Dynamo Open Air
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Dynamo Open Air is a festival in the Netherlands held (almost) every year between 1986 and 2005. It was reborn in 2008 as Dynamo Outdoor and in 2015 as Dynamo Metal Fest.
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History
Originally held to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Dynamo rock club in Eindhoven, it grew from 5,000 people in the Dynamo parking lot up to 118,000 attendees in 1995. Until this day, the 1995 edition still is the largest multi-day open air festival ever held in the Netherlands. This caused too much pressure on the Dutch infrastructure and the festival had to shrink to a maximum of 60,000 visitors for 1996. From there it went downhill, mostly because the festival could not find a permanent venue. In 1999 Dynamo Open Air was held on a former rubbish dump in Mierlo, and the following year it went to the Goffertpark in Nijmegen. That was the first time DOA was held outside the province of North Brabant, and it was the first time in years that the festival had to shrink down to only one day. The previous years it had always been a two- or three-day festival.
In 2001, the organisation thought they had found a site where the festival could return on a yearly basis, near the town of Lichtenvoorde. However, the threat of foot-and-mouth disease caused trouble, and Dynamo Open Air had to be cancelled. In 2002 it returned, at the site of the Bospop festival, but 2003 was another year without a Dynamo festival, because it would violate a recently passed law about animal protection during breeding season. For 2004, the festival returned to Nijmegen, at the same location where it took place in 2000. In 2005, the festival used the site of the Dauwpop festival, and the reunited Anthrax headlined the stage.
In an attempt to revitalise the festival, the current organization of the Dynamo youth center decided to change the festival's name from Dynamo Open Air to Dynamo Outdoor. In 2008, the first Dynamo Outdoor festival was held in the centre of Eindhoven, with bands such as
The revival of the festival occurred with a new name as Dynamo Metal Fest, which has taken place every year since 2015. The festival had taken place traditionally on the second or third Saturday in July from 2015 to 2018; for the 2019 edition, it was converted into a two-day festival. After the 2020 edition was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dynamo Metal Fest was scheduled to return in August 2021, however again cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] The Dynamo Metal Fest was again held in August 2022.
Live recordings
In 1995,
Line-ups and dates
Dynamo Open Air
1986
Sunday September 7 | ||
Joshua
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Cancelled shows :
1987
Monday June 8 | ||
Cancelled shows : Agent Steel (replaced by Testament)
1988
Monday May 23 | ||
Exodus
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1989
Monday May 15 | ||
Savatage
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1990
Monday June 4 | ||
Death Angel
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1991
Monday May 20 | ||
Metal Church
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1992
Sunday June 7 | ||
Prong
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1993
Saturday May 29 | ||
Anthrax
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Sunday May 30 | ||
Mercyful Fate
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Cancelled shows: Therapy?, Tool (replaced by Z)
1994
Friday May 20 (Warm-Up) | ||
Forbidden
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Saturday May 21 | ||
Prong
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Sunday May 22 | ||
Danzig
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1995
Friday June 2 | ||
Campsite | Skatefest | |
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Tiamat
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Undeclinable Ambuscade
Propaghandi
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Saturday June 3 | ||
Mainstage | Skatefest | Campsite |
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Paradise Lost
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Absconded
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Sunday June 4 | ||
Mainstage | Skatefest | |
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Biohazard
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No Fun at All
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1996
Friday May 24 | ||
Campsite | Skatefest | |
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Neurosis
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Saturday May 25 | ||
Mainstage | Skatefest | |
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Venom
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Down by Law
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Sunday May 26 | ||
Mainstage | Skatefest | |
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Slayer
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Shelter
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Cancelled shows : Halford (replaced by Sacred Reich)
1997
Friday May 16 | ||
Campsite | Skatefest | |
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Rockbitch
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Saturday May 17 | ||
Mainstage | Campsite | Skatefest |
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Type O Negative
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Rage
The Black Stage
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Sunday May 18 | ||
Mainstage | Skatefest | |
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Tiamat
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Travoltas
Slyce |
1998
Friday May 29 | ||
The Gallery | Skatefest | |
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Atrocity
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Pro-Pain
Refused
Hard Resistance Janez Detd. Driven |
Saturday May 30 | ||
Mainstage | The Gallery | Skatefest |
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Rammstein
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The Factory
Junkie XL
Think About Mutation Misery Loves Co. The Kovenant
In Flames
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Brotherhood Foundation
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Sunday May 31 | ||
Mainstage | The Gallery | Skatefest |
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Pantera
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Power Pack
Tom Angelripper
Space Jam
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Misfits
Better Than a Thousand
Maximum Penalty |
Cancelled shows : Fear Factory (replaced by Death), Human Waste Project (replaced by Ultraspank) and Limp Bizkit (replaced by Psycore).
1999
Friday May 21 | ||
The Gallery | Skatefest | |
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Dark Symphonies
Sodom
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Madball
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Saturday May 22 | ||
Mainstage | The Gallery | Skatefest |
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Manowar
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The Factory
The Gore Zone
Trail of Tears
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Ryker's
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Sunday May 23 | ||
Mainstage | The Gallery | Maximum Overdrive |
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Metallica
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The Power Pack
The Black Stage
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Gluecifer
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Cancelled bands : Bolt Thrower, Morbid Angel, Speedealer, Skarhead and Blood for Blood. The three latter bands were replaced by Arch Enemy, Goatsnake, Merauder and E.Town Concrete respectively.
2000
Saturday June 3 | ||
Main Stage | Tent Stage | |
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Iron Maiden
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Immortal
Engine
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Cancelled bands : Entombed (replaced by Destruction)
2001
Festival cancelled due to the threat of
The announced bands were: After Forever, Amen, Backfire!, Behemoth, Brightside, Catastrophic, Cradle of Filth, Destiny's End, Destroÿer 666, Discipline, Disturbed, Dreadlock Pussy, Dropkick Murphys, Dying Fetus, Exhumed, Hed PE, Ignite, In Extremo, Krisiun, Length of Time, Liar, Lost Horizon, Macabre, Merauder, M.O.D., Motörhead, Mudvayne, Napalm Death, Nasum, Nevermore, Opeth, Pain of Salvation, Papa Roach, Savatage, Saxon, Severe Torture, Shelter, Slipknot, Soulfly, Spineshank, Static-X, Symphony X, Terra Firma, Tool, The Union Underground, Vader, Wicked Mystic, Within Temptation.
2002
Sunday July 14 | ||
Main Stage | Tent Stage | |
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Soulfly
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Children of Bodom
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2003
Festival cancelled. No bands announced.
2004
Saturday June 5 | ||
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | |
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Slayer
Ill Nino
Shadows Fall |
Dimmu Borgir
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2005
Saturday May 7 | ||
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | |
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Anthrax
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Dynamo Metalfest
2015
Saturday July 18 | ||
Arch Enemy
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2016
Saturday July 16 | ||
Anthrax
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2017
Saturday July 15 | ||
Gojira
Devin Townsend Project
Exodus Entombed A.D. Prong Toxik Vuur White Boy Wasted |
2018
Saturday July 14 | ||
Ghost
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2019
Friday July 19 | ||
Saturday July 20 | ||
Arch Enemy
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2020
Festival cancelled due to the threat of coronavirus. Bands that were supposed to play were Exodus, Obituary, Midnight, Flotsam and Jetsam, Heaven Shall Burn, Sepultura, Jinjer and Beast in Black.
2021
Festival cancelled due to coronavirus. Bands that were supposed to play were Heaven Shall Burn, Testament, Bay Area Interthrashional, Sacred Reich, The Black Dahlia Murder, Firewind, Rings of Saturn, Amon Amarth, Candlemass, Clutch, Jinjer, Municipal Waste, Unleash the Archers and Dress the Dead.
2022
Saturday August 20 | ||
Vended Dress the Dead TankZilla |
Sunday August 21 | ||
Bay Area Interthrashional Lik Urne |
References
- ^ "Dynamo Metalfest". dynamo-metalfest.nl. Retrieved November 27, 2020.
External links
- (in Dutch)Official website