Graspop Metal Meeting
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Graspop Metal Meeting is a metal festival in Dessel, Belgium that has taken place each year since 1996. The event was not originally a heavy metal festival. In 1995, the headliners billed were Joe Cocker and Simple Minds.
Founder Peter Van Geel realized that mainstream rock music wasn't the ticket. He reflected on the most memorable acts of the preceding years: Motörhead, Ramones, Paradise Lost, Biohazard and so forth. He also considered his own musical preferences and that started him thinking: why not go for a drastic reorientation?
Peter discussed the matter with Werchter festival promoter Herman Schueremans, who advised him to get in touch with Bob Schoenmaekers, the owner of the Biebob concert venue and metal club in nearby Vosselaar. A couple of years earlier, Schoenmaekers had set up his "Midsummer Festival" in Vosselaar and he was thinking of an open air festival. The initial contact soon led to close collaboration. The duo decided to launch a brand-new metal festival under the name of "Graspop Metal Meeting". The date of choice was to be the last weekend of June.
[edit] 2007 Edition
It has been confirmed that the 12th Graspop Metal Meeting will take place on Friday 22, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24th of June 2007. Bands that have already been announced are:
Friday: Aerosmith, Within Temptation, Type O Negative, Blind Guardian, Celtic Frost, Therion, Sabaton, Thin Lizzy, Grave Digger, Vader, 1349, Pain Of Salvation, Amorphis.
Saturday: Iron Maiden, KoRn, Heaven and Hell, Life Of Agony, Cannibal Corpse, Tiamat, Dimmu Borgir, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Lamb of God, Sirenia, Brutal Truth, Drowning Pool, Atheist.
Sunday: Ozzy Osbourne, Slayer, Black Label Society, Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Finntroll, Chimaira, Moonsorrow, Devil Driver, Unearth, Korpiklaani, In This Moment, Turisas, Eluveitie.
[edit] Previous line-ups
Iron Maiden, Slayer, Life Of Agony, Channel Zero, Sick Of It All, Fear Factory, Helloween, Skin, Gorefest, Type O Negative, Morbid Angel, Downset, Shelter, Drain, Manhole
Megadeth, Alice Cooper, Biohazard, Saxon, Obituary, Grip Inc., Samael, Entombed, Pist-on, My Dying Bride, Tiamat, Moonspell, Cradle of Filth, The Gathering, Dimmu Borgir, Madball, Lagwagon, Rykers, Millencolin, Deviate, Handsome
Black Sabbath, Dream Theater, Deftones, Soulfly, Savatage, Coal Chamber, Obituary, Spiritual Beggars, Paradise Lost, Moonspell, Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Within Temptation, Primus, Madball, Pro-Pain, Misfits, Congress
Manowar, Sepultura, Motörhead, Stormtroopers Of Death, The Gathering, Kreator, Primal Fear, Darkane, Ancient Rites, Cradle of Filth, Mercyful Fate, Immortal, Anathema, Children of Bodom, Hypocrisy, Danzig, Slapshot, Rykers, Pitchshifter, Ignite, Out
Iron Maiden, Machine Head, Rollins Band, Saxon, Testament, Gamma Ray, Entombed, Dirty Deeds, My Dying Bride, Anathema, Tristania, Samael, Apocalyptica, Cannibal Corpse, God Dethroned, Oceans Of Sadness, Cro-mags, Madball, Skarhead, No fun at all, 59 Times the Pain, Liberator, Bombshell Rocks, Voice Of A Generation
Judas Priest, Cradle of Filth, Megadeth, Bad Religion, Motörhead, Suicidal Tendencies, Savatage, Marduk, Within Temptation, Dropkick Murphys, Sick Of It All, Six Feet Under, Macabre, Shelter, Awkward Thought, Primal Fear, The Haunted, Orphanage, Backfire, Farmer Boys, Unleashed, Kill II This, Pist-on, Nevermore, Rose Tattoo, Destruction, Devin Townsend, Ancient Rites, Metalium, Action In DC
Slayer, Dream Theater, Machine Head, Bruce Dickinson, Halford, My Dying Bride, Biohazard, Immortal, Cannibal Corpse, Tristania, Symphony X, Hypocrisy, Arch Enemy, Slapshot, The Vandals, D.R.I., Deviate, Dismember, Subzero, Calibre, Evergrey, Saxon, Agnostic Front, Anathema, Moonspell, Kreator, After Forever, Less Than Jake, In Extremo, Doro, Skarhead, Rage, Manic Movement, Massif, Xeah
Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Within Temptation, Ministry, Anthrax, Stone Sour, Murderdolls, Lacuna Coil, Sick Of It All, Six Feet Under, Hatebreed, Finntroll, Prong, Arch Enemy, The Haunted, Youth Of Today, Doro, Pro-Pain, Destroyer 666, Convict, Killer, Type O Negative, Stratovarius, Sepultura, Apocalyptica, Opeth, Overkill, Samael, Masterplan, Mastodon, Atreyu, Oceans Of Sadness, Aborted
Iced Earth, Exodus, Anathema, Hypocrisy, In Extremo, After Forever, Suffocation, Circle II Circle, Action in DC, Epica, Dillinger Escape Plan, Cowboys & Aliens, Alice Cooper, Slipknot, Motörhead, Cradle of Filth, Queensrÿche, Soulfly, My Dying Bride, Agnostic Front, Anthrax, Terror, Blood for Blood, Pleymo, Oomph!, Morbid Angel, Brides Of Destruction, Evergrey, Backfire, Discipline, Scarve, Do or Die, Judas Priest, Life Of Agony, Dimmu Borgir, Saxon, Fear Factory, Children of Bodom, Therion, Hatebreed, Testament, Ill Nino, Death Angel, Ignite, Chimaira, Killswitch Engage, Dying Fetus, Malevolent Creation, Seven Witches, Shadows Fall, Destruction
The Ga*Ga*s, Alter Bridge, Helmet, Papa Roach, Within Temptation, System of a Down, Immolation, Enslaved, Grave Digger, Metal Church, Megadeth, Nevermore, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Caliban, H2O, Madball, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Kreator, Chimaira, Judasville, Sengir, Cowboys & Aliens, Axamenta, In-Quest, Autumn, Skitsoy, Soilwork, Epica, Kamelot, Hatebreed, Accept, Slayer, Slipknot, Behemoth, Gorefest, Amon Amarth, Samael, Sirenia, In Flames, Peter Pan Speedrock, Pro-Pain, Rose Tattoo, Mastodon, Sick of it All, Anthrax, Stormrider, DragonForce, Axel Rudi Pell, Primal Fear, Yngwie Malmsteen, Dio, Dream Theater, Iron Maiden, Oceans of Sadness, Dark Tranquillity, Nuclear Assault, Arch Enemy, Lacuna Coil, Hatesphere, Murphy's Law, Walls of Jericho, Amen, Terror
Guns N' Roses, Whitesnake, Motörhead, Lacuna Coil, Satyricon, Soulfly, Cradle of Filth, In Flames, After Forever, Helloween, Saxon, Opeth, Arch Enemy, Michael Schenker Group, Moonspell, Evergrey, Edguy, Trivium, Y&T, The Gathering, Leaves' Eyes, Leatherwolf, Gojira, My Dying Bride, Nile, Alice in Chains, The New York Dolls, Stone Sour, Obituary, Bullet for My Valentine, Bloodsimple, Akercocke, Exodus, Armored Saint, DragonForce, Ignite, Ensiferum, Machine Men, Sevendust, Stream of Passion, Sengir, Death Angel, Jon Oliva's 'Pain', Ill Niño, Beyond Fear, Enthroned, In-Quest, The Maple Room, Battalion, Iconoclasm, Panchrysia, Callenish Circle, Leng Tch'e, Ancient Rites.
