GRASPOP Festival Adds 88 Bands To 2024 Line-up

Following the announcement of our final headliner Alice Cooper this morning, we are adding 84 new names to the line-up of the 27th edition of Graspop Metal Meeting. Bruce Dickinson, Corey Taylor, Deep Purple, Electric Callboy and Megadeth as well as 130+ other bands will pull out all the stops from Thursday 20 June through Sunday 23 June 2024 at Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel, Belgium.

Earlier all the headliners for GMM2024 had already been confirmed:

Tool (Thursday 20 June 2024);
Alice Cooper (Thursday 20 June 2024);
Five Finger Death Punch (Friday 21 June 2024);
Judas Priest (Friday 21 June 2024);
Bring Me the Horizon (Saturday 22 June 2024);
Avenged Sevenfold (Saturday 22 June 2024);
Machine Head (Sunday 23 June 2024);
Scorpions (Sunday 23 June 2024);

No fewer than 44 acts are making their GMM debut in 2024. Check out the full list on our website.

Here are the new additions to our #GMM24 bill:
Abbath - All Them Witches - Asinhell - Babymetal - Better Lovers - Biohazard - Black Stone Cherry - Bleed From Within - Blind Guardian - Body Count - Borknagar - Brand of Sacrifice - Brothers Of Metal - Bruce Dickinson - Brutus - Bury Tomorrow - Comeback Kid - Corey Taylor - Corrosion Of Conformity - Counterparts - Crystal Lake - Dark Funeral - DeathbyRomy - Deep Purple - Defects - Doro - Dying Fetus - Dynazty - Electric Callboy - Emperor - Ereb Alator - Erra - Extreme - Fit For A King - Fu Manchu - Future Palace - Graveyard - Hanabie. - High On Fire - I Am Morbid - Ice Nine Kills - Igorrr - Ihsahn - Iron Allies - Kadavar - Kamelot - Kampfar - Karnivool - Kvelertak - Lansdowne - Make Them Suffer - Malevolence - Megadeth - Monuments - Night Verses - Nile - Of Mice And Men - Pain - Pendulum (Live) - Pestilence - Polyphia - Red - Rotting Christ - Sanguisugabogg - Shadow Of Intent - Silverstein - Skynd - Slaughter To Prevail - Solence - Steel Panther - Suffocation - Svartsot - Tarja - Textures - The Acacia Strain - The Black Dahlia Murder - The Vintage Caravan - Thy Art Is Murder - Until I Wake - Vltimas - Vola - Vukovi - Wargasm - While She Sleeps.

To make its guests as comfortable as possible, Graspop Metal Meeting always offers a wide range of accommodations at and near the festival site. Click here for full details.

Earlier this week we also launched the new webshop with exclusive GMM merchandise! Need inspiration for the perfect Xmas gift? Then be sure to check out our webshop!

Order your tickets for GMM2024 as from 10 a.m. on 25 November 2023 through Ticketmaster.

About GMM: Four days, five stages. Banging headliners, up-and-coming talent, rapid-fire blast beats and the biggest mosh pits. For the 27th time the Dessel plains will be the hotspot for the leading lights of the metal and hard rock scenes. Once again Dessel will shake to its very foundations. The leading and most all-round hard rock and metal festival of the Benelux takes place from 20-23 June 2024. GMM2024 is the hallmark event marked in red on every metalhead’s calendar.

https://www.graspop.be/en/

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