The Damnation Festival is a one day music festival currently held annually at Leeds University, Leeds, England. The 2009 edition of the festival will be held on October 24. Originally was held in Manchester.

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Damnation 2005

thumb 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. ^[1]

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

thumb 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. ^[2]

Jagermeister 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

thumb 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. ^[3]

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

Damnation 2008

thumb The forth 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 Pitchsifter. Tickets for the festival were priced at £29. ^[4]

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.

Jagermeister 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

thumb The fifth annual Damnation Festival will be held on October 24, 2009 at University of Leeds, Leeds, England. The organizers have announced the festival will again cover three stages but open doors earlier to allow for more bands and less clashes across the stages. ^[5] Headline acts for 2009 will be Life of Agony, Lock Up and Jesu. Tickets for the festival are prices at £29.50.

Jagermeister Stage	Terrorizer Stage	Rock Sound Stage
'''Life of Agony Therapy? Electric Wizard Anathema Destruction Firebird	Lock Up Extreme Noise Terror Mistress Rotting Christ The Gates Of Slumber Mithras	Jesu This Will Destroy You Minsk Stand-Up Guy Manatees Rinoa And So I Watch You From Afar

Confirmed bands Stages TBC

A Storm of Light Akercocke Charger Negura Bunget Nazxul

Life of Agony's headline slot will be their only UK appearance in 2009. ^[6]

These appearances will be both Mistress's last ever show ^[7] and Lock Up's last ever show ^[8]

It will be Rotting Christ's only English show for 2009 and Negura Bungets only UK date in 2009 ^[9].

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. ^[10]

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