Bang your head
The outdoor concert Bang Your Head is a place held annually in early summer Metal - Festival in Balingen in the Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Wuerttemberg .
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history
The first edition took place in 1996 as a party with 600 spectators, including advertisers, Heavy, or what !? -Subscribers and "scene insiders" of the area.
The name of the festival is derived from " headbanging ", a type of dance that is very popular among metal fans.
Until 1998 the festival took place in the Stefan-Hartmann-Halle in Tübingen . But then there was no longer enough space for the increasing number of visitors and the organizer Horst Odermatt dared to take the risk of organizing Bang your Head as an open-air concert for the first time in 1999. A suitable location was finally found in the Balingen exhibition center. The festival quickly gained notoriety and popularity and is still valued today for its relaxed atmosphere and stylish audience.
In 2005 the tenth Bang Your Head Festival took place. 22 bands, all of which had been guests before, performed. The festival had been reported as sold out a few days earlier with 20,000 visitors. It was overshadowed by a major storm: rain, hail and storm devastated the camping area, so that around 500 music fans had to be evacuated. 40 people were injured and there was considerable property damage.
In 2009 the campsite, the so-called "Metalcamp", was relocated due to space problems. It is now located on an area of around 100,000 square meters further away with a supermarket, party tent (with catering), shower facilities, sufficient Dixie toilets and a shuttle bus connection to the festival site.
In 2010, for the first time ever, three bands played as an alternative program in the Volksbank exhibition hall.
In 2015, the 20th anniversary of the Bang your Head Festival was celebrated under the motto Best of the Best . All but one new band (Dream Theater) had already been guests and the festival lasted three days instead of just two days. The first bands were announced at the 2014 festival.
In 2018, 20 years of Open Air was celebrated, because the festival has only been held as an open air in Balingen since 1999 and previously took place in a concert hall. In the run-up to the 2018 festival, the motto "End of an Era" was announced on a promo poster. The organizer Horst Franz responded to rumors about the end of the festival with an emotional speech in which the tense financial situation with regard to the headlining fees, shit storms on the internet against the festival and the oversupply of festivals were discussed. "End of an Era" would, however, represent a change, namely new headliners would have to be found and the ticket price for 2019 would have to be increased by € 20. The Bang Your Head 2019 is also not yet certain - the date is set, but the contracts have not yet been signed. However, the first bands for the 2019 festival were announced in September 2018.
The most famous music groups and headliners of the festival include:
Megadeth , Motörhead , Anthrax , Saxon , Deep Purple , Hammerfall , Foreigner , Alice Cooper , Scorpions , UDO , Dio , Heaven and Hell , Doro , Judas Priest , Nightwish , Rhapsody , Slayer , Amon Amarth , Thin Lizzy , Twisted Sister , Children of Bodom , Helloween , Gamma Ray , In Flames , Stratovarius , Y&T , Edguy , Accept , Kreator
useful information
- On the eve of the festival, a warm-up show with some bands from the line-up took place in Hechingen every year until 2008 , and since 2009 in the Balingen exhibition hall.
- The band Foreigner released a live DVD of their 2006 performance entitled Live at Bang Your Head Festival .
- The festival has been taking place over three days since 2015.
- In 2018 the Zollern-Alb-Kurier published a special edition Bang Your Head !!! Kurier published and distributed as a print at the festival.
Line ups
Stefan-Hartmann-Halle Tübingen-Hirschau
1996
Blind Guardian (with guest appearance by Kai Hansen ), Glenmore , Tokyo Blade , Savage
1997
Gamma Ray , Flotsam and Jetsam , Virgin Steele , Sinner , Demon , Sacred Steel , Hammerfall (with guest appearance Andy Mück )
1998, 18-19 September
Iced Earth , Stratovarius , Grave Digger , Glenmore , Nasty Savage , Wardog (with guest appearance Bruce Dickinson ), Tank (with guest appearance Tom Angelripper ), Kamelot , Black Symphony , Brainstorm , Wicked Angel
Balingen Exhibition Center ("Open Air")
(Setup without warm-up and club shows)
1999, 18.-19. June
Deep Purple , Motörhead , Dio , Hammerfall , WASP , Grave Digger , Pretty Maids , Destruction , Lizzy Borden , Riot , Pink Cream 69 , Metalium , Temple of the Absurd , Steel Prophet , Marshall Law , Labyrinth , Get Animal
2000, June 30–1. July
Scorpions , Running Wild , Doro , Demons & Wizards , Saxon , Jag Panzer , Rage , Krokus , UDO , Virgin Steele , Watchtower , Primal Fear , Axxis , Manilla Road . Jacob's Dream , Edguy , Exciter , Destiny's End , Lefay , Evergrey , Rawhead Rexx , Chinchilla
2001, 29-30. June
Dee Snider , Judas Priest , Savatage , Stratovarius , Megadeth , Uriah Heep , Rose Tattoo , Axel Rudi Pell , Armored Saint , Six Feet Under , Kreator , Company of Snakes , Vicious Rumors , Kamelot , Helstar , Anvil , Brainstorm , Solitude Aeternus , Squealer , Eidolon , Tierra Santa , Couragous
2002, 28-29 June
Slayer , Saxon , Halford , Nightwish , Doro , Fozzy , Gamma Ray , Nevermore , Rawhead Rexx , Iron Savior , Candlemass , Titan Force , Bonfire , Shakra , Jag Panzer , Vanden Plas , Rhapsody , Tankard , Rival , Mägo de Oz , SA Adams
2003, 27.-28. June
Twisted Sister , Dio , Thin Lizzy , Hammerfall , UDO , Sodom , Overkill , Hypocrisy , Y&T , Dokken , TNT , Annihilator , Masterplan , Amon Amarth , Brainstorm , Axxis , Pink Cream 69 , Rob Rock , Bitch , Angel Witch , Destructor , Hirax
2004, 25-26 June
Iced Earth , Alice Cooper , Queensryche , Sebastian Bach , Gotthard , Testament , Children of Bodom , UFO , Anthrax , Magnum , Primal Fear , Death Angel , Blaze , Lillian Ax , Kingdom Come , Omen , Shok Paris , Angel , Ruffians , Ballistic , Cage , Majesty
2005, 24.-25. June
Twisted Sister , Motörhead , Dio , Saxon , Mike Tramp's White Lion , Hanoi Rocks , Doro , UDO , Sebastian Bach , Gamma Ray , Nevermore , Krokus , Axel Rudi Pell , Destruction , Virgin Steele , Amon Amarth , Tankard , Candlemass , Jag Panzer , Morgana Lefay , Exciter , Nasty Savage , Vicious Rumors , Demon
2006, 23–24 June
Whitesnake , In Flames , Foreigner , Stratovarius , Helloween , Y&T , Pretty Maids , Rik Emmett , Jon Oliva's Pain , Death Angel , Unleashed , Armored Saint , Flotsam and Jetsam , Vengeance , Anvil , Leatherwolf , Raven , Victory , Count Raven , Communic , Powerwolf , Hellfueled
2007, 22-23 June
Heaven and Hell feat. Dio , Iommi , Butler & Appice , Edguy , Hammerfall , Amon Amarth , Thunder , WASP , Dark Tranquility , Nazareth , Evergrey , Brainstorm , Vicious Rumors , Finntroll , Lethal , Amorphis , Praying Mantis , Mercenary , Girlschool , Powermad , Wolf , Mystic Prophecy , Adramelch , Archer , Age of Evil
2008, 27.-28. June
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Judas Priest , Saxon , Iced Earth , Queensrÿche , Rage , White Lion , Yngwie Malmsteen , Great White , Ensiferum , Grave Digger , Tankard , Obituary , Onslaught , Korpiklaani , Forbidden , Lizzy Borden , Agent Steel , Secrecy , Breaker , Týr , Age of Evil , Contracrash , Hardcore Superstar (not occurred)
2009, 26.-27. June
Blind Guardian , Journey , WASP , UDO , Y&T , Lita Ford , Exodus , Sodom , Hardcore Superstar , Sacred Reich , Warrior , Primordial , Pink Cream 69 , Voivod , Driver , Ross the Boss , Powerwolf , Kissin 'Dynamite , Lääz Rockit , Alestorm , Cloven Hoof , Hatstik
2010, 16.-17. July
Twisted Sister , Hammerfall , Queensrÿche , Krokus , Doro , Nevermore , Jon Oliva's Pain , Dark Tranquility , Fates Warning , Sabaton , Loudness , Destruction , Anvil , Hades , The Quireboys , Grand Magus , The Haunted , Forbidden , Treat , Artillery , Darkane , Sacred Steel , Dew-Scented , Bullet , Savage Grace , Enforcer , Toxin, The New Black
2011, 15-16 July
Slayer , Accept , Helloween , Immortal , Quiet Riot , Lordi , Amorphis , Sonata Arctica , Pretty Maids , Overkill , Death Angel , Crimson Glory , DAD , Hardcore Superstar , Legion of the Damned , Asphyx , Psychotic Waltz , Desaster , Tygers of Pan Tang , Jeff Scott Soto , Stormwarrior , Portrait , Metal Inquisitor , Astral Doors , Crystal Viper , Crashdïet (never occurred, Human Zoo instead ), Cripper , Ivanhoe
2012, 13.-14. July
Edguy , Venom , Gotthard , Thin Lizzy , Sabaton , Arch Enemy , Kamelot , Primal Fear , Exodus , Primordial , Tankard , Powerwolf , The Devil's Blood , Axxis , Pain , Firewind , Armored Saint , Moonsorrow , Wizard , Suicidal Angels , Diamond Head , Breaker , Vanderbuyst , Warbringer , Sister , Lanfear , Orden Ogan , Forensick , Crashdïet
2013, 12-13 July
Accept , Saxon , Lordi , Iced Earth , Raven , Fleshcrawl , Stratovarius , Pretty Maids , At the Gates , Thunder , Tokyo Blade , Sanctuary , Entombed , Masterplan , HEaT , Rage , Exumer , Morgana Lefay , Die Apokalyptischen Reiter , Angel Witch , Lake of Tears , Fleshcrawl , Hell , Crazy Lixx , Dream Evil , Crematory , Onslaught , Alpha Tiger , Artillery , Rebellious Spirit , Wanted Inc.
2014, 11.-12. July
Twisted Sister , Europe , Axel Rudi Pell & Friends with Steeler -Reunion, Anthrax , Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock , Sebastian Bach , Stryper , Unisonic , Exodus , Obituary , Riot , Rob Rock , Ektomorf , Omen , Grave , Schirenc plays Pungent Stench , The Exalted Piledriver , Kissin 'Dynamite , Warlord , Delain , Mad Max , Atlantean Kodex , More , Evocation , Hirax , Accu§er , Vain , Traitor
2015, 16.-18. July
Accept , Kreator , Arch Enemy , WASP , Y&T , Primordial , Tank , Pretty Maids , Morgana Lefay , Exciter , Hirax , Omen , Tygers of Pan Tang , Dream Theater , Flotsam and Jetsam , Death Angel , Grand Magus , Finntroll , Sabaton , Anvil , Asphyx , Enforcer , Crazy Lixx , Destruction , Exumer , HEaT , Hardcore Superstar , Loudness , Onslaught , Orden Ogan , Portrait , Queensrÿche , Primal Fear , Refuge , Sonata Arctica , Stormwitch , Suicidal Angels , Warrant
2016, 14-16 July
Slayer , Twisted Sister , Carcass , Testament , Uriah Heep , Grave Digger , Candlemass , Metal Church , DragonForce , Nazareth , The Dead Daisies , Great White , Tankard , Girlschool , Crematory , Equilibrium , Ektomorf , Sacred Reich , Tyketto , Impellitteri , Threshold , Unleashed , Dare , Delain , Freedom Call , Manilla Road , Leatherwolf , Satan , Battle Beast , Tigertailz , Babylon AD , Night Demon , Stallion , Black Trip , Warpath , Dirkschneider
2017, 13.-15. July
Almanac , Angelus Apatrida , Assassin , Axxis , Bullet , Crystal Viper , Dead Lord , Demon , Denner / Sherman , Diamond Head , disbelief , Dokken , Eclipse , Entombed AD , Evil Invaders , Firewind , Gloryhammer , Hammerfall , Kataklysm , Killcode , Krokus , Lee Aaron , Magnum , Manegarm , Michael Schenker Fest , Orden Ogan , Paragon , Raven , Riot V , Rose Tattoo , Satyricon , Sepultura , Slaughter , Steve Grimmett's Grim Reaper , Saxon , The Unity , Toxik , Vain , Vicious Rumors , Venom , Vince Neil , Vicious Rumors
2018, 12.-14. July
Accept , Alestorm , Alpha Tiger , Amaranthe , Amorphis , Annihilator , Burning Witches , Cloven Hoof , Crashdïet , Crazy Lixx , Debauchery , Doro , Eclipse , Europe , Exodus , Girlschool , God Dethroned , Hexx , Insomnium , Jag Panzer , Kickin Valentina , Loudness , Mob Rules , Monument , Mystic Prophecy , Night Demon , Overkill , Powerwolf , Pretty Maids , Primal Fear , Primordial , Reckless Love , Refuge , Skeletonwitch , Striker , Tygers of Pan Tang , Visigoth ,
2019, 11-13 July
Armored Saint , Attic , Audrey Horne , Avantasia , Battle Beast , Beast in Black , Brainstorm , Candlemass , Cirith Ungol , Dark Tranquility , Dream Evil , Dust Bolt , Einherjer , Ektomorf , Endlevel , Enforcer , Evergrey , Exhorder , Flotsam and Jetsam , Sons of Sound (as a replacement for Grailknights ), Grave Digger , Hardcore Superstar , I'll Be Damned , Keep of Kalessin , Krokus , Mantar , Metal Church , The Night Flight Orchestra , Omnium Gatherum , Picture , Ram , Ross the Boss , Screamer , Skid Row , Sorcerer , Soulfly , Steel Panther , Stormwarrior , Traitor , Tribulation , Venom Inc. , Visions of Atlantis , Warkings
2020, 16.-18. July
Ace Frehley , Angelus Apatrida , Anthem , Atlantean Kodex , Benediction , Blizzen , Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons , Fifth Angel , Hardcore Superstar , Heathen , The Iron Maidens , Kissin 'Dynamite , Leatherwolf , Legion of the Damned , Lord Vigo , Memoriam , Midnight , Night Demon , Onslaught , Praying Mantis , Rage , Riot V , Shakra , Skull Fist , Snakebite , Space Chaser , Suicidal Angels , Tankard , Unleashed , Victory , Winterstorm
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.htm-magazin.de/Virtual-Issue/HTM-11-LoRes.pdf
- ↑ https://www.zak.de/artikel/details/427159
Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 49.2 " N , 8 ° 50 ′ 43.8" E