Summer Breeze Open Air is an annual German heavy metal music festival. It was first held in 1997. The festival had been held in Abtsgmünd until 2006 when it was moved to its new location of Dinkelsbühl, Bavaria. The festival draws around 40,000 attendees annually.

Lineup history

2004

Summer Breeze Open Air 2004 was held from Thursday, 19 August to Saturday, 21 August.

2005

Summer Breeze Open Air 2005 was held from Thursday, 18 August to Saturday, 20 August.

2006

Summer Breeze Open Air 2006 was held from Thursday, 17 August to Saturday, 19 August.

2007

Absolute – After Forever – Amon Amarth – Black Messiah – Blitzkid — Bolt Thrower – Caliban — Communic – Crematory – Dagoba – Dark Fortress – Dark Funeral – Dark Tranquillity – Deadlock – Die Apokalyptischen Reiter – Disillusion – Dornenreich – Doro – Eisbrecher – End of Green – Eluveitie – Before the Dawn — Fall of Serenity – Fear My Thoughts – Finntroll – Hardcore Superstar – Helrunar – Hevein – Illdisposed – Immolation – Impious – In Extremo – Justice – Karakadan – Koldbrann – Krypteria – Lacrimas Profundere – L'Âme Immortelle – Machinemade God – Maroon – Moonsorrow – Necrophobic – Nevermore – Nightrage – Oomph! – Pain – Poisonblack – Powerwolf – President Evil – Rage – Secrets of the Moon – Sirenia – Soulfly – Squealer A.D. – Suffocation – Swallow the Sun – Tankard – Tanzwut – The Black Dahlia Murder – Volbeat – War from a Harlot's Mouth – Xandria

2008

Cradle of Filth, Helloween, Subway to Sally, Six Feet Under, Paradise Lost, Arch Enemy, As I Lay Dying, Heaven Shall Burn, ASP, Kataklysm, H-Blockx, Soilwork, Exodus, Ensiferum, Anathema, Primordial, Primal Fear, Marduk, End of Green, Korpiklaani, Destruction, Pro-Pain, Eluveitie, Sonic Syndicate, the Wildhearts, Dismember, Behemoth, Neaera, Saltatio Mortis, Emil Bulls, The Vision Bleak, Graveworm, Keep of Kalessin, Cult of Luna, Megaherz, Mad Sin, Autumn, Endstille, Orphaned Land, Born from Pain, 3 Inches of Blood, Hollenthon, Aborted, Schelmish, All Ends, Týr, Hail of Bullets, Onslaught, Mustasch, The Rotted, Novembre, Dark Fortress, Cephalic Carnage, Jesus on Extasy, Shadow Reichenstein, Blood Red Throne, Rotten Sound, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Midnattsol, Misery Speaks, Fleshcrawl, Despised Icon, Lay Down Rotten, Hackneyed, Sworn, Debauchery, Textures, Månegarm, Negură Bunget, Dark Age, XIV Dark Centuries, Heidevolk, Enemy of the Sun, Ahab, The Old Dead Tree, Anima, Beloved Enemy, Nmemine, Hacride, Agrypnie, Drone, Misanthrope, Kissin' Dynamite

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

15–17 August 2013

2014

14–16 August 2014

2015

12-15 August 2015

2016

17-20 August 2016

2017

16–19 August 2017

2018

15–18 August 2018

Publications

DVDs

Tracks

CDs

(This CD was given out at the 2004 festival.) Tracks (This CD was given out at the 2005 festival.) Tracks