[1] It is located in Burgenland, the easternmost federal state of Austria, near Nickelsdorf and the Hungarian and Slovak borders.

[2][3][4] Die Ärzte, Audioslave, Bad Acid Trip, Beatsteaks, BoySetsFire, Core, Green Day, In Extremo, La Vela Puerca, Mando Diao, Marilyn Manson, Moneybrother, Nightwish, The Prodigy, Soulfly, System of a Down, Weezer, Wir sind Helden The 2006 Nova Rock festival was held from 15 to 17 June (Thursday to Saturday).

The first bands announced on the Nova Rock homepage were: Guns N' Roses, Placebo, Metallica, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Massive Attack, Motörhead, Madsen, Billy Talent, Hard-Fi, Guadalajara, Seeed, Bodyrockers, She Male Trouble, Sportfreunde Stiller, Lagwagon, Subway to Sally and Julia.

Nova Rock Festival 2007 took place from 15 to 17 June with the following lineup: Headliners: Billy Talent, The Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, Pearl Jam, Slayer, The Killers, The festival also consisted of bands including: Linkin Park, Machine Head, In Flames, Papa Roach, Reel Big Fish, Incubus, Mando Diao, The Hives, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Children of Bodom, Less Than Jake, Flogging Molly, Mastodon, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Isis, Aiden, In Extremo, Ill Niño, Within Temptation, Hayseed Dixie, The BossHoss and Chimaira.

Attempts were made to organize the festival in both 2020 and 2021, but were inevitably cancelled due to concerns with the virus.

[7] Headliners were Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold, Måneskin, and Bring Me the Horizon, though Avril Lavigne, The Sisters of Mercy, and Alice Cooper were also in the line ups.

Unlike previous years, only the Blue and Red Bull Music stages were played during the last day of the festival.

[9] On June 13 of 2024, Slipknot, Electric Callboy, Wanda, The Warning, and Lorna Shore were announced for the 19th iteration of the festival.