Day of Darkness was the original name of
Ireland
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's D.O.D. Festival. It happened annually in
Ballylinan
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Transport
A 12-mile railway line linking Ballylina ...
from 2002 to 2008 as a
metal music
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festival.
The 2002 line-up was headlined by Primordial. It ran for a second year in 2003. Numbers, however, dwindled that year and a number of changes were implemented before the festival's third running in 2004. In 2005, the festival was moved to the first week in July and has been held on the same weekend each year since. In 2006, a second day was added to the festival and camping tickets were introduced.
The festival discontinued in 2008.
Past line-ups
2008
''Friday Line-Up''
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Watain
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Nifelheim
* Stand-Up Guy
* Old Season
* Neocosmic
* Sirocco
* Victim X
* Visceral Attack
''Saturday Line-Up''
* Doomsword
* Mourning Beloveth
* Celtic Legacy
* Thy Sinister Bloom
* Chambercraft
* Graveyard Dirt
* Overoth
* Darkest Era
* Nephridium
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Unleashed
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2007
''Saturday Line-Up''
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Entombed
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Sabbat
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Abaddon Incarnate
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Cruachan
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Conquest of Steel
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The Prophecy
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* Spearhead
* Hatred
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Era Vulgaris
''Friday Line-Up''
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Candlemass
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Skyforger
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Musical style and lyrical themes
Most of their songs are about Baltic mythology and warfare; they also play Latvia ...
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Mael Mórdha
Mael Mórdha ( , ) are an Irish doom metal band from Dublin, Ireland. Its name can also be written in traditional Irish typography, as Mael Mórḋa. The band's music melds doom metal with Irish folk music to create what has been referred to ...
* Gorilla Monsoon
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Putrefy
* The Swarm
* Warpath
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Hallowed
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2006
''Saturday Line-Up''
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Destruction
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Primordial
* Morphosis
* Hexxed
* Mass Extinction
* Aftermath
* Primed
* For Ruin
* A Distant Sun
* Nothing is Sacred
''Friday Line-Up''
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Moonsorrow
Moonsorrow is a Finnish pagan metal band formed in Helsinki in 1995. Musically, the band incorporates elements of black metal and folk metal in their sound. The band call their sound "epic heathen metal" and try to distance themselves from th ...
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Geasa
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* Sorrowfall
* Ground of Ruin
* Minds Astray
2005
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Rotting Christ
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* Desaster
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Mourning Beloveth
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Scavenger
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Waylander
* Carnún Rising
* Primal Dawn
* devilmakesthree
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Wreck of the Hesperus (band)
Wreck of the Hesperus is an Irish doom metal band based in Dublin
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* Ground of Ruin
''Eve of Darkness Warm-up Show''
* Steel Tormentor
* Primed
* Slave Zero
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Skoll
2004
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Dismember
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Ancient Rites
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Abaddon Incarnate
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Mael Mórdha
Mael Mórdha ( , ) are an Irish doom metal band from Dublin, Ireland. Its name can also be written in traditional Irish typography, as Mael Mórḋa. The band's music melds doom metal with Irish folk music to create what has been referred to ...
* Putrefy
* The Swarm
* Old Season
* Sinister Demise
* Sol Axis
* Mabus
* Demize
''+ Special tribute to
Bathory featuring members from
Primordial, Sol Axis,
Geasa
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, and
Kingdom
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Kingdom may also refer to:
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''
2003
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Mourning Beloveth
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Mael Mórdha
Mael Mórdha ( , ) are an Irish doom metal band from Dublin, Ireland. Its name can also be written in traditional Irish typography, as Mael Mórḋa. The band's music melds doom metal with Irish folk music to create what has been referred to ...
* Honey for Christ
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Waylander
* Die Laughing
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Scavenger
* Carnún Rising
* Old Season
* Inhumane
* The Swarm
2002
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Primordial
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Mourning Beloveth
* Primal Dawn
*
Geasa
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* Condemned
* Bloodbox
* Coldwar
* Corrupted (IRL)
* Slave Zero
* The 8th Day
* Die Laughing
References
External links
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{{Irish Festivals
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Heavy metal festivals in Ireland
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Defunct music festivals