update! (just stealing this from the German forum
)
newly confirmed:
Running Wild
Darkane
Callenish Circle
Raise Hell
Sinister
Kataklysm
Graveworm
The Crown
Assassin
in negotiation/in work:
Satyricon (only if Darkthrone are playing)
Pain
Siebenbürgen (evtl.)
Testament
Gwar
Manilla Road (evtl.)
FATES WARNING
Old Man´s Child
Life of Agony-Reunion (evtl.)
Raunchy (ja)
SFU
Arch Enemy (evtl.)
Social Distortion
Machine Head (evtl.)
Lefay (mal sehen)
Dismember (evtl.)
Dark Age (ja)
The haunted (evtl.)
obscenity (evtl.)
Enslaved (evtl.)
Onward (evtl.)
Witchburner
Spiritual Beggars (evtl.)
The Quill (ja)
Samael (evtl.)
Sonata Arctica (eher ja)
Mystic Circle (evtl.)
Carpathian Forest
Anathema
Star One/Ayreon
Riger
Pain of Salvation (evtl.)
Threshold (evtl.)
Edenbridge (evtl.)
Arch Enemy
Falkenbach (evtl.)
Marduk
Tristania (evtl.)
Subway to Sally
Meshuggah
Cathedral
Illdisposed (evtl.)
Cradle of Filth
Anthrax
Slayer
Annihilator
Six Feet Under
Sentenced
Death Angel
Iron Maiden
In Flames
Axxis (evtl.)
Freedom Call
Schandmaul (evtl.)
Dark Funeral (evtl.)
Elvenking (evtl.)
Dark Moor (evtl.)
Lordi
Darkthrone
Soilwork
Black Symphony
Candlemass
Trouble
Malmsteen
TNT
Twisted Tower Dire
Not possible, not planned or no contact:
ManOwaR (wanna play only their own festival)
Crematory
QUEENSRYCHE (too expensive)
JAG PANZER
Napalm Death
Mercyful Fate
Megadeth
Sisters of Mercy
Cannibal Corpse
Apocalyptica (too expensive)
NOFX
Rob Zombie
Misfits
Knorkator
Backyard Babies
Knigh Errant
Pantera
Wumpscut
Jesus Chrysler Superskunk
Terror 2000
Desaster
Final Breath
Tiamat
The Project Hate
Finntroll
Immortal
Soulfly
Dark at Dawn
Metal Church
Tito and Tarantula
Fear Factory
Falconer
Tesla
Lillian Axe
Harem Scarem
Firehouse
Breaker
Shok Paris
Mago de Oz
Messiah's Kiss
Dispatched
Sodom
Kalmah
Burning Inside
Grave Digger
Summoning
Luca Turilli
After Forever
Dying Fetus
Distaste
Tidfall
Amon Amarth
Nine Inch Nails
Dominion III
Limbonic Art
Immolation
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Sabbat
Napalm Death
Emperor
Myrkskog
Claws of Nihil
Alastor
Black Sabbath
Dornenreich
Type 0 negative
Troll
Katatonia
Moonspell
Dreams of sanity
Throne of chaos
The Gathering
Setherial
Misteltein
Mayhem
Iniquity
Gloomy Grim
Cryptic Wintermoon
Crown of Autumn
Nokturnal Mortum
limbonic art
Devlin
The Reign of Terror
Cadaverous Condition
Voice
mystic circle
Blood Red Throne
Thornspaw
The Kovenant
Merauder
Shadow Gallery
Ark
Avantasia (don´t wanna play)
Blue Öyster Cult (too expensive)
Opeth
Bloodbath
Genius
System of a Down
Within Temptation
Metallica *fg*
After Forever
Helloween
Iron Fire
Kamelot
Rhapsody
Bathory (they don´t play live)
Graveland
Judas Iscariot
MENHIR
Nagelfar
Taake
In Extremo
Therion
Holy Moses
Nasum
W.A.S.P.
Ewigheim
Devlin
Theatre of Tragedy
Manos
Gurd
pantera (difficult)
Krokus
Celtic Frost
Dark Tranquility
Fading Starlight
Vanitas
Dorn
Nargaroth
Uriah Heep
Rhapsody
Ensiferum
Nightwish
Moonsorrow
Judas Priest
Sins of thy Beloved
Haggard
Vintersorg
Symphony X
Perzonal War
Brujeria
Lividity
Nightwish (getting crazy with the prize)
Souldoctor
Nostradameus
Killswitch Engage
Sacred Steel
Twisted Sister
Dee Snider
possibly in 2004:
Hammerfall
Grave Digger
Therion
Dimmu Borgir
Opeth
Nevermore
and he said that max. 60 bands will play...