Sauna Open Air Metal Festival
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| Location(s) | Tampere, Finland |
| Years active | 2004-present |
| Date(s) | June |
| Genre(s) | Heavy metal |
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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. On June 8-10 in 2006, over 20,000 metalheads arrived to watch such bands as Cradle of Filth, Finntroll, Iggy & The Stooges, Lordi, Twisted Sister and W.A.S.P..
[edit] Artists by year
2004: Children of Bodom, Diablo, Dreamtale, Finntroll, Helloween, Lordi, My Fate, Nightwish, Swallow the Sun, Tarot, Thunderstone, Twilightning, Underwear
2005: Amoral, Deathchain, Dio, Dreamtale, Kiuas, Kotipelto, Machine Men, Megadeth, Mokoma, Moonsorrow, Norther, Pain, Roctum, Sentenced, Slayer, Sonata Arctica, Teräsbetoni
2006: April, The Black League, Blake, Charon, Cradle of Filth, Diablo, Ensiferum, Finntroll, The Flaming Sideburns, Iggy & The Stooges, Kiuas, Lordi, Stam1na, Turmion Kätilöt, Twisted Sister, Verjnuarmu, W.A.S.P.
[edit] 2007
7th June - Megadeth, Kotipelto, Korpiklaani
8th June - Type O Negative, Poisonblack, Thunderstone, Entwine, Kotiteollisuus
9th June - Heaven and Hell, Sonata Arctica, Sabaton, Violent Storm, Swallow the Sun, Leverage
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