Gods of Metal

Gods of Metal was the biggest Italian metal music|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.

Lineups

1997

Held on June 7 at Palavobis in Milan.

Saturday 7 June

Manowar

Angra

Rage

Grave Digger

Moonspell

Time Machine

Eldritch

1998

Held on June 6 at Forum Open Air Arena in Milan.

Saturday 6 June

Black 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 June	Sunday 6 June
Metallica 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 June	Sunday 11 June
Iron Maiden Demons and Wizards Dark Tranquillity Sentenced Edguy Domine Dirty Deeds Khali Theatres des Vampires	Slayer 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 June

Judas 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 June	Sunday 9 June
Slayer Rammstein 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 June

Whitesnake

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 June	Sunday 6 June
Judas 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 June	Sunday 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 June	Friday 2 June	Saturday 3 June	Sunday 4 June
Venom Dimmu Borgir 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 Picture	Whitesnake Def Leppard Motörhead Helloween Stratovarius Gamma Ray Angra Edguy Sonata Arctica Crucified Barbara	Guns 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.
File:Thin Lizzy.JPG|thumb|230px|right|John Sykes with Thin Lizzy the Monsters of Rock Festival Milan, Italy 2007

Saturday 2 June	Sunday 3 June	Saturday 30 June
Mötley Crüe Velvet Revolver Scorpions Thin Lizzy White Lion Tigertailz Eldritch Planet Hard	Heaven & Hell Dream Theater Blind Guardian Dimmu Borgir Dark Tranquillity Symphony X Anathema DGM	Ozzy 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 June	Saturday 28 June	Sunday 29 June
Iron Maiden Avenged Sevenfold Rose Tattoo Apocalyptica Airbourne Lauren Harris Black Tide Kingcrow	Slayer Carcass Meshuggah Testament At the Gates The Dillinger Escape Plan Between the Buried and Me Stormlord Brain Dead	Judas 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

2010

Held on June 25, June 26 and June 27 at Parco della Certosa Reale in Collegno
Stage 1

25 June	26 June	27 June
Killswitch Engage Fear Factory DevilDriver As I Lay Dying Atreyu Job for a Cowboy Unearth 36 Crazyfists	Lordi Amon Amarth Raven Exodus Behemoth Orphaned Land Sadist Ex Deo	Motörhead Bullet for My Valentine Cannibal Corpse U.D.O. Saxon Devin Townsend Project Labyrinth Sabaton

Stage 2

25 June	26 June	27 June
Amphitrium Dragonia Death Army	Nashwuah Subhuman Kaledon	Soulfly 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 June	22 June	23 June	24 June
Manowar Children of Bodom Amon Amarth Unisonic Cannibal Corpse HolyHell Adrenaline Mob Arthemis Clairvoyants	Guns N' Roses Within Temptation Sebastian Bach Killswitch Engage Black Stone Cherry Rival Sons Soulfly Ugly Kid Joe AxeWound Cancer Bats	Mötley Crüe Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators The Darkness Gotthard Hardcore Superstar Black Veil Brides Lizzy Borden Planethard	Ozzy 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 June

Rammstein

Korn

Megadeth

Sixx:A.M.

Gamma Ray

Halestorm

The Shrine

Jeff Angell's Staticland

Planethard

Overtures