Gods of Metal was the biggest Italian metal festival, held annually from 1997 to 2016. It took place in early summer, usually on the first or second weekend of June. It was most often held at venues in or near Milan, but took place in Bologna three times and one time in Turin. It was acquired by Live Nation in 2010.What You Didn't Know About Live Nation's Growth in 2010
Lineups
1997 Held on June 7 at Palavobis in Milan.
Saturday 7 JuneManowar Angra Rage Grave Digger Moonspell Time Machine Eldritch
1998 Held on June 6 at Forum Open Air Arena in Milan.
Saturday 6 JuneBlack Sabbath Pantera Helloween Stratovarius Gamma Ray Blind Guardian Iced Earth Coal Chamber Labyrinth
1999 Held on June 5 and June 6 at Forum Open Air Arena in Assago-Milan.
Saturday 5 JuneSunday 6 JuneMetallica Stratovarius Mercyful Fate Biohazard Overkill Monster Magnet Space Age Playboys Lacuna Coil Cappanera PWR Manowar Motörhead Angra HammerFall Iron Savior Nevermore Labyrinth Time Machine Skyclad Avalon Headstone Epitaph
2000 Held on June 10 and June 11 at Stadio Brianteo in Monza.
Saturday 10 JuneSunday 11 JuneIron Maiden Demons and Wizards Dark Tranquillity Sentenced Edguy Domine Dirty Deeds Khali Theatres des VampiresSlayer Slipknot Methods of Mayhem Testament In Flames The Kovenant Death SS Necrodeath Magazzini Della Comunicazione
2001 Held on June 9 at Palavobis in Milan.
Saturday 9 JuneJudas Priest Megadeth Savatage Motörhead Gamma Ray Cradle of Filth Rhapsody W.A.S.P. Nevermore Kamelot Wine Spirit Eldritch Benediction Beholder Sungift Secret Sphere Centurion Sigma
2002 Held on June 8 and June 9 at Stadio Brianteo in Monza.
Saturday 8 JuneSunday 9 JuneSlayer Rammstein (cancelled) Halford Kreator Sodom My Dying Bride SOiL Ill Niño Anti-Product Mushroomhead Node Manowar Blind Guardian Running Wild Shaman Symphony X Virgin Steele Domine Doro Metalium Blaze Time Machine
2003 Held on June 8 at Palavobis in Milan.
Sunday 8 JuneWhitesnake Queensrÿche Motörhead Saxon Destruction Grave Digger Angra Pain of Salvation Vision Divine Thoten Mantra DGM Madhouse
2004 Held on June 5 and June 6 at Arena Parco Nord in Bologna.
Saturday 5 JuneSunday 6 JuneJudas Priest Stratovarius UFO Nevermore Symphony X Anathema Rage Domine Into Eternity Dark Lunacy Alice Cooper Testament Motörhead Twisted Sister W.A.S.P. Quireboys Sodom Naglfar Stormlord Through Solace DragonForce
Due to heavy rain, the UFO concert was cancelled and Stratovarius played the next day, between the Quireboys and W.A.S.P.
2005 Held on June 11 and June 12 at Arena Parco Nord in Bologna.
Saturday 11 JuneSunday 12 June Iron Maiden Slayer Lacuna Coil Obituary Strapping Young Lad DragonForce Mastodon Mudvayne Evergrey Mötley Crüe Megadeth Anthrax Accept Yngwie Malmsteen Black Label Society HammerFall Extrema Exilia
2006 Held on June 1-June 4 at Idroscalo in Milan.
Thursday 1 JuneFriday 2 JuneSaturday 3 JuneSunday 4 JuneVenom Dimmu Borgir (cancelled) Opeth Down Testament Nevermore Satyricon Sodom Amorphis Cappanera Strana Officina Fire Trails Extrema Vision Divine Necrodeath Domine Novembre Stormlord Infernal Poetry White Skull Mellowtoy Boom Perfect PictureWhitesnake Def Leppard Motörhead Helloween Stratovarius Gamma Ray Angra Edguy Sonata Arctica Crucified BarbaraGuns N' Roses Korn Deftones Alice in Chains Stone Sour Soulfly Bloodsimple DragonForce Hellfueled Benedictum 10 Years
2007 Held on June 2, June 3 and June 30 at Idroscalo in Milan.
Saturday 2 JuneSunday 3 JuneSaturday 30 JuneMötley Crüe Velvet Revolver Scorpions Thin Lizzy White Lion Tigertailz Eldritch Planet HardHeaven & Hell Dream Theater Blind Guardian Dimmu Borgir Dark Tranquillity Symphony X Anathema DGMOzzy Osbourne Korn Megadeth Black Label Society Type O Negative Sadist Deathstars Slowmotion Apocalypse
2008 Held on June 27, June 28 and June 29 at Arena Parco Nord in Bologna Friday 27 JuneSaturday 28 JuneSunday 29 JuneIron Maiden Avenged Sevenfold Rose Tattoo Apocalyptica Airbourne Lauren Harris Black Tide KingcrowSlayer Carcass Meshuggah Testament At the Gates The Dillinger Escape Plan Between the Buried and Me Stormlord Brain DeadJudas Priest Iced Earth Yngwie Malmsteen Morbid Angel Obituary Enslaved Fratello Metallo Infernal Poetry Nightmare
2009
Held on June 27 and June 28 at Stadio Brianteo in Monza
Saturday 27 June Sunday 28 JuneL StageR Stage (Crüe Fest Stage)L StageR StageHeaven and Hell Queensrÿche Edguy Epica Voivod ExtremaMötley Crüe Tesla Lita Ford Marty Friedman Backyard Babies Lauren HarrisDream Theater Blind Guardian Tarja Turunen Saxon (cancelled) Cynic Black Dahlia MurderSlipknot Carcass Down Mastodon Napalm Death Static-X
2010
Held on June 25, June 26 and June 27 at Parco della Certosa Reale in Collegno
Stage 1 25 June26 June27 JuneKillswitch Engage Fear Factory DevilDriver As I Lay Dying Atreyu Job for a Cowboy Unearth 36 CrazyfistsLordi Amon Amarth Raven Exodus Behemoth Orphaned Land Sadist Ex DeoMotörhead Bullet for My Valentine Cannibal Corpse U.D.O. Saxon Devin Townsend Project Labyrinth Sabaton
Stage 2
25 June26 June27 JuneAmphitrium Dragonia Death ArmyNashwuah Subhuman KaledonSoulfly Van Canto Anvil
2011
Held on 22 June at Arena Fiera, Rho
Judas Priest Whitesnake Europe Mr. Big Cradle of Filth Epica Duff McKagan's Loaded Cavalera Conspiracy Baptized in Blood
2012 Held on 21, 22, 23 and 24 June at Arena Fiera, Rho
21 June22 June23 June24 JuneManowar Children of Bodom Amon Amarth Unisonic Cannibal Corpse HolyHell Adrenaline Mob Arthemis ClairvoyantsGuns N' Roses Within Temptation Sebastian Bach Killswitch Engage Black Stone Cherry Rival Sons Soulfly Ugly Kid Joe AxeWound Cancer BatsMötley Crüe Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators The Darkness Gotthard Hardcore Superstar Black Veil Brides Lizzy Borden PlanethardOzzy and Friends Opeth Black Label Society Lamb of God Trivium DevilDriver August Burns Red Kobra and the Lotus I Killed the Prom Queen
2016 Held on 2 June at Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza 2 JuneRammstein Korn Megadeth Sixx:A.M. Gamma Ray Halestorm The Shrine Jeff Angell's Staticland Planethard Overtures
References
External links
Official website