Unirock Open Air Festival is an annual summer open-air heavy metal music festival held in Istanbul, Turkey since 2008.
The festival has attracted many international big-name metal bands, such as Testament, Arch Enemy, Opeth, Kreator, Dark Tranquillity, Paradise Lost, and Amon Amarth. Various Middle Eastern and Mediterranean bands have also participated in the event, including Orphaned Land (Israel), Bilocate (Jordan), Arsames (Iran), and Rotting Christ (Greece).
Dates: 20-22 June 2008<br /> Location: Parkorman, Istanbul<br /> Running Order:<br /> 20 June 2008: Obstinacy, Definitive, Insistence, Affliction, Catafalque, Opeth<br /> 21 June 2008: Unleash, Altona, Crossfire, Malt, Orphaned Land, Mezarkabul, Testament<br /> 22 June 2008: Prime Object, Heretic Soul, Black Tooth, False in Truth, Moribund Oblivion, Soul Sacrifice, Dark Tranquillity
Dates: 27 March 2009<br /> Location: Bronx, Istanbul<br /> Bands: The Haunted
Dates: 17-19 July 2009<br /> Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul<br /> Running Order:<br /> 17 July 2009: And I Exist, Undertakers, Pickpocket, Rampage, Magilum, Soul Sacrifice, Arch Enemy<br /> 18 July 2009: Deathblow, UÃÂK Grind, One Bullet Left, Catafalque, Rotting Christ, Paradise Lost, Kreator<br /> 19 July 2009: Mosh Pit Project, Arsames, Bilocate, Saints'N'Sinners, Episode 13, Firewind, Amon Amarth
Dates: 3 October 2009<br /> Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul<br /> Bands: Biocrime, Carnophage, Moribund Oblivion, Graveworm, Legion of the Damned, Mezarkabul
Dates: 2-4 July 2010<br /> Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul<br /> Running Order:<br /> 2 July 2010: Gates of Eternity, Belphegor, Entombed, Behemoth, Overkill, Cannibal Corpse<br /> 3 July 2010: None Shall Return, Sabhankra, Sabaton, Necrophagist, Dark Funeral, Grave Digger, Evergrey, Amorphis<br /> 4 July 2010: Choler Age, Since Yesterday, Makine, Heaven Shall Burn, Korpiklaani, Obituary, Nevermore
Dates: 8 June 2011<br /> Location: Jolly Joker Balans, Istanbul<br /> Bands: August Burns Red
Dates: 9-11 September 2011<br /> Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul<br /> Running Order:<br /> 9 September 2011: Baht, Azhirock, Apsent, GROZA, Decapitated<br /> 10 September 2011: Dream Ocean, Chopstick Suicide, Nitro, Kimaera, Asafated, Orphaned Land <br /> 11 September 2011: 5grs, Gürz, Decaying Purity, Undermost, Ascraeus, Vader, Mayhem