Hard Rock Laager

infobox music festival
music_festival_name = Hard Rock Laager


location = Vana-Vigala, Estonia
years_active= 2002 - present
dates = early July
genre = Rock, Metal

Hard Rock Laager is a two day rock and metal festival held annually in a field in the small Estonian village of Vana-Vigala. It is the largest alternative music festival in Estonia and draws a crowd of approximately 2000 people each year.

Hard Rock Laager 2002

The first Hard Rock Laager festival took place on the 19th and 20th of July and involved mainly Estonian bands from the local scene. It had only one stage and the line-up included;

*Luciferase

*Skyforger
*Soulgrind
*Blueprint Human Being
*Bloody Sign
*Tharaphita
*Forgotten Sunrise
*Metsatöll
*Echosilence
*Zorg
*Soulwaig
*Melotrap
*Hellroad Orange
*Vigilia Mortum

Hard Rock Laager 2003

The second annual Hard Rock Laager festival took place on the 18th and 19th of July. From 2003, the festival took place over two stages, like 2002, The line-up of the second year of the festival was still almost exclusively Estonian, it included;

*Antimatter
*Obtest
*Siffles-Chopes
*Loits
*Tharaphita
*Metsatöll
*Zorg
*Herald
*Instigator of Grief
*East Trading Wang
*Monstera
*Loom
*Symbolic State
*Catafalc
*Leech
*Shabash
*Sickbag
*Raud-Ants
*Ugly Ogre

Hard Rock Laager 2004

The third annual Hard Rock Laager festival included slightly more larger international acts than previous years and took place on the 16th and 17th of July, the line-up included;

*Dismember
*Swallow the Sun
*Neglected Fields
*Ossatorium
*Loits
*Forgotten Sunrise
*Human ground
*Herald
*Metsatöll
*Must Missa
*Kantor Voy
*Catafalc
*J.M.K.E.
*Brides In Bloom
*Soilwaig
*Zahir
*Paskar Kolgats
*Necro Strike

Hard Rock Laager 2005

Hard Rock Laager 2005 took place on the 1st and 2nd of July, the line-up included;

*Katatonia
*Lord Belial
*Solitaire
*No-Big-Silence
*Andaja
*Darzamat
*Flaying
*Metsatöll
*Human ground
*Gunnar's Roses
*Loits
*Loom
*Tharaphita
*Raud-Ants
*Mortophilia
*Symbolic State
*Dawn Of Gehenna
*Hellroad Orange
*Inferno

Hard Rock Laager 2006

The most recent Hard Rock Laager was the biggest yet, the line-up included many international artists and was headlined by the Norwegian black metal band Satyricon.The festival took place on the 30th of June and the 1st of July, the full line-up for the festival included;

Saku Rock Stage

Jack Daniels Stage

External links

* [http://laager.hardrockclub.ee/et/main.php Official website]
* [http://www.estonianmetal.com/ An English language website about Estonian metal bands.]