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Graspop Metal Meeting has announced the lineup for the 2016 event. This year’s event is sure to be an exciting one, with notable headliners such as English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, American thrash metal band Slayer, and English heavy metal legends Iron Maiden.
Graspop Metal Meeting is an annual music festival held in Dessel, Belgium that brings in massive crowds and focuses primarily on metal music. It is held at De Stenehei Park, and adjacent to the festival is Metal Town, a camping facility. This year, the music festival will be held on the 17th, 18th, and 19th of June, 2016.
Tickets for the event start at 95 euros for a single day pass, and 195 euros for a Combi pass which gives access to the festival for the 16th through the 19th of June, 2016. Additional ticketing options are available, including VIP passes, camping tickets and tokens. For more information on ticket prices and how to purchase them, please click here.
Graspop Metal Meeting began in 1996, with just a handful of bands. Since then, the festival has expanded largely, and continues to pull in famous international acts and draw in crowds from all over the world. At first, the music festival didn’t specialize in any specific type of rock music, but eventually changed to focus on the best of metal rock.
Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Slayer, among many more, return to the main stage to put on an incredible performance. In fact, Iron Maid was one of the first performers at the original event in 1996 and has performed at the festival more times than any other band.
For more information on the festival, please visit Graspop Metal Meeting’s official website here.
For the full lineup, please see below.
Graspop Metal Meeting 2016 Lineup
Black Sabbath
Volbeat
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Slayer
Twisted Sister
King Diamond
Nightwish
Anthrax
Amon Amarth
Disturbed
Ghost
Behemoth
Saxon
Dropkick Murphys
Bullet For My Valentine
Gojira
Trivium
Foreigner
Bad Religion
Heaven Shall Burn
Dirkschneider
Zakk Wylde
Amaranthe
Killswitch Engage
Pennywise
Testament
Abbath
Apocalyptica
Tremonti
Shinedown
Steak Number Eight
Powerwolf
Architects
Sacred Reich
The Amity Affliction
Moonspell
Sixx:A.M.
Dark Funeral
Arcturus
August Burns Red
Loudness
Firewind
Monster Truck
Raven
Virgin Steele
Satyricon
Obituary
Paradise Lost
Skillet
La Muerte
Overkill
Legion of the Damned
Oomph!
In The Woods
Delain
Atreyu
Eisbrecher
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Grand Magus
Norma Jean
Turnstile
Myrkur
Halestorm
Monuments
Anti-Flag
Shining (SE)
God Dethroned
Skindred
Tesseract
Devil you Know
Slaves (US)
Windhand
The Raven Age
The Wild Lies
Moonsorrow
The Algorithm
Sikth
Bury Tomorrow
The Midnight Ghost Train
Thy Art is Murder