This year Graspop Metal Meeting, or shorter: Graspop, celebrates his fifteenth birthday. Graspop is a three day anual metalfestival in Dessel (BE).

The story of Graspop actually started some 24 years ago. Peter Van Geel started the festival as a ‘family festival’ with (at the start) bands of local soil. The tenth birthday however, with The Simple Minds and Joe Cocker, was certainly not a success. Peter decided that more ‘alternative’ editions were the way to keep Graspop on track. Thanks to Bob Schoenmaekers (Biebob) and Herman Schuermans (Rock Werchter) Graspop was transformed into a metalfestival: Graspop Metal Meeting.

The first edition of GMM had some 10.000 visitors and fifteen bands playing on two stages. Iron Maiden and Type O Negative were headliners.

In 1998, only three years later, the original festival area was getting too small and they moved the festival to ‘De Boeretang’, but last year even this area grew too small. So the festival moved to 'Stenehei', the former camping site.

This year it promises to be hell of a birthday for Graspop Metal Meeting! Kiss, Aerosmith and Guns 'n Roses will headline this edition.
Here is a line-up overview.

Slayer, Saxon, Paradise Lost, Obituary, Antahena, Steel Panter, UDO, Deicide, A Day To Remember, Atreyu , Unearth, Cannibal Corpse, 36 Crazy Fists, Raise to remain, Between The Buried and me , Kiss, immortal, My Dying Bride, Tarja, RATT, Behemoth, Ignite, Korpiklaani, Sepultura, Anvil, Jon Olivia's Pain , Walls Of Jericho , Tankard, Bleeding Through, Alestorm, All Shall Perish, Deadlock, The Faceless, Necrophobic, Channel Zero, Motorhead, Amon Amarth ,As I Lay Dying, Ghost Brigade, Job For A Cowboy, Aerosmith, Stone Temple Pilots, Mastodon, Fear Factory, Airbourne, Raven, The Devil's Blood, Evergrey, Dark Funural, sylosis, 3 Inches Of Blood, Eluveitie, HellYeah , Katatonia, Fintroll and Guns ‘n Roses.

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