Zebrahead	The Factory Strapping Young Lad Junkie XL Think About Mutation Misery Loves Co. Black Stage Emperor Immortal The Kovenant Bewitched Enslaved In Flames Cold Oomph! Ultraspank The Black Symphony Form	Brotherhood Foundation H2O 25 ta Life Good Riddance Right Direction Fury of 5 Tech-9

Sunday May 31
Mainstage	The Gallery	Skatefest
Pantera Death Life of Agony Coal Chamber Kreator Dimmu Borgir Incubus (həd) p.e.	Power Pack Primal Fear Stratovarius Helloween Saxon Blind Guardian Iced Earth Tom Angelripper Space Jam Far Cathedral Spiritual Beggars 7Zuma7 Sheavy Orange Goblin	Misfits Undeclinable Ambuscade Hatebreed Battery Better Than a Thousand Jane's Detd

Cancelled shows : Fear Factory (replaced by Death), Human Waste Project (replaced by Ultraspank) and Limp Bizkit (announced the day of the appearance, but didn't play).

1999

Friday May 21
The Gallery	Skatefest
Dark Symphonies Therion Anathema Lacuna Coil Sodom Static-X Spineshank Darkane One Minute Silence Angra Out	Madball Hard-Ons Heideroosjes Violation of Trust Cold as Life E.Town Concrete

Saturday May 22
Mainstage	The Gallery	Skatefest
Manowar Cradle of Filth Stormtroopers of Death The Gathering Grip Inc. Nashville Pussy Black Label Society Meshuggah Loudness Skinlab	The Factory Pitchshifter Atari Teenage Riot Cubanate The Gore Zone Hypocrisy Cryptopsy Arch Enemy Nile Trail of Tears Pulkas The Haunted Unjust CAGE	Ryker's 59 Times the Pain Merauder Murphy's Law Blood for Blood Run Devil Run All Out War Troopers

Sunday May 23
Mainstage	The Gallery	Maximum Overdrive
Metallica Apocalyptica Fear Factory Biohazard Monster Magnet System of a Down Mercyful Fate	The Power Pack Labyrinth Nevermore Overkill Gamma Ray Nocturnal Rites The Black Stage Marduk Dimmu Borgir Thyrfing God Dethroned Ancient Rites In Extremo Space Age Playboys Oceans of Sadness	Gluecifer Unida Goatsnake Fatso Jetson Zeke Iron Monkey Nebula Peter Pan Speedrock

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

2000

Saturday June 3
Main Stage	Tent Stage
Iron Maiden Korn Slipknot Suicidal Tendencies P.O.D. Testament Methods of Mayhem Zeke	Immortal Mayhem The Kovenant Destruction Spiritual Beggars Kittie Sentenced Engine

Cancelled shows : Entombed (replaced by Destruction)

2001

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

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

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

2002

Sunday July 14
Main Stage	Tent Stage
Soulfly Death Angel Dropkick Murphys Within Temptation Biohazard Pain of Salvation Deadsoul Tribe	Children of Bodom Opeth Finntroll Strapping Young Lad Zimmers Hole Peter Pan Speedrock Hermano Autumn

2003

Festival cancelled. No bands seem to have been announced.

2004

Saturday June 5
Stage 1	Stage 2
Slayer Nightwish Life of Agony Soulfly Children of Bodom Ill Nino Shadows Fall	Dimmu Borgir Agent Steel After Forever Oomph! Deicide Mastodon

2005

Saturday May 7
Stage 1	Stage 2
Anthrax Jon Oliva's Pain Testament Obituary Gorefest Lȧȧz Rockit Masterplan Mercenary	Evergrey Trivium 3 Inches of Blood Still Remains

Dynamo Metalfest

2015

Saturday July 18

Arch Enemy Death Angel Nuclear Assault Biohazard Alestorm Orange Goblin Bodyfarm Facelifter

2016

Saturday July 16

Anthrax At the Gates Metal Church Obituary Life of Agony Powerwolf Sacred Reich Textures Audrey Horne Extremities

2017

Saturday July 15

Gojira Testament Devin Townsend Project Exodus Entombed A.D. Prong Toxik Vuur White Boy Wasted

2018

Saturday July 14

Ghost Ministry Overkill Annihilator Leprous I Am Morbid VUUR (replacing Sons of Apollo) Iron Reagan Elephant

2019

Friday July 19

Airbourne Avatar Eluveitie Grand Magus Jungle Rot Bæst

Saturday July 20

Arch Enemy Steel Panther Carcass Metal Church Soulfly Phil Anselmo & the Illegals Armored Saint Tribulation Alien Weaponry

2020

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

2021

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

2022

Saturday August 20

Testament Candlemass Exodus Death Angel Cattle Decapitation Firewind Vended Dress the Dead TankZilla

Sunday August 21

Kreator Heaven Shall Burn Lamb of God Bay Area Interthrashional Jinjer Cannibal Corpse Angelus Apatrida Lik Urne

External links

• (in Dutch)Official website