19 June 2016, Otkritie Arena, Moscow. Three years without the festival, then Rammstein at the top of the bill and a stadium built for forty-five thousand people. This is the site that covered it, restored from the Internet Archive.
At a glance
Why it mattered
"It is no secret that Maxidrom has not been held for the last three years, and many had stopped hoping." That is how the site's own ticket page opened, and the sentence explains the tone of everything else on it. The festival returned to a football stadium — Spartak Moscow's ground, forty-five thousand seats — which the page took as the measure of how serious the comeback was.
Radio Maximum presented the day. The format was new for the festival: three stages instead of one — a main stage, a Dance Tent and a Plaza Stage — with the line-ups of the two smaller stages left to be announced later. They never were, at least not on any page the archive kept.
The bill
The line-up as the site listed it, headliner first. Everything below comes from its own pages.
The running order
The question the site was asked most often was what time Rammstein would play. Its answer was honest about its own limits: an official schedule did not exist, or could not be found, and the author said he had tried. What he could establish, he published.
If a full schedule turned up later, he promised, it would be published on that page. It never was.
What it cost
Still here
Seventeen pages came back out of the Wayback Machine. Their text is the site's own and stays in Russian, the language it was written in; each page has a new layout and an English summary. Some images did not survive, and a link to a page the archive lost is left as plain text.
The same summer
Maxidrom was one date in a network of sites the same author ran. They have been restored from the archive too.