Festival No. 0001760 · Est. 1980
Who's playing, and when
Festival lineup
Saturday
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Voices from the field
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Somewhere in Castle Donington
Where it happens
The details
- Venue
- Monsters of Rock 1996
- City
- Castle Donington, UK
Somewhere to sleep it off
Where to stay
Apartments and hotels near Monsters of Rock 1996, Castle Donington 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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3 Colours Red formed in London, United Kingdom, in 1995, and split up on 28 September 2005, after 10 years. Plays alternative rock. -
Biohazard formed in Brooklyn, United States, in 1988. Plays alternative metal, metal, rap metal, rapcore.
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Cecil formed in 1993, and split up in March 2002, after 9 years.
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Dog Eat Dog formed in Bergen County, United States, in 1990. Plays hardcore punk, rap metal, rapcore.
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Everclear formed in Portland, United States, in 1992. Plays alternative country, alternative rock, cowpunk, grunge, hard rock, pop punk, pop rock, post-grunge.
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Fear Factory formed in Los Angeles, United States, on 31 October 1990. Plays alternative metal, death metal, groove metal, heavy metal, industrial, industrial metal, metal, nu metal.
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Honeycrack formed in London, United Kingdom, in 1994, and split up in 1997, after 3 years.
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Kiss formed in Queens, United States, in January 1973, and split up on 2 December 2023, after 50 years. Plays alternative metal, aor, arena rock, classic rock, disco, glam, glam metal, glam rock.
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Korn formed in Bakersfield, United States, in 1993. Plays alternative metal, alternative rock, brostep, hard rock, heavy metal, industrial, industrial rock, metal.
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Ozzy Osbourne was born in Aston, United Kingdom, on 3 December 1948, and died on 22 July 2025, aged 76. Plays glam metal, hard rock, heavy metal, metal, pop rock, symphonic rock.
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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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Sepultura formed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1984. Plays alternative metal, death metal, groove metal, heavy metal, metal, thrash metal.
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Type O Negative formed in Brooklyn, United States, in 1989, and split up on 14 April 2010, after 21 years. Plays doom metal, gothic metal, heavy metal, metal.