Damnation Festival

Damnation Festival

Location(s)	University of Leeds, Leeds, England
Years active	2005 - present
Date(s)	October/November
Genre	Heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal
Website	www.damnationfestival.co.uk

The Damnation Festival is a one day music festival currently held annually at Leeds University, Leeds, England and organised by Gavin McInally. The 2011 edition of the festival will be held on November 5. The festival was originally held at Jilly's Rockworld in Manchester.^[1]

Damnation 2005

The first Damnation Festival was held on October 16, 2005 at Jillys Rockworld, Manchester, England. There were fifteen bands over two stages, headlined by Raging Speedhorn and Entombed. Tickets for the inaugural festival were priced at £13.^[2]

Main Stage	Terrorizer Stage
Raging Speedhorn Sikth Charger Fourway Kill The Inbreds Forever Never Allerjen Amends to the Dead	Entombed Gorerotted Gutworm Conquest of Steel Mercury Rain Nailed Dawn of Chaos

Damnation 2006

The second annual Damnation Festival was held on October 15, 2006 at Jillys Rockworld, Manchester, England. There were fourteen bands over two stages, headlined by The Haunted and Akercocke. Tickets for the festival were priced at £15.^[3]

Jägermeister Stage	Terrorizer Stage
The Haunted Skindred Biomechanical Murder One Head-On Kingsize Blues Evile	Akercocke Stampin' Ground Ephel Duath Send More Paramedics Mistress Madman is Absolute Speed Theory

Damnation 2007

The third annual Damnation Festival was held on October 20, 2007 and saw the festival move to a new venue at Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, England. There were eighteen bands over two stages, headlined by Kreator and Anaal Nathrakh. Tickets for the festival were priced at £22.^[4]

Jägermeister Stage	Terrorizer Stage
Kreator Amen Orange Goblin Raging Speedhorn Panic Cell The Inbreds Romeo Must Die Malefice	Anaal Nathrakh Kataklysm Aborted 1349 Narcosis Ted Maul Man Must Die Lazarus Blackstar Soulfracture Dead Beyond Buried

Damnation 2008

The fourth annual Damnation Festival was held on November 22, 2008 and saw the festival move to another new venue at University of Leeds, Leeds, England. The change of venues allowed the festival to expand to three stages encorporating seventeen bands with headliners Carcass, Cathedral and Pitchshifter. Tickets for the festival were priced at £29.^[5]

British band Raging Speedhorn were initially booked to play the festival in what would be their last ever show, however they later canceled to take on a more lucrative final tour in Japan. Carcass would make this show their only UK show on their comeback tour.

Jägermeister Stage	Terrorizer Stage	Rock Sound Stage
Carcass My Dying Bride Sigh Onslaught Taint	Pitchshifter Napalm Death Benediction The Berzerker Desecration Red Mist	Cathedral Devil Sold His Soul Ramesses *shels Latitudes Mountains Became Machines

Damnation 2009

The fifth annual Damnation Festival was held on October 24, 2009 at University of Leeds, Leeds, England. The organizers have announced the festival would again cover three stages but open doors earlier to allow for more bands and less clashes across the stages.^[6] Headline acts for 2009 were Life of Agony, Lock Up and Jesu.

Jägermeister Stage	Terrorizer Stage	Rock Sound Stage
Life of Agony Therapy? Destruction Anathema Electric Wizard The Gates Of Slumber Firebird	Lock Up Rotting Christ Akercocke Mistress Negura Bunget Mithras Charger Nazxul	Jesu This Will Destroy You A Storm of Light Minsk Manatees And So I Watch You From Afar Stand-Up Guy Rinoa

Life of Agony's headline slot was their only UK appearance in 2009.^[7]

This appearance was Mistress's last ever show and Rotting Christ's only English show for 2009.^[8]

Negura Bunget and Extreme Noise Terror were originally booked to play the Terrorizer stage but both had to pull out. Negura Bunget played a make up set in May 2010 at sister festival Deathfest.

On June 3 Entombed were announced on the festival line up. On June 23 the bands management issued a statement announcing that the band would not appear at the festival.^[9]

Damnation 2010

The sixth annual Damnation Festival was held on November 6, 2010 at University of Leeds, Leeds, England. Again the festival covered three stages. The Dillinger Escape Plan and Paradise Lost^[10] co-headlined the Jägermeister Stage, whilst Discharge headlined the Terrorizer stage and Alcest the Rock Sound Stage. Early bird ticket prices were £19 and full price tickets £27.

Jägermeister Stage	Terrorizer Stage	Rock Sound Stage
The Dillinger Escape Plan Paradise Lost earthtone9 Sabbat Lawnmower Deth Rolo Tomassi Panic Cell Mutant	Discharge Anaal Nathrakh Hecate Enthroned Fukpig Short Sharp Shock The Antichrist Imperium Bonesaw Colonel Blast Diascorium	Alcest The Ocean Esoteric October File Maybeshewill Fen The Mire The Construct

• Festival orginasers ran competitions to determin the opening bands for each of the three stages. The Construct won the competition for the Rock Sound stage 45% of the total 4000 votes cast.
• The competition for the terrorizer stage ended in a dead heat and both Diascorium and Colonel Blast were given opening slots on the stage.
• Mutant won the competition for the opening slot of the Jägermeister Stage.

Damnation 2011

The seventh annual Damnation Festival was held on November 5, 2011 at University of Leeds, Leeds, England. Again the festival covered three stages, with headliners Devin Townsend Project, Ulver and God is an Astronaut.^[11]

Early bird tickets went on sale in December 2010 for £19.50 and full price tickets £29. Decapitated were forced to pull out after surviving a plane crash. Returning from their US tour, the plane was forced to make a landing with no landing gear in their native Poland.^[12]

Jägermeister Stage	Terrorizer Stage	Zero Tolerance Stage
Devin Townsend Project Godflesh Grand Magus Evile Turisas Illuminatus Xerath	Ulver Decapitated Withdrew from festival Doom Chthonic Dragged Into Sunlight Shining A Man Called Catten Cerebral Bore	God is an Astronaut Amplifier Altar of Plagues Talons Astrohenge Conan A Forest of Stars Humanfly

References

1. ^ "About Damnation Festival". http://www.damnationfestival.co.uk/about. 
2. ^ "Damnation 2005 Lineup". http://www.damnationfestival.co.uk/content/archive2005.html. 
3. ^ "Damnation 2006 Lineup". http://www.damnationfestival.co.uk/content/archive2006.html. 
4. ^ "Damnation 2007 Lineup". http://www.damnationfestival.co.uk/content/archive2007.html. 
5. ^ "Damnation 2008 Lineup". http://www.damnationfestival.co.uk/content/archive2008.html. 
6. ^ "Damnation 2009 Festival Details". http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=116724. 
7. ^ "Damnation 2009 Life of Agony Details". http://www.damnationfestival.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9732. 
8. ^ "Damnation 2009 Mistress/Rotting Christ Details". http://www.damnationfestival.co.uk/images/posters/announce2_500.jpg. 
9. ^ "Damnation 2009 Entombed added then removed from the bill". http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=122410. 
10. ^ "Damnation 2010 TDEP and Paradise Lost co-headline". http://www.cackblabbath.co.uk/damn2.php. 
11. ^ "Damnation 2011 Line-up". http://www.damnationfestival.co.uk/category/news. 
12. ^ "Decapitated pull out of Damnation after surviving plane crash". http://truecultheavymetal.com/blog1.php/2011/11/03/decapitated-pull-out-of-damnation-after-surviving-plane-crash. 

External links

• Official website
• Official MySpace