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Unirock Open Air Festival is an annual summer open-air heavy metal music festival held in Istanbul, Turkey since 2008.^[1]

The festival has attracted many international big-name metal bands, such as Testament, Arch Enemy, Opeth, Kreator, Dark Tranquillity, Paradise Lost, and Amon Amarth.^[2] Various Middle Eastern and Mediterranean bands have also participated in the event, including Orphaned Land (Israel), Bilocate (Jordan), Arsames (Iran), and Rotting Christ (Greece).

Unirock Open Air Festival

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2008

Dates: 20-22 June 2008
Location: Parkorman, Istanbul
Running Order:
20 June 2008: Obstinacy, Definitive, Insistence, Affliction, Catafalque, Opeth
21 June 2008: Unleash, Altona, Crossfire, Malt, Orphaned Land, Mezarkabul, Testament
22 June 2008: Prime Object, Heretic Soul, Black Tooth, False in Truth, Moribund Oblivion, Soul Sacrifice, Dark Tranquillity

2009

Warm-up party

Dates: 27 March 2009
Location: Bronx, Istanbul
Bands: The Haunted

Dates: 17-19 July 2009
Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul
Running Order:
17 July 2009: And I Exist, Undertakers, Pickpocket, Rampage, Magilum, Soul Sacrifice, Arch Enemy
18 July 2009: Deathblow, UÇK Grind, One Bullet Left, Catafalque, Rotting Christ, Paradise Lost, Kreator
19 July 2009: Mosh Pit Project, Arsames, Bilocate, Saints'N'Sinners, Episode 13, Firewind, Amon Amarth

Extreme Open Air Festival

Dates: 3 October 2009
Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul
Bands: Biocrime, Carnophage, Moribund Oblivion, Graveworm, Legion of the Damned, Mezarkabul

2010

Dates: 2-4 July 2010
Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul
Running Order:
2 July 2010: Gates of Eternity, Belphegor, Entombed, Behemoth, Overkill, Cannibal Corpse
3 July 2010: None Shall Return, Sabhankra, Sabaton, Necrophagist, Dark Funeral, Grave Digger, Evergrey, Amorphis
4 July 2010: Choler Age, Since Yesterday, Makine, Heaven Shall Burn, Korpiklaani, Obituary, Nevermore

2011

Warm-up party

Dates: 8 June 2011
Location: Jolly Joker Balans, Istanbul
Bands: August Burns Red

Dates: 9-11 September 2011
Location: Maçka Küçükçiftlik Park, Istanbul
Running Order:
9 September 2011: Baht, Azhirock, Apsent, GROZA, Decapitated
10 September 2011: Dream Ocean, Chopstick Suicide, Nitro, Kimaera, Asafated, Orphaned Land
11 September 2011: 5grs, Gürz, Decaying Purity, Undermost, Ascraeus, Vader, Mayhem

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