Festival No. 0000002 · Est. 1992
Who's playing, and when
Festival lineup
Saturday
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Voices from the field
Reviews
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Rate this festival
Nobody has said what this weekend was like
24+ 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 2002 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 2002
- City
- Dessel, Belgium
Somewhere to sleep it off
Where to stay
Apartments and hotels near Graspop Metal Meeting 2002, 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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Anathema formed in Liverpool, United Kingdom, in 1990, and split up in 2020, after 30 years. Plays alternative rock, death-doom metal, doom metal, gothic rock, metal, post-metal, progressive rock. -
Arch Enemy formed in Halmstad, Sweden, in 1996. Plays death metal, melodic death metal, metal, symphonic metal.
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Bruce Dickinson was born in Worksop, United Kingdom, on 7 August 1958. Plays heavy metal, metal, rock.
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Calibre plays ambient, drum and bass, dub, dubstep, electronic, jungle, liquid funk, techno.
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Cannibal Corpse formed in Buffalo, United States, in 1988. Plays brutal death metal, death metal.
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Dismember formed in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1988. Plays death metal, melodic death metal, metal.
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Doro formed in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1988. Plays hard rock, heavy 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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Edguy formed in Fulda, Germany, in 1992. Plays power metal.
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Evergrey formed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1993. Plays metal, progressive metal.
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Hate Eternal formed in Tampa, United States, in 1996. Plays death metal.
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Hypocrisy formed in Ludvika, Sweden, in 1990. Plays death metal, melodic death metal, metal.
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Immortal formed in Bergen, Norway, in 1991. Plays black metal, metal.
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Kreator formed in Essen, Germany, in 1982. Plays death metal, hard rock, heavy metal, metal, rock, speed metal, thrash metal.
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Machine Head formed in Oakland, United States, on 12 October 1991. Plays groove metal, heavy metal, metal, nu metal, thrash metal.
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Moonspell formed in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1989. Plays black metal, gothic metal, metal.
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My Dying Bride formed in Bradford, United Kingdom, in June 1990. Plays death-doom metal, doom metal, gothic metal.
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Nile formed in Greenville, United States, in 1993. Plays brutal death metal, death metal, metal, technical death metal.
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Origin formed in Topeka, United States, on 4 July 1997. Plays brutal death metal, death metal, technical death metal.
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Rage formed in Herne, Germany, in 1986. Plays heavy metal, power metal, speed metal.
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Rob Halford was born in Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom, on 25 August 1951. Plays heavy metal, metal.
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Saxon formed in Barnsley, United Kingdom, in 1976. Plays hard rock, heavy metal, metal, nwobhm, rock.
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Slayer formed in Huntington Park, United States, in 1981. Plays black metal, crossover thrash, heavy metal, metal, nu metal, speed metal, thrash metal.
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Tristania formed in Stavanger, Norway, in 1996, and split up in 2022, after 26 years. Plays gothic metal.