Damnation festival

Damnation Festival is a metal festival, 'organised for the fans, by the fans'. The festival was started by a group of eight passionate music fans who were disappointed in the lack of extreme metal bands and UK talent appearing on major British festival line-ups, and therefore decided to create their own festival showcasing the very best of British Metal and a few other select bands.

The inaugural festival took place on October 16 2005 at Jilly's Rock World in Manchester, and was a success, selling out completely and later on in the year earning fourth place in Terrorizer 1 Magazine's 2005 Reader Poll - Biggest MusicAL Event (behind only Download Festival, Wacken Open Air and Bloodstock '05 and ahead of Furyfest, Graspop, Ozzfest, Carling Weekend and Emperor reforming). The Bands that played the one day event were, on the Main Stage: Raging Speedhorn, Sikth, Charger, FourWayKill, The Inbreds, Forever Never and Allerjen. And on the Extreme Stage: Entombed, Gorerotted, Gutworm, Conquest of Steel, Mercury Rain, Nailed and Dawn of Chaos.

Damnation 2006

Damnation took place on Sunday, October 15, 2006 and was another complete success. Bands who played on the Jagermeister main stage and Terrorizer second stage were -

Evile, Kingsize Blues, Head On, Madman is Absolute, [...] One, Mistress, Send More Paramedics, Biomechanical, Ephel Duath, Stampin' Ground, Skindred, The Haunted and Akercocke.

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See also

  • List of music festivals in the United Kingdom