The Nova Rock Festival , also just Nova Rock , is a music festival that has existed since 2005 and takes place each year in June. It is Austria's biggest rock music festivals, and also one of the largest in Europe. It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria, near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders. It is organized by Nova Music Entertainment, which is a cooperation of Musicnet, FKP Scorpio and several former employees/bookers of Wiesen, who left Wiesen in 2004 after ongoing internal misunderstandings.

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2009 lineup

250px drummer Joey Jordison performing at Nova Rock in 2009.

Confirmed bands as of 4 April, 2009:

Blue Stage			Red Stage
19. Juni	20. Juni	21. Juni	19. Juni	20. Juni	21. Juni
Metallica	Placebo	Die Toten Hosen	Nine Inch Nails	In Extremo	Machine Head
Slipknot	Kaiser Chiefs	Limp Bizkit	Faith No More	Chickenfoot	Dimmu Borgir
Mastodon	Chris Cornell	Guano Apes	Gogol Bordello	Killswitch Engage	Trivium
Disturbed	Staind	Madsen	Sunrise Avenue	Monster Magnet	Static-X
Black Stone Cherry	Dredg	Less Than Jake	The Gaslight Anthem	All That Remains	Sevendust
Caliban	Lacuna Coil	Duff Mc Kagan's Loaded	The Living End	Dir En Grey	Bring Me the Horizon
Sonic Syndicate	Expatriate	3 Feet Smaller	Julia	Atrocity	August Burns Red
Drumatical Theatre	The Druango Riot	Kilians	The Temper Trap	Eisbrecher	And So I Watch You From Afar
Xenesthis	No Head On My Shoulders	Zeronic	Rolo Tomassi	Centao	Kontrust

2008 lineup

Confirmed lineup:

Rage Against The Machine, Die Ärzte, The Verve, Sex Pistols, Bad Religion, Judas Priest, Incubus, Beatsteaks, Motörhead, Kid Rock, Nofx, In Flames

and

Cavalera Conspiracy, Rise Against, Bullet For My Valentine, Disturbed, MIA., Gavin Rossdale, 3 Doors Down, Jonathan Davis, Porcupine Tree, Subway To Sally, Alter Bridge, Ash, Anti-Flag, Opeth, Funeral for a Friend, Enter Shikari, The Godfathers, The Weakerthans, Rose Tattoo, Carbon/Silicon, Airbourne, Capibara, Panteon Rococo, Guadalajara, Jaguar Love, Skindred, Black Tide, Volbeat, Sonic Syndicate, From First To Last, Sunshine, Kill Hannah, Die Mannequin, Zox, Fire In The Attic, The Sorrow, .sPout.

2007 lineup

Nova Rock Festival 2007 took place from the 15th to the 17th of June with the following lineup:

Headliners: Billy Talent, The Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, Pearl Jam, Slayer, The Killers,

The festival also consisted of bands including: Linkin Park, Machine Head, In Flames, Papa Roach, Reel Big Fish, Incubus, Mando Diao, The Hives, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Children of Bodom, Less Than Jake, Flogging Molly, Mastodon, 30 Seconds to Mars, Isis, Aiden, In Extremo, Ill Niño, Within Temptation, Hayseed Dixie, The BossHoss and Chimaira.

2006 lineup

Last year there were two stages. The first bands officially announced on the Nova Rock homepage were: Guns N' Roses, Placebo, Metallica, Tool, Queens of The Stone Age, Massive Attack, Motörhead, Madsen, Billy Talent, Hard-Fi, Guadalajara, Seeed, Bodyrockers, She Male Trouble, Sportfreunde Stiller, Lagwagon, Subway to Sally and Julia.

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Metallica	Placebo	Guns N' Roses
Motörhead	Massive Attack	Tool
Alice in Chains	Live	Bloodhound Gang
Alter Bridge	Starsailor	Oomph!
Avenged Sevenfold	The Datsuns	Apocalyptica
Stone Sour	The Sounds	Opeth
Bullet for My Valentine	Billy Talent	Die Krupps
Trivium	The Answer	Sebastian Bach
Bloodsimple	Tyler
Unheilig

Originally Korn were announced to play the festival, but had to cancel it, as well as the "Nova Rock Encore", a concert in Vienna which they were expected to play with Deftones, Soulfly and Devildriver.

2005 lineup

Die Ärzte, Audioslave, Bad Acid Trip, Beatsteaks, Boysetsfire, Core, Green Day, In Extremo, La Vela Puerca, Mando Diao, Marilyn Manson, Moneybrother, Nightwish, The Prodigy, System of a Down, Weezer, Wir sind Helden