Sauna Open Air Metal Festival

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Sauna Open Air
Megadeth on stage at Sauna 2005.
Location(s) Tampere, Finland
Years active 2004-present
Founded by
Date(s) June
Genre(s) Heavy metal
Website http://www.sauna-open-air.fi

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..

In 2007, the festival gathered an audience of over 22 000 people, the record of the Sauna festival[1].

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[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, Timo Rautiainen, Los Bastardos Finlandeses, Stam1na, Korpiklaani, Pain Confessor 8th June - Type O Negative, Kotipelto, Dimmu Borgir, Poisonblack, Thunderstone, Entwine, Kotiteollisuus 9th June - Heaven and Hell, Sonata Arctica, Sabaton, Dark Tranquillity, Swallow the Sun, Leverage, Ari Koivunen

[edit] Bands confirmed for 2008

[edit] External links

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