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Dynamo Open Air is a festival in the Netherlands that was held (almost) every year between 1986 and 2005. It was reborn in 2008 as Dynamo Outdoor and in 2015 as Dynamo Metal Fest.
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 Mad Sin, Anathema and Born From Pain performing. The festival was once again held in Eindhoven in the following year, with Destine, Stahlzeit, Asphyx, Textures, The Butcher and Municipal Waste on the bill.
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.
In 1995, Nailbomb had their performance recorded at the festival and it was released as Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide the same year it was recorded. It was released by Roadrunner Records In 2005, live footage of the performance was released on DVD and it was called Live at Dynamo. It was also released by Roadrunner Records. In May 1998, guest band Death recorded stock footage of their performance. Three years later, in an effort to raise money to pay for Chuck Schuldiner's cancer treatment, the footage was limitedly released in October 2001 by Nuclear Blast on CD and DVD formats under the name Live In Eindhoven, two months before Schuldiner's ultimate demise.
| Sunday September 7 | ||
Joshua | ||
Cancelled shows : Lääz Rockit
| Monday June 8 | ||
Cancelled shows : Agent Steel (replaced by Testament)
| Monday May 23 | ||
Exodus | ||
| Monday May 15 | ||
Savatage | ||
| Monday June 4 | ||
Death Angel | ||
| Monday May 20 | ||
Metal Church | ||
| Sunday June 7 | ||
Prong | ||
| Saturday May 29 | ||
Anthrax | ||
| Sunday May 30 | ||
Mercyful Fate | ||
| Friday May 20 (Warm-Up) | ||
Forbidden | ||
| Saturday May 21 | ||
Prong | ||
| Sunday May 22 | ||
Danzig | ||
| Friday June 2 | ||
| Campsite | Skatefest | |
|---|---|---|
Tiamat | Rich Kids on LSD | |
| Saturday June 3 | ||
| Mainstage | Skatefest | Campsite |
|---|---|---|
Paradise Lost | Absconded | |
| Sunday June 4 | ||
| Mainstage | Skatefest | |
|---|---|---|
Biohazard | Orange 9mm | |
| Friday May 24 | ||
| Campsite | Skatefest | |
|---|---|---|
Neurosis | ||
| Saturday May 25 | ||
| Mainstage | Skatefest | |
|---|---|---|
Venom | Down by Law | |
| Sunday May 26 | ||
| Mainstage | Skatefest | |
|---|---|---|
Slayer | Shelter | |
Cancelled shows : Halford (replaced by Sacred Reich)
| Friday May 16 | ||
| Campsite | Skatefest | |
|---|---|---|
Rockbitch | ||
| Saturday May 17 | ||
| Mainstage | Campsite | Skatefest |
|---|---|---|
Type O Negative | Rage The Black Stage | |
| Sunday May 18 | ||
| Mainstage | Skatefest | |
|---|---|---|
Tiamat | ||
| Friday May 29 | ||
| The Gallery | Skatefest | |
|---|---|---|
Atrocity | Pro-Pain | |
| Saturday May 30 | ||
| Mainstage | The Gallery | Skatefest |
|---|---|---|
Rammstein | The Factory The Kovenant In Flames | Brotherhood Foundation |
| Sunday May 31 | ||
| Mainstage | The Gallery | Skatefest |
|---|---|---|
Pantera | Power Pack Space Jam | Misfits |
Cancelled shows : Fear Factory (replaced by Death), Human Waste Project (replaced by Ultraspank) and Limp Bizkit (replaced by Psycore).
| Friday May 21 | ||
| The Gallery | Skatefest | |
|---|---|---|
Dark Symphonies Sodom | Madball | |
| Saturday May 22 | ||
| Mainstage | The Gallery | Skatefest |
|---|---|---|
Manowar | The Factory The Gore Zone Trail of Tears | Ryker's |
| Sunday May 23 | ||
| Mainstage | The Gallery | Maximum Overdrive |
|---|---|---|
Metallica | The Power Pack The Black Stage | Gluecifer |
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.
| Saturday June 3 | ||
| Main Stage | Tent Stage | |
|---|---|---|
Iron Maiden | Immortal | |
Cancelled bands : Entombed (replaced by Destruction)
Festival cancelled due to the threat of foot and mouth disease.
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.
Tool scheduled a headlining show at 013 in Tilburg on the day they were supposed to play, while Slipknot and few other bands played a "mini-festival" at Maaspoort in Den Bosch on May 25. Soulfly played more club shows in the Netherlands.
| Sunday July 14 | ||
| Main Stage | Tent Stage | |
|---|---|---|
Soulfly | Children of Bodom | |
Festival cancelled. No bands announced.
| Saturday June 5 | ||
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 | |
|---|---|---|
Slayer | Dimmu Borgir | |
| Saturday May 7 | ||
| Stage 1 | Stage 2 | |
|---|---|---|
Anthrax | ||
| Saturday July 18 | ||
Arch Enemy | ||
| Saturday July 16 | ||
Anthrax | ||
| Saturday July 15 | ||
Gojira | ||
| Saturday July 14 | ||
Ghost | ||
| Friday July 19 | ||
| Saturday July 20 | ||
Arch Enemy | ||
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.
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.
| Saturday August 20 | ||
Vended Dress the Dead TankZilla | ||
| Sunday August 21 | ||
Bay Area Interthrashional Lik Urne | ||
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