- APPLICATION PHASE FOR 2025 CLOSED!It is always impressive what a news post can do. We have received over 500 applications. And we will now listen to them. All of them. The application portal for 2025 is now closed. Otherwise we won’t be able to… Read more: APPLICATION PHASE FOR 2025 CLOSED!
- Band applications!Supporting Underground since 2001! But how do we find the underground? Clear answer: It finds us. As every year, we opened the gates to our application portal shortly after the festival! And there’s a lot going on there. You can… Read more: Band applications!
- Thanks from D.O.A 2024Dear Dong fans, The 22nd Dong Open Air is over! And what a weekend it was! After a textbook example of a festival summer Thursday, we experienced weather on Friday that we had not seen in the past 12 years.… Read more: Thanks from D.O.A 2024
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Discover the Dongberg!
Dong Open Air without the Halde Norddeutschland? Unimaginable! Every year, metal fans from all directions make a pilgrimage to its hilltop to let their hair down at a height of 100 meters. The remoteness of the natural surroundings, the spectacular view over the Lower Rhine and Ruhr region and the family atmosphere on the festival site make the Dongberg, as the Halde is known not only in metal circles, a very special place