Sauna Open Air Metal Festival
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| Sauna Open Air | |
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| Location(s) | Tampere, Finland |
| Years active | 2004-present |
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| 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
- Scorpions
- Whitesnake
- Children Of Bodom
- Sebastian Bach
- Stone
- Sonata Arctica
- Graham Bonnet & Joe Lynn Turner
- Testament
- Airbourne
- KYPCK
- When The Empire Falls
- Stam1na
- Widescreen Mode
- Diablo
- Mokoma
- MoonMadness
- Eläkeläiset
- Amorphis
- Rytmihäiriö
- Tracedawn
- Kiuas
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