The festival will start with a concert by the Hungarian band Tankcsapda, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. The set list for the gig, which promises to be the band's most spectacular ever, will include classics going back two decades.
Australian indie band The Expatriate, whose debut album In the Midst of This came out in 2007, will play in Hungary for the first time at this year's Sziget, while one of Germany's most popular punk rock bands, the Donots, will bring their latest offering, Coma Chameleon. Satyricon, who turned to industrial metal in 2008, will perform material off of their latest album Age of Nero. Turbonegro, the Norwegian band that revolutionized hard rock, is on the line-up, as is Life of Agony, the Brooklyn-based heavy metal band who are hard at work on their fifth studio album, and the industrial metal act Deathstars.