Day of Darkness explained

Music Festival Name:	D.O.D. Festival
Location:	Ballylinan, Ireland
Years Active:	2002 – 2008^[1]
Dates:	July

Day of Darkness was the original name of Ireland's D.O.D. Festival. It happened annually in Ballylinan from 2002 to 2008 as a metal music festival.

The 2002 line-up was headlined by Primordial. It ran for a second year in 2003. Numbers, however, dwindled that year and a number of changes were implemented before the festival's third running in 2004. In 2005, the festival was moved to the first week in July and has been held on the same weekend each year since. In 2006, a second day was added to the festival and camping tickets were introduced.

The festival discontinued in 2008.

Past line-ups

2008

Friday Line-Up

• Watain
• Nifelheim
• Stand-Up Guy
• Old Season
• Neocosmic
• Sirocco
• Victim X
• Visceral Attack

Saturday Line-Up

• Doomsword
• Mourning Beloveth
• Celtic Legacy
• Thy Sinister Bloom
• Chambercraft
• Graveyard Dirt
• Overoth
• Darkest Era
• Nephridium
• Unleashed

2007

Saturday Line-Up

• Entombed
• Sabbat
• Abaddon Incarnate
• Cruachan
• Conquest of Steel
• The Prophecy
• Spearhead
• Hatred
• Era Vulgaris

Friday Line-Up

• Candlemass
• Skyforger
• Mael Mórdha
• Gorilla Monsoon
• Putrefy
• The Swarm
• Warpath
• Hallowed

2006

Saturday Line-Up

• Destruction
• Primordial
• Morphosis
• Hexxed
• Mass Extinction
• Aftermath
• Primed
• For Ruin
• A Distant Sun
• Nothing is Sacred

Friday Line-Up

• Moonsorrow
• Geasa
• Sorrowfall
• Ground of Ruin
• Minds Astray

2005

• Rotting Christ
• Desaster
• Mourning Beloveth
• Scavenger
• Waylander
• Carnún Rising
• Primal Dawn
• devilmakesthree
• Wreck of the Hesperus (band)
• Ground of Ruin

Eve of Darkness Warm-up Show

• Steel Tormentor
• Primed
• Slave Zero
• Skoll

2004

• Dismember
• Ancient Rites
• Abaddon Incarnate
• Mael Mórdha
• Putrefy
• The Swarm
• Old Season
• Sinister Demise
• Sol Axis
• Mabus
• Demize

+ Special tribute to Bathory featuring members from Primordial, Sol Axis, Geasa, and Kingdom

2003

• Mourning Beloveth
• Mael Mórdha
• Honey for Christ
• Waylander
• Die Laughing
• Scavenger
• Carnún Rising
• Old Season
• Inhumane
• The Swarm

2002

• Primordial
• Mourning Beloveth
• Primal Dawn
• Geasa
• Condemned
• Bloodbox
• Coldwar
• Corrupted (IRL)
• Slave Zero
• The 8th Day
• Die Laughing

Notes and References

1. Web site: Archer. Lorcan. Dublin Doom day. Interview. Metalireland.com. 18 August 2009. 27 June 2010.