Unirock Open Air Festival


Unirock Open Air Festival is one of the summer open air heavy metal music festivals in İstanbul. It takes place annually in İstanbul, Turkey. Total 40,000 attendees at first two years.
Having brought the likes of Testament, Arch Enemy, Opeth, Kreator, Dark Tranquillity, Paradise Lost, and Amon Amarth to you over the first two years.
The festival was awarded 4 full pages in the September issue of the infamous British publication, Metal Hammer, and in just two years has grown to international fame with various artists, journalists and managers alike expressing their support.
Unirock Open Air Festival aims to maintain and improve on already impeccable standards in all areas including artist booking and production with a goal to unite metal fans from all over the globe.
Bands who have participated in the festival from the Middle East include Orphaned Land, Bilocate, and Arsames along with our Greek neighbours Rotting Christ who expressed their solidarity with Turkish fans in 1999 when they held a charity concert for Turkish earthquake victims. These names alone are some of the best examples of the way metal music and metal fans transcend all conventional borders and boundaries.

Unirock Open Air Festival

2008

Dates : 20-21–22 June 2008

Location : Parkorman, İstanbul, Turkey

Running Order :

20 June 2008: Obstinacy, Definitive, Insistence, Affliction, Catafalque, Opeth

21 June 2008: Unleash, Altona, Crossfire, Malt, Orphaned Land, Mezarkabul, Testament

22 June 2008: Prime Object, Heretic Soul, Black Tooth, False in Truth, Moribund Oblivion, Soul Sacrifice, Dark Tranquillity

2009

Dates : 17-18–19 July 2009

Location : Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, İstanbul, Turkey

Running Order :

17 July 2009: And I Exist, Undertakers, Pickpocket, Rampage, Magilum, Soul Sacrifice, Arch Enemy

18 July 2009: Deathblow, UÇK Grind, One Bullet Left, Catafalque, Rotting Christ, Paradise Lost, Kreator

19 July 2009: Mosh Pit Project, Arsames, Bilocate, Saints'N'Sinners, Episode 13, Firewind, Amon Amarth

Warm-Up Party

Dates : 27 March 2009

Location : Bronx, İstanbul, Turkey

Bands : The Haunted

Extreme Open Air Festival

Dates : 3 October 2009

Location : Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, İstanbul, Turkey

Bands : Biocrime, Carnophage, Moribund Oblivion, Graveworm, Legion of the Damned, Mezarkabul

2010

Dates : 2-3–4 July 2010

Location : Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, İstanbul, Turkey

Running Order :

2 July 2010: Gates of Eternity, Belphegor, Entombed, Behemoth, Overkill, Cannibal Corpse

3 July 2010: None Shall Return, Sabhankra, Sabaton, Necrophagist, Dark Funeral, Grave Digger, Evergrey, Amorphis

4 July 2010: Choler Age, Since Yesterday, Makine, Heaven Shall Burn, Korpiklaani, Obituary, Nevermore

2011

Dates : 9-10–11 September 2011

Location : Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, İstanbul, Turkey

9 September 2011: Baht, Azhirock, Apsent, GROZA, Decapitated

10 September 2011: Dream Ocean, Chopstick Suicide, Nitro, Kimaera, Asafated, Orphaned Land

11 September 2011: 5grs, Gürz, Decaying Purity, Undermost, Ascraeus, Vader, Mayhem

Warm-Up Party

Dates : 8 June 2011

Location : Jolly Joker Balans, İstanbul, Turkey

Bands Confirmed Yet : August Burns Red