Dynamo Open Air is a festival in the Netherlands held (almost) every year between 1986 and 2005. It was reborn in 2008 as Dynamo Outdoor and in 2015 as Dynamo Metal Fest. Ahmet Zappa (4361758121)

History

Originally held to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Dynamo rock club in

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, and the following year it went to the Goffertpark in

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. That was the first time DOA was held outside the province of

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, and it was the first time in years that the festival had to shrink down to only one day. The previous years it had always been a two- or three-day festival. In 2001, the organisation thought they had found a site where the festival could return on a yearly basis, near the town of

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. However, the threat of

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caused trouble, and Dynamo Open Air had to be cancelled. In 2002 it returned, at the site of the

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festival, but 2003 was another year without a Dynamo festival, because it would violate a recently passed law about animal protection during breeding season. For 2004, the festival returned to Nijmegen, at the same location where it took place in 2000. In 2005, the festival used the site of the Dauwpop festival, and the reunited

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headlined the stage. In an attempt to revitalise the festival, the current organization of the Dynamo youth center decided to change the festival's name from Dynamo Open Air to Dynamo Outdoor. In 2008, the first Dynamo Outdoor festival was held in the centre of Eindhoven, with bands such as

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and Born From Pain performing. The festival was once again held in Eindhoven in the following year, with Destine, Stahlzeit,

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, Textures, The Butcher and

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on the bill. The revival of the festival occurred with a new name as Dynamo Metal Fest, which has taken place every year since 2015. The festival had taken place traditionally on the second or third Saturday in July from 2015 to 2018; for the 2019 edition, it was converted into a two-day festival. After the 2020 edition was cancelled because of the

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, Dynamo Metal Fest was scheduled to return in August 2021, however again cancelled due to the

. The Dynamo Metal Fest was again held in August 2022.

Live recordings

In 1995,

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had their performance recorded at the festival and it was released as ''

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'' the same year it was recorded. It was released by

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In 2005, live footage of the performance was released on DVD and it was called Live at Dynamo. It was also released by Roadrunner Records. In May 1998, guest band

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recorded stock footage of their performance. Three years later, in an effort to raise money to pay for

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's cancer treatment, the footage was limitedly released in October 2001 by

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on CD and

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formats under the name

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, two months before Schuldiner's ultimate demise.

Line-ups and dates

Dynamo Open Air

1986

Cancelled shows : Lääz Rockit

1987

Cancelled shows :

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(replaced by Testament)

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

Cancelled shows:

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(replaced by Z)

1994

1995

1996

Cancelled shows : Halford (replaced by

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)

1997

1998

Cancelled shows :

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(replaced by

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(replaced by

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) and

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(announced the day of the appearance, but didn't play).

1999

Cancelled bands :

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, Speedealer and

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. The three latter bands were replaced by

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and Merauder, respectively.

2000

Cancelled shows : Entombed (replaced by

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2001

Festival cancelled due to the threat of

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. The announced bands were:

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, Backfire!,

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, Brightside, Catastrophic,

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, Destiny's End, Destroÿer 666,

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, Dreadlock Pussy,

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, Exhumed,

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, Length of Time, Liar,

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, Merauder,

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, Slipknot,

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, Terra Firma,

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, Vader,

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scheduled a headlining show at 013 in

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on the day they were supposed to play, while Slipknot and few other bands played a "mini-festival" at

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on May 25.

played more club shows in the

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2002

2003

Festival cancelled. No bands seem to have been announced.

2004

2005

Dynamo Metalfest

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Festival cancelled due to the threat of

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. Bands that were supposed to play were

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, Midnight,

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and Beast in Black.

2021

Festival cancelled due to

. Bands that were supposed to play were

, Testament, Bay Area Interthrashional,

, The Black Dahlia Murder,

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, Candlemass,

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and Dress the Dead.

2022

References

External links

Official website
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