Nova Rock Festival

Nova Rock Festival

Location(s)	Nickelsdorf, Austria
Years active	2005- present
Date(s)	June
Genre	Rock
Website	www.novarock.at

The Nova Rock Festival, also just Nova Rock, is a music festival that has existed since 2005 and takes place each year in June. It is Austria's biggest rock music festival, and also one of the largest in Europe. It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria, near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders. It is organized by Nova Music Entertainment, which is a cooperation of Musicnet, FKP Scorpio and several former employees/bookers of Wiesen , who left Wiesen in 2004 after ongoing internal misunderstandings. The event draws around 90,000 - 100,000 people over a 3 day period 150,000 in 2006, with an average of 30,000 - 35,000 fans per day.

2012 lineup

Date: 08. - 10. June 2012 Confirmed bands:

Blue Stage			Red Stage
08. June	09. June	10. June	08. June	09. June	10. June
Linkin Park	Die Toten Hosen	Metallica	Marilyn Manson	Limp Bizkit	Evanescence
Rise Against	Billy Talent	Nightwish	Within Temptation	Machine Head	The Bosshoss
The Offspring	Cypress Hill	Slayer	Refused	Dimmu Borgir	Corey Taylor
The Baseballs	Kasabian	Mastodon	Lamb of God	Opeth	Mad Caddies
The Gaslight Anthem	Everlast	Oomph!	Killswitch Engage	Schandmaul	Turbonegro
Lagwagon	Eisbrecher	Trivium	Steel Panther	Hatebreed	Russkaja
The Answer	Puddle of Mudd	As I Lay Dying	August Burns Red	Biohazard	Awolnation
Royal Republic	Livingston	Gojira	Devildriver	Triggerfinger	Cancer Bats
Gun	WBTBWB	Devin Townsend	Shinedown	While She Sleeps	Axewound

Canceled due to storm.

2011 lineup

Date: 11. - 13. June 2011 Confirmed bands:

Blue Stage			Red Stage
11. June	12. June	13. June	11. June	12. June	13. June
Linkin Park	Volbeat	Otto & Die Friesenjungs	The Darkness	Flogging Molly	System of a Down
Thirty Seconds To Mars	Korn	Iron Maiden	In Extremo	3 Doors Down	Social Distortion
Wolfmother	Danzig	Motörhead	HammerFall	Sublime with Rome	Pendulum live
Guano Apes	Cavalera Conspiracy	In Flames	Sick of It All	Duff McKagan's Loaded	Alter Bridge
Dredg	Times of Grace	Bring Me the Horizon	Eisbrecher	Broilers	The Sounds
Plain White T's	Black Stone Cherry	Alesana	Pain	Katzenjammer	Boysetsfire
Silverstein	Clutch	Escape the Fate	First Blood	Jennifer Rostock	The Pretty Reckless
Framing Hanley	Asking Alexandria	Architects	Turisas	Blood Red Shoes	Yashin
Crash Kings	Blood Command	Seek & Destroy	Sister Sin	Kellermensch	Adept

Special Late Night Attraction

2010 lineup

Date: 11. - 13. June 2010 Confirmed bands as of Nov 23, 2009:

Blue Stage			Red Stage
11. June	12. June	13. June	11. June	12. June	13. June
Rammstein	Green Day	Beatsteaks	Deichkind	Slayer	Bullet for My Valentine
Stone Temple Pilots	Joan Jett	The Prodigy	Sportfreunde Stiller	Hatebreed	Killswitch Engage
Ska P	The Hives	The Bosshoss	Kate Nash	Amon Amarth	Deftones
Stone Sour	Enter Shikari	Alice in Chains	Bauchklang	Heaven Shall Burn	As I Lay Dying
Slash	Danko Jones	Bela B	Hot Water Music	Skindred	Unearth
Subway to Sally	Zebrahead	Alkbottle	Russkaja	Bleeding Through	36 crazyfists
Airbourne	The Sorrow	The Get Up Kids	Saint Lu	Negative	A Day to Remember
Hellyeah	Red Lights Flash	Datarock	Guadalajara	From Dawn to Fall	Job for a Cowboy
Dillinger Escape Plan		The Gogets	Calibro 35	Cynic	Creature with the Atom Brain

2009 lineup

Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison performing at Nova Rock in 2009.

Confirmed bands as of 4 April 2009:

Blue Stage			Red Stage
19. June	20. June	21. June	19. June	20. June	21. June
Metallica	Placebo	Die Toten Hosen	Nine Inch Nails	In Extremo	Machine Head
Slipknot	Kaiser Chiefs	Limp Bizkit	Faith No More	Chickenfoot	Dimmu Borgir
Mastodon	Chris Cornell	Guano Apes	Gogol Bordello	Killswitch Engage	Trivium
Disturbed	Staind	Madsen	Sunrise Avenue	Monster Magnet	Static-X
Black Stone Cherry	Dredg	Less Than Jake	The Gaslight Anthem	All That Remains	Sevendust
Caliban	Lacuna Coil	Duff Mc Kagan's Loaded	The Living End	Dir En Grey	Bring Me the Horizon
Sonic Syndicate	Expatriate	3 Feet Smaller	Julia	Atrocity	August Burns Red
Drumatical Theatre	The Druango Riot	Kilians	The Temper Trap	Eisbrecher	And So I Watch You From Afar
Xenesthis	No Head on My Shoulders	Zeronic	Rolo Tomassi	Centao	Kontrust

2008 lineup

Confirmed lineup:

Blue Stage			Red Stage
13. June	14. June	15. June	13. June	14. June	15. June
Die Ärzte	The Verve	Rage Against the Machine	Sex Pistols	Motörhead	Judas Priest
NOFX	Beatsteaks	Incubus	Cavalera Conspiracy	In Flames	Bullet for My Valentine
MIA.	Gavin Rossdale	Kid Rock	Jonathan Davis	Bad Religion	Disturbed
Ash	New Model Army	Rise Against	Porcupine Tree	Subway to Sally	Alter Bridge
Alkbottle	Calico Soul	Anti Flag	Airbourne	Opeth	Enter Shikari
Hundred Reasons	The Godfathers	The Weakerthans	Rose Tattoo	Sonic Syndicate	Skindred
Donots	Melee	Guadalajara	Volbeat	Alpha Galates	Black Tide
Panteon Rococo	Sunshine	Jaguar Love	From First to Last	Kill Hannah	TBA
ZOX	Die Mannequin	Vanilla Sky	The Sorrow	Fire in the Attic	Spout

2007 lineup

Nova Rock Festival 2007 took place from the 15th to the 17th of June with the following lineup:

Headliners: Billy Talent, The Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, Pearl Jam, Slayer, The Killers,

The festival also consisted of bands including: Linkin Park, Machine Head, In Flames, Papa Roach, Reel Big Fish, Incubus, Mando Diao, The Hives, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Children of Bodom, Less Than Jake, Flogging Molly, Mastodon, 30 Seconds to Mars, Isis, Aiden, In Extremo, Ill Niño, Within Temptation, Hayseed Dixie, The BossHoss and Chimaira.

Blue Stage			Red Stage
15. June	16. June	17. June	15. June	16. June	17. June
The Smashing Pumpkins	Billy Talent	Pearl Jam	Marilyn Manson	The Killers	Slayer
Incubus	In Extremo	Linkin Park	In Flames	Mando Diao	Flogging Molly
The Hives	Machine Head	30 Seconds to Mars	Stone Sour	My Chemical Romance	Children of Bodom
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes	Papa Roach	Bright Eyes	Lordi	Less Than Jake	Drowning Pool
Editors	Reel Big Fish	Frank Black	Helmet	Modest Mouse	Clawfinger
IAMX	Mastodon	Sunrise Avenue	Ill Niño	Sarah Bettens	Chimaira
Fotos	Bosshoss	Hinder	Isis	The Dykeenies	Aiden
Johnossi	Hardcore Superstar	Hayseed Dixie	Negative	Excuse Me Moses	The Staggers
Under the Influence of Giants	In This Moment	Across the Delta	Devildriver	TBA	Spout

2006 lineup

Last year there were two stages. The first bands officially announced on the Nova Rock homepage were: Guns N' Roses, Placebo, Metallica, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Massive Attack, Motörhead, Madsen, Billy Talent, Hard-Fi, Guadalajara, Seeed, Bodyrockers, She Male Trouble, Sportfreunde Stiller, Lagwagon, Subway to Sally and Julia.

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Metallica	Placebo	Guns N' Roses
Motörhead	Massive Attack	Tool
Alice in Chains	Live	Bloodhound Gang
Alter Bridge	Starsailor	Oomph!
Avenged Sevenfold	The Datsuns	Apocalyptica
Stone Sour	The Sounds	Opeth
Bullet for My Valentine	Billy Talent	Die Krupps
Trivium	The Answer	Sebastian Bach
Bloodsimple	Tyler
Unheilig

Originally Korn were announced to play the festival, but had to cancel it, as well as the "Nova Rock Encore", a concert in Vienna which they were expected to play with Deftones, Soulfly and Devildriver.

2005 lineup

Die Ärzte, Audioslave, Bad Acid Trip, Beatsteaks, Boysetsfire, Core, Green Day, In Extremo, La Vela Puerca, Mando Diao, Marilyn Manson, Moneybrother, Nightwish, The Prodigy, Soulfly, System of a Down, Weezer, Wir sind Helden

9. June	10. June	11. June	12. June
System of a Down	Die Ärzte	The Prodigy	Green Day
Audioslave	Marilyn Manson	Nightwish	Millencolin
Wir sind Helden	Weezer	Soulfly	Boysetsfire
Beatsteaks	Mando Diao	In Extremo	3 Feet Smaller
La Vela Puerca	The (International) Noise Conspiracy	Reel Big Fish
Moneybrother	Mudvayne	The Dissociatives
Team Sleep	Madsen	The Hellacopters
Trail of Dead	Core	Schandmaul
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster		Exilia

External links

• The Nova Rock Festival's homepage
• Nova Music's homepage