The Nova Rock Festival, also just Nova Rock, is an Austrian rock festival that has existed since 2005 and takes place each year in June.[1] It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria, near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders. It is organized by Nova Music Entertainment, a cooperation between Musicnet, FKP Scorpio and several former employees/bookers of Wiesen, who left Wiesen in 2004.
Originally Korn were announced to play the festival, but had to cancel it, as well as the "Nova Rock Encore", a concert in Vienna which they were expected to play with Deftones, Soulfly and Devildriver.
2007 lineup
Nova Rock Festival 2007 took place from 15 to 17 June with the following lineup:
2022 was the first festival since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Attempts were made to organize the festival in both 2020 and 2021, but were inevitably cancelled due to concerns with the virus.[3][5][6]
The 2025 festival is scheduled to take place from June 12th to 14th, 2025.[9] On June 13th of 2024, Slipknot, Electric Callboy, Wanda, and Lorna Shore were announced for the 19th iteration of the festival.