Sweden Rock Festival

Sweden Rock Festival
Gamma Ray at Sweden Rock 2006
Genre	Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
Dates	June
Location(s)	Norje (Sölvesborg), Sweden
Years active	1992 – present
Website	www.swedenrock.com

Sweden Rock Festival is an annual rock/metal festival held in Sweden since June 6, 1992. While having a clear rock/metal focus, the festival is noted for its diversity across these genres, having featured southern rock bands such as Molly Hatchet to death metal legends like Obituary.

The first version of the festival was held in Olofström, with nine bands performing. The next five years, the festival was held in Karlshamn, but this was changed in 1998. Since then the festival has been held in Norje, outside Sölvesborg.

When the festival first began in 1992, it featured nine relatively unknown bands and it only lasted one day. The next year the festival was expanded to two days and more bands were added to the line-up. From 1993 to 2002 the festival would last two days; over those years it would also begin to feature bigger name acts. In 2000 the festival was expanded to three days but it returned to two days the following year.

From 2003 to 2006 the festival lasted three days and had by then featured some of the biggest acts in metal and rock. Now, in 2007 the festival has been expanded to four days and will feature approximately 70 different bands/artists.

Some notable appearances in the past have been Aerosmith Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe, Dio, Bruce Dickinson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Twisted Sister, Europe, Deep Purple, Accept, Motörhead, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Scorpions, Porcupine Tree, Alice Cooper, and W.A.S.P..

The 2007 edition was held June 6–June 9, 2007 in Sölvesborg.

2007 line-up

June 6-9, Norje Havsbad

• Aerosmith
• After Forever
• All Ends
• Amon Amarth
• Annihilator
• Australian Pink Floyd Show
• Axel Rudi Pell
• Black Oak Arkansas
• Blind Guardian
• Bloodbound
• Circus Maximus
• Crashdïet
• Dimmu Borgir
• Eldritch
• Falconer
• Fastway

• Gov't Mule
• Hardcore Superstar
• Heaven and Hell
• Iced Earth
• Korpiklaani
• Kreator
• Lion's Share
• McQueen
• Meat Loaf
• Memfis
• Motörhead
• Nocturnal Rites
• November
• Point Blank
• Pretty Maids
• Quiet Riot

• Randy Piper's Animal
• REO Speedwagon
• Skid Row
• Suzi Quatro
• Symphony X
• The Answer
• Thunder
• Tiamat
• Tokyo Dragons
• Trail of Tears
• Trouble
• Týr
• U.D.O.
• Vomitory

2006 line-up

June 8-10, Norje Havsbad

• Alice Cooper
• Anvil
• Arch Enemy
• Baldroom Blitz
• Blitzkrieg
• Bonfire
• Bullet
• Cactus
• Cathedral
• Celtic Frost
• Cloudscape
• Crucified Barbara
• Deep Purple
• Def Leppard
• Doro
• DragonForce
• Easy Action
• Edguy
• Entombed
• Evergrey
• Extrema
• Firewind

• From Behind
• Gamma Ray
• Gehennah
• George Thorogood & The Destroyers
• Goda Grannar
• Gotthard
• Grave
• Hardcore Superstar
• House of Shakira
• Jaded Heart
• Jeff Healey Band
• Journey
• Kamelot
• Krokus
• Leaf Hound
• Lord Belial
• Metal Church
• Michael Schenker Group
• Molly Hatchet
• Nasty Idols
• Neil Turbin's Deathriders
• Nevermore

• Obituary
• Onslaught
• Overdrive
• Porcupine Tree
• Queensrÿche
• Raise Hell
• Sleazy Joe
• Sodom
• Ted Nugent
• The Playboys
• The Poodles
• The Quill
• The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
• The Storyteller
• Sweet
• Tigertailz
• Treat
• Vanden Plas
• Venom
• Victory
• W.A.S.P.
• Whitesnake

2005 line-up

June 9-11, Norje Havsbad

• A.C.T
• Accept
• Anthrax
• Behemoth
• Black Label Society
• Blackfoot
• Candlemass
• Crucified Barbara
• Crystal Eyes
• Defleshed
• Diamond Head
• Dio
• Dream Theater
• Face Down
• Force Of Evil
• Freak Kitchen
• Gemini5
• Goda Grannar
• Hammerfall
• Helix

• Hellfueled
• Jug Mckenzie
• Kansas
• Kim Mitchell
• Lana Lane
• Magnum
• Megadeth
• Morgana Lefay
• Motörhead
• Mustasch
• Mötley Crüe
• Napalm Death
• Nazareth
• Nightingale
• Overkill
• Pagan's Mind
• Rob Rock
• Robin Trower
• Sabaton
• Sammy Hagar And The Wabos

• Satanic Slaughter
• Savoy Brown
• Saxon
• Sebastian Bach
• Shakra
• Sonata Arctica
• Statetrooper
• Status Quo
• Styx
• Symphorce
• Ten 67
• The Lizards
• The Ring
• Therion
• Thyrfing
• Trettioåriga Kriget (Thirty Year War)
• Vixen
• We
• Within Temptation
• Yngwie Malmsteen

External links

• Sweden Rock Festival - official website
• Pictures from Sweden Rock Festival since 2001