Ozzfest lineups by year

Over the years, a variety of bands have made up the yearly lineups of Ozzfest, a yearly heavy metal music festival that usually tours the United States in summer.^[1]

Ozzfest 1996

Line-up

Tour dates

Ozzfest 1997

Line-up

Main stage

• Black Sabbath
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Marilyn Manson (Added to the line-up on June 15)
• Pantera
• Type O Negative
• Fear Factory
• Machine Head - were on second stage at the East Rutherford show and got cut off by Black Sabbath intro

2nd stage

• Powerman 5000
• Slo Burn
• Drain STH
• downset.
• Neurosis
• Vision of Disorder

"That whole tour was like the Morbid Tour – it was a funeral on wheels," quipped Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler. "Every band was wearing black."^[2] "I'd have liked to have done a long set, as opposed to fifty minutes or an hour," remarked guitarist Tony Iommi. "For me it didn't feel like we'd done enough."^[3]

Tour dates

The Columbus show was cancelled when Osbourne lost his voice. "They wanted me to go on and announce that Ozzy wasn't going to be there," Tony Iommi recalled. "I said, 'You've got no chance of that!' There was no way I'm walking out there saying we're not playing… Pantera were a particularly great bunch of guys and they went out and jammed away. Ozzy's band as well – they were nice people. When they [the audience] were told that we weren't going to be playing at the end and Ozzy wasn't going to be showing up, they just fucking wrecked the place… We had to reschedule it [for July 1]."^[3]

Ozzfest 1998

United Kingdom line-up

United States line-up

Line-up

Tour dates

Information

The concert on July 18, 1998, at Float Rite Park was merged with Warped Tour 1998. Some 39,000 fans were at the 12-hour, six-stage, 48-band event.^[5]

Ozzfest 1999

Line-up

Tour dates

Ozzfest 2000

Line-up

Just before the tour, Soulfly took the place of Ministry amidst a management changeover.^[6] The lineup on the Main Stage and 2nd Stage changed further shortly after the tour began when Crazy Town was pulled from the tour by the band's manager. Disturbed was moved to open the Main Stage.^[7][8]

Tour dates

Ozzfest 2001

United Kingdom

United States

Streetwise Stage

• Godhead (last show on June 30)
• Otep (last show on July 13)
• No One (Started on July 14) (replaced by Project Wyze on July 24)
• Pure Rubbish
• Beautiful Creatures
• Pressure 4-5 (Started July 14)

Tour dates

Ozzfest 2002

Germany & Belgium line-ups

England

Ireland

Poland & Czech Republic

Netherlands

United States

Tour dates

Ozzfest 2003

Ozzfest 2004

• Main stage:

Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden (from July 15 – August 20), Mudvayne, Shadows Fall, Black Label Society, In Flames, Velvet Revolver (from August 23 – September 4), Slipknot (July 31 and August 20 only), Drowning Pool (August 25 only),

• Second stage:

Ozzy Osbourne (on select dates), System of a Down, Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold (cancelled August 13), Hatebreed (cancelled August 9 and 13), Lacuna Coil, DragonForce

• Second stage:

A Life Once Lost, The Red Chord, Walls of Jericho, Strapping Young Lad, All That Remains, Full Blown Chaos, Between the Buried and Me, Bad Acid Trip

Ozzfest 2007

• Main stage

Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Serj Tankian, Hellyeah, Jonathan Davis, Cavalera Conspiracy, Shadows Fall, Apocalyptica, In This Moment, All Star Dimebag Darrell Tribute

• Second stage

Sevendust, DevilDriver, Kingdom of Sorrow, Soilent Green, Witchcraft, Goatwhore

• Texas stage

The Sword, Drowning Pool, Rigor Mortis, The Destro, Within Chaos, Debri, Black Tooth

Ozzfest 2010

United States

^[10]

• Main stage

Black Label Society (cancelled August 22 and August 24), Drowning Pool (cancelled August 24), Kingdom of Sorrow (cancelled August 14)

• Second stage (rotating slots):

Goatwhore (cancelled August 21), Skeletonwitch, Saviours, Kataklysm (cancelled August 24), Exodus (August 14 only), California Wildebeest (August 14 only), and Immune (August 14 only)

United Kingdom

• Main stage

Ozzy Osbourne, Korn, Murderdolls, Steel Panther, Skindred

• Second stage

Paradise Lost, Black Spiders, Revoker, Jettblack

Israel

^[11]

• Main stage

Ozzy Osbourne, Korn, Soulfly and Betzefer.

• Second stage

Almana Shchora, Behind the Sun and Tal Friedman and his band the Krayot.

Ozzfest Japan 2013

• May 11

Black Sabbath, Tool, Stone Sour, Dir En Grey, Anthem, coldrain, Steel Panther, Mucc, AA=, Ningen Isu, Head Phones President, and fade^[12][13]

Ozzfest Japan 2015

• November 21

Korn, Evanescence, Bullet for My Valentine, Noisemaker, VAMPS, ONE OK ROCK, Crossfaith, Corey Taylor, MEANING, Crystal Lake, and SiM

 *OPENING ACTS :Wrong City, NoisyCell, The Winking Owl, Unveil Raze

• November 22

 *OPENING ACTS : Animetal the Second, A Crowd of Rebellion, Kanojo in the Display, SALTY DOG

Ozzfest Meets Knotfest 2016

Ozzfest

• Lemmy Stage

Black Sabbath, Disturbed, Megadeth, Opeth, Black Label Society, Rival Sons

• Monster Energy Stages 1 and 2

Suicidal Tendencies, Hatebreed, DevilDriver, Goatwhore, Huntress

• Nuclear Blast stage

Municipal Waste, Kataklysm, The Shrine, Still Rebel, Allegaeon, Brujeria

Knotfest

• Lemmy Main Stage

Slipknot, Slayer, Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Trivium, Motionless in White

• Rockstar Stages 1 and 2

Sabaton, Suicide Silence, Overkill, Emmure, Butcher Babies, Man with a Mission

• Nuclear Blast Stage

Whitechapel, Combichrist, Death Angel, Carnifex, Loathe, SiM, ONI

Ozzfest Meets Knotfest 2017

Ozzfest

• Main Stage

Ozzy Osbourne, Prophets of Rage, Deftones, Children of Bodom, Orange Goblin

• Second Stage

• Nuclear Blast stage

Possessed, Suffocation, Fallujah, Rings of Saturn

Knotfest

• Main Stage

• Second Stage

Testament, Life of Agony, The Black Dahlia Murder, Upon a Burning Body, Goatwhore, Death Angel, Code Orange, Oni, Stitched Up Heart, Ded

• Nuclear Blast Stage

Sid Wilson, Repulsion, Exhumed, Warbringer, Ghoul

Ozzfest 2018

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Line-up

Guest appearances

• Ron Jeremy – introduced Coal Chamber before their set in 1996. Can be seen on the Ozzfest Live VHS (discontinued).
• Phil Anselmo – performed the song "Kill All The White People" with Type O Negative in 1997 at the Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino, CA.
• Henry Rollins – preceded the main stage with a spoken-word performance in 1997.^[15]
• Benji Webbe (ex-Dub War/Skindred) – appeared with Soulfly at their UK dates in 1998.^[16]
• Kerry King (Slayer) Performed Thunderkiss with Rob Zombie on June 16, 1999, at the Meadows Music Theater in Hartford Connecticut.
• Buckethead – played a few songs with Primus during their set on the Main stage in 1999, and did various stunts such as doing the "robot" and swinging around nunchaku.
• Evan Seinfeld – sang with Pantera on "Walk" in 2000 at the PNC Bank Arts Center.
• Verne Troyer – actor who played Mini Me, appeared onstage with Pantera at Pine Knob (now DTE Energy Music Theater) in Clarkston, Mi on July 12, 2000.
• Dino Cazares – joined Soulfly to perform "Eye For An Eye" at Ozzfest 2000.
• David Draiman – joined Memento to perform "Stare" at Ozzfest 2003 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
• Corey Taylor – joined Soulfly to perform "Jumpdafuckup" at Ozzfest UK 2001, and also joined SiM to perform a cover of Radiohead's song "Creep" at Ozzfest Japan 2015.^[17]
• Tom Araya – joined Soulfly to perform "Terrorist" at Ozzfest UK 2001.
• John Dolmayan – appeared with Tool in 2002 at the Antwerp and Dublin dates, performing "Triad."^[18]
• George Oosthoek (ex-Orphanage) – appeared with Within Temptation during "The Other Half (Of Me)" at Nijmegen in 2002.^[19]
• Dave Lombardo – appeared with Slayer at Nijmegen in 2002 (filling in for Paul Bostaph who had an elbow injury) and also with Tool.^[19]
• Mike Bordin – performed with Tool at Donington and Nijmegen in 2002.^[19]
• Zakk Wylde – performed with Soil on "Halo" in 2002.^[20]
• Kelly Osbourne – performed with Andrew W.K. on "She Is Beautiful" in 2002.^[21]
• John Tardy and Frank Watkins performed a mini-set of Obituary songs at Ozzfest 2002 in West Palm Beach, Florida with Andrew W.K. and his band. Obituary drummer Donald Tardy was Andrew's touring drummer at the time.^[22]
• Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul joined Disturbed onstage at Ozzfest 2003 in Alpine Valley, Wisconsin and played guitar and drums respectively for a version of "Walk"
• Rob Halford – appeared with Black Sabbath on August 26, 2004, in Camden, replacing an ill Ozzy.^[23]
• Howard Jones
  – appeared with Throwdown in 2004.
• Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith – appeared with Bury Your Dead in 2005.^[24]
• Harry Perry during the 2006 Ozzfests, would play sets with System of a Down. He was also seen playing his guitar with a portable amp around the venues during the second stage performances.
• Candace Kucsulain of Walls of Jericho appeared with In This Moment in 2007.
• John 5 appeared with Static-X in 2007.
• Randy Blythe from Lamb of God joined Hatebreed to perform "Perseverance" and "Doomsayer" at Ozzfest 2007.
• Devildriver
• King Diamond joined Metallica at Ozzfest 2008 and performed a medley of "Evil", "Curse of the Pharaohs", "Satan's Fall", "A Corpse Without a Soul", and "Into the Coven." This medley also appeared on Metallica's Garage Inc. cover album, as the track "Mercyful Fate."
• Chester Bennington joined Disturbed in 2001 to perform a cover of Pantera's "Walk".
• Buzz Osborne from the Melvins played guitar on a few songs with Tool during their performance in 1998.
• Yuto Miyazawa joined Ozzy Osbourne at Ozzfest 2010 for the first 6 shows to play "Crazy Train"
• Drowning Pool joined Nonpoint to play "Miracale" and "Bodies" at Ozzfest 2010 on August 24.
• Branden Schieppati of Bleeding Through appeared onstage with Avenged Sevenfold at the Chicago date of Ozzfest 2006 to perform their cover of Pantera's "Walk".
• Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe joined Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson at Ozzfest 2018 for a cover of The Beatles Helter Skelter.^[25]
• Dino Cazares guitarist of Fear Factory performed a song with Slayer right after a set with Fear Factory in San Antonio, Texas at Retama Park July 11, 1999.

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