Unirock Open Air Festival is an annual summer open-air heavy metal music festival held in Istanbul, Turkey since 2008.
The festival has attracted many international big-name metal bands, such as Testament, Arch Enemy, Opeth, Kreator, Dark Tranquillity, Paradise Lost, and Amon Amarth. Various Middle Eastern and Mediterranean bands have also participated in the event, including Orphaned Land (Israel), Bilocate (Jordan), Arsames (Iran), and Rotting Christ (Greece).
Unirock Open Air Festival
2008 Dates: 20-22 June 2008 Location: Parkorman, Istanbul Running Order: 20 June 2008: Obstinacy, Definitive, Insistence, Affliction, Catafalque, Opeth 21 June 2008: Unleash, Altona, Crossfire, Malt, Orphaned Land, Mezarkabul, Testament 22 June 2008: Prime Object, Heretic Soul, Black Tooth, False in Truth, Moribund Oblivion, Soul Sacrifice, Dark Tranquillity
2009 Warm-up party Dates: 27 March 2009 Location: Bronx, Istanbul Bands: The Haunted
Dates: 17-19 July 2009 Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul Running Order: 17 July 2009: And I Exist, Undertakers, Pickpocket, Rampage, Magilum, Soul Sacrifice, Arch Enemy 18 July 2009: Deathblow, UÇK Grind, One Bullet Left, Catafalque, Rotting Christ, Paradise Lost, Kreator 19 July 2009: Mosh Pit Project, Arsames, Bilocate, Saints'N'Sinners, Episode 13, Firewind, Amon Amarth
Extreme Open Air Festival Dates: 3 October 2009 Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul Bands: Biocrime, Carnophage, Moribund Oblivion, Graveworm, Legion of the Damned, Mezarkabul
2010 Dates: 2-4 July 2010 Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul Running Order: 2 July 2010: Gates of Eternity, Belphegor, Entombed, Behemoth, Overkill, Cannibal Corpse 3 July 2010: None Shall Return, Sabhankra, Sabaton, Necrophagist, Dark Funeral, Grave Digger, Evergrey, Amorphis 4 July 2010: Choler Age, Since Yesterday, Makine, Heaven Shall Burn, Korpiklaani, Obituary, Nevermore
2011 Warm-up party Dates: 8 June 2011 Location: Jolly Joker Balans, Istanbul Bands: August Burns Red
Dates: 9-11 September 2011 Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul Running Order: 9 September 2011: Baht, Azhirock, Apsent, GROZA, Decapitated 10 September 2011: Dream Ocean, Chopstick Suicide, Nitro, Kimaera, Asafated, Orphaned Land 11 September 2011: 5grs, Gürz, Decaying Purity, Undermost, Ascraeus, Vader, Mayhem
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