Loud Park Festival
The Loud Park Festival is a heavy metal festival held annually at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama City or Makuhari Messe in Chiba City, Japan. It's one of the biggest heavy metal festivals in Japan.
The festival has featured both Japanese and international performers such as DragonForce, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Slayer, Circus Maximus, Napalm Death, Angra, Loudness, Anthem, United, Outrage, Galneryus, Dir En Grey and Babymetal.
In 2018, it was announced that the event will not be held that year and will be discontinued "due to various circumstances", but had plans to return in the future.
In 2022, it was announced that it will take place in March 2023 only and it was announced Pantera would be the headliner.
On March 30, 2025, it was announced that Parkway Drive would be the headliner at Loud Park 25, which would take place on October 13 of that year.
2025 (October 13)
Bands confirmed for Loud Park Festival 25: Held at Saitama Super Arena.- Parkway Drive
- Bullet for My Valentine
- Kerry King
- The Haunted
- The Ghost Inside
- Heaven Shall Burn
- Orbit Culture
- Crystal Lake
- Sable Hills
- Ulma Sound Junction
- View from the Soyuz
- Phantom Excaliver
2023 (March 25–26)
- Pantera
- Kreator
- Nightwish
- Stratovarius
- Carcass
- Amaranthe
- Bleed from Within
- Outrage
- H.E.R.O.
- Jason Richardson & Luke Holland
- Bridear
- Phantom Excaliver
2017 (October 14–15)
October 14
- Slayer
- Emperor
- Alice Cooper
- Overkill
- Opeth
- Winger
- Brujeria
- Anthem
- L.A. Guns
- Beyond the Black
- Skindred
- Aldious
- Michael Schenker Fest
- Gene Simmons Band
- Sabaton
- Meshuggah
- Cradle of Filth
- Black Star Riders
- Devin Townsend Project
- Loudness
- Apocalyptica
- Outrage
- Black Earth
- Cry Venom
2016 (October 8–9)
October 8
- Scorpions
- Armored Saint
- Blind Guardian
- Cain's Offering
- Children of Bodom
- Danger Danger
- Dokken
- Exodus
- Masterplan
- Myrath
- Queensrÿche
- Shinedown
- Aldious
- Sons of Texas
- Zardonic
- Flesh Juicer
- Metal Church
- Whitesnake
- Amorphis
- Dark Funeral
- The Dead Daisies
- Dizzy Mizz Lizzy
- Enslaved
- Killswitch Engage
- Lacuna Coil
- Nightwish
- Riot
- Savage Messiah
- Sixx:A.M.
- Symphony X
- Terrorizer
- Uli Jon Roth
- With the Dead
- Nocturnal Bloodlust
2015 (October 10–11)
October 10
- Slayer
- Arch Enemy with Johan Liiva and Christopher Amott
- Gamma Ray
- Children Of Bodom
- Anthrax
- Royal Hunt
- Testament
- Anthem
- Backyard Babies
- HammerFall
- All That Remains
- Metal Allegiance
- Gojira
- House of Lords
- Outrage
- Galneryus
- Daita
- United
- Fruitpochette
- Metal Church
- Megadeth
- Helloween
- Carcass
- DragonForce
- Napalm Death
- Dizzy Mizz Lizzy
- Sabaton
- At the Gates
- Soldier of Fortune
- Dark Tranquillity
- The Local Band
- Pretty Maids
- Abbath
- Kamelot
- Mari Hamada
- Obituary
- Armageddon
- We Are Harlot
- Gyze
2014 (October 18–19)
October 18
- Manowar
- Arch Enemy
- DragonForce
- Rage
- Down
- Amaranthe
- Soilwork
- Loudness
- Vandenberg's Moonkings
- Marty Friedman
- Battle Beast
- Kamen Jyoshi
- Dream Theater
- Kreator
- Within Temptation
- Death Angel
- Riot
- The Haunted
- Thunder
- Belphegor
- The Gazette
- Glamour of the Kill
- Periphery
- Arion
2013 (October 19–20)
October 19
- Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington
- Europe
- Angra
- Carcass
- Behemoth
- Lynch Mob
- Lordi
- Therion
- Devin Townsend Project
- Bring Me the Horizon
- Crossfaith
- Lost Society
- King Diamond
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- Stratovarius
- Last in Line
- Trivium
- Spiritual Beggars
- Babymetal
- Amorphis
- Mokoma
- Enforcer
- Breaking Arrows
- Metal Clone X
2012 (October 27)
October 27
- Slayer
- Helloween
- In Flames
- Children of Bodom
- Sonata Arctica
- Dir En Grey
- Buckcherry
- Cryptopsy
- DragonForce
- 1349
- Hibria
- Outrage
- Halestorm
- Naglfar
- Circus Maximus
- Cristopher Amott
- Stone Sour
2011 (October 15)
October 15
- Limp Bizkit
- Whitesnake
- Arch Enemy
- The Darkness
- Trivium
- Unisonic
- United
- Krokus
- Amaranthe
- Stryper
- August Burns Red
- Animetal USA
2010 (October 16–17)
October 16
- Korn
- Halford
- Stone Sour
- Accept
- Ratt
- Hellyeah
- Dir En Grey
- Edguy
- Amon Amarth
- Chthonic
- Engel
- Holy Grail
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Motörhead
- Angra
- Spiritual Beggars
- Kuni
- Alexisonfire
- Reckless Love
- Halestorm
- Turisas
- Trash Talk
- 3 Inches of Blood
- Loudness
- Five Finger Death Punch
2009 (October 17–18)
October 17
- Judas Priest
- Megadeth
- Poison the Well
- Arch Enemy
- Lynch Mob
- Anthrax
- Led Zepagain
- Dokken
- Loudness
- Hiroaki Tagawa
- Firebird
- Fade
- Outrage
- Liv Moon
- Steel Panther
- Blessed by a Broken Heart
- Ace Frehley
- Slayer
- Rob Zombie
- Children of Bodom
- Anvil
- Fair Warning
- Gotthard
- Papa Roach
- Napalm Death
- Royal Hunt
- Hatebreed
- Galneryus
- Hibria
- Lazarus A.D.
- Crossfaith
- H.E.A.T
- Dead by April
- Steadlür
2008 (October 18–19)
October 18
- Slipknot
- Down
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Carcass
- Sonata Arctica
- DragonForce
- Meshuggah
- Obituary
- Apocalyptica
- Airbourne
- Secret and Whisper
- Head Phones President
- Mötley Crüe
- Buckcherry
- Bullet for My Valentine
- Machine Head
- Loaded
- Black Tide
- All Ends
- Black Stone Cherry
2007 (October 20–23)
October 20
- Heaven and Hell
- Blind Guardian
- Trivium
- Machine Head
- Nocturnal Rites
- As I Lay Dying
- Nile
- Fastway
- Still Remains
- Therion
- Outrage
- Cellador
- Marilyn Manson
- Arch Enemy
- Hanoi Rocks
- Saxon )
- Satyricon
- Tesla
- Lacuna Coil
- Wig Wam
- Andre Matos
- Anthem
- Amorphis
- All That Remains
- GNZ-Word
- Kazuyuki Matsumoto
2006 (October 14–15)
October 14
- Megadeth
- Anthrax
- Napalm Death
- Angra
- Arch Enemy
- United
- Dir En Grey
- Cathedral
- Legend of Rock
- Backyard Babies
- DragonForce
- Firewind
- Hardcore Superstar
- Opeth
- Zeromind
- Anvil
- Flyleaf
- Nora
- Korpiklaani
- Ministry
- Slayer
- Dio
- Negative
- Children of Bodom
- Killswitch Engage
- Survive
- In Flames
- Hatebreed
- Mucc
- Mastodon
- Unearth
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Lamb of God
- Within Temptation
- Cocobat
- Bloodsimple
- As I Lay Dying
- Loyal to the Grave
- Bullet for My Valentine