After the 25,000 tickets for the 2025 edition of ROCKHARZ at the Ballenstedt(Harz) airfield sold out in a record time of just one week, there is even more reason to look forward to the 2025 festival summer in the middle of the dark season: With the third big wave of bands, ROCKHARZ has some premieres in store. In addition to Danish heavy metal legend KING DIAMOND, nine more of the 16 newly announced bands will be taking to the stage at the Teufelsmauer festival for the first time ever: FLOGGING MOLLY, ABBATH DOOM OCCULTA, SOLSTAFIR, FROG LEAP, MEMORIAM, DRACONIAN, BOKASSA, DEFECTS and DELIVER THE GALAXY. There will also be some „repeat offenders“: DRAGONFORCE, SOULFLY, MR. HURLEY & DIE PULVERAFFEN, RHAPSODY OF FIRE, AVATARIUM and DESERTED FEAR, joining a line-up that will once again make ROCKHARZ one of the absolute festival highlights of 2025.
The current line-up in alphabetical order at a glance:
ABBATH DOOM OCCULTA (100% IMMORTAL-Songs)
ALL THAT REMAINS
ANY GIVEN DAY
APRIL ART
ASENBLUT
ASP
AVATARIUM
BOKASSA
COMBICHRIST
DARK TRANQUILLITY
DEFECTS
DELIVER THE GALAXY
DESERTED FEAR
DIE KASSIERER
DRACONIAN
DRAGONFORCE
FLOGGING MOLLY
FROG LEAP
FROZEN CROWN
GLORYHAMMER
GRAND MAGUS
GREEN LUNG
HEAVEN SHALL BURN
IN EXTREMO
J.B.O.
KING DIAMOND
KUPFERGOLD
MEMORIAM
MR. HURLEY & DIE PULVERAFFEN
NON EST DEUS
OVERKILL
POWERWOLF
PRIMAL FEAR
RHAPSODY OF FIRE
SAXON
SEASONS IN BLACK
SODOM
SOLSTAFIR
SOULFLY
VADER
VERSENGOLD
VISIONS OF ATLANTIS
WARKINGS
With almost 60 bands over four festival days and up to 25,000 visitors, ROCKHARZ is now one of the three biggest metal festivals in Germany.
If you want to increase your anticipation for next year even more, you can look forward to the annual ROCKHARZ Santa Claus promotion in the festival’s own store. More information can be found on the usual ROCKHARZ channels.
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