Festival No. 0000002 · Est. 1992
Who's playing, and when
Festival lineup
Sunday
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Voices from the field
Reviews
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Rate this festival
Nobody has said what this weekend was like
20+ acts on the bill and not one answer yet. Four questions - the lineup, the atmosphere, how it was run, and whether it was worth the ticket - and this page starts telling people what Graspop Metal Meeting 1998 was actually like to be at.
Every edition since 1992
Graspop Metal Meeting editions
Somewhere in Dessel
Where it happens
The details
- Venue
- Graspop Metal Meeting 1998
- City
- Dessel, Belgium
Somewhere to sleep it off
Where to stay
Apartments and hotels near Graspop Metal Meeting 1998, Dessel for the nights of the festival. The map comes from Stay22. If you book through it, we earn a commission, which helps keep the site running.
For the record
About the artists
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Black Sabbath formed in Birmingham, United Kingdom, in September 1968, and split up on 5 July 2025, after 56 years. Plays blues rock, classic rock, doom metal, hard rock, heavy metal, metal, rock, traditional doom metal. -
Coal Chamber formed in Los Angeles, United States, in 1993. Plays alternative metal, gothic metal, industrial metal, nu metal.
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Deftones formed in Sacramento, United States, in 1988. Plays alternative metal, alternative rock, experimental rock, heavy metal, metal, nu metal, rock, shoegaze.
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Dimmu Borgir formed in 1993. Plays black metal, melodic black metal, metal, symphonic black metal.
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Dream Theater formed in Boston, United States, in 1985. Plays art rock, hard rock, heavy metal, metal, neo-progressive rock, progressive, progressive metal, progressive rock.
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Iced Earth formed in 1988. Plays heavy metal, metal, power metal, thrash metal.
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In Flames formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1990. Plays alternative metal, heavy metal, melodic death metal, metal, metalcore.
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Madball formed in New York, United States, in 1988. Plays beatdown hardcore, hardcore punk, metalcore, punk.
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Misfits formed in Lodi, United States, in February 1977. Plays hardcore punk, horror punk, punk, punk rock, rock.
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Moonspell formed in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1989. Plays black metal, gothic metal, metal.
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Obituary formed in Tampa, United States, in 1988. Plays death metal, metal, old school death metal.
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Paradise Lost formed in Halifax, United Kingdom, on 26 March 1988. Plays death metal, death-doom metal, doom metal, gothic metal, gothic rock, metal, rock.
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Primus formed in El Sobrante, United States, in 1984. Plays alternative rock, funk metal, funk rock, rock.
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Pro-Pain formed in New York, United States, in 1992. Plays groove metal, thrash metal.
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Savatage formed in Tarpon Springs, United States, in 1979. Plays heavy metal, power metal, progressive metal.
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Soulfly formed in Phoenix, United States, in 1997. Plays alternative metal, groove metal, heavy metal, nu metal, thrash metal.
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Spiritual Beggars formed in Halmstad, Sweden, in 1993. Plays stoner metal.
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The Congress formed in 1985, and split up in 1992, after 7 years.
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U.D.O. formed in 1987. Plays heavy metal, metal.
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Within Temptation formed in Waddinxveen, Netherlands, in April 1995. Plays gothic metal, metal, symphonic metal, symphonic rock.