Ozzfest lineups by year

Information

The concert on July 18, 1998 at Float Rite Park was merged with Warped Tour 1998. Some 39,000 fans were at the 12-hour, six-stage, 48-band event.

United States

Levi Stage

Godhead (last sow on June 30)

Otep (through July 31)

No One (Started on July 13) (replaced by Project Wyze on July 24)

Pure Rubbish

Beautiful Creatures

Pressure 4-5 (Started July 14)

Ozzfest 2003

Main stage:

Ozzy Osbourne, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Disturbed, Chevelle, The Datsuns (on select dates)

Second stage:

Cradle of Filth, Voivod, Hotwire, Shadows Fall, Grade 8 (through August 11), Twisted Method, Nothingface, Killswitch Engage, Ünloco, Depswa (through August 11), Motograter, Sworn Enemy, The Revolution Smile, Chimaira, Endo, Memento, E.Town Concrete (started August 14)

Ozzfest 2004

Main stage:

Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Slayer, Dimmu Borgir, Superjoint Ritual, Black Label Society

Second stage:

Slipknot, Hatebreed, Lamb of God, Atreyu, Bleeding Through, Lacuna Coil, Every Time I Die, Unearth, God Forbid, Otep, Devildriver, Magna-Fi, Throwdown, Darkest Hour

UK (Download Festival)

The Saturday (11 June) of the Download Festival at Donington Park was dubbed "Ozzfest Day", featuring Black Sabbath, Velvet Revolver, HIM, Anthrax, Alter Bridge, A, Bowling for Soup, The Mad Capsule Markets, The Dwarves and Trivium.

United States

Main stage:

Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden (from July 15 – August 20), Mudvayne, Shadows Fall, Black Label Society, In Flames, Velvet Revolver (from August 23 – September 4), Slipknot (July 31 and August 20 only), Drowning Pool (August 25 only),

Second stage:

Rob Zombie, Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Mastodon, A Dozen Furies, The Haunted, Arch Enemy, The Black Dahlia Murder, Bury Your Dead, It Dies Today, Soilwork, Gizmachi, Wicked Wisdom, Trivium

Ozzfest 2006

Main stage:

Ozzy Osbourne (on select dates), System of a Down, Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold (cancelled August 13), Hatebreed (cancelled August 9 and 13), Lacuna Coil, DragonForce

Second stage:

Ozzy Osbourne (on select dates), Black Label Society, Atreyu, Unearth, Bleeding Through, Norma Jean

Second sStage (rotating slots):

A Life Once Lost, The Red Chord, Walls of Jericho, Strapping Young Lad, All That Remains, Full Blown Chaos, Between the Buried and Me, Bad Acid Trip

Ozzfest 2007

Main stage

Ozzy Osbourne, Lamb of God, Static-X, Lordi, Black Tide (started August 10)

Second stage

Hatebreed, Behemoth, Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator (July 12–22), DevilDriver (started August 2)

Second stage (rotating slots)

Nile, Ankla, The Showdown, 3 Inches of Blood, DÅÅTH, In This Moment, Chthonic, Circus Diablo

Ozzfest 2008

Main stage

Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Serj Tankian, Hellyeah, Jonathan Davis, Cavalera Conspiracy, Shadows Fall, Apocalyptica, In This Moment

Second stage

Sevendust, DevilDriver, Kingdom of Sorrow, Soilent Green, Witchcraft, Goatwhore

Texas stage

The Sword, Drowning Pool, Rigor Mortis, The Destro, Within Chaos, Debri, Black Tooth

Main stage

Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Halford, Devildriver, Nonpoint

Second stage

Black Label Society (cancelled August 22 and August 24), Drowning Pool (cancelled August 24), Kingdom of Sorrow (cancelled August 14)

Second stage (rotating slots):

Goatwhore (cancelled August 21), Skeletonwitch, Saviours, Kataklysm (cancelled August 24), Exodus (August 14 only), California Wildebeest (August 14 only), and Immune (August 14 only)

United Kingdom

Main stage

Ozzy Osbourne, Korn, Murderdolls, Steel Panther, Skindred

Second stage

Paradise Lost, Black Spiders, Revoker, Jettblack

Main stage

Ozzy Osbourne, Korn, Soulfly and Betzefer.

Second stage

Almana Shchora, Behind the Sun and Tal Friedman and his band the Krayot.

Ozzfest Japan 2013

May 11

Slipknot, Slash (musician) featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, Deftones, Maximum the Hormone, Man with a Mission, Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas (band), The Treatment, Namba 69, crossfaith, Galneryus, Momoiro Clover Z, Knock out monkey, and Artema

May 12

Black Sabbath, Tool, Stone Sour, Dir En Grey, Anthem, coldrain, Steel Panther, Mucc, AA=, Ningen Isu, Head Phones President, and fade

Ozzfest Japan 2015

November 21

Korn, Evanescence, Bullet for My Valentine, Of Mice & Men (band), VAMPS, ONE OK ROCK, Crossfaith, MEANING, Crystal Lake, and SiM

*OPENING ACTS :wrong city, NoisyCell, The Winking Owl, Unveil Raze

November 22

Ozzy and Friends, Jane's Addiction, Hatebreed, A Day to Remember, Black Label Society, Babymetal, Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas, 9mm Parabellum Bullet, Her name in blood, Ningen Isu, and OLDCODEX

*OPENING ACTS : ANIMETAL THE SECOND, a crowd of rebellion, Kanojo in the display, SALTY DOG

Ozzfest

Lemmy Stage

Black Sabbath, Disturbed, Megadeth, Opeth, Black Label Society, Rival Sons

Monster Energy Stages 1 and 2

Suicidal Tendencies, Hatebreed, DevilDriver, Goatwhore, Huntress

Nuclear Blast stage

Municipal Waste, Kataklysm, The Shrine, Still Rebel, Allegaeon, Brujeria

Knotfest

Lemmy Main Stage

Slipknot, Slayer, Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Trivium, Motionless in White

Rockstar Stages 1 and 2

Sabaton, Suicide Silence, Overkill, Emmure, Butcher Babies, Man with a Mission

Nuclear Blast Stage

Whitechapel, Combichrist, Death Angel, Carnifex, Loathe, SiM, ONI

Guest appearances

Ron Jeremy – introduced Coal Chamber before their set in 1996. Can be seen on the Ozzfest Live VHS (discontinued).

Henry Rollins – preceded the main stage with a spoken-word performance in 1997.

Benji Webbe (ex-Dub War/Skindred) – appeared with Soulfly at their UK dates in 1998.

Kerry King (Slayer) Performed Thunderkiss with Rob Zombie on June 16, 1999 at the Meadows Music Theater in Hartford Connecticut.

Buckethead – played a few songs with Primus during their set on the Main stage in 1999, and did various stunts such as doing the "robot" and swinging around nunchaku.

Evan Seinfeld – sang with Pantera on "Walk" in 2000 at the PNC Bank Arts Center.

Verne Troyer – actor who played Mini Me, appeared onstage with Pantera at Pine Knob (now DTE Energy Music Theater) in Clarkston, Mi on July 12, 2000.

Dino Cazares – joined Soulfly to perform "Eye For An Eye" at Ozzfest 2000.

David Draiman – joined Memento to perform "Stare" at Ozzfest 2003 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Corey Taylor – joined Soulfly to perform "Jumpdafuckup" at Ozzfest UK 2001, and also joined SiM to perform a cover of Radiohead's song "Creep" at Ozzfest Japan 2015.

Tom Araya – joined Soulfly to perform "Terrorist" at Ozzfest UK 2001.

John Dolmayan – appeared with Tool in 2002 at the Antwerp and Dublin dates, performing "Triad."

George Oosthoek (ex-Orphanage) – appeared with Within Temptation during "The Other Half (Of Me)" at Nijmegen in 2002.

Dave Lombardo – appeared with Slayer at Nijmegen in 2002 (filling in for Paul Bostaph who had an elbow injury) and also with Tool.

Mike Bordin – performed with Tool at Donington and Nijmegen in 2002.

Zakk Wylde – performed with Soil on "Halo" in 2002.

Kelly Osbourne – performed with Andrew W.K. on "She Is Beautiful" in 2002.

John Tardy and Frank Watkins performed a mini-set of Obituary songs at Ozzfest 2002 in West Palm Beach, Florida with Andrew W.K. and his band. Obituary drummer Donald Tardy was Andrew's touring drummer at the time.

Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul joined Disturbed onstage at Ozzfest 2003 in Alpine Valley, Wisconsin and played guitar and drums respectively for a version of "Walk"

Rob Halford – appeared with Black Sabbath on August 26, 2004 in Camden, replacing an ill Ozzy.

Howard Jones – appeared with Throwdown in 2004.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith – appeared with Bury Your Dead in 2005.

Harry Perry during the 2006 Ozzfests, would play sets with System of a Down. He was also seen playing his guitar with a portable amp around the venues during the second stage performances.

Candace Kucsulain of Walls of Jericho appeared with In This Moment in 2007.

John 5 appeared with Static-X in 2007.

Randy Blythe from Lamb of God joined Hatebreed to perform "Perseverance" and "Doomsayer" at Ozzfest 2007.

Kevin Talley filled in on drums for Devildriver

King Diamond joined Metallica at Ozzfest 2008 and performed a medley of "Evil", "Curse of the Pharaohs", "Satan's Fall", "A Corpse Without a Soul", and "Into the Coven." This medley also appeared on Metallica's Garage Inc. cover album, as the track "Mercyful Fate."

Chester Bennington joined Disturbed in 2001 to perform a cover of Pantera's "Walk".

Buzz Osborne from the Melvins played guitar on a few songs with Tool during their performance in 1998.

Yuto Miyazawa joined Ozzy Osbourne at Ozzfest 2010 for the first 6 shows to play "Crazy Train"

Drowning Pool joined Nonpoint to play "Miracale" and "Bodies" at Ozzfest 2010 on August 24.

Branden Schieppati of Bleeding Through appeared onstage with Avenged Sevenfold at the Chicago date of Ozzfest 2006 to perform their cover of Pantera's "Walk".