Reload Festival

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Reload Festival
Amon Amarth at the Reload Festival 2017
Amon Amarth at the Reload Festival 2017
General information
place Sulingen , Lower Saxony
genre Rock , metal , punk rock , hardcore punk
Website www.Reload-Festival.de
Visitor numbers
2011 > 8000
2013 7500
2015 6500
2016 > 10000
2017 > 10000
2018 > 12000
2019 approx. 12500

The Reload Festival has been an open-air rock festival in Lower Saxony every year since 2006 in the summer months on two days, between 2009 and 2013 on three days , which was initially held in Twistringen (like a previous indoor event that was held in 2003) , and then in Sulingen since 2011 . Billy Idol (2010), Limp Bizkit , Hatebreed and Papa Roach (2011) have been named as leading participants in recent years .

History & Terrain

Festival site 2012

The Reload Festival started for the first time in 2003 as an indoor event in Twistringen. For 2006 it was decided to move the festival outside and selected the area of ​​the "old brickworks". The festival was also extended to three days. In the same year international artists such as Dog Eat Dog played alongside national bands such as the Donots or Emil Bulls for the first time. At the festival's five-year anniversary in 2010, Billy Idol headlined alongside the German band The BossHoss .

In 2014 the festival, which the organizers organize on a voluntary basis, was canceled because not enough professional supporters or investors could be found. The festival took place again in 2015, but the number of performing artists was lower than in previous years, and the period had also been shortened by one day. The expected number of visitors was nevertheless far exceeded. On Thursday evening, the rush to the available camping areas was so great that two more alternative areas, including sanitary facilities and lighting, were set up overnight with the support of the city of Sulingen. Black Stone Cherry's appearance was canceled because they got lost on the way to the festival. The 11th festival (2016) took place in midsummer temperatures and posted a new visitor record. Thanks to the deployment of various rescue workers and the local fire brigade, who sprinkled visitors with water to cool off, there were no significant incidents. In 2018 the festival was completely sold out for the first time shortly before the start with over 12,000 visitors.

Infrastructure (2017)

More than 220 toilets were available for the more than 10,000 paying visitors, five of which were barrier-free.

The installed electrical output has been 3.2 megawatts since 2016 , which corresponds to around 53,000 light bulbs. A total of 10 kilometers of power cables were laid. In addition, 14 diesel emergency generators and 22 light masts were required.

A total of around 260 employees work for the festival, plus ten forklifts, a telescopic loader, two wheel loaders and a tractor.

15 nightliners and five production trucks were available for the 29 bands with 200 artists and crew .

Impressions from the Reload Festival 2016

  • Festival site - Reload Festival 2016 11.jpg
  • Festival site - Reload Festival 2016 02.jpg

Dates and bands

Dates and bands that took part in the Reload Festival or have been announced for the next edition.

date Visitors Line up
21./22. July 2006 ? Donots , Dog Eat Dog , Emil Bulls , Snoozebutton, Superstarfuckers, Semtax, Adjudgement, 3rd Reverse, Gallmucke, Mueca, Crushing Caspars , Arson , My Enemies. 12, Mistakes, Sepcys.
29./30. July 2007 ? H-Blockx , Lamb of God , ( Static-X failed), Chimaira , Unearth , Caliban , 4Lyn , Fear My Thoughts , Fire in the Attic , Snoozebutton, RYOT, Butterfly Coma, President Evil , Poverty's No Crime , Maintain , Last One Dying, Accessory, Psychodaisy, Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Ragemachine.
4th / 5th July 2008 ? Tito & Tarantula , Ten Years After , 4Lyn , Wirtz , Grantig , Kings & Killers, Melophobia, Tomorrow never Knows, Voodoo Lounge, Dirty Deeds, Weissglut , Die Toten Ärzte.
3rd to 5th July 2009 ? Bloodhound Gang , Manfred Mann's Earth Band , Anthrax , Torfrock , 4Lyn , Itchy Poopzkid , Emil Bulls , Wirtz , The Sorrow , One Fine Day , Superstarfuckers, Accessary, SSK, Jonathan Sprangler, Chinaski.
2-4 July 2010 ? Billy Idol , The BossHoss , Selig , Sepultura , Everlast , DevilDriver , Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, Ten Years After , Extrabreit , Die Happy , Walls of Jericho , Callejon , Smoke Blow , Mustasch , Itchy Poopzkid , Disco Ensemble , The Sorrow , Luxuslärm , Dimple Minds , Fiddler's Green , Death by Stereo , Bakkushan , Evergreen Terrace , Wirtz , The Durango Riot , Kongo Skulls, Kings and Killers, Mueca
1st - 3rd July 2011 > 8000 Limp Bizkit , Hatebreed , Papa Roach , Agnostic Front , Blood for Blood , Ill Niño , Soilwork , Terror , Skindred , The Bones , Luxuslärm , 4Lyn , The Ghost Inside , Deez Nuts , Emil Bulls , Wirtz , Fiddler's Green , Mr. Irish Bastard , Fozzy , steam engine.
15-17 June 2012 ? Dropkick Murphys , The BossHoss , Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators, Parkway Drive , Guano Apes , Subway to Sally , Enter Shikari , Soulfly , Biohazard , JBO , August Burns Red , Madball , Puddle of Mudd , Walls of Jericho , Ugly Kid Joe , Die Kassierer , Unearth , H₂O , Dog Eat Dog , Itchy Poopzkid , Evergreen Terrace , We Butter the Bread with Butter , Street Dogs , Your Demise , Stick to Your Guns , Eyes Set to Kill , Prime Circle , Godsized, Eskimo Callboy , Bulletmonks, Pride Shall Fall; Evil Jared as an after-show DJ.
5th-7th July 2013 7500 Airbourne , Hatebreed , The Gaslight Anthem , Papa Roach , At the Gates , Donots , Sick of It All , Caliban , Skindred , Terror , Betontod , Slime , Red Fang , Emil Bulls , Kadavar , Between the Buried and Me , The Sword , Eskimo Callboy , Iwrestledabearonce , Monsters of Liedermaching , Massendefekt , Fiddler's Green , Vanna , Pascow , Dimple Minds , Hacktivist , Steam Engine , Marathonman , Kmpfsprt , Crushing Caspars , A Traitor Like Judas , Gasmac Gilmore , Spitfire , Silent Screams , Vitja , Crutch, Into the Wild , Bonez, Quiron, Direkt , The Flaming Cucumbers; Motörhead canceled at short notice.
2014 failed
7th / 8th August 2015 > 6500 In Flames , Dropkick Murphys , Kreator , Flogging Molly , KIZ , Enter Shikari , Callejon , ( Black Stone Cherry failed), Architects , Eskimo Callboy , Ignite , Blues Pills , Madball , Beyond the Black , Born from Pain , Mr. Irish Bastard , Death by Stereo , Watch Out Stampede , Mantar , GWLT , UMC (Warm-Up Party August 6th)
26./27. August 2016 > 9900 Limp Bizkit , Five Finger Death Punch , Airbourne , Arch Enemy , Comeback Kid , Die Kassierer , Dog Eat Dog , Emil Bulls , Fear Factory , FJØRT , Hatebreed , Agnostic Front , Itchy Poopzkid , Monsters of Liedermaching , Sodom , Steak Number Eight, Stick to Your Guns , ( Terror canceled), ( Unearth canceled), Adept , Burning Down Alaska , Das Pack , Watch Out Stampede , Friday Flashback, As We Arise - Warm-Up Party on August 25th: Dimple Minds , Unleash the Sky, Snooze button
25./26. August 2017 > 10000 Amon Amarth , Betontod , Caliban , Whitechapel , Massendefekt , Mr. Irish Bastard , Heaven Shall Burn, Life of Agony, Trivium, Terror, Anti-Flag, August Burns Red, Knorkator, The New Roses , Any Given Day, Bury Tomorrow, The Charm the Fury, Max Raptor, TuXedoo , Skindred - Warm-Up Party on August 24th: Antillectual, First Blood , Rogers , As We Arise and While She Sleeps
24./25. August 2018 > 12000 Papa Roach , In Flames , Eskimo Callboy , Flogging Molly , Kreator , Mantar , Sick of It All , Sepultura , Beartooth , DevilDriver , DragonForce , Madball , Torfrock , Deez Nuts , Mr. Hurley & die Pulveraffen , Pro-Pain , The Night Flight Orchestra , Prong , Ryker’s , Street Dogs , Kaiser Franz Josef , Booze & Glory , Red County Jail, Watch Out Stampede , Walking Dead on Broadway, John Diva & the Rockets of Love, Powerslave - Warm-Up Party on August 23: Annisokay , A Traitor Like Judas , Counterparts , Ze Gran Zeft, ZSK
22.-24. August 2019 approx. 12500 Sabaton , Bullet for My Valentine , Airbourne , Hatebreed , Of Mice & Men , Clawfinger , Lordi , While She Sleeps , Soilwork , Bury Tomorrow , Sondaschule , Agnostic Front , Ignite , Emil Bulls , Backyard Babies , Walls of Jericho , Nasty , Dog Eat Dog , Massendefekt , Jinjer , Any Given Day , Monsters of Liedermaching , Eyes Set to Kill , Evergreen Terrace , Thundermother , SETYØURSAILS, Evil Jared Hasselhoff , Radio Havanna , Cutthroat, Pressure Recall, COPIA, Bullseye, The Creapers, POWERSLAVE - Iron Maiden Tribute , AC / Dynamite, Strength - Pantera Experience, Mürderhead - Tribute to Motörhead
13-15 August 2020 canceled Amon Amarth , Architects , As I Lay Dying , The Black Dahlia Murder , Black Inhale , Bloodywood , Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons plays Motörhead , Controversial , Crushing Caspars , Cypecore , Dark Tranquility , Darkest Hour , Dirty Shirt , Emily Falls , Eskimo Callboy , Fever 333 , Gloryhammer , Grave Pleasures , Heavysaurus , H2O , I Prevail , Jinjer , the cashier , neighborhood Live, Lacuna coil , Life of Agony , Mr. Irish bastard , Municipal Waste , Our Hollow Our Home , Perkele , Plain Ride , pro- Pain , Russkaja , Sibiir , Smoke Blow , Static-X , Stray from the Path , Superstarfuckers, Tankard , Tears for Beers , Terror , Watch Out Stampede , 100 Kilo Herz

Web links

Commons : Reload Festival  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 15.5 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 48 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bildzeitung Moin Moin Billy Idol
  2. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung - Reload-festival 2012
  3. ↑ a b In 2014 there was no “Reload” festival. In: Kreiszeitung. January 8, 2014. From Kreiszeitung.de, accessed January 15, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Reload 2015: facts and figures. Press release of the organizer from August 9, 2015 (accessed on August 12, 2015)
  5. ↑ Press release from the organizer
  6. ↑ Reload Festival announces its very first sell-out. In: MC News. August 23, 2018. From MoreCore.de, accessed January 15, 2019.
  7. ↑ Press release of the organizer of August 26, 2017 (accessed on August 26, 2017)
  8. ↑ Reload 2016: On record course with 10,000 visitors , Kreiszeitung, August 28 , 2016, accessed on August 29, 2016
  9. ↑ "Sulingen is Reload and Reload is Sulingen". Kreiszeitung, August 24, 2019, accessed on September 10, 2019 .