Dynamo Open Air

The Dynamo Open Air was a music festival in the Netherlands that took place there almost every year from 1986 to 2005.

history

First of all, the number of spectators increased exponentially from year to year: in 1986 there were 5,000 spectators who gathered in the parking lot of the Dynamo Rock Club in Eindhoven to celebrate its 5th anniversary. At the height of the festival's history in 1995, the audience had grown to 118,000 people. Because this led to a significant overload of the infrastructure (including record traffic jams on the access roads), the festival was only approved for 1996 with the condition that a maximum of 60,000 tickets should be sold. From then on, audience numbers dropped and the organizers had constant problems finding a permanent venue.

In 1999 the Dynamo Open Air was held at a former landfill near Eindhoven. In the following year another move to the Goffertpark in Nijmegen was planned . For the first time the festival took place outside the province of Noord-Brabant , for the first time in several years it only lasted one day (before that, the Dynamo had always been a 2 or 3 day festival).

In 2001 the organizers believed they had finally found a place near the town of Lichtenvoorde where the dynamo could find a permanent home. However, the festival had to be canceled due to the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic that had just emerged . The 2002 edition of the festival took place at the venue of the Bospop festival. After the festival was canceled again in 2003, it was able to take place again in Nijmegen in 2004, where it had already been held in 2000. The last festival for the time being took place in 2005 at the location of the Dauwpop festival , with the reunited band Anthrax as the main attraction.

The Dynamo Metal Fest has been held as its successor since 2015 .

Performing bands (selection)

September 7, 1986: Angel Witch , Avalon , Battlezone , The Chariot, Joshua , Onslaught , Satan

June 8, 1987: Destruction , Exumer , Mad Max , Stryper , Testament , Vengeance

May 23, 1988: Candlemass , Exodus , Lääz Rockit , Paradox , Sabbat , Toxik

May 15, 1989: Armored Saint , Forbidden , Holy Moses , Sacred Reich , Savatage

June 4, 1990: Death Angel , Mordred , Sacred Reich , Sepultura , Trouble , Vicious Rumors

May 20, 1991: Armored Saint , Extreme , Metal Church , Morbid Angel , Obituary , Primus , Psychotic Waltz

June 7, 1992: My Sisters Machine , Paradise Lost , Pestilence , Prong , Rollins Band , Skyclad , Mordred ,

29./30. May 1993: Annihilator , Anthrax , Biohazard , Fear Factory , Fudge Tunnel , Gorefest , Kong , Mercyful Fate , Monster Magnet , Nocturnal Rites , Suicidal Tendencies , Temple of the Absurd , Trouble , Wool

21./22. May 1994: Clawfinger , Cynic , Danzig , Die Krupps , Forbidden , Gorefest , Kyuss , Life of Agony , Nerve , Pride & Glory , Prong , Sick of It All , Skyclad , The Organization , Urban Dance Squad , Vicious Rumors , Skintrade

2nd / 3rd / 4th June 1995: 35007 , Biohazard , Blitz Babies , Brotherhood Foundation , Crash Worship , Dog Eat Dog , downset. , Dub War , Earth Crisis , Eleven Pictures , Fear Factory , Grip Inc. , Hate Squad , Horace Pinker , Life of Agony , Machine Head , Madball , Mary Beats Jane , Mental Hippie Blood , Motorpsycho , My Dying Bride , Nailbomb , Nevermore , No Fun At All , NRA , Orange 9mm , Overdose , Paradise Lost , Rape , Rich Kids On LSD , Schweisser , Shihad , Skyclad , Snapcase , Strawman , Sun , Tiamat , Trouble , Type O Negative , Undeclinable Ambuscade , Warrior Soul , Waving Corn , Cradle of Filth

24./25./26. May 1996: 59 Times the Pain , 7Zuma7 , Altar , Anathema , Bambix , Channel Zero , CIV , Cooper , Dog Eat Dog , Down by Law , Dreamgrinder , Eboman , Frozen Sun , Galactic Cowboys , Gorefest , Gurd , H2O , Merauder , Millencolin , Neurosis , NRA , Orphanage , Osdorp Posse & Nembrionic , Pennywise , Pitchshifter , Pro-Pain , Ryker’s , Sacred Reich , Satanic Surfers , Savatage , Skippies , Skrew , Slapshot , Slayer , Spiritual Beggars , Strung Out , Stuck Mojo , The Exploited , The Gathering , Unsane , Venom , Voivod , White Devil

16./17./18. May 1997: $ 400 Suits , Amorphis , Backfire! , Coal Chamber , Cradle of Filth , Deviates , Dimmu Borgir , Discipline , Entombed , Exodus , Goddess of Desire , Helmet (Band) , I Against I , Karma to Burn , Keaton , Korn , Laberinto , Machine Head , Marilyn Manson , Moonspell , Ni Hao , Occult , Orphanage , Pist. On , Rage , Samael , Satyricon , Secret Discovery , Sentenced , Sick of It All , Skinlab , Slo Burn , Slyce , SNFU , Sundown , Testament , Therion , Thumb , Tiamat , Totenmond , Type O Negative , Vision of Disorder , Voodoo Glow Skulls , Within Temptation

29./30./31. May 1998: 25 Ta Life , 7 Zuma 7 , Agnostic Front , Atrocity , Blind Guardian , Cathedral , Coal Chamber , Cold , The Kovenant , Death , Deftones , Dimmu Borgir , Emperor , Enslaved , Far , Fates Warning , Fu Manchu , Good Riddance , Hammerfall , Hatebreed , (hed) pe , Helloween , Iced Earth , Ignite , Immortal , In Flames , Incubus , Insane Clown Posse , Junkie XL , Kreator , Life of Agony , Limp Bizkit , Masters of Reality , Misfits , Oomph! , Orange Goblin , Pantera , Primal Fear , Pro-Pain , Rammstein , Refused , Saxon , Sevendust , sHeavy , Soulfly , Spiritual Beggars , Strapping Young Lad , Stratovarius , Stuck Mojo , Tech-9 , Theater of Tragedy , The Hellacopters , Think About Mutation , Tom Angelripper , Tura Satana , Within Temptation , Zebrahead

21./22./23. May 1999: 59 Times the Pain , Anathema , Angra , Apocalyptica , Arch Enemy , Atari Teenage Riot , Biohazard , Black Label Society , Cage , Cradle of Filth , Cryptopsy , Cubanate , Darkane , De Heideroosjes , Dimmu Borgir , Fear Factory , Gamma Ray , Gluecifer , God Dethroned , Grip Inc. , Hypocrisy , In Extremo , Labyrinth , Lacuna Coil , Loudness , Madball , Manowar , Marduk , Merauder , Mercyful Fate , Meshuggah , Metallica , Monster Magnet , Nashville Pussy , Nebula , Nevermore , Nile , Nocturnal Rites , Out, Overkill , Peter Pan Speedrock , Pitchshifter , Run Devil Run , Stormtroopers of Death , Sodom , Spineshank , Static-X , System of a Down , The Gathering , The Haunted , Therion (with orchestra), Trail of Tears , Troopers , Zeke

June 3, 2000: Destruction , Immortal , Iron Maiden , Kittie , Korn , Mayhem , POD , Sentenced , Slipknot , Spiritual Beggars , Suicidal Tendencies , Testament , The Kovenant , Zeke

July 14, 2002: Autumn , Biohazard , Children of Bodom , Death Angel , Dropkick Murphys , Finntroll , Hermano , Opeth , Pain of Salvation , Peter Pan Speedrock , Soulfly , Strapping Young Lad , Within Temptation , Zimmer Hole

June 5, 2004: After Forever , Agent Steel , Children of Bodom , Deicide , Dimmu Borgir , Ill Niño , Life of Agony , Mastodon , Nightwish , Oomph! , Shadows Fall , Slayer , Soulfly

May 7, 2005: 3 Inches of Blood , Anthrax , Evergrey , Gorefest , Jon Oliva's Pain , Lääz Rockit , Masterplan , Mercenary , Obituary , Still Remains , Testament , Trivium .