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Nova Rock Festival
Music festival in Austria
Music festival in Austria
| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Nova Rock | ||
| image | [[File:20140615-150-Nova Rock 2014.JPG | 250px | Blue Stage at Nova Rock 2014]] |
| location | Nickelsdorf, Austria | ||
| years_active | 2005–2019, 2022–present | ||
| dates | Usually first weekend in June | ||
| genre | Hard rock, Heavy metal, Punk rock | ||
| website |
The Nova Rock Festival, also just Nova Rock, is an Austrian rock festival that has existed since 2005 and takes place each year in June. It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria, near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders. It is organized by Nova Music Entertainment, a cooperation between Musicnet, FKP Scorpio and several former employees/bookers of Wiesen, who left Wiesen in 2004.
The festival was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2005 lineup
Die Ärzte, Audioslave, Bad Acid Trip, Beatsteaks, BoySetsFire, Core, Green Day, In Extremo, La Vela Puerca, Mando Diao, Marilyn Manson, Moneybrother, Nightwish, The Prodigy, Soulfly, System of a Down, Weezer, Wir sind Helden
| The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster | Exilia |
|---|
2006 lineup
The 2006 Nova Rock festival was held from 15 to 17 June (Thursday to Saturday). It was the first year that the festival had two large stages (blue and red). The first bands announced on the Nova Rock homepage were: Guns N' Roses, Placebo, Metallica, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Massive Attack, Motörhead, Madsen, Billy Talent, Hard-Fi, Guadalajara, Seeed, Bodyrockers, She Male Trouble, Sportfreunde Stiller, Lagwagon, Subway to Sally and Julia.
| Unheilig |
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Originally Korn were announced to play the festival, but had to cancel it, as well as the "Nova Rock Encore", a concert in Vienna which they were expected to play with Deftones, Soulfly and Devildriver.
2007 lineup
Nova Rock Festival 2007 took place from 15 to 17 June with the following lineup:
Headliners: Billy Talent, The Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, Pearl Jam, Slayer, The Killers,
The festival also consisted of bands including: Linkin Park, Machine Head, In Flames, Papa Roach, Reel Big Fish, Incubus, Mando Diao, The Hives, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Children of Bodom, Less Than Jake, Flogging Molly, Mastodon, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Isis, Aiden, In Extremo, Ill Niño, Within Temptation, Hayseed Dixie, The BossHoss and Chimaira.
| Under the Influence of Giants | In This Moment | Across the Delta | DevilDriver | TBA | Spout |
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2008 lineup
Confirmed lineup:
| ZOX | Die Mannequin | Vanilla Sky | The Sorrow | Fire in the Attic | Spout |
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2009 lineup

Confirmed bands as of 4 April 2009:
| Xenesthis | No Head on My Shoulders | Zeronic | Rolo Tomassi | Centao | Kontrust |
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2010 lineup

Date: 11. - 13. June 2010 Confirmed bands as of 23 November 2009:
| Dillinger Escape Plan | The Gogets | Calibro 35 | Cynic | Creature with the Atom Brain |
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2011 lineup
Date: 11. - 13. June 2011 Confirmed bands:
| Crash Kings | Blood Command | Seek & Destroy | Sister Sin | Kellermensch | Adept |
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Special Late Night Attraction
2012 lineup
Date: 08. - 10. June 2012 Confirmed bands:
| Gun | WBTBWB | Devin Townsend | Shinedown | While She Sleeps | AxeWound |
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Canceled due to storm.
2013 lineup
Date: 14. - 16. June 2013 Confirmed bands:
| Fidlar | Wendi's Böhmische Blasmusik |
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2014 lineup
| Wendi's böhmische Blasmusik |
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2015 lineup
Date: 12. - 14. June 2015
| Blue Stage | Red Stage | Red Bull Brandwagen Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 12. June | 13. June | 14. June |
| Scooter | Wolfgang Ambros | Slipknot |
| Mötley Crüe | Die Toten Hosen | Motörhead |
| Lamb of God | Die Fantastischen Vier | Five Finger Death Punch |
| Mastodon | Kraftklub | Hollywood Undead |
| Parkway Drive | Rea Garvey | All That Remains |
| Godsmack | Frank Turner | Eluveitie |
| Life of Agony | L7 | Powerwolf |
| Deathstars | Blues Pills | Beyond the Black |
| Turbobier |
2016 lineup
Date: 10. - 12. June 2016
| Wendi's Böhmische Blasmusik |
|---|
2017 lineup

Date: 14. - 17. June 2017
| Avatar | Wendi's Böhmische Blasmusik |
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2018 lineup
Date: 14. - 17. June 2018
| Voting Act |
|---|
| Ego Kill Talent | Black Cage | Dream Owner |
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2019 lineup
Date: 13. - 16. June 2019
| Schmutzki | To the Rats & Wolves |
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| Coperniquo | Nothing, Nowhere. | Planet Music Act TBC |
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2022 lineup
Date: 09. - 12. June 2022
2022 was the first festival since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Attempts were made to organize the festival in both 2020 and 2021, but were inevitably cancelled due to concerns with the virus.
| Blues Pills |
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| Daniel Smith | Duo JLP | K.Wiena |
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2023 lineup
Date: 07. - 10. June 2023
| Wendi's Blasmusik |
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| FIIO | Cil City | Shatterfly | Voting act |
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2024 lineup
The Nova Rock 2024 festival took place from June 13 to 16. Headliners were Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold, Måneskin, and Bring Me the Horizon, though Avril Lavigne, The Sisters of Mercy, and Alice Cooper were also in the line ups. Unlike previous years, only the Blue and Red Bull Music stages were played during the last day of the festival.
According to festival organizers, the four festival days attracted around 200,000 attendees.
| Wargasm |
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| Mudfight |
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2025
The 2025 festival is scheduled to take place from June 11 to 14, 2025. On June 13 of 2024, Slipknot, Electric Callboy, Wanda, The Warning, and Lorna Shore were announced for the 19th iteration of the festival.
| The Fleur | The Generation | The Attic | Velvet Wasted |
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References
References
- Henderson, Lisa. (18 October 2023). "NOVA ROCK ADDS FOURTH DAY FOR 2024 EDITION".
- red, burgenland ORF at. (2020-04-06). "Nova Rock im Juni abgesagt".
- "Nova-Rock-Festival 2021 wegen Corona-Situation abgesagt".
- (2022-03-17). "Das Nova Rock ohne COVID-19-Maßnahmen ist keine gute Idee".
- Staff. "Nova Rock Still Taking Place {{!}} Rockers Den".
- (2020-09-25). "Nova Rock Announces 2021 Lineup Featuring System of a Down, Bring Me the Horizon, Muse and More -".
- red, burgenland ORF at/Agenturen. (2023-11-03). "Nova Rock mit Green Day und Maneskin".
- red, burgenland ORF at. (2024-06-17). "Nova Rock 2024: Positive Bilanz".
- (2024-06-14). "Nova Rock 2025: 4 Bands für 2025 & Vorverkaufsstart".
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