Sauna Open Air Metal Festival, shortly Sauna Open Air or just Sauna, has become one of the largest music festivals dedicated only to metal and related styles of music in the Nordic countries. It was first arranged in 2004 and takes place in the Ratinanniemi park in Tampere, Finland. On June 8-10 in 2006, over 20,000 metalheads arrived to watch such bands as Cradle of Filth, Finntroll, Iggy & The Stooges, Lordi, Twisted Sister and W.A.S.P..
In 2007, the festival gathered an audience of over 22 000 people, the record of the Sauna festival[1].
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Headliners are bolded.
Children of Bodom, Diablo, Dreamtale, Finntroll, Helloween, Lordi, My Fate, Nightwish, Swallow the Sun, Tarot, Thunderstone, Twilightning, Underwear.
Amoral, Deathchain, Dio, Dreamtale, Kiuas, Kotipelto, Machine Men, Megadeth, Mokoma, Moonsorrow, Norther, Pain, Roctum, Sentenced, Slayer, Sonata Arctica, Teräsbetoni.
April, The Black League, Blake, Charon, Cradle of Filth, Diablo, Ensiferum, Finntroll, The Flaming Sideburns, Iggy & The Stooges, Kiuas, Lordi, Stam1na, Turmion Kätilöt, Twisted Sister, Verjnuarmu, W.A.S.P..
Ari Koivunen, Dark Tranquillity, Dimmu Borgir, Entwine, Heaven and Hell, Korpiklaani, Kotipelto, Kotiteollisuus, Swallow the Sun, Leverage, Los Bastardos Finlandeses, Megadeth, Pain Confessor, Poisonblack, Sabaton, Sonata Arctica, Stam1na, Thunderstone, Timo Rautiainen, Type O Negative, Violent Storm (cancelled).
Airbourne, Amorphis, Children Of Bodom, Diablo, Eläkeläiset, Graham Bonnet & Joe Lynn Turner, Iiwanajulma, Kiuas, KYPCK, Masterstroke, Mokoma, MoonMadness, Rytmihäiriö, Scorpions, Sebastian Bach, Sonata Arctica, Stam1na, Stone, Testament, Tracedawn, When The Empire Falls, Whitesnake, Widescreen Mode.
45 Degree Woman, Amorphis, Apocalyptica, Bullet, Deuteronomium, Duff McKagan's Loaded, Finntroll, Hardcore Superstar (cancelled), HammerFall, Kamelot, Kotiteollisuus, Medeia, Meshuggah (cancelled), Mötley Crüe, Nightwish, Omnium Gatherum, Poisonblack, Prestige, Profane Omen, Soilwork, Sparzanza, Stratovarius, Sturm und Drang, Thor, Viikate.
Anvil, Grave Digger, KISS, RATT.
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Coordinates: 61°29′24″N 23°45′15″E / 61.49°N 23.75417°E / 61.49; 23.75417
