Nova Rock Festival
The Nova Rock Festival, also just Nova Rock, is an Austrian rock festival that has existed since 2005 and takes place each year in June. It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria, near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders. It is organized by Nova Music Entertainment, a cooperation between Musicnet, FKP Scorpio and several former employees/bookers of Wiesen, who left Wiesen in 2004.
The festival was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2005 lineup
, Audioslave, Bad Acid Trip, Beatsteaks, BoySetsFire, Core, Green Day, In Extremo, La Vela Puerca, Mando Diao, Marilyn Manson, Moneybrother, Nightwish, The Prodigy, Soulfly, System of a Down, Weezer, Wir sind Helden| 9. June | 10. June | 11. June | 12. June |
| System of a Down | Die Ärzte | The Prodigy | Green Day |
| Audioslave | Marilyn Manson | Nightwish | Millencolin |
| Wir sind Helden | Weezer | Soulfly | BoySetsFire |
| Beatsteaks | Mando Diao | In Extremo | 3 Feet Smaller |
| La Vela Puerca | The Noise Conspiracy | Reel Big Fish | - |
| Moneybrother | Mudvayne | The Dissociatives | - |
| Team Sleep | Madsen | The Hellacopters | - |
| Trail of Dead | Core | Schandmaul | - |
| The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster | Exilia | - |
2006 lineup
The 2006 Nova Rock festival was held from 15 to 17 June. It was the first year that the festival had two large stages.The first bands announced on the Nova Rock homepage were:
Guns N' Roses, Placebo, Metallica, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Massive Attack, Motörhead, Madsen, Billy Talent, Hard-Fi, Guadalajara, Seeed, Bodyrockers, She Male Trouble, Sportfreunde Stiller, Lagwagon, Subway to Sally and Julia.
Originally Korn were announced to play the festival, but had to cancel it, as well as the "Nova Rock Encore", a concert in Vienna which they were expected to play with Deftones, Soulfly and Devildriver.
2007 lineup
Nova Rock Festival 2007 took place from 15 to 17 June with the following lineup:Headliners: Billy Talent, The Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, Pearl Jam, Slayer, The Killers,
The festival also consisted of bands including: Linkin Park, Machine Head, In Flames, Papa Roach, Reel Big Fish, Incubus, Mando Diao, The Hives, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Children of Bodom, Less Than Jake, Flogging Molly, Mastodon, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Isis, Aiden, In Extremo, Ill Niño, Within Temptation, Hayseed Dixie, The BossHoss and Chimaira.
2008 lineup
Confirmed lineup:2009 lineup
Confirmed bands as of 4 April 2009:2010 lineup
Date: 11. - 13. June 2010Confirmed bands as of 23 November 2009:
2011 lineup
Date: 11. - 13. June 2011Confirmed bands:
Special Late Night Attraction
2012 lineup
Date: 08. - 10. June 2012Confirmed bands:
Canceled due to storm.
2013 lineup
Date: 14. - 16. June 2013Confirmed bands:
2014 lineup
Date: 13. - 15. June 20142015 lineup
Date: 12. - 14. June 20152016 lineup
Date: 10. - 12. June 20162017 lineup
Date: 14. - 17. June 20172018 lineup
Date: 14. - 17. June 20182019 lineup
Date: 13. - 16. June 20192022 lineup
Date: 09. - 12. June 20222022 was the first festival since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Attempts were made to organize the festival in both 2020 and 2021, but were inevitably cancelled due to concerns with the virus.
2023 lineup
Date: 07. - 10. June 20232024 lineup
The Nova Rock 2024 festival took place from June 13 to 16. Headliners were Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold, Måneskin, and Bring Me the Horizon, though Avril Lavigne, The Sisters of Mercy, and Alice Cooper were also in the line ups. Unlike previous years, only the Blue and Red Bull Music stages were played during the last day of the festival.According to festival organizers, the four festival days attracted around 200,000 attendees.