Rock am Ring and Rock im Park
The Rock am Ring (German for "Rock at the Ring") and Rock im Park ("Rock in the Park") festivals are two simultaneous rock music festivals held annually. While Rock am Ring takes place at the Nürburgring race track, Rock im Park takes place at the Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg.
Rock am Ring and Rock im Park
Usually first weekend in June
Rock am Ring: Nürburgring, Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Rock im Park: Zeppelinfeld, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
1985–2019, 2022–present
Rock am Ring: rock-am-ring
Rock im Park: rock-im-park
Sharing nearly identical lineups, the two festivals are usually regarded as one event. All artists perform one day at the Nürburgring and another day in Nuremberg during the three-day event. There have been minor exceptions in the past years where an artist would be announced for one of the festivals only. Combined, Rock im Park and Rock am Ring are the largest music festivals held in Germany and one of the largest in the world with a combined attendance of over 150,000 people in 2007, selling out both events in advance for the first time.[2]
2008 festival[edit]
The 2008 festival took place on 6–8 June 2008. 91 acts have been officially confirmed. Both festivals were sold out on 1 May.
Confirmed acts:
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3 Doors Down (replacing Chris Cornell, who backed out to record an album[14]), 36 Crazyfists, Against Me!, Airbourne, Alpha Galates, Alter Bridge, Animal Alpha, Babyshambles, Bad Religion, Bedouin Soundclash, the Black Dahlia Murder, Black Stone Cherry, Black Tide, Bloodlights, Booka Shade, Bullet for My Valentine, CSS, Cavalera Conspiracy, Chiodos, Coheed and Cambria, Culcha Candela, Danko Jones, Die Toten Hosen, Dimmu Borgir, Disco Ensemble, Disturbed, Eagles of Death Metal, EL*KE, Fair to Midland, Fettes Brot, Fiction Plane, Filter, Finger Eleven,[15][16] From First to Last, Gavin DeGraw, Gavin Rossdale, High on Fire, HIM, Hot Chip, In Case of Fire, In Flames, Incubus, Infadels, Jimmy Eat World, Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong, Johnossi, Jonathan Davis, Justice, Kate Nash, Kid Rock, Kill Hannah, Lostprophets, Madsen, Manic Street Preachers, Masters of Reality, Metallica, Motörhead, Nightwish, Oomph!, Opeth, Paramore, Pete Murray, Queens of the Stone Age, Rafael Weber, Rage Against the Machine, Rival Schools, Róisín Murphy, Rooney, Rose Tattoo, Saul Williams, Saxon, Seether, Serj Tankian, Silverstein, Simple Plan, Söhne Mannheims, Sonic Syndicate, Sportfreunde Stiller, Stereophonics, Steriogram, Takida, the Fall of Troy, the Fratellis, the Futureheads, the Hellacopters, the Offspring, the Prodigy, the Streets, the Verve, Tokyo Police Club, Turisas and ZOX.
Glory of Joann's MySpace profile lists them as performing at Rock am Ring, and ringrocker lists them as officially confirmed.
2009 festival[edit]
The headline acts for 2009 were: Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, the Prodigy, Korn, Marilyn Manson, the Killers, Placebo and Billy Talent. Other bands included 2raumwohnung, Alexisonfire, All That Remains, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Basement Jaxx, Biffy Clyro, Black Stone Cherry, Bloc Party, Bring Me the Horizon, Chester French, Chris Cornell, Dir En Grey, DragonForce, Dredg, Enter Shikari, Esser, Expatriate, Five Finger Death Punch, Flogging Molly, Forbidden Theory, Gallows, Guano Apes, Hollywood Undead, Ich Bin Bunt, Jan Delay & Disko No. 1, Juliette Lewis, Kettcar, Kilians, Killswitch Engage, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, Little Man Tate, Machine Head, Madina Lake, Madness, Mando Diao, M.I.A., Middle Class Rut, New Found Glory, Pain, Papa Roach, Peter Bjorn and John, Peter Fox, Phoenix, Polarkreis 18, Razorlight, Reamonn, Scouting for Girls, Selig, Sevendust, Shinedown, Staind, Steadlür, Sugarplum Fairy, the All-American Rejects, the Crave, the Gaslight Anthem, the Kooks, the Rifles, the Script, the Soundtrack of Our Lives (OEOC), the Subways, Tomte, Trivium, Volbeat, White Lies Rock am Ring tickets were sold out by March 26.[17]
2017 festival[edit]
In 2017 the festival returned to the Nürburgring.
Headliners: Rammstein, Die Toten Hosen and System of a Down.[25]
On the evening of 2 June 2017, the first day of the festival, the sold-out event with about 85,000 visitors was interrupted at 9:00 pm during a performance by the Düsseldorf band Broilers and the festival grounds cleared. The reason given was a terrorist situation. Other scheduled performances for Friday evening, including those of the headliner Rammstein and the rapper Marteria, were cancelled.[26] Three men were arrested and checked in Hesse that same evening. Two of the men assigned to the Salafist scene in Hesse had access rights in the form of bracelets, which gave them direct access to many festival areas. One of the men was also suspected of having links to the terrorist scene. However, on the morning of 3 June, after a search of the grounds and a raid of the suspect's homes, the police announced that the suspicion of a threatening attack had not been substantiated, so that the festival could continue on Saturday noon. The access rights to the festival site had been received by the two main suspects due to a short-term staffing request from an external security service provider.[27][28]
2018 festival[edit]
The 2018 festival took place again in Nürburgring. Headliners: Thirty Seconds to Mars, Muse, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold, Marilyn Manson, and Gorillaz.[29]
2020 festival[edit]
On 16 April 2020, the 2020 festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[32]
2021 festival[edit]
On 10 March 2021, the 2021 festival was once more cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[33]
2022 festival[edit]
The festival resumed after being cancelled 2 years in a row due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival took place from 3 June through to 5 June 2022. The festivals headliners were Green Day, Muse, Deftones, Volbeat, Billy Talent, Korn, Weezer, The Offspring, Mastodon, and The Distillers.[34]
Rock am Ring 2006 stage, Dir en grey shown
Rock am Ring 2007 main stage, 30 Seconds to Mars
Panorama from the Alternative Stage in Rock Im Park 2008 festival
Panorama from the Zeppelin Field Main Stage during the Rock Im Park 2008 event
Rock am Ring 2013
Rock am Ring 2015
Rock am Ring 2016
Rock am Ring 2017
Rock am Ring 2017
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Rock am Ring 2019
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