Bang Your Head!!!

Bang Your Head!!!
GenreHeavy metal, hard rock
DatesJune/July
Location(s)Balingen, Germany
Years active1996–2022
Websitewww.bang-your-head.de
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Bang Your Head!!! was a heavy metal and hard rock festival held annually in Germany.

First held in 1996 as a one-day indoor event in the Stefan-Hartmann-Halle in Tübingen with a crowd of 600 people,[1] Bang Your Head!!! has since moved to Balingen, growing into a multi-day event attracting 1,800 people in 1998, 18,000 people in 1999 and 20,000 in 2005.[2] Acts that have performed at this festival include W.A.S.P., Dio, Motörhead, Deep Purple, and Twisted Sister.[3]

The festival was discontinued in 2023.[4]

  1. ^ Bang Your Head festival information
  2. ^ Festival information from Touring in Germany
  3. ^ "Official website - historical overview". Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Bang Your Head!!! Open Air Festival". bang-your-head.de. Retrieved 24 September 2023.