Date

Country

Event

Updated

March 7-8

Spain

Atarfe Vega Rock Festival

03/02/08

March 8

Poland

Metal Mania

06/01/08

March 26-29

Mexico

Baja Prog Festival

06/01/08

May 2-4

USA

RoSFest

09/03/08

May 24

Germany

Rock Mania Festival

06/04/08

June 4-7

Sweden

Sweden Rock 2008

06/01/08

June 20-22

USA

NearFest

16/03/08

June 27-28

Germany

III. Art-Rock-Festival

20/04/08

July 17-20

UK

Cambridge Rock Festival

16/03/08

July 18-20

Germany

Night of the Prog Festival

06/01/08

July 25-27

Portugal

Lagoa Burning Live festival

06/04/08

July 25-27

USA

Sugar Creek Festival

06/07/08

August 23

Holland

Symforce II

23/03/08

September 26-28

UK

Summers End

25/05/08

October 3-5

Holland

Progpower Europe

06/01/08

October 17-19

Norway

Subtacto Festival

25/05/08

October 18-19

Belgium

Metal Female Voices Festival

17/02/08

Oct 31-Nov 1

Denmark

Progpower Scandanavia

08/06/08

Atarfe Vega Rock Festival     07-08/03/2008

Venue: Ciry of Atarfe (11 km from Granada, Andalusia)

Featuring:
ANGELUS APATRIDA
BELPHEGOR
CONVULSION-AT
DANGER DANGER
DESTRUCTION
EXCITER
GRAVE DIGGER
KATATONIA
KORPIKLAANI
KOTIPELTO
MAYHEM
MY DYING BRIDE
RATT
SAXON
SLAUGHTER
SYMPHONY X
TRIBAL
UNLEASHED
WITHIN TEMPTATION

For official website click here!

Metal Mania        ____       08/03/2008

Venue: Spodek Hall, Katowice, Poland

Featuring:
MEGADETH
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Satyricon
Overkill
Vader
Immolation
Artillery
Flotsam And Jetsam
Marduk
Primordial
Inside You
Poison The Well

For official website click here!

BAJA Prog Festival             26-29/03/2008

Venue: Mexicali, Baja California MX

Featuring:
Le Orme [it]
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso [it]
New Trolls [it]
Circa: [uk/us]
Riverside [pl]
Rocket Scientists [us]
OMNI [es]
CAST [mx/es/cl]
Abarax [de]
Octopus [cl]
Alonso Arreola [mx]
Platurno [cl]
Alex Carpani Band [it]

For official website click here!

RoSFest        ____           02-04/05/2008

Venue: The Colonial Theater, Phoenixville, PA

Featuring:
Friday 2nd May
Ritual
Starcastle
GPS
Ambrosia

Saturday 3rd May
Blind Ego
Black Bonzo
RPWL
Circa

Sunday 4th May
Credo
Wishbone Ash
The Flower Kings

For official website click here!

Rock Mania Festival              24/05/2008

Venue: Dettelbach, Germany

Featuring:
J.B.O.
Atrocity
Dornenreich
Tyr
Graveworm
Edenbridge
Paradox
Sworn
Negura Bunget
Cripper
Burden Of Grief
Svartsot
Wolfchant
Serenity
Godslave
Silence
Parsifall
Voice Of Revenge
Perfect Engine
Koma
Skeleton

For official website click here!

Sweden Rock 2008        ____  04-08/06/2008

Venue: Sölvesborg, Sweden

Featuring:
Judas Priest (UK); Def Leppard (UK); Blue Öyster Cult (US); Whitesnake (UK/US); Saxon (UK); Electric Light Orchestra (UK); Tesla (US); Testament (US); At The Gates (S); Derringer (US); Joe Satriani (US); Havana Black (FIN); The blues Band (UK); Ministry (US); Carcass (UK); Coheed & Cambria (US); Hensley/Lawton & Live Fire (UK); Dare (UK); Uli Jon Roth (D); Shakin Street (FR); Gotthard (CH); Mustasch (S); Sabaton (S); Bonafide (S); Fastway (UK); Lizzy Borden (US); Glyder (IRL); Five Fifteen (FIN); Elakelaiset (FIN); Sonic Syndicate (S); H.E.A.T. (S); Axewitch (S); Astral Doors (S); Avatar (S); Volbeat (DK); Negative (FIN)

For official website click here!

NearFest                      20-22/06/2008

Venue: Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Featuring:
Friday June 20th:
Synergy (US)
Fish (UK)

Saturday June 21st:
Koenjihyakkei (Japan)
Discipline (US)
Peter Hammill (UK)
Liquid Tension Experiment (US)

Sunday June 22nd:
Mörglbl (France)
Radio Massacre Internatiional (UK)
Echolyn (US)
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (Italy)

For official website click here!

III. Art-Rock-Festival             27-28/06/2008

Venue: Goeltzschalbruecke/Netzschkau in Eastern Germany

Featuring:
Friday 27th June
Spock's Beard
Pallas
Frost*
RWPL

Saturday, 28th June:
Omega
Queensryche
Mostly Autumn
After Sid

For official website click here!

Cambridge Rock Festival         17-20/07/2008

Venue: Wood Green Animal Shelter, Godmanchester, Cambs

Featuring:
Thursday 17th:
Led Zep Too
The Pure Floyd Show
& others

Friday 18th:
The Blockheads
Eddie and the Hot Rods
& others

Saturday 19th:
Bad Company
Juicy Lucy
Deborah Bonham
Martin Turner's Wishbone Ash
& others

Sunday 20th
Marillion
Andy Fairweather Low
Mostly Autumn
The Reasoning
John Otway
& others

For official website click here!

Night of the Prog II (Germany)    18-20/07/2008

Venue: Loreley

Featuring:
18. July
Klaus Schulze
Tangerine Dream

19. / 20. July
Fish

.... more to be announced!

For official website click here!

Lagoa Burning Live Festival        25-27/07/2008

Venue: Lagoa, Portuagal

Featuring:
Opeth, Obituary, WASP, Soilwork, Angra, Threshold, Grave Digger, Korpiklaani, Tankard, Gorgoroth, Finntroll, Royal Hunt, Leaves Eyes, Sieges Even, Firewind, Evergrey, Discharge, Onslaught and The Old Dead Tree.

For official website click here!

Sugar Creek Festival 25-27/07/2008

Venue: Sugar Creek Campground, Bloomingdale, IN 47832

Featuring:
FRIDAY JULY 25
Marrakesh Express ~ a CSNY experience
Scooter and the Cousins
Dave's eNVy

SATURDAY JULY 26
The Highway Band
Bedlam Brothers Band
Little Johnny
The Righteous Hillbillies

Please note: Saturday when the refreshments are tapped the gates are locked until Sunday morning. NO ONE is permitted to leave the grounds until the gates are reopened Sunday morning. NO EXCEPTIONS! This event has sold out every year.

For official website click here!

Symforce II                    23/08/2008

Venue: 013, Tiburg

Featuring:

Opeth (Sweden) playing an exclusive 2-hour show
Pain of Salvation (Sweden) with another exclusive 2-hour set
Textures (Holland) promising a special progressive setlist
Alquin (Holland) a classic act from the 70s playing old and new
Magic Pie (Norway) a new happening act visiting Holland for
         the first time
The Watch (Italy) bringing their real Mellotron and Moog to deliver
         a vintage Genesis sound
Hypnos 69 (Belgium) one of Belgium's best-kept secrets!
Kriminal Hammond Inferno (Belgium) expect the unexpected with 
         music full of Italian atmospheres
Solstice (England) keen to showcase their extensive and impressive
         recently re-released back catalogue
Quantum Fantay (Belgium) continuing where Ozric Tentacles left off
???????? the "mystery act" for the time being; its world premiere at
         Symforce II; the icing on the cake!

For official website click here!

Summers End Festival           26-28/09/2008

Venue: The Hall, Lydney, Gloucestershire

Featuring:
Friday 26th September:
Threshold (UK - headliner)
Support from Seasons End

Saturday 27th September
IQ (UK - headliner)
Magenta (UK - special guests)
Quidam (Poland)
Abarax (Germany)
Overvibe (UK)

Sunday 28th September
The Tangent (UK / Sweden - headliner)
Frost* (UK - special guests)
Abel Ganz (UK)
Thieves Kitchen (UK)
G.L.O.W

For official website click here!

Prog Power Euope   ___         03-05/10/2008

Venue: JC SJIWA, BAARLO, THE NETHERLANDS

Featuring:
Threshold
Pagan's Mind
Ghost Brigade
Division by Zero
Suspyre
plus 10 other bands to be announced

For official website click here!

SUBTACTO FESTIVAL          17-19/10/2008

Venue: Oslo, Norway

Featuring:
Friday October 17th:
20.30: CREDO (UK)
22.30: TBA

Saturday October 18th:
14.00: WINDMILL (NO)
16.00: MINDGAMES (BE)
18.30: MAGIC PIE (NO)
21.30: SYLVAN (DE)

Sunday October 19th: (date not 100% confirmed yet)
14.00: TBA
16.00: TBA
18.30: TBA

For official website click here!

Metal Female Voices Fest        18-19/10/2008

Venue: Oktoberhallen - Wieze - Belgium

Featuring:
18th October 2008 (Saturday):
L'Ame Immortelle
Midnattsol
Asrai
Visions of Atlantis
Atargatis
Kells
Markize
Edenbridge

19th October 2008 (Sunday):
White Skull
Ethernity
Chaoswave

.... more to be confirmed.

For official website click here!

Progpower Scandinavia 31/10-01/11/2008

Venue: The Rock, Skindergade 45-47, 1159 Copenhagen K, Denmark

Featuring:
Friday October 31st 2008
19.00-19.45 - Nostradameus (Sweden)
20.05-20.55 - Wastefall (Greece)
21.15-22.15 - Wuthering Heights (Denmark/Sweden)
22.35-23.50 - Pagan's Mind (Norway)
00.10-01.40 - Vanden Plas (Germany)

Saturday November 01st 2008
19.00-19.45 - Cloudscape (Sweden)
20.05-20.55 - Lanfear (Germany)
21.15-22.15 - Zero Hour (USA)
22.35-23.50 - DeadSoul Tribe (Austria/USA)
00.10-01.40 - Pain Of Salvation (Sweden)

For official website click here!