Rock Hard Festival

Rock Hard Festival
Genre Heavy metal
Dates weekend of Pentecost
Location(s) Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Years active Since 2003
Website
www.rockhardfestival.de

Rock Hard Festival is a heavy metal festival organized and sponsored by the Rock Hard magazine. First established in Lichtenfels, Bavaria, Germany, in 1990 on an irregular basis,[1] mostly for magazine anniversaries, it is held annually in Gelsenkirchen, Germany since 2003. Its 2016 edition will take place on 1315 May 2016.

The 2003 festival was also initially planned for the 20th anniversary of the magazine as a single event. But the fans voted it as the best metal open-air in Germany and so they continued. The festival is still held at the amphitheater which is located directly at the Rhein-Herne-Kanal in the Nordsternpark in Gelsenkirchen. The amphitheater has a maximum capacity of 7,000 people. The festival was the only festival with international metal bands in the Ruhrgebiet area[2] until the Rock am Ring offshoot Rock im Revier, which was organized by the Nürburgring operating company Deutsche Entertainment AG (DEAG), took place in Gelsenkirchen in 2015.[3] Kreator canceled the show at Rock im Revier for their headlining appearance at the smaller Rock Hard Festival.[3]

Lineups

2016

Friday 13 May Saturday 14 May Sunday 15 May

Sodom

Destruction

Tankard

Satan

Year of the Goat

Sulphur Aeon

Turbonegro

Metal Church

Kadavar

The Exploited

Grand Magus

Tribulation

Sorcerer

Accu§er

Blind Guardian

Cannibal Corpse

Riot V

Moonspell

Orden Ogan

Nightingale

Black Trip

Discreation

2015

Friday 22 May Saturday 23 May Sunday 24 May

Venom

Pentagram

Space Chaser

God Dethroned

Flotsam and Jetsam

Architects of Chaoz

Kreator

Doro

Sanctuary

Kataklysm

Avatarium

Voivod

Motorjesus

Deserted Fear

Black Star Riders

Overkill

Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock

Refuge

Sinner

Air Raid

Channel Zero

Spiders

2014

Friday 6 June Saturday 7 June Sunday 8 June

Triptykon

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

Midnight

Decapitated

Zodiac

Nocturnal

Carcass

Sacred Reich

Obituary

Pretty Maids

Sólstafir

Screamer

Dead Lord

Roxxcalibur

Testament (replacing Megadeth)

Tesla

Annihilator

Monster Magnet

Insomnium

Orphaned Land

Blues Pills

Iron Savior

2013

Friday 17 May Saturday 18 May Sunday 19 May

U.D.O.

Ashes of Ares

Audrey Horne

Denial of God (replacing Nachtmystium

Fleshcrawl

Hellish Crossfire

Queensrÿche

D-A-D

Ensiferum

Naglfar

Desaster

Mustasch

Horisont

Slingblade

King Diamond

Sepultura

Threshold

Tank

Orchid

Orden Ogan

Gospel of the Horns

Attic

2012

Friday 25 May Saturday 26 May Sunday 27 May

Turbonegro

Kvelertak

Krisiun

Ram

Jex Thot

Deathfist

Bolt Thrower

Psychotic Waltz

Tankard

Unleashed

Hell

Portrait

Motorjesus

Dr. Living Dead!

W.A.S.P.

Unisonic

Magnum

Girlschool

Graveyard

High Spirits

'77

Alpha Tiger

2011

Friday 10 June Saturday 11 June Sunday 12 June

Triptykon

Enslaved

Primordial

Postmortem

Procession

Contradiction

Iced Earth

Amorphis

Morgoth

Bullet

Epica

Disbelief

In Solitude

Dreamshade

Down

Overkill

Vicious Rumors

Anacrusis

Metal Inquisitor

Atlantean Kodex

Enforcer

Vanderbuyst

2010

Friday 21 May Saturday 22 May Sunday 23 May

The Devil's Blood

Bloodbath

Sabaton

Katatonia

Necros Christos

Ketzer

Kreator

Accept

Exhorder

Raven

Artillery

Bulldozer

Evile

Orden Ogan

Rage & Lingua Mortis Orchestra

Sonata Arctica

Nevermore

Virgin Steele

Orphaned Land

Crashdiet

Keep of Kalessin

Sacred Steel

2009

Friday 29 May Saturday 30 May Sunday 31 May

Opeth

Jag Panzer

Prong

Deströyer 666

Angel Witch

Witchburner

Children of Bodom

Jon Oliva's Pain

Forbidden

DragonForce

Hail of Bullets

Audrey Horne

Grand Magus

Evocation

Saxon

Sacred Reich

UFO

Heathen

D-A-D

Bullet

Firewind

Tracedawn

2008

Friday 9 May Saturday 10 May Sunday 11 May

Testament (replacing Celtic Frost)

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

Y&T

Lake of Tears

Stormwarrior

The Claymore

Immortal

Exodus

Amorphis

Exciter

Enslaved

Helstar

Moonsorrow

The Sorrow

Iced Earth

Paradise Lost

Volbeat

Napalm Death

Jorn

Asphyx

Sieges Even

Enemy of the Sun

2007

Friday 25 May Saturday 26 May Sunday 27 May

HammerFall

Grave Digger

Heaven Shall Burn

Cataract

Crucified Barbara

Bullet

Amon Amarth

Death Angel

Armored Saint

Vader

Ross the Boss

Korpiklaani

Turisas

Maroon

Metal Inquisitor

Thin Lizzy

Axel Rudi Pell

Paul Di'Anno

Spock's Beard

Tankard

Dark Funeral

Dew-Scented (replacing Naglfar)

Hardcore Superstar

Sabaton

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