This Year's SONISPHERE Festivals Attended By More Than 700,000 Fans

August 16, 2010

According to Billboard.biz, this year's Sonisphere festival, which visited 11 countries across Europe, had a total attendance of more than 700,000 across 19 dates.

At last year's inaugural event, around 300,000 fans attended the festival, which was staged on seven dates at six locations.

The Sonisphere cinecast from the Sofia, Bulgaria leg of the touring rock festival was seen by more than 100,000 fans, according to promoter Stuart Galbraith.

The global June 22 cinecast featured the "Big Four" of 1980s thrash metal — METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX — and was beamed via satellite in HD to cinemas. It was distributed globally into hundreds of cinemas by New York-based BY Experience.

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